BB28 Friday Live Feed Update July 31, 2026

Summary

RHAP: We Know Big Brother — BB28 Friday Live Feed Update (July 31, 2026)

Episode Overview

In this episode, Taran Armstrong and Puya break down all the critical happenings from Day 24 in the Big Brother 28 house, following an eviction night and the crowning of a new HOH. The discussion centers on shifting alliances, strategy talk, and the unpredictable power dynamic as the house adapts to Haley's reign as Head of Household. Expect a mixture of sarcasm, analysis, disappointment, and a dash of hope as they navigate the current "unexciting" state of the game.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Post-Eviction Fallout

Timestamps: 01:39–05:04

• Kamu began the day as HOH with Lala, Jason, and Mallory on the block. Jason was the target if he didn't win the Blockbuster veto; the Mallory vote collapsed as support bailed.
• Barrett thanks D for the attempt to save Mallory and flirts for social cover.
• Lyric tells Mallory she’s probably doomed and urges her to gun for the Blockbuster.
• The "crossovers" (alliances between sides) become a hot topic, with Angela pushing Devins to expose them. Devins pushes back, preferring not to reveal any more information to Angela.
• Kamu and Drew have a comical, mutually distrustful conversation, each feigning ignorance of looming betrayals.
• Puya: "It's basically the meme of two people handshaking with knives being held behind them, ready to go." (04:37)

2. Eviction Results & Power Shift

Timestamps: 05:04–08:25

• Jason lost the Blockbuster and was evicted.
• Wolf Pack Alliance: Kamu, Yash, Devins, and D (originally designed to keep Yash's vote, but now meaningful). They debate whether Angela should be let in on this secret—decide against it.
• Devins' Diamond Power of Veto: Initially concealed, Devins now considers leveraging it for protection — threatening potential HOHs to not nominate him.
  • Quote (Taran Armstrong): "Essentially using the diamond power veto, of course, as leverage to prevent himself from even having to use it in the first place." (06:35)
• Puya: "This is how you break the diamond power of veto... he can leverage it to get what he wants and have it be his reign." (07:51)

3. The HOH Competition & Its Fallout

Timestamps: 08:25–09:49

• Taylor, Lyric, and Lala plot to unite the remaining outsiders to make a run for power.
• Haley wins HOH.
  • Puya: "I woke up and realized I could have just kept sleeping. Brutal. Brutal outcome for us here." (09:06)
• Yash came close to winning, which both excites and demoralizes the panel, as he’s become an unexpected “beacon of hope.” (09:38)

4. Incoming Week: Targets Emerge

Timestamps: 09:49–17:25

• Haley doesn’t reveal her immediate plans, but targeting Drew is widely discussed by the majority alliance. D and Angela share glee over the prospect of finally blindsiding him.
• Throwing Allies Under the Bus: Taylor wants Melody and Drew thrown under as scapegoats. Lyric campaigns to be at the bottom of the dominant alliance rather than at risk with the outsiders.
• Power Group Issues: Strong alliances risk overplaying and making the opposition desperate and more likely to defect.
  • Puya: "When a group is in power this long, they're basically playing with their food a little bit..." (13:04)
• Haley’s Initial Nomination Plan: Talks to Devins, considers Taylor the main target, with Melody and Drew as nominees, and Lala or Mallory as possible replacement noms.
  • Memorable Exchange:
    • Haley: "[Taylor] has just been watching me. She's been looking at me. Taylor is my target." (15:07)
    • Puya: "Watch out for those eyes, Taylor." (15:09)

5. Doubt and Drama: Strategic Uncertainty

Timestamps: 17:25–20:53

• Devins questions the logic of putting Drew up if Taylor is the target, expressing concern about needlessly exposing one of their own.
• Haley is insistent on putting up at least one man — specifically not Yash — so Drew is the default.
  • Puya: "The whole point of planning this... should be a blindside. If you put him up, you boot him." (17:25)
  • Both agree: if Drew is left on the block, he’s likely a goner, even if originally not the target.

6. Dynamic Social Maneuvers: Lyric and Yash Float

Timestamps: 22:11–33:20

• Lyric approaches Kamu to defect from the “sinking ship” of Mallory, etc., asking to join the dominant alliance. Kamu runs interference for her enthusiastically.
  • Puya: "Kamu is jonesing to be the savior to Lyric. He's been waiting for this for so long." (25:23)
• Lyric is effective in her one-on-ones, presenting herself as wounded but loyal.
• Lyric and Yash form a secret pact to work with the dominant side while protecting each other—a rare “underdog pairing” reminiscent of classic BB floaters.
  • Taran: "It's not quite like a June and Allison... but there's a tinge of it there..." (31:28)
• The dominant alliance is content to let Taylor, Drew, and Melody remain targets. Lala or Mallory could be backups.

7. Haley's Self-Perception vs. Reality

Timestamps: 33:20–36:46

• Haley’s "confrontation" with Melody over "mean girl" behavior, which she hypes up afterward but wasn’t much in reality.
  • Puya: "The director's cut in her head is the version she's rolling." (34:07)
• Final plans: Taylor is “1000%” the target. If not, Mallory is backup—a consequence of Lyric’s efforts to ingratiate herself with the dominant side.

8. Night’s End: Loose Threads & Telltale Signs

Timestamps: 36:46–41:13

• Haley gloats about upsetting Taylor, relishes conversations with Lyric, and reiterates her lineup of nominees.
• Chuck tips Haley off that Yash may have helped Mallory in HOH, leading her to consider Yash as a backup target.
• Drew's fate is sealed: if he stays on the block, he’s likely to be evicted post-Blockbuster.
• Players are establishing codes (e.g., “Drew on Jeopardy”) to discreetly communicate about secret powers amongst themselves.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On strategy confusion:
  "It's basically the meme of two people handshaking with knives being held behind them, ready to go." — Puya (04:37)
• On gamesmanship and twist potential:
  "This is how you break the diamond power of veto... he can leverage it to get what he wants and have it be his reign." — Puya (07:51)
• On underdog losses:
  "Yash is my beacon of hope. How are we here?" — Puya (09:38)
• On Lyric's social game:
  "She is effective when she talks to people... I see Chuck being putty in her hands." — Puya (25:23)
• On alliance arrogance:
  "When a group is in power this long, they're basically playing with their food a little bit..." — Puya (13:04)
• Haley as "mean girl" avenger:
  "She gleefully recaps her most recent conversations. This is where I got all of the information. She says Lyric was the most genuine conversation. She dropped a bomb on Mallory. And then she confronted Melody. She's like, 'Oh, I hope they show this on the show. I was like, oh, you're being a mean girl.'" — Taran (34:26)
• Summing up the week ahead:
  "Drew on the block becomes a win-or-go-home type player. You cannot leave him on there and keep him on there come post-Blockbuster." — Puya (36:46)
• On the quality of the week ahead: "Maybe it's like a good time to sort of like take a little bit of a mental break and come back next week refreshed." — Taran (40:14)

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Important Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment Description | |-----------|---------------------------------------------------------| | 01:39 | Setting the stage: Pre-eviction social games | | 05:04 | Jason evicted: Aftermath and early alliances reposition | | 06:35 | Discussion: Diamond Power of Veto, leverage preview | | 09:06 | Haley wins HOH, feeds go to pet cam | | 15:07 | Haley identifies Taylor as her "target" | | 17:25 | Devins objects to putting Drew up as a pawn | | 25:23 | Lyric ingratiates herself to new alliance, social prowess| | 31:28 | Lyric and Yash form a secret pact, underdog floaters | | 34:07 | Haley's imagined confrontation with Melody | | 36:46 | Night wrap-up: Nomination likelihoods and gloating | | 40:14 | Advice: Take a break, watch for possible power twist |

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Final Thoughts

The episode’s tone sours with frustration at another predictable week, but Taran and Puya tease the possibility of “messiness” with the powers in play and outsiders' last-ditch attempts at safety. The week revolves around Haley’s self-perceived pivotal move—targeting Taylor—while cracks in alliances and some underdog maneuvering (especially by Lyric and Yash) offer potential, albeit slim, for disruption.

If you missed the episode:
You now know who has the power (Haley), who's on the fringe, the precarious social positioning of floaters, and can track all major alliances, betrayals, and likely outcomes heading into the next episode.

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Stay tuned for power outcomes, HOH room fallout, and underdog efforts on the next update!

Transcript

[A]

Every morning, Darren Armstrong talk Big Brother. Looking at the stuff from yesterday,

[B]

all

[A]

the drama, all the strategy and silliness from VO to HOH every single season, you know, he is the reason, you know, what's happening happening. Rob said that he could do it tomorrow. He will do it again. Hello, everyone, and good morning. Welcome to our live feed update for July 31st. I'm your host Darren Armstrong and I'm here to update you on everything that happened yesterday on The Big Brother 28 live feeds. It was day 24 in the house and we had an eviction. We have a new hoh, we have a new target, new nominees and, you know, we'll be talking about it all, that's for sure. And Puya is with me. How you doing, Puya?

[B]

I'm doing. I'd be lying if I said good. It would be a bit of a lie. I'm doing fine. I'm doing fine. Always a pleasure to get to talk about this show. Two weeks ago, we were given a lot. We were so used to not being given anything and now we're being. It's getting taken away from us. These Fridays are becoming a little rough these last two weeks, but we'll power through.

[A]

Well, if it makes anybody feel any better, Rob and I just had a lovely conversation with Jason in the exit interview, so make sure you check that out. I thought it was, it was delightful and that's, that's, that's the extent of the good news. So let's talk through the day. Of course, Kamu at the start of the day was the HOH with Lala Jason Mallory on the block. Jason, the presumed target if he didn't win the blockbuster Mallory. The Mallory vote had fallen through. Drew and Barrett bailed, Taylor had bailed, and so there weren't any votes on that side. They all kind of settle into this. Barrett has a conversation with D. That's a little touchy, flirty, like, oh, I was just so grateful that you guys would even be willing to potentially keep Mallory for me. So I'm just going to let you take, take about Mallory out for me. And Lyric has a conversation with Mallory, basically letting her know, like, I think you're screwed. Please win the blockbuster. We need to, like, take shots at this other side. Like, this is the, this is like the, the turning point. We need to make this happen. And. But then when Mallory very clearly is showing the fact that she knows that she doesn't have the votes anymore, or at least heavily suspects it doesn't have the votes anymore because she does still have, like, this kind of optimism of, like. But maybe Lyric just blames Barrett for it. Yeah, Barrett. Barrett told her, which is funny. Angela pitches to Devins that they should expose the crossovers again. Devin's Devons. I'm telling you. I'm telling you. Drew spends all his time with Kamu, and he's definitely. He's definitely telling him about the crossovers. We need to get ahead of this. And Devins is like, I. I think. I think we're good. I think we don't need to do that. Kamu and Drew have a funny conversation between the two of them because Drew's like, yeah, bro. Oh, man. I was. Remember that time I was playing devil's advocate, but I was convinced I'm taking Mallory out. I listen, this is what I'd want you to do to me, too. Just tell me everything wrong with my plan to make sure it's the good plan. And then very funny, because Drew is, like, hoping that, like, his side will take a shot at Camu in the red corner, and Kamu now knows that his side is taking a shot at Drew very soon. They both say, yeah, and you know what? Like, we're both so tight and everyone knows it, that, like, if somebody were to take a shot at you, Kamu, they probably wouldn't even tell me about it. I'd be so in the dark. And Kama's like, I feel the same way. If somebody took a shot, if you went on the block, I'd be like, what? That's not why I'd be so surprised. And they wouldn't. I wouldn't be in on it. They wouldn't tell me. And so they're both just, like, playing each other. It's funny stuff, but there's not a lot of substance going on here prior to the eviction.

[B]

No, I mean, it's. It's basically the meme of two people handshaking with knives being held behind them, ready to go. It's nothing really to dive into, I think, especially with, because some seasons, mind you, we do get a lot of stuff before the eviction that end up either mattering or have a lot of implications when the house is in the state it is in. We're pretty much rehashing some of the stuff that's already happened a couple days ago, and nothing's really going to change. So let's move on.

[A]

So we get to the eviction. Of course, we saw it play out with our very own eyes last night, and we saw that Jason lost that blockbuster, and thus was in fact, evicted from the game, which left us. The feeds did come back. After the eviction episode, we saw that Akama was. Was a feeling a little bothered by the. By the. Don't touch me. There was some funny talk about the wolf pack. D and Devins have a chat. Like, should we, should we tell Angela about the wolf pack? Devin's is like, no, no, no, no. Because she literally was just pitching to him. We should expose the crossovers. He's like, I'm not telling Angela anything else. And this is like, you know, we talk about turning points. You can see more and more Devin's sharing the power information with D. D hiding that from Angela. Now, the wolf packs. The wolf pack alliance, of course, to remind you, is the one that Kamu initiated with Yash and then they brought Devins in and then they brought D in and this was all orchestrated to just kind of pull Yash in to get his vote. Didn't really work. He was going to be a vote to keep Mallory anyway. But. But that is the new wolf pack alliance and they like this alliance too. They feel good about it. They like Yash, so. But. And they do not plan to tell Angela about it. In addition to that, let me tell you, I got a lot of mentions last night about this that when Devin's got the diamond power of veto, the very first thing I said was, oh, this is really powerful because you can use it to have influence over the hoh. Evans has not talked about using it in that way. He's talked about hiding it and using it like an idol. However, now that he is in this brief period of time where there's no new HOH and he's realizing, wait, somebody I don't like might win. He has been thinking and he lets D know, wait, if somebody we don't like wins and wants to nominate us, I can just be like, hey, if you want your week to go the way that you want, you might not want to nominate me. Essentially using the diamond power veto, of course, as leverage to prevent himself from even having to use it in the first place. This is what at least I feared would be the case and just further cements the power that it holds. So we'll see.

[B]

Yeah, the one thing we talked about on the Sunday recap was, well, maybe, just maybe he won't use it like that and he'll be a little more chaotic. This is how you break the diamond power of veto because for six weeks, if something goes wrong, he can leverage it to get what he wants and have it be his Reign. Not necessarily his ring, but, like, keep the people he wants safe. Safe. I love it for Devin's and the way he thought about it for himself. Don't love it for the season itself, for the entertainment, for the popcorn, for the shenanigans that we will not get in that situation.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. So we continue on. There is a conversation with Taylor and Lyric and Lala about, like, potentially trying to work together. We need to win this hoh. We could pull in Mallory, we can pull in Melody. With Melody might come Drew. We could work with Yash. We really like Yash. No, we could try to pull back like this. We get win power, gather this side together, make something happen. All we need to do is head into this hoh, Win this hoh, gather the troops, strike at the other side. Haley won the hoh.

[B]

That's a very abrupt way to let everybody know. No surprises, no bells, no whistles. We just ride right on in. I mean, I'll be honest, when the feeds went to pet camp, I took a nap. Then I woke up and realized I could have just kept sleeping. Brutal. Brutal outcome for us here. Now let's. Let's power through it together. We got this.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. Yash was close, apparently. Very close. But not quite. Not quite.

[B]

You know how I feel about Yash. You know how bad things have gotten where I'm like, yash is my beacon of hope. How are we here?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

Wild.

[A]

We're here. It was. They had to, like, find the objects in the rooms kind of thing. And. And, yeah, Yash. Yash came close, but not quite there. So the HOH that the people in power have been wanting since week one because she's gonna just go out there and make a mess for them is. Is now in place here, and it's just gonna be another week of a lot of the same things, although maybe a little bit of. Maybe a little bit of intrigue, maybe, because, listen, there's obviously all this Drew stuff. Maybe if the Drew stuff actually happens and comes to a head that, you know, he might realize it and then realize he's at the bottom anyway and there's nothing he can do and nothing really matters, but, hey, he might realize it.

[B]

I don't know if I'd say it's. It's the same old Taren. Because ultimately, what we want is for the underdog, the person who's had their name dragged in the mud for the entirety of the game, to get power and to put together a. A response to all of the unwarranted hate They've gotten all the unwarranted bashing, the hard time in the house now over. Now they can rise once again. Right. And that's what we got.

[A]

Yeah, that's. I mean, listen, that person is Haley.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

According to herself and only herself.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So we don't. We don't immediately find out what Haley's plans are, but we do know that there's been a lot of talk about targeting Drew this week from the red corner, and there are a lot of different potential ways that this week might play out. We do know that the other. The other side. The other side that is talking Taylor, Lyric, Lala, Mallory, Melody, Barrett, Drew, all Yash, all of these people, right? Like, hey, we could pull them together. We could make a strike. The second the feeds come back from Haley winning, how do we throw them under the bus? Who do we. How do we. Who. What do you think? Taylor saying to Lala, Melody and Drew. Throw Melody under the bus. Melody and Drew. Lyric is running around, guys, I hate the other side. They suck. Can I be at the bottom?

[B]

You have room.

[A]

It's. It's. It's. It's very much time for everyone to jump ship. That is very much like the. The vibe of the house. Taylor, as I said, saying, let's throw Melody and Drew under the bus. D and Angela upstairs talking about, like, how do we get Drew out this week? How do we convince Haley to do this for us? We probably don't nominate him at first, right? Not don't nominate backdoor him. And just like, I can't wait to see his face. So they're looking at Drew, huh, Debbie?

[B]

Here's the thing, right? And then I like Drew at the same time. This is where we are now, where I'm like, ah, if you shoot yourself in the foot, I'll take it because the other side's got no ammo, so you have all the weapons, so do something. I'll be okay with that. Yeah, it's. It's tough. I think. Also, this has been talked about extensively, both online on the live feed, updates on the recaps. The fact that when. When a group is in power this long, they're basically playing with their food a little bit, as in they have options to pick up more people. Yasha's getting scooped up into an alliance. You've got. You had the whole thing with Lala and Taylor getting brought in. They got all the numbers, they got all the options, and that's good for them because situations like this mean they can still keep the people they want they can still keep the alliances they care about, but it makes all those other people not be willing to deal with hardship and stick with the opposition side because they're like, well, I have fallback plans with these people. I can just ride that now and then. They're a lot quicker to drop people and throw them under the bus when this happens.

[A]

Yes. So all of this is happening. We finally get a conversation with Haley and Devins where we start to. To get a sense of what Haley might want to do. And the first real sense of it is that Haley's talking to Devin's about the HOH competition. First of all, she told Lyric and Yash they were good in that competition, so she doesn't really want to touch them. And. But there was somebody who was eyeing her the whole time, eyeing her all night long, really. Just staring her down, just being so sus. Taylor, she's just been. She's been watching me. She's been looking at me. Taylor is my target, says Haley.

[B]

Whoops. Whoops.

[A]

Watch out for those eyes, Taylor.

[B]

How dare you look at me.

[A]

Don't look at me.

[B]

Don't perceive me.

[A]

Yes. Her plan. She wants to nominate Taylor along with Melody and Drew. Melody and Drew as the nominees with Taylor as the target. She wants Taylor gone. She later says in the night, Taylor is 1000% her target. Initially here. In this conversation with Devin, she mentions Lala as a potential replacement. She is going to also mention Mallory as a possible replacement. So Mallory or Lala potential replacements according to Haley's initial plan. Now Devin's is like, oh, so we're targeting Drew? She's like, oh, no, no. Taylor's the target. He's like, so why are we putting Drew up on the block? Won't that mess with Tool Shed? She's like, no, no. It's just gonna be like, I'll use the showmance as an excuse. And he's like, okay, are you gonna say that like, we didn't know or that you talked to all of us? She's like, I'm gonna say I talked to all of you. Like, okay, I worry about this Drew thing, especially if I'm gonna be on the hook for it. Don't you feel like we shouldn't nominate Drew unless we're targeting Drew? And she's like, I just. I don't know. I'm open to something else, but I need to nominate at least one guy, and, you know, I don't want to do Yash, so I think it has to be Drew. Are you okay with getting Taylor out. Devins. Oh, yeah, yeah, of course. That's fine. Okay. This is kind of where we're at. For all of the talk. Haley has been talking about last week, about how at some point the guys are going to have to start going. What that amounts to is that she needs one token guy, spot on the block. But he's not the target. She's targeting a woman.

[B]

Yeah, the. The old performative spot here for Drew, which is funny, because the whole point of. Of planning this and potentially wanting Drew out should be 100. A blind side should be a. He's not going to see it coming, I think. Now, if you put him up, you boot him because you're putting him up. He's not the target. You intend to keep him and work with him and then. Even if he then finds out. Yeah, I needed a man up there. I'm sorry. The one man that's not in our alliance. How about him? He's available. You didn't choose to put him. You put me up. Okay, this is bad. This is bad. But I am actively rooting against Haley's rooting interest. So what she wants to happen here, I'm okay with. For the chaos of it. I don't love this for Devins. I don't know how he's gonna try and spin this and fix this, but this is juicer 100. Always been a blind side pick, as in put him up after the fact. Do not put him up straight, clean. And then you're not even gonna get rid of him, so what's the point? Or you don't want him out? He could still go, Mind you. They could walk all right. Over Haley's noms, which would be phenomenal television, but for her motives. I don't get it.

[A]

Drew up on the block at the end of the week. I don't see how he stays, quite frankly. But. But yeah, I mean, Devis has just been, at this point, just been begging anybody who will listen, please, can we not give away that we're targeting Drew before we actually target Drew? Can we just wait until we actually take the kill shot, please, instead of giving him a warning, which in part is why I, like, like Puya, I am down. Like, if we want to put Drew up and give him even more reason to doubt so that he might blow stuff up. Right. I'm happy about that. Like, will he actually do it, or will he sit happily on that block until they blindside vote him out? That's another question. But, like, you know, we'll. We'll have to See about that. So D talks to Devins. He lets her know about Haley's plan. They talk again about Angela not knowing about the wolf pack and how they're not really telling her things. And they hope that Dee gets the. The power. And probably. Well, they. They do talk about, like, if D doesn't get it, who do they think might get it? And they bring up Mallory. I think good instinct from them. I do think Mallory, at this point, with Jason gone, is one of the. One of the possible, you know, people who could have it. But even that, I'm not really sure. There's a huge shot. They talk about Lyric and how she's running around. She's. She approached Evans, she approached Chuck. She's been. She's been like, I have had one alliance in this house, and it was the. The love triangle with Jason and Rome. They're both gone now, so I'm looking for a new home. And. And so, like, they're a little sketched out by it, but, you know, they're. They're curious and then just. It's. In dent in general, they're very happy about the situation. Again, Haley Hoh is what they've wanted so. For so long because she's so hated in the house that. That her as hoh does what they want essentially, and takes so much heat for it. And this is going to just paint an even bigger target on the cool kids. Maybe there's going to be another tea party situation. This is all just very good for their games.

[B]

Yeah, it's very interesting to me because I do think the complicated web that's been woven between the crossovers and the red corner, this whole tool shed thing, prevents some of these players from benefiting from Haley's bad decisions. I think the one thing they're absolutely right bang on with is that Haley's only going to make her reputation in the game worse and make people want to target her more ahead of some of them. That's great. That's especially for Griffin, like Devin's. I think the problem is, is that Angela has been probably the biggest yeller about Drew. So this isn't even a situation where they're like, we can give Drew the heads up and then we can make everyone turn on these three, and then we can defect to the other side. And now we're the middle. We get to decide who goes next. If they want to go after them, we go after them. And it's because, again, it's very complicated. Angela is looking at Drew, D is looking at Drew, and Drew is still someone that they could look to get rid of. Maybe this is all optimism, and maybe everything I'm saying right now is me hoping there's a little bit more that we can. We can squeeze out of this. I'm hoping things get messy, Taryn. But the way it's set up, it could just as easily be Drew just leaves with a whimper and then the status quo stays or Drew wins the veto and then decides I have to prove my loyalty to them so this never happens again, and then it's still status quo. Those are the two things I don't want. Yeah.

[A]

And. And I will say I think Drew is the other possible contender in the power talk. There's a. There's a chance that. That Drew gets it over D. I don't think it's a big chance, but he's the only other person I think that's been prominent enough in the edit for. For any hope. And there was a contingent at one point during the week to give him a power. You know, there is certainly a world where, like, Drew or Mallory get the coin flip of destiny power this week and things actually start to get interesting, but that requires them to. Number one, get it over D. Number two, get a power. Number three, get that specific power. Number four, land the right heads or tails on the coin flip. So it's a lot of things. So Lyric talks to Kamu. Lyric continuing her. Her whole thing tonight. Basically, Lyric's mindset seems to be at least the one that she is selling to pretty much anyone she talks to. Last night, I tried. I tried with this side, this broken side of Mallory and Melody and Drew and Barrett, Taylor and Ya Lala. I tried with them, and they couldn't even come together to save Mallory in a vote. Taylor bailed. Drew is sketchy. I don't even know what Barrett's doing, but I'm pretty sure he was willing to vote out Mallory, which is absurd. What am I doing trying to rally these troops? I give up. I give up. Hey, please take me in vets. Please take me in. Red corner. I will do. I will do the dishes. I will get you coffee. I will win competitions and protect you. Just please let me in. It sucks out here. I'm done with them. And that's basically what she's pitching. And Kamu eats it up. Kamu's down. He's like, oh, I'll talk to Haley for you. I'll make sure you're safe. Don't worry. And she's like, thank you. Thank you. I just, you know, I love Mallory. But I can't be attached to a sinking ship at this point. And so while she's doing this, Haley D and Chuck are going to talk about the fact that what she's doing is very obvious. And Chuck is like, yeah, I see what she's doing with me. She's trying to lure me in. He didn't say those words. I just, I get the sense from him. And, and, and they talk about specifically like that Chuck. Lyric connection is maybe a little sketchy. Maybe we need to worry about. Sorry, not Chuck, Kamu. Lyric situation is a little bit sketchy. We maybe need to worry about Kamu and Lyric and talk to Kamu about like, hey, don't get too close to Lyric. That said, Haley is going to feel better about Lyric after Lyric actually talks to her, because Lyric is just genuinely very effective in her conversations. But Haley explains her plan to Dee and Chuck and, and they're. They're on board as well. This, this is fine plan.

[B]

Lyric has culminated a great, great Persona where I think a lot of people will always see her as wounded. I think Rome leaving early helped with that. I think Jason leaving helps with that. I think the fact that she was on the block twice in those two weeks in a row helps with that. And I think that's aside from the fact that she's able to speak to these things rather well. In one on one situations, people can gather around and talk about how much they doubted together as they want. But in these one on one moments, I see the puttiness. I see Chuck being, being putty in her hands. Like I see it happen so clearly. So I do love that from her. And I think it works because she's being misinterpreted as weak versus if someone else was to do it, they'll be like, that's not going to work on me. They clearly were going against us and they failed and now they're begging. Whereas with Lyric, it's like I can see her trying, I can see her doing something different. Now, mind you, let's also be very clear. Kamu is jonesing to be the savior to Lyric. He's been waiting for this for so long. So I think that absolutely also works in that favor also.

[A]

Yes. And, and like I said, just like they, she is effective when she talks to people. She's going to have a conversation with Haley where again, she basically says what I was just doing, you know, but I was obviously exaggerating where she's like, hey, I, I really want to work with you guys. I've proven Myself in competitions. I can win. I can protect you. I'm done working with this other side. Like, take me in, please. And Haley loves this. Haley's like, oh, well, you know, you want to work with our people, you know, you're gonna really have to, to show that, that you can, that you're trustworthy. And, you know, it's all this. And Lyric's like, well, I, I can tell you who doesn't like you. And she's like, I already know. So, no, I, I, Mallory and Melody. No, no, other people. Lala and Taylor. I already knew about the other one, but I, I've been hearing Mallory and Melody were shit talking. No, I haven't heard from them about that. I'm. Lala and Taylor are talking about you. She asked what Lala and Taylor are saying and she goes on to explain, blah, blah, blah. And she does say, I, I, I will tell you, Mallory has talked about putting you on the block because, listen, I'm not gonna stay on a sinking ship here. I'm with you. And so basically throwing everyone under the bus, including of course, primarily lala and Taylor, who I think in her, her best case scenario, Taylor is the target. Like she is Taylor or Lala. The best case scenario they've already talked about is Lala leaves this week. And so Taylor and Lala on the block together is great because then they could potentially vote out Lala and then still have an option to potentially come back to this idea that they put a pin in of, of, of actually striking the other side. But in the meantime, she's very happy to throw anyone she needs under the bus to stay afloat herself and, and keep things moving.

[B]

Yeah, I mean, like I already talked about, but yeah, the self preservation there is great. I do like that there are still good outs for them. Like making a good out of a bad situation is still at play here so long as two of them are not sitting on the block come Thursday. And right now that doesn't look to be the case. So they're, it's fine.

[A]

Yes. After this. Again, she says she felt very good about her conversation with Lyric. She says Lyric is the only conversation she had that felt genuine. She's about to talk to Mallory and she basically tells Mallory that she's not a target this week for her, but that, hey, just so you know, there is a person that was bringing up your name in week one about not being one wanting to be tied to a dead horse. And she means, of course, Melody. And so she's kind of trying to throw that Out. It's. I don't. She's really proud of this. I don't think it really matters. Yash, in the meantime, talks to Lyric and she tells Yash, hey, like. Because she basically goes to Yasha. She's like, what the hell was that? There were, like, what, like, three of us that were willing to vote for Mallory to stay at. By the end of that, like, Barrett is. Is willing to vote Mallory out. What in the world is going on? And he's like, really? Barrett was going to go that way, too? Like, that's ridiculous. And they both agree. We're done. We're both done. Yash is with her. We're done with this side. They suck. Why don't we just work together? Hey, let's lock it in right now. Camera. You see this final two. The two of us, Yash and Lyric, as the two only capable players on that side and. And. And who are now going to. To abandon that side to try to get in with the other side. They've both been making inroads. Yash says he feels great with Kamu and Devin. He does not trust Drew anymore. That has. That ship has sailed. In fact, he thinks Drew might have the power or a power. And so they agree they're going to try to work on getting in with the other side, being protected by them as much as possible, and they'll have to figure out where to go from there in the future.

[B]

Yeah. I think at this point, cutting your losses on people isn't a bad idea. And just locking in the ones that you can salvage that you do feel good about, because I do think that if your plan is to infiltrate the majority alliance and then divide and conquer or even figure out what your next move is through that doing it with someone else that you trust no matter what, is great. So is this the underdog duo that we had been waiting for? Taran, potentially, I think, also couldn't have come at a better time, because if they do get featured on the episodes, now that we're assuming D is going to get the next one, I think it's wide open for who gets the other ones.

[A]

This is genuinely a great idea from the. From the two of them. I think that they are playing this properly. There's no real hope of anything other than, like, I think. I think all of what Lyric's doing is perfectly fine at this point. Maybe a little overboard to throw Mallory under the bus in the way that she did. Saying that Mallory was coming for Haley. I don't like that. But, like, listen, everyone's been throwing Mallory into the bus. I do like the idea of, like, screw it. We, like, Haley is in charge right now. We need to play up to them. We've already made some inroads, but also while doing so, linking up with the other person doing it, this is very much like. It's not quite like a June and Allison who were floating back and forth actively, but it's. There's. There's a tinge of it there where, like, hey, we're both going to try to continue to play this other side if we can, but, like, we need to work this other side too. And they've both won competitions at this point. Yash did really well in the hoh. They're both capable winners of competitions. And so there's. There's really genuinely something here that. That they could actually manage. The fact also that, like, that the Red corner group is willing to bring these people into their gates. Both of them, quite frankly, more dangerous players than Drew or Barrett. Both competitively and skilled, like, socially, strategically, is. Is interesting. They don't see it that way. They think both of them are dumb in comparison to Drew and Barrett. But the reality is, as we've seen, that they're actually more dangerous and they're swapping them out for more dangerous, more capable players. At least that's what it looks like right now. So there's some intrigue there, but obviously there's still quite a force to contend with for the next, like, four weeks.

[B]

So you gotta survive the month. Should you get out the other side, things get interesting.

[A]

Yeah. Haley talks to Melody and she's very proud of this conversation because she calls out Melody, says she's being a mean girl for talking trash about her. Not even game, but personal. But the conversation is so boring. I mean, it's not. It's barely a confrontation. Melody does admit that she was targeting Haley, and it's all fine. Like, if you heard Haley describe this conversation, you'd be like, oh, whoa. And then if you watch the conversation, you'd be like, wait, where was the call out?

[B]

Yeah. Haley's someone to me who in her head thinks of the scenario and how she's gonna tell this person off, says all the right things. And then when it comes to crunch time, doesn't do any of that, but still will retell it. Like the one she had in her head. The director's cut in her head is the version she's rolling.

[A]

Yeah. So that's mostly the night. Haley's gonna check in with Chuck at the end of the night. Chuck comes up. He says, taylor's crying. She should be crying, says Haley. And then I'm. I don't know. I. I don't know why I'm. You know, like, it's. It's. It's. He just. He keeps repeating that. Taylor. I. He had to have said it at least 10 times. Taylor's crying. You know, she's crying. She's crying. She should be. Yeah, she's crying. She should be. She gleefully recaps her most recent conversations. This is where I got all of the information. She says Lyric was the most Genu conversation. She dropped a bomb on. On Mallory. And then she confronted Melody. She's like, oh, I hope they show this on the show. I was like, oh, you're being a mean girl. And she again talks about the plan. She is open to finding a different nominee for Drew if Drew doesn't make sense. And. And. But she does want a guy. And Chuck's like, well, you could do Yash. She's like, I don't want to do Yash, though. I'd rather do Drew. I'd just rather do Drew. Chuck does warn her, hey, just so you know, Yash was helping Mallory in the HOH competition. She's like, oh, well, I want to get to the bottom of that. So a little bit of a loose thread to pull on there. But this is when she also mentions that Mallory would be a good backup target if Taylor wins safety. And this is again where I did not like Lyric throwing Mallory. I mean, it worked. She got in with Haley. But Haley was initially talking about lala as a replacement nominee, and now she's already talking about Mallory as a replacement nominee, which is not good for Lyric. Would that have happened anyway? Probably, but I still don't like it. But basically, she says Taylor is a thousand percent the target. Mallory is a good backup target to throw up on the block. But quite frankly, if Taylor comes off, she doesn't care who of the three leaves. And that means, of course, Drew still in the firing line. Drew, I think, would a thousand percent leave in the event that Taylor came off the block. And quite frankly, again, I think there's quite a good chance that he will leave. Regardless of whether Taylor comes off the block, if he stays on the block by the end of Thursday night.

[B]

Yeah, I think that Drew on the block becomes a winner, go home type player. I just think you cannot leave him on there and keep him on there. Come post, Blockbuster.

[A]

I agree. I agree. So that's. That's really the night I do like Haley. Is if you. If you haven't noticed, there's a little bit of a like, because Haley's talking to Drew right now and I really want to watch it. So of course there'll be plenty to update you on tomorrow when. When I'm able to tell you about the Haley Drew conversation and if this Drew nomination will end up going through. But Puya, is there anything else that you wanted to bring up from yesterday?

[B]

No. I mean, you know, very rarely do I say no, but genuinely and truthfully, no. I think that when some of you may have scrubbed to quickly see the graphic on the timeline. If you went to an open YouTube, saw this, you think, I know what happened, you'd be right. Your hunch would be correct. There's some fun things potentially here. Mainly how are the non tool shed folks going to pick their own pieces up and are they going to regroup? Are they going to figure their paths, pathways moving forward? We'll see. But no. Karen, eyes on who wins the power today. Loki. When they do this with this whole like, who has the power thing. Fridays are almost more intriguing for feed content right now, especially when the HOH winner is someone more predictable.

[A]

Yes. Drew just finished his conversation with Haley, so maybe, maybe the chat will help us determine whether or not anything changed. I doubt it, given the response I've seen, but I don't know if I. Let me know. And I'm not going to report it as fact necessarily, because I'm not seeing it myself, but let me know what the vibe is if. If there's any. Any reasonable chance it changed anything worth pointing out. If you're watching the feeds today and you are hoping to find out who has the power, because that is the intrigue of the day. Devin's and D talked about a code. If, If Dee gets the power, she's gonna talk about Drew on Jeopardy. The Survivor player Drew when he was on Jeopardy. As a. As a signal to Devins that she got the power. And if it's something that she needs to talk to him about immediately, then she's gonna just pull him up and chat with him. Lizard is like their. Their code word for that. So if she talks about Drew on Jeopardy, it means the D got a power. If we don't get any other indication otherwise.

[B]

Yeah, if we don't see her walk out with a unitard or something like that.

[A]

Right, right.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Obviously the biggest indication of who won the thing is somebody comes out with a punishment. But last week we had to wait until Devin celebrated by himself and then told D about what he got. So worth pointing that out. It would be funny if she gets like the never not pass. Would she even bother doing the jeopardy signal.

[B]

Just go to sleep. It's fine.

[A]

Sounds like the Haley Drew conversation didn't really do anything that she didn't even fully explain to him that she was, that he was necessarily going up on the block. Just hinted at it.

[B]

So Haley, again, big talk, fantasizes about how it's gonna go, says you're gonna do something big, and then it's, it's a whimper. It's nothing. So that doesn't surprise me.

[A]

Yes. All right, then that's about what we've got for the night. It's definitely, there's, there's definitely a good shot this is going to be one of those weeks. So listen, that's what, that's what I'm here for. All right? I will, I will get you what you need to know. And maybe it's like a good time to sort of like take a little bit of a mental break and, and then come back next week refreshed. Or maybe a power will be interesting. I doubt it, but maybe. And, and I'll. And I'll let you know along the way, but that's about what we have. Make sure you are hanging out with me over on my Patreon doing live streams for the feeds for the episodes. Having a good time there. Make sure you check out the X interview we just did with Jason. Like I said, I thought it was great. And, and that's about. That's about it. Puya, what do you got going on?

[B]

I am about to be talking a lot of traders. Traders. Australian Trader Season three is coming. It's around the corner, so myself and Animal will be talking about that. Make sure y' all are tuned into that. Liana and I, after having a week from hell with no ac, will be recording the PAL tonight. So that will be going up over the weekend, so y' all can have that as well. And yeah, other than that, just find me on Twitch. Twitch. I'll be live tonight at 10pm Eastern.

[A]

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