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BB26 Finale Recap: Chelsie's overwhelming victory, Makensy's bad moves & the return of Taylor

Brett & Dani say goodnight to Jankie, Julie & the dawgs in the crib as they recap the finale episode of #bb26 which saw Chelsie take home the prize in a powerful unanimous victory over Makensy in the final two.

Also -- was Julie's finale night looks the best or worst of the season? How did #bb24 winner Taylor Hale do in her first appearance as the moderator of the jury roundtable and where does Chelsie's win rank in the list of all-time Big Brother winners?

Wrapping up the episode, they take some listener emails and Dani shares a Criterion Collection recommendation.

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Duration:: 1h 1m
Broadcast on:: 16 Oct 2024
Audio Format:: other

-Hey, Julie. -Hey, Julie. -Welcome to "Hey, Julie," one final time, a casual podcast about big brother casuals, something like that. Big brother 26 is over, Danielle. It's here. It's like late mid-October. -I know. It's almost Halloween. It's dangerously close to Halloween. Canadian Thanksgiving is over. We had it this past weekend. It was beautiful. -What did-- -Beautiful weekend. -What did King Pete, the mayor of the official mascot of King Canadian Thanksgiving get you? -King Pete, he blessed the buses and the trains and the Department of Transportation. -That may says it's Danny after dark. Yeah, I do want to shout out it's so late. It not only is it late in October, it's late in the day. It is 8 p.m. in Toronto. I feel like it's a slumber party. I also feel like Brett and I look like angel and devil right now. -Maybe. Maybe it's the devil that's wearing white to trick you. -Maybe that's Irish. -Maybe the angel. Maybe it's the angel's wearing black because it's her laundry day. -Because it's chic. But we're here even though it's so late, it's late in our lives too. We can also expand on this. -It could be earlier in our lives. It's late. We're in our mid-to-late 30s talking about Big Brother and we couldn't be happier about it folks. Big Brother, 26, one for the books. Question mark? -Sure. I mean we were there to welcome in Big Brother 26 and we're putting it to sleep. -We're not sharing it out. -Listen, we're saying let's get you to bed, Graham. -Can I start with something completely wacky, completely unheard of? I watched the Friday night episode where they sit around and watch clips. -Oh, wow. -It was actually kind of fun. It was actually kind of fun. Here's the zag. Here's the hot take. Maybe that episode is good. -It might be. We wouldn't know. -I know. -You were watching it. -So tell me about it. Why was it good? -Well, in keeping this year's tradition, there were many good segments that have like many funny segments. Some stuff was like a little bit of a revisit, but some stuff was with things we hadn't seen before. Many of the songs and stupid dances and stuff they'd done. A lot of crying a big montage of people scaring each other. It was all fresh content for me because I don't want the fans. I'm casual. -You're not selling me on this though. I don't need to see people scaring each other. I get scared enough in real life. I don't need to see it on Big Brother where they hide in the garbage can and jump out and then you have to, I mean, this doesn't amuse me. Sorry. You have too much going on. -Yeah. I also did watch. It felt like three hours long. It did feel like a three hour long finale. It was only two hours, right? -It was 9 p.m. on a Sunday. -That's right. -You don't think that that's quite... I appreciate that they didn't draw out this season any longer than it needs to be. Honestly, the last two weeks of the show could have just been like three or four days. Once you get to final five, we can kind of just move this thing along. Every year, they're like, "This is the longest season of Big Brother." That's a selling point. Who cares? When it's the end, let's move to the end. I appreciate the fact that it didn't go with another four days. At the same time, you think Brady stays up to 11 p.m. on Sunday nights? -Oh, M.T. Brady's in his PJs at 8.30. He's got his little teddy bear. He's got pad and tea. He's got a couple warm milk. -He's got more lots of milk. -That's ready for bed. And I stayed up and I watched that shit live, and I didn't go on Twitter for the three hours prior, either. -I didn't. I went to bed. After I saw that Mackenzie chose Chelsea, I said, "Okay, he go to bed now. I know how this is going to go." And then I just watched the rest of the day. It was a beautiful viewing experience. -Let's back it up, though. Let's back it up to Thursday. Thursday's eviction, final four eviction. First of all, gotta say, Julie, pencil leather pencil skirt, pink blazer hair, a chunky shoe, which I did not think was good. I did not think it was a good shoe. -Chunky is in. -Tell that to Leah. I don't need to tell her. -I say it was a pretty hot. It was a hot. -I didn't watch that episode. -Great house. -Because I was in Atlanta. -You were in New York. -I was in London, England. -You were not London, Ontario. -You were scouting for BB-20. -Yeah, BB-UK. They do things crazy over there. I mean, they were talking about it. They were talking about BB-UK and how it was starting up and how the house was the new house. The new confessional room was so controversial. I couldn't relate. -What is it like the queen being decapitated? -You know what else was crazy is when I was walking around England, London, I was like, "I can't believe the queen is dead." I just kept thinking, like, "Oh, we passed by Buckingham Palace." I was like, "Oh, I wonder if the queen is home." And it's like, "The queen is so not home. It's King Charles." -What's the money? What's the coin situation going on in London? I haven't been in a little bit. Do they still have queenies rolling around or do they have some coins rolling around? -I didn't use cash once. It's a cashless city. London is a world-class city. I don't know if you know this. -Oh, I know this. -I studied abroad in England in 2007 and they had NFC and they had like tap cards for the subway. We didn't bring that to New York till like six months ago. -Yeah, no, really. -And that was courtesy of the Hungarian or the Turkish government. Something like that. -Well, it's fab. It's absolutely fabulous. Shout out to our gatoms. Let's go Mets, but also Yankees. But it was fabulous. Speaking of queens and speaking of fashion, I did watch Sunday nights episode. -That was the finale. -Yeah, I know. Julie was dressed in a, I believe it was cerulean blue. And if anyone has seen the Devil Wears product, you know that cerulean is a very specific type of blue. So I feel like this was a nod from Julie to the higher-up fashion gods. This was a flowy dress. It had a belt. It was off the shoulder a touch. It was slightly deconstructed. It was billowy. This was a Princess Jasmine look. -I was going to ask, do you think it certainly had two legs to it? It wasn't a dress. It had two poofy individual legs. -I wouldn't call it a pant suit. I don't know. A jumpsuit, I suppose, was it a dress? I guess it was dressy, but you're right. The ankles were tightened. They were fastened. -2014 was what color is the dress? 2024 is, is it a dress? And that's how our society, we don't know. -We live in a society. -We couldn't even tell you. Yeah, we live in a society, joke or two. Now in theaters. -That's too long. I might be able to rent that shit by next weekend. -I was so hot on that movie. I thought Gaga was going to win an Oscar. I thought she looked very beautiful. I did know some people in our discord said that this was her best look of the season. The Princess Jasmine blue. -I don't want to get too ahead of ourselves. I wanted to talk about Thursday night. We can talk about the, since we're doing a fashion segment right here, I'm actually giving the finale look for Julia and not. -Why? -Let's just get into it. Why wouldn't we get into it? -It was too like I'm on the sixth day of vacation. -Oh. -And then also the blue. -Like the last thing in her suitcase? -Yeah, I thought also like the blue clash with, not clash with, was camouflaged, camouflaging her against the color scheme of the big blue screams behind her half of the time. She was just a floating head. -I found Julie extremely jovial during this finale, didn't you? -She was stoked to not work anymore for another eight months. -It's time for Thursday night's back, just like me. -She was cutting the rug. She was singing, dancing. -The janky song pulled up. -Yeah, she was loving her life. She was trying to start relation. I mean, she does this every season. She loves when relationships start out of the, out of Big Brother. She was pushing romance. Did you, or did you not think that Tucker was going to propose? -There was a part of me that was like, this man is crazy. -I thought, when he was pulling up, when it was roses, he pulled out red roses, which did perfectly match Rebena's dress, and Rebena did look amazing. But I thought, oh, he's got a ring. He's so crazy. He brought a ring, and he's going to propose. We're going to have another swaggy. -I feel like every September, October, we're saying this, but like, I don't know if I give to Beena. Listen, to Beena got-- -I give to Beena. I think they're actually made for each other. -I think, yeah, I don't know. -I think they are. -I see cracks. -I see cracks. -They're both like-- -I've been watching these like, like, recaps of Instagram lives and stuff. -Oh. Oh, what's happening on Instagram live? -Oh, they're just like partying and hanging out and stuff, and I mean-- -What was wrong with that? -To Beena, nothing wrong with partying, in LA. -And being together. Two beautiful young people. -I think-- I don't know. Well, Rebena is very interesting, because Rebena's had a lot of screen time the last few weeks, because there was a lot of-- -I miss it. -Yeah, exactly. But there was like, she was getting to Beena's screen time. First of all, they refused to acknowledge to Beena existed, justice for to Beena. -I know. First so long. -And then, like, to Beena happen, and they're like, "I guess we got to make to Beena happen." Like, Matt McKenzie can't happen. But then Tucker was evicted two weeks later, and to-- Rebena has just kind of like been-- she's been riding-- her and Cam have been, like, to just kind of hang out of the season. And she doesn't really have much to do, other than get nominated and kind of express her discontent at that. And in the last few episodes, okay, now she's nominated and she's on the block, and she has to explain to McKenzie why she should be taken to final three. And she's doing-- she's talking at the jury round table and asking question. And Rebena, who is like our age, who's like 35, I would say she has a bit of like, cringe millennial energy. -That was what I was going to say. -Funny faces and funny voices. -That's the main-- well, I don't know if it's the main, but that's like something I see brought up over and over online in the Rebena discourse, or even the Toobina, because, well, I don't know if Tucker has that. Tucker has his own like weird cringe energy. Yeah. -Like, I don't know if I would prescribe it to being a millennial, but yeah, see, well, I've definitely brought that up about Rebena. And she does. It's like, it's like BuzzFeed. It's like a BuzzFeedification of a personality. Yeah, it's very like, "I'm hungry." -Yeah, which I should never have said, but like, it feels like she's saying, "I'm hungry." -Yeah, so it's, I don't know. -And-- -But I think that they're perfectly mentored for each other. I think he loves that. I think he likes that too. I think he does that too. There was a moment when they did like a split screen of them talking to each other during the finale, obviously. I forget what they were talking about. It was like, it was just talking about whether they were, "Oh, that she played it cool when Julie asked her about pursuing a relationship." And Tucker had, now she can reveal to Rebena that Tucker was so into her. And you did, we got the split screen of them making their goofy little cringey faces at each other. And I thought, "These two are going to last." I actually think these two are going to last. -I hope so. I hope so. I was actually-- -I wish them well. -When I was like, just kind of doing some of my mental thinking over here, I was thinking about like post, post BB Tucker. The words "woke Zach Rams" popped in my head. Let's hope. -No. There's going to be a lot of energy for his first two influencer deals. -Oh, yeah. -I don't know. -And he's America's favorite. Were you surprised by that? -No, because I voted for him. I gave him five votes, baby. -I was a little surprised that it was an Angela just because he was so long ago, but he was such an insane personality that I was happy with it. Can we talk about how happy I was that Quinn made the cut? -Oh, yeah. Quinn was going to-- I was thinking about giving Joseph one vote just to-- -Just because it would be funny. - His family has been ravaged by that. That was sad. His family's been ravaged by the hurricane. -Yeah. Well, yeah. And, oh, first of all, it is sad. -He sees that and down. -I couldn't tell about that part because he also just seemed kind of like Joseph, where he was just kind of being weird and standoffish. I legitimately am concerned for him and his family and his friends and people in Tampa, and Georgia and North Carolina from the other hurricane. It's horrible, but Joseph was also a weirdo who was kind of strange on the show. -He was kind of dead panicking. -That was actually one of the more illuminating segments of the breakfast round table episode. There was a lot of Joseph. Let's just dump all the Joseph tape. Here, there was a part where he was relatively early in the game, ranking all the players in descending order from least, or maybe ascending order, from least to most airtime that he assumes that they're getting on the show. -Okay. -He had Kenny last, he was very high. He was very high. Well, he wasn't super high. He was in the middle. He was being modest, but he was seventh, and he had Chelsea at eighth, and then it cuts to a Chelsea DR, and Chelsea was not happy about that. Chelsea, who, as we know, understands what is happening in this game and in this game, was not happy about that. It did illustrate some of Joseph's lack of awareness. -Miss readings. We're jumping around, I guess, but I did, I have to say, I was watching the final shot of Chelsea the winner, Tucker America's favorite player, Angela, Sil front and center. -Jag. -McKenzie, as the runner up, I thought to myself, Chelsea is a really good winner. Chelsea played possibly a perfect game. -Let's get into this. This is my one thing that I'm going to bring up from Thursday. You said that you turned off the finale to watch it another time, because it was late, when Chelsea, or sorry, when McKenzie took Chelsea to the final two. By that logic, you didn't need to watch the finale at all, because here's what happened. McKenzie won the final four veto, and McKenzie, leading up to it, McKenzie's faced with a choice of evicting Cam or Rubina for that. All of McKenzie's DRs are like, "I'm going to take Rubina. Taking Cam only helps Chelsea. It only helps Chelsea." Meanwhile, we have Chelsea DRs that are paired against that, that are saying, "I understand McKenzie wants to take Cam. Doesn't want to take Cam to the end, and she knows that's better for me, but I'm going to convince her it's better for her to do that. And I'm going to spend the next five days convincing McKenzie of exactly that, and that's what Chelsea did. It's like, you thought, you thought McKenzie ruined her game when she took Chelsea to the end. She ruined her game three nights earlier when she did Chelsea's move, and she can talk about how loyal she was, all that stuff. Cool whoop-dee-doo. You lost. I thought she was going to get to sympathy, but not sympathy votes, but going from the, at least the round table, and I think we should talk about Taylor, too, because I thought she was really good in that, but that round table, and Angela, oh boy, Angela, was quite, she was kind of tipping her hand that she was not really intending to vote for Chelsea at all, that she thought McKenzie was playing a much better game, that she was valuing the comp wins, that she was valuing the sort of like underdog survivor style play of McKenzie. I thought it was going to be 5-2 and Leah and Angela were going to vote for McKenzie, but you're right. To bring it back to your point, Chelsea's win is incredibly dominant and should be considered a sort of like, I don't know how to rank them all. Honestly, like up there with Dan. Certainly a top half game and possibly better. She was amazing at this and she is. There was a funny tweet, like maybe a week or two ago. Remember when the armor made fantasy himself, Michael? Michael, yeah. Remember when he was ultimately evicted and it was him and I believe Brittany was her name, the big guy, woman that he was attached to the hip with, and they had been literally attached to the hip, best friends the entire time, and when he has to do his like, all right, you have 30 seconds to convince the house to vote for you, he's just destroyed her. He destroyed her for no reason I've been to save his ass and the look on her face of like, oh my god, I thought I made a best friend for life and this is how quickly this person absolutely threw me to the dogs. He was a lawyer. Lawyers don't have friends. And I saw there was a funny tweet that was basically just a screenshot of that and it was like Mackenzie's face when after she realizes what a mistake she made in taking Chelsea in a final two. And that is pretty much exactly what happened. And you know what, it was delicious. It was great to watch and I'm super happy for Chelsea. I'm so happy for her. I think she did great. It is the show. Obviously, I thought lost a lot of steam along the second half. That happens to more seasons. But it happens to most seasons and I will say I am a little curious. I sometimes go back and rewatch like bits of some seasons when I'm like really desperate for something to watch. And I would be curious about a rewatch of this season knowing that Chelsea is the winner and going back and knowing like every DR from her, you're like, you're watching the winner. I feel like when Dan season was on, I knew he was going to win. He was just so incredibly good. This season was just so random that it was hard to tell. Everyone did such weird stuff that wasn't in their best interest. But now knowing that truly the only person who was working the whole time within their own self interest in a good way. And by that, I mean, in like a high quality, strategic way was Chelsea is kind of interesting. I feel like we've been saying that for a while though. She was HOH the second week, right? I think the week that got out Lisa. Yeah, I think so. And even then we were like, wow, Chelsea is definitely very good at this. And she had a very successful HOH considering the last few years and this season as well how some recent gameplay has inspired people to have quite bad first week HOH is usually first week HOH is a kind of a gift. And the last few seasons that's been a bit of a curse even though Angela got relatively far into the game. I would not say it's set her up very well. But I thought if anyone we were watching all season, Chelsea definitely was 5% higher than anyone else. And she had that command even in the diary. But I felt it was so hard to say like, it's a slam dunk for sure just because these players were so chaotic and random and so often played against their best against their self interest. So one of the players said that maybe it was in the jury round table, but someone said, or maybe that was when she asked one of them, I think it was Cedric, like what was so what was so fun about watching the season at home. And he said how often how chaotic the season was and how often the veto was used most often in not in the self interest of the person using the veto. Like every single time the person was like kind of making the right choice or like making a very good short term decision. But that was like absolutely gutting to their long term chances in the game because they were usually pretty close at the door next. Let me tell you, it was fun to be reminded that Cedric existed. It was just fun because like I forgot about I was kind of like, who is this cutie? And then they spent a lot of time with Brooklyn talking about, you know, the charcuterie board. They had to do it. There was a sort of overall feeling to this finale of it was really like people. I didn't and I didn't feel this way as I was watching it. I wasn't like, oh, these people all really get along and are all friendly and have good chemistry. But in the finale, I was like, this does seem like the reunion show. People who truly all loved each other and didn't really have any major issues. It's been so long since we had a season like that. Well, that's been one of our complaints. It's like, I mean, survivor, it's kind of a truncated version, but they have like a 25 minute reunion show immediately after. I would hope eventually survivor goes to the like three month removed, winner announcement show and recap show. That's the one thing with big brother. It's like, okay, we spend two hours on this and it's like, we're doing the janky song and stuff. And it's like, yeah, you really kind of don't get that much time. And it's pretty much over. There wasn't time for Kenny. There was there was no time for Kenny. There was time for Lisa somehow. There was time for Lisa. There was always a reminder of her name. Yeah, by Matt, Matt's feeling just the discord. I just wanted to shout out Matt's feel got to meet Lisa. And she rubbed sparkles on him. And perhaps a trivia night? Wow. You meet all the stars in LA when you live in LA. Yeah, they're they're right out here in East LA going to the stars are out tonight. So let's talk about the jury round table a little bit. We had our new host, Taylor. I thought she was great. I mean, I thought she was not in it enough, actually. I was like, I mean, it was heavily for her. Yeah, it was extremely heavily edited. She got some big left in some great singers towards Angela, which I loved. I love I love queens being queens to each other. Yeah, well, I thought Angela was kind of I thought Angela has been relatively unhinged in Angela. I can see Angela sensing the shrinking limelight around her and Taylor did too. And you know, Angela's, you know, she's like, I want to go and survive her now. I want like, she's obviously very good friends with Les Moon bez or whatever, you know, there was a game show on CBS. This is talk show on CBS. She's probably been on it. She obviously has some sort of ability to get on television. That is an ability because she's incredibly watchable. It's because it's and like this moment, I loved this moment where Julie was like, Matt has something to ask you. And it was like Matt asking if he if she was willing to give him a hug or something. I mean, and Angela loved it. You know, like any normal person when faced with their bad behavior and the fact that they like completely lost their mind at this kid would be a little embarrassed, maybe a little like test, test on me. You're right. Like, sorry, not Angela, not at all. She was like, bring it. Angela is one of the most you can't someone that confrontational, you have to really be ready for what they're going to give back to you. And I don't think Matt was ready. That's why I was like not prepared. I was I was really kind of like reeling with Angela during the finale because it's like you have her in the jury round table where she's shut down by Taylor just flat out. Like Angela keeps making about herself and Taylor says like, hey, the end of the show is not going to be about you. It's going to be about Mackenzie and Chelsea and Cam here. And then there's that moment to where Matt's like, I just, you know, I, you know, I hope we could forgive each other. I kind of give you a hug and she's like, no. And it was just week one Angela all along the same. And it was just the week one Angela. That's like, cool. You're going to go back. There was the actual growth of Ben time with your family in Utah and like be mean to them. I get like, I think this is just what you're like. Yeah, this is what she's like. Some people and Angela is what 52? She's who she is. She's not changing for you. She's not changing for Julie Chen Moonves. She's not changing for this show. This is who it is. Luckily, it is very entertaining on reality TV. I mean, Philip G in the chat did not enjoy it. Philip G says Angela will probably start dating Elon Musk. Yuck. I don't even want that name is banned on our podcast. We don't want to hear about that. Why did you read it? Why did you read it? What I think on the the jury round table. Sorry. This is not Angela related. They're talking about cam and beautiful British T-core says, cam played the game. I want to play. Same. That's why you lost. I can't wait a second. He stepped in that game. It just took him three months to get there and T-core, you know, we love, you know, we love or whatever. She's like, everyone was like, so like T-core is going to win. Everyone loved T-core. Our audience loved T-core. Everyone in the house loved T-core. And it's like, T-core actually might not have been that, you know, had that much of like a killer instinct or like a winning instinct about her. Okay. I actually super related to T-core in that moment. I understood what she was saying. Let me explain it to you because I don't think you understand. Maybe. Yeah. Exactly. Do you ever look in life at someone who's just like so relaxed and they're just like still getting what they want? Like they're just swimming along and somehow they end up in final four, big brother, without doing anything, without scheming, backstabbing, just generally being like pretty likable and chill, having a good time. Maybe they're not that great at comps, but everyone likes them. T-core looked at that and was like, I wish I could have that game. She was wheeling and dealing. She was spinning her wheels. She wanted to just chill out in the house. I understand that. She wanted the more of a vacation vibe in the jury house. No, but yeah, I know people who do nothing and they succeed in life or they're equal to, they do nothing and they have equal success to me. No, it's like Homer, one of the most famous episodes of The Simpsons, Homer's enemy with that, with the guy who hates Homer, because Homer is just an old, who is clearly so bad at his job. And this is the one person who wants to show the world that Homer is an idiot and pays for it with his life. Spoilers for The Simpsons. 30 years ago. No, yeah, I know people like that. And I hate them for it. I don't hate Cam. I do want to have a little Cam combo because again, it's like they didn't really have much Cam combos for two and a half months. And then the producers, the editors are like, well, we got to show this guy a little bit. He was so interesting. He was such a as a person such a very interesting, like, projecting low status guy, because he was very attached at the hip to Cam. I'm sorry to Chelsea. Very attached at the hip to Mackenzie. There was obviously a bit of a love triangle thing going on, but they like, like he and Chelsea were like number ones to each other at the same time. Like she liked him. He didn't like her. And watching him, especially in the, in the Thursday episode, as he's, he's kind of working alongside Chelsea to convince her to convince, I'm sorry, Mackenzie to keep him over Rubina. He's so interesting because he's like, he's big and tall and funny, but then like, at any time he's talking to a woman, he's like doing like cutie little baby voice. He's just like, that's his game. I hope you keep me. You know, he was just so interesting. I thought he was interesting too. I agree. He did project low status and he he projected very well that he was non threatening as a player. Like for someone who is, who was a frickin quarter. What was he? He was a football player at some big time university. Like they Mackenzie, I think brought up this the information. It was like Penn State or something. I don't know. State University. Yeah, it's something I've heard of. So I thought, oh, this is a real athlete. And yet, yeah, when the way he puts himself out there, you're like, I could beat him. Philip G in the chat says, cam should have been on buddy games. Maybe. Maybe I got his, I got his, um, I got his sports reference page pulled up. Yeah, four years at Penn State. Oh, then he went to UMass. Is this good? No, well, he was at a really good, he was at a really good school. He didn't really get much. He didn't really do much for four years. And then he transferred to a much like worse school. What men he was, he was good. He was good there. He was okay there. He had two touchdowns. He didn't have any touchdowns with four years at Penn State. And then he had two touchdowns. No touchdowns. No tuddies. Only one, only two touchdowns in one season at UMass. Oh my gosh. That's why he's on big brother. Yeah, big NFL. I know it's the name of the show, but can just like this whole, his whole personality, he was like a little brother. Like he gave major, little brother vibes, you know, like the little brother who just like you're, you're one of your best friends, little brothers, who's always trying to tag along and he's pretty cute and nice. You're like, all right, sure. But then you, I'm not threatening him. You're like, oh my God, I'm not interested in him whatsoever. He probably has a crush on me, but like not into it. We got a question in our live chat. How thoughts on the weird Julia reveal about the presidential election from Matt May? Um, you know, we, we were there the first time Julie revealed I think politics, what was so funny about the live, this is happening throughout the night is like Tucker America's favorite was unleashed. And I think, I think Julie wanted him to be a little more leashed because he was just like, he just got like screaming things out. And then walking across the stage, touching people and pulling out props. It was so, it was funny. It was exactly what why people love Tucker because yeah, you really can't, you can't guess what he's going to do next. He's the, the, um, the pirate and provisor. But, um, I, I loved when Julie was telling them about the presidential election. And he was like, and wait for it. You're not going to believe what she's going to tell you now. Like he was just like, I was actually kind of wishing that I had, we had been there for his eviction episode. When she told him all this stuff, I would have died to see his reaction then. Um, I also want to call out, there was an audience shot of Taylor and JAG in the audience. They were sitting behind the seats, we sat in. We got better seats than that. Yeah. Of course. The Fania family, my crowd was, was good. I mean, lots of parents and friends, they were kind of artificially keeping, artificially keeping the vibe up. We, we did a really good job. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They were okay. Um, no, a voting, voting situation. Oh, it was a. I saw. Quinn puts the, puts it in the wrong hole. Well, but was it Taylor said on Twitter? Oh, okay. Taylor on Twitter said that there was an issue. The issue was that Quinn put his key in the, there's two things. There's the big key wheel. Remember when you pulled the key out of the key wheel, you're supposed to put their keys in the key wheel so no one can see their vote. Quinn. And then there's a second rack that is Julie's rack after she pulls out a key to put a key in there after she's already hold after she's already holding it. She pulls it out. Quinn puts it in the place that Julie's receptacle for the used keys. And it's clear, it's a clear box. What's in the box? I can see what's in the box. It's clear. And it's clear. And it didn't tell them, they didn't tell that the them and then every single person, the next person just followed exactly what Quinn did. And then you have seven people and it literally just says that you can just count. Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea. But it was unanimous. So it was sort of like whatever. Yeah, because everyone could see the vote of the person that happened before them. That was perfect that it was Quinn that that who did that. Quinn has had the weirdest run of luck on this show. I guess this wasn't luck. This was his own silliness. But like, yeah, having a haircut is also his own silliness. That's not luck. He'll never do it. I mean, it's luck. It's luck. How it comes out. What color it is. That's genetic luck. Yeah. I'm so sick of the, I'm so sick of the Quinn Leah business. Well, they won't pay. They won't, won't, won't they? Because it's like, every time they ask Leah, every time they ask Leah, all the amounts to is her saying like, theoretically, as humans, I could, I have the capacity to have a light brush on Quinn. I am a young woman. He's a young man. Sure. That's all it is. And everyone's like, like, you guys in love yet? You guys do it? You guys blink in the jury house and it's like, no, it's not interested. Well, people want to project onto others. And people want to believe that there's a chance for Quinn, because Quinn's such a little cutie. And there's nothing wrong with that. Quinn's going to hook up with others, some other like super hot alum over this way. It probably already happened over the weekend. Yeah. He's going to hook up with some bathing beauty. Quinn can stay in LA. He doesn't have to live in Oklahoma. He can stay in LA. There's a LA is filled with ugly men dating beautiful women. And you know what? We love that for them. If they're all happy, we love that. We support it. Martin Baird says, Leah has a concept of a relationship with Quinn. We cut to the end of the show. We go to the house. And who is there? What the rotting, lifeless corpse of Janky? And did you for a second think it was going to be like Janky reindeer games part two? Yeah. Well, that's what I thought it was going to make some sort of announcement. I didn't think I was just going to be them singing the song, which was kind of, which actually was funnier than it was completely pointless and and season ended with everyone and Julie among them. Julie, like everyone was just singing in the song. And the audience was not jazzed. That was when they cut to Taylor and Jack and they were halfheartedly like clapping along. They were clearly not into it. Taylor, that was when they needed art. But yeah, she better. You signed the deal. You signed the dotted line. But Dr. Will's soul is free now. He doesn't have to do this. You're in the genie bottle. I know. And there's never getting that. You got to get a lot until wish you free. She's going to be getting a lot of Angela's. Let me tell you. Oh, yeah. You're going to have to do a lot of that stuff. I thought Taylor was really strong. I do think that sometime as she has, in the past, she's had a sometimes a tendency towards being a little, you know, I mean, she's like a beauty pageant contestant, right? Like kind of a little bit like lifeless or like not lifeless, but just like very plain and basic in her like answers and stuff or like if it's sass, it's very like like measured sass. But she was, I thought she was, I thought she was really great on that. I thought she was great. And I think that to me, it was like, remember when, remember when Jerry hosted for Julie? Oh, yeah. And to me, there was like a marked market, a marked difference between Jerry and Julie. And I noticed that I felt the loss of Julie in that in that episode. In this, I didn't, I truly did not miss Dr. Will whatsoever. Yeah. I thought she was great. She's a natural. I would never say that Will is long in the tooth. The man's probably 15 years older than me, and he looks five years younger than me. Well, that's why he's really where you're talking that he's nip tucking all the way. Yeah. He's a swab guy. Yeah. He's a swab guy. But I did think he was, it certainly came across like he was like kind of phoning it in and just like, yeah, hanging out. Like, you know what man is the genie in the bottle? Yeah. You know what? Dr. Will, how about you entered this phase of your big post big brother career of like maybe you only pop up like once every five or 10 seasons and we're going to be like, Oh, shit. It's Dr. Will instead of like, Oh, here comes Dr. Will. He kind of doesn't care. He's always in the show. Yeah. You know, down, you know, you know what? Be down in junior. Go away. You know, I'm not going to be Ironman anymore. And then Marvel bags, please baby, Robert baby. We need you to be in the fifth. We need you. We need a Dr. Doom. Dr. Frickin Doom. Dr. Will, he went to medical school. His name is Doom. That's all I know about Dr. Doom. Also, that he doesn't show his face ever. Dr. Boom. We have a lot of you. You have more to say. No, not really. Well, I just wanted to say that overall, the feeling that filled me as I finished watching the finale this yesterday morning was one of contentment. I was satisfied. I was satisfied with how things went down. Every bit of it, I was content. And that's not how I feel every season. So I'm happy with that. Yeah, I mean, last season kind of last season was fun because Bowie Jane got so far. Everyone's better. It was so forgettable. But it was forgettable, ultimately, because like, yeah, once, you know, Taylor season was unforgettable. That was one of the best seasons. That was a really good season. I felt last season was really fun too. I thought that the end game was probably worse than this end game just because there wasn't really a dominant player. And it was just like watching Matt and Jag trade wins. I think that this is perhaps one of the maybe, you know, I think they solved a bunch of stuff with the AI arena, which I hope they bring back. They can call it whatever they want. 25 can be the gold mind. Like, we're all gold binders in the old West and it's the gold mining arena or whatever who cares. But I thought that was a great element to add into the show. It's solved for a few things. It's solved for some boredom that was created in the middle of the week when it seemed like, you know, once the veto ceremony is over, everyone knows what's happening and nothing changes for four days. I wonder if the next thing that can be sort of worked on, but I guess they don't have too much control of it is the last few seasons and probably last many seasons, I can only think one or two years back. Usually we get to the end game. It's kind of just two people trading off comp wins back and forth, just slowly picking off the other, you know, remaining three or four people, which we had this year in Chelsea and in Mackenzie, we had last year in Cam and Matt, though, I guess, but we didn't, you know, I think she won the final three or the final four HOH. So maybe that's something to kind of correct for, but you would have to do that, I suppose, in designing more equitable challenges, but the challenges at the end are like supposed to reward better players. It's like, you're supposed to reward the person who can remember what day certain events had, certain events happened on or whatever. So that's kind of a boring part of every season. So it is what it is. They'll figure it out. They'll figure it out. I do, I'm realizing we neglected to mention that they'd rather gotten new sofas by lovesack. I just didn't understand this product placement whatsoever. Which sofas, whose lovesack, why didn't they have like a logo? Baby lovesack, baby lovesack didn't pay for that. They only paid for the new, they only paid for the sofas and they paid for one verbal mention. They did not pay. It was the sofas on the jury round table where new sofas presented by lovesack. That was so crazy. That was such a weird like off, just like an off remark, like that was the type of, that was the type of line. Honestly, Julie delivered that line. It was like she was being directed by Steven Soderberg and he was like, you know what, just throw this line away. Just throw this one away, babe. And she did. And I was like, wait, it was a double take. It was like, what? That was incredible, incredible work. You know what, they took an unbranded for subtlety. The jury segment was unbranded. They were losing money on the jury segment. They had applied Dr. Will first from Miami. They had to put him up at a hotel and they said, let's make, let's make the jury round table ROI positive. Let's, let's get, let's get 15 grand. Let's get some couch company to give us 15 grand to say their name once. That's, yeah, and that's all I could have paid for that. Not to brag. And they got couches and now they can auction them off. Angela sat on this couch. You can have it too. Yeah, there you go. For the true super fans. Should we talk about some questions, comments, emails? We got multiple emails. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. All right. Here's an email. Let me read an email relating to Big Brother. How about that? Yeah. From Phil. Does that address to you? Pretty crazy. I know. Okay, read it. First word, I'm like, ooh, I like this word. No, I was like, oh, I can check out. But very curious on your thoughts and how the writers treated AI and how AI was represented and utilized throughout the season. And why not curious about my thoughts on that? You're not, you don't understand how technology works. And right. And Danny were right. All of this season's atuation beetle meetings should have been conducted by the avatars in the, in the proto box. They had an easy way to play with expectations. And then the producers writers totally fumbled the execution with the deep fake age of age and AI instigator powerups. Fun. What if does Angela's game and time in the BB has changed at all if she doesn't win the first age of age is the season any different and props to top air for running it up this season. Okay, so I have a lot of this was on a dress to you, Danielle. I have a lot of issues. Yes. Okay, well, obviously, first of all, the fact that I was not included in the first question. Second of all, when you say, Phil, when you say Brett and Danny were right, well, I love that. But then he says we were right about how all of the Atuation beetle meetings should have been conducted by the avatars in the proto box. Did we, did we ever say don't challenge it? We said, we must have said it. We must have said it. I remember saying that. I remember saying that, which is you have the cool box. I mean, you know, that box is used. That's the box that they were using in the, the final HOH competition where the, the avatars, the like photo real avatars read off things. And all season long, we have the worst PlayStation one 3D avatar being like, my computer chip is maxing to the core. Like shut up. It should, they should have used so much, they should have used the deception of having someone's physical appearance and likeness and voice other than T-core's voice. You know, it was fake T-core AIT core because AIT core is not British. I couldn't get that voice right. So yeah, what if, does Angela's game and time in the house change if she doesn't win the HOH? I don't think so because she won another HOH. I think she still would have been like a major player. I think she wouldn't have lost her mind so early. Yeah, I maybe she would have, she would have, she would have, because here's the thing, if she wasn't nominated, if she wasn't the first OHH then she probably would have been nominated the first weekend. She would have been crying and flipping. Like, I don't think her game changes too much because it was a pretty devastating HOH and she was rightly so nominated and not trustworthy the rest of the season. I think even if she was nominated that week and was HOH instead of being HOH, like she would have flipped out and had a meltdown. Like if Matt was the HOH and not her and like, I don't know if she would be calling out Matt, you know, but I kind of don't really see her game changing too much. Like she was what she was. I was a, you know, like, she got pretty far in the game considering having a pretty devastating, really bad HOH the first week. So like, if she wasn't doing that, maybe she, I don't know, maybe she would have done worse. I also want to say that so that email was from Phil. There's a Phil of G in the chat who says, Dani looks like she's sitting on slash in a bookshelf. What is happening? Why are all the Phils coming down on Dani tonight? Like, yeah, I'm sitting against a bookshelf. So what? Every Phil writing into us is grumpy. Somebody feed Phil. Somebody feed Phil. Now, I want to hear, we also have another email, but I haven't heard it at all. The rest of us read it to you. This is what happens is we have an email account and I'm the only one who checks it. And if we get an email, if we get an email, I forward it to Danielle. I forgot to forward this one. Yeah. This is for Madison. Hey, guys. Wow. Maybe that's towards me because you're not a guy. Big fan of the podcast with Big Brother ending. I think you guys should take time and watch the raft. It's a show where they put 11 people on a boat as part of a scientific experience and forth and to work together. The only catch is they all have conflicting views in life. One is a, one is a water builder. The other is a body builder. One is a vegan. I was going to ask them what type there's people who don't accept other people's ways of life. I think you would find it funny. And also one question. If you can see the BB All-Stars season with a theme, what would you want it to be personally? I think we should put an all feuds in the house together like Brett and rock star Tanner and Jasmine. I love that. Or an all-star season with Turner and Jasmine. Madison or Tanner. I was like, I don't really remember a Tanner, but also I don't remember the names of players after they've been out of the house for more than six months. Yeah. So, or an all-star season where there's some really chaotic people like Tucker and Angela. What do you think? What do you think? I love that. Did they? I love feuds. I would love like battle of the X's. And I think we've done enough seasons where they could do that now, where they have people who were in a relationship, but it didn't work out. They broke up. Because like then, like, look, Christmas and Memphis back in the house together. But Nicole in the house with like Cory, everybody. Yeah, whoever. A lot of people. Yeah. And I'm not shaming. I love that. We all know I'm a Nicole defender. Philip G in the chat says, did any of the seasons cast officially make it to Breddy or Danny All-Stars? That would be a good, maybe that'll be a good off season episode is a cast of Breddy All-Stars versus Danny All-Stars. That's a Breddy All-Stars 3, Breddy All-Stars. That would be the theme for sure. Matt May wants to know, "Wasn't X's like B before?" This does sound familiar. They weren't X's. They saw I think some people were X's. Some people were like, separated. Some people, like all the very 16 people, like there were eight pairs of people who all had like a kind of difficult relationship. Like maybe they were like coworkers, didn't like each other or they used to date. And then there was like Nicomas and Cowboy. I think his name was Cowboy. I don't know. Like every season, there was guys like, "Call me Cowboy." It's like, dude, your name was fucking Dylan. "Call me whistle nut or call me Cowboy." And they were literally long lost like siblings. And they had never met. That is so crazy. DB casting used to really be ambitious. I need to read out a question from the discord from Mupo. How would you each sum up your home decor tastes in one to three words? Mine is work in progress. Because for me, I just don't have a lot of nice pieces of furniture at the moment because I'm aware of this point in my life where I have a dog and a child who just learned like how to feed herself. And nothing can be nice. It all is going to get destroyed. And that may says mine is bookshelve. Maybe you guys should all try reading a book. Okay. I can't believe we're coming after the intelligentsia on this part. Modern mid-century modern millennial. Oh, yeah, mid-century modern for Brett. For sure. Millennial rock boy. And comfy couch. Yeah. Yeah. You've been to my house. I've been to your house. I would say that's kind of accurate. Can I say something? Can I say something horrifying? Not horrifying. But it's a story. I recently sold an item on Facebook marketplace. I actually had to read and read. I tried selling on Craigslist. I wasn't getting any bites. So I was recommended Facebook marketplace. I reactivated my Facebook after 10 years to just sell one item and then deactivate my Facebook again. And I've sold something. A young woman, probably your late 20s, comes to my apartment to pick up. And I have a number of like framed music posters in my living room. And she's like, cool. I love those posters for all those old indie bands. Yeah. So. Yeah. All those vintage bands. My dad likes those bands. Yeah. Wow. Ruff. Ruff. Sad. Sad stuff. We are, I think we're nearing the end, which is too bad because I really wanted to give my review of the film being there, which I watched on the plane on the way back. What is being there? It's this movie starring Peter Sellers. Oh, okay. I don't know why. With you, it's like, I don't even know. It's like being there. It's, oh, it's like a rom-com on Netflix and starring. No. No. It's because I saw, when I was in London, I saw there's a stage version of Dr. Strangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. And Hans Gardner, well, his name is Chance. Chance. His name is Chance Chauncey Gardner in the movie being there. But so obviously Peter Sellers was in Dr. Strangelove. Steve Coogan plays the role on stage. I really enjoyed the show. I liked that movie. And I thought, what's another Peter Sellers hit? Yeah. Let me dive into this. Sell me on Sellers. Exactly. So I watched being there. And let me say, this movie is an exercise in patience that I really appreciated. And I think everyone should give it a try. This is exactly the type of movie you need to watch on a plane. It is, and people love this movie. Let me just tell you, everyone's like, you gotta see, you have got to see this movie. And I, after watching the whole thing, what you need to do in a plane, or you need to do it in an isolated cabin, where you don't have internet access, you have to do it in a way where you don't have distractions. Because if I had had my phone, I would have given up on this movie. And I'm so glad I didn't. It's very simple. It's simple. It's almost excruciatingly simple. But it's about a simple man who, just because he's dressed really nicely and says simple things, everyone is like, wow, you must be a genius. Maybe you should run for president. And it's in DC. I couldn't let us end our big brother season finale show without bringing up being there. You know, give it a whirl. It's almost as good as Benji the hunted. Almost as good. I think that's it. Oh, you know what we should talk about? There's another question about survivor, but there's a question about survivor, but you'll understand it. Because in the episode you miss the survivor, which we'll get, we'll dive into next week. Sue, old Sue, who's like her sixties in the flight instructor. Yeah, she says she's 45 years old. She's on that. She's on that Bowie Jane Riz. Right? I love it. And told him they're asked, would you believe Sue if she told you she was 45 years old? I think the answer for me would be no. I know what I think right now. The age I'm at. Yeah, well, at the age I'm at, I wouldn't believe it. But honestly, if I was 22, I might believe it. That was what I was 22. I would be like, yeah, you might be 45. That was what was funny about it is everyone's like, okay. He's 22 year olds don't know what anybody is. Yeah, they don't know. I mean, I don't know what children I don't know what children are. I don't know what age children are. And it's like, yeah, it's like, I don't know. I saw a bunch of kids at the store and they were mean to me. It's like, how old were they? I'm like, I don't know for 14. Okay, I'm getting roasted. Philip G says, Danny's being their review is getting better. No, my show that we have was no, I was my show that we covered. Yeah, I was giving energy. You were great. You were great. So you got them. Danny, you got to watch Survivor. This. It's so funny because you posted a screenshot of a synopsis of an episode of Matlock. I believe episode two is called When in Rome, which I thought you were making a survivor joke because it is certainly becoming the Rome show. And I also got to, this is the biggest thing has ever happened. We'll have to talk about it next week. But Brett has never been more right about a Brady All-Star in the history of this podcast. Her name is Genevieve. She is the God Tier. She is the God Tier S tier Brady All-Star. And I'm so happy that I was right. Listen, I'll watch it. I now have like a lot of time now that Big Brother isn't on. Yeah, but I am really, truly very excited for the new episode of Matlock. That will be on next week. I started a Matlock channel in our Discord. If you haven't joined our Discord yet, you got to join it. You can tweet it us still at @HeyJulieBB on Twitter. You can be one of these people who emails us and totally ignores me. That's Brett's opinion on AI. Hey, Julie, Big Brother at gmail.com. What else is there? Join the Discord. The link is in the, in the summary. That's where it's at. If you want it, you got to join that, that Matlock is cool. That was it. Close in the book on BB26. It was a fun one. We're not watching the summer. Why might? Oh my God. All right, that was it. Bye, Julie. Bye, Julie. [Music] [BLANK_AUDIO]

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