Big Brother Season 26 Cast First Impressions

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[00:01:04] What's going on? Rob Cesternino back here to talk about everything we know at this hour about BB26. I'm very excited to be talking Big Brother for the very first time this summer here with a man with an eye on everything. It's Taren Armstrong. Taren, how are you?

[00:01:22] I'm excited, Rob. Here we are. It's starting again, all over again, as it always does. Yep. Big Brother 26. Here we go again. All right. We are live here on a Monday afternoon, about what, 52 hours away from a premiere or something like that.

[00:01:43] 53. And the house guests are already playing Big Brother, as far as we understand. We will have our premiere episode coming up on Wednesday night, part of a two-night premiere move-in event filled with twists that will be seen, Taren, as we talk about Big Brother 26. How are you today?

[00:02:05] I'm doing well. You know, listen, busy day. The cast drops. You got to be ready. You got to watch all this stuff. We're going to talk about them. But it's exciting.

[00:02:16] It's good to, you know, I think the beginning of Big Brother is always the best time in Big Brother because everyone is on the same page. We're all just excited for this. Ready to stan. Exactly. Ready for future stanning, but the stan wars have not happened yet.

[00:02:34] And so we all love each other. Yep. Everybody's like, I'm obsessed with this cast. I love them all. Smooches. Everybody is ready to love, okay? For the most part.

[00:02:46] And we're going to meet our 16 new friends and a lot of news to talk about here today with the cast. We've got you covered here. This is the first of probably 100, 150 podcasts we're going to do this summer about Big Brother 26.

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[00:03:21] You could find that at robinsofwebsite.com slash BB feed for our Apple podcasts or Spotify or search RHAP Big Brother wherever you listen to podcasts. Okay, Taren, we also got 16 house guests we'll talk about, but also some news about a 17th potential house guest.

[00:03:45] And so according to the press release put out by Big Brother in this AI generated season, Big Brother announced today that 16 new house guests will move into the Big Brother house and for the first time ever have the power to vote in a 17th house guest.

[00:04:00] Is that the first time ever? For Big Brother US? Yeah, I think so. What happened with Paul? Did they not have the power to vote him in? That was more of a temptation. Temptation. Okay, they get tempted in.

[00:04:14] What's the likelihood that the house will vote in said 17th house guest? Well, okay. My assumption is it's not so much like we have the option to either vote someone in or not vote someone in.

[00:04:30] It would be more like which of these people would you like to vote in? Oh, interesting. That was my assumption. Interesting. So you think that look, if there's anything that we need right now, more things to vote on.

[00:04:43] Okay, so let's then we're going to have do you think that there will be like a bunch of newbies return?

[00:04:50] Is it going to be sort of like a Big Brother 11 type thing where it's like, okay, here are four people and one of them is going to get a chance to get in?

[00:04:57] That seems the most likely to me would be that the that this 17th person is either a former player or some kind of like traders ask celebrity. I know they did bring on some traders casting people this season, so that wouldn't surprise me at all.

[00:05:14] If they're like a known quantity that way. That's why it would make sense to have them be the 17th. Interesting. Okay, so I guess I've not seen too many rumors other than somebody was saying Jose as a rumor, but I don't know about that.

[00:05:29] That's weird that you heard that. So I don't know who else could potentially be out there, celebrity or Big Brother alumni. And I'm sure those rumors will continue to swirl as we get closer and closer to Wednesday.

[00:05:42] Remember, the Surrey thing was last season. I think it really started to hit a fever pitch the day before. And even in the hours leading up to it, I was like, I don't think so.

[00:05:54] I mean, my memory is that it was basically day of that people really started talking about it. But there was a lot of skepticism. And then until it happened in the episode, we didn't we did not know for sure.

[00:06:07] Yeah. So pretty interesting times. And we'll see what happens and how they ultimately decide who to vote for. Do you think that they would just take like three or four other people that we like?

[00:06:20] Well, these people almost made the cast. Let's put them. I mean, I've seen that in Big Brother Canada. I didn't like it. Yeah. Big Brother Canada has done that in the past.

[00:06:29] It's and that was a Canada vote. That was a Canada vote, but also in Big Brother Canada, too. Oh, yeah. Like the separate people living in like the shadow house.

[00:06:39] Yes. Like they kept some people in the basement basically. And then they one of them got to come in. And I think that was also a Canada vote, though. So. OK. All right.

[00:06:52] So, Taren, anything else you want to set up before we get into looking at our 16 house guests? I don't think so. I will say that we did kind of speculate that the 17th house guest would be AI related.

[00:07:06] It seems like that's probably not the case at this point, given that it's a vote. But there still is some kind of AI related twist that at this point I'm thinking is probably more like a takeover than like anything.

[00:07:21] Yeah. That 17th house guest, though, if it is some kind of like AI is taking over a person, if they have like three like actors standing by and then they're all going to play this role of AI,

[00:07:33] like, you know, make them think that they have a choice in the matter. Yeah. I mean, that's basically what they did in the circles. Gave them a choice, but both were fake. Yeah. OK. So we'll see what happens with this 17th house guest.

[00:07:46] Potentially we will also have our world famous RHAP podcaster draft coming up Tuesday night. I'm not sure the timing on that, but Tuesday evening we will do our Be The Draft and draft the 16 players that are known to us.

[00:08:07] They dropped some photos. We got some stock footage, not stock footage, but some EPK interview footage of the house guests that is allowed to be released in like small amounts. I don't know if we're going to get anywhere. Just the full video that got put out.

[00:08:28] Basically, they sent us the videos and they said you can use up to two minutes of the footage in pieces in media stories that you do.

[00:08:37] Yeah, I mean, I've seen I've seen, I think, a good amount of these videos being released via Sharon and Mike and stuff like that. So I think I think, you know, I think it's mostly out there at this point.

[00:08:49] OK. All right. And I have to say, as somebody who's watched some of it, they're not super exciting. No, I mean, the cast and the cast, I'm sure is wonderful.

[00:08:59] It looks like it looks like a great cast, but the types of questions that they ask them, everybody says similar things. And you know that for somebody like ourselves who has done so many of these things,

[00:09:12] the stuff they say in the pregame interviews is not particularly insightful as far as how they're going to play in the house. Yeah. And I'll say this because sometimes the players like to go back and watch these that this is this is all in good fun.

[00:09:28] We we will be poking fun. We will be critical and we will have honestly no idea how these people will actually be in the house, out of the house. I think, you know, some of the people I've become friends with from the show are people that I roasted.

[00:09:47] Yeah. OK. So we're talking about what we know and we'll know a lot more soon. OK, but let's welcome in our 16 house guests. And then we have a little bit of a slideshow here. First up is Angela Murray.

[00:10:02] She is 50 and she is a real estate agent from Utah. Yeah. Yeah. From Utah. She's 50 years old. One of two 50 plus cast members on the cast. And the vibe I got from her pretty quickly was that like she has this very kind of like earnest energy to her,

[00:10:32] where she is kind of like just just really excited to be there and to just be able to have this experience. She talked about like how she never really got to go to like camp or anything like that when she was a kid.

[00:10:47] And she's just like, I'm just I just want to play. I just want to like do it. And it did kind of win me over. I did. I felt I felt for her in them.

[00:10:57] I was like, oh, this is this is fun. I don't I don't know how successful it's going to be, but, you know, I'm happy she gets to have the experience. Yeah. She's here for the slumber party. She says she's a cool mom.

[00:11:08] You know, we did see Felicia go quite far in the game last season. So I don't think that's necessarily a stigma in terms of being the oldest house guest where she's an automatic boot. But I think that she has an uphill climb.

[00:11:24] Yeah, it's it's definitely I think the age thing is definitely like a big component of this season. A lot of people did talk about wanting to work with older players. And if you are saying the older players are the 50 plus players, then she's one of two options, theoretically.

[00:11:44] Yeah. But, you know, how does that actually function in the game? And if we're saying like, oh, well, you know, Felicia was a mom and she was a little older and she did pretty well.

[00:11:56] You know, I do not get Felicia vibes from it. She seems a lot like Felicia was very sharp and would ask people questions and really get in there. Maybe maybe to her benefit. I don't think she gives off those vibes.

[00:12:11] She seems a lot more kind of, again, just happy to be there. But I don't think that plays as well in the game. Taryn, do you think that the older players have a greater chance of getting thrown off by A.I.?

[00:12:27] Because I see that on Facebook sometimes where some people that I know that are older and the A.I. is like totally like, do you see this? Like, yeah, that's not going to happen. Newfangled technology. What? I don't know what's happening here.

[00:12:44] Yeah. What happened to the key wheel? I don't even know how to get the faces on the board. All right. So that's Angela. OK, a realtor. Do you think that that will help her in the Big Brother house?

[00:12:59] I mean, at the very least, you know, I think recent realtor examples have been pretty, pretty good characters. Yeah. Who is a recent realtor? I'm thinking Survivor. I'm thinking Q. Oh, OK. All right. Oh, that's true. Maybe that does she work at Remax?

[00:13:15] OK, so maybe she was a referral from Q. All right. All right. There's Angela. Let's take a look next. OK, Brooklyn. Where Brooklyn at? She's right here. Not in Brooklyn. OK, Brooklyn Rivera. And she's here to do it for the moms.

[00:13:33] She is from she lives in Covington, Georgia, and she is a business administrator. Yeah. This OK, this interview, I was kind of all over the place on it was very strange to me because right out of the gate,

[00:13:52] she's like, I want to be the first married mother to win the game. OK, I was like, oh, married. That's a weird distinction to make. Married mother. That seems like such a call out to whichever unmarried mother, one big brother.

[00:14:07] And then I thought, has any unmarried mother? I don't think any mother has one big brother. So still, why are you specifying? To be clear, a few mothers have one big brother. Fair, fair. So I was just like, that's such a strange thing.

[00:14:28] And we're looking for a mother at the time that they won the show. Yes, of course. Other women have won and gone on to be moms. Yes. Yes. Yes. Do we need to the married moms? Yeah. But yeah, yeah. It really is like I mean this.

[00:14:45] I've talked about this before, but like an American Ninja Warrior, they're always like this is the first married mother over 40 with that lives in the southern hemisphere to get up the warped wall on their third try.

[00:14:58] And it's just like I got lots of that vibe throughout this entire section of interviews where like a lot of people wanted to be the first, the first something. Yeah. OK, so Brooklyn is here. I mean, looks like it's going to be a competitor.

[00:15:15] Says she watches the show with her husband. Yes. She says she's right below a super fan.

[00:15:20] She's been watching for the last 10 years, but like can't rattle off statistics or names or anything like that, which means she, I guess, has an understanding of what a super fan might be qualified as and that she is not it.

[00:15:34] So, so there's that because there are listen, there are some people who only watch the show that would say I'm a super fan. Yeah, she doesn't have to know. She doesn't know that much. True.

[00:15:43] She wants to win the first age of age, which I think is a very good thing.

[00:15:47] A lot of people will say like I want to lie low at first, which means they might not want to win the first age of age, which generally could or could not turn out to be a bad thing or a good thing.

[00:15:57] I think the people that want to go for the first age of age tend to be the people that will use it poorly. But the people who do go for the age of age that won't use it poorly will get the biggest advantage.

[00:16:09] So it's a little bit of a tricky thing there. But she also said she's she's a matchmaker, like amongst her friends. She puts people together a lot. And so she wants to use a showman as a shield in the game, which I thought was a very good thing.

[00:16:22] Like I love that idea for a strategy. So, you know, I again, I was a little all over the place with her. Like I was getting weird vibes, but like some of the stuff she was saying, I was like, OK, I'm OK with that.

[00:16:34] Yeah. Do we know what kind of business she administrates? So this is the Twitter sphere. Yes. Has has already done some investigating. Yes. And Twitter is undefeated. I do not know the extent to which this is like the case,

[00:16:55] but they found at least one photo of her with one Aaron Williams, a.k.a. Aaron Greene's from Big Brother 15. I believe she was like wearing her Aaron's merch in a like a group photo with her.

[00:17:12] I have not been able to investigate much beyond that. I don't know what how deep the connection is, but there does seem to be perhaps some kind of connection. Yeah. And who knows? I think at this hour, I'm sure Twitter will get to the bottom of it.

[00:17:30] I just always caution of let's just not be super over reactionary on the first day. We've gotten it wrong before. I'm sure Twitter has run wild with a thing before we really knew all of the information.

[00:17:46] I'm sure if at some point and maybe it even has happened already, I just haven't seen it yet. We will have a better understanding of the true extent to it, at which point you can make your judgments appropriately.

[00:17:56] For those that don't know, because you might not know Aaron now Williams has since Big Brother 15, in fact, not too long after Big Brother 15, become a pretty significant presence on YouTube. I don't want to inappropriately classify this or incorrectly classify this, but like a mommy kind of YouTuber.

[00:18:18] Yes. In that sphere. Yes. And so... I don't believe she's a political commentator. No, but she did do an interview with Laura Trump at some point. Where she talked about how she was one of the first people that's been canceled.

[00:18:36] Oh, I didn't catch that. Wasn't in my algorithm. Yeah. So yes, there's certainly some stuff here to sort of like put a pin in and let's see what this turns into. Yeah. I also was watching Kat Dunn's preview earlier today. Shout out to Kat.

[00:18:58] She said that she's friends with Brooklyn. So I think that Brooklyn may know a few people in the Big Brother world. Look, you got to be careful about who you say you're friends with. That's what we're learning from this.

[00:19:12] So Kat said she knew Brooklyn as well as she knew Holly. Who knows? Who knows? Near the end of the interview, she says, because they often are asking them like,

[00:19:23] who do you think you would play the most like? She says, oh, I would love to play like Taylor or something along those lines. I love Taylor Hall because, you know, Taylor Hall, she was a first, right?

[00:19:41] She was a first, like the first, I believe these were her words, something along those lines. First African-American winner or female winner. She said something along those lines. And I want to be a first as well, you know, first married mother to win.

[00:19:56] And also, she said, I'm a former Miss America and a pageant coach. So I thought that was a very interesting portion of the interview. OK. And she said Taylor Hall? Taylor Hall. Yes. OK. Yeah. All right. Brooklyn Rivera. OK, let's see what happens with Brooklyn.

[00:20:20] OK, next up. OK. Oh, Cam, we got another Cam. Oh no. Cam Sullivan Brown. OK. Cams have not had the best luck on Big Brother. OK. All right. Well, you know, one was just America's favorite player. We'll see if this Cam can follow suit.

[00:20:40] I'm also under the impression that Cam is an influencer or a at least a TikToker. I had heard that recently that some I saw some people saying like, oh, I follow him.

[00:20:54] And I think I think he is also the one that was like a football player. Did you say that? I did not say that, but it does seem like I'm just Googling his name.

[00:21:05] Looks like he played at Penn State. Yeah. So I don't know if the content is related to the football or if they're just two other things that he does. But yes, he seems to be some kind of social media influencer.

[00:21:20] Yeah. Looks like he has a lot of followers and I think he seems like a cool guy. He's the next Kyle. No, no, no. Yeah. So, yeah, I don't know exactly what his channel is about. Maybe people have some looks like he's just talking about some different stuff.

[00:21:42] Who knows? Once again, I'm sure we will find out over time. He lists his profession as physical therapist. Yeah. OK. So there you go. He says he's work with the older people. Yes. Yeah. This was another like kind of weird thing.

[00:22:00] Maybe it's not weird. Maybe it was just weird to me. He said he would love to work with a parent. Oh, hey, we just saw one where Brooklyn because parents know how to manipulate people because they have to deal with kids.

[00:22:16] That is true. You say that's true. Yeah. You do have to, you know, like because, you know, in the old days, he used to just be able to get kids to do what you wanted. Is that what you want? And then you can't do that.

[00:22:33] Do that anymore. So now you have to like be everything has to be, you know, puppet master of like, OK, you could do that.

[00:22:39] You could do that, but I wouldn't. So as a non parent, my perspective on this is that I feel like when a person who is used to dealing with kids, not necessarily parents, but like maybe people who like work at preschools. Yeah.

[00:22:56] Like have to deal with kids a lot. They can sometimes get too, too used to dealing with kids. Yeah. And have the same kind of like approach to adults, which I don't know is quite as effective.

[00:23:11] But but hey, you know, maybe maybe parent is the right amount of kid interaction. OK. All right. There's Cam Sullivan Brown, C.S.B. OK. So CBS, if you mix the letters around just saying, OK, you know what he also said, Rob?

[00:23:30] And this this really this made me feel old, actually. He said that one of his big brother bucket list items was that he wants to get slimed. Yes. He talked about that, which means. That is now like that is now a big brother thing like that is official.

[00:23:52] Like we've been talking about old, Taryn, because the idea that that's a big brother thing is it's so new to the big brother kind of lexicon.

[00:24:00] And I don't know. I remember in BB three that the unlock, the hot tub and Jerry had quite a bit of slime in his speedo. But that feels different. That was like sexy slime. That's I think we all thought that when we saw Jerry.

[00:24:16] Whereas this is more Nickelodeon slime nowadays, I feel. See, I thought you were feeling old because that's that's a kid's thing. Kids want to get slimed.

[00:24:27] I just feel like like for people that are seeing Big Brother in an in for like with fresh eyes, like I think they're looking at Big Brother is like, yeah, that's this. That's the show where they slime people. And that's what it's become.

[00:24:41] That's just that's just new to me. OK. Yeah. That's a good barometer of like just a temperature check on us frogs in the pot of hot water of like, oh, yeah. Slime is they've normalized slime. Yeah. OK. Not even sexy slime. Right. Yeah. All right. After cam.

[00:24:59] OK, here's Cedric, young Cedric, a 21 year old former Marine Cedric Hodges. Yeah, I've seen a lot of talk about former Marine because, you know, a he's 21 and B, he looks very young.

[00:25:16] Like he does not like look like in like like a Michael Yerger from Survivor who's like 18 but looks like he could be 30. Yeah, like Cedric looks very young, is very young.

[00:25:28] And his profession as a former Marine, I think, is like, whoa, you've you've already had like a I guess profession. I don't know exactly what you call it to be a Marine, but like you've done it and finished it already.

[00:25:43] That's a lot to have already gone through. So when I saw that, I was actually kind of like, oh, that's that's interesting. I wonder if like that means he might have a little more life experience than your average 21 year old.

[00:25:54] But, you know, I'm not sure. Yeah. Cedric was really it was like a little bit off for me and like watching his video where he's like that.

[00:26:06] It was cut a little weird where he's like normal and then they ask him a question and then he brings it up to like 13 in the like in answering the question, like so much energy.

[00:26:17] I don't know necessarily if that like it feels like he's putting a lot on in the diary room. Yes, he definitely had kind of like the the the Zoom or TikTok energy of like, you know, like, hey, I'm performing for the camera.

[00:26:33] So I don't know that we have a great judge on how he will actually be like day to day, because this definitely felt a little bit like a camera performance.

[00:26:44] Yeah. I don't think we know the real Cedric yet, but it seems like nice young guy. We'll see what happens with him. All right.

[00:26:53] Yeah. He said he said you can't rely solely on the social. It's about the physical challenges, which I thought was also very telling of the times. He said loyalty was important to him and he's going to be the person that compliments Julie every week.

[00:27:07] Yes. Oh, he's already thinking of the adjectives to say to Julie. So. OK. Great. All right. Let's talk about. Oh, here's Chelsea. Chelsea, she is a 27 year old nonprofit director lives in Rancho Cucamonga, California.

[00:27:30] You know, that's how it goes. I believe this is I mean, let me this is a deep pull was was. I was there. It was how we from Rancho Cucamonga like my. Let me see. Rancho Cucamonga. Big brother. Yeah. You look that up.

[00:27:46] I'll explain a little bit about Chelsea. I like Chelsea. She's a super fan. I think that is very. I would say I will say this cast overall gave me a lot of like not very big fan vibes.

[00:28:03] So to me, that means that that we are more likely to see like the actual fans perhaps do a little bit better because. Less competition. So we'll see about that. But being a super fan, she's been watching for 10 years.

[00:28:22] She did describe it a little strangely where she was like, yeah, the family like get around, sit around the couch, watch and watch the game together. Yeah. It's like the like Big Brother, the game.

[00:28:35] You mean like that's a normally we'd say about like sports. But I get it. Big Brother is kind of like sports sometimes for like nerds. But like, you know, it was just a weird way to say it to me.

[00:28:46] Look, that may be that she's going to turn Big Brother into the activity that you do with your family. Maybe. Yeah, I thought that she seemed pretty fun, Chelsea. Yes. Yeah, I think she's she's to me like she's 27.

[00:29:06] She seems very like agreeable overall. Easy to get along with. She's also a super fan. I definitely feel like she's perhaps someone to to watch out for here. OK. All right. After Chelsea, we have all right. Here's somebody that we may have some things to talk about. OK.

[00:29:24] Look, for many years we've talked about Joey Rodriguez. Here is Joseph Rodriguez. Do you remember? Glenn's back. Glenn's back. I'm surprised. I didn't think he'd manage it, but he somehow like I mean, the disguise is great.

[00:29:45] And, you know, he got past casting. I mean, like I think we all have to give it up to Glenn Garcia because he did it. I mean, with the same name, too. I mean, impressive stuff. All right.

[00:29:58] For people who are newcomers, there was a contestant on Big Brother 18. His name was Glenn Garcia. He got voted out first or second. It wasn't quite a vote. Yeah. OK. He didn't make it into the house for long. And then on social media,

[00:30:14] it was discovered that he had been using a burner account called Joey Rodriguez to come. Allegedly, Rob, allegedly on a number of different things. And that was the legend of Joey Rodriguez. Here we have a real Joseph Rodriguez here into the house.

[00:30:30] And so we have again, are we being pranked again, Taryn, for the 30 year old video store clerk? Yeah, I've seen a lot of talk about this. I don't think these exist.

[00:30:43] Yes. OK, so I don't know what the bit is here that I'd say that this mustache is giving hipster energy. I feel like that there is like it's some kind of a joke or a gag that he is in.

[00:31:01] Like, I do not think that he earnestly works at a video store. I think that's probably correct. I think that you can basically list your profession as whatever you want. Yes. For Big Brother. And so. It would not surprise me if this was not entirely accurate.

[00:31:21] Yeah. OK, so we'll see if there are some people in the chat are saying maybe it's some kind of a video game store. Is it possible? But, you know, watching his interview, I think he is going for villain energy.

[00:31:34] And so it seems like some kind of a gag. Go with me here. I got Matt Hoffman vibes. Yeah, I can see it. Yeah. Yeah. Like just like kind of the approach he seems to have to the game.

[00:31:51] He's by the way, big fan. He does not want people to know that he is. But like he definitely strikes me as somebody that's like heavily involved in the community. He's like, I've consumed an unhealthy amount of reality TV.

[00:32:03] Wow. Do you think that Joseph Rodriguez is a fake name that he's going under? Like it's a call out to the super. Not impossible. I mean, is the mustache real? Is it is a good question.

[00:32:15] And he like respects the genre and wants to be genuine and make good TV while also playing as well as he can. He's a poker player. He doesn't want to play scared, he says.

[00:32:27] So like he's saying a lot of the right things and and has this kind of like energy to him that really just brings me back to Matt Hoffman. But he said his strategies, he wants to work with the jock type and leech off of them,

[00:32:42] which is also a little bit Matt Hoffman. But it didn't exactly work out. Yeah. OK. All right. So Sam sent me a link of somebody sent this to Pouya. And so shout out to Christian who has this picture of Joseph here.

[00:33:00] And he works at Viper Video Tampa from the Viper Video Tampa Instagram account. Yeah, very funny. I get it. A.I. themed. We're showing a pictures of video stores like they still exist. Very funny. Viper Video Tampa. Yeah. There you go.

[00:33:22] How are they still alive? They're not. It's A.I. It's all A.I. It does seem like there is a website for Viper Video. So maybe it's either the proprietor of Viper Video, although I'm on. It's all part of the Glenn Garcia cover, Rob. Yeah.

[00:33:44] OK, so I'm on the front page of Viper Video. And again, like, hey, everybody, go check out your local Viper Video. Keep video stores alive. Here's Viper Video. OK. Buy, sell, trade DVD, Blu-ray, VHS. Doesn't look like it's open. Actually, Taren, it is open 11 a.m. to 7.

[00:34:12] So check it out. OK, so. All right. But you're feeling OK about Joseph? Yeah, I am. And here's why. I think that the way that Joseph is talking, assuming he doesn't kind of like chicken out.

[00:34:26] Right. About the whole thing is that either you will play hard and do well, which is fun, or they'll play hard and do poorly, but in a fun way. And so I'm hoping that one way or another, this is going to be good content.

[00:34:40] OK. All right. There is Joseph. OK. Excited to see what he comes up with. Kenny Kelly is here. He is 52. And Taren, he's got a secret. The house guests are never going to guess what he actually does for a living. Is he perhaps. A former undercover detective.

[00:35:09] How did you know? How did you how did you know? I don't know. He just gave me the vibe. It's I mean, I kind of looked at him and I was like, yeah, the perfect caper.

[00:35:23] He's going undercover for one more mission into the Big Brother house and going to pose as not an undercover cop. Yeah. He's he's he's also been watching the show since you guessed it, Derek. He knows about the live feeds, but I don't think watches them.

[00:35:47] He said he started watching to impress his now wife and it worked. So, whoa. OK. Yeah. He says you good job. Kenny. People. Yeah. Yeah. You went undercover as a Big Brother fan, went undercover and scored the big sting. And now, OK, he is, I'm sure, happily married.

[00:36:06] And so we'll see what happens with Kenny Kelly, oldest house guest here. He said he recognizes that older players tend to not be included in alliances right away, which doesn't necessarily help him get included.

[00:36:21] But it's good that he's at least aware of it. And he would like to work with older players, although I think his options are fairly limited. Yeah. OK. So looking forward to seeing if it could work.

[00:36:35] Let's see what happens. All right. Let's go to. All right. Here's Kimo. Yes. From Hawaii. Yeah. Am I pronouncing it right? Is it Kimo or Kimo? You know what? I'm not sure. The chat always knows. OK.

[00:36:51] Yes, we will. We will certainly find out soon. OK. Tell me how to phonetically say that. OK. That he is a 35 year old from Hawaii. Yes. First native Hawaiian on Big Brother, he says.

[00:37:03] Is a mattress sales rep. Taron, the other night we were looking at the house and we're wondering why are there so many beds? Do you think that maybe that they got them a deal?

[00:37:17] You know, yeah. First first con he pulls in Big Brother is to convince them to buy some extra mattresses. He's like, listen, I know you've got enough. But have you thought about? Yeah. OK. Awesome. And the chat is confirming Kimo.

[00:37:35] OK. Give me that Kimo. He had one of my favorite lines about like why he's excited to play Big Brother, which was that he was like, you know, I'm really just I'm excited for the free AC all summer.

[00:37:53] Wow. Yeah. You don't have to pay the bills. Yeah. You could leave that back door open. He he describes himself as emotional, but he is a big fan and who has been watching since he was a kid.

[00:38:06] He's applied multiple times. And also like when asked about how he would play, he answered in a way which to me demonstrated that he understands that there is like a developed meta for the game.

[00:38:19] So I think that I think that if people see him as like a big personality who is self-described emotional, they might not anticipate how game potentially game savvy he actually is, given his level of knowledge that he seems to have about the game. Yeah.

[00:38:39] I like that. OK. It seems like a fun person to have in the house. Let's then talk about. OK, here's Leah Peters and she is a 26 year old. She is from Miami, lives in Pittsburgh and is a VIP cocktail server.

[00:38:56] Big brother loves a VIP cocktail server. Yeah, she's 26 and it's the 26th season. And there's more 26s that I don't remember. But she has a tattoo, I believe, of the number 26. Taryn, did that seal the deal in casting when she says, look, I've got the tattoo 26.

[00:39:17] OK, you're on. Maybe, you know, it's like, listen, you know how people when they win the game, they'll sometimes get bad tattoos. I've already got that covered. Yeah. If you are vying to be on Big Brother 27, it's not the worst idea.

[00:39:35] See if you can get it, maybe get like sort of like do it like in like the digital clock font where then if it doesn't work out, you can make that seven into an eight. Like, oh yeah, that's two bites of the apple.

[00:39:46] Yeah. Great advice. Like I already have the tattoo. She says she doesn't look as intelligent as she is and that she's a natural manipulator. In terms of fandom, she says her mom and sister are super fans, but she's only seen five seasons.

[00:40:06] I think I think not because she's been watching, but I imagine because she's been prepping. She said in response to like, who do you model your game after? She said, I would model my game after any previous houseguest because I don't know who any previous houseguest is.

[00:40:23] What happened to the five seasons? You know, listen, it's a lot of names to remember. OK. All right. But she seems like she'll be fun. You know, we're really we do not want to gatekeep that.

[00:40:36] You have to know a ton about the game coming in and look, even if you're bad at the game, still just be fun. Yes. You know, I will co-sign that if she if she gives us good TV, I'm in. Could you give us roughly 26 soundboard clips?

[00:40:59] That might be a tall ask. I don't know. OK. All right. There is VIP cocktail waitress Leah. All right. Next up. All right. Here is Lisa Weintraub. She is 33 and her career, her occupation is celebrity chef.

[00:41:17] And Taryn, I am still confused at this hour. Is she famous for being a chef or does she cook for celebrities? I think she cooks for celebrities. Oh, she maybe hope they signed that waiver for the live feeds.

[00:41:35] She's she said she like creates experiences and like the way she talked definitely made it seem like that. And I'm certainly not like well versed in the world of celebrity chefs, but like I definitely got the vibe that she like cooks for celebrities.

[00:41:51] I also and I'm sorry, Lisa, based on the interview, got the vibe that she got cast for her job title more so than anything else. Yeah. OK. Now people are saying in the chat she cooks for Paris Hilton.

[00:42:05] There you go. Yeah. Now, Paris Hilton doesn't seem like a big eater, but who knows? I mean, I think I don't think that matters much. I think that you want to you want to you want to cook the best meals.

[00:42:23] I think like the idea is that, you know, she's going to cook. There was another player. I don't think we've talked about him yet that said he was going to cook a lot as well. And so I think that like, you know, there might be competing cooks. Yeah.

[00:42:37] I have a top chef situation. Tucker also said he was going to be doing some cooking. But here's here's Lisa. And I don't know if she knows celebrities. And so she's here. Anything else about her game strategy?

[00:42:50] There that this is why I was a little disappointed in the interviews, at least. And again, I'm very open to changing my mind once they get in the house.

[00:42:58] But there was just a lot of like, well, I'm going to cook for people. I'm going to do my best to be a good human. I don't plan to be a backstabber. I just want to work with people that are different than me, which is fine.

[00:43:08] But like she didn't have any former players to compare herself to, I assume because she's probably not much of a fan. And so, right. I'm just I'm I'm I'm unfortunately a little skeptical. I hope I'm wrong. They're asking them like, what's your favorite Julie Chen Moonves quote?

[00:43:26] Yeah, they they they asked a lot of questions about Julie, actually. OK, so which skip over every answer to because of like, what are they going to say? Oh, yeah. Not a fan, actually. Yes. OK. All right. Let's go to our next person. OK. Mackenzie Manbeck.

[00:43:42] She is a 22 year old construction project manager. Yes. She's a triple threat. She also kind of gave me just not much in the interview. She said she wants to stick to her morals as much as she can.

[00:44:01] She says she wants to play like Casey. She's not a big super fan, but the game is made for me. She wants to lie low and for the first half and then make big moves halfway through, which is basically the stock answer.

[00:44:14] There just wasn't a lot here for me to dig into. Yeah. But I thought like as far as like a presence, I thought that she seemed like, OK, I feel like she's going to be well liked.

[00:44:23] I feel like that people are going to, you know, she's gonna be getting the challenges. And like I didn't see anything that seems like she's going to be a disaster. Yeah, perhaps for the game, but for television, I hope we get we'll see. We'll see.

[00:44:37] All right. That's Mackenzie. That's M-A-K-E-N-S-Y. Could another Kenzie do it, Taren? As long as she doesn't get grenaded. I don't know. We don't have any kind of like pet peeve connection here. So could Jalinski be the 17th houseguest? The several, the several team houseguests?

[00:45:02] Put it out there, put it out to the world. OK. All right. Next up, here's Matt Hardman. Probably something like that. Yeah. OK. Matt Hardiman. Hardiman sounds closer to me, but OK. 25 years old. He lives in Loganville, Georgia, and he is a tech sales rep.

[00:45:27] Mm hmm. Yeah. Tech sales rep. Interesting. So he says he's going to be a good physical competitor. He's talking a lot about winning physical comps. So I expect he's the guy that's going to be like, oh, man,

[00:45:40] I hope the next one's going to be a physical one like every week. He says that a lot of people think he will be a douche gym bro, but that is not true. And he's the one that really like gets along with old, older people or another person,

[00:45:55] I would say, that gets along with older people and would like to work with them. So so we'll see. Yeah. Anything else stand out about Matt Hardiman? Well, he says, you know, he he's on the lookout for super fans.

[00:46:13] Yeah. Why? Because the people that are going to be like listing off stats and, you know, talking about like all the different names, basically it sounded like you saying I don't like stats or nerds. They make me uncomfortable. I want to target them. Don't like that.

[00:46:30] But he said his mom came from the Philippines and she has watched Big Brother for a long time. So that's how he got into this whole situation. All right. That's Matt. Let's talk about here's Quinn. OK, Quinn has a lot of big ideas.

[00:46:46] Quinn is 25, is a nurse recruiter. Yes. And also an athlete, which was seemingly a big part of Quinn's identity. Quinn talked about how they see this as like snakes. Sorry. Strategically, Quinn sees it as snakes, rats, frogs and doves as the four sort of archetypes of a rat.

[00:47:13] Rats, frogs and doves. OK. Yeah. And so Quinn says that I'm a rat. I will only lie and cheat and steal when my back is against the wall. I'm very curious to know what the other ones are. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, snakes, I feel like are self-explanatory.

[00:47:35] But frogs and doves are interesting. Could frogs like jump from alliance to alliance? Perhaps. Yeah. Frogs float perhaps across like lily pads and hop between. Yeah. Between. They're like the floaters, the frogs and then the doves.

[00:47:54] What are they just like above it all? Like they don't even play strategy. Yeah. You know, kind of flying like to keep peace. OK. Hopefully we get an explanation of this on the feeds at some point.

[00:48:05] And maybe maybe the snakes are like actively trying to snake people all the time, whereas rats are more reactive. Yeah. OK. So Quinn seems to be coming in, wants to acknowledge some of the gameplay of the past.

[00:48:19] Seems like maybe the person coming in with, if not the most, one of the most knowledgeable game information sets. Yeah. Quinn talked about wanting to play like Jason Guy and promised cam talks, stirring up unnecessary drama. Been watching since season 11.

[00:48:40] So definitely seems like Quinn is going to be the super fanny archetype, perhaps. I don't know exactly how much that will come across, but. OK. All right. There is Quinn and OK, we've got Rubina Burnaby and Rubina is a 35 year old event bartender.

[00:49:07] Yes. Now, Rubina, I don't know if I don't know if you know this, Rob. There's only one Rubina. Only one? Yes, but she will tell you that multiple times. OK. Rubina had a very fun energy that I hope translates to the show really well,

[00:49:32] because I mean, basically, I should say fun. She said big sis energy. That is how she would describe it. And she wants to keep it real. She's not a super fan, but she does say she's representing for the Filipinos.

[00:49:48] So there may be a bit of a connection there. So, you know, I she definitely seems to have like one of the bigger personalities. And again, it's like, will that actually translate day to day in the house or is it mostly just for the interviews?

[00:50:06] The vibe I'm getting is that this is real, but, you know, I'm excited to see how it translates to the game. Yeah, she really wants to cultivate this family vibe. And so she could have a very good social game. We'll have to see how it goes for Rubina.

[00:50:23] Yeah. OK, next. OK, we have T-Core. Yes. So I don't know exactly. I believe T-Core grew or was born in London. Interesting accent. Yes, at some point relatively early, I think, went to move to Chicago with, she says, her lesbian moms. And she's a crochet business owner.

[00:50:56] But I think she also does some things with fashion. Maybe she was born in Chicago, moved to London. It's so interesting because the other crochet business owner I know is named London and she was on The Amazing Race. Oh, there you go.

[00:51:11] But she also talks a lot about being a sociologist at heart. That's what her degree was in. So she's going to really take her sociology approach to Big Brother. Yeah. OK, will they let her crochet in the house? I don't know.

[00:51:28] Do you think you could take a crochet needle? Do you use needles with crocheting? Yeah, I think it's like needles. It could be a little dangerous. Could you say, would you mind if I killed you with this crochet needle? I think you should not say that.

[00:51:41] I think that'd be a good way to lose it. But maybe, you know, like, but I guess would that be boring feeds? Or I guess they're just sitting around anyway. They say hooks. Honestly, that sounds more menacing to me. I don't know why.

[00:51:55] Yeah. OK, so it seems fun. Twenty three. See what the game has in store for her. Yeah, I'm very curious to see how she fits into this group because because she has, as you mentioned, she has a bit of I wouldn't say like a full London accent.

[00:52:18] It's more of like a mix of like, I assume at least like a little bit of London with mostly American, I would say, or maybe maybe the percentage is a little more even. But so like I think she has that kind of element that people will,

[00:52:33] I think, I think initially be like, oh, this is fun. Like, where are you from? Where'd you get the accent? Like, oh, you lived in London. Like, that's so cool. Tell us about it. So I don't know. I don't know. OK, and then one other person.

[00:52:49] This is Tucker, Tucker Deloria. And Tucker is 30 years old, that he is a marketing and sales executive. Mm hmm. Yeah, he said something and I might have heard this wrong. I did go back and listen to it again, but I still almost can't believe he said it.

[00:53:10] So I might be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure he said pretty quickly that he's he was listing off different things about himself. And he said, I think at one point I've been bullied. I've been the bully. Yes, I think he said it twice. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:53:24] So I was a little bit like, hey, that's big brother. I guess so. To be fair. Yeah. Some days you are the bully and some days you get bullied. It's like kind of a weird thing to throw out. Yeah.

[00:53:39] He does say he's a chef and a jokester, but he wants to cook for people in the house. But he is going to be facing off against a celebrity chef. Yeah. OK, I think that there we will call him Turner many times in the month of July. Certainly.

[00:53:57] It's possible. He says he gets his people say he's like Jim Carrey, which I didn't see until he said it. And then I instantly saw. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. That's a look I could see. Yeah.

[00:54:09] He he said that he so enlisting players that he would potentially be like he listed Ian, Dan and Brett and said he wanted to play most probably like Ian and also seemed to reference the first in curse

[00:54:23] saying he wants to be like be the first to be first in the house and win. I'm not sure if that was like coincidence, but it definitely seemed intentional to me that he seems to know the show fairly well. And also definitely felt like he has like.

[00:54:40] A very engaging personality. I think he could be very charismatic or he might come on too strong and I'm not sure which until we see him on the live feeds, but I think he could be very good or like very bad. OK. All right. That's Tucker. All right.

[00:54:56] 16 house guests down a 17th house guest to be voted in to the house. We'll find out all on Wednesday night. I believe what they've said. It's going to be a two night premiere where eight house guests will

[00:55:09] be moving in on Wednesday and then eight house guests are coming in on Thursday. Is that what you've heard? Also, yes. So I think I think they're all moving in on the same night. But in terms of episodes, we are seeing the second half on Thursday Thursday.

[00:55:26] And then I assume that we get like the like we queue up the 17th at that point. Or maybe I don't know. I don't know. I don't know exactly what we're doing with the 17th. Yeah, I would have to think.

[00:55:42] That do you think that we will that the house I think the house will vote. I think that I could see it being maybe a. Well, if the other house guests haven't moved in yet, I don't know how they vote on the first night.

[00:55:54] But right, I would be you don't think that they would do it as a cliffhanger to go from Thursday to Sunday. Do you? And that feels weird to me. But yeah, I mean, maybe maybe it is like we introduced the second eight and then that whole episode.

[00:56:15] But then what is the first? I don't know. I think the first episode meeting the first day. I think that if I had to guess, then we get all 16 together on Thursday and then they find out about the twist at the end of the episode.

[00:56:28] And then we find out which of the choices for 17th house gets get into the house on Sunday. Yeah. And then when did they move into the house? Do we have that reliably? Is it Saturday? I'm pretty sure it was.

[00:56:45] You know what now I'm not remembering it might it might be like today or tomorrow. Oh, they have not moved in yet. Yeah, I think I think my memory is that it was like the day before. OK, which would be Tuesday.

[00:57:00] And then we start live feeds on like the night of day. I am just going off of historically. I feel like that they always used to move in on a Saturday and then we would get the first episode on Wednesday.

[00:57:11] But people are saying that it could be tomorrow when they move in. So not not the worst case in the world. I don't know if they also said when the feeds are going to start. I would presume Thursday, but I don't know if there's a cliffhanger.

[00:57:27] I think that's what we think is that the feeds would start Thursday night after the West Coast showing of of the episode. So yeah, I think that's I think it's roughly roughly what we're looking at, at least according to the information we have.

[00:57:46] I think most of that comes from Hamsterwatch, who is imminently reliable. Yeah, we will see. So, Taren, it would not be a first if any of these 16 people that we meet end up getting switched out last second.

[00:58:01] Certainly as recently as what Big Brother 24, we had Marvin in and then out. So be sure to be following along for all of the news. It's a very fluid situation at this hour. Yeah, I mean, and honestly, like the the Brooklyn connection to Aaron

[00:58:19] feels very like if it is real, a real and be like significant. Like I don't know that like that does not seem like something that Big Brother would love to play around with in terms of the amount.

[00:58:34] Like I feel like Aaron is one of the biggest markers for the show as like a representation for some of its bigger issues. And so I don't know if they would want to deal with that. So maybe maybe stay tuned for that, but we'll see. OK, all right.

[00:58:50] Tomorrow night we will be live with our draft and that's going to be at 7 p.m. Eastern for our draft when we get back together with myself, Taren, Melissa, Pouya and Armand to draft winners of Big Brother 16 from 26 from the 16 house guests that are available.

[00:59:12] Be sure to be on the lookout for that. And of course, make sure you subscribe to the channel for everything else we have going on. It's going to be one crazy summer. Taren, what else is coming up for you?

[00:59:25] Well, as always, I will be on Twitch watching the episodes live with all of you reacting in the moment. There'll be discussion in the chat. It's a great time. Come and join me there all season long. I've also got some other podcasts going.

[00:59:40] We're talking about this very fun social strategy show called The Getaway on Nebula made by the guys that make Jetlag, which is another show that is very fun that we will, I am sure, be talking about more in the future.

[00:59:54] We're also doing scripted TV content, doing the tastemakers where we're watching all kinds of scripted shows and kind of trying to keep on top of it because there's so many and trying to let you know what to watch.

[01:00:05] And we're also talking about House of the Dragon as that season is closing out. And then also, Rob, I've been working on something for those that know my cat, Kallus. Kallus has many fans, very popular.

[01:00:24] And so I had the opportunity to design a custom plushie of a robot Kallus that I'm going to sell in my merch store. So if you would like to buy a robot Kallus. So people can buy a stuffed animal of your cat.

[01:00:45] I saw that you designed a stuffed animal for your cat. You designed this- For my cat and anyone else's cat. For other people to buy to have a replica of your cat. Yes. Wow. Well, my mind is blown. Yeah. So you can go to-

[01:01:05] It's a Taron Dash shop at 4th Wall that I believe the store should be going up relatively soon. I'll also tweet out the link. And if you're over there on Twitch, you can find it there. But pre-orders will open. They'll only be open for a couple of weeks.

[01:01:18] So if you want a little Kallus. Okay. That's where you find it. All right. Today, we also had over on- We have been- We started the confessional of the Reality TV newsletter with our great friend Kevin Jacobs up today.

[01:01:35] Corey Wurttenberger wrote about the returning player privilege and how if the 17th house guest is a returning player, really got into a deep dive into what a big advantage that is for that player.

[01:01:48] If you want to read that, you can do it for free at reality tv newsletters dot com. Really great read from Corey Wurttenberger. And of course, we will be back with our patron exclusives as well this season.

[01:02:01] Taryn and I on Fridays, we'll get into answering all of your questions on the BBQ&A, our live call-in show. And then on Mondays, you can join us for the slop. Chappelle and I are going to be getting into everything happening in the very

[01:02:17] sloppy world of Big Brother every Monday evening. Join us there. That's all at robbizwebsite.com slash patron. One of the many exclusives that you can find there. Taryn, anything else you want to say before we wrap it up for today? I'm excited, Rob.

[01:02:32] The live feed updates are coming back. All right. Everything's coming back. Should be a fun lead up to the premiere and then we'll be live after the episode, which is going to be 9 p.m., I believe on Wednesday. And so we will be live at 10, 15 p.m.

[01:02:48] Eastern time. Thank you so much for joining us. Take care, everybody. Have a good one. Bye.