Live Feed - Tuesday, July 3

• Everyone is in the living room, talking about TomKat.  This video starts late - it’s only 45 minutes.  Unfortunately, there really isn’t anything I can do about that, unless someone wants to post the beginning somewhere.  I’ll have to assume that I didn’t miss anything worth mentioning.  
• Gene jokes that Tom took one look at Holly and ditched Katie.  
• Andrea said that there were rumours from the beginning that this was an arranged marriage, Katie’s dad set up the whole thing, and that it was supposed to be for X years, and they would have Y kids.  Very interesting.  I hope it’s true, because that sounds exactly like something a closeted gay man would do.  
• Jeffrey has also heard them.  
• Mike said that he doesn’t care about this issue at all.  I really hate agreeing with him on anything, but… yeah, I don’t care, either.  
• Joy said that people change and grow up when they have kids.  I don’t now.  Katie Holmes is in her 30s, and they’ve been married five years.  I think she knew herself pretty well before they married.    
• No one really cares.
• It sounds like they all agree that Tom is a scary scientologist who wants to run Katie’s life.
• Ori tells the players that they deserve some comfort food, and we voted for them to either make hoagies or breakfast for lunch.  Ori sends them hoagie ingredients.  The viewers are crazy.  Breakfast for lunch is the best.
• Damn.  That looks delicious.  Now, I want a hoagie.
• As they wander around, I realize that I really love that rug.  Oh, well.
• Gene wants a giant sandwich.  Joy wants to put it in the oven.
• I gather that someone on Twitter thinks Stephanie and Gene are likeable.
• Ori reminds them that there are only 4 hours left to vote for Erica or Robin.  VOTE FOR ERICA!!!
• Ori tells them that she’ll call them one-by-one into the confession room to answer a question submitted by the viewers.
• Kevin:  Why do you not want to fully play the game?  You act like what we vote on is a big joke.
• Kevin says that he thinks he’s done everything we’ve voted on.  He doesn’t enter the debates or discuss current events.
• He wishes the Tweet was more specific, because he doesn’t think he does that.    So, standing around and talking about how you and Mike are better than everyone else is something we asked you to do?
• Holly: There is a long, awkward pause when she enters the booth, which is a little weird.
• Who is the first person in your alliance you’ll get rid of, if it’s down to just all of you?
• If Robin comes back, she would be the first one she would boot.  
• If Robin doesn’t come back, apparently, Holly will be the next person on her team to go, because she’s not willing to vote against anyone else.  And, you know, none of them give a shit about her.
• Stephanie: OMG, I have that shirt! 
• Are you OK with your alliance right now?
• She thinks that they’re a good group of strong people, and they haven’t been Team Captain yet.
• She says that she feels good, but she’ll feel better when she sees who goes home, and who the Bottom 2 are this week.
• She also thinks that they’re different personalities, not like what you normally sees on reality shows.
• She is willing to rethink the alliance if things change.  Well, that makes sense to an extent - you win or lose the game on your own, and the viewers are needed at this point.
• Gene notes that Steph has a bounce in her step when she returns, but she says she always has bounce in her step.  I’ve noticed that. 
• They’re really excited that they had baking soda so they could make cookies.
• Ashley: How did your mom being a minister influence your gameplay?
• She always thinks about her mother and the lessons she’s learned.  Be yourself, be strong, don’t take it personally.  Don’t stay down.
• If your best isn’t good enough, you can walk away feeling proud.
• Any parent should teach that.  I don’t think any of that comes from being a minister.
• Joy: Gene makes a snarky comment as she walks away about Joy and Kevin being secretly in love.  Hmmm… sounds like a joke, but is it?
• Who in the house are you not sure about?  Who can you just not trust right now?
• She doesn’t trust Mike, proving that she’s a smart lady.  He’s sneaky and he tries to undermine people.  Ew.  He said to Stephanie, “I don’t understand why a smart girl like you doesn’t see things the way I do.”  UGH.  Answer:  Because you’re not smart and you’re not looking at it correctly.  Duh.
• Mike: With certain members in your alliance not getting the popular vote, how do you think that might affect your gameplay?
• He allied with people he likes and trusts, and can be decisive.  He’s sticking with them, and hopefully, it works.
• He’s not willing to break his alliance even if goes bad, because the rest of them are self-righteous snobs, and they’re condescending.  “That should speak volumes to who these other people are”.
• Not all liberals have to love each other, but he does tell us that everyone else on his team is conservative (in case there was any lingering doubt).
• Also, he’s full of shit, because Mike started that alliance with Kevin, who’s been clearly in love with Andrea, at the very beginning, before any politics came into it.
• Jeffrey: Do you feel you have the most amount of power in your alliance?
• He doesn’t like the word alliance. 
• He believes that they’re all equally powerful.  It may look like he’s got power because he encouraged people to vote in favor of equality, but the equality vote is over.  
• He doesn’t think he’s in a place of being able to swing votes around, and he notes that the others all have a solid alliance against the rest of them, basically forcing them all to work together.
• Jeffrey wants to address the idea that he bullied Andrea.  He points out, again, that he apologized for calling her an idiot.  He said that, no matter how nice someone is, the bullying is in voting against someone’s equal rights, and in putting kids down, making them cry, and making them feel bad for who he is.  
• I don’t think Jeffrey’s a bully.  It’s a very sensitive issue.  You try to vote on my marriage and I will gut you like a fish.
• Ori asks Gene to remove his hat so the viewers can see his eyes.  He turns it around, but she says that he has to remove it.  I wonder if it has some kind of logo.  Gene asks Ori if it’s that hat specifically.  Mike says it isn’t, but Ori says that it is, so Gene goes to find another hat.
• Ori sounds pissed that Gene went to get another hat instead of going into the confession room.
• Gene:  How do you feel about Jeffrey’s equality argument?
• Gene says that Jeffrey makes great points.  His argument is about everyone being equal, and not necessarily just a gay issue.
• Gene does not know what LGBT stands for (or even when the letters are).
• America is the land of free choices and free decisions.  
• If gays can’t get married because marriage is so sacred, no one should be able to divorce.  He doesn’t like the idea that Jeffrey could fall in love and not be able to have a ten year relationship recognized, but Gene could marry someone he just met. 
• The more he talks about this, the more I like him.  He says, bottom line - it’s not fair.
• When Gene returns, Ashley asks him what the question was, and he said it was about Jeffrey.  Jeffrey tells him that they actually heard the question, and he passed the test because he answered honestly.  That’s funny.
• Stephanie is talking about how she likes her pickle.  I know there’s a dirty joke in there, but I’m not a male, so I don’t feel like I can pull off a, “I’ve got a pickle to show you, Stephanie,” joke.
• Andrea randomly looks pissed, but I don’t know why.  I really am starting to think she’s just pissed all the time.  Oh, well.  Drink, anyway.
• Andrea: I hate her so much it hurts to look at her.
• If you had to choose someone from the other alliance to work with as a side deal, who would it be?
• She tells us that she’s keeping her options open.  Everyone else is pairing off into twos, and Stephanie doesn’t know Andrea is part of a threesome with Mike and Kevin.  She makes it sound like Stephanie is too stupid to know that she’s allied with everyone else.  Stephanie floats and talks to everyone.  I suspect that, if the shit hit the fan, Stephanie would not back up Andrea.
• She’s talked to Jeffrey also. If she thinks he would ally with her, she’s delusional, on top of everything else.
• Week 1, Andrea talked to Gene about forming an alliance, so she’s keeping all of her options open.  
• Ori tells the viewers that she asked the players if they want to see them feed each other.  Joy suggests that Stephanie feed her a banana.  Of course, the viewers said yes.
• I’m on vacation.  I’m not recapping this part.
• Ori tells them that the live feed is over, but, as usual, it keeps running.
• They ask if they’re allowed to call them fans yet, and Ori says, “There have to be some fans out there.”  Ha!
• Ori reminds us that we get to see who’s coming back from limbo tomorrow.  I pray that it’s Erica.
• They think we’re gone, but we’re not.  
• Gene says that he’s not sure he can trust Ori anymore, since she revealed his questions to the whole house.
• Ashley said the important thing is that he was honest.  She really is annoying.
• Mike is walking around, staring at the ground.  He and Kevin try to subtly wander away.  It’s obvious… sorta like when a new couple wants to get lucky, so they try to be all sly and subtle and sneak over into a corner when no one’s looking.  I have some experience in that area, and I have been informed that everyone notices.  Mike and Kevin aren’t any better at it than TheWorld’sMostAwesomeGuy and I were.
• Mike is talking about the answer to his question.  He uses the phrase “cuddle bunnies again.”  Kevin can’t believe he got that question.  Now, he’s bitching about ABC’s selection choice.  He thinks there are “soooooooooo many questions rolling in.”  Really, there aren’t that many.  It probably takes ten minutes  
• Kevin then tells us that the honest answer to, “Why don’t you participate” is, “Because I don’t care.”  Oh, Kevin.  You may have just lost some votes.  Then, he thinks he deserves credit for not pointing out that other people didn’t exactly follow the challenge.  “The only thing I can think of is the juicer challenge.  I had a sandwich, but I still drank juice.” 
• I love that they’re still rationalizing that.  The direction was, “have a liquid lunch.”  It was not, “drink juice, then have a sandwich.”
• Now they’re talking about Joy and Gene.  Something about a bad tweet Joy got - I don’t know if it’s from the beginning of this feed that I lost, or if it’s from last night.  Guess I’ll find out.  Mike said that a “blind, blind person” sent it?  Maybe?
• He whines, yet again, about the question.
• Oh, look.  Andrea is sitting alone, on the couch, looking pissed. DRINK!
• They are right that ABC controls what gets through. After all, they aren’t getting any of the “YOU SUCK” tweets directed at him and Andrea.
• Kevin wants to see how long it takes for someone else to join them (the conversation?  the alliance?), but the name is bleeped out.  Huh.  
• “I couldn’t believe they asked me that!”  
• I thought they called someone a hall monitor, but when I went back, I couldn’t catch it.  Weird.  
• Now, he’s bitching about it to Andrea.  Then, he tries to rationalize.
• She also says she can’t think of anything asked of him that he didn’t do.   She notes that she slept on the couch instead of with Jeffrey, and wore a tank top under her half shirt.  “Yes, I suck.”  You do, actually, but not for those reasons.  The tank top is a religious thing.  Most of us should get that.
• Mike starts talking about her moral compass, so it’s a good thing the feed is over.