BB28 Sunday Live Feed Update August 30, 2026

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[00:00:41] Hello everyone and good morning. Welcome to our live feed update for August 30th. I'm your host, Taran Armstrong, and I'm here today to update you on everything that happened yesterday on the Big Brother 28 live feeds. It was day 54 in the house and we did have live feeds. They actually came back.

[00:01:09] If you thought about skipping this one, how dare you? How dare you? I would say. You thought there weren't any feeds. You thought, oh, I don't need to listen to Taren talk for 10 minutes. I don't need to do that. Well, shame on you, person that's not actually listening to this podcast, because you're going to miss out. Because the live feeds did come back and there's a lot to talk about. Okay? There's a lot to talk about.

[00:01:35] We have an elimination result. We have an HOH result. We have nomination results. And we have a veto result. And we have all kinds of things and implications and strategies to talk about.

[00:01:54] So, so, so, so, we will talk about it all here today. So, let's just, let's just jump straight in. Let's just jump straight in. Last time we saw the feeds, Mallory was still there. Actually, no, not Mallory was still there. Mallory had been evicted, of course, because the feeds came back after the eviction, but before the twist happened.

[00:02:24] So, so, so, here's what we know about what happened. The feeds go down, they go into the backyard, and there's some kind of twist going, maybe not the backyard, maybe somewhere else, who knows.

[00:02:37] They go somewhere, maybe not the backyard, maybe not the backyard, maybe not the backyard, maybe not the backyard.

[00:03:08] They go down, maybe not the backyard. But there's some kind of twist going, maybe not the backyard. There's some kind of twist going, maybe not the backyard. It's just a good one.

[00:03:38] To save somebody else. And he apparently chose to save Angela. When Melody was available. He said Angela would have been eliminated if he had not saved her. So this was his chance to save Angela. we believe this happened so Angela is safe Drew is safe

[00:04:08] there were a lot of rumors that Angela had been eliminated those were not true and then the competitions continued Melody did manage to win her own safety I think or just maybe eventually was safe anyway Angela was good Dee and Devin were good and that left us with some kind of like

[00:04:37] bottom 4-ish or bottom sorry bottom 4 bottom 5-ish of of Barrett Taylor Yash Lala and Haley oh boy there were some rumors that Yash perhaps had been eliminated but here's what apparently happened

[00:05:07] this is what we think happened that Barrett won some kind of competition and then decided to choose which like final people would compete against each other the vets really wanted Barrett to choose Taylor Lala Taylor and Lala to compete against Haley

[00:05:36] or something he had like two it's the words they're using are confusing but here's the point here's the point there was a final competition that people would that Haley would be participating in or something like that and the vets wanted Yash to not be participating in that competition because that would make it harder for Haley to win the competition and save herself and Yash said

[00:06:04] I volunteer as tribute Yash said choose me not Taylor because I'm coming back and so Barrett against the wishes of the vets apparently chose Yash to compete with Lala and Haley they then played a final competition it was some kind of stacking competition

[00:06:33] where they had to like stack things to a certain height and Yash manages to come away with the win Yash then gets to choose see it theoretically between Haley and Lala who to eliminate from the game and he chose to eliminate Haley that is what we believe happened from

[00:07:03] or at least what I believe what I was able to piece together some details may be more correct than others we'll find out tonight in the episode I'm sure but that is the general vibe and that of course means that Haley has been eliminated from the game and yes I keep bumping people out of the Evicti box they're all about

[00:07:32] to be wiped out when we get to jury so these are your final days with them get ready to say goodbye um I'm talking about my graphic here by the way for the listeners so that makes our final nine into what could be something like three trios right

[00:08:02] the three vets Angela Devins and D uh the three former FAP members Barrett Drew and Melody and what is maybe theoretically the remainder of what was very briefly called the covenant which is Taylor Lala and Yash um but as we know Barrett uh Barrett was looking to flip

[00:08:31] on uh on Drew as was Melody so you know and Drew has been pretty pretty pro-vet so like those trios are not exactly uh what they seem to be um but Haley leaving I will say perhaps very lucky on production's part I literally said on Thursday obviously this is like we don't like this I want to know this we need

[00:09:01] to be clear about this we don't like this it's not good um we don't like people being eliminated because they lose competitions um however what I will say is uh of course I said on Thursday Haley being eliminated would be the best case scenario so production seemingly got the best case scenario here in terms of just like Haley being a piece on the board that was probably

[00:09:30] not going to win this game but was just going to be used to advance other people's games solid connections in the game um like just kind of like sniping her off the board mostly just makes things more interesting so it really was like the most advantageous person to be eliminated by a twist to make people less mad about the twist that they were very very mad about last time we talked

[00:10:00] about this a lot last year that people were like oh if it wasn't Rachel you wouldn't be so mad at the twist and my response to that was often no of course not people aren't some monolith where like they care equally about every player and only care about the mechanisms by which they leave of course not they're more upset because it was a person who left that made that at

[00:10:30] the time really made it seem like the game would be less interesting and they were really like interested in the storyline and that made it worse on top of something they already didn't like right now Haley leaving almost you might argue a positive in terms of the direction of this game and in terms of the people who liked Haley of which I'm sure there are some but it doesn't necessarily make the twist any better

[00:11:00] what might make the twist better is that there seemingly was maybe a little bit more actual strategy involved not guesswork right not guesswork safety chain oh you should have known that you'd screw up a hamster wheel and just like that your entire game is gone there were multiple competitions there was the ability to actively save

[00:11:29] people social hierarchies actually seem to have mattered here and quite frankly I say production was maybe lucky that Haley left because that was the best case scenario but given what we've heard about the structure of this twist it might have been a little bit more than luck and this is what I talked about on Thursday as well that in a kind of safety chain where people are being saved

[00:12:00] Haley is the most likely person to be eliminated because there's nobody that's prioritizing her and that seems like it's what happened here there were people who had priorities of people they wanted to save and Haley was nobody's priority she was just a piece to be used on the board which is why her being eliminated from the game is again theoretically if you agree with my logic the best case scenario for the elimination here and so she in some ways was one

[00:12:30] of the more likely people to be eliminated from this twist aside from the fact that of course she might have been able to win a competition to save herself but at that point it is what it is so point being I don't think anybody is going to be super fond of these kinds of twists we like big brother because it's big brother but they may have improved

[00:13:00] significantly on the incredibly terrible formula that was the hamster wheel for big brother and we will I think have be able to have a more final judgment tonight tonight when it comes to how this actually kind of worked right so let's move forward here Haley is now gone and

[00:13:31] we have to crown a new HOH right new HOH new nominations so they play in the next HOH I'm not entirely sure what it was aside from the fact that it was likely some kind of quiz and in this next HOH it came down to a final two of Melody and Drew

[00:14:02] it went to a tiebreaker it seems and one of the two of them was like apparently really dead on on the tiebreaker question like impossible to beat and that person was Drew Drew is the new HOH

[00:14:34] and I didn't make a separate background a separate graphic here for Drew HOH because I went straight to nominations because we found out his nominations as soon as the feeds came back and listen a Drew HOH you probably the feeds come back and he's already HOH and we already see his nominations

[00:15:04] so his nominations are very predictably Taylor Lala and Yash that's what the feeds come back to some additional information who has not here for this update so

[00:15:37] I that's his HOH album Taylor Yash and Lala nominated and when the feeds come on there's seven of them that are dressed up in veto costumes it was very confusing at first because they didn't seem to have played the veto yet

[00:16:09] I did try to figure out which MCR album I couldn't find it if somebody knows they can say in the chat you'd kind of assume it's like the black parade but so those people are nominated and D Melody and Barrett are dressed up in veto costumes along with

[00:16:39] HOH the HOH and the nominees Barrett we find out is the host which means Melody and D will be playing in the veto and we also hear that they've already seen Zingbot so much so much has happened they've already seen Zingbot we get a general sense of the the Zings that they may have received

[00:17:10] uh we apparently Yash Yash got the uh he got the the F-bomb in his the Zingbot has some classics he usually drops like an F-bomb or some kind of swear usually does a song um um Yash got zinged for his stupid fucking haircut apparently um

[00:17:38] they called Taylor boring 24-7 uh which might have been like a like a bible thing not sure uh like a like how you cite a bible verse um drew got the song some kind of like I don't know like I don't remember what

[00:18:08] I don't think they said what the song was exactly um but apparently the song the drew song had some kind not figure out what exactly it was in the song that implied this uh but it's what it but D kept bringing it up and uh

[00:18:37] and and drew clearly was a little bit spun about it um I don't know this was their interpretation I don't they could have been reading into this D especially um it's possible that this is like not true and that they just read into it in a weird way uh but it maybe also had yeah could have had something to do with like

[00:19:07] melody's situationship like who knows who knows this is again we'll have to wait uh we might have to wait until until wednesday to to figure out what this is exactly but um but we'll see we'll see uh not entirely sure what melodies was about um for herself um uh we know barrett's was about like his chest hair uh dev they called devins old

[00:19:38] um that's that's most of what i was able to piece together um so so zingbot has happened we're trying to figure out is the veto has happened yet turns out it hasn't they're just in costume before the veto starts feeds go down for the veto very quickly uh or sorry before the feeds go down for the veto uh we're we're getting a little more information so first of all sorry it's

[00:20:08] so much information just coming straight at us information we need to analyze this information that is what we do here so drew is the hoh nominated lala taylor yash what's interesting about this as a drew hoh is that you might have noticed you might have noticed if you're if you're looking at the graphic that yes is on is imbalanced at the moment because the pieces are all over the place don't worry I'm gonna ask for some updated

[00:20:38] jury focused graphics for next week but you'll notice that I've I've de no pun intended I've de alphabetized the middle players here because there's two very clear distinct groups that have not been nominated right drew has nominated what was what remains of the covenant lala taylor and yash but if any of them were to win the veto he would

[00:21:08] need to name a replacement nominee and his only options are the three icons Angela Devins or D or Barrett or Melody the remainder of FAP he has to make a pretty difficult decision on that renom and here's what makes it even more interesting if Melody who is playing in the veto wins the veto she can also force a renom by using it

[00:21:41] pretty significant amount because if Melody say were to be the replacement nominee then the three icons Angela Devins and D could all vote Melody out over Lala Taylor or Yash with the one more vote of Lala Taylor or Yash who would likely vote Melody out over themselves so Melody could be voted out if she goes up on the block as the renom the same is true of the icons

[00:22:11] if Angela Devins or D go up as the replacement nominee then they lose the blockbuster then two of Yash and Lala and Taylor whichever of them is off the block and whichever of them wins the blockbuster can join with Barrett and Melody to vote out an icon so Drew is very much not

[00:22:41] in control of the votes this week and he kind of desperately needs to win the veto or have D win the veto so that he doesn't have to name a replacement nominee because naming a replacement nominee is not only bad for his game in the

[00:23:11] we see D and Angela talk about this a little bit what happens if Drew needs a renom D says well it's not going to be me Angela says not me either we've done it already and then they say something that is pretty consequential they say well Devin's has already volunteered I'm sorry what come on bruh apparently Devin's has

[00:23:41] already volunteered to be a potential renom why would he do this is this true it's hard to believe maybe they're just kind of saying that because they don't want it to be them but they're clearly talking about like the fact that they might need a volunteer as a renom pawn now they both agree D and Angela that's stupid and they should just get Drew to put up his girlfriend which yeah that's a lot

[00:24:13] would have thought would happen there um D says that she wants to find a way also this week to keep Yash because Yash is useful to them if he wins in HOH he has to target the rest of

[00:24:44] but if all three icons vote to keep Yash and Barrett and or Melody join them to keep Yash Yash stays right like Drew kind of needs the icons to vote out Yash if he wants Yash to go now I will say this I do personally think it's a mistake for the icons to keep Yash in the game yeah it's great that he can't nominate them if he wins HOH but

[00:25:14] that doesn't mean that he's not going to eat up comp wins anyway right like if he wins vetoes if he wins blockbusters and he's a vote against them that's bad if they can't get rid of him that's bad so I do think that they should be looking to take Yash out they were talking about targeting Yash prior to this and now that they've lost Haley it's almost even more important that they take out Yash and this is another thing again so much

[00:25:44] information that we haven't even talked about but the fact that Haley is gone changes the game significantly the vets were in a good position but now without Haley like they're kind of not Haley was a deeply important piece on the board for the vets they had been significantly damaged their position had been significantly damaged due to them throwing the H.O.H. to

[00:26:14] Yash getting put up on the block needing to use the diamond power of Vito D kind of saves the threat that did not get along with most of the house that was basically loyal to them and that everyone would have to deal with and now

[00:26:44] she's gone and now they're so much more reliant on Drew and Barrett than they were before Yash is a much bigger threat to take him out anymore because Barrett and Yash are now working together and Yash has kind of become one of the biggest threats in the game he's on the block right

[00:27:35] to like we'll talk about it more we'll have a podcast tonight we've got a round table tomorrow there's plenty of time to talk about all of the implications of Haley being gone but I just want to make sure I'm emphasizing just how dramatically bad it is for the vets that Haley left this is a very significant turning point for the game that has completely opened the game up it

[00:28:05] and it's all because Haley has gone Drew winning this HOH was obviously pretty good for them in one sense but it could still go poorly for them because again Haley is gone and Drew doesn't have a good renom anymore so they talk about all this they talk about potentially keeping Yash around which like I said I disagree with but Devin joins and he confirms that he told Drew that he's willing to go up on

[00:28:35] the block as a pawn that he that is something that he has volunteered for and that he's still willing to do and D is like I don't think you should do that I like the votes are too tight right and she's right if Devin goes up on the block next

[00:29:05] to two of Lala Taylor or Yash and then Devin loses the block buster I have already outlined that Devin will just go home as long as Barrett is still anti vet now they don't know Barrett is anti vet in their

[00:29:36] vote vote vote Devin to go it would be 3 to 3 there are 6 votes total this week it would be a 3 to 3 vote and Drew would break the tie to save Devin that's what they think will happen and that is their best case scenario if they've lost either Drew or Barrett Devin just leaves that's just it so that's very dangerous and D points this out and Devin is like

[00:30:07] I don't know she says come on we're relying on Drew to break the tie he's got nothing on his resume right now he might feel like he has to make a big move and Devin is like I don't think so if Drew flipped he'd be pissing off his only remaining allies he'd be stuck in a house that all want him gone and he'll have angered three of the seven jury members why would he I think that's such a stupid move it would be such a huge mistake he wouldn't make it now

[00:30:36] devins first of all never overestimate players in the big brother house plenty of people do plenty of stupid things and here's my evidence for it devins you just volunteered to go on the block at the final nine number two Drew's not the only one you need to be concerned about

[00:31:09] number three don't volunteer to go on the block um it's wild stuff it's wild stuff but it does expose a really interesting dilemma when it comes to Drew I think there's going to be a lot of conversation around this over the next couple of days what is the right thing for Drew to do because he's played himself into such a corner that like he

[00:31:38] doesn't really have any good options and I'm just going to get through the rest of this conversation before I really uh like finalize all of this but like um basically Devin thinks he wouldn't do this uh and they talk about the veto competition is 4v2 because Melody will of course use the veto to force a renom so in a perfect world Drew puts Melody up but he shouldn't because we just flipped the votes against Melody and

[00:32:14] you're more cutthroat than that and it's kind of like genuinely a little bit awkward between the two of them for a moment because she continues to deny that she would flip the votes on Melody and he's like come on what what have we been doing this whole game what do you mean you wouldn't flip the votes on Melody but this is the point right because of course they would of course they would it's like D was already talking about wanting to keep Yash let's say it's Melody versus Yash on the block you're going to keep

[00:32:44] Melody really D after you were just talking about keeping Yash but here's the point right we're now envisioning a scenario where if Drew names a renom of Melody the icons vote Melody out against his will and if he nominates Devin Barrett joins the other side and votes out Devin against Drew's will and if he keeps the

[00:33:14] nominations the same the icons will vote to keep Yash against his will he has nothing he has no one and he can't even control his own HOH so like he is put in such a bad position here by again his own gameplay largely and that kind of begs the question of what is the right move

[00:33:44] for Drew obviously Yash should be his primary target Yash I think is very anti Drew and can't nominate any of the vets so Yash should be his primary target but how do you get Yash out at this point he might not be able to if you can't get Yash who else should you target should you go after the vets the

[00:34:14] vets are like at this point the only people who are even vaguely interested in working with Drew because Barrett still from what we've seen not working with him not telling him anything and fully working against him Melody is a little bit warmed back up to Drew but not much still working against him Lala and Taylor hate him rightfully so and

[00:34:43] Yash thinks he's gone so like he like going after the icons doesn't really make sense positionally right but then also nobody respects him and if he doesn't go after the icons then how does he win the game in the end and this might be his only chance to actually make

[00:35:21] it's it's I'm personally finding it such a fascinating spot to analyze because you know it's it's rare that I feel like I'm looking around in a 360 degree you know sort of like angle and it's just like I don't see a single like great option here they're just all shades of bad and again you kind of have to blame him for being in this spot in the first place but I find it quite

[00:35:50] interesting so the feeds go down for the veto competition and they actually come back up quite quickly it's a very quick very quick veto competition and when they come back up we discover that Yash has indeed won the

[00:36:24] the big see-saw shovel thing where they put the balls on one side and they get all the balls in there it's the one that that Frankie won and then lost on the reset week that Nicole won in the final four five ish of BB22 and it was very quick because apparently Yash did not drop once he just

[00:36:53] crushed it so you might have been able to anticipate that this is something that somebody won the veto that would cause a renom and perhaps Yash did it considering all of my talk of a potential renom and Yash being such a comp threat but there it is Yash decorated with the veto and the weighted red bribe

[00:37:25] and this means Yash will be pulling himself off the block and Drew will in fact need to name a renom and so that brings us to this dilemma right who does Drew put up as the renom and you might have noticed that if Barrett goes up as the renom

[00:37:54] against Lala and Taylor then Drew would be able to actually probably control the votes because the icons still believe in Barrett they would not vote him out as of now that could change and here's why it could change Yash Taylor and Lala know that Barrett has been snaking the icons and could rat him out

[00:38:24] so even that is not a guarantee that Barrett would stay but Barrett leaving is actually not a terrible thing for Drew considering that Barrett has been pretty anti Drew to this point and I will tell you he's continuing to be pretty anti Drew in fact Barrett at this point is probably aside from Yash the worst person for Drew in this game right now he is actively sabotaging Drew at every corner the

[00:38:54] problem is Drew doesn't realize that so when we look at what is the right decision for Drew I am personally maybe leaning toward a Barrett nom which is so backwards and I could never expect Drew to get to that position because again he doesn't have a lot of good options if I were in Drew's spot and I had the information Drew had I would certainly

[00:39:24] nominate an icon but the real thing is there's another tactic which is not to nominate Devin's thinking he's a pawn but to nominate Devin's or D to intentionally target them make a deal with Yash pull in Barrett and Melody and say hey we're all going to go against the icons and try to win back Yash and Melody so that you

[00:40:11] so listen we'll do plenty of analysis on this over the coming days I won't bog down too much of this update with it obviously there's a lot of information and a lot of resetting of the entire structure of what's happening to do here but this is where we're at right Yash now with the veto Drew will have to name

[00:40:41] Melody and we learn that he's clearly told her a bit more about having worked with the vets she says that you know he was an alliance he never told her about and he seems to know that Barrett told her about it he says he could have been like Barrett and play everyone and not say anything about it and she says well that's what you did he says well Barrett just didn't clue me in on

[00:41:12] he knows that Barrett was sharing some information about what was going on though again he does not know the extent to which Barrett has turned he does not know to my knowledge that they were planning to vote him he he

[00:41:42] annoyed with Barrett about that but not to the point that he has turned on Barrett or again thinks that Barrett has fully turned on him Melody does talk to Taylor and we

[00:42:13] is going to be a bit of that that's that's going to be a little bit of a thing they said it would be really good if they could get Devins on the block because if Devins loses the block buster he's gone they vote him out with Barrett and best of all they say it wouldn't even be Drew's move it would be theirs and this is again part of the catch 22 of Drew's position right now is that

[00:42:43] they don't want Drew to be part of the move against the icons they want intentionally to exclude him and blindside them on the move so that it's their move and not his so even if he does nominate an icon even if an icon leaves on his HOH it still does nothing for his jury odds it's it's not even his move now that said considering the way Devens talks about the jury and the way that survivor juries seem to work a little

[00:43:13] bit Devens is talking a lot about voting blocks in the jury and how if Drew turned on them then all three icons would be anti Drew if that ends up 100% sold on this idea that number one all three icons will vote

[00:43:43] as a block and that number two that they would vote so stringently like to like if you didn't do everything we wanted we're not going to vote for you I don't know if that's actually going to happen but either way just again paints Drew into even more of a corner here this week that he can't even if an icon leaves nobody's going to give him credit for it which I think is quite funny because it would be an accident on his end Taylor and Lala talk about the feeling of the house

[00:44:13] Taylor says house feels so much better without so and so around you know what I mean Devin says he wants to talk about the nominations he says he's still down to go up though he'd be pissed if he got voted out but they agree the votes are solid D and Angela they're not going to vote him out and he's got Barrett those are

[00:44:43] three locked in votes he'd be fine D and Barrett joined the conversation and I just mentioned that Melody is like clearly a bit annoyed that Drew saved Angela over her well there's a little bit of jealousy going on on the other end of this Drew has noticed that Melody and Yash are talking in the backyard and Drew makes a comment he says well Yash is her new best friend apparently

[00:45:14] he's like I'm glad you said it Drew because I've been thinking it too he's fine to go up on the blocks of the pond but he would love for Melody to go up if Drew is willing but he's not really pushing it he's not really making a case he's just saying like if you wanted to you could do that I mean I'm down but if you wanted to D says listen as long as

[00:45:44] she's not playing you Devin's like well yeah crossovers we've done it look how far we've come it's a big accomplishment in the game of big brother and she's trying to work it

[00:46:29] they have a better conversation than the one that Drew's gonna have with her very soon and she tells Yash she says I like him but I don't trust him Drew Yash says Drew's a sellout he's a sellout he should have done what Barrett did they were in the

[00:47:01] literally Drew was the one pushing they turn on the icons just days before and Barrett was the one being a little reluctant but at this point it doesn't really matter the chips fell where they did

[00:47:32] they both didn't like her on her original season and they don't like her now she plays victim too much it's annoying a little bit later Devin's Drew and Barrett talk up in the HOH room Devin's again says that he is still available as a pawn he won't be mad and I want to reiterate this as much as I can

[00:48:01] this is really really dumb because Drew doesn't seem to want to put Devin's on the block Drew in the face of Devin's constantly telling him it's okay you can put me up it's okay I trust you you can put me up it's actually chill I'm totally fine is still like well I mean I'll think

[00:48:31] about it it's clear he does not want to do this and here's I think a couple of reasons why number one Devin's is his dad he doesn't want to put up his dad number two I think if he were

[00:49:06] he he he he he he is incredibly important. Because again, if D is on the block, D is the one that gets voted out if she loses the blockbuster. If Devins is on the block,

[00:49:36] Devins is the one who gets voted out if he loses the blockbuster. That's a significant difference if you're D or you're Devins, right? And I think Drew would love for this nominee to be D because he obviously wants to protect Devins over D. But Devins volunteered. And because Devins not only volunteered, but keeps reiterating that he volunteered, it's really difficult for Drew to be like, actually, I want to put up D

[00:50:06] who doesn't volunteer, who hasn't volunteered and doesn't want to. Like Drew can't put up D when Devins is volunteering and maintain any sense of neutrality. So I think with Devins volunteering, Drew is kind of forced. He's feeling forced to nominate Devins over D. Now, this is my speculation personally. He hasn't said this out loud. But I think everyone would have agreed that if Drew had to name a replacement, had to choose between Devins or D,

[00:50:35] he would have picked D. But with Devins constantly volunteering, it's much harder to do that. So I think that's part of why he's reluctant. And here's the second thing. I think he also kind of wants to put up Barrett. I think he's really annoyed about Barrett exposing the crossovers to Mallory and Melody. I think he's really annoyed that Barrett has come away, Scott, like super clean from the whole situation, that he's the one that's being villainized

[00:51:03] for voting out Mallory and that Barrett got to vote for Mallory to stay. And everyone loves Barrett now. And I think he would love to put up Barrett as a pawn here because he thinks that Barrett is very safe. And it would be great for Barrett to have to experience some heat. But when Barrett is in the room with Devins saying, I'm volunteering, he can't really make a good case for why it should be Barrett and not the volunteer.

[00:51:37] So Devins is really like, you know how you talk about throwing people under the bus in Big Brother? Devins is like shoving people out of the line of the bus and then going, bus! Me! It's me right here! No, no, no! Over here! Bus! Right here! Right here! I'm gonna lay down in the road now, alright?

[00:52:08] Ready? No, no! Hey, over here! No, bus! Here! It's not gonna be pretty he loses that blockbuster. So Drew says, listen, I've been, yeah, I'm thinking about it, but you know, there is only one other person not in our alliance that's available. Melody could be her too. And I don't doubt that Drew could nominate Melody,

[00:52:40] though I don't think he would. Though I don't think he will, I should say. But I do think he could if they pushed hard enough. They're not. Come on, Devins, if this, you know this. You played with Sari. We saw Sari. We've seen her on Survivor. We saw her on Brewer. You know what Sari would be doing in this spot, Devins? Sari would be in his ear. It's gotta be Melody. You know it does.

[00:53:10] Because she would be pushing every angle. Devins says, I trust you guys. I trust the both of you. I know you're not gonna put me up. I know you're not gonna vote me out. That was me correcting myself. He said, I know you're not gonna vote me out. Drew says, my only worry, obviously, is that if I did put up Melody, you guys would send her home. And Devins's like, no, no, we wouldn't. I mean, I'd do what you wanted.

[00:53:39] And then Drew jokes about putting Barrett up. Saying, you know, you'd be the safest person on the block. And this is why I think that Drew would actually like to put Barrett up. He's gonna joke about putting Barrett up like nonstop through the night. Obviously, Drew's a jokester. It's part of what makes him not as good at this game as he could be. But this is a very pointed joke that he

[00:54:08] really pushes a lot. Right? So, you know, Devins just continues to volunteer. In the meantime, Dee is talking to Angela. Dee wants to push the Melody renom. She thinks that they might be able to make that happen if they keep pushing this idea that Melody is playing Drew and that the Zingbot song confirmed it. So, let's continue to push Melody.

[00:54:39] This is much more correct than volunteering. But Devins is not on board with this. He's, Devins is, again, he's like, I mean, obviously, I would love it if you put up Melody, but I'm down. Devins talks to Barrett and he talks more about going up in the block. He says, I didn't plan this, but he literally says, obviously, I'd love for Melody to go up instead, but I trust you and Drew and I think Angela

[00:55:08] and Dee would be solid, so I'm fine. Drew talks to Melody out in the backyard. They have a really awkward conversation, I would say, and he jokes about putting Barrett up. He says, I'm putting Barrett up and she goes, are you, are you being serious right now? He says, why? Why shouldn't I put Barrett up? Are you, are you bullshitting me right now? This isn't funny. It's like, I don't know. It's like, Drew, like,

[00:55:38] I'm kidding, I'm kidding. But I don't know, I'm kidding. He asks her a few questions. He, like, you know, to be clear, they're both still quite flirty with one another, but there is a, a tinge of, like, anger and resentment. They are like, they are like a, a married couple that, that has grown to hate each other,

[00:56:08] except, they haven't even kissed yet. You know what I mean? Like, they're still in the, the very, very early flirty stage, but they've already grown to resent one another. And so, he's asking her, like, hey, would you, would you vote me out over Barrett? Maybe I would.

[00:56:38] He's like, oh, I know, I know you would, because you're not as mad at him. And he's so upset that she's not as mad at Barrett as he, she is with him. He's like, you know, Barrett did all the same things as me. He's like, yeah, but Barrett came clean, didn't he? He's like, well, I didn't know. He did it without me. And he's so annoyed that Barrett, that she likes Barrett more and she's not as mad at Barrett. She's like, Barrett wasn't as close to me as you were. We were the ones, one that had like a final two relationship.

[00:57:08] He's like, all right, fair. He's like, well, now you're best friends with Yash. Would you vote out Yash over me? And she just sits down and stops walking with him. She says, don't ask stupid questions, which to be fair is usually what people say when the answer is something that they don't want to say. Legendary director Ridley Scarry turns in IMAX.

[00:57:38] It's no surprise how fast civilization can disappear. Go! Not there. Kill or be killed. Jacob Elordi. There are people out there. They need our help. Josh Brolin. Shoot first and inquire afterwards. Margaret Qualley. Okay, tough guy. And Guy Pearce. Arm up! The Dog Stars. Directed by Ridley Scott. Now playing in theaters. Rated R. Under 17 not a minute without parent. Drew does say that he recognizes now that he loses against the icons in the final two.

[00:58:08] He says at this point the only people he can win against are like Barrett and her. Like they can, Barrett and her and him can only win against each other basically is what he's trying to say. And she says, yeah, you should have realized that earlier. So I do think again, like Drew is at least a little bit cognizant of the really rough spot that he is in. He just doesn't have all the information. He hasn't been let in on the revolution

[00:58:39] and does not see the way out, right? He has been saying that he thinks he wins against the icons. I think it's very telling that he's now saying he doesn't think that he can. Because he's been not only saying that he thinks so to the cameras, he's been saying to other people he thinks that everyone wins against the icons. And now his tune has changed. So clearly something has changed to change his tune. Dee talks more with Angela and I thought this was kind of an interesting conversation. Dee says that she's getting a little bit worried

[00:59:09] about how close Devins is with Drew and Barrett. That all of what went down last week when she had to nominate Drew and Mallory and piss off Barrett and Drew and that Devins played good cop, it pushed Barrett and Drew toward Devins. And that kind of worries her. And this is very interesting. We know Devins is like deeply loyal to Dee. But Dee, as Devins himself pointed out, is a lot more

[00:59:38] cutthroat than that. And so she's actually concerned that something might happen there. We know it's all fake, but she's actually concerned that something might happen. And there's a little bit of a reason to as well. She's going to confront Devins in a little bit. But he apparently made a comment in front of Drew and Barrett where he said, did you forget about last week? And he says he doesn't remember saying it, but he's really sorry. He'll be more careful. But I think Dee is like, oh, he's trying to really play up last week and make sure he stays closer to Barrett and Drew than me.

[01:00:09] again, we know this isn't true, but she's worried it is. And that's worth keeping in mind. Angela says, well, I've been worried about the two of you, Dee and Devins. Surely you've talked about a final two. And Dee's like, yeah, I mean, he's brought it up, but that's not going to happen. And so there are some small cracks forming here in the icons armor just in time for one of them to potentially be taken out. So we'll see what happens there.

[01:00:40] Yash talks to Angela as well. Quite interesting. They talk about who Drew might renom and how they hope it's not Angela. And they talk a little bit about working together. He says he'll do whatever he can to prevent the renom from being her. And he says, you know what, Angela? And they have like a kind of a lengthy conversation, not super long, but like you know, a good conversation. And he says, Angela, you're my dog. You're my dog. I never want to put you up, ever.

[01:01:09] Even before people I have a closer personal relationship with. I was thinking about that the other day. And I think this is true. I think Yash is going after Dee and Devins. I think Yash would love to bring Angela to a final four, three, you know what I mean? And I think he would target Melody and Barrett and even maybe Lala.

[01:01:40] You know? I think his number one is Taylor. I don't think that's, I don't think he's picking Angela over Taylor, but I do think he would happily bring Angela a lot further than a lot of other people in this game. you know, Melody has also performed I think worse than her at this point, even though she came close in the HOH competition. So, you know, who knows?

[01:02:10] But either way, he, you know, he says this, he says, I was thinking about this and he says, I wanted to wait to talk to you about it until my back wasn't against the wall. So you knew it was genuine, but let's, let's ride. Like, let's do this. And it's like, I'm down. You know, I've, I've never been somebody's dog before. He says, no, you're my dog, but you're my dog. You're my dog. D-A-W-G. Oh, oh, wow. So pay attention to this. Angela continuing to make good bonds.

[01:02:40] Again, Haley leaving has changed a lot and it had significantly damaged specifically Angela's game because Haley leaving takes out Angela's best win scenario, which was Angela being taken to the final two by Haley. She doesn't have that anymore. Now, being taken to the final two by Yash is A, probably not happening and B, probably not winning against him. Though, don't take

[01:03:10] it for granted. But still, good connections to make and on Yash's end, good connection to try to make though. Angela is not exactly the most protecting ally to have. Drew and Barrett talk. And Drew says, should I just put Devin's up? Should I just do it? He's volunteering. Again, it seems like he doesn't want to. Barrett says, yeah, yeah,

[01:03:40] you should. That's what I was thinking. Of course, Barrett wants Devin's up so that they can vote Devin's out. Barrett, I want to be clear about this, Barrett is lying to Drew and misleading him intentionally so that he can turn around and stab Devin's in the back and stab Drew in the back. And in Barrett's ideal scenario, they take out Devin's and they move forward as a five-person Lala, Taylor, Yash, Barrett, Melody versus Drew, Dee,

[01:04:10] and Angela moving forward. Drew says, yeah, you know, and here's the thing, Barrett, like Melody putting up and it's like, again, Drew is, he wants Melody to stay, he wants somebody to take a shot at the icons, you know, he wants to work with Barrett, but at this point, Barrett, like, Barrett

[01:04:40] doesn't care and he might not even need to, depending. Yash is still a major threat for Barrett and I think he should want to hold on to Drew, but I think that Barrett at this point actually has a case for why he would keep Drew out of this intent. Like, even if Drew wanted to be on board, this is much more Barrett's move if Drew is left out of it. And he can always pick up a powerless Drew afterward. You know what I mean? So, like, I don't think he should have voted Drew out over

[01:05:09] Taylor last week, but I actually don't mind him intentionally leaving Drew out of these machinations about Devons because that just gives Barrett a much more powerful position and resume in the house. And is it cutthroat? Yeah, but let's go. I like that. That's what we're here for. It's cutthroat, but not just for the sake of it, like voting him out seemingly would have been. But either way, Barrett

[01:05:39] says, I was also thinking, you know, hey, putting Devons up kind of appeases the other side, right? And I think you need that. And Drew's like, well, I don't think it's going to get me anything fair. It's like, well, no, but at least it won't look like I'm their little bitch. Well, that's not what I would have said, but, you know, putting Melody up would just look bad, you know? And Drew's like, yeah, yeah, it would. It would. You know,

[01:06:10] well, hopefully Devons just wins the blockbuster. Who would you put up, Barrett, if you want HOH? I mean, you'd have to put Melody up? And again, I think Drew's kind of fishing, like, are you ready to take a shot? And Barrett's like, well, better me than you to put Melody up. And Drew's like, oh, yeah, yeah, I guess. Barrett's like, I mean, I do want Melody to go as far as possible without, you know, while also going as far as possible with the crossovers.

[01:06:41] And Drew's like, yeah, you know, man, Devin's really, he shouldn't have volunteered as soon as I won HOH. As soon as he won HOH, Devin's come on, bro. But again, the way Drew is saying this, it really makes it seem like he does not want to do this. And that Devin's volunteering has backed him into a corner where he kind of has to. He says it like he shouldn't have done that. Why did

[01:07:11] he do that? Drew says he doesn't really get where Melody is in the game. Like, he played her really hard and he's really hoping he like, he's not getting played by her in response. I assume after that whole Zingba thing. Drew's head is all over the place and there are so many more options that he could potentially use to nominate here. And Devin's volunteering has backed him into this corner. So Drew says his target, by the way, if you're wondering,

[01:07:41] Drew's target is Lala this week. Now that Yash is coming off the block, Devin's is the likely renom at this point. And Lala, he wants Lala gone over Taylor. He thinks Lala is the bigger comp threat. I assume this is because Lala just recently performed better than Taylor in multiple of the competitions that they all just played. On top of the fact that she's already won two and Taylor's only won one. And Taylor just lost the blockbuster to him as well.

[01:08:11] So like a lot of people are looking at Taylor as now like potentially the worst competitor in the house. Like Taylor, Melody, and Angela are the three lowest, worst, quote unquote competitors in the house. And Melody just came and just had that tiebreaker with Drew. So I think her stock has risen a little bit recently. Whereas Taylor, I assume, has just performed poorly in competitions just based on

[01:08:40] the fact that she had to be saved in the twist. And people are just talking about her not being good at competitions and that Lala is better at competitions than her. So we'll see a little bit more for sure later. But Yash talks to Taylor and this is, this is, man, this was good timing. This is when Yash tells Taylor, which is exactly what I was talking about. He says, Taylor, I picked a bad number one in the game because you don't win anything. Which number one is confirmation that they're thinking

[01:09:09] of Taylor as not a big threat in competitions. And number two, confirmation of something that I think we've known for a while, which is that Taylor is Yash's number one. Taylor also, I think, has Yash as her number one for what it's worth. Would that mean that Taylor would take Yash to the final two over Lala? I don't know. But she loves Yash and she said as much yesterday, especially the fact that he intentionally volunteered his tribute in the twist to save her.

[01:09:41] So a dynamic duo here for sure. Yash goes upstairs and he talks to Drew. Drew says, listen, Yash, I hope you don't hate me for putting you up. I'm sure you'll put me up if you win. And Yash is like, I don't even know, bro. The game changes so quick. And this is like, again, it's so fun to watch Yash as a player and how much he's evolved from week one as somebody who didn't really know the game all that much to now where he seems to perhaps know the game a little bit more than even some of the

[01:10:11] vets playing this game. Because this is something big brother is a long game and things change. People in the house are talking about Lala as a potential winner of this game. And, and, and, you know, weeks and weeks ago, it was like Lala has no chance to win this game. Devins is volunteering to go up on the block because he thinks he's good and we know he's not. But even if he was, just the fact that it's

[01:10:41] that close means you shouldn't do it because there are days and days and days for things to change. Things change all the time in Big Brother. It is a constant of the game. And so like even steamroll seasons, things change like right on Big Brothers 16. Things changed when, when, when Derek saved Zach, right? Like, and a reset week happened as well in that

[01:11:10] season. Things change. So Yash, I think, correctly says, hey, game changes so quick. Now, we know Yash probably can't, can't target the vets and almost has to target Drew if he wins an HOH, but of course, you shouldn't say that. Drew implies that Yash was never the target for him, that essentially Lala has been his target the whole time. And, and Yash says, well, listen, Drew, this is your chance to show the house and

[01:11:40] America that you can have like a respectable HOH. this is a chance to take a shot at the icons without actually getting any blood on your hands because it's forced. And, and Drew doesn't really give him much. He doesn't really tell him what the plans are for, for the renom, but he tries to like imply that, you know, he's not going to be nominating, or he says he's not going to be nominating Barrett or Melody. Uh, he just doesn't say exactly that it's going to be Devins at this point. Um,

[01:12:11] now Barrett is talking to Taylor downstairs about how, uh, despite, you know, Drew being a little hush hush about it, Barrett is telling Taylor everything that he talked about with Drew. Uh, he says that Drew is going to put Devins up on the block because he thinks Devins will stay and that he wants to target Lala. Um, but don't worry Taylor, I'm voting Devins out. So, Taylor goes upstairs, she joins Drew and Yash, they hang out for a while, um, and eventually Drew says, uh, like, don't worry Taylor, you're not going anywhere.

[01:12:41] And she's like, are you saying if it's a 3-3 vote, I, I've got your tiebreaker? Like, maybe, I can't confirm or deny. But basically he's telling her Lala is his target over her and that he would keep her in a tie. So, uh, they leave, Melody comes up, they hang out for hours, they hang out for hours, uh, late at night, they, uh, Melody and Drew often hang out late into the night, uh, but now they have an HOH room and

[01:13:10] they've got wine. And so this is a very, very long hangout session. Uh, not a ton of new information here, just more talk about like saving Angela over her, uh, lying, telling the truth now, why do you like Barrett more than me? Why do you like Yash more than me? Drinking wine, little bit of cuddles, little bit of longing glances, um, you know, all kinds of stuff like that. A little bit of, hey, don't worry, I'm not putting you on the block. Um,

[01:13:40] so just a lot of that, just a lot of that, uh, that, uh, there's, you know, they're like falling asleep together, basically on the couch. She carries her to the bed, then she eventually gets up and all kinds of nonsense going on here. Um, so that's, that's basically the day, uh, today, of course, we have a lot more time for, uh, Dee and Angela to push the melody agenda for, uh, you know,

[01:14:10] I would hope Devin's to be like, nevermind, don't put me up because I really, I actually think that Devin's saying don't do it would give Drew the excuse he needs to do something he would prefer to do, which is Dee or Barrett, uh, or I doubt, again, I doubt melody, but never rule it out. Um, I think, I think Devin's life in this game depends on just telling Drew, don't put me up. Uh,

[01:14:42] and, and at this point it might be too late because he might have been, he might be too pot committed. But like, it's really like, it's, it's that simple. It's, it's, it's almost the same as Barrett not pressing that button on the HOH comp. It's just like, there's literally a button in front of Devin's and it's just like, just press that button to save yourself. Really, I mean, the more accurate representation is like, uh, don't press the button. Pressing the button makes you go home and he's already pressed it. It's like, well, don't stop

[01:15:12] pressing it. Stop pressing the, any, it's like, sorry, what? I, I just, I'm pressing the button. You're saying not to press the button. I'm still pressing the button. Should I not be doing this? You could stop pressing the button at any time and you might be saved. I like pressing the button though. It feels good. Um, so, uh, so we'll see, we'll see what happens there. Uh,

[01:15:42] it's, we've got an interesting week on our hands because of all of the dilemma that has been shoved onto Drew. Uh, what is the right move for him? There's not really a good one. Um, but there are some, maybe some things to, to parse out. Uh, should be, should make for some fun podcasting. Uh, wild decision by Devins to volunteer. We got a revolution vote flip on in the works. Um, and all of it could be null and void if, say, Devins just wins the blockbuster. But,

[01:16:12] um, but we've got, I think, again, an interesting week on our hands. The game has opened up with Haley's elimination. Um, but, uh, you know, we'll see how exactly that played out on tonight's episode. That's what I have for you today. Look at that. Quite a lengthy update for a shortish period of time on the feeds, but that's because there was so much to catch up on and sort of, like, reorient ourselves with. It was so funny to, even just, like, a full day without feeds, um, was like, wait, is there,

[01:16:42] oh, is there life outside of the Big Brother 28 house? Is, you know, like, you get, like, one brief moment of, like, sticking your head out of the tunnel and you're, like, wait, wait, it's not life or death. It's actually going to be okay. Uh, but now we're back in it, sticking our head back in the sand. Um, so thank you for joining. I'll be back tomorrow morning, 11 a.m. Eastern to update on everything that happens today on the Big Brother 28 live feeds. I'll also be live

[01:17:11] tonight on my Patreon, Twitch, and YouTube watching tonight's episode. Uh, and we'll have a podcast afterward. Uh, the episode on tonight is at, uh, 9 p.m. Eastern, an hour later than normal, I believe. Um, and so we'll have a podcast after that. And then, round table tomorrow night, uh, which should be a good one because there's a lot of, I think, interesting strategic things to talk about. So stay tuned for that as well. Um, as I said,

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