Drew: “We Will Be The Domino To Decide Whether Or Not An Icon Wins”

12:47 AM — Drew and Barrett (Backyard)

Everyone else in the house is asleep. Drew is on the block.

The conversation opens on damage control. Drew has been telling the Crossovers one thing and the girls another, and he wants to be sure Barrett is telling the same story.

Drew: “I know that I’m Crossover strong. I can do that, because I know that there’s suss about me and the girls.”
Barrett: “They’ve never — they don’t mention that to me. If that is the case, I feel like they would.”
Drew: “Okay. Yeah, okay, good.”
Barrett: “And I felt like when Haley walked in, I answered that incorrectly when you asked me. Because then I was like, did he ask the opposite thing that I think you did? And I couldn’t correct it when she was there.”
Drew: “I want them to think that I would choose Crossovers over the girls.”

Drew: “I think that we should — they should think that.”
Barrett: “Yeah, we should probably talk about that, though. You and me.”
Drew: “Yeah, that’s why I was hoping you would be out here. You and me alone. I was trying to talk to you about it earlier today while I was making a PB and J. I don’t know what we should do.”

That is the whole conversation in miniature. What follows runs an hour and a half.

Drew: “Because I think we’re in a good position with FAP. And I do think you’re in a better position with Crossovers than I am.”
Barrett: “That doesn’t have to be the route that I choose, though, is the thing.”
Drew: “Because I think if it was hierarchy, I think Devens and Dee are on top, for sure. They’ve got each other. Angela’s their third.”
Barrett: “Yeah, I agree.”

Barrett: “I think Devens likes us. I don’t think he would let us get as far as we would like to think he would let us get.”
Drew: “Yeah. He’s like, I want my boys — but it’s, you know, he wants the boys to take him over the other two. I don’t think we would be able to win next to any of them, unless we go on a comp streak.”
Barrett: “Or the jury is very not pro-Icon. Which it might be, if it’s FAP. Yeah, but if it’s Devens, just going off of resume so far — he’s done pretty well.”

Barrett brings up what the girls say about the three of them, and finds he cannot argue with it.

Barrett: “When the girls sit here and they’re like, definitely they would go after Devens first out of the three — I can’t even argue with them about that.”
Drew: “Devens is the best player in the game right now. He hasn’t sat on the block.”
Barrett: “I mean, I think ideally a double eviction would be the time to do that.”
Drew: “That’d be an emotional day. But I wouldn’t — if you were down, I wouldn’t say no.”

Drew: “But I hate plotting against the Crossovers.”
Barrett: “Yeah. I don’t really want to, but…”
Drew: “But I do think if it’s a final five with us, and we generally make it to final five with the Crossovers, we’re the first to go. Probably me, then you.”
Barrett: “Yep.”

Drew runs the rest of that board out loud — Angela next, then a Survivor final two, then the possibility that Devens takes Angela and tries for a clean sweep. Barrett changes the subject to the one player nobody in either alliance has claimed.

Barrett: “I don’t even think them wanting to team up with Yash, if we had that angle, would be a bad move. Because if we got Yash in, guaranteed that he would go after Icons.”
Drew: “No, when they said it, I was like…”
Barrett: “Even if he was like, I might have to put you up as a fourth.”
Drew: “Put me. Dude, okay — well, either one of us. Would we have the votes to stay is the question. I don’t know. I would feel more confident if it was you up there.”

The feeds flip to Lala and Taylor in the have-not room at 12:52 AM and come back with Drew and Barrett still on the same subject.

Drew: “But you’re really close to Mallory and I’m really close to Melody.”
Barrett: “And it’s not that Devens doesn’t like Mallory, or Angela doesn’t like Mallory, or Dee doesn’t like Mallory. But there’s only going to be, like, so many people.”
Drew: “Are they talking about Mallory? Are they weird about Mallory?”
Barrett: “No. No, they’ve never been weird about — okay, well, except for never gonna vote her out. But…”

Drew: “Yeah, I do think there’s a really good path for us to make it really far, like top five in this game. And I think it all depends if we go Crossover or if we go FAP.”
Barrett: “And I think it’s going to have to end up being some sort of melding of the two, because we can’t — it’s not like it’s just going to go boom, boom, boom for one side or boom, boom, boom for the other.”
Drew: “We still will be the middlemen.”
Barrett: “Because we’re still sitting here with Lala, Taylor and Yash and Haley in the game.”

Then Barrett names the problem neither of them has solved.

Barrett: “Even if we get power in the next two weeks and we still have that f—ing Blockbuster — say I got HOH or you got HOH. We have to nominate somebody.”
Drew: “I know. And do we nominate FAP or do we nominate Crossover? For me it’s a little easier, I think. Like it would be, Haley’s here, I’m like, alright, I’m putting up the people who put me here. Don’t tell Dee.”
Barrett: “No, but it makes sense. And I don’t even know if she would argue with that.”

Drew has already thought further ahead than that, and he has picked a name.

Drew: “I kind of want to take Angela as far as we can. I had a whole conversation upstairs with the camera in the gym, like two days ago. I just thought everything out, and I was like, dude, I think we just take Angela as far as we can. As much as I love Devens, I think he’s so cutthroat. He would just slime this out whenever he needed it to be.”
Barrett: “He’d be the first of the group I would put up, just because he hasn’t been up yet.”

Drew: “I wouldn’t want to put Angela up at all. It would pain me to do it. She could beg me and I would consider, but I would probably feel terrible. I would feel bad about Devens, but I also feel like he would understand.”

Then Drew raises the thing he says he thinks about every night before he goes to bed.

Drew: “Why did we tell him the alliance name of FAP?”
Barrett: “I don’t know.”
Drew: “Like, you were like, it’s for the American people. And I was like… He has the key for us to lose an unbelievable amount of trust with the girls. And they would never trust us.”
Barrett: “I know.”

Drew: “And Melody was grilling me a couple nights ago. Going like — if I figure out that you have been working with the Icons since the beginning of the game, she’s like, I will never be your friend.”
Barrett: “Oh my God. That’s weirdly specific.”
Drew: “Yeah. And in my head, I was like, also Barrett.”

Barrett: “Do we just have to tell them at a certain point?”
Drew: “I think we would have to tell them. About the Crossovers. I think if we were to put up Devens, we would have to bring the girls upstairs and be like, we’re coming clean now. And it would be a scary conversation.”
Barrett: “You just can’t let him — because he may hold on to that information as, like, a smoking gun for whenever he does just want to try to split anything up.”
Drew: “No, that’s probably what he’s waiting to do. He’s waiting for it. And we would have to tell them first.”

Drew: “I think he has — dude, he was threatening both of us if they didn’t vote the right way. Like, he’s like, I’m gonna go nuclear.”
Barrett: “That’s the s— that scares me about him.”
Drew: “I saw a different side of him. I think you did too.”
Barrett: “I’ve definitely been thinking about this, and every time it comes down to it, I’m like, yeah, I think Devens would be the first person.”

Drew: “The thing is, for some reason, I feel like he wouldn’t put us up. But I also feel like he doesn’t care. Like he would have the guts to do it. I also feel like Angela would — I don’t know what she would do if she won. Would she put you and me up, or would she put the girls up? Because now I feel like she’s like the mother of the girls.”
Barrett: “Maybe she just doesn’t even want to win.”

Drew: “I feel like we got to start winning pretty soon here. Every endgame is like, you got to start trading off. And the Yash idea doesn’t sound crazy to me. Especially if Yash is the one to put the Icons up. But if he does win, I’m not stepping foot up in that HOH room, because I don’t want the Icons to think that we have anything to do with it.”
Barrett: “No, I don’t either. But yeah, it’s gonna be tough to write that line.”

And then Drew corrects himself, and it is the sharpest read anybody in the house has offered this week.

Drew: “I do think that right now, the people who truly are the middlemen are the girls.”
Barrett: “They are.”
Drew: “And I told them that, and they said, please don’t tell people — but I’m telling you. They are truly insulated by every single person in this game. They are no one’s priority to get out. Which means, if we ever sit next to either one of them…”

Drew: “I think Crossovers would keep us safe, but I don’t know for how much longer.”
Barrett: “It’s not going to be for that much longer.”

Then the two of them lock it in.

Drew: “Just know I’d never put you up.”
Barrett: “I’m not putting you up either.”
Drew: “I think, like, genuinely — the best chance we have at either of us winning is sitting next to each other. Like, just straight up. I don’t see any other way.”
Barrett: “Yeah, this has always been our path.”
Drew: “Even against, like, Mallory, I think we both lose. Just based on charisma.”
Barrett: “Yeah, Mallory’s good.”

Drew: “But there’s still a lot of game left. But I do think the path for us both forward is to just stick to us. Once it’s time for us to completely choose a side, if it’s FAP or Crossover, I’m rocking with you and you got to rock with me, and we just got to hold the line.”

Barrett: “Is there anyone in Crossover you feel best about? Dee?”
Drew: “I feel best with Devens, obviously, because we hang out the most. But I feel like I don’t talk to Dee or Angela enough. So that’s my mission this week.”
Barrett: “So you’d want to take Angela the furthest?”
Drew: “I would probably want to take Angela. But I know you probably want to take Dee the furthest. I just think Dee would always have Devens over both of us.”
Barrett: “That’s where it gets a little bit trouble. If we went after Devens, I think any relationship with Dee is done.”

Drew: “I think the reason Angela’s the best for both of us is because she is the third of the Icons. I think Dee and Devens have each other’s backs before they have Angela’s.”
Barrett: “Definitely. Oh, definitely. Devens just used the Diamond Power of Veto on her. And they didn’t use it on Angela. We were going to vote out Angela if it was her versus Dee.”
Drew: “Exactly.”

Drew turns to his own nomination, and asks Barrett what he made of it.

Barrett: “I wasn’t a fan of it. I have to act kind of cool about it. But I told her — I was like, you doing this, you could easily sit here and lose Drew forever by doing this. And if you lose Drew, you might lose Mallory and Melody doing that exact same thing. It doesn’t really make sense to me when there is Yash, who just put you on the block, who is not in the alliance.”
Drew: “She’s scared of Yash. That’s why.”
Barrett: “She is. And she doesn’t want to put him up this week either, because she thinks that it’s going to work out and she can’t get any blood on her hands. And part of me wants to reel Yash in because of that.”

Drew: “I want to shake Dee and tell her — he just put you up. I literally tell her, he just put you up. The second he wins HOH, he’s putting up you, and it was in a room with Devens and Angela, all three of you, and I’m probably the renom. And she was like, well, I don’t know if that’s the case. It’s interesting to me that Dee doesn’t understand that Yash is going to protect Melody and Mallory. Because in the beginning of this game, it was the Tool Shed versus everybody else. And they are trauma bonded. Hardcore. Like, Yash is never putting up them.”

Drew: “And honestly, if the girls win HOH, I don’t know what they’re going to do.”
Barrett: “I mean, Mallory might as well spell it out to me that she’s gonna put up Devens.”
Drew: “Yeah, and I think Melody might do the same.”
Barrett: “She’s almost soft-launching it to me.”

Drew: “I’m not saying I’m done telling them what the girls are thinking, but I don’t think it’s helping any four of us.”
Barrett: “No. You have to keep sharing s— or else they’re going to get weirded out.”
Drew: “Who?”
Barrett: “Crossover. You just have to give them insight about what they’re thinking, or else they’re not going to…”

Drew: “It really is funny that there’s four people that are in the Mosh Pit and I’m one of the people on the block. And I’m just like, every time the alliance wins, I go up.”
Barrett: “Yeah, literally.”

Barrett starts doing vote maths and immediately runs into a wall.

Barrett: “I wish Taylor didn’t hate you.”
Drew: “Why?”
Barrett: “Because I was thinking, if Haley went on the block… how many votes do we need?”
Drew: “Four for a tie, five for the — whatever.”

He works through it out loud, decides Yash and Lala would both want to keep Taylor, and abandons it.

Barrett: “Nah, stupid.”
Drew: “For what? A way to save Taylor? Why would you want to save Taylor?”
Barrett: “I don’t have a good reason. That’s why I was just trying to think through this.”
Drew: “No, Haley likes you and me.”
Barrett: “I know, that’s stupid. This is more of a game to get Yash on our side.”

Drew: “I think we just have to talk to Yash. Yash is very dude-forward. And be like, dude, there’s only three of us left — excluding Devens, you know what I mean, because he doesn’t like Devens. And be like, we have to be dude strong. Whatever we said whenever we outed each other, we have to lock it now. Because there is one other guy in this house that probably would slime any of us out in a moment. And the rest — the rest of the girls, seven strong. That’s why I think Taylor needs to go. It’s because Yash would have nobody. She doesn’t want to work with Lala. Then he would have to be with us, or Melody and Mallory.”

Barrett: “I’m just trying to think what Dee is really seeing as the benefit of keeping Yash, other than just not getting any more blood.”
Drew: “I think she’s worried that he’s going to win HOH again, and then she could be like, I didn’t put you up, so don’t put me up. I do think Dee’s really good at the challenges. I don’t know how I feel about her strategy. I don’t think she’s that familiar with the show.”
Barrett: “I think her lying about her vote is the weirdest thing that she could have done in this game.”
Drew: “I think her learning the game from Angela — she’s playing like Angela. Angela’s very chaotic.”

Drew: “So Taylor gone, Yash is kind of a free agent, the girls pick him up — and if the girls pick him up, that’s kind of us picking him up from a distance. We kind of tell him, hey, we’re the final bros. There’s bigger fish to fry than each other. He doesn’t want Devens here at all.”
Barrett: “I know he doesn’t.”

The conversation turns to Haley, and neither of them can work her out.

Barrett: “It’s going to feel real empty of options, especially if Haley or Taylor gets out this week.”
Drew: “It needs to be Taylor.”
Barrett: “I know it needs to be Taylor, but she could win the Blockbuster.”
Drew: “If it’s Haley, I feel like that’s an L for us. I don’t think she’d put us up.”

Barrett: “She is besties with — outside. Apparently she loves me. Baffling. I mean, Haley, you’re great.”
Drew: “I’m confused why she likes me. She spent so much time looking for my hairbrush. I was like, oh, we’re definitely good.”
Barrett: “I almost feel bad I’ve gone after her for so long in this game, if she likes me.”
Drew: “Me too, dude. I really don’t want her to go yet because of all the goodbye messages. I’m always like, you put me up when we were on a team, and now it’s like, I think I like you — but also we don’t talk strategy and I can’t tell if you…”

Barrett: “…really don’t understand what’s going on, or just playing me. I don’t know.”

Barrett runs the week out one more time, and lands on the scenario neither of them wants.

Barrett: “If he wins HOH, he puts up the Icons. The only — the worst case scenario is f—ing Lala winning HOH. And in that case, it’s like doomsday written all over the place. I don’t even know what she would do.”
Drew: “Probably put Dee, Devens. Me.”
Barrett: “Or me. I mean, yeah, we’re all involved at that point. She nom’d me once. She probably wouldn’t mind doing it again. She told me to pick a side in her speech. I guess I did.”

Drew: “The thing about the girls is that if they win HOH and the Icons go up, we get blamed for it.”
Barrett: “No, I mean, it’s game on at that point. Devens will go nuclear.”
Drew: “Yeah, so the girls are generally considering the Icons — like, we had to tell Crossover. Also, Barrett told them about FAP, and I also was there. But I won’t say that. I’ll say we did.”

1:16 AM — Drew and Barrett (Backyard)

The feeds cut to sleeping houseguests at 1:13 AM and return three minutes later. Drew and Barrett are going through every alliance either of them has ever been in.

Drew: “Called the Bermuda Triangle.”
Barrett: “Have we even told them about Tool Shed? No. You can just tell them about that. Now? I don’t know. Does it matter anymore? Two of them are gone.”
Drew: “Everyone kind of already knew that we were in it. But the coolest thing about that one was, the six of them were working together. And they brought you and Barrett. You’re at the bottom of that eight. And Jason helped us out with that one when we were over there during the tea party. He was like, and you two are at the bottom of that eight. And I hope you guys know that.”
Barrett: “I was like, yeah, man. We figured that out by being the last two in the room.”

Barrett: “Was Angela included in Red Corner?”
Drew: “It was the three cool kids and then Devens and Dee.”
Barrett: “I don’t know why I thought Angela insinuated that she was also in an alliance with the other three.”
Drew: “This game has a lot of alliances, I think. Like the girls telling me that they don’t have an alliance with Yash, Taylor and Lala.”

Drew: “Kamu wanted a final two with me. I’m sure you knew that.”
Barrett: “Oh, I would assume, yeah. He had fun with everybody. He never got around to me, I guess.”
Drew: “He was like, yeah. But my real one is with you.”
Barrett: “You’re the only person who has f—ing offered me a final two.”
Drew: “Really? You know, I think it was pretty early on. Arguably day one or two.”

Barrett: “Mallory jokes with me all the time about being like, yeah, and then you’ll take me to the end or whatever. But she doesn’t mean it.”
Drew: “The girls are taking each other. And I think they think that we’re taking them.”
Barrett: “I’m fine with them thinking that.”
Drew: “Do you think they’re thinking that we’re taking each other?”
Barrett: “I don’t think Mallory thinks that, from what I gather. I don’t know what Melody thinks.”
Drew: “I think Melody thinks I’m taking her.”

Barrett: “I wouldn’t be offended if you did, okay? Y’all are close. But I would also be a little offended.”
Drew: “I think I’d take you, just because we locked it in hella early.”
Barrett: “I would love our story to end like that.”
Drew: “It would be insane. I think the biggest fans of the show this season are probably you and me. Mallory’s close, I think. She knows a lot.”

Drew works out that Dee beats both of them in a final two, and Barrett finds the one weakness.

Drew: “I don’t think we take Devens to the end. And honestly, I think Dee sitting in the final chair, she beats both of us too. Because they might just be like, let’s crown the first ever Big Brother Survivor winner. Which sucks, because I really like Dee. But Dee is always sus on me. But I think she’s not as sus anymore.”
Barrett: “One good thing — Dee’s really bad at the days. She doesn’t know it. I mean, just OTEV is a shining example. Those end comps are not going to be good to her.”
Drew: “I don’t think I’m good at those either, so we would have to practice. I don’t know the days at all. I don’t even know what day it is right now.”
Barrett: “It’s day 47.”
Drew: “Is it? Well, now it’s 48.”

What follows is four minutes of two superfans studying for a competition that has not been announced.

Barrett: “I think as we get more, we’ll get more repeat years, because we’ve already had two 1967s. We did Summer of Love, and then for the — I gotta go in order in my head — in the Wall. The video competitions have been typically the day that the episode airs is the key. This one was August. The one we had today was, like, August 26th or whatever.”
Drew: “Okay. I didn’t even know it was August. The month. In general, yeah. I don’t know where we are.”
Barrett: “HOH this week was 851.”
Drew: “And then the veto today was — it’s hard, because I’m never looking at the screen. 1982.”

Then Barrett brings up Drew’s nomination speech.

Barrett: “You’re the biggest liar in this house.”
Drew: “I can’t believe I said that.”
Barrett: “I think that line’s f—ing iconic.”
Drew: “Someone’s definitely said that before, though, on this show. Part of me felt like I accidentally quoted somebody without knowing.”
Barrett: “It sounded great to me.”
Drew: “I’m the biggest liar in this house. That’s the truth.”

Barrett: “And I’m sitting there smiling.”
Drew: “I was trying to make it funny. I was generally trying to make Dee laugh, and Devens, and you laugh.”
Barrett: “It worked on me.”
Drew: “I was like, what could I say that proves that I’m with them, but also trying to be really funny at the same time? I couldn’t take it serious.”
Barrett: “Us all being in a row with each other, too. Me having to f—ing turn to my direct left to then tell Lala, yes, you did say that. You did say that. Stop.”

Drew: “The nom table was literally five Crossover people in a row, and then FAP on the other side. It was just the definition of a split house. You, right in the middle. I’m the biggest liar in this house — that’s gonna be on tomorrow night. Dude, I wonder if people are gonna be like, Drew’s an idiot.”

Drew: “It gave me that whole thing of the youngest guy in the house having an argument with the oldest person in the house. Like, what season does that remind you of?”
Barrett: “Like, ten?”
Drew: “Yeah. I literally went to ten, and I was like, bro, I’m, like, skinny Jessie, and she’s Renny. That’s literally what I thought.”

Barrett: “I want it all to work out so badly.”
Drew: “Our alliance with the girls, like the FAP, kind of reminds me of…”
Barrett: “…season seven. Yeah, except we don’t win anything.”
Drew: “Yeah, we’re terrible at winning things.”
Barrett: “It is very reminiscent. If everyone in season seven, in that alliance, was just f—ing wackos that did rock ceremonies.”
Drew: “I think that’s super rad, though. I do love our bit.”

They come back to the FAP name, and to the fact that Devens has it.

Barrett: “I don’t think Devens knowing the name really means that much in the grand scheme of things. Because if nothing else, it’s just another name.”
Drew: “The only way we save ourselves is telling them that we are Crossover. We have to say the name Crossover. And be like, we’ve been working on this since the beginning of the game. But our mission has always been to protect you, too.”
Barrett: “Do you think they’d buy that? Or would they even be surprised?”
Drew: “I think they are suspect already.”

Drew: “I think every other day they go back and forth on, is Barrett the one that’s been working with them since the beginning? Or is Drew the one that’s been working with them since the beginning? It’s never, both of them have been working with them since the beginning. Unless they are, and they’re just waiting for us. I don’t think Melody’s dumb. Melody knows that something weird has been happening.”
Barrett: “I mean, we were the ones going back and forth being like, here’s what the Icons think. They’re like, how do you know what the Icons think? Here’s what Mallory and Melody are thinking. Here’s what everybody’s thinking.”

Barrett: “Do you think Mallory has any sort of inkling? You talk to her more than I do.”
Drew: “I think she does. Because I think she always tries to plant those seeds of doubt with me about all of them. Specifically Devens. And so does Melody.”
Barrett: “Another thing I probably need to come clean with Mallory on is that I kind of knew that they were going to vote her out. That one week. Because I haven’t really told her about that.”
Drew: “I don’t think you have to.”
Barrett: “But that is one thing she always brings up. When I’m talking about, no, Dee’s good with you, Devens f—ing loves you, Angela f—ing loves you — and then she’s like, yeah, but they lied about voting me out that one week. And I’m like, yeah. They did do that, and I can’t even argue with that at all.”

Drew asks Barrett to plan a Head of Household he has not won yet.

Drew: “If you won HOH next week with Taylor gone, who do you put up? Do you put up Yash?”
Barrett: “Depends on what we can talk to him about. Because at that point, we’re just trying to see — we’re locking up who’s going to be in jury. And ideally, I would love to get Lala out. I mean, Yash getting out too would be great. But I don’t see him immediately trying to go after me if I put him on the block. The thing is, I just don’t know where Haley’s head is at ever. Because she doesn’t really know either. She’s half — she’s got one foot out the front door already.”

Barrett: “Just putting up the three that aren’t in either of our alliances at first. Lala, Haley, Yash.”
Drew: “And then win the veto, take Yash off, put an Icon. Be crazy. But it would be — who, Haley versus an Icon? And then Lala. Or maybe the biggest dick, and put all three of them up. Icons.”
Barrett: “So I’m not gonna do that. That would be unreal. They would be so taken aback. So I think my best case scenario for both of us is to just do the three people that aren’t in Mosh Pit. And then if one comes off, probably Devens, because he hasn’t been on the block yet. Who the f— else am I gonna do?”

Barrett: “I don’t want to do Mallory and Melody.”
Drew: “I don’t want to do them either, dude. I know, but would he be down with that?”
Barrett: “No.”
Drew: “He’d be pissed. You would burn Devens, one hundred percent. And you would lose Dee. Who is the right person to put up then?”
Barrett: “I just don’t know. I bet Angela would volunteer. If she volunteered, that’s f—ing fine. I can live with that. I’ll even ask.”

Drew: “Why don’t you want to put Dee up?”
Barrett: “Because I don’t see her putting me up anytime soon. She’s the person I probably would say I trust the most out of those three.”
Drew: “Again, awkward, because you’re on the block.”

Drew: “She’s not someone that I would ultimately go to the further ends of this game with, because she’s gonna choose Devens, or she’s gonna drag Devens.”
Barrett: “She’s taking Devens as far as she can.”
Drew: “Or Angela. Honestly, I can also see her dragging you, if you don’t win anything, and her being like, everyone likes Barrett.”

Barrett puts the worst case to Drew directly: sitting on the block Thursday night beside an Icon.

Barrett: “Let’s say worst case scenario is just the renom. It’s you, and you’re sitting there Thursday night versus an Icon. Any of the Icons. Or let’s just say it’s you versus Dee. Drew and Dee — you’ve got three of them. You’d have Haley?”
Drew: “Over Dee?”
Barrett: “You don’t think so? Would you have Lala over Dee?”
Drew: “Maybe.”
Barrett: “Would you have Devens over Dee?”
Drew: “That’s f—ing tough.”
Barrett: “I’m gonna say you don’t have Devens.”
Drew: “I’m gonna say I don’t. I think that’s a safe assessment. It would all come down to Lala.”

Barrett: “We just don’t need to be against an Icon, sounds like. If Yash is HOH. I feel like that’s a struggle to get four votes.”
Drew: “Maybe you volunteer.”
Barrett: “That’s asking to be sent home.”
Drew: “But Taylor or Lala would never vote against you, against an Icon. I think she would keep you. So would Haley. I think you would legitimately need to volunteer to go up.”
Barrett: “That sounds dumb as hell.”
Drew: “But it’s just — I can’t rebuild the Lala s—. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. I would consider that, though.”

Barrett: “Would you consider it? Could you convince yourself to do it?”
Drew: “I would need other peer pressure probably. But again, it would be the most aura play, and we would be a gangster-ass duo.”
Barrett: “If you think about it. Or I would be the last person to go home before jury. Those are the two options.”

Barrett brings up the power Drew won on Friday afternoon.

Barrett: “This is why I wish you had better things than a Never Not Pass.”
Drew: “If I had the coup d’état, I would put — yeah, I don’t know who I’d put. Take a crazy swing. Diamonds and Dee.”
Barrett: “Right before the vote, yeah.”
Drew: “They’d be like, what the f—?”
Barrett: “Don’t even give Devens a chance to out everything.”

Drew: “God, you don’t know — I got the Never Not Pass, what? I mean, so rad, I got to play. But I got the have-not pass? I think being a have-not for me is always — I’ve always played better when I’m a have-not. Because I don’t talk.”
Barrett: “That’s kind of true. Yeah. You don’t.”
Drew: “I don’t talk and I’m pissy. So I just refuse and I just hang out by myself and I pull a Taylor.”

Drew: “Main objective — please save me this week. I’m not really that worried, genuinely.”
Barrett: “You shouldn’t be.”
Drew: “And I should just get this chance to win another Blockbuster.”

The last stretch is the one that matters. Drew reads the Time Capsule results as a message from the audience.

Drew: “I think that’s what America’s trying to tell us, too. Honestly. If you think about it.”
Barrett: “They didn’t tell me s—.”
Drew: “They told me to tell you. It was like, three Icons were definitely gonna get it. Then Mallory, Melody, me. It is legitimately Crossovers versus FAP.”
Barrett: “I think what they’re telling me is I should say f— you to everybody.”
Drew: “To everybody. Go hang out with Yash and Haley. No, they’re telling us what to do. America’s telling us to go with FAP. They’re trying to let us know. Trying to let the middlemen know. Trying to let the jugglers know. Because they see stuff that we don’t see. And that’s their way of telling us.”

Barrett: “I would love for somebody else to take a shot at the Icons.”
Drew: “I think that’s what we’ve been waiting for this whole game. But no one’s done it. Yash kind of did it. And then Kamu went home.”
Barrett: “Crazy how that worked out.”
Drew: “If Yash just put his foot down and was like, I’m gonna put all three Icons up — but we had that thing with Devens. It saved him.”

Barrett brings up the Dapper Dans.

Barrett: “The Dapper Dans could have saved Devens.”
Drew: “The Dapper Dans did save Devens.”
Barrett: “The Dapper Dans evicted Kamu.”
Drew: “Technically, yeah.”

Drew: “He’s gonna go nuclear. That’s when I really start to question what I’m doing. We’re the most blinded people in this game, because we’ve been in an alliance with them since day two, and they’re like, we’re gonna ride these kids as long as we can. And they see the real stuff. And the more and more every week goes by, the more I think they’re right. Those Icons are just cutthroat, ruthless players that would drop us if they need to. If we’re ever sitting on a block next to them, it’s gonna be, air out all their s—. That’s why we can’t be sitting next to them. It has to be them together.”

Barrett: “In what world am I not going to get clowned for just f—ing thinking I could just go to the end?”
Drew: “I know. I feel like if I’m watching, they’re like, Drew and Bear are the biggest suckers in this game.”
Barrett: “Are we, though?”
Drew: “If we keep going and following them. If we keep going from here. Because we want final five to be Crossovers — we’re the biggest suckers ever. They were going in at a three-two disadvantage and they just ran this game.”

Barrett: “I think the problem that I get most often is that when I talk to Mallory and Melody, they have far more — reasonably so — issues with the Icons than the Icons ever have with them. And that’s where I have to be like, I don’t — because they don’t see them the way that I do. And I totally get that too. But it would be so cool if we were able to take this as far as possible.”
Drew: “FAP.”
Barrett: “But at the same time, I have spent far less of this game working with them than working with the Icons.”
Drew: “Seniority-wise, of who we’ve trusted and loyalty, you’ve got to put the Icons above. But when it comes to a more probable path of us winning, it is FAP.”

Then Drew states the position the entire second half of this season may turn on.

Drew: “We will be the domino to decide whether or not an Icon wins the game, or an FAP, or Yash wins this game. I do think that’s fair. We decide right now. Well, not now, but within the next two weeks. Once jury starts, it’s wherever we want to go. It’s the thing the Icons have been worrying about since the beginning of the game. We’re still the middlemen. We’ve been the middlemen since the goddamn beginning of this game.”

Barrett: “The more you talk like this, the more I think that they should be scared of you. So — be their best friend this week.”
Drew: “No, I know.”
Barrett: “Because I think if they even had the thought…”
Drew: “I’m not even worried.”
Barrett: “Unfortunately, they’re smart as hell in that regard. Where they could sit there and just be like — if we got rid of Drew, and we have Haley on our side, and we could break up the FAP. And they would probably think getting rid of you would pull in me.”

Drew: “That’s why I was like, let’s put Yash up there. I still want Yash.”
Barrett: “We can still push for that tomorrow.”
Drew: “Devens wants Yash.”
Barrett: “He was sitting out here saying, I don’t think that’s even out of the question, the other day.”
Drew: “He told me in the morning. He was like, honestly, if it was up to me, I’d put up Yash. He’s like, because he’s going to go after us anyways.”

Drew: “Maybe that’s something we should push for. Yash this week. Because I stay over Yash anyways.”
Barrett: “Exactly.”
Drew: “And it does hurt our shot with having Yash put everybody up. But also, if he wins Blockbuster, I win Blockbuster, we get Taylor out.”
Barrett: “But they would want Yash out. But that would ruin his relationship with Dee even more.”

Drew: “Because if Yash is sitting up there, the Icons will be like, we want him gone.”
Barrett: “Yeah, and then I would vote him out too.”
Drew: “Yeah, me too.”

Drew: “The scariest thing for me is sitting next to Haley. This week.”
Barrett: “No, we can try to push it.”
Drew: “Push Yash?”
Barrett: “Yeah. I still feel like Devens — let Devens lead it. Because he’s going to be the voice that is not going to f—ing suss Dee out at all. And if he wants Yash, then let him f—ing push for Yash.”

Barrett walks the Haley scenario out and finds the same single point of failure they hit an hour earlier.

Drew: “Put him next to Haley. Yash wants her out. So it’d be FAP plus Yash plus Lala. We’d have to rely on Lala to vote Haley over me. We would have to trust the fact that she would vote out Haley over me.”
Barrett: “So it all came down to Lala.”
Drew: “Yeah.”
Barrett: “Are you assuming in this case that they tried to get rid of you?”
Drew: “Oh, Taylor would also be a vote to get rid of Haley. If the Icons wanted me out next to Haley.”

Barrett: “Still, I think you’re fine, though. I’m probably just way overthinking this.”
Drew: “No, I think so.”
Barrett: “I still think Devens thinks that you and me want to take him to the final three. And I’m fine with them thinking that.”

The last five minutes are about the nomination ceremony, and what it bought Drew.

Drew: “I just started this week off mad sus for some reason in their eyes. So this week is just me being their bestie.”
Barrett: “Yeah, keep up the…”
Drew: “But I feel like that s— of the nom is gonna carry me. I just have to legitimately, like you said, ride the wave.”
Barrett: “Exactly. Keep up — I saw a complete personality shift with you. After that nom ceremony, that was very much like, I want to stay in this game so I can see the four people, pretty much, that are not inside Mosh Pit go home. And if you keep up that f—ing — that’s what they want to see.”

Barrett: “I went crazy for that. Because you had Dee going to the HOH room being like, f— yeah, Drew. You had Angela coming into the HOH room being like, f— yeah. You had them all f—ing hyped.”
Drew: “Definitely rallied the troops. So yeah, I was gonna keep the hype train.”

Drew: “We need Haley to get in more fights this week.”
Barrett: “F— yeah.”
Drew: “I think that’s what we have to do, is get Haley and Lala — Haley, Lala, Taylor — to be pissed at each other even more. So the more she goes in there and goes, I don’t want to be involved — let her get involved.”
Barrett: “That could work, too.”

Barrett: “Alright, I’m actually going to go to bed.”
Drew: “Yeah, me too. Sucks I have to pack my bags this week.”

The last exchange is about the veto Barrett did not win, and a question Devens had put to him before the competition.

Drew: “I don’t think she would have wanted you to use the veto. I would have told you to be like, next to Lala and Taylor, bro, I think I’m fine.”
Barrett: “Devens assumed I was going to use it on you.”
Drew: “He did? Really?”
Barrett: “Yeah. He was just like, you’re going to use it on Drew if you win it?”
Drew: “I appreciate it, man. I’d do the same.”
Barrett: “I know you would.”

Drew: “I’m gonna go pee and then go to bed.”
Barrett: “Alright.”