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[00:01:45] Several hundred of our closest friends to talk about the Wednesday night episode of Big Brother. And how incredible is it that we're here live with Taryn Armstrong? Taryn, how are you? You know, you did the screen the other day on the live feed update. And now everybody is trying to reheat your nachos. Oh, they shouldn't. It hurts. Don't damage your vocal cords like that.

[00:02:10] Yeah. Melody and Mallory, we wish that you could channel some of this energy in the diary room for... Or maybe, I don't know, to like a balance beam? Maybe like press the... Yeah. Press the button. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Yeah.

[00:02:58] From the bottom of the building? Yeah. No, but there's still further to go. Really? Next week, that's where you'll go. Oh, really? It's okay. It's okay. But you're not going to come after me? No, not you. Yet. Soon. Yeah. Yeah. This is tough stuff from the For the American People. We deserve better, honestly. For the American People. I think they should rename it to FAP.

[00:03:29] I think it is more appropriate. Yeah. These are some all-time diary room sessions, though. I mean, between Yash's in the beginning of the week, the Daddy Devon's orders drew around, to now the screaming, the I hate them. Somebody's doing something right in that diary room. Yeah. They're doing a really good job. I don't know how they're not hearing Mallory screaming. Yeah. They did. What was the reaction? They were like, she's screaming in the diary room. That's scary.

[00:03:58] Devon's was good in the diary room. Honestly, we'll talk about the nomination ceremony. Everybody in the diary room is like, yeah, I'm lying right now. And going through all of that. So interesting to get some of the behind-the-scenes stuff from the players about what's been going on over the last couple days. How are you doing here live in RehabCon? Oh, this is great. This is so exciting. I love Big Brother live shows. I feel like we don't get to do them enough.

[00:04:28] And the fact that there are so many people here who love this show just as much as we do and who are very excited to watch it with us and to chat with us about it is very fun. This was a fun episode to watch with the live audience. Never before did I imagine that we would watch with 400 people tongue aerobics, boot scoot thrusting. That was not on the bingo card.

[00:04:57] But here we are. Here we are. And I think I've heard that next year we're going to have a setup. The podcasters may compete next year. And you've accepted a challenge. I issued the challenge. You issued the challenge. Yes. Jacob Jones. I'm coming for you. Yeah. Yeah. You can't see what he's doing off camera. He's you don't want the smoke. All right. Well, let's talk about everything from this episode.

[00:05:25] We're going to bring on a lot of podcasters to talk about everything with us. And maybe we'll get some interactivity as well in the show. But here we go. So let's bring on Booyah and Jacob Jones. We get to be in the middle. We got the spotlight right on us. Actually, before we start to talk about the episode, I just want to talk about it. It's Big Brother 1000 tomorrow night. We will be together again live for that.

[00:05:52] Something cool that's happening over on ChatBCC. A bunch of the alumni are getting together. They're going to live in a house and be talking about their experience over at Big Brother 1000. So check it out. Chateau BCC, they're calling it. You can check it out. Go to BB28.chat. Okay. Booyah, how are you doing? I'm doing great, man. It's great. The audience has been phenomenal.

[00:06:21] The crowd has been lovely. The episode hit. The diarums have been great. Some things you wish you could unsee, but now I got to see it with 400 people. So things have been great. Yeah. I'm having a good time. How about for you, Jacob? It was one of my favorite episodes this season. I feel like for obvious reasons, but I also love when Big Brother is confrontational and a little bit unhinged. Well, you know, it's interesting that you say that.

[00:06:46] And, Pooja, I'm glad you're here because I really felt like that nomination ceremony was something that is – I mean, Taryn, that was not a normal Big Brother nomination ceremony. And what that really reminded me of, that was a Traders Roundtable. Yeah, it was. With all the accusations, the lies, I'm not lying, you're lying. Maybe, dare I say sometimes, maybe a little more confrontational than a regular Traders Roundtable would be. Yeah. Taryn, we didn't get to see that on the live feeds. I'm not sure in the retelling if that did justice.

[00:07:16] What was your interpretation of how that all went down? Yeah. I mean, what we knew is that Drew called out Lala, Taylor, and Yash. Yash at one point was like, Drew, why'd you bring me into it, man? Yeah. So it kind of played out about how I would have expected.

[00:07:33] What I really didn't expect was how much they dedicated to making sure it felt as accurate as possible by showing the exact sequence of events and actually caring about the detail of, yes, Taylor did go into the shower because she was worried that Drew and Barrett would rat her out. But she also was part of the conversation prior to that, and Melody and Mallory knew that, so of course Drew and Barrett knew that.

[00:07:57] So you could sort of see where everyone was coming from, and if this was a Traders Roundtable, then I think there would be a confessional with the Trader being like, am I a Trader? Yes. But I don't want them to know that. Yeah. But this was the faithful all going after each other. Yeah. The Traders are the vets. Those are the three people who are up in the HOH room conspiring. Who are they going to get next? This was all of the faithful going after each other.

[00:08:25] Yeah, everyone competing for like, no, I'm the good one. Yeah. That's not – they're the bad ones. Not me, though. I didn't say – I only said Icon. Devins. Devins. One Devins. Yeah. Yeah. I do wish, though, that Lala just copped to it. Because I said she dragged it out. No, I never did it.

[00:08:55] No, you actually did. And Angela just wanted honesty. And we're seeing a more – in some situations, a more refined Angela. What do you mean by that? I feel like the way we've seen her outburst. Yeah, they have been crazy. F you. Yeah, TCH. All that stuff. But in this moment, I feel like she has kind of been a much more caring – even when the drama's happening. Caring or Karen? Oh, well, both. I would say both. I would say both.

[00:09:24] But even in the approach – I didn't get here. Even in the – yeah, I said it slowly just so, just to get that little word in. But I think even in the approach of Lala, though, I kind of like how she handled that. See, I thought she inserted herself somewhere that she wasn't a part of. I feel like – you know, we got Yash being like, why did you bring me into it? Angela was like, why didn't you bring me into it? Now I'm in it. Now I'm involved. Yeah, I mean, Angela, I think for once, is not the person starting this. And so, yeah, I think she – because she – hi, it's me. Yeah.

[00:09:54] And then in the backyard, when they were just kind of like lightly – she was like, let me get it. Stand in the – I'm between you guys. I'm between you guys. No. So, yeah, she definitely wanted to be a part of it. But, yeah, you know, I think the fun part about this, too, is how heavily focused it was on Lala. Obviously, Lala was the person leading the charge up in the HOH room.

[00:10:19] And probably the person who was the most guilty party in the whole situation in terms of, like, how much she led that conversation. And how much she really just wanted them to go, no. Devins. He's the one. Which is, again, kind of true. But also, she did say icons. Yeah.

[00:10:44] For Angela, that she also seemed to tell us tonight that, you know, she – or at least with Lala – that she doesn't mind people going after the survivor players. Like, she feels, I think that probably correctly, that she would be three out of three if people were targeting the icons. You have to imagine that's the case when you've got someone who's won.

[00:11:08] And then you have Devins who now in front of everybody has publicly done this very big move of putting Kamu up and getting Kamu out. You're like, little old me. I'm just Angela. I once called this guy crazy eyes. And then, like, that's kind of been my legacy. I think it's a good spot for her. But if there's a lot of self-insertion going on with some of these arguments, sometimes I feel like you get into a spot where it's kind of – was that a woe? Okay. It's fine. Oh, you didn't need to – I want to get back. That's what Rob was reacting to, right? Oh, thank you. I missed it.

[00:11:40] Yeah, I think that you can put yourself in a bad situation if you constantly get involved. Because I do think the better move is the passive move that you see someone like Ayash who's like – I mean, the less they say my name in the middle of this and everyone else is kicking off, then I'm fine. But I do agree. I think she's three of three at the moment. And this was the first moment I asked Taryn to clarify if this was the first moment Angela has been talking like this, especially outwardly. And I believe it was.

[00:12:05] So it was nice to see that this is on her mind instead of she's being oblivious to what's going on in the house. Yeah, we've been talking a lot throughout the season about how Angela needs people like Haley and Lala in the game for a win condition. And it seemed as though she had no clue that that was the case given how willingly she was willing to let them go.

[00:12:26] But to now hear her in an episode talk about this like, you know, Lala is actually very valuable to me was really good to hear in terms of her long-term prospects. Yeah, Angela does want to go to the end with Dee or Devin. She's in the same boat as Drew and Barrett. She's hoping somebody else will take a shot at the icons.

[00:12:43] Yeah, and she actually has like a case to bring players like Lala and Haley forward, which, you know, while the icons are staring at Mallory and the rest of FAP, they might need to look over their shoulder at Angela and Haley and Lala. Sniper from the side. All right. Puya, Jacob, we got so many people to get to. Anything else you want to add tonight?

[00:13:09] No, I mean, listen, I've talked a lot when I first got on the pod, Rob, 10 years ago. So you think your podcast. I asked the people in my group, I said, what's on your RHAP bucket list? I just ticked one by being on the stage for a live show. So thank you. And give it up. We did a great job holding it down during the commercials tonight. And Jacob Jones. Okay.

[00:13:36] Let's why don't we change things up. Let's bring in, you know, our own version of Melody and Mallory. Here they are. First of all, Jenny. Faster. Don't throw this. It's for the Canadian people. Okay. You're an effing coward, Rob. That was crazy.

[00:14:03] I don't even know if I want to know which one is which. Oh, I'd like to hear it. Melody and Mallory. Is this just because she's blonde? I'm leaving. I'm going home. I'm not a rocket scientist, Rob. I'm barely a human. She's my pipe queen. All right. Hey, girl. Here we go. Jenny on, Kirsten McInnes. How are you doing? What a dream to be on this panel. Right.

[00:14:32] Who decided to put the two of us up here together? I love you. I'm literally a girl who is going to be okay right now because of this moment. Yeah. They truly put Melody and Mallory together right now. Yeah. But like better. Like they're like the T-Move version of us. But if I ever meet them, I never said that. How are you guys feeling about the Mallory situation? Are you guys are upset, as upset as she is?

[00:15:01] Or are you kind of like, listen. She threw the HOH. Yeah. It's hard to see someone like living their worst nightmare, the regret in real time. And I don't know. You want to root for someone like that, but it's really like we've all been saying it. It's really, really hard to be like, yeah, you did not feel good about this in the first place. You had doubt in your mind.

[00:15:27] But I also understand like playing the middle is a great place to be in Big Brother. And I think that Mallory just really felt like I don't need to be in a power position right now and show my cards. She was in an incredible position. Really good with Yash and Taylor and Lala. So it's really hard. I get it. You think, okay, this alliance is going to protect me.

[00:15:57] I just made an alliance with these people. But you got to go for it if you know you can win it because you just don't know when you're going to get that opportunity. Again, there's a lot of people in this house that are winning competitions. Like she's pipe queen. So that was your pipe. It was a bounce beam. But you should have just taken it. I do feel like there is a point we reach sometimes and it's pretty rare in Big Brother.

[00:16:21] Where the player actually knows what they did wrong and is beating themselves up about it more than we can. Where I'm like, you know what? It's endearing. Yeah. You know what you did wrong. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I love self-awareness. No. Because what do you mean Mallory's off the block? I'm putting up the vets. I'm going to make a big move. Nothing. Nothing. No crumbs. Nothing to eat. Giving. Go on, girl. Give us nothing. And then she's on the block.

[00:16:50] She's like a toddler who couldn't have like Fruity Pebbles at the grocery store now that she's in the DR. And I'm sorry, D's a coward? What's so cowardly about nominating you directly to your face in a competition? Like what are we doing here? I think they both called her a coward. Yeah. And they're wrong. And they're wrong. Yeah. It's true. She said it to her face. Yeah. It's pretty brave to go against the alliance that you just made. So.

[00:17:15] Well, I think that the idea of forming the mosh pit last week, which I didn't really think it was that big of a deal. And I was like, OK, this alliance of seven. Devin's like, I got to put this together. I didn't think it was going to really pay dividends. But it got them to be complacent enough that all these people that could have won the HOH threw it. And then they immediately snaked them. That was not the plan when they came up with the mosh pit. But that's effectively what happened.

[00:17:44] Do you think the problem is that they didn't work hard enough on like the sign for the alliance? This wasn't good. Because Kamu came out like, like, you know what I mean? It was like, Kamu in his final move. They needed more time to work on that to really solidify the alliance. And now it got ruined. Lock it in. Yeah. I don't know. What they really should have done is gone. Finger guns. One and down. Finger guns. That alliance blasts.

[00:18:10] I will say, tonight's episode, like, I felt like the most authentic DRs, like, front of this season in general. I feel like we've had so many seasons where there's like, well, there's always someone yelling. But I just think that, like, this season, almost everyone in the DR is so authentic. Like, I really can't think of a single person. Well, we knew Chuck time. But, like. That is authentically Chuck. It was authentic.

[00:18:40] I am so buffooned by that. Sorry. Sorry to buffoon you like that, Taryn. I never wanted to do that. Melody said buffoon-ass behavior tonight. Yeah. And a bold choice for her to say. Are you joking? But, yeah, I just feel like it's been really good. I want to ask you both, okay, this veto competition that we saw here tonight, which show would it be more appropriate to see it on? Love Island or Milf Manor? Oh, my God. Why not both?

[00:19:12] Why not both? Watching this, I was like, I want, and I've been thinking about this. Yeah. Because, like, I'm always advocating for, like, older skewing casts. Because I'm like, okay, Lala and Angela are incredible television. And they're gaming. You know what I mean? Like, they're not just there.

[00:19:35] And so I've just been thinking about how much I want a cast that's, like, women in their, like... Yeah. Later days. At least 40 and up. Yep. And then, like, a bunch of, like, 20-year-old himbos. Yeah. Like, if, for those of you that are uninitiated, Milf Manor. But in Big Brother.

[00:20:03] I'm just saying, and the competition tonight, like, solidified that for me because Lala came out. Wow. Yeah. Imagine if her children were there to see it in person. Yeah. That's the last one. And then the loved ones visit. We need to bring us on in. I feel like they did Barrett kind of dirty. I think Barrett did Barrett dirty. Yeah. You know, the first thing was fine. It was the tongue where... They didn't have to cut to Dee in the diary room. That? Saying...

[00:20:32] Witness protection. If you have that footage, you don't show it. It goes against the moral duty of reality TV. That was tough. I don't know what Barrett has going on. But you know what? People like all kinds of things. I'm sure that there's someone out there who wants what Barrett's offering. Also... Slow and steady. Yeah. Fast isn't always better. Okay? You know? He's taking his time. Maybe in this challenge it was, but like...

[00:21:01] Is that what he's doing in the game? It's not always a rape. Yeah. I have maintained this whole time, all of you. Barrett has no spine. Barrett's doing a bad job. I think Barrett's doing exactly what he needs to do. If he's still doing this at Final 7, we can talk. I'll jump off the ship. I think he's doing exactly what he needs to do. And I have faith in my Bloom. And I don't care who knows it. That's right. I think he's going to have faith in Mike Bloom. I'm like, what did he have to do with him? I have faith in Mike Bloom.

[00:21:31] Okay. All right. Jenny, Kristen, thank you so much. Thank you. Okay? Thank you. See you soon. Yes. It's good. I love you all. All right. Next up, of course, our favorite tag team is Matt Scott and Mari Forth are here. How are you? Hello. Thank you, Rob. Hello. I feel like body slamming a few people after this episode. Okay. Who do you feel like body slamming?

[00:22:00] Um, Barrett, Drew, everyone but Taylor, basically, at this point. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Um, you know, Mallory and Melody, uh, look like they want to body slam, uh, D right now. So, uh, I hope they have, uh, tight security. I would pay for that. I mean, they cut some promos at the end of the episode. Yes, they sure did. I love the raw passion. Like, it's hard to... It's a lot. Okay. There's the human part of me looking at it.

[00:22:29] Where I'm like, oh my gosh, it's 50 days in. Like, it's catching up with them. It's so hard. Like, you have empathy for them. But then there's the other part. Like, isn't it such great big brother? Like, we love that, right? When they're just losing it, crashing out. Yeah. We had a lot of people, like, showing big displays of emotion tonight. So, it was really good to see, like, everybody so shaken by a D-H-O-H that was given to her. And wouldn't you be too? Yeah.

[00:22:59] Yeah. Right, right, right. Yeah. So, going back to the nomination ceremony, I thought it was interesting that Taylor had the... That she told us in the diary room that she purposely went into the shower because she knew Drew was in the room. I had known the part that she had been in the shower. But I didn't know that it was a conscious decision of, like, listen, these guys are rats.

[00:23:28] I'm not going to say anything while the narcs are here. Yeah. Well, she never liked it when Lala would bring this stuff up in front of other people. Yes. Basically, what had been happening was Taylor and Yash were kind of trying to, like, slowly tag team Melody and Mallory to get them on board targeting the icons. Yeah. But they weren't going to go to Drew and Barrett. But, and so the fact that Drew and Barrett were in there and Lala was pitching this thing, she was like, nope. Not me. Not me. Yeah.

[00:23:57] But like we said, it's guilty by association, right? Taylor has been a little bit frustrated how throughout the game she's been tied with Lala. And I think a lot of that came out in the nomination speech because she's sitting here trying to figure out why am I being nominated? I didn't say anything. So, yeah, it came back to bite both of them. But, you know, that, like, that's not the game. The game isn't, okay, logically what happened and who's right and who's wrong. Yeah. It's how do I spin the narrative?

[00:24:25] Like, back to Survivor, narrative warfare, Christian Ubiqui. Like, how do I spin the narrative to make it work for me? And if all these people are against me, I'm just not going to win. So I need to figure out a better way to navigate the situation. And the icons just have them in the blender so bad where that, Taryn, you've been talking about it this week where it's reminiscent of BB-19 where it was like, you know, Paul had all the groups and then got them all fighting with each other. And they're all sitting back and nobody's calling them out.

[00:24:54] Like, that's where we're at right now. Yeah. You've given them this much power. They've been in power for so long. They've basically not had a single week out of power aside from that one week that Lala was HOH because Devin's had the Diamond Power Vito the following week. And so when there are a group of people that are in power for that long, you start to not believe that you have any. And you just start fighting amongst yourselves, vying for the affection of the people who have the power over you.

[00:25:23] And so that's what this was. And the reason Drew did it was to be like, see, see, dad, I'm good. I'm a good kid. I will fight for you. I will fight your battles. And it worked. They were like, oh, good boy. What a good boy. You did good. I have to say, Devin's was such a dad this episode. Yeah. Like, it was hilarious.

[00:25:50] I feel like we saw Devin's best moves in reality TV on tonight's episode, in my opinion. Like, screw the coin flip. Like, it's iconic. Yeah, Mr. Beast is happy about that. But, like, the thing is, like, just dadding someone. Like, I want more people to be, like, show up as a parent, you know? I'm going to have to feel that. I'm definitely going to have to feel that on my kids. Yeah, just the whole, I already know. So tell me.

[00:26:16] If I could, yes, and the Rick Devin's move. I think, really, you got to put them in different rooms and ask them what happened. And then back up the story. And then, okay, I'm going to ask you. And then I'm going to ask Barrett what happened. And don't leave anything out. That would be the next one. But Rick was really good in the diary room also about the whole thing. And they do a thing with Devin's where they use his cam talks.

[00:26:44] I think, honestly, he's better at cam talking than he is in the diary room. Because he's scripted in the diary room. Right. I mean, most people are. That's kind of the thing is that when you're in the diary room, you have to kind of adhere to the way that they're asking the questions. You're responding to them. You're not giving your honest sort of, like, stream of consciousness. You used to be a bit in Old School Big Brother. But I think that's just harder to edit into a show. They like prepackaged things.

[00:27:13] They like sort of being like, well, we want you to say this. But when somebody's talking to the cameras, they can just do whatever they want. And it's so funny watching them now have to go to a cam talk instead of a diary room when that's the whole point of the diary room is the same purpose of what the cam talk is. But they recognize that the cam talk is better. It's like they've ruined the diary room. It's like the BBOTT live diary room. Yeah, yeah. And Devin's is kind of the only one who's giving like succinct.

[00:27:43] Like, this is what I'm thinking. It's that newscaster, like really jumping out. And he's like giving a running script. So it's so easy for them to plug it and play. Like we've seen D cam talk, but it's more like her talking to herself and just kind of like. And to Brandon Donlan. Shout out, Brandon Donlan. So it's not as like it's not as impactful as Devin specifically like talking to the cams and not like. Yeah, I like it.

[00:28:12] Yeah, Devin's cam talks like like I talked to myself when I was like in middle school and I was about to play Mass Effect. And I'd be like, when my shepherd gets to those those aliens, I'm going to blow them up. There we go. But the thing I love right now about the season is I feel like everyone's just now 50 days in almost clocking into the game. Like just now and warmed up. Yeah.

[00:28:41] And we're seeing a lot of people piss probably that they weren't playing the game a lot sooner. But you know what? That's that's big brother. And I think for Devin's D and Angela, like they knew you had to show up and be ready to play from day one. Yeah. I think the key thing about the Devin's move was less so that he got the information from Drew and Barrett and more so that he got them to admit to the misgivings that they had and be vulnerable with him in a spot where as he was as he was telling us.

[00:29:08] In the diary room, like I'm I'm not mad. I'm disappointed. And they feel vulnerable. That got a big laugh in the room. Right. And they feel genuinely vulnerable in that moment. They're like, am I in trouble? Is he going to be mad at me? And he gets to be like, it's OK. And I'm only going to take a little bit from you. And it genuinely worked. It got them back on board, especially with Devin's himself. And you wouldn't think that that's the objective.

[00:29:37] You would think the objective is just find out the information. But the information was actually irrelevant. The important part was to forgive them for whatever it is that they did in a way that got them to be pulled back in. Yeah. OK. Matt, Mari, great to have you here. Thank you. Here on the stage for RahapCon. What? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Side note. Yes. Back on the stage of RahapCon tomorrow for a couple of things.

[00:30:05] One is hosting Podfriends featuring and celebrating the women of RHA. 3 p.m. Tomorrow here. Check it out on the Podfriends feeds. Oh, Crime Scene will be in the Podcasters Lounge on Thursday at 1. So that too. So make sure you come to all that. Thank you, Rob. Great to see you. OK. All right. Ingrid und Indeed präsentieren Jobs, bei denen man sich keinen Fehler erlauben darf. Heute Friseurin. Etwas nachschneiden bitte.

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[00:31:01] So why don't we bring in the guys from the Diary Room Podcast. It's Amon, Adwin and Matt LaGaurie. Woo! How's it going? Oh, it's going, Rob. It's going. Yes. When we started the podcast, we did ask alumni that came on the show about their favorite Diary Room Sessions. I can't even imagine talking to Mallory about these. Like, I think she might have blacked out. Yeah, that was a full-on, loud, angry blur. Yeah.

[00:31:30] How could you possibly remember that? I'm struggling with something. Yes? So, an episode of ours that came out this past week. Asia was actually our guest. And Amon went on, like, a whole long rant about how last week, if Angela was still on the block at the end of the week, that Drew and Barrett should have flipped on Angela and taken that moment to side with the newbies and go against the vets. And now he thinks he's right because of the way this week has played out. And I don't know what to do about it.

[00:32:00] I think I'm right. I mean, go ahead, Darren. Tell me how I'm wrong. Well, I have seen this. I have seen this because there was a contingent of people that believed that, hey, if Kamu was still in the game, this might not have happened. And that might be true, right? Like, there is a world where that's true. I think the point of contention for me would be there's a much easier way to have prevented this from happening. Hit the button. Win the HOH.

[00:32:30] Now it didn't happen and you don't have to deal with Common. Yeah. You know, I had been thinking about this also in the last couple days. And if this is how that they were going to all approach this week, that I think that they should have kept in Kamu. Yeah. Because they were all like looking for somebody else to take out the vets. At least he was going to be doing that. So if they were going to sit on their hands and not do it, not go for HOH, they should have left him in.

[00:32:58] And maybe at some point by some miracle, Kamu ends up back on the block. Booze coming from the crowd. Booze coming from the crowd. If they were going to choose somebody to play their game for them, they preferred the vets. Yeah. I can't blame them. I really can't. Here's the thing. And I've seen people call me casual pilled. That's very offensive. I will let that be known right now. Because if you know anything about me, I am far casual. Busy.

[00:33:25] But what I will say is like, if I'm ever on Big Brother, this is the eviction notice to anybody that is a vet or some kind of stunt casting. I'm so, we watch it over and over, guys, over and over and over and over where these people come into this house. And I understand that it's like, oh, you know, they have some experience. America is going to want to be with them. We should work with them because it's great. And, you know, we could get them in the end. They never do that.

[00:33:55] They never do it. Just nip it in the bud when they're in there. We're in this mess because you guys didn't do what you were supposed to do. Even Dee said it in this episode. Yes. Y'all should be coming after us. Yes. We should be on the block. Yes. One of us should have been gone by now. And they just never do it. And so. Look, there's a couple survivors in the room tonight. And just take notes if you're in the house with Amon. I'm coming for that ass. You wouldn't work with me, Amon? Come on. No.

[00:34:23] After all the podcasts we've done? No. Nobody will see it. I love you, Rob. But no. This is a good cover. They say it now. But no. He needs it. Yeah. We also saw in this episode Devin's really like push his agenda of getting rid of Mallory. And we saw that whole thought process. Was that true to what you saw? Very much so.

[00:34:52] While it is also true that Angela was like, 100%, I've already thought of this too. Devin's is the one that came up with the idea. In fact, he had actually been pushing Mallory on Thursday night right after D1. He was already pushing a Mallory renom. And that was before Drew was even on the block. Then, of course, as Devin came closer, he thought of the idea again and then started pushing it.

[00:35:15] And he has continued to push it and make sure that the idea stays locked in, even as other people occasionally kind of waver. And what's happening right now in there is a different story. Tune in tomorrow morning. But some waves, it looks like. Yeah. Can the pipe queen win the blockbuster? Of course. Of course. Yeah. So, yeah. Is that what we want? We want Taylor to win the blockbuster and then Mallory versus Drew?

[00:35:44] So, Mallory and Melody can just sit together all by themselves for another week? Sit in the diaper that you have made. Indeed, I want every single feeling of regret. I would not want to diaper in that veto competition. Do you think she'll scream in Julie's face when she gets out there? No. No. Mallory, how are you feeling? Her cameo is going to be so tough. Okay. Can you scream? Everyone's going to want her to scream for that.

[00:36:14] But melodies are going to be great. I mean, she's a star in there. You know, I really, I echo whomever. I forget who said it, but they echo, like, I echo how unscripted some of these DRs are coming across. And how it's very much just, like, in the moment, the emotional just, I'm over this. Like, you should be over it because you did it to yourself, first and foremost. But I'm just loving that this feels like such an unbridled sense of just, like, oh, this game is annoying. I hate these people.

[00:36:44] Like, yes, this is Big Brother. You should hate everyone. Hate everyone, please. It was giving Zach rants. Hate one another. Yeah. All right. Just give her the money. Amon, Matt, anything else you want to say tonight? Having a lot of fun. Okay. Really fun start to the week so far. Yeah, so much fun. Awesome. Great to see you both. And let's bring in two people that you could hear talking about Love is Blind.

[00:37:13] Of course, it's Mary and Asia. Rob, if you had said that, like, two weeks ago, I could have made a hate one another shirt. Yes. How are you doing? Doing good. Doing good. This was fun. I know it's kind of been talked around a little bit, but I'm still just, I'm frustrated with the fact that we can't just have people in the house say, hey, we're in an alliance. Maybe let's not put me up.

[00:37:43] And it seems like everyone's kind of like, okay, yeah, I mean, I wouldn't like that. But like, okay, I guess that's, that's fine. And they're already going up. You're not going to talk to them.

[00:38:19] You're not going to talk them out of them going up by agreeing with it. Yes. He'll get like, in the comments. Right. So he says, I'm not going to say yes. But, you know. But I just want to cuddle. He does that all the time because he's always talking to me. He says the thing, but then he just goes along with it.

[00:38:44] Remember in the beginning of the season, he's like, I think I realized that I was the last person to be brought in the room on the alliance. I'm not going to forget that. He never forgot. No. Do we want to touch on the feeds at all today? Um, okay. Are that, yes. Now would be the time to leave the room. Okay. I mean, everybody here, do you consent to hearing about the live feeds? Okay. All right.

[00:39:14] Let's do it. The second half of the podcast. It's time to talk about the live feeds. The office of civil defense has issued the following message. This is a spoiler warning. A spoiler warning means that an actual spoiler against this country has been detected and that protective action should be taken. Does anybody know what's going on? No, I'm kidding. Yeah. So Barrett has.

[00:39:43] By the way, it's been so fun watching people that we have TVs downstairs at the live. I've seen so many people on their phones. Just, oh, I'm just walking around. That's how we live life, Rob. Yeah. See, I don't leave the house, so I never would have to do that. Normally, I have to wait for Taryn to tell me something or look at Twitter. Right now, I've got Mari sitting next to me like, did you see what's happening on the feeds? Yes. All right, go ahead, Asia. So Barrett has woken up. What? Woke Barrett?

[00:40:12] He has revealed to Mallory and Melody about the crossovers. He's basically turning on Drew. He wants to go ahead and keep, like, his sole agenda is to keep Mallory and Taylor. So he wants to figure out a way for them to align with Yash, Taylor, and Lala and turn on the icons. What needs to happen for that?

[00:40:40] Mallory needs to win the blockbuster? Mallory wins the blockbuster. Mallory, Melody, Yash, Lala, and Barrett make five votes of eight and Drew leaves. Yeah. Blindfighting the icon. Right. Yeah, and Yash has already realized. He told someone I read earlier that he was like, we literally have the votes to send Drew home without needing to tell the icons. Yeah.

[00:41:09] There's no way that the newbies could ever be one while Drew is still there. That Drew has to go for there to be a resistance. Look, ten minutes ago, we were thinking Barrett was the one that needs to go. Like, Barrett and Drew are in the same position. I think it's, I'm actually surprised that Barrett is the one that has seen the light sooner than Drew. I think it's because they went after Mallory before Melody. I think if the situation was reversed, we might see a reverse situation.

[00:41:39] Because, you know, I think the main thing that is sort of tipped Barrett into this direction. So the icons were going to blindside both Drew and Barrett. It was actually a wild sequence of events where Hayley accidentally leaked it to Drew. So then they had to have a conversation with Drew. And then Drew said, no, we need to tell Barrett. And so now Barrett knows. And he's pissed that Drew, I think he's just pissed that Drew's so okay with it.

[00:42:03] Because Drew is trying to, again, be like a good puppy dog to the icons and help smooth things over with Barrett. And Barrett's like, no, like, stop. And we finally reached this point where maybe something can happen here. But, you know, from like the episode we just watched, you would walk away from this and say, oh, Barrett's doing the same thing. He's trying to be a puppy dog to the icon. So it's almost one of these moments where it's like the first one to flip is the one in the power there.

[00:42:33] And Barrett's not on the block. So, yeah. So that just made tomorrow so much more exciting. It's a big day tomorrow. They knew that Rapcon was happening. Yeah. Yeah. Big day here and a big day there. And it's also the 1000th episode. And they're going to, like, reveal all of the winners. And Barrett's a fan. He knows it's the 1000th episode. He wants to make it good. Don't we need a blind side on the 1000th episode? Woo!

[00:43:03] Yeah. Do we have any hints at what the twist will be? I have asked Taryn. I'm like, well, what's it going to be? Rob, what's a twist you would want? Oh, that's such a good question. It's going to happen. There's going to be a twist. Never before seen twist. Never before seen twist. Yeah. I don't know. It's not a fan vote. I mean, it'd be cool if they did something like with the alumni that were involved, that

[00:43:32] were there is involved somehow. But that doesn't seem like that big of a twist. They're bringing back the celebrity concert. Yes. So I don't know. All right. Mary, Asia, anything else that you want to say tonight? No, this has been a lot of fun. Yeah. This is close. Mallory, die room to Liz Wilcox. This is bigger. This was bigger. Oh, bigger than Liz Wilcox.

[00:44:00] I feel it's bigger because of just like we got it more than once. Right. Like her scream. And then we got Mallory right on top of it. Are you saying Melody or Mallory? It doesn't matter. Mallory. Yeah. Mallory. Both of them screaming in this episode just felt so powerful. Yes. You know, and with Liz, we have that one moment. But I don't know. Yeah. I still think Liz is more iconic.

[00:44:28] But look, it is iconic, but like the gravity, because Melody and Mallory were consequences of their own actions, whereas like Liz was just hungry. Yeah. Hate one another. Hate yourself for your own decisions. Exactly. All right. All right. And check out Asia. When's the Married at First Sight live show? So we're watching the finale and the reunion tomorrow at 1030 a.m.

[00:44:57] in the podcast lounge. Jason and I, we've been we've you know, we've been podcasting about this for a while. We have watched it already. It is good. We get screeners. So we are very excited for you all to see the finale and the reunion. And then we'll podcast about it at 4 p.m. OK. Also, I know there's been some questions tomorrow. The Big Brother game night, I think is what we're called. It's Big Brother style game.

[00:45:25] So like what the bleep before and after you can play along, scan the QR code in here with me and Mike Bloom. So check that out. OK. All right. Thank you, Asia. Thank you, Mary. OK. I just want to ask everybody. It's such a great crowd tonight. If we could just like keep the keep the chatter down for a little bit longer and then we're all going to go to the after party together. OK.

[00:45:55] All right. Let's bring in Maggie and Brian. Maggie Morgan, Brian Cohen. Yes. How are you? I am so happy. I'm so happy to be here. You guys, I just really love Big Brother. I'm so happy. Yes. The feeds tonight. It's just been so exciting. What's making you so happy that Barrett's. Yes. Whoa, Barrett.

[00:46:20] I said earlier this evening, like people must pay for their sins. And now I'm feeling like Drew is paying for his sin of staying with the icons. And finally, something's happening. Like, I I think that the most exciting thing about Big Brother is that people can wake up and people can make stuff happen. And like it's happening because of Dee's hubris, in my opinion.

[00:46:49] Like she thought that she could do whatever she wants to Barrett and he would roll over and take it. And it seems he's not that way. And I am sorry to Barrett about all of the crap I've talked about you. I hope that you understand. Well, hold on. Hold on. He has to do it. He has to do it. You're right. You're right. But like, you know, I've said this before. I said this earlier, I think to you on Thursday. I was like, you know, I love being wrong. I remember this time last season, I was talking about how like I was really disappointed

[00:47:18] in Morgan and like what Morgan was doing. And then she turned into the more God. So I love being wrong. Like, I love being mad at these people and then them proving me wrong. But it seems like I'm sure Barrett probably read your book, Taryn, probably a lot of good feedback and advice. But I think he might have actually read. Drew did. But I think he probably read the Rob book because I think he just fell asleep for the first half of the game. And now he's waking up and playing the game. So I think he's doing the Rob. We don't say that anymore, Brian. Okay. I can't say that anymore. Yeah.

[00:47:46] But for Drew, remember they said, oh, he watched a hundred Rob as a podcast episodes. He read, remember his friend. That's less than one season. So true. Hey, Drew knows what's up. He read Taryn's book, which is not an advice book. It's about my childhood trauma and racial politics. Totally. Yeah. Would you be doing a good job?

[00:48:17] I think Drew is just like really young. Yeah. You know, I think sometimes you get people on these shows and they just need to cook a little longer. You know, like I, I hope Drew, if he does go home on Thursday, like he seems like the type of person I would hope that would be able to reflect and figure out where he went wrong in many different areas. And, you know, I, I, I root for Drew in all of those areas, but also I'm kind of rooting for him to get a big ticket. It'll be exciting. Yeah.

[00:48:44] The thing that I think like really needs to be remembered about big brother is that it is so long. And I know we know this, we feel it, we experience it, but it's very easy to live in the moment. It's the same as true for the players themselves. It's why Mallory throws an HOH, not realizing that there's a whole week before like decisions get made before, like you might feel good in that moment, but what about tomorrow and the next day and the next day and then Monday when, when a renom happens so much can change

[00:49:13] over the course of time at what separates big brother from a, from a game like survivor. Uh, and the same is true for us, the audience, we can be mad at a player for 50 days. Yeah. So true. And then finally on day 51, they do something. We're like, okay, I've always been a Barrett fan. Never dissed. Never dissed. But what's great is there's not some game changing twist that's about to happen to like ruin everything that's happening this week. Oh no.

[00:49:44] There's nothing to worry about that. It's all going to play out great. There's nothing to worry about. Literally, I've been thinking like, at least everyone hates where we currently at when the big twist hits and then tonight. I've been, totally. Well, but they still could feel that like drew could easily win the blockbuster. We know he loves Paw Patrol. If there's another Paw Patrol thing that happens, you know, like he could easily win the blockbuster and then we will see, you know, what happens and then things can happen. Yeah.

[00:50:11] Do you think that the twist could be not exactly the hamster wheel of death, but some similar mechanism where we have like a one night type of, is that, I don't know. Would they do that again? I fear the twist could be something like, uh, Chuck automatically gets power. Whoops. Chuck isn't here. Closest thing. Angela's husband, Angela. Wow. Okay.

[00:50:40] It's a little specific, but it had never been done before. I love how your brain works. But do you think that they could do some kind of a game where somebody's being eliminated after the eviction on Thursday? I could see it. I could see it being, you know, I have too many people right now. The problem with that though, is that I think that if the white locust twist hadn't taken out Rachel, absolutely. But I think that they were pretty bummed about that. They nominated it for the greatest moment of all time. They are so defensive about it.

[00:51:10] They really think, I think they, I think they, they think, yes, sorry. We accidentally took out the wrong person, but that's the only reason it was bad. And we're going to prove it by doing it again. And you're going to love it this time. Do we think though, it has to play out this coming week? Because theoretically, Devons didn't use the diamond power of, you know, that would have been in play for like this coming week. So they would have to have factored that into whatever. So the 1000 episode.

[00:51:37] But maybe this is announcing it on the thousands of light, looking ahead, coming ahead the next week. I don't know. Doesn't know. They might just announce a twist that's coming up. Maybe like next Thursday is going to be the big shindig. We'll see. I wonder if like, if it's just like, think like the battle back tournament, but reversed. Right? Like, it's just like a series. It's like the beginning of big brother 18. When Glenn was evicted. Because he lost. You mean Joey Rodriguez?

[00:52:08] Yeah. Sorry, Joey Rodriguez. Yeah. I don't know. It's, it's, you know, it's tough to speculate because whatever we come up with, they'll find a way to make it worse. Totally. So we should probably not say anything so that the bar is higher. Yeah. Okay. Maggie, any other opinions on where we are right now? Well, I also saw that D is now like kind of freaking out that Barrett seems so mad at her. So she wants to tell him about the full scope of the Yash bribe.

[00:52:38] Which would be so fun. How does that help? If she told Barrett and Drew tonight, like, so actually, sorry about that guys. I know we're trying to find out Mallory. Yes, how is that going to fix things? I have no idea. For the mask. For the mask. But D does what D wants. And I honestly also would love to see like Drew's face crack realizing like, oh, so I have put all of my faith in you guys and everybody else now hates me.

[00:53:07] And now I'm the only person that he can put up the most likely person to win. So if that happens, wow, you guys, what fun we would have. Right? I mean, it could save Drew if he's pissed off enough. Totally. I'd be like, actually, maybe we keep Drew after all. Yeah, totally. All right. Maggie, Brian. Thank you so much. We'll see you soon. Thanks, guys. Okay. All right. Here with us.

[00:53:34] We are going to Scali and Chantel. Hey, Scali. Hey, Chantel. Hello. How are you? Better since this live feeds news has dropped. I will say that. Yes. Something's going to happen. It's like kind of exciting that like, okay, everything's changing. Like I've been speculating obviously what's going to happen on Thursday. And I'm thinking that they're going to utilize all these players that are coming in for this 1000 episode.

[00:54:01] And maybe they're going to draft players to play on their behalf in like a double eviction type episode where like someone might go out on someone else's accord of one of like the like actual icons. Like pick your champion, your champion, who you put your money behind. Who's going to play for me? Okay. I'd watch. It's no crazier than anything they've ever done. So. Yeah. Yeah. So they would pick people to play in the HOH for them or the or the veto. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:54:31] Could you imagine somebody picks Dan and he throws it? He's like, I got to lower my threat level. Sorry, guys. Listen, people would tune in on Sunday night. Because it is a 90 minute episode tomorrow night on Thursday. Typically, it's only a one hour episode, but I thought they have a lot of other business to do. I can't imagine if you do the HOH is also part of the 1000th episode. Yeah, maybe not. But maybe they're going to like build up to something for the Sunday episode. It's very true.

[00:55:01] I feel like unless it impacts like tomorrow night's eviction, which it feels like it shouldn't. I wouldn't think so. Then it feels more like an announcement of a twist that is to come on perhaps Sunday's episode than something we actually see happen on Thursday's episode, which would imply that we've got some kind of weird elimination week ahead of us. Mm hmm. Scary. Yeah. Do you think that this will stick, Scali?

[00:55:32] It's so tough. I think that my first question immediately was, you're telling me Melody is ready to vote out Drew over Taylor. And I think that that could be happening. It could be good. It could be, you know, everything goes that way. But I was almost also like a little excited to see Drew and Barrett's reaction to if they voted out Mallory and blindsided them, them being the icons. So we are losing that. But I think we're getting something more exciting. I think it sticks.

[00:56:02] I want it to stick, but they always just fold in the end. So I can see, you know, D looks over at Barrett and he just feels bad and maybe leans his head on her shoulder. And, you know, he's she's she's got him back again. So I could see her getting them back. Well, it could also just be, hey, let's just go talk to Drew and see if he would be on board with us, because if he is, then it's better to have Drew than Taylor, who we don't have as close a relationship with.

[00:56:31] And if Drew's willing to like completely flip flop and call out the icons publicly, right, like and blow up his game in that way in the same way that he did for the icons, then maybe they're willing to keep true. Does anybody who would tell Drew know that the icons would not keep him over Taylor? The icons, the icons would keep you over Taylor.

[00:56:56] You're saying like Melody and Mallory, who currently seem to plan to vote drew out over Taylor might go to Drew to say. I'm sorry, I was under the understanding that the icons would vote out drew over Taylor. No, the icons are protecting drew in all scenarios. Yeah. The truth. The truth. Because of the truth. They loved the truth. They love the truth. Now they genuinely like that is the thing that like that before the truth.

[00:57:26] He was like, that guy's sketchy. He's been sketching all season long. I know he's been against me. And then Drew said, that's the truth. And she went, that's the truth. Yeah. That's the truth. All right. He's all right. Yeah. I don't know if the merch is going to be flying off the shelves. I mean, it's good though. I like the truth. You like the drew the merge. I get the merge. I love it. I don't know if I like the truth, but I like the truth is good. Good branding. I could see Mary wearing a truth shirt.

[00:57:55] She's a drew there. I don't know if she actually is. I don't think so. Probably not. Anything else that you saw tonight, Scali? No, I think I'll be everybody touched on a lot of good things. But I think overall the episodes have been really strong. Even if feeds have been frustrating. I feel like episodes this season. Pretty good. What about for you, Chantel? Well, definitely reiterating. But the fact that these diary rooms and these camera talks are just so authentic.

[00:58:21] And it's kind of like, oh my God, this is what a diary room supposed to be like is when you're like naturally sharing your emotions freely. And so it's been really, really nice to see real emotions happening in the diary room and not some scripted like yelling thing. Okay. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. See you soon. See you soon. All right. We got one more duo for tonight. Okay.

[00:58:47] It's finally the meeting of Bloom and Bloomberg. David Bloomberg, host of YXLoss and the great Mike Bloom are here. David, how are you? Good, good. I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing on this panel because you were called shouted out on the live feeds and you were shouted out on the live feeds and you were shouted out on the live feeds. It's a matter of time.

[00:59:17] Wait until the next endurance competition. Barrett will use your name as a mantra to stay on the wall. Right? Yeah. I've got to go back to She-Anne in Thailand, you know, and completely different show. So. I feel like we haven't talked enough about Lala's veto win. Yeah. Can we talk about that? Like Mike Bloom is here. I mean, women over 50, like absolutely killing him. I know what you spoke about before. Yeah. About diversity, but like, think about that competition, right?

[00:59:45] Like that is an intensely, I would argue besides the wall, maybe the most physically intense competition we've had so far. And yes, Lala was feeling like the tin man with all her body parts falling off. Like you talked about earlier in the season, but like she killed it with all of these kids, kids half her age. And she was able to just absolutely slaughter the competition. I'm so freaking happy for her. In, in five days, I will be the same age as Lala. I am not doing David. Would you have won the power of veto?

[01:00:17] No, I would not. No, no, no. I have various, you know, similar, similar, you know, knee surgery. I have not had a tongue surgery. So, but I'll, yeah. Lala was a bodybuilder. Bodybuilders love like isolated movements. They train specific muscles. Lala has a tongue. Do you, do you think that is this changing? La la la la la la. Yeah.

[01:00:47] It's like an L. It's an elocutionary lesson, right? Like Henry Higgins would be proud. Do you think this changes the perception of her at all? She's won two competitions at this point. There's only a handful of people left to have done so. Are people looking at Lala, like a legitimate physical threat? Certainly much more so than they were before. I mean, there were before Lala won her first HOH. She was looked at as complete dead weight. Uh, then she won that HOH and people are like, wow. She couldn't even hit a pickleball. Impressed. She couldn't even hit a pickleball.

[01:01:15] If only she had her tongue out. Right. Whack that thing back. Let me tell you for someone our age, hitting a pickleball is a requirement. Yeah. Yeah. So, but she won that HOH, but then kind of Taylor ran the HOH in many ways. And people didn't really respect the way that she handled the power because it seemed like it was being offloaded to Taylor. If you wanted to get Lala to do something, you approached Taylor. Now she's won another competition, which is two more than a lot of the other people in this house.

[01:01:45] And you kind of have to respect it. Now, it doesn't mean that her threat level is necessarily rising, but it should say something that even before winning this veto, they were debating who's the bigger threat, Taylor or Lala. That's like the motion that Lala had to do to win the veto. Yeah. And now you're stuck on one side because Lala clearly is the bigger threat. Yeah. I mean, that's interesting. I wonder if that could play into any sort of calculus about putting her up, right? Especially as the numbers get smaller.

[01:02:13] You imagine these competitions might get more physical too. Do you want to take a chance at putting her up? Someone who can very clearly showcase when they are not happy with being nominated with a certainly more sizable chance of winning that veto than someone else who might be sitting against her on the block. I mean, honestly, I think it makes it more likely they're going to put them up on the block because because it's there's little blowback from nominating Lala because of her. Did you watch the episode?

[01:02:43] There's a lot of lick back. But she got her lick back. Yeah. But I think the fact that she can win these things is kind of a benefit. Like, yeah, go Lala win the veto against the person I'm really targeting. Yeah, go Lala win the blockbuster against the person I'm targeting and then come back and come at me. If you want because I still don't actually expect you to win. I have to win H.O.H. What's what's Lala's relationship status? She's single single and right to me.

[01:03:12] Hey, she's like, hey, if you're my future husband, you're watching. But put two tongues to my DMS tonight. Lala wet. Lala went to first base with all of America tonight. Only first only first. Yeah. We're not stealing home yet. OK, David, any thoughts on the vote this week?

[01:03:40] I you know, I was thinking I'm going to have to be rushing home Saturday so we can record Dr. Chappelle. Well, and it was looking like there was going to be a lot more yelling about not throwing cops. Now I'm going to have to yell about a whole different set of things if the switch holds up. So, you know, I'm going to have to practice. You'll be yelling also. Yeah. Yeah. I'll be yelling also.

[01:04:10] Be careful, man. Yelling, not screaming. You know. Yeah. So, Mike, any other thoughts tonight? I'm going to do something uncharacteristic and totally veer us off onto a segue here. Can we play a little game for a second? Because it's been talked about a bit that tomorrow is going to feature some sort of appearance from past players. And Rob, you and I tried so valiantly to draft what alumni would show up at the Survivor 50 reunion. I'm going to say let's take another bite of the apple here.

[01:04:40] Let's let's see if we can draft between the four of us alumni who we think are going to have their faces shown, perhaps even talk on tomorrow night's 90 minute episode. And we'll see who has the most correct answers, if any are correct. Okay. All right. Who goes first? That's all up to you. Mike the Don Lubinsky. Oh, famous first boot. Yeah. Again, do a legitimate one, Taryn. I'm trying to be. Oh, oh, I mean, you could if you're. Oh, sorry. I didn't. Yeah, I totally wouldn't. That was the only one. That was a joke.

[01:05:10] Sorry. That's totally. That's funny that I told that joke. Um, um, me, Taylor, we're being real. Right? Yeah. That's a number one pick. Yeah. Uh, I will go with. I'm gonna go with Dan Giesling. He's been showing his face around. He was on the age that America's got talent. Why seems to be in the right place. Yep. I'll go with the other obvious Derek. Okay. I'll go with. Uh, Dr. Will. Yeah. Okay.

[01:05:39] Do another round. All right. Give me Derek. No, but I said, oh, I'm sorry. You can't steal there. I'm sorry. Uh, I wasn't, I wasn't expecting to go, uh, twice in a row. Um, I'm trying to think of, uh, who is. Yeah. Yeah. Tip. Tiffany. Uh, well, I was gonna say Mike boogie, but I'm not sure they let him. That goes to, uh, not allowed. Yeah. You're restraining that thought. Yeah. All right.

[01:06:06] Well, we'll have to tune in Thursday night to see, I'm getting the wrap up sign from Sam. Uh, so we do need to cut the show, uh, and head out to go to our after party, but we will be back here. First thing tomorrow morning, Karen will be live here on this very stage to give you the live feed update. Live, live feed update. First of its kinds. I'm excited. Yeah. Yeah. Never done it. All these years of the live feed update. So that's incredible.

[01:06:36] Yeah. On stage. One man show. Yeah. Earlier today, Mike bloom and I talked about the survivor 51 cast. Yes. It's a maelstrom of reality TV. They dropped 21 new players. Rob and I gave a little bit of a taste of what the open era is going to involve. So if you want to get your survivor preseason started a little early, you can check that out as well. We get it right here on the stage. Okay. Yes.

[01:06:59] And, uh, Friday, Mike and I will be doing a special from the archives, uh, why blank lost? Uh, it, it has been, uh, requested that I pull out my old why Jag lost notes that I had written when we were all certain he was going. So we are going to be recording in the podcast studio. Why Jag would have lost. It's a time travel thing. Yes. Okay. It's a joke or not.

[01:07:29] Not a joke. Okay. So Mike Lubitsky, a podcast. All right. I swear. Mike Lubitsky is at that finale. I will pay you $50 tomorrow. Taren, before we wrap up anything else for you, uh, check out my Patreon. I was streaming during the episode on my phone. It was a good time. If you want to see what, uh, what it was like to be here alive. Of course, these people know, but you don't, if you're watching at home. Yeah. Check it out. Okay. All right.

[01:07:58] Uh, this was amazing here tonight. Why don't we do it again tomorrow? What do you say? Yeah. We'll be back Thursday at night. And for everybody here at rehab con, uh, lots of fun, uh, still to come tonight. Thank you all for being here. Thank you for watching us tonight. I hope you enjoyed the show. Take care of a good one. Bye. A lot of folks listen to Rob as a podcast cause they want to get smarter about survivor.

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