Live Feed - Wednesday, July 18, Evening

• The feed starts with Kevin telling Mike that he’s in the worst possible position.  They’re all in their uniforms, so I immediately think Mike’s team lost.  Kevin is in red, and Mike and Andrea are in yellow.  Woo-hoo!
• We learn that it was some sort of puzzle challenge with clues.
• Mike speculates that they might have won but for some mistake that Gene made - they lost by 20 seconds.  My guess is that he may be right, and Gene knew that.  Gene’s not working to send Steph to limbo.
• Cut to Jeffrey and Erica, talking about how Mike said that he and Kevin won’t be friends when this is over.
• I adore Erica.  She’s talking about how they would chain themselves together if they could.
• Mike apparently told Jeffrey that he has all the friends he needs.
• Jeffrey wants Gene to agree to go to limbo, because they don’t want to give Andrea immunity from being Team Captain again next week.  He’s right.  They can NOT give Andrea immunity next week when they come back.  Gene will easily beat  Mike if he goes to limbo, 
• Erica won’t agree to send Gene to limbo if he won’t agree, because they have an agreement.
• I miss stuff.  Does it matter?
• Steph and Erica are talking.  She says that she was in a bad position, because she kept getting picked for teams that she didn’t want to win and, when they lost, that meant everyone turned on her.  
• Cut to Gene and Joy talking to Jeffrey.  Joy said that she was hoping not to be on Mike’s team, because she didn’t want to help him win.  Jeffrey is trying to talk Gene into volunteering for limbo, to avoid giving her a free pass.  Gene thinks that Andrea would go home over Mike.  I think Gene is crazy.
• It sounds like Gene has no intention of volunteering for limbo, so Jeffrey mentions that he’s not sure whether he should do it.  
• Gene says that Jeffrey probably wouldn’t be in the bottom, anyway, so immunity doesn’t actually affect him.
• Joy thinks that Steph was only Team Captain because the other side planted the seed and was trying to undermine her.
• Hmmm… Gene doesn’t want to go to limbo because he threw the challenge.  He didn’t explicitly say that, but… it seems likely.  Jeffrey said that the viewers might also think that he threw the challenge, depending on how it’s edited.  Awww, they wanted to save Steph!  Good for them!  Since we know Kevin was trying to make Stephanie lose, it sounds like Gene and Jeffrey tried harder.  
• Joy just wants Mike gone, period.  Mike can’t beat Gene or Jeffrey, so maybe one of them should volunteer.  Gene doesn’t think Andrea can beat Mike.  I’m not so sure.  
• Jeffrey wanders out.
• Joy is talking very quietly, so I’m missing a lot of what she says.  She’s upset that Gene defends someone, but I’m not sure if she’s talking about Kevin or Mike.  
• Erica, Jeffrey, and Stephanie are in the bathroom, talking.  Jeffrey reminds them how they wanted Steph to volunteer for limbo last week to avoid being Team Captain, and she wound up Team Captain.
• Steph is a little worried about alienating the viewers by taking that risk.
• Jeffrey is filled with rage at the idea of handing Andrea more immunity from being Team Captain.
• Erica asks them if they’d really rather be against Kevin or Gene.  Erica clearly prefers Kevin (oh, sweetie).  Stephanie and Gene have become pretty close over breakfast.  Jeffrey doesn’t want either of them.  Erica thinks that Gene should be the next to go.
• Jeffrey is getting enough resistance from Erica that he backs off his genius idea.  That’s unfortunate.
• They move to talking about Celine Dion.  Did Steph win Celine Dion tickets?  That’s random.

                               

• Back to Gene and Joy.  They’re rehashing all this stuff.  Someone says something, and Joy rushes off to make chicken.  We watch Gene lying in bed alone for like 45 seconds.  Weird.
• In the kitchen, they’re cooking.  Nope.  Cut back to Gene and Joy.
• Joy said that Kevin is full of shit.  Apparently, he’s sleeping on the floor because Erica is so amazing and wonderful that he can’t keep his hands off her, and he’s trying to act like that’s why he’s sleeping on the floor.
• We learn that Kevin called Gene out for not sleeping on the floor next to Joy.  Gene told him that he and Joy talked about it, and she said that she would join him on the floor if he tried it.  They’re lying next to each other without having sex, and it’s fine.
• Hmm… Andrea walks in, and I was going to say that they weren’t snotty jackasses, insisting that she leave.  But then, they were kinda snotty and told her to go away.  She’s a bitch about it, though, so whatever.
• Gene just said that “Jeffrey doesn’t like vagina.”  That’s awesome.  Apparently, Kevin was going on and on about how he would never vote against Kevin.  He’s never had to.  Gene doesn’t want to be on Joy’s team, because he doesn’t want her to go to limbo.
• Joy is basically upset that everyone is always talking about their showmance all the time. You know what would change that?  Spending some time with the rest of them instead of holing up in your room all the time.
• She’s telling Gene about what a dick Kevin is to Erica, and how he keeps hurting her because she keeps letting him.  She got really defensive when Joy pointed out the truth.  Love hurts.
• Abrupt cut to Mike and Kevin.
• Kevin tells Mike that Gene completely played him.  He put himself in a critical position, apparently, he was controlling the board somehow?  This will probably make more sense after I see the challenge.  But, essentially, Gene nailed the prelude to the challenge, got Mike to put him in charge, then fucked the challenge 100%. 
• Yeah, I now understand why Gene doesn’t want to go to limbo.
• Kevin is encouraging Mike to call Gene out.  That’s what we call making drama.  
• The challenge was definitely a puzzle of some sort.  They’re cutting out the sound when he tries to say what happened, but it sounds like there were a couple of steps before answering a question?
• This is the second time Gene has been accused of throwing a challenge (and the first time, yes, he was totally doing it).
• Mike is saying now that he didn’t want Kevin on his team because he didn’t want to  risk him and Kevin both going to limbo.  That’s not the conversation they had yesterday.  Do they know/suspect we’re watching?  Or are we just watching some convenient revisionist history?  Because I’m positive that, if the other team had lost, Kevin and Mike would be high-fiving their victory over Stephanie.
• Mike is now giving some bizarre “Win one for the Gipper” speech.
• Andrea comes in and mentions sending the #Fanswers.  She wants to be careful about what they ask to avoid a false answer and not look like they’re turning on each other.
• She says that Gene told the others that Mike was giving him the wrong colors.  Mike says that he repeated himself once, and it didn’t cost any time?  What?  You lost by TWENTY SECONDS?  Repeating yourself once could take 20 seconds, depending on what you said.
• Kevin wants to ask us if we’re tired of Gene and Joy’s “fake showmance”.
• Kevin is mad.  He says Gene should be in there begging the others not to send him into limbo, not explaining how Mike effed up.  
• Andrea wants to ask if Gene is “sneaky” or “shady”?  
• Kevin makes a joke about asking if Andrea is “horrible or really horrible?”  Oh!  Oh!  She’s really horrible!!!  I bet that would get loads of votes!
• This is annoying, because they keep blocking the sound.
• Cut back to the kitchen - Joy, Erica, and Stephanie.
• Stephanie says that she sometimes keeps her mouth shut to avoid escalating an argument, and maybe she shouldn’t.  So, now she’s worried that she should get more involved.
• She mentions taking Erica with her to see Celene Dion AGAIN.  Did she win tickets?  In Vegas?  
• They’re all making dinner and talking about the #Fanswers.  Joy wants to ask something about how feisty she should be.  I like it.
• Back to Team WackADoodle.  
• Andrea wants to know the bad things people said about her while she was gone.  It mostly involved lying.
• I fucking hate Andrea.  I want to punch her in her bitchy, ugly face.  I cannot continue to look at her while there are words coming out of her mouth.  I hope lightning strikes The Glass House.
• Kevin is apparently going to shun everyone else when Mike and Andrea are in limbo.  I bet he sleeps with Erica, instead.  Who wants to give me odds?
• Kitchen.  Cooking and the Awesome ladies.  
• Erica is the only one not still in her costume from the challenge.  
• They’re talking about Cincinnati, because Erica and Steph both used to live there. Having never been to Cincinnati (maybe the airport once?), I don’t care.
• They mention that Andrea is the only remaining Conservative in the House, which could give her a huge backing.  Steph and Erica discuss how they could vote Republican, if they could endorse any social policies that aren’t supported solely by terrible people (OK, I may be paraphrasing a bit, but that’s the gist).
• Andrea is sucking up to Erica, probably because she has few friends left.  She asks for help with her #Fanswers, but Erica is worried that, if she feeds Andrea a question, no one will know.
• Kevin notes that he hasn’t sent one Tweet all day.  He’s only send like 25 in the last 5 weeks.  Why start now?
• Back in the kitchen, they’re just talking about stuff we saw in the live feed while making dinner.  There’s no need to repeat it.
• Mike is talking about God and destiny.  Apparently, if God wanted him to stay, it wouldn’t have been a mental challenge.  Couldn’t you say that, if God wanted him to stay, He would have given Mike brains?  Or is “God” the name of one of the producers?
• Gene actually told Mike and Kevin that he was asked to volunteer for limbo, and that he doesn’t necessarily trust the others on his side.  He thinks that at least one of them really wants him to go.
• Gene then realizes that putting him in makes an even stronger statement re: how much they hate Mike.  
• Andrea comes in, and they’re discussing the idea of Gene going to limbo to prevent Andrea from having immunity as Team Captain.  Mike says that Stephanie will be Team Captain again next week, and there’s no way it’ll be Kevin.  
• Erica comes back. I find myself getting distracted, because I’m wondering who will be Team Captain next week if Andrea and Mike go to limbo.  Hmmm… Stephanie and Joy?  Jeffrey? 
• When did Stephanie get there?  Everyone is talking about the challenge.
• Mike wants an endurance challenge, but the others say it would cost too much.
• Kevin tells Stephanie that he won the challenge for her.  She agrees, but I have my doubts.  Did Erica just say that Dean Martin was Superman? 
• Interesting that, after all his BS about calling Gene out for throwing the challenge, they’re all sitting here, and Kevin is silent.
• Ahhhh.. Kevin wants the trip to Vegas.  Gene tells Kevin that, if he is going to say single-handedly won the challenge, he needs a hashtag.  Now, Kevin asks if Gene single-handedly lost the challenge, and they cut the sound.  Jerks.
• I tuned out briefly with all the Celine talk.  I think Erica said that she and Stephanie are going to date after the show ends?  What?  See what I get for zoning out?

                             

• In the bathroom, Gene and Jeffrey are talking about changing the toilet paper roll.   Really?  I have to watch this?
• Stephanie and Gene in the Friends room.  Steph doesn’t want to be on the Bottom 2 again next week.  Can’t blame her.
• Gene suggests that next week could be Steph’s week to be in the Friends room.  Joy doesn’t want to stay in there, because of the pressure, so Gene is trying to find a replacement.
• In six weeks, Stephanie has never been in the Friends room or the Enemies room?  That’s…. very telling, actually.  Everyone else who is left has been in one or the other (or both).  Oh, except maybe Mike.  Mike and Gene shared the friends room once?  What?
• They’re all talking about the future.
• Jeffrey thinks they’re going to do a reunion show in 5 years?  Oh, if you really think that, I am very sad for you.
• Back in the Friends room, they’re talking about Jeffrey volunteering for limbo or everyone else sending Gene.  
• Stephanie doesn’t like the idea of putting anyone in their group into limbo, because the viewers might say, “You have too much power!  Bring Mike back!”
• Gene agrees.  He also said that, if he is sent to limbo after saying he didn’t want to go, all bets are off.  He wouldn’t listen to anything they said, or vote with them, or anything.  It would be Gene against the house.
• Steph says that, at this point, it’s Andrea.  She’s going.  I’m wondering who Kevin and Andrea are going to vote for, but (a) it’s probably Jeffrey and (b) I don’t care.
• I guess Joy was upset by something Stephanie said earlier about an issue between Erica and Joy.  Steph said that she understands more where Erica is coming from.  I guess Joy told… you know what?  No.  This is stupid.  It’s all bullshit high school drama, and I’m not recapping it.  Get a daisy, rip off some petals, and figure it out.
• Joy goes to finish cooking, Steph decides to nap, and Gene is literally lying there, staring at the ceiling.  Ok, no.  He’s napping, too.  Why am I watching this?
• Cut to Erica and Joy in the bathroom… Nevermind.
• Andrea, Kevin, Jeffrey, and Mike are talking about Gene.  
• Gene thinks that he’s going to be Top 2, and he’s basically said that he’ll be standing at the end with all of them.  Interesting.
• Erica is so drunk.  Again.
• The chimes sound, and everyone gathers into the living room to find out what the new rule is.  Jeffrey is pissed, because he’s starving and dinner is almost ready.
• Kevin says to just not do whatever the food rule is.
• They’re all very concerned that they won’t be allowed to eat whatever they’re making.  Ok - you get these restrictions every week around 8 pm.  Eat dinner earlier!   Problem solved!
• Ori tells them that it’s all raw foods vs. liquid.  There’s no way they can eat Joy’s chicken.  They can make shakes!
• Are they drinking the sauce Joy made?  Ok, no.  They’re tasting it.  She’s putting it all away to be eaten tomorrow.  
• Ori sent them energy shots, maple syrup, and wine?  Ew.  Please don’t mix those.  Andrea is making soup.  It better be tomato soup.  
• Oh, no.  They’re talking about the master cleanse.  Don’t do it!  There’s only one bathroom!

                                 

• The feed is stuttering.  It should stop doing that.  
• In the laundry room, Erica is talking to Jeffrey about Gene.  Is she trying to talk Jeffrey into volunteering for immunity?  He’d rather go in against a known opponent than possibly against someone in his alliance.  
• OK.  Jeffrey is talking about doing it, and she’s just talking through it with him.
• Erica isn’t confident that Andrea will be Team Captain if not for limbo.  So, she’s worried that Jeffrey would be volunteering for no reason.  
• Steph comes in - Jeffrey tells her what he’s thinking.  Erica supports him, but Steph thinks it’s a really big risk.
• I just realized that this would be a very different strategy if we couldn’t see that he was thinking about this and they could make it look like he was voted in by the other players.
• Erica is talking about how Jeffrey going into limbo is atonement?  For what?  Oh, for throwing the challenge to help Stephanie win.  
• Stephanie says that there’s a difference between “throwing” a challenge, and not really making an effort to help.  With the challenge her team lost, she gave her team the same support they always give her.  I love her.
• Cut to Kevin and Mike, talking about Andrea.  
• Kevin says that he wants to marry her.  Yes, he said that.
• HAHA, Gene was in the Twitter booth, and he can hear you!  Oops!
• Erica wanders in, and Kevin tells her that it’s her turn to sleep on the floor.  That might be funny with someone less drunk.  Andrea brought soup to Mike and Kevin, but no one else.  Niiiice, Andrea.  
• After hearing Kevin talk about tomato soup and “the honey hole,” I will never eat it again.  Kevin asks if he can blend up a turkey sandwich or something and drink it.  I vote yes.  It would be liquid at that point.  The others agree.
• Yeah, he’s drunk.  The Enemies room will be interesting tonight.
• Cut to Gene, telling Jeffrey about how, while he was in the Twitter room, he could hear (and was tweeting) everything that Mike and Kevin were saying.  That’s hilarious.  
• Jeffrey tells Gene how hilarious it is to talk game with them, because they’re not very smart.
• Gene put a fake Twitter message on the screen, in case anyone walked in to check on him, then leaned back and just put his ear to the wall.  This is fascinating Gene, but tell us what else they were saying.
• He can’t believe they didn’t check the Twitter room before having a conversation in there.  
• Gene thinks this is why Holly was spending so much time in the Twitter booth.  I think Gene is giving Holly way too much credit.
• Apparently, you can also hear people talking on the patio, or on the couch, depending on whether one of the doors is open.  Gene thinks they should stage fake conversations.
• Cut to Mike telling Andrea that he thinks Gene heard Mike talking about calling him out for throwing the challenge.  
• They move back to talking about the live feed.   Let’s lay this conversation to rest, once and for all.  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bully?s=t&ld=1032
• Kevin thinks that the other team is creaming them because they’re getting lucky.
• They all think they’re doing OK.  Are they watching the same show I am?
• Mike says that none of them have said anything bad about the others?  So calling someone a bully is a compliment?
• Ouch.  In the same vein, Kevin says that America wants to watch funny, interesting people and Stephanie is not one of them.  Mike says that she’s boring.  I guess these are also compliments?  Seriously - do they ever get dizzy from all this?
• Andrea is smart enough to realize that there’s a reason the viewers are asking about bullies, but not smart enough to realize that the same question went to everyone, not just the three of them.
• Jeffrey and Erica come out.  They’ve gone with Jungle Juice, since it’s liquid only. 
• Blah, blah, blah, blah…. They’re back to talking about how famous they all must be. I really don’t want to have to tell them that no one is watching this show.
• Oh, good!  This is almost over!

Damn.  I was about to say how glad I am not to have to watch this again for several days, but I forgot that today was only Wednesday.  Now I’m sad again.