Live Feed - Monday, June 25, Part 2

• The feed I’m watching ends, and we come back to Gene telling us that every girl he’s dated has cheated on him. Try going downtown more often, Gene, if you know what I mean (and I think you do).  I’m not really sure how much I missed in the feed switchage - but it probably wasn’t that exciting.
• Jeffrey has the same insecurity as Gene.  He doesn’t know if he’ll ever be 100% happy with a partner.  That makes me sad, Jeffrey.  I wish I could hug you.  He worries that he’ll never find someone and get married.  Me, too, Jeffrey.  Me, too.
• Did Andrea say that she has a girly version?  Because she’s married.  It must have been Joy.  Anyway, she’s insecure about her thighs and butt.  Yeah, it much suck weighing about 12 lbs.  I think she just wants the camera to go up and down her perfect body.  
• Stephanie’s biggest insecurity is about men.  She doesn’t really understand what men want.  She tells us that she dated someone who didn’t introduce her to his friends for six months, and she totally thought that was normal.  Oh, honey.  I can appreciate that, but it is a little odd, since she’s been married.  She must have figured it out.  Then again, I imagine being back in the dating pool after the death of a spouse presents issues that I wouldn't have thought of.
• Erica starts crying.  Poor baby!  I guess she had psoriasis when she was younger, on most of her body.  People would hide their children from her and make fun of her.  They called her “Abby Scabby” - which she points out is lame, because her name is not Abby.  Oh!  I want to hug her!  She’s crying!  That’s so sad!  She said it’s good, because it forced her to develop her personality and not just rely on being pretty, but the whole experience was really traumatizing for her.  Erica sends out a PSA to let high school kids know that it won’t suck forever.
• Joy is worried that, when people get close to her, they won’t really like her, so she doesn’t have a lot of close friends.  It’s about quality, sweetie, not quantity.  I’d rather have my handful of awesome close friends than 200 obnoxious friends that I barely know.
• Robin tells us that she’s not insecure about anything, because she is grown up enough to own who she is.  That’s OK.  But she’s concerned that she’ll never figure out her place in life or discover what she was meant to do.
• Huh.  Many seconds of empty, blank feeds.  I miss stuff.  It looks like they’re done talking about his insecurities.  Guess I’ll never know what Kevin’s insecurities are.  
• Jeffrey and Erica miss True Blood, but they’re not sure if they can say it, so they drop obvious hints and clues.  If ABC minded, they would have taken that whole thing out.

                                                                 

• Jeffrey, “Are we really that interesting?”  Ori, “Yes, you are.”  Everyone else, “No.”
• The most interesting part of this live feed occurs when they start discussing how to bake frozen lasagna.
• Mike and Kevin are plotting in the kitchen.  In the living room, Gene and Andrea are talking about how you get to know someone quickly when you’re forced to interact with no one else for an extended period of time.  
• I am thankful for a brief reprieve due to technical difficulties.  Of course, had I been trying to wait up, I’d be mad.  Ori tells the players not to talk until the feed is fixed.  They’re sitting in awkward silence?  Wonderful.
• Annnd, we’re back!  Ok.  Ori says it’s time to hear from Kevin, so I guess I didn’t miss his insecurities.  He has a problem talking to girls.  He gets really nervous, uses a robot voice, and sounds like a geek.  He tries to be funny, but says he winds up acting like a doofus.  We all do that.  Stephanie and Kevin decide to practice by hitting on each other.  Ori asks about the robot voice.  Kevin does it, and says that it might work on Ori, but most ladies are turned off.
• Stephanie reminds Mike not to have any BS, and he said that he’s insecure about her watching him.  Whatever.  Then he talks about failing about a parent.  I think most people are insecure about that, so it’s possible that he’s actually not lying about this one.  The players applaud him for actually giving a real answer.
• Ori tells the players that she’s going to give each of them a question directed specifically at them.
• Mike: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?  He’s too cynical.  He wishes he could be more positive.  That’s shocking, since he is constantly ragging on the most positive person in the house.
• Kevin: What is your favorite guilty pleasure?  Captain Boring doesn’t have any, so he says that he likes adult beverages.  Whatever.
• Robin:  Who is your celebrity crush?  It’s a football player I’ve never heard of (like most football players).  Apparently, she met him once and he explained the game to her.  Nice!
• Joy: What is your favorite thing about your job?  Joy decides to talk about nursing, and not doing porn.  She says that it’s meeting new people…. and watching them die?  That’s… weird and morbid.  I’m a little disturbed by Joy now.
• Jeffrey:  Where do you get your fierceness boo?  What?  That’s the question?  I think there’s a missing comma.  He talks about owning who you are and being yourself. There really isn’t a key, but you need to accept who you are and enjoy your personal fierceness.  He says that anyone who has a problem with gayness is wrong, and the camera changes to Andrea, looking somber.  Nice.
• Erica: If you were stranded on a desert island, and you could bring 3 things, what would you bring?  She said that she assumes she can’t bring a cell phone or a radio.  Don’t assume.  So, a laptop with a perpetual battery, so she could write.  Feety pajamas, and sun screen so she doesn’t look like a tire.  Then she says, “Screw the sunscreen!  Dr. Fluffles is coming with me!”
• Stephanie:  What has been your coolest assignment as a scientist?  Her coolest assignment was the most recent one, “Understanding Manscaping Habits.”  How men remove hair from their body.  Andrea looks scandalized.  We then close up on Mike’s chest.  Ew.  That included things like physiology and interviewing men about their personal body shaving habits.  We learn the Joy feels very strongly about manscaping.
• Andrea: How was blowing up 500 balloons?  Really?  Way to throw her a softball, ABC.  They ignore the 500 or so “Why is it OK to force your religious beliefs on others” questions, and ask something ridiculous.  So…. what I’m seeing ABC, is that you support the bigot by giving her the winner’s edit.  If she wins, I will seriously consider boycotting ABC.  I’m not giving you her answer, because the question is asinine, and ABC sucks for not asking a real question.
• Another weird, awkward pause.  I think Ashley is waiting for her question, but I’m not sure what’s going on.  Joy starts hitting Gene with some weird weapon she made out of all the materials Ori gave them earlier.  This is bizarre.  I’m very sad to realize that there’s still an hour left.
• Gene:  Have you ever come close to getting hurt badly?  Yes.  Duh.  He explains that stunt work is actually really safe, and most mistakes happen with things like fights, because you’re trying to just barely miss, which isn’t easy when people are moving quickly.  So, he’s come close, but no broken bones or serious injuries.
• Ashley: If you could visit any place in the world, where would you go?  She always wanted to go to Barbados, and she just booked a trip with her friends in October, so she’s really excited about it.
• Erica and Joy cuddle while the rest of us fall asleep.  Stephanie joins them in the chair, and Erica tells us that she fells like The Heff.  I check to see if we have any tweets from the players.  Still nothing.  I guess ABC isn’t going to let us see anything that tried to send yesterday.
• Question for everyone:  What are you excessively obsessive compulsive about?  Stephanie says that she’s OCD about everything, and Erica tells us that Stephanie and Jeffrey are cleaning all the time.  Probably because they have nothing better to do.
• They ask Ori whether they’re just chatting or anyone can answer.  She doesn’t respond, so Jeffrey says that he’s OCD about organizing his music and playlists in categories.  That’s important!!!  Everyone should do that!
• Erica can’t be OCD, because she has ADD, which is exactly the opposite.  But she is really weird about penciling in her eyebrows every day.  She wants them to be perfect.
• Stephanie is OCD about cleaning everyone else’s dirty washcloths and towels covered with makeup.   And, apparently, the carpet is nasty and it pills all over the place.  Sounds like ABC bought a new rug when they moved in and didn’t clean it first.  It’s weird and gross.
• Ashley closet is color-coordinated.  That’s funny.  She also wants all of her hangers to face the same way and be certain colors.  Wait - isn’t that normal?
• Joy wants to wear yoga pants and t-shirts all the time.  What?  Isn’t that normal, too?  Crap.  These players are starting to make me think I have OCD.
• Andrea tells us that she’s perfect and has no OCD issues about anything.  She doesn’t want to say she’s a “total slob,” but she talks about dirty dishes, toys everywhere, laundry unfolded… that sounds like a total slob.
• Robin tells us that she makes her guests clean off chairs before they sit, so she’s really not OCD about anything related to cleaning.  But she is really organized about following schedules and knowing what’s going on.  That sounds like a good way to keep from forgetting to pick up your kids from their after-school program.  Mom and Dad, I hope you’re reading this.

• Gene is OCD about seeing every movie that comes out, no matter how bad it is.  He’s going to have a lot of trouble catching up after being gone all summer.  He also has to watch all the credits.  See, I do that, too!  Oh, but not because I might know someone on the stunt team.  He says it’s partially a respect thing.  Erica says that she has the same issue with comedy shows - a comic shouldn’t stand up, do his bit, and leave.  He should watch everyone that just watched them.
• Ori shows us more tweets.
• Who is the drunkest right now?  They unanimously vote for Joy, but Erica tells us that it’s the first time Joy has really gotten drunk.  Robin tells us again that she’s not drinking, because she’s crazy.  Let it go.
• Do an impression of another player.  Joy starts yelling, “Kevin! Do me!”  Then she realizes how bad that sounds, so Stephanie does an impression of Joy asking to be spanked.  Stephanie insists that she loves Joy.  I think she’s also drunk.  Erica refuses to bite “this dangerous bait.”  Erica is wise, and probably sober.  Jeffrey wants to do Holly.  He winks about 40 times, touches his breasts, laughs, and talks about how pretty he is, “Thank you for your question!  Please vote for me!  I love you!  HAHAHA!  YAY!”  Awesome.  Then, Erica wants to do Holly, too.  “I mean, sorry, bro, it’s a game bro, I mean, I’m too skinny and pretty and people are jealous of me, and I played basketball….one time…. bro, bro, bro.”  Words cannot adequately capture Erica’s mannerisms and her face as she does this, which is hilarious.  Ashley calls for a “smile break” which I guess is an Apollo impression.  Everyone wants Kevin to do Alex.  We already saw that.  Mike and Kevin do Jacob and Alex.  Imitating Jacob really only entails a vacant stare, so that’s pretty easy.  Kevin-as-Alex talking about how everyone else is stupid is really funny, because it’s very accurate.
• Is that question asking whether any of them have ever seen a ghost?  Stephanie tells us about a time she wrote a story about a girl who saw a ghost based on a letter someone gave her (for a class), and someone else freaked out, insisting that her aunt died in that way on the day.  Joy thinks she’s crazy.  I wonder if that girl was lying, but I don’t know.  Jeffrey says the ouija board really works.  He also says that he has a photograph with a ghost in the background.  Erica believes that spirits are among us, but society is so weird about it that most people try to hide it or act like they don’t believe it.  Ashley tells a story that has nothing to do with spirits, because she wants more screen time. I wonder if more people would vote for her if she didn’t do stuff like that.
• They get a tweet telling them to trade costumes with another player.  Most of them don’t think this is possible, but Erica is happy to have Kevin put his nipple tape on her.  Ooh, baby!  
• Joy drags Gene off to “trade costumes.”  *wink, wink*.  Wow.  She really is dragging him out of the room to strip down in front of him.  She must be drunker than I thought.  Joy is cutting her dress off, so I hope Gene has some way of sticking it to himself.  
• We cut to Stephanie stripping down to trade with Ashley.  Her bra and panties match, as they should.  ABC realizes how inappropriate this is and gives us a momentary blue screen.  I do not need to see nipple, ABC. Why are they undressing each other?  
• Back in the bathroom, Gene’s “shirt” fully covers Joy, so she doesn’t really need anything else.  Her dress does not fit him nearly so well.  
• Ashley looks pretty cute in Steph’s outfit.  Apparently, the creativity used in making furniture translates to making outfits out of garbage, because her outfit is the only one really holding up as they trade.  
• Andrea was changing when the camera clicked on in hte living room, so she ducked behind Erica. Why not just go in the bathroom, if that’s an issue?  Jeffrey insists that she also wear the wig.  Jeffrey looks wonderful in part of Andrea’s outfit, but it’s a little “hospital gown” in the back.
• Ori reminds us that they’ve been drinking.  I don’t think anyone needed that reminder.
• Gene is glad he’s wearing shorts under Joy’s dress.  He is not the only one.
• A twitterer asks if anyone can do a cartwheel.  Ashley flashes everyone showing that she can do it, but ABC thankfully covers it.  Steph also does a cartwheel, but she’s not as hardcore as Ashley, so she took off her shoes (and doesn’t show her lady bits).  Mike does one next.  
• They break all sorts of social taboos by talking about their ages.  Then, they switch to talking about Alex.  Alex is a douche.
• Gene looks awesome in Joy’s naughty nurse hat.
• They’re all just sitting around, waiting for Ori to give them direction.  We see that Andrea has changed back into normal clothes.
• Do you have a strange talent?  Prove it.
• Ashley apparently has a warddrobe malfunction as she stands up.  Apparently, she can do an “inward laugh,” like a squirrel.  That’s awesome.  She says “I can do it, and no one knows it’s me.”  Sorry, honey, but the squirrel is out of the bag.  Ori likes it.
• Gene can bend his pinky finger backward.  I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THAT!
• Jeffrey can sew his lips together.  Thankfully, not literally, but it’s cool to watch.
• Andrea can do the same basic stuff they teach in little girls gymnastics.
• The “view and vote page” on ABC randomly makes me watch a Wal-Mart commercial.  What?  
• Stephanie shows up some belly dancing moves.
• Erica does a weird thing that makes it look like half her finger is missing.
• Joy ties Gene’s shoe with her feet.  She’s drunk, though, so it’s going to take awhile.  Because she’s taking forever, Ori asks Robin to go ahead and demonstrate her talent instead.  I actually think I nodded off in the middle of this part.
• The lasagna is ready!  YUM!  They’ve been talking about this for three hours.  I want lasagna now.

                                       

• Robin asks Erica to show her feet.  She’s doing weird shit with her toes.  There’s a shadow, so I can’t really see it.  She claims she can do a lot of things with “this old body,” but she wants to keep it PG in case her kids are watching.
• It appears that Kevin’s “special talent” involves flipping us all off, because he starts waving his fist and ABC cuts off the video feed.  Huh.  We hear Jeffrey say it’s weird, but we aren’t allowed to see.  They’re all trying to do it, too.
• Jeffrey is now afraid of everyone in the house.
• Mike needs Robin’s mouse ears for his talent.  Not sure why.  He does something called “paranoid mouse,” which just involves holding plates next to his ears.  I’m not really sure this is a “talent”, per se.  Instead, he does an impression of Elmo doing Joe Pesci.  That’s much better.
• 10 minutes later, Joy shows ups Gene’s shoe that she tied with her feet.  Everyone is really excited.
• We’re asked to vote on which of the ladies has the best hidden talent.  The players discuss.  Instead, they make fun of Jacob, which is way better.  Joy says, “If I can do that with my feet, imagine what I can do with the rest of me,” so no one is surprised when she wins.  Who’s going to find me a Joy porno?  
• Naturally, we then vote on the men.  While we wait, Mike makes out with the red thing.  It’s odd. Jeffrey wins.  He’s so very excited!
• Ori tells them each to say good-night, in order.  They say “good-night.”  It’s as interesting as you would expect.  Dude, Robin has lived everywhere.  Stephanie tells us to “Keep it weird.”  Awesome.  Jeffrey tells us to “be fierce, be bold, be beautiful.”  I shall work on being all of those things at once.