Live Feed - Tuesday, July 10, 9:00 p.m.

• Jeffery and someone are talking about swapping out a quilt.  Is it Erica? Maybe.  They’ve shared the Friends room a lot.
• Stephanie and Gene laying in a bed, with Joy seated between them. Whispering about someone who was pressing him for info about various players. They keep going to whispers, can't make most of it out.  That’s unfortunate, because if they’re talking game play or strategy, it’s probably more interesting than most of the live feeds.
• Stephanie wanders out to go find food.
• Gene and Joy wonder how the others got her to agree to throw the challenge (even though she ultimately failed). 
• Gene and Joy joke about how she should do everything he says, or whatever.  He thinks that the people are telling so many lies, they forget what the truth is.
• Did Joy just tell Gene that she turned him into a vampire?  Does he glitter?  Anyway,  Gene says that one of the first things he put on Twitter was to not fall in love in The Glass House.  Joy pushes for info on other tweets he's made, he admits to "name dropping", says that he tweeted that she was so amazingly beautiful, but entirely unattainable.  I don’t recall reading that tweet, but I may have missed it.
• Joy keeps getting into baby talk, starts tickling Gene, who apparently is not a fan of getting tickled. "Creepy mouse, creepy mouse, all the way to Gene's house.”  I am really disturbed.  Joy hates bad handshakes, says that her normal way of shaking hands is supposedly flirty.  What’s a flirty handshake?
• Erica apparently hit on Gene, he was NOT into it. He's telling Joy that Erica "creeped on him". Joy discusses making eye contact with other guys while out on dates. Joy doesn't like men hitting on her when she's with her daughter, who apparently tries to set her up.
• Gene and Joy lying on the bed, talking.  
• Fuck.  Kevin is back.  He’s in the living room talking to Mike, Andrea, and Holly.  He mentions that he couldn’t talk to Ashley while in limbo.  Why didn’t Andrea ask Holly about that?  Anyway, apparently, Ashley is going to be in a hotel all week, and Robin was supposed to be on a plane home this morning.
• Kevin says the worst part must be to be kicked out and have to wait 8 days before going home.  Andrea whines that her family is close enough to come get her.  I hope you have to wait.
• Back in the bedroom, Joy says that if she wins, she’ll get Erica a nice bed, Jacob a microwave, Jeffrey an iPhone, Gene a Star Wars Edition Xbox.  He said he’ll trade it for a real date.  She says that she’ll give him the Xbox and go on a date with him.  She asks if he’s going to give her a scavenger hunt, and he says that he doesn’t recycle dates.  Mike said he doesn’t want anything, so she’s not getting him anything. Gene says he’s glad Joy is making a list, because he can use that to buy gifts for people after he wins.
• Kevin yells, “You don’t know!  You don’t know what it’s like!”  Mike agrees that he doesn’t know.  They’re joking around about how bad limbo is.  Erica was with them, but then she wanders out, saying that she looks like a lesbian camp counselor.
• Stephanie and Jeffrey are in the kitchen, cooking.  Do they know we’re watching?  They’re not doing anything?
• Back to Gene and Joy, just talking, laughing, etc.  
• Andrea, Kevin, and Holly say something about a turning point.  They can’t believe Joy is still in the house.  Kevin says that the powers that be must like the showmance, because she’s still around.  Clearly, ABC doesn’t like what they’re saying, because the sound cuts out.  Apparently, they noticed, or they heard something about protection… there’s a very weird exchange here.  I’m so confused.  The players know that ABC edited something out, but they don’t know why.  Holly thinks it was Kevin and Andrea.
• Joy tells Gene that she’s not a gold digger.  Ok.  Gene doesn’t like gold diggers, either.  They’re talking about love and relationships.  Joy is lying on her back, and Gene is stroking her stomach.  This is very sweet. It’s just not worth typing word for word.
• Back to the other room.  Andrea tells Kevin that everyone wants her gone.  Can you blame them?
• Looks like Mike and Holly are team captains.  They want Mike on Erica’s team, and they want that team to lose, and they want Mike to beat Erica in limbo.  I sincerely doubt Mike can beat Erica.  
• ABC keeps cutting the feed out again.  Andrea complains that they keep getting mad at her, but Kevin points that there’s nothing else to do but sit around and talk.  We cut to Joy and Gene - also sitting around talking, but actually getting to know each other.
• Where are Mike and Erica?  
• Holly wants to build a strong team, because she doesn’t feel good about trying to beat other people in limbo.  She must be team captain again.  So, now, she wants to take the winning team and give the losing team to Mike.  Can you blame her?  Now, Andrea’s bitching that Stephanie wanted to do the challenge slow and steady, instead of rushing.  In that challenge, rushing would have made them drop the ball, over and over.  If they’d been able to work together, they would have been able to move faster.
• Andrea has only been on a winning team once.  Ha!
• So why hasn’t she been sent to limbo yet?  
• Why does Holly think that Mike can beat Erica in limbo?  Is she stupid?  Oh, duh.  Sorry.
• Andrea points out that if Mike’s team loses, the other team gets to decide who he’ll go up against.  It won’t be Gene or Joy, and they think Mike has the best shot against Jeffrey or Erica.
• Holly is talking about Stephanie, but Andrea tells her not to pick someone who threw the challenge.  She tells Holly to pick Gene.  If that team loses, Stephanie won’t go to limbo anyway (neither will Gene).  
• Andrea says that Mike has a better chance of winning against Stephanie than Gene.  Mike can’t beat any of them in limbo, except maybe Holly.  Seriously.
• Holly wants to bring Joy over to their side?  Andrea says it doesn’t matter.  
• Maybe they could try being reasonably likable.  That might encourage the viewers to vote for them, and it could make the other people in the house stop wanting to vote them out.
• Andrea tells Holly to talk to Mike, but she doesn’t think he’ll be willing to pick a losing team.  Andrea makes the point I’ve been waiting for, which is that, no matter how you stack the team, it doesn’t matter.  They don’t know what the challenge is in advance, and none of them have been so physically demanding, or so mentally challenging that a win would be certain if you had a smart or athletic team.  Also, picking the most athletic team is useless, if the challenge turns out to not have to do with athletics.
• Holly can’t be on the same team as Andrea or Kevin, because, if they lose, she’ll be up against either of them, and she can’t beat them.  For that reason, Holly wants to put Andrea on Mike’s team.  This conversation is stupid, because, if Andrea is on the losing team, she will be sent to limbo, and there’s no way to guess which team will be losing.  
• Apparently, with an odd number of players, the last player chosen gets to pick a team?  That’s stupid.  Since Kevin is immune anyway, just leave him on the sidelines.  That would make sense.
• Holly doesn’t trust Stephanie and doesn’t want her on her team.  That’s the only reasonably intelligent thing she’s ever said.
• I would be really annoyed that they’re still talking about this, but, well, they don’t have anything better to do.  Instead, I just stop listening.
• Finally, we move into the kitchen, where we see that Gene and Kevin have joined Steph and Jeffrey.  Where are Mike and Erica?  Kevin is tossing an orange from one hand to the other. Joy comes in, and they start playing catch.  Joy tells Kevin that, if he’s bored being back in the house, she’s happy to send him back to limbo.  She says she’s just teasing, but I agree with her completely.
• Joy calls for Erica to come in and give her Crazy Aunt Robin impression, which is only interesting because we learn that Erica is sleeping.  Only Mike is missing.  Joy recaps the impression for Kevin, who tries not to show how not amused he is.
• OK, it sounds like they know a live feed is coming, but not that they’re being aired right now.  We learn that the teams are sometimes chosen on Tuesday and sometimes Wednesday.  This is so fascinating.  I really feel as though my life is enriched from watching this hour of television.
• Gene, Jeffrey, and Stephanie fondly remember what it was like to have both salt and pepper in the shakers.  It sounds like no one has refilled them since the beginning.  
• Gene notes that the flies are lingering in the wine bottles.  Ew.  
• Mike wanders in, singing the Ren & Stimpy song.  Huh.  
• I am voluntarily watching people make a dinner I don’t get to eat.  What is wrong with me?
• Cut to Mike and Kevin, in the bathroom, talking about someone who may or may not be diabolical.  Oh, it’s Joy.  They’re discussing whether she has some secret mastermind plan and she’s going to win the whole thing.  HAHAHA.  Apparently, Joy said to Mike, “You know why?  I’m not going to argue wit you, because you use curse words.”  His reply?  The same that mine would have been.  “Then don’t fucking argue with me!!!”  That’s hilarious.
• Mike thinks that Erica thinks they’re the cool kids, and that she wants to join them because they’re so cool?  Umm… no.
• Erica IS one of the cool kids, but Kevin and Mike are not.  Andrea certainly is not.
• Mike mentions being paired with Joy for dinner and giving a total bullshit toast, because he couldn’t say anything nice about Joy’s character or personality.  He just complimented her ability as a mother, which would be nice, if he had any reason in the world to think such things. He’s never seen anything that tells him how she is as a mother, and he clearly just said it to make her happy.
• Anyway, Joy is now all nice and lovey with Mike, and there’s no way for him to push her away without looking like a complete jackass.  Mike is now convinced that Joy is secretly an evil genius.
• Kevin agrees, because the way she’s pushing their buttons and forcing them to argue with her is almost strategic.  
• Kevin is tired of the game?  You could have walked away, dude.  No one asked you to come back.  
• Kevin made some joke to the house that they make a rule that no one goes to limbo twice before anyone goes twice.  Jeffrey refused to agree.  Kevin notes that, no matter what happens, again, it sounds like they’ll manage to get rid of someone on Team Wackadoodle.
• Mike thinks Andrea can win?  I hope not.  They start talking about the edits, and production yells at them again.  When they return, Kevin thinks Holly’s going home.  Too bad she refuses to throw the challenge again.
• At this point, I wander away for half an hour.  If anything interesting happened, please post it in the comments.  I
• They’re eating dinner.  
• We learn that Erica needs some kind of medication, in a pen shot, which lives in the freezer and needs to thaw for about 40 minutes before she can take it. 
• Stephanie offers everyone sparking cider, and Erica proposes.  Steph points out that, in Massachusetts, they can marry.  Erica tells Stephanie and Joy that they’re amazing cooks, and they’re going to have a lot of marriage proposals when they get out of the house.
• Andrea sits alone, eating, not joking with the rest of them, not talking and - you guessed it!  - looking pissed off.
• Joy says, “I’m so excited!”  Gene, “And you just can’t hide it?”  ABC cuts the live feed, so I guess they didn’t want to pay for the rights to that song.  Dude, seriously?  If Saved by the Bell could afford to play that song 200 times in one episode, The Glass House must be able to afford the royalties for one verse.
• As everyone is eating, Gene is seasoning something else and putting it in a bag.  I guess he’s preparing something for tomorrow night?  Tune into the FASCINATING Wednesday night live feed to discover what the players will eat for dinner!  Woo-hoo!
• Gene wants to see thermal images of them?  What?  Ok, he’s just bored, so he’s making shit up.  Erica laughs, because she believed him.  She says that he could tell her anything and she would believe him.
• This feed, unlike all the others, is really loud.  I can’t turn my audio down much further.
• Everyone is complementing the meal, so Andrea bitches that red snapper is not her favorite fish.  
• She likes talapia, which she says is the least fishy fish.  Talapia has no flavor whatsoever.  
• I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that someone as boring as Andrea likes the blandest fish there is.  Does she also like it cold?  Then she could have a bland, cold fish, just like herself.
• They’re all talking about fishing.  I have to have better things to do than listen to this.

                                                           

• Stephanie wants Erica to marry her brother.  That is, by far, the most interesting part of this conversation.  Except she might be talking about Joy.  I’m so bored, I zoned out.
• Erica wants kids with above average intelligent, but not super smart.  She points out that most super smart people are actually really socially awkward, and Stephanie is a rare exception who is smart, with social graces, and… if Erica were a lesbian, she’d totally be hitting on Steph.  Anyway, she’s right.  A lot of super smart people are more like Sheldon Cooper than Stephanie.
• They go back to talking about the live feed.  
• Erica wonders if they misheard Ori.
• Mike says that he asked, and he was told that they could go live at any time.
• Someone suggests that it has been live the entire time.  
• Jeffrey and Erica are saying that they will die if their conversation was aired.  I didn’t hear anything scandalous in what I’m getting.  I mostly got Andrea talking about her dad.  I guess all the good stuff happened in another room.
• They go back to talking about food and dessert.  I think ABC is calling them into the confessional one at a time.  That’s why the sound keeps cutting out, and random people keep vanishing and coming back.
• Cut to the living room.  Joy and Erica are spooning on the couch.  They say that this is why they do so well in challenges that require them to get along and communicate.  Stephanie walks in, and they invite her to join them.  
• They makeup a “spoon song.”  They must be so bored.  Poor things.  They’re almost as bored as I am - and they can’t even switch to Facebook to do something else.
• Cut to Kevin and Mike in the other room.  They can hear the girls singing, and they look so annoyed.  That’s funny.  Kevin says, “Send me home right now.”  I sincerely wish I could.
• Andrea found the lamb chops!  Yay!  I’m so excited!  And I just can’t hide it!  (I’m lying.)
• Kevin tells Mike that the girls are going to turn on each other.  He says that Joy will pull Mike aside, tell him that they’re playing him, blah blah blah, etc.  That’s actually not going to happen, because Mike and Kevin are playing Holly, so it was true when Joy pulled her aside and said that.  No one is playing Mike.  He’s just deluding himself into thinking that he’s relevant.
• Kevin can’t believe the girls are hanging out and snuggling on the couch.  “Is that really what you want to see?”  Kevin, are you really asking whether I’d rather watch three hot chicks snuggle, or one middle aged old man and one Neanderthal talk about how they’re better than everyone else?  You don’t know me at all.
• Cut to Mike talking to Jeffrey in the Enemies room.  I miss what he said, but he shakes Jeffrey’s hand.  Sounds like Mike is laying the groundwork to try to bring Jeffrey onto their side.  Sounds like Mike is delusional, if he thinks Jeffrey will join any alliance that includes Andrea.
• They must be saying something they’re not supposed to, because ABC took the sound away again.
• Mike is doing dishes, and Andrea is making cookie dough.  She looks pissed.  I’m going to stop typing that.  Until I say otherwise, you can safely assume that Andrea looks pissed.
• Are they now cooking lamb?  Why are they eating again?
• Back to the girls on the couch, spooning and picking their teeth.  I actually can’t watch this.  Sorry.  Apparently, this really bothers Joy.  I can understand that.
• Cut to the bedroom, where Kevin is talking to Gene.  Of course, as soon as the camera turns on, Gene leaves, so I’m just watching Kevin unpack. Zzzzzzzz…….
• Ok, Gene is back.  He says that he and Stephanie were playing tetherball and it got racy.  What?  I’ve never heard of sexy tetherball.  Sounds like I’m missing out.
• Kevin says that’s really hot.  Kevin needs to get laid if he thinks tetherball is sexy.  Guess he should have been nicer to Andrea.
• Kevin’s not sure whether he’s allowed to tweet like normal, because the last thing the viewers saw was him going to limbo.  I guess they don’t know that ABC is holding their tweets.  Anyway, Gene reminds him that they were only told not to give anything directly away - they know we can piece things together from what they say.  That’s actually my favorite part of the show.
• As Gene explains more how it all works, ABC mutes him.  Of course.  Half this feed is muted.
• Back to Joy and Stephanie, signing the spoon song again.  I feel like I have heard the tune before, but maybe it’s because they’ve been singing it for half an hour.  
• Joy makes some snide comment about Steph’s brain power.  Steph doesn’t seem to notice that she’s not being nice.
• They just start singing to each other, rhyming.  They sang about urine.  I am so sad that I’m watching this.  I must have something better to do.
• Back in the bedroom, Gene is telling Kevin about a conversation he had with Mike re: Jersey Shore.  That sends Gene into the Twitter booth for some reason.  He returns, and Holly is yelling at Erica. Holly comes in, and they ask where she’s been.  The confessional, apparently.
• Do real people talk the way Holly talks?  I am so glad I’m not 22, because I would hate all of my peers.  She’s so obnoxious.
• Kevin is bitching that he doesn’t know what he’s allowed to say.  So, he should shut up now.
• He reiterates his “no one into limbo twice” idea. Holly loves it.  Gene thinks everyone else will veto it, and he’s probably right.  Whatever.  I wish this were over.   
• They recap the cleaning, but I don’t care, so I’m not repeating it.
• They’re now talking about everything we’ve seen on the show over the past four weeks.  I saw that already, so the reminder is unnecessary.  Kevin tells us that four plus one is five.  Thank you, Kevin.  My life would be incomplete without you to explain basic maths to me.
• “This is the longest thing I’ve ever been part of in my life.”  I can only assume that Kevin is talking about this conversation.
• He’s talking about how he keeps thinking his friends will have ditched him, his daughter will have a new dad, but it’s only been 5 weeks.
• Don’t they leave the house for two days every week?  Isn’t that a way that he could  tell how long it’s been? The number of weekends?  Or is counting his days out of the house difficult, because that’s a number greater than five?
• The show is half over?  I’m almost out of my misery?  YAY!
• Holly can’t believe she made it to the halfway point.  She’s talking about… something.  I fell asleep.
• The conversation comes back around to the shit hitting the fan on Friday night.  Gene went into the Twitter booth, sent two tweets, and everything went crazy.
• Kevin slept for 16 hours in limbo.
• Holly started fighting with Erica and Mike?  Then everyone else got involved.  She makes it sound like Gene just dove into the fight, but she actually called him out and got him dragged into it.  She was whining that people jumped all over her, but not Gene.  He told her that she can’t throw him under the bus, then demand respect for doing exactly what he was doing.
• I’m sure I’ll have to watch this fight next Monday, so I’m not worrying about it now.  I just want to get through the next 20 minutes.
• We learn that they really do go to limbo almost immediately after the vote.  They have to go away…
• This is fucking obnoxious.  ABC either needs to stop muting their conversation, or tune the feed to a conversation that we can watch.  It can’t be that difficult.  But I’m tired of trying to lip-read or wondering if I accidentally unplugged my headphones.
• They’re arguing over what time it is.  This is wonderful television.  God knows, they couldn’t look at a fucking clock.
• Mike repeats that thing he said earlier about being on camera any time.  We hear a voice telling him not to talk about production.  He says he isn’t, and we abruptly switch to the ladies in the living room.
• They’re talking about sex!  Why didn’t we get to see all of this?
• Gene told Joy that he has 21 questions that he asks himself before deciding whether to be in a relationship with her.  #3 is “Will she sleep with me?”  If the answer is “yes,” he won’t keep learning more.  What?  He wants to be in a sexless relationship?
• Anyway, Joy says no sex on the first date.  Erica says you have to sleep with someone to know if you want to be in a relationship with him.
• Stephanie says something about a two-drink max on the first date.
• Erica mentions again wanting an eccentric billionaire.  Joy offers a friend who owes strip clubs.  Erica bans her from helping her try to find a man.
• When Erica says that she wants a funny guy, Joy says that she knows one.  I thought she was just banned?  Erica goes on to talk about how most comedians aren’t good-looking, because good-looking men don’t need to develop a sense of humor.  I agree, actually.  Anyway, then she says that, even though comedians aren’t good-looking, she’s slept with them anyway.
• Stephanie remembers that Gene went into the “good looks” room during the first live feed.
• Joy talks about dating some former psychos.  Erica says, again, that she doesn’t want Joy to find her a man to date.  Stephanie suggests that she and Erica screen men for Joy.
• Erica doesn’t have a list, but then she gives us one.  She wants someone 10 years older, because she’s always 10 years hotter than him.  Stephanie says that, he’ll die when she’s young, so she can date someone else.  Anyway, Erica wants…. why am I typing this?
• I get to go to sleep in 9 minutes!
• Joy once signed up for eHarmoney to get the free psychological profile, and she was rejected.  Erica has friends who had the same problem.  Don’t fill out those surveys when you’re hating the other gender, because they can tell, and they reject you.
• So much of this conversation is being bleeped, it’s not worth trying to follow.  Jeffrey is bitching that he now has gray hair.  Stephanie mentions Rogue, but no one else watches X-Men, so they have no idea what she’s talking about. Oh, well.  I think Rogue has cool hair, Stephanie.
• Cut back to the men…. talking about steak?  I’m going to bed.  This is a waste of time.  Thankfully, it’s midnight, and we’re done.