BB28 Tuesday Live Feed Update September 8, 2026

[00:00:10] 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 September 8th. I'm your host, Taran Armstrong and I'm here to update you on everything that happened yesterday. The Big Brother 28 live feeds, it was day 63 in the house and at a veto ceremony, we had some drama surrounding the meeting and we have some

[00:01:11] plans for next week, some plans for betrayal, some plans for backstabbing. With me to talk about it all is Scali, how you doing Scali? Oh Hello Taran, I am good back from a weekend of Labor Day, partying I would say but definitely not as much as some of these house guests. Hmm yes well let's get straight into it then of course Barrett is the HOH, Angela D and Devins are on the block, Yash won the veto, he plans to not use

[00:01:41] the veto, Devins is the primary target but if he wins the blockbuster, D is likely to be evicted instead. That's about the lay of the land. Now the new players have all agreed on a ceasefire where they continue to target the icons moving forward into next week.

[00:02:04] Problem is none of them really plan to stick to it except for maybe Melody. So we will see about that either way. In the morning, Yash talks to Devins because Devins and Angela and them had talked about potentially having the veto used. Yash said he would talk to Barrett, see who the renom might be. He didn't really talk to Barrett.

[00:02:31] But he comes back to Devins saying, can't really use the veto because I'm pretty sure Barrett's gonna put Taylor on the block. So, oh, sorry. And Devins is like, alright, it's alright. You know, you tried, you tried. Yeah. Definitely tried. There is a little bit of thought from the icons of like, okay, at least they see that like Taylor would have been the replacement nominee and that's sure to sow some division there.

[00:02:57] But, um, eh, not really. Not really gonna help when that conversation never really happened. Not really. And Yash kind of believes that it might have been able to be true. Who knows? Like not if he used it, right? Like against Barrett's wishes, but, uh, that like if there was a replacement nominee, he kind of believes that it could have been true because Barrett's been doing a pretty good job of working on Yash.

[00:03:22] Um, D and Angela spend the morning talking about how deeply they want to make sure Barrett regrets his decision to target them. He, they want him to regret it for the rest of his life. Always. Yeah, forever. You will regret it. In the game. In the game. In the game. In the game. Yes. Rest of his life in the game.

[00:03:47] I feel like Barrett pretty okay with it at the moment, maybe some coping, but, uh, look, I don't always love the, you know, bitter syndrome of doing the same thing that we've done to everyone else, but I'm going to like allow the pass for now. See how it goes. And like, does that hold?

[00:04:10] I'm not convinced that especially D specifically is going to like hold to be like, I'm going to make his life miserable by any means. Yes. Well, that is the plan. And they they're planning speeches at the veto meeting. Um, and the, the new players, they've also planned something. We'll get to that shortly. Uh, in the meantime, Drew and Barrett, they talk about needing to comp out from this point forward. This is a common sentiment that I'll really both be. We'll be talking about throughout the day.

[00:04:40] They do talk about how Yash is the best competitor. So like, uh, oh, uh, and how it is in Yash's best interest to take out the two of them over even targeting an icon next can even target an icon next. Uh, and so that is of course concerning. Now more of this comes from drew than Barrett, of course, but Barrett does agree to it.

[00:05:02] And then if you recall from yesterday, there was a bit of a challenger situation going on and, uh, and just kind of out of the blue, just random thought popped into Drew's mind. Just random question. Totally random. Don't even bother with it. It's not even a big deal, but Hey, Barry, you ever crush on Mallory? Huh? Yeah.

[00:05:23] I've shown no interest in asking this question before this very moment when anything could have happened about it, but now say yes, please say yes. Cause he's obviously like, you know, it was about me and melody, you and Mallory, you Matt Mallory, not melody. Right. You would like crush on Mallory. Uh, and, uh, and to some people's surprise, at least, uh, Barrett says, I thought that was painfully obvious. Yeah.

[00:05:54] Yeah. Well, he's like, that was me being bashful. Oh, uh, and Barrett's like, I, I don't think I'm going to be a little bit of a little bit. I don't think she likes me like that. And Drew's like, Hey, you, you never know. Hey, hold out hope, you know, wait by that doc, please. That's true. Another, you know, eviction speech shout out. Couldn't hurt. Julie might've been right about something. Julie, Julie always knows when it comes to love. That's true.

[00:06:24] Damn. One of her favorite subjects. Uh, so Yasha. Uh, continues his sort of morning tour of letting people know he's not using the veto. He lets Angela know, uh, D talks to Devins and, uh, Devins talks about how he's trying to figure out a way to campaign for Angela to go over one of them. Uh, theoretically it could be possible.

[00:06:52] Uh, D's like, I'm not going to participate in that. Yeah. I mean, like you can encourage Devins cause like, sure. But, uh, for D who is currently the less likely target and also is in her mind, like pretty much relying on her or Devins winning the blockbuster. Like she can do some subtle campaigning, but she doesn't need to be involved in the campaigning to also keep Rick here over Angela.

[00:07:22] I don't even know that she prefers. Certainly not over Devins. Yeah. Uh, they both plan to target drew and Barrett next. They say they are on the Yash train. Um, that is the plan moving forward for the icons is that drew and Barrett are the targets. They work with Yash until he wins an HOH and then, and then they target Yash. Yeah. So yes, go ahead.

[00:07:47] No, just, uh, you know, look at true no matter how much he wants to work with the icons. It's just, uh, never unfortunately going to happen for him. No, no, it's not. Uh, so what had happened was the, the vets, they're planning their speeches for the veto meeting, by the way, speeches that basically never get shown. Uh, and not a single veto meeting speech, I believe has been shown on the episode so far

[00:08:13] that may change given all the drama around this one, but honestly, who knows? Um, they're planning all these veto speeches and the, the five new players, they had talked the night before about wanting to do oven mitt puppets, like how Devin's does, uh, in the house. Devin's has a, an oven mitt puppet. He likes to use. They were all going to take not all, but, uh, some of them are going to take the oven

[00:08:39] mitt, uh, puppets and start just like when, when the, when the vets do their veto speeches, they were going to go like, just if you're watching the videos, it's just like, you know, just like flapping its mouth, like, Oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. With the veto pub with the oven mitt. Um, and so they're all pumped up to do this and it actually would have probably worked out pretty well because the vets did go pretty hard in their speeches.

[00:09:09] Um, but they wake up in the morning and Drew's like, I don't know guys, I'm kind of having second thoughts. I feel like it's a little too mean. I don't really think I want to go through with it. And Melody's like, are you serious bro? Uh, and he's like, yeah, I don't know. I just feel like I don't want to be, you know, mean like that. I just think it's unnecessary.

[00:09:39] Um, and so because Drew backs out and it's like, okay, well now Melody's like, I should, I don't know if I should do it alone. Um, and the whole thing starts to fall apart and Melody's pissed. She's like, Drew has no backbone. Ah, he makes me so mad. Drew has been willing to like make jokes at other people's expense in the past. I mean, he definitely participated in large part with that argument with Taylor

[00:10:04] and Mallory at the nomination ceremony of, you know, who said what he has done the, like, I hope we have hiding Govito so we can mess up the house and like stuff like that where it's been like slightly mean spirited at times. So, uh, people are definitely questioning like why now? I think that doing it like in such an obvious way in front of people's faces, I get it. But, uh, Drew needs these newbies way more than he knows.

[00:10:32] Uh, and then when they are going to be, the icons are going to be saying things like we're going to ruin Barrett's life. You can mock them a little bit. I think it'd be okay. Yeah. I mean, so here's the thing. Uh, obviously drew saying it's too mean. And so by the way, the veto, the veto meeting happens. The veto is not used and melody's even more pissed afterward. And he's still, he, he keeps saying like, it's too mean. She's talking to her mom on the phone about how annoyed she is about true.

[00:11:01] Uh, and she, she calls him out on it. Like you would have been so down for this if it were directed at other people. Uh, and she's right. Uh, but also like drew base, like game wise, drew's been trying to convince the icons that he's with them. And so obviously he doesn't want to like do a show of, uh, solidarity with the new players, uh, to like show that he's actually with them, uh, against the icons.

[00:11:31] But here's the thing for drew. It doesn't matter. They still don't trust you. They still don't rock with you. Um, it's, uh, it's, it's such a losing battle. Every time he tries to get in with them, they keep saying it's low budget acting, even though it's true. And it's so funny. Um, but, uh, but yeah, all it really does is piss off melody and Yash and them. And, uh, it's just true. Just continuing to get in more trouble. Mm hmm. Yeah.

[00:12:01] Very consistent. It's been like, no matter what drew does, uh, unless they are actively putting him on the block, they don't trust him. That's the only times that I feel like he has ever been able to convince them. So, you know, maybe if they nominate drew and Barrett, that will help sway things in drew's favor at that time. But otherwise they are cut ties. The worst person in the house. We don't trust drew at all. Mm hmm. So after the veto meeting, uh, Barrett's feeling a little down.

[00:12:30] I think based on the, how the veto meeting went, basically the vets were saying they like, as Yash said, they were glazing him and, and just shitting on, on Barrett. Uh, and so Barrett's kind of like, well, that's not great. Uh, he says to the cameras that, uh, you know, I do love Yash. He is the biggest threat in the game, but listen, if I end up losing to Yash because the vets want to spite me and bring Yash to the end, like whatever I'll, I'll, I'll, Yash

[00:13:00] can win. I'm fine with Yash winning. Um, which is like, this is just generally the sentiment of the house is that everyone's everyone in the game right now is kind of like so mad at each other that they're like, you know what? Fine. Yash can win as long as you don't everyone except for drew. Drew basically, uh, drew and melody. Um, but, uh, but they are, they're all kind of feeling this way right now. Yeah.

[00:13:25] It is a little bit of a, you know, like you said, as long as you don't, people are almost resigned to the fact. I think that, you know, seeing Yash as this like most likely winner, it's going to be hard to, uh, do anything like with him as long as he can't target the icons. So I think that people are kind of coming to a place of just not resentment, but just like acceptance. I think is always been a tough space for Barrett when it's, you know, Yash's win equity versus like Angela D and Devin's win equity.

[00:13:55] I think that is not a admirable position to be in. I think let them sulk a little bit, let them turn it around. I don't think this is going to be just complete acceptance from here on out. So you can have an afternoon. That's fine. Hmm. Well, D talks with Taylor again about the women working together. Uh, she really thinks it's a good idea and she is doing a little bit of campaigning like,

[00:14:22] Hey, if we do get the women together, I think there's any chance that I could stay over Angela. Uh, because all she would need is Taylor and Melody's votes to keep D along with Devin's who would vote for, uh, D to stay over Angela. She could stay if Devin's wins that blockbuster, if this women's thing actually moves forward. Uh, and Taylor's kind of give kind of gives her like a soft rejection, like, uh, well,

[00:14:51] you know, people see you as a better competitor. Um, but this is a, this is a lever that D will likely keep pressing on. Um, especially because it, it doesn't seem completely impossible though. It probably is. Uh, D also though talks to Taylor about drew. Drew because D doesn't trust drew and drew has been trying to court the icons all week long.

[00:15:15] Uh, D says, yeah, this guy yesterday, he was talking to me about how he wants me to put Yash up. He wants to put Yash up, but jokes on him. I'm not going to put Yash up cause he can't put me up. Uh, and Taylor's like, he said he yesterday, he said he wanted to put Yash up. She's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, it's like, oh boy, here, here it is. Drew just keeps getting in trouble here.

[00:15:44] Um, and what happens is Taylor immediately runs this to Yash. Yash, you need to win this next HOH. Like, uh, but Yash is like, I don't know. She's like, no dude, Barrett drew and melody. They outnumber us. We need to be worried about that. He says, well, if it's a double eviction, I will, we know it's not. Uh, he says I'd put up drew and melody drew wins the veto. Barrett goes, but we'll figure that out. We'll figure that out.

[00:16:12] Uh, he says, because it could be bad if I win that because the second I win, the block, the bribe is cleared and the icons will want me out again. Right now they don't want me out because I can't nominate them. But as soon as I win HOH, they'll want to nominate me. Uh, so listen, don't worry. It makes sense in my mind. Taylor's like, well, make sure you tell me how it makes sense to me too.

[00:16:37] Um, so, uh, so this is interesting stuff, right? Like, um, Yash wants to not, we know that the, uh, eviction on Thursday, it's not a double eviction. Uh, Yash is saying he still wants to try to throw that HOH, um, and not target drew and Barrett quite yet. Uh, but in the double eviction, he would, he would put drew and Barrett on the block.

[00:17:07] Assuming that say drew does leave that week. We know the following week is likely a double eviction at that point. Who is he targeting? Probably just Barrett. Uh, but we'll see. But either way, this, this is a failed attempt by Taylor to get Yash to win the HOH though. I do like the attempt. It's exactly what I said I wanted her to do in the morning. Um, but they'll talk even later about this and he'll continue to confirm. He's really not planning to win. Yeah.

[00:17:37] I see the thought process. My concern for Yash here is he, there are scenarios in which he ended up as a target as soon as this week, let alone next. So, uh, the veto goes, you know, the wrong way next week and Yash has not won HOH. He's not won veto. Oh, now like Barrett's ineligible or drew's ineligible.

[00:17:58] Uh, or, you know, if Barrett, if the true wins, if sorry, if melody like wins HOH and D wins veto, y'all starts looking very appetizing as a target. So I understand the inclination to be throwing HOH, but I don't know if I can sign off like with my full chest. Yeah.

[00:18:18] Cause I mean, my issue with it is that if drew ends up winning the HOH, he's fully targeting Yash and would probably settle for a Taylor backup target. Like he's still probably not targeting the icons. Yep. Um, at which point like Yash probably has to win a veto or blockbuster. Maybe he does. Um, but then maybe loses Taylor in response potentially, although drew doesn't really have a good replacement for Yash.

[00:18:45] Uh, and we know it's probably still a blockbuster. So Drew's nominees would probably be Yash Taylor. And I guess D or Angela. Uh, yeah. Um, and then if Yash comes off the block, then it's like, I guess the other icon. But now if it's like, uh, you know, uh, Taylor D and Angela on the block, does, does he even have the votes to take out Taylor? No. Um, so, okay.

[00:19:12] So then an icon leaves Angela or D maybe this is assuming Devins is gone, of course. Um, and if Devins is there, it's even worse because I, I don't know that he puts Devins on the block at all. Uh, so that could get really tricky, but either way, then you go into the following week. Um, and, uh, and if say D leaves D or Taylor, but it does say D leaves. Now Yash is competing in the double eviction against Barrett. Uh, and if Barrett wins, he's not targeting Angela.

[00:19:42] We know Barrett's order of operations. He's just straight up targeting Yash during the double eviction. So it's like, you're probably getting targeted in that double eviction anyway. I guess the difference is maybe you're competing in HOH, but in that event, you've already had to run through a cycle where you had to survive via veto or blockbuster. So, you know, I understand the logic here from Yash. Uh, but I, I think he's being a little too rigid by not considering the idea of, of just,

[00:20:09] uh, winning this HOH burning through the thing because the other part about it is that like, if he does manage to take out drew or Barrett, uh, like he only has to worry about Angela or D winning that HOH. It may be melody too. Maybe melody comes after him too, at that point. So I get that. It's tough. I, I'm not saying it's definitely the right call to win the HOH. It certainly is for Taylor for Yash to win it because they target Yash who cares.

[00:20:39] Uh, but, uh, but I think that he should be considering it a little more. I think there, uh, in the same way that I think Barrett should have considered the idea of targeting Yash a little more this week. Uh, I think like he should be thinking about it a little more. Cause I do think there are some upsides. Yeah. 100%. And I understand that, you know, presumably at final seven, he could win. Like if he doesn't win the HOH, he could still win like the veto or the blockbuster, which would not then be available to him if he was not the final six HOH.

[00:21:07] But in his mind, correct me if I'm wrong, Taren, aren't most of them still thinking that there will be no blockbuster next week? So most of them are thinking there's no blockbuster. Yeah. So not a part of his equation at all. Yeah. Um, so, uh, again, that's sort of where he stands at the moment. Um, so, uh, Taylor also goes and talks to Angela. Um, and Angela says, Hey, you can't, you can't trust Devins to not, uh, work with

[00:21:37] Barrett and drew, or at least drew, you know, he might put up Barrett, but he's still too attached to drew. So you can't trust him. Uh, this is unnecessary work because they're already on Devins, but you know, uh, unnecessary only in the sense that it's already happening. It's always good to pile on more. Um, and the idea that Devins is the primary target is one that continues to stick throughout the day.

[00:22:00] Um, drew winds to the vets about how they, the new players all want to do the oven mitts during the veto meeting. And he didn't want to do it. He shut it down. Um, and then Melody got angry at him and told me had no backbone. Um, and then they talk about Yash and how he's probably going to win the game and how hard it'll be. It'll be to take him out. Uh, Yash talks to Melody. Um, and they complain about drew and how annoying drew is and how he has no backbone.

[00:22:28] Uh, Yash says that he, in his mind, that whole ceasefire thing. Yes, it's on, but it's really the core for here. It's Yash, Taylor, Barrett, Melody. Drew's not really the priority and Melody agrees. She says she's also prioritizing the four of them over drew, which is exactly what she should say, but I also think she means it right now. Yeah. She will continue to mean it, but I think she means it right now. Yeah.

[00:22:57] I hope she does not. Once she wins an H.O.H. if that were to happen for her sake. I think she will target Yash. I think strategically she knows, but she was quite pissed at drew that day. Mm. Yeah. I think like maybe even later in the night, she might not be. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, Taylor talks to me. I think she's a melody and she asks her about this whole girls thing. Um, like, how do you feel about it?

[00:23:24] And melody says, well, I think it's smart to like agree to it, but I don't know if we should be loyal to it. Uh, and she says, and honestly, this idea about keeping D over Angela, like I would consider it like she's somebody that could win comps, uh, for us and like go after people. But like, here's the thing. The last time D approached me about working together and talked about the girls, she turned

[00:23:52] around and took out Mallory the next week. Like I got immediately burned. Why would I trust her now? So no, it's not happening. Yeah. Uh, when they talk about basically that D has built this reputation as a liar. So why would they go ahead and believe it? I think even if you feel like you could trust D just like at what point in the game do you need to start taking out people for yourself and not rely on everyone to take out each other.

[00:24:20] There's only so many weeks left. You can't just keep all of the big threats in endlessly because then you'll end up with two big threats at the final two and an absolutely no way to win the game. Yes, exactly. Exactly. So feeds go down for the Labor Day party. Uh, when they come back up, people are a bit buzzed, uh, little post party, uh, haze.

[00:24:48] Um, and, uh, Barrett's talking to the cameras. He's kind of isolating himself up in the HOH room. Uh, he's feeling a bit down after that veto meeting. Um, he says after that veto meeting, I think I'm royally fucked if the person that doesn't win HOH is Drew or Melody, but I could have guessed that. I think I probably screwed up my game. I don't know. Uh, and listen again, I, I, I think that there are so many, there's,

[00:25:18] there's very, very strong opinions on both sides of what should Barrett have done this. Uh, but the only, like the thing is, it's just like, I don't know that there are strong other candidates. Like, yes, this is a, a, a bad thing to have happened that he has now lost the icons and Yash can't not nominate him, uh, if he wins an HOH. But like, what was his other option other than still pissing off the icons or risking

[00:25:47] the icons, flipping the vote on Malady or Taylor and having Malady or Taylor leave on his HOH. Uh, like he did get, he did. I is now picking Yash for the veto perhaps, but even that he would have nominated Yash. Yash would have been playing in the veto. He would have won the veto. Uh, so it's like, um, and yes, I completely agree. I've been criticizing Barrett on his execution, but I really just don't know what the better

[00:26:12] play for Barrett was in the grand scheme of either targeting the icons or not targeting the icons. Uh, he's really down on himself for targeting the icons because he sees the result. But it's again, it's just like, where else could you have really gone here? Uh, you know, like at the end of the day, Barrett is one of the better competitors in the game. And if he had done, if he had made a move this week as HOH in final eight that took out

[00:26:39] Melody or Taylor, that would have been, I think even worse by a huge margin, uh, in my opinion. So, uh, so who knows, who knows, but, uh, but he's feeling a bit down on it and, uh, and, and he's worried about his future. Can't a boy be in his feelings, a little wine drunk in the HOH one time a season. Like this is relatable. Like I completely agree.

[00:27:05] I think for Barrett, the much worse position would be to, uh, never take the shot and just let it go by do, uh, absolutely nothing and end up at the end of the game with an icon. Absolutely nothing in terms of like not avoiding that scenario. So I am good with it. Obviously I agree. I think the execution could have been a little better, but again, I'm letting him be in his feelings today. People are upset and letting the icons be in their feelings today.

[00:27:35] Uh, but you know, the wine drunk will go away. We'll figure it out. There will be a new HOH. Yeah. He keeps talking. He talks to, he talks about how, um, he talks about the bribe and he still does not believe in the, which I think is, is honestly the worst mistake of his HOH is not believing the full extent. He's still the only person in the house that believes Yash about the bribe. And he, again, he keeps talking about, he says, and he's a little buzzed here.

[00:28:02] I really think this is the truth that he's like, I just have such a hard time believing that these bribe could really be as powerful as preventing Yash from dominating all the icons through the final seven. And it's just like, I don't know, man, just ask. Like, apparently you asked if D was allowed to lie. Why don't you just ask if it's possible for the bribe to work that way? If that's really the holdup.

[00:28:26] Um, look, I get it because when D gets the bribe, we're like, okay, you know, a power better than a never not pass, but we haven't really seen a great execution of this. And, uh, I don't think anyone really thought it would break the game as hard as it ended up. So don't blame Barrett for being in a little bit of denial, but it's gone on long enough. Yeah.

[00:28:49] So, uh, he says, listen, I, I really hope, I hope the drew or melody when the game really, uh, you know, and I prefer melody when I think she's played a better game and drew. Uh, I think drew wasted his HOH. I think melodies played a harder game. Um, but I, I'd also be happy for Yash to win, but you know, it just, he just wasn't doing as much at the start of the game as like a drew or melody. Um, and a Taylor, I don't even know.

[00:29:19] Like, I don't, I don't really know much about Taylor's game. Uh, I mean, I know she tried to make a bunch of alliances, but if both Zingbot and BB comics are to be believed, she like, I guess she really has been just in her pot all the time. And I'm just like, this is so fucked up. This is, I can't believe that Zingbot and BB comics are both dunking on Taylor to the point that like people are having a hard time, like people, like it's actually being used as evidence

[00:29:47] in people's minds that she wasn't doing as much in the game. Like that's so annoying. I really don't like, I, I complain about this every single year when Zingbot inevitably does the like, you're a boring player. You've done nothing in the game. Uh, Zing. It's just like, it's, it's usually not true and it's usually harmful to that person's game. Uh, you know, because it's like, well, the, this is apparently the perception.

[00:30:16] Uh, so, uh, it, it just annoys me. Yeah. There are people who, uh, have used it to their advantage or used a perception like this to their advantage. I'm thinking of like a Paris and BB can I'm thinking of Andy on BB 15 who have been glad to get a, uh, a diss like this of we're doing nothing. You're floating around the house. You're a ghost, but I think for someone like Taylor, who a lot of people are already, uh,

[00:30:46] like trying to believe the house narrative has already been that Taylor's not doing enough. They don't love Taylor. She's not their favorite person. Then they are jumping on the opportunity to use this as evidence. Mm. Yeah. So, uh, so that's Barrett's camera talk. Drew also has a camera talk. He's also kind of like, uh, feeling it out in the backyard.

[00:31:11] Uh, he says, man, I don't trust anybody in this game and nobody trusts me. Um, so I'm just going to really have to win out from here. And problem is not the best competitor here. So that's pretty annoying. Uh, he says, all right, I guess at this point, my, uh, uh, well, really, by the way, I, I fully believe the Yash's bribe saves all three icons. That's it's, that's for sure. Uh, he says, I'm, I'm trying to, I'm trying to get Yash out.

[00:31:40] I don't care about the ceasefire. I don't care. He's got to go. Uh, he's cause my, listen, my winner pick right now would be Yash, which is annoying. Cause I'm in here playing with him. Uh, my other winner pick Taylor, I could see Taylor being in the end with like a melody. Uh, and, and Taylor could win that. Um, so, uh, so there you go. There you go. There you go. Uh, he says right now, Taron, I think my stock is plummeted.

[00:32:12] Actually, it actually went slightly up this year. It's been pretty low prior to this. So determined that is a lie. It was actually not the worst week for you. Like, I know you think it was a bad move, but like, this was actually not that bad for you because the icon still just will never trust you. It's just never happening. I think it's less that drew thinks this week is like, he's performing so poorly.

[00:32:42] And then I think he thinks he was performing much better than he thought he was on other weeks. I think that is the case. Yes. Because of course he still had, well, he, he found out like, I don't think so. Like drew found out that he would have been voted out if he didn't win the blockbuster and that his HOH would have dramatically backfired. Had Devin's not on the blockbuster. He found those two things out, but he didn't live two full weeks of this is disaster for drew.

[00:33:09] He's still, he lived those weeks thinking I was fine on the block and I was fine as HOH. Uh, so I don't think he's like reconciled in his brain just how low his stock might've been for those two weeks knowing what he knows now. Which is so crazy because I feel like finding out that you had actually no idea how bad of a position you are in should have made you, uh, like even more dramatically drop your stock in your mind.

[00:33:38] Please. At least if you know, you're in trouble, then you can do something about it. You're aware of the house dynamics, but if you're completely oblivious and you only find out two weeks after the fact, that's a bad sign.

[00:33:51] It is. It is. Yash talks to Barrett upstairs in the HOH room. He, uh, he tries to reassure Barry. He says, despite the icons glazing me at that veto meeting, I'm still with you, man. They don't know how tight we are. Uh, he says for me, it's really the four of us, me, Taylor, you and melody. Uh, not true. And this is what he was talking to melody about as well.

[00:34:17] Taylor ends up joining them. Uh, and she says, and she says this for a reason because downstairs, you know, they're, they've been a bit buzzed melodies hanging out in her bathing suit. Uh, and, and drew is just like, he just can't stop looking and they can't stop flirting. And they're in the hot tub together. They're in the, they're doing all kinds of flirtiness. And so, uh, you know, it's cause things have been loosened up a little bit.

[00:34:45] So Taylor comes up and she's like, guys, I'm really starting to think that melody. It really likes drew. Uh, she just doesn't want to admit it. Um, and they're like, ah, yeah. And then, then Barrett's like, but sing bot said they haven't kissed. Um, and, uh, and Taylor's like, Oh no, I think they've kissed. I think they've kissed. I overheard them whispering one time. It sounded like they said something like, he didn't know about the kiss.

[00:35:15] That's what it seemed like they were saying. I have seen a GIF, uh, where I have only previously seen Nick macaroni's foot go on Tommy Bracco. Like there is stuff happening in that house. Uh, I think that for them, like they've said, they're like, uh, but they're doing all this flirting and they haven't kissed at this point. Like why? Well, why not? Why not at this point?

[00:35:38] Why not? Uh, so Barrett ends up leaving the room and Yash is like, he's a good guy. He's a good guy. Uh, and Taylor's like, I agree. I really just want drew out.

[00:35:51] Uh, so I do, I do really think that Yash will be reluctant to take the shot at Barrett. I think that he, he really does trust and like Barrett. Um, so the problem is he might not have a choice, but we'll see. Uh, Yash says, ah, Drew's a fraud and Barrett knows that. Uh, Taylor says, well, we should just keep pushing that melody and drew showmans. They'll take each other. So we have Barrett.

[00:36:13] Yeah. I was just like, I agree. I agree, but not yet because I'm not one to talk. Nobody's going to take me to the end. Uh, Taylor says, I will. He says, really? I appreciate that. That's love. I like that. Uh, Taylor. No, don't do it.

[00:36:33] Listen, obviously she should say this. The problem is, does she mean it? I would hope not. Yeah. Fingers crossed. It's nice to have a final two solidified, but yeah, no, don't do that. Don't do that under any circumstances. Mm. Uh, he said, Yash says, ideally what happens? He says, cause again, he's like, and I know we talked about me winning. I really don't think it's the right time for me to win.

[00:37:00] And I think ideally an icon wins takes out drew and he says, Angela, it'd be great if Angela won and took out drew for them. Then he can win the following HOH and he can take another icon out after that. Uh, right. Like, um, so like, uh, so like drew goes, he wins.

[00:37:23] And then really at that point again, like, I don't think he's like fully following the line of thought there, but it's probably Barrett that would take the hit at that point.

[00:37:30] And then he would be able to potentially take shots at the icons after that. Um, so, uh, they both still talk about how they agree that, uh, they prefer that D stays over Devin's. Um, she says her plan, if she won HOH would be that she nominates D and drew with melody or Angela as the replacement nominee, depending on who comes down. So if drew wins the veto, she would nominate Angela as the replacement and D would go.

[00:38:00] Or if drew won the veto, sorry, if D wins the veto, she would nominate melody as the replacement and drew would go. Uh, now none of this really matters because we know that the blockbuster will still be in place. I assume with the blockbuster in place, she would nominate Angela D and drew, uh, with similar ideas. But if D were to win the, so yeah, if D were to win the veto, it would be melody. And then they'd probably send out drew if he didn't win the blockbuster.

[00:38:28] Uh, and then if drew on the veto, whoops, probably, probably Barrett actually to win the blockbuster for them. Um, but, uh, but that would be her plan. And, uh, they also talk about how melody is just not going to win the game. Uh, she just hasn't done anything in the game. Uh, obviously they don't want to target her, uh, because of that, but also just like, what has she done? Uh, and Taylor says, you know what though?

[00:38:57] That melody vote flip, that was really the catalyst for the downfall of all these players. Uh, and I was like, that's what I was just saying on the round table. Taylor really lockstep with me yesterday, uh, between pitching for Yash to win the HOH talking about, uh, the melody flip, um, fun stuff. There we go. Yeah. I think no matter how bad Barrett wants it, I think melody's chances have been, uh, sunsetting for quite some time now. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:39:26] Um, late, uh, late into the night, drew and melody talk as per usual, uh, not much there. Drew does mention that he's concerned that Yash and melody will start or the, so that Yash and Taylor will start working with the icons. Um, and melody says, nah, I don't think so. Don't get paranoid. Um, and it's like, he's a little right. He's a little right. I mean, for melody, I don't think she ends up being the direct target because of that.

[00:39:53] So I guess she doesn't need to be as worried as them, but more of a possibility than she's considering. Yeah. So really what this is looking like is that, uh, heading into the HOH Yash still plans to throw, which means the HOH competition is going to be again, assuming Devin's leaves, but you can just sub Devin's in for D for the most part.

[00:40:15] Uh, the HOH competition will be drew and melody versus D Taylor and Angela with D and Angela fully going Barrett and drew for their targets. And Taylor kind of splitting the difference going D or drew and drew and melody, or at least drew going full Yash for his target and melody probably doing the Taylor, but splitting it Yash or, or D, uh, or maybe just trying to fully go.

[00:40:43] But, but the problem with fully going Yash is that there's no good backup. And I don't think Taylor, I don't think melody would, would like Taylor as the backup. Uh, I think she would prefer D as the backup. So, um, so really it's like a lot of people still potentially targeting D as their backup target, but, uh, but Yash, uh, but Taylor and drew and melody kind of like at war, uh, with Yash and, and drew. So interesting stuff.

[00:41:11] It's actually not quite, again, it's not quite as bad for drew or Barrett as it might've seemed. If Yash is throwing, if Yash is throwing things look a lot better than they might've otherwise. Uh, because if drew or melody manages to win and they do manage to even just land a shot on Yash, the whole game changes. If, even if they don't and D leaves, uh, then like, yes, they're open for Yash to take shot at them the following week, which would not be amazing.

[00:41:40] But like, what are you going to do at that point? It's just the same as what it always would have been. Um, so, uh, so interesting stuff. It's really, uh, as they keep talking about coming down to the competitions moving forward and we're going to just have to wait and see what that, how that plays out. That we will. Yeah. There's still a couple of days this week. Things could change. Blockbuster could go any which way. So, I mean, we've been discussing how much, uh, you know, if D is here next week, this is what's going to happen.

[00:42:09] I think Devins is largely plug and play, but always the chance he wins the blockbuster and things look slightly different. Yeah. Uh, I think that Devins is less, uh, he, he is agreeing with them about the drew stuff right now, but like, I think he is more likely to eventually come around on drew, uh, then, then certainly D is. But I don't know if there's enough time for that to happen to prevent him from nominating drew. If he wins an HOH, not to mention the fact that like,

[00:42:39] what, what else is he going to do? Who else is he going to put up if he wants to target Barrett? So we'll see. Uh, Scali, anything else from yesterday that you want to bring up? Um, there was a funny moment where, cause melody is a half, not they have discovered, you know, like many before that. If you have both showers running at the same time, the water will be slightly warmer. So in melody and drew take a shower, both at the same time, melody gets out and she jokes like, Oh, I was going to open the curtain. And drew was like, you were, you were, she's like, no God, calm down.

[00:43:08] He's like, Oh, that would have been, that would have been terrible. That would have been bad. It would have been so bad. That would have been bad. Don't do that. Yeah. A lot of flirtiness, a lot of flirting is going on, but otherwise now I think this was a good wrap up, you know, not the, the busiest of day feeds were down for the party for a little bit as well. Uh, but a fun day nonetheless. Yes. All right. Well, that's what we have for you then. Make sure you check out the round table from last night.

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[00:44:04] And, uh, Scali, what do you got going on? Ooh, I am over on the free agents podcast, uh, with Matt Liguori talking about the challenge, both the, uh, new season and old. I am also, uh, going to be covering the traders Canada with Pouya coming up. So keep an eye out for that. That's coming out soon. All right. Well, that is what we have for you then today. Thank you all so much for joining us and I will see all of you next time.