BB28 Monday Live Feed Update August 31, 2026

[00:00:10] and Taran Armstrong, Talk Big Brother, looking at the stuff from yesterday. All the drama, all the strategy and silliness from Fido to HOH. You know he is the reason, you know what's happened. Rob said that he could do it, tomorrow he will do it again.

[00:00:43] Hello everyone and good morning. Welcome to our live feed update for August 31. I'm your host, Aaron Armstrong, and I'm here to update you on everything that happened yesterday. The Big Brother 28 live feeds. It was day 55 in the house.

[00:01:02] And a bit of a slower day as we sort of plod toward the veto ceremony, veto meeting. And really just trying to figure out if the plan to put Devon's up as the replacement will stick. That is the main thing to talk about here today. And we need to talk about it. This is Maggie. How are you doing Maggie?

[00:01:24] Hi Taryn. I'm great. I'm still riding the high of seeing you in person. You know guys, Taryn does have legs. Seeing you in person at RehabCon, we had so much fun. And it's been, this season has been so topsy-turvy.

[00:01:39] And like, it's the definition of that meme where it's like, we're so up. Things will never be good again. Oh my God, it's great again. Oh my God, no, it's not. Like, it's very exciting. Things are not stagnant at all right now. And I think that that is making for a really great jury phase. And I'm excited to be here to talk about it.

[00:01:59] Yes. Well, let's get straight into it then. Of course, Drew is the HOH. She nominated Lala Taylor and Yash. Yash won the veto, which means Drew needed a replacement. And Devon's volunteered. Because he doesn't know what he's doing, I guess.

[00:02:21] I'm like, so I truly, like, can somebody who knows Rick Devons, like, let me know why he would do this? Like, somebody who's played with Rick Devons, maybe like a former survivor or something. I'm just confused.

[00:02:34] I think he really is just feeling like he needs to be a team player, to be honest. I think that, you know, he wants to show that he trusts them. He knows that they pushed them pretty far, Devin, Barrett and Drew last week. And I think that he was like, I think he had this initial feeling of like, oh, because he's done it before.

[00:02:56] He's volunteered. Nobody's taken him up on it. Because it wasn't really necessary before. But now all of a sudden, it matters. So Devons as the potential replacement nominee matters, especially because with Yash coming off the block, Devons going up. If Devons were to lose the blockbuster, there are six votes to evict total. You only need four to surpass the tiebreaker.

[00:03:25] Which means that Yash himself, Melody, whichever of Taylor or Lala win the blockbuster to beat Devons in the case that he loses, and Barrett would make four votes and send Devons to the jury. So it is very important for Devons that he is not nominated. Very important for the icons that they get either Melody or Barrett on the block instead of one of themselves because they are in immense danger if they go up.

[00:03:55] And the icons don't really know that. They still implicitly trust Barrett, which is, by the way, insane with the Melody thing or with the Mallory thing. And then with what we saw in the episode last night of them just flat out choosing Hayley over Barrett is crazy to me that they would still think that they have him. And I do have to say, huge boon to Barrett's game, that they are none the wiser, that they cannot tell that he's flipped. Drew can't tell he's flipped.

[00:04:23] So props to Barrett here in this capacity. Yes. And so we start the day here. We had a funny little conversation between Lala and Devons. She tells him like, hey, I know that losing Hayley meant that you guys lost a vote and an ally. That can be me. I can be replacement.

[00:04:51] And he's like, sure, Lala, that'd be great. I just, you know, I'm a little worried that I'm going to be up on the block against you soon. And she's like, well, he's not putting up Barrett. He's like, I don't know. And this does come into play later in the day, like this conversation and also what we see next from Lala in the day.

[00:05:16] Yes. I mean, we can skip it. Lala goes and has a conversation with Barrett and she tells him about this pitch to Devons and they agree that they're voting Devons out if he goes up on the block. This is the Lala is playing Devons here, which is amazing because Devons ends up going talking to Drew and being like Lala has no clue what's going on.

[00:05:39] She thinks that you would put up Barrett like what's Lala doing and good on Lala like you the perception of you in the house. I'm so proud of her for this to be like completely honest, like who that nobody thinks Lala has it in him in her in the house. And it's great. It's great work from her.

[00:05:59] Yes, I will say that Devons does use the fact that Lala assumed Barrett would go up to push an angle on Barrett, which is that like, well, of course they think Barrett's going up. They think that Barrett's fully with them and. Yeah, you know, there's something there, right? Drew, though, says to the cameras early in the day, he says we've reached a point in the game where we just have to win competitions.

[00:06:29] And yes, it's that point in the game was a little bit earlier than now, but sure. He can't wait for people to point out all the wrong decisions he's made. And don't worry about that one. He says, maybe I'm wrong, but I do. I just think it's easier. It'll be easier to beat the icons in competitions down the road than it will be Yash, Taylor and Lala.

[00:06:51] And this is where and I kind of gave this argument last night on the recap, like who? Maybe, you know, like I do think that Yash, Taylor and Lala. Lala might be better at competitions as a threesome than the icons. But I think it's probably not that, you know, is either way.

[00:07:19] I think that if like, I think D is better at competitions than Lala, Taylor and Yash. Well, Yash is obviously the best, but like D is the true competition person. We just watched her win an HOH, sure that people threw to her, but she won an HOH and then immediately won the first huge competition in the medieval BS that we saw last night. Like D is, and we know from Survivor, she is a huge competition threat. She knows what she's doing.

[00:07:47] So I think D is the most capable on the icon side, which is why if you're going to put up an icon and they happen to go out, obviously the preferred one should be D for Drew. For that and so many other reasons. Yes. Yeah. Like honestly, one of the lower things on the list. Yeah. Um, he also says he is not putting Melody on the block. He knows the icons would flip the votes against her. He's not going to fall into that trap.

[00:08:17] So, uh, he has surpassed those low expectations at least. Great. Um, Devin's had, Devin's talks to both D and Angela in the morning. They're both telling him like, please argue your way off the block, like rescind your offer. We don't want you going up. And Devin's keeps telling them, I can't push too hard. I've said my preference, but if I push too hard, it will show that I don't trust them.

[00:08:46] Um, and I, I just think this is such a fundamental misread on Devin's part because that is not at all the situation he's in with Drew. Uh, he could, he could push all he wanted with Drew. If he's told Drew flat out, no, don't put me up. Drew's not putting him up. Just hands down. Uh, he might go to D instead. He might go to Barrett instead, but who cares if you're Devin's just tell him no.

[00:09:15] Uh, and he won't do it. I think that Devin's is being way too hands off about this. Yeah. I, like I said, I truly don't understand it. I know he like wants to be this team player and he knows how hard they were pushed, but like Devin's what we've seen from Devin's also on survivor 50, you know, he, he said later in the day when he was like casually chatting with people. Like usually at this point in the game, all my people are gone. So like, I'm just playing for myself.

[00:09:44] But what we saw on survivor 50 was him genuinely being really loyal to his people. Like he stayed with Emily, even when, you know, things were not going their way. Like I do think Devin's is loyal and he's loyal to D and he feels like it's his turn for whatever reason, because D has made him feel like she did all of the heavy lifting last week for them. And like D is way more self-interested than Devin's in every, every single aspect.

[00:10:14] I also think we've been talking about like how the survivors are a lot more willing to be bold and piss people off. Um, and I, and I'm wondering if part of that with Devin's is that like, he's so used to being on survivor and having idols and having powers and having things to use. And on big brother, when he's been HOH or when he's had the diamond power of veto, he's made big, bold moves. But outside of that, he plays it as like meek as possible, right?

[00:10:43] Like he's like, Just amazing strategy, by the way. I think. Right. Well, like he's trying to please every, he, he lured Rome into thinking like they were good. And then when he had power, bam, he lured Kamu into thinking they were good until he had power and then bam. Um, and so I think that that's like generally his strategy. And so, uh, so in this, like when he doesn't have power, he's like, Oh, I'm going to suck up.

[00:11:12] I'm going to be like, Oh, I'm willing to be on the block. I'm willing to, I'm a team player. I'm willing to do this. I'm willing to do that. He doesn't exercise a lot of his social power a lot. But now, obviously we saw him do it with when he pretended to know what, uh, drew and Barrett had talked about. But, but again, in some form, like he was kind of like, well, here's a little bit of power I have. I know what you talked about. He bluffed it. Um, and even now today we'll talk about another piece of power. He thinks he might have some jury votes.

[00:11:41] He's trying to use that as a weapon. But what he, what he often isn't doing is just making the ask, right? Like, Hey, I actually just don't want to go up. Can you please not put me up? Uh, and I think that's all he needs to do this week. I completely agree. I think that if he looks drew in the face, but I also think that if drew said, okay, I won't put you up. I'm going to put D up. Then Devin's would say, okay, nevermind.

[00:12:10] If you're it's between us to like, put me up. So I, I, I think it's. Yeah. And at that point, it's up to drew to be self-interested and not just do what his father says. So we would have to see what drew would decide, you know? Yeah. I don't, I don't have a ton of faith. So Devin's does talk to drew about going up. Uh, this is where he talked about his conversation with Lala.

[00:12:37] Um, he, and, and it kind of prompts them to complain about Barrett a little bit. Drew continues to be annoyed that Barrett is getting away with the same thing he was doing. This we've been talking about this for days now. Um, drew says he's not going to put Barrett up. Uh, but he, it does annoy him. Um, and Devin's then tries to sort of like angle drew against melody. That has been the general plan. Uh, the Zing bot thing.

[00:13:04] Uh, Hey, would melody be more mad at you if you weren't H O H this week? He then later asks melody that question. Um, so they are trying to needle him about melody. He's just not dumb enough to actually put her on the block. It's working on drew. He's worried about melody to some degree, but not enough to put her up. Uh, Barrett is the real angle here. Um, The vets don't see that also. The vets don't see that Barrett is the angle to get that, to make themselves safe.

[00:13:33] And I think that if D even got a sniff of that, that's what would be happening today. Yeah. Uh, they do end up talking about, uh, because in the process of Devin's trying to convince Drew that melody is a good option. He says, Barrett agrees. Barrett said that melody should go up. And then Drew's like, he told me that he thinks I should put you up. Devin's. And Devin's like, Oh, well, that's not what he told me.

[00:14:01] Is this, is this a reason to be concerned? Um, that's not loving that. Right. Like, Oh, he's probably just telling us what we want to hear, I guess. But man, maybe, maybe we should just put Barrett up. Uh, but I don't want to, if I put him up, it'll push him even further to the other side. So we wouldn't want to do that. Uh, and really Devin's the only reason I'm doing this is because you volunteered. I hope you know that. Uh, and Devin's like, yeah. Wow.

[00:14:31] And Devin's joining the conversation. And Devin's does jokingly says, uh, I'm officially rescinding my offer to volunteer. If you put me up, you're burning me, but it's a, but it's a joke, uh, which is not firm enough. And D and Angela had kind of made a plan earlier in the day to tell Drew that melody is playing him and like try to play up that angle.

[00:14:55] so Dee does say like even if you're not going to put her up this week keep an eye on her you know which I don't know what she thinks that's gonna do like it like Dee just has to have a much heavier hand and Drew tells Devens in this conversation before Dee joins like I can't put up Dee because like she'd be so pissed at me and like I just got back in her good graces like she would not be

[00:15:20] happy and I was like Drew you coward like you have to are you kidding me she screwed you last week she had no problem putting you up on the block as an initial nom not as a renom then she put up one of your closest allies that you had convinced to join an alliance with her like over somebody like Haley and Yash your mortal enemy in the house like come on dude I I just like can't I cannot stress

[00:15:50] how frustrated I was watching Drew like not even consider Dee for most of the day it was insane to me yeah um he also does talk about melody uh in it was either this conversation or a later one I think it was a later one but but he talks about melody like hey she might have to go next week it's I'm not the one that's gonna do it but if you but if you guys have to target melody uh which I think is

[00:16:18] is two things number one he doesn't want to be quote-unquote played by her uh so he's trying to get ahead of that like hey I'm see I'm willing to get rid of her uh and number two he's trying to excuse away the fact that he's not nominating her uh it's not gonna be me it can be you but it's not gonna be me this week um so and he has expressed to melody which like who knows if this is true you

[00:16:41] know it's true and melody but he has expressed to her like she said you know Angela has come to melody and said like Drew loves you so much and all these things and he has told her like and this worries me like they see us so close like it does worry me that they're gonna target you and she's like cool you know not really no solutions but okay he promised her late at night during their long

[00:17:07] conversation that we'll get to but also I just I summarize those so much because there's just a lot of nonsense yeah um one of the things he tells her is that he'll never vote her out uh which again if you take all of these little pieces of things it's like okay they might nominate her but I won't vote her out uh will she have the votes to stay is another question he thinks that she that she's not a priority target for people and so even if she does get nominated she wouldn't be voted out

[00:17:36] especially if he doesn't vote her out we'll see I think that as long sorry and then we can move on I think that as long as Drew is in the house melody is in far more danger than if Drew leaves if Drew leaves I think she's like basically lock safe for final three but I think that if Drew is there she could absolutely be a casualty if he wins a veto or a blockbuster in order for him to lose people

[00:17:59] that's that's probably true uh but I also think that Drew a Drew melody final two is one of her better outcomes totally uh so because it because with Drew gone she's she probably is safer to make it further but like can she beat Barrett right now it I mean it really depends honestly on these jury

[00:18:22] threats um but uh but you would assume she can't be a player like Barrett or Yash or even maybe Lala at this point uh Taylor maybe because they've both kind of similarly not won a ton of comps but like it's rough they in fact Drew and Devin's compared melody and Taylor uh like uh like Taylor is kind of

[00:18:47] the melody on the other side and Lala is kind of the Angela um or was it melody is the Angela or sorry I don't I don't remember exactly I don't remember either the point being that like uh that they they don't really see melody or Taylor doing a lot in the game so I'm not entirely sure uh where the votes might go there but either way uh you know it's it's going to be tough to to get to those final two

[00:19:13] seats if your melody in the first place uh so yeah tough road sorry this is definitely more round table discussion tonight and I look forward to hearing what you all have to say yes uh we will have the round table tonight so tune in um all right so uh Drew Devin's and Barrett talk uh and Devin's talks a little more about going up on the block uh I mentioned this conversation mostly because

[00:19:41] clearly the idea of nominating Barrett has entered Drew's mind even more and he's just gonna he just keeps joking about it just like constantly just like hey what what about you I nominate you though uh hey give you a chance to win a game uh win a comp uh wouldn't that be fun um and it's uh it's just it's just constant and Barrett talks with melody afterwards he's like hey just so you know

[00:20:09] like Devin's is really pushing Q to be the renom uh and she's like I'm just so annoyed at Drew constantly joking that he's gonna put us out yeah no it's it's horrible watching that conversation I was so annoyed I was so mad I was just like what are you doing like can you please be serious for once like these are your closest allies asking you questions like in Drew's mind his three closest

[00:20:36] allies are Devin's uh Barrett and melody and he cannot give any of them a straight answer and he cannot like it's just really annoying like I you know we spent a lot of time during the first half of the season being like why does nobody trust Drew why is everybody so annoyed with Drew and as an audience member watching Drew I completely understand why everybody can't stand Drew in the house sometimes

[00:21:03] because I go through periods of time where I like really am rooting hard for Drew I'm like okay like he's gonna figure this out like you know what I mean like I feel bad for him that he's being unfairly targeted and then I go through periods of time where I'm just like dude shut up you are such a coward like do what you need to do and be normal like it drives me up a wall and yesterday was the like the

[00:21:26] exact same thing and I think that the problem is for a lot of his friends is that they're like I like you but how can I possibly work with you if you're going to behave this way you know yeah I and you know I've I've been going through the Big Brother 2 uh archives for the project I'm doing on my Patreon in the off season and uh and I think it's so interesting to to see what Dr. Will is doing on the live feeds and

[00:21:54] in Big Brother 2 because Dr. Will like like Drew is obviously very inspired by Dr. Will in many ways um and he has that similar kind of like sarcastic uh personality uh that that Dr. Will shows in Big Brother 2 a lot uh but the the main difference or one of the main differences uh is that that Dr. Will

[00:22:17] would be very sarcastic and mean and all of that uh but then he would be like no but seriously Shannon I actually really like you and I I really could see myself dating you after the show um and like you don't expect that from like you he gives you all the rough stuff and then he hits you with the tender sincere stuff and it makes the tender sincere stuff feel even better and Drew's missing

[00:22:45] that step it's a very important step it's also just like like yes it's great Big Brother it's Dr. Will the OG it's also just like it is just horrible horrible yeah it's just horrible like that's being like a terrible person totally and that's why I'm kind of like I just feel like Drew doesn't have that in him like he he he feels very lost to me right now it's all the nagging without any of the the good stuff

[00:23:13] uh-huh he he really to me right now especially like as he's trying to figure out what he's doing with this freedom it's just so obvious how lost Drew is right now but he yeah we'll get to it later but some of the comments that he makes like he knows he's not liked he knows that it's going to be rough for him and he just like doesn't know what to do so they end up having a bit of a party

[00:23:38] feeds go down for the episode uh and a bit longer after that uh and then they're just kind of hanging out for a while can we talk about sorry can we talk about Devin's being on his floaty in the pool and Angela grabbing the front part of it like the head and spinning him around really fast for a long time and you can tell he's like please stop please stop and she's like

[00:24:06] and you can find the clip it's so funny uh Angela's trying to uh medically evacuate Devin's yeah he's like begging her he's like completely stuck on the thing like he can't really bail the pool's too small he's like please no no no stop is really really funny

[00:24:28] um well uh when they do get back to some game talk Devin's Drew Barrett and Angela are talking in the backyard uh they're talking more about who needs to go up as a pawn Angela says that she's already like done it like hey I've already done it like uh shouldn't I've done my time shouldn't be me hold on I also have to poke some holes in this logic because what do you

[00:24:56] mean you were a pawn it was not somebody and it was not somebody in our alliance it was Yash like you weren't a pawn you were getting being targeted by the other side that's he was her primary target though he denies that yeah that's complete BS and also like if we're talking about people who've actually been used as pawns we're talking about Drew like by your own alliance so I I hate this logic that Dee and Angela are trying to use that like we've already done it like no you haven't

[00:25:26] you just got targeted by the other side yeah you've already been on the block but you haven't been a pawn that's complete BS well you know who else doesn't like it Devin's uh Devin's afterwards like Angela why are you saying you've already done it that implies that somebody who hasn't done it needs to go up you're not helping here um which again it means that he is trying to get himself off the block but ultimately doesn't feel like he can make any push um and so after you know during this

[00:25:54] conversation like all right yeah I I've done I haven't done it it'll be me uh but one caveat if anyone flips and I get voted out none of us we all agree that none of us will give that person a single jury a jury vote and I'm doing it in a serious voice he did it in a jokey voice uh he says

[00:26:22] it was cracking up yeah he's like haha none of us will give you a jury vote haha uh so he says it as a joke but when he talks to dad to Dee afterwards he says uh so it's gonna be me but I told them if anybody flips we don't vote for them and I mean that and Dee's like oh oh a hundred percent I'm on board with

[00:26:48] that uh which is like this is the complete opposite of how you make a threat right usually you'd make the threat serious up front and then really secretly you're like I don't even know if I care that much instead he was like jokey jokey but I'm actually serious secretly like how is Barrett going to interpret that threat as real if you joke joked around about it you know what I mean also like

[00:27:13] that would imply that Drew gets blindsided by this and is in agreement with that threat and maybe at that point in the night maybe that was kind of true but as the night goes on like you know like me I I don't know if if everybody would agree to that or if it would just be Devin's

[00:27:38] and Dee being like we're never voting for you you know I I think that in his mind it's four jury votes but I do I do think it's dangerous uh and and I think so for a couple of reasons one is that like Devin's and Dee come from Survivor we've talked a lot about how they perceive the jury very differently than uh the normal like big brother players would they've they've both been a part of a jury before

[00:28:07] on Survivor and they know how it works they talk a lot about voting blocks in the jury getting their alliance to the jury means that their alliance controls the jury votes one of the reasons why they wanted Mallory out was so that FAP couldn't control the jury votes I fully expect Angela D and Devin's if they are in the jury to 100% all vote the same um and I would not be surprised at all

[00:28:33] if they vote according to the way that they operate again because like they are also Devin's and Dee especially multiple time players of these games and when you are a multiple time player of a game you can't make empty threats like that or it won't work again in the future if Devin says we won't vote for you in the jury if you do this and then they vote for that person then he goes on another show and he says we won't vote for you in the jury if you do this they're

[00:29:03] gonna be like he doesn't mean that whereas if they vote as a block against that person now he has a reputation of like see I've done it before don't test me on this um so I do think this will be on their minds uh the question is would would Drew agree to it and let's be real I'm like their baby yeah if he's if if he's in the jury house with them for a month yeah yeah I was about to say if

[00:29:31] you want your jury vote and you're Barrett you gotta count him at final three so he doesn't get an opportunity to say anything yeah so this is definitely something to pay attention to especially for Barrett uh who obviously intends to flip uh and at this point Drew would still if if if Devin's

[00:29:54] goes up and Barrett flips and blindsides Drew and you know who knows how this goes from there uh yeah I mean I could see this not working out well for Barrett in a final two but it kind of just depends right it depends on how he manages it uh how much this threat like lingers if it's just like a one-time deal tonight and then they don't bring it up again then it can kind of dissipate uh but it's

[00:30:22] something to pay attention to for sure uh because they do also talk to Angela Devin's tells Angela about it uh and she's she says she also agrees Angela talks to D about it she says Devin's was being playful about it but he's not wrong um and uh and another piece of this too though I thought was very funny there's been there's been a bit of a tension between D and Devin's um that ever since uh

[00:30:47] uh well really like last week and into this week the fact because because D is such a self-interested player as opposed to Devin's they're so so opposite and so she sees what he's doing and sees it as being self-interested uh we talked about this I think yesterday that um that D was really worried was beginning to be worried that Devin's was so close to to Drew and and Barrett because she pissed them off last week and then he played good cop to keep them on board which is very necessary for the team

[00:31:16] but also happens to benefit Devin's so she's not unaware of that and then when he talked about how obviously D would flip the vote on Melody like come on D and she was like no I wouldn't uh he's like come on you're more cutthroat than that uh she was kind of upset about that and so she's like well apparently Devin's gets to make all these big threats but if I do it it's wrong um and uh Angela's like oh he's just taking a page out of your book but there's there's tension there between these two

[00:31:44] but well at least on D's end there is and also I think that there's tension for Angela with and nervousness around the D and Devin's closeness like I I think she mentioned that to D the day before yeah I think that I don't know Devin's ends up on the block for a week like Angela feeling

[00:32:06] a little emo I I don't know I don't think that would happen um but uh but we'll see Angela um so uh Drew and Devin's talk more about uh Devin's going up on the block they kind of loosely come up with a plan for Devin's to act shocked and mad that he goes up on the block um no we'll see how much

[00:32:33] they actually go into this it won't work or it shouldn't work because Barrett's already told them that Devin's volunteered so like this will presumably come off as very transparent and uh and fall flat but you never know they might be like I don't know Barrett it looks like he's really mad so we'll see who knows in this house uh Drew and Melody then spend a lot of time talking

[00:32:59] upstairs in the HOH room it's it's the same conversations that they always have for the most part in the same way where they're in bed together looking longingly at one another but not actually doing much other than looking and longing um and do it saying things like I'm not gonna vote you out and how come you're not more mad at Barrett and uh you know so on and so forth

[00:33:28] Yash's HOH room when he wins you like him better than me you know all of that things she's still like she's still like I would put up Angela and he's like why and she's like you know why he's like literally why and then she like pivots yep um it eventually gets broken up when she's called to the diary room she's in the diary room

[00:33:54] for a while then Drew gets called to the diary room and he's in the diary room one more thing that I did want to point out uh that Drew said to Melody while she was up there is he was like so my HOH is weird the only people who come and hang out in the room are you and also last night Yash and Taylor like those are the only people hanging out with me

[00:34:17] um and I do think that like even though he's you know saying that and you're like oh well he like is so up the icons but but like I do think that that is upsetting him like I do think the fact that like no one is hanging out with him is getting to him except for the people that like he was shocked the night before when Taylor came in to hang out with him and they were like having such a good time

[00:34:43] I think that it like I think that he's just been kind of like what is this like what's happening here yeah and it there is a vibe that like he he's like the the guy that throws a party and nobody shows up he's like I brought snacks it's gonna be a great time yeah uh he's constantly like offering people snacks and stuff and he's like come and hang out and then he's up there like

[00:35:11] with his snacks like ready to go and it's just like is that a no it's like sad um and he like he wants he wants his alliance in particular to come up and hang out with him all the time because that's how previous HOH has often worked and it's mostly just him pulling Barrett up or pulling Devin's up or his

[00:35:36] long conversations with uh with Melody uh other than yes that time that Yash was up there and and Taylor joined and they hung out for a while uh but but the main thing to to notice of all of these names that I've said is that you haven't found D up there at all um she has not had a private conversation with Drew that we have seen since Feet's come back she has not spoken to Drew one-on-one

[00:36:03] since Feet's have been back and so Drew gets called to the diary room he's been in there for a while he comes out it's like 3 a.m uh which is like two hours like an hour and a half later than like anybody else is even awake uh and he's up in the HOH room by himself he's talking to the cameras it's like

[00:36:28] why don't why don't I put D up you know like she was so selfish last week she shouldn't be able to get away with it uh and it kind of pisses me off that she's never she hasn't even talked to me this week she just said a word to me um and listen if like Barrett flips on her oh well she leaves

[00:36:57] finally we're getting somewhere finally and oh ye of little faith me in Drew like who knows what can happen today the second that he says that to D and she freaks out and you know who knows what will happen but like we're finally on the right track here this is what you should have done from the very beginning and hey guess what Drew if you want your friends to be back and hanging out with you

[00:37:22] put up D I bet Barrett's back in that HOH room the rest of the week I bet Melody is sleeping in your bed every night like I'm serious like that and you can say it's for Mallory to avenge Mallory whatever like especially because all like Taylor Yash they know that Devins has volunteered and if Drew shows some backbone and puts up D instead I genuinely think the house softens on him just a little bit

[00:37:51] like genuinely I think I mean like Taylor prefers Devins up on the block uh like they because Devins is the easier beat in the blockbuster uh I don't think that Drew putting D up would really soften them anymore because they think they're tricking him into doing this now if he came up if he told them like hey Barrett if you want to flip on D I'm down uh that I think could soften I think the nomination

[00:38:20] itself is not enough because if he still thinks if he still expects D to stay and campaigns against Lala I think it's it's moot do you think he does that if he puts D up and she's really mad do you think he does that that's a good question um I mean if I if I'm being honest I don't think he's gonna put D up

[00:38:42] but uh but if if it did happen and she was mad um I just don't I just don't I could see him secretly very covertly going to Barrett and having a conversation about it uh but I can't see him like doing anything I can't see him talking to Lala and Taylor and Yash uh and like secretly plotting against Devins um unless Barrett like fully opens up to him about the whole situation but

[00:39:10] uh I don't know it's it's it's not impossible it depends on how D reacts it's a long week like it's Monday you know it's a long week I I also think that for Drew putting D up there is the 100 correct move he has a great relationship with Devins if D goes Devins literally has nowhere else to turn Drew wasn't the one who voted her out he's saying I did this to help you I was worried

[00:39:38] about Barrett and look at what happened like Devins what where can he go and for Barrett Devins going out is the the best move for him because he has a good relationship with D but also D is very vindictive so I'm not sure if she would forgive Barrett for voting out Devins I I don't know I mean it it also really like this is completely outside of their scope but like

[00:40:03] it really depends on if D leaving breaks the curse on Yash um that would obviously make a difference do you think if D goes up Yash goes to the DR and asks and then spreads that around I don't think he needs to I think the votes are already there to take out D there's no need for him to say anything okay um if he if he did if he did care about D versus Devins I think that he would have

[00:40:31] already like the the time to say it would be hey Drew don't put up or hey Barrett let's try to get D on the block instead of Devins but I think even then it's just like Yash is just happy to get any of them on the block totally he's not gonna you know beggars can't be choosers which is why I kind of think that the curse doesn't lift with D that like he took the bribe he has the five thousand dollars like

[00:40:53] it is what it is that's that's my thought yeah um I guess we'll we'll maybe find out yeah Drew does say to the cameras he talks about potentially nominating D potentially hey if something goes wrong D is the one that takes the hit he's okay with that um but Devins did volunteer and if Devins is on the

[00:41:17] block and like Angela or D flip then like okay I can just I can just like be like I'm pissed at them and I rock with Yash um and so even in this camera talk he's a little bit like waffling on the decision uh his idea is he talks through all of the arguments he'd use to convince D to be okay with it we know

[00:41:39] D's not going to be okay with it so um so he has the thought he has the intention he clearly wants to do it and we've I've talked about this last few days obviously he would want to do it the problem is that not only will D not be okay with it but it's so much harder to force it on D anyway when Devins is volunteering yeah because it really seems pointed and it really seems targeted at that

[00:42:07] point and I think that it just makes it so much harder to commit to that choice so there's a very important conversation I would assume between Drew and D uh that happens today maybe Devins is involved as well um my guess right now is that it sticks to Devins um but uh but it could change to D now and that it really matters because again if they don't win the blockbuster they just leave so

[00:42:33] what do you think what do you think if Drew talks to Barrett first and says I'm thinking about this what do you think who do you think Barrett pushes for Devins or D um I think that I mean I think that he wouldn't care all that much I think is as long as Yvette goes up I don't think he minds I think he would I think he's more mad at D than Devins yeah um but I also think that like if Barrett is

[00:43:02] thinking I just want to make sure a vet goes on the block like Devins volunteered this is the easy path if we try the D thing it might not work and it might screw everything up like let just keep it keep it easy just keep it Devins he's volunteered get him on the block then then you can relax right so he might just be like let's just focus on what we have in front of us and what if Drew says though

[00:43:25] in the conversation like I put D up and you throw a vote her way and I I don't care that much like what do you think Barrett says about that then does that open a bigger conversation it could um it because there's two things that could happen either like if somebody says that you might immediately be like oh or you might be like I'm not I'm not letting anything loose until I have a

[00:43:52] chance to think about this um and so you know I feel like he would not I feel like Drew has already kind of thrown out some lifelines and Barrett has rejected them so I think Barrett my guess would be that Barrett does not bite on any bait uh with that I think that he would be like well I wouldn't do that

[00:44:13] though um so uh that would be my guess do you think that if Drew does put up Devins he does approach Barrett later in the week and is like if you throw a vote I'm not going to be mad no I don't I don't think Drew wants Devins gone at all uh even even in his hypothetical talking to the cameras he wasn't he wasn't thinking Barrett would flip he was thinking Angela or D might flip uh and that he could

[00:44:43] then use that to go against them um I don't think that he because because I because I think that he should the thing he should be thinking about is if Barrett flips uh then he can't rock with Yash to go against Barrett uh because Barrett will be flipping to Yash uh so that's his bad scenario and he hasn't seen that he thinks the bad scenario is D or or or Angela flipping okay sorry to talk about

[00:45:10] all of these hypothetical conversations that could happen in the next two hours and make this podcast completely outdated but uh that is what we are here for um so the veto ceremony happens today uh we'll see if Drew has this conversation with uh with D if Devins gets involved if it if they try to push

[00:45:34] it back on to Melody or Barrett um theoretically this nomination could go any which way my guess though is that it lands on Devins we'll have to wait and see the survey for the roundtable tonight I will wait until we get the veto ceremony just because there are some some options here so wait on that one until the veto ceremony happens I'll tweet it out put it out on blue sky uh and then

[00:45:58] tonight roundtable lots of strategic decisions to talk through so should be a fun one tune in tomorrow morning I'll be back 11 a.m eastern to update you on everything that happens today on the big brother 28 live feeds Maggie I have I have one final question for you yes if one of these icons go on Drew's HOH and he is now left kind of on an island with like everybody pissed at him do you think he goes all in on Melody or do you think he tries to salvage what's going on with

[00:46:29] icons um I think he tries to get back in with Melody but he's not now on the other end of that power dynamic um he can't win HOH I mean unless D or Angela win the next HOH um at which point he would would try to you know he'd at least have a little bit of power um I think that he doesn't really have a choice uh to to try to work with Angela or D moving forward from that point um and the reality

[00:46:56] is for as much as he's like oh hopefully Yash would nominate the remaining two icons or you know whether or not Yash had the ability to I still think that if Devin leaves Yash would target if Devin's or D left Yash would target Drew over both of the icons honestly um because he should that's his biggest threat in the game uh so and obviously we know he can't target the icons anyway so this makes

[00:47:25] it even easier to predict uh but um but yeah I mean I think that he's just he's in a position where he needs to really really hope that uh because like even if Melody or or Barrett were to win you still have Blockbuster they need to name three nominees two icons and who probably Drew of course yeah I mean I I think like I do think Melody would do two icons in like a Lala

[00:47:56] um but yeah who's the replacement I don't know I think Drew's worried about that too but uh I I think him not putting her up in this situation hopefully will show like a bit of healing for their relationship and what you know moving forward that he's like I would never target you please don't target me um but you know who knows I'm really really loving what Barrett's doing right

[00:48:25] now I I think he is giving rat floater in a way that we haven't seen in a while yeah uh it's good stuff um I think that uh and I genuinely do think that keeping Drew out of it is is the right call this week um in terms of not only getting what he wants on in terms of an icon on the block but also uh just in terms of like win equity positioning moving

[00:48:55] forward he's he's eating up all of the the good stuff uh and Drew is just like um so uh so that is where we are at of course um make sure you check out my Patreon if you want to support uh the content I'm making if you want to check out that Big Brother 2 project in the offseason or all the other shows I'm watching and things and streams and all kinds of stuff um Maggie what

[00:49:22] what do you got going on um I am talking about Big Brother over on Blue Sky at ML Morgan you can find me on TikTok and Instagram at ML Morgan underscore um I'm loving the season like this has been so exciting for me to watch I know a lot of people are down on it but not me I'm having a great time uh I think that there have been twists and turns not in the production sense hate that but there have

[00:49:50] been twists and turns with these players and I think that if one of these icons goes this week it is a wide open playing field and how fun moving into this back portion of the game all right well thank you all so much for joining us here today and I will see all of you next time