Live Feed - Thursday, July 19

• I love that Ori is still calling us viewers, not fans.
• The viewers congregate in the living room.  Kevin is yawning.  Jeffrey suggested that he go take a nap.  Kevin looks mad, but I can’t see what he’s mouthing, and I can’t hear him.
• Do you consider yourself a defensive player or offensive player?
• Kevin is offensive.  That’s totally working for you, Kevin.  Keep it up with that.
• Gene says that offense gets viewers, but defense wins game.
• Steph says that she’s been more about defending others who can help her stick around, then switch to offense.
• Joy is also defensive.  Interesting.
• Andrea punts by saying that she’s both.  Nice non-answer.
• Jeffrey starts to say that the best defense is a good offense, but he says the best offense is a good defense.  I’m so confused.  He calls himself offensive.  
• Erica has no idea how she’s playing the game.  She’s just hanging out.  She seems to have a lot of fans, so maybe the “Clueless Strategy” works.  Who knows?
• Mike starts to talk about playing defensively, then says he needs to take the offense.
• Mike calls Gene out by asking if he lost the challenge yesterday.  Gene, “Yes.  You were on the team that lost.”  Mike then says that Gene is telling people that he single-handedly lost the challenge.  
• Gene wants to know who said he said that.  Mike tries to backpedal.  He wants it to stay between them.
• Gene says that, if Mike is calling him out based on what someone is saying he said, he wants to know who said it.  He has a right to know.
• Andrea mutters to herself that she wants people to be honest.  Joy starts laughing hysterically, and Stephanie and Erica are trying not to giggle.  
• Joy cuts in to ask if they can talk about this on the live feed.  Ori, “Absolutely.”
• Mike says that he’s assuming that what he was told is accurate, but he won’t tell Gene who said it, and no one is standing up.  He starts telling what happened, but then he says that Joy was crying at the end of the challenge.  
• Joy’s mad that Mike is dragging her into this, because she wasn’t crying.
• Mike is now saying that he lost by 6 minutes?  Last night, it was mere seconds.
• Mike tries to say that it comes down to who is the better puzzle solver - Gene or Stephanie.  Stephanie has told us that she does puzzles for fun, so I can see where she might be 6 minutes faster.  Six minutes isn’t that long.
• Gene says he Mike gave him wrong information.  
• Stephanie is trying to discuss the challenge, and Mike is screaming that he doesn’t want to hear anything he has to say.  Jeffrey has to step in so Mike will shut up for Steph to actually talk.  She tells Mike that, head to head, yes, she could beat Gene in doing puzzles, because she’s the smart one.  She also says that Joy is better at what she was doing than Mike was.  She thinks that she had the best team for all three positions.
• Steph also points out that there were 24 different clues, so a few seconds per clue equals minutes.
• Mike: “That’s where you’re wrong, because that’s just your opinion.”  An opinion, by definition, cannot be right or wrong.  I’m just saying.
• Mike is freaking out that Steph offered to comfort Joy for some reason.  The fact that Joy didn’t think she did well doesn’t mean that she effed up.  Have you never taken a test, been certain you failed, then gotten a good grade?  Some of us relive that scenario frequently.
• Joy explains the challenge in a way that says that she was the only one in a position to screw up.  That’s awesome, because Mike had the same role as Joy.
• Mike says that he was better than Joy, based on absolutely nothing.  Literally nothing.  Sorry - based on “speculation,” he’s better than Joy.  
• Gene asks Mike if he could have done better.  Mike says, emphatically, that he would have been better at the task than Gene.  So, why did he put Gene in that position?
• This is by far the most interesting planned live feed I’ve ever seen, but Mike isn’t doing anything to make people want to vote for him.
• Andrea looks pissed.  DRINK!  Note that Kevin is also remaining silent.  Drink!
• Poor Jeffrey is trying to hide from this argument within Erica’s giant bosoms.  Is the secret entrance to Narnia in there?
• As Mike and Gene are screaming, we hear Erica, quietly, “I want a cigarette….”
• Stephanie tries to calm them down and move the feed to something less loud, obnoxious, and uninteresting, and Mike screams at her to shut up.
• Gene says, again, that someone needs to tell him who told Mike that he intentionally messed up the challenge.  Jeffrey, “If it was me and I forget, let me know.”
• Gene goes in a circle and asks each of them if they said that.  Mike is changing what he’s saying they said.  Erica isn’t sure, but doesn’t think she said those words.
• Stephanie is insulted that Mike is insisting that she and Joy couldn’t have just won - that someone had to do something to make him lose. 
• We cut briefly to Erica and Jeffrey laughing that Mike is “blaming the black guy, again,” which just makes Gene look better.
• Now, the argument has gotten tedious.  Andrea said it, we all saw her, and Gene should know that it was anyone else, Mike would have thrown them under the bus in a heartbeat.
• Mike is screaming at everyone who tries to end the conversation so we can move on.  He’s repeating himself - but he gets really mad when Gene says that.  I imagine Mike wouldn’t like me much, either.
• Jeffrey and Steph give up and start playing a game that I do not remember the name of, since it’s been 20 years since I last played.  It involves rhyming and clapping.
• Ori shows them the “Should they continue or move on?” and Gene and Mike completely ignore it while everyone else laughs and chants “move on!”
• Joy and Erica move to the floor to take a nap.
• The camera moves to the limbo tubes.  Is someone coming up?  Yes, someone is!  Ori tells them that it’s been a very stressful week and she wants to help them relieve some stress and aggression.
• They’re kick boxing?  Not watching.
• They line up in the yard.  Erica, “They said ‘gentlemen’ in the back.  Where do the jerks go?”  I imagine in the front or the middle?
• Interesting  ABC shows me that 51% of the viewers take Mike’s side in that argument, then asks me to vote.  What’s the point?  I’ve seen the results.
• They ask us to tweet our reactions to what we’re seeing.  Somehow, I doubt they’ll air mine.
• This becomes far more interesting when I get to watch the teacher hold Andrea down and hit her.  Sure, she’s got pads, but I don’t care.  Yay for hitting Andrea!  I just wish he’d slipped and punched her in the face.
• I refuse to vote for who is training the hardest, because I’m not paying attention, and I don’t care.
• With three minutes left, we learn that the viewers have paired them up for sparring.
• Stephanie and Joy
• Erica v. Kevin
• Andrea v. Jeffrey
• Mike v. Gene.  God, I want to watch Gene punch Mike in the face.
• I guess they’re going two at a time.  They are wearing the most giant, ridiculous boxing gloves I’ve ever seen.  Seriously, they’re bigger than Joy.
• They need to wrap this up.  I’ve got things to do.
• Ori is announcing the winners but, well, I have to go, and no one cares, so I’m done.  Happy weekend! 

                                      

• Ok, OK.  Gene beat Mike.  None of the rest of it matters.  Ori tells the rest of them that the feed is over, the sensei goes down the tubes, and the real fun begins.
• Ori, I think “incredible events that happen on the show” is an overstatement.  Or you forgot the words “-ly obnoxious” in there somewhere.
• The players would like to go back outside and fight more.  It’s a nice way to ease the frustration.
• Gene is sitting on the red things.   Joy hugs him and tells him that fighting Mike was “kinda hot.”  Then she calls him stinky and walks away.  Tease.
• They’re talking about the match.  Kevin wants people to think he’s smart, too, so he throws out big words like “xiphoid process.”
• Mike sits down with Kevin and bitches that he kept getting thrown off during the argument and never got to say what he wanted to say.  Was what he wanted to say, “Shut the fuck up and stay out of this?”  Because he said it like 2,000 times.
• Mike approaches Erica and quietly tells her that she’s the one who said that about Gene.  
• She has no recollection of saying that, but she was drunk.  What a fucking jackass.  
• The look on Andrea’s face is priceless, because we all know that she’s the one who actually said it.  She can’t believe Mike is saying these things.
• She apologized, if she said it, but she said that she never heard Gene say anything like that , so she doesn’t know why she would have said it.
• Mike makes a big production of telling Erica that he didn’t want to throw her under the bus.  But he wants to make her feel indebted to him for a lie?  UGH.  I HATE THIS GUY.
• Cut to Gene and Jeffrey in the laundry room, talking about the argument.  Jeffrey said that it just made Mike look bad and Gene look good.
• Gene says that it would only have helped Mike if he’d been willing to reveal (publicly) who said that - it makes it sound like he made it up.  Actually, Andrea made it up.
• Jeffrey drinks milk with ice.  I am SO GLAD I got this sneak peak so I could learn that!  (Also - ew!  Gene is right.  No ice in milk.)
• Gene needs to shower.  Watching that would be loads better than watching them do laundry.
• He says that Joy told him to take it easy on Mike.  He’s amused, because there was no way he was going to try to beat the crap out of an old man on TV.
• Back in the kitchen, Erica is burning boiling liquid.  It’s a good thing she’s cute and funny.
• They take us to this bizarre camera angle outside, way above the house.  Can’t see anything, can barely hear… and we’re out.  I hope the weekend is restful.  This stuff is exhausting.