01x49 - Episode 49

[bunniefuu]

I don't think we really need to aim

between now and Wednesday.

Have some serious discussions about it.

Not everybody wants to engage on it.

So let's not do it in a group of six, then--

- OK. - --is the only thing.

I'd like to, but--

Yeah, but then we get caught with our pants

down on Wednesday when there are six of us.

[theme music]

NARRATOR: The house guests hear someone with a megaphone

shouting about "Big Brother."

Just going to go in our room and lay down.

[indistinct yelling]

Sh.

[indistinct yelling]

It's just over at the thing.

Everybody come inside, please.

Jamie.

George.

Inside the house, please.

[indistinct yelling]

George.

[laughing]

I can't hear 'em anyway.

Inside the house, please.

Take it off.

In the house, please.

What did it say?

It's urgent.

Heard a megaphone over the wall.

It said, attention, house guests, we love you.

We hate "Big Brother."

We love you.

Oh, I didn't hear that we hate "Big Brother."

Oh, yeah.

She's like, we hate "Big Brother."

We love you.

"Big Brother" will offer you money on Wednesday

to leave the house. - To leave.

"Don't take it.

We love you."

What if they send for grand?

You can take grand and walk right now

and go home to your families?

Nope.

Then % taxman comes.

Nope.

And you're left with .

So for grand, you've got --

You've got $, cash in a "Big

Brother" suitcase waiting for you if you

walk out the door tomorrow.

Still wouldn't do it.

No, you wouldn't?

I don't think I would for that much.

Is there anybody here who would want to be the one

person if that were an option?

I don't know what I'd do.

$,-- what that can do your family,

for your retirement, for anything.

You know?

That's-- that's a lot of money.

Look, I'll be honest.

I just-- I would think about it-- very serious.

I'm not saying no.

There you go.

I'm not saying yes.

Because the experience to me here is very valuable.

On the other hand, getting out there is also nice.

Mhm.

Theresa-- what would she say?

She'd probably tell me to stay.

So for grand she'd tell you to stay?

It's grand more than you walked in here with.

Mhm.

After and / months.

Yeah, and that's the thing is on the experience side of it,

you're only really missing and / weeks.

Three weeks.

But what I keep thinking is in terms of the experience--

the last--

to me, the last hours, they just have to be off the hook.

Yeah.

I mean, you just can't even, you know--

But it's the sure thing--

Yeah, no, no, no. I know.

- --versus-- - I know.

See, there's that element in there.

Yeah, no, no, no, I know.

No, I know.

I totally understand.

The curveball--

[laughing] that's low and outside.

Absolutely.

Let's say that they actually did have some kind of plan

around the money and then somebody foils the plan

or at least, you know, leaks out to us bits and pieces of it,

even if they're [inaudible].

Then they have to revise.

They have to revise the whole thing.

Or no, it works on our minds more.

But either which way, the Chicken Man,

he had the opportunity of a lifetime.

Mhm.

And I tell you what, it's kind of exciting.

[laughing]

Absolutely, George.

Absolutely.

OK.

And I think we really need to aim between now and Wednesday.

Have some serious discussions about it.

Not everybody wants to engage on it--

I know.

--so let's not do it in a group of six, then--

OK.

--is the only thing.

I'd like to, but--

Yeah, but then we'd get caught with our pants

down on Wednesday when there are six of us.

I mean, frankly I'm torn, because, yeah, I

do buy into that experience and I want the full thing.

The idea that you could win or be among the final three

is amazing to me.

My hesitation with that is, like I'm saying in the house

today, I think that the final days are just going

to be the most amazing thing.

And you won't want to give those up.

And I wouldn't want to give those up.

I wouldn't want to give up the opportunity to walk

out of this house as a group.

[sighing] Three, though.

- Three. - Yeah.

Yeah.

And then the other thing is, I don't

know what the public perception would be if you opted for--

like, would people be disappointed

in us as individuals if we--

- Sold out. - Sold our.

Or are you a sell out or are you an idiot

for not taking the money? - Right.

It's flip--

You have to-- you have to think about all of it,

you know.

I-- I just don't even know what

dollar amount would be high enough,

frankly, to make me trade off.

I don't know with the motivation is going

to be, though, for the offering somebody something

at this stage.

Because it's exciting, and it mixes things up.

And-- [sighing] although some people have always

focused on the fact that this is a game show,

you can't treat it like a game because then you start

dehumanizing everybody here.

This is a litter reminder that it is a game show.

Mhm.

If you're the producers, you're

testing those who've decided not to treat it like a game show.

And you're really playing, you know,

the people who've decided to treat it like a game show

by giving them a game show-like choice.

Mhm.

Mhm.

We might as a group have to, like-- it might be a challenge,

house guests.

Oh, it will be phrased as a challenge, [inaudible]..

But yeah.

You as a group must decide whether you want to have

the option individually of--

Uh-huh.

--taking this opportunity or not.

And then we can-- we can, like, ponder all

we want as to what's going on.

But the one thing is that I guess

you have to be ready for what might happen on Wednesday.

NARRATOR: The house guests watch selections

from their audition tapes.

We want to see it all, everybody.

Give it to us.

[laughing]

Yes!

I knew it!

Hush!

And that was maybe the craziest trip of my life,

what with my best friend and his date and his date

was best friends with [muted].

Oh, no.

So four best friends together in the car,

drinking all the way down there.

We rotated so whoever was driving wasn't drinking.

So if you had a drink, you weren't driving.

So we rotated like that to get us down there.

And I started out driving.

And I said, you know, nothing's going to happen

between me and this girl.

I've never even kissed her in my entire life, you know.

And, uh, so I'm sitting there driving.

My friend's back there probably making out, doing whatever.

I'm not paying attention.

Time comes for us to switch.

Me [muted] in the backseat, sitting there nervous as heck.

At this point, I'm still, uh, pretty

nervous when it comes to girls, which

is long gone by this time.

Long gone.

[laughter]

Comes a point, and she looks at me and she says--

no, does she doesn't look at me and say anything.

I'm drunk enough.

And I turn over to her and I say--

no, I just-- I just kiss her.

And all of a sudden, I swear her leg,

like, instantly went like this over me.

I said, oh my goodness, what's going on.

She's wearing her little prom dress, right.

[laughter]

So things got hot and heavy back there.

Aw, swach.

And I says, uh--

I remember my friend telling me--

he said, yeah-- he said, I didn't want to look back.

He said, well, I look and I turn around

and all I see is your bare white a*s.

[laughter]

I'm years old.

I live in Rockford, Illinois.

I was born and raised on a farm in Winnebago, Illinois.

At the age , I come to town, and that's

where I met my wife Theresa.

We've been married for years.

now.

I have three daughters.

I work very well with people.

Um, I'm currently the head of the concession chairman

for Jefferson High School.

We have volunteers.

We're able to feed --

, people within a four hour period.

And I'm not a quitter, and I think that's what

you will need for your show.

I appreciate the time.

Have a nice day.

[laughter] - That was cute!

First of all, I was an only child,

because I had-- my parents worked hours a day,

seven days a week.

So I had the entire house to myself.

Really?

-- almost .

And still they haven't told me about sex.

Oh, my god.

[laughter]

They never will.

They just, uh-- I don't know.

I think sometimes you learn a lot from your parents

about what not to do. - Oh, no!

I mean, sitting out there in the lobby,

there's a Playboy magazine.

Right?

The girl on the cover is--

was first runner up to Miss Oregon, so I know her.

And it's really weird just to see where

other people go in their lives.

I mean, part of me has always thought that would

be fun to be in Playboy.

I've never posed nude yet, but I just--

part of me does.

Can't believe I'm talking about this.

I had no idea I'd be talking anything like this.

[laughter]

And-- and she just-- basically what she said

is you just need to accept yourself

for being normal and not doing anything great

and just being you.

So you have a girlfriend now?

No, I am single.

[laughter]

Uh, she's almost like my best friend.

And we were kind of off and on dating, but mostly friends.

That ended, like, November of last year.

So did why the relationship end?

I had found out that she was dating

somebody else at the time.

- Ooh. - I know.

Ouch.

Ouch.

[singing opera]

[laughter]

This one says recruit, you guys.

Eddie!

Gave us all name tags and make us be quiet, right?

I'm not really being quiet, but there

was a cute number downstairs.

What was her name?

Gina or something like that. - Uh-huh.

You know, I was going to go talk to her.

I said, oh, man, I'm gonna get thrown

out if I talk to this girl.

You know, it was Miss Alabama.

Oh, see?

Great.

See, I got good taste. Great.

Thanks.

What if you get in the house and the wonderful little beauty

that we just saw downstairs also is in the house?

And you know your girlfriend is watching the show daily.

Yeah.

That would, uh-- that would definitely

pose some complications.

[laughing] Now that you have willpower?

Yeah. Do.

How much for three months?

Enough, but, uh--

[laughter]

--what it would come down to is if I did get into this-- if I

did get into the house, I'd have to, uh, tell my girlfriend,

you know, look, I love you.

But I'm going to have to put things

on hold, because, you know, this cute little

number's in the house.

Yeah!

[laughter]

It comes out, Edward.

Yo, man, [inaudible].

Because of what I've done in my professional life--

I think I'm not as giving as I could be

in a one on one relationship.

I had a very long term relationship

with a friend in Italy.

And, uh, it was great early on.

We lived together and, um, really enjoyed each other.

But I have these aspirations that

just keep pushing me and pushing me,

and I think that was detrimental.

And other relationships that I've

had with people, for example here in New York,

I just find that my--

where I am in my professional life just

intimidates guys, frankly.

It intimidates guys.

So I don't worry about it, frankly.

So I guess you want to know why I believe I belong to the house

on the "Big Brother" show.

Money, money.

[laughter]

What can I say?

People like me.

I want to have those housemates eating out of my hand.

[laughter]

Give me a chance.

I bet I could do this.

So bring on the psychological tests.

Bring on the physical exams.

Bring on the background checks, because I know I can do this.

Give me a chance.

Cassandra.

Cassandra Denise [muted].

That's me.

[laughter]

I loved it!

That was it?

That was it.

NARRATOR: The house guests discuss the videos

that "Big Brother" showed them.

Watch what you tell them.

Yo, great story to tell.

That really gets your a*s in gear.

[laughter]

That story, and then what would you bring?

Condoms, condoms, and more condoms.

Those are my three items.

I got you in here.

His big white a*s.

[inaudible]

My friend stuck behind a tractor trailer.

He wants to see if my white a*s hanging out.

Cindy Lewis straddling me.

Fabulous.

Said who?

Great.

I'm with the prom queen in the back.

Oh.

Then we got Jamie.

My parents don't talk to each other.

Never mind me.

They haven't even told me about sex.

I don't know nothing about birds and bees here.

But I will pose nude.

[laughter]

There's so many parts of me that just want to get naked.

Then they got me looking [inaudible]

Monica on national television.

[laughter]

Great.

"Oh, yeah, I'd cheat on my girlfriend

if the time was right."

Yeah.

If I was horny enough, I'd just plaster

her picture to the girl's face.

Great.

That was funny.

Poor Jamie is like, ah, yeah, my parents fight.

[laughter]

Makes me think about my roofing business now.

Yeah?

Why?

Well, it's probably not there now.

Well, you told them you were downsizing.

Yeah.

Down to zero.

[laughter]

That's a considerable [inaudible]..

[laughter]

The boss is downsizing.

It's downsizing!

You lose a lot of weight.

A lot of weight, George.

And your face, too.

Uh-huh.

Dude, you had more chins than a Hong Kong

telephone book coming in here.

[laughter]

Oh, Eddie.

Oh!

God!

[laughter]

Oh, man.

Edwardo.

I feel a little like the--

like I seem like I'm kind of maladjusted or something

like that.

[laughter]

I'm not, so it doesn't matter.

[laughing] Busted.

I don't' worry about it, but that's OK.

I said it, so--

[laughing]

You know?

You can't take anything I didn't say.

[laughter]

For making it within borrowing a camera,

having a camera run over to the house--

Dude, nice zoom work.

--and film it.

You really look like the All American Dad, though.

Yeah, totally.

--and place to film it. Place to film it.

Completely like a dad.

It was done at : in the morning.

Before I was going to work, I took the time off,

and I said, we make this.

And yeah.

It's a nice speech.

That's how I did it.

Ah, that was cool.

That's right.

[laughing]

[sighing] Two months is a long time, and it wears on different

people in different ways.

And especially with someone as vivacious as Brittany now gone,

you really notice it.

Kind of a just a mellow hm to the house.

And Brittany was so funny and so hilarious

that she was a big part of most the conversations in the house.

So when that element's gone now, I

think that you get to know everyone

else on a deeper level.

You know, with Cassandra and I as the only two women

in the room, you know, we are talking even more than we

used to, which is great.

What are you thinking about?

Just what I was saying.

About what?

About my friends.

Like, great things are expected of me.

And something ordinary isn't, like, extraordinary anymore,

you know?

Mhm.

I don't want to concern anybody

with the way I feel, because--

[sighing] I do care about the way they feel.

It's like I know people out there have a lot harder

problems than I have myself.

And it's like, I don't want them to concern myself--

concern-- I don't want them to concern themselves

with the problems that I have.

Because, like, I know, you know, they

worry about where their next meal is coming from

or, you know, how they're going to feed their kids at night

or whatever.

And it's like mine are so petty compared to theirs.

And so I just, like, go out and I know I can do this.

And I know I can do that for them.

But, like-- I mean, I live this empty--

empty life by myself.

You know, I can tell you something about relationships

in terms of I believe that you'll

meet that person out there that will love you

more than they love themselves.

But I don't think you need to be in a relationship.

You shouldn't have to be in one, you know, to feel happy.

Every person I come across--

it's like, in the beginning they love me unconditionally.

Mhm.

I feel like, you know, they love me,

until they realize that, like, whatever they can do,

I can accomplish the same thing.

They hate it.

It's like, I don't know what--

I don't know how to explain it.

I don't know-- like, they feel like I'm taking over something.

And I, like-- I don't want to feel like that.

But at the same time, I want to give as much as I have.

You know how you told me about, like, where you scored

on your IQ test, how things have just come to you

in a lot of areas in your life?

The smarter you are and the more, I guess, gifted you

are, the harder time you have with relationships with people.

I know that, jeez, you know, I'm so much better off than,

like, .% of people out there.

And it's like, you know, I should take all these gifts

that have been given to me and just ride with them

and just be so grateful and thankful.

And I am.

But none of them matter if you're not happy.

Yeah.

Thing is, Josh, is that, you know,

you are going to meet people that

can't quite relate to you just because they don't understand.

You know?

You'll meet a lot of people that way.

You're also going to meet people that maybe they

do understand you, but they're intimidated

because they're not that way.

But the whole thing is, I try to relate to them.

I try to come down to, like, a certain level where they're

at or to a different level.

And--

You shouldn't have to do that.

--or even up to a level to where they're at and try

to relate to them.

And, like, then I do relate to them, and it's like--

and then I go back to my level.

And it's like, they can't come back to mine,

and that's what frustrates me.

So if this world crushes me for, like, the rest of my life

and I die feeling this way, if there's

something better on the other side, then I'm happy.

[sighing] But I'm gonna--

I'm gonna fight to the end.

I'm never going to give up because I

know that there's something better on the other side,

anyway.

NARRATOR: Be sure to catch tomorrow's live show,

when the house guests get an offer

that will be hard to refuse.

One of them will be able to receive

$, in cash in exchange for leaving

the "Big Brother" house.

Right then and there, will anyone take the money and run?

Or will they all hold out for the grand prize

of half a million dollars?

Find out live tomorrow night on Big Brother.

I know this is a game show.

And I know that it would be great to win

and that that would be wonderful,

but not at the cost of me getting competitive--

so competitive, so cutthroat that I'm trying to save myself

and thinking about what other people are

thinking and getting into their minds

as to what they're going to vote.

Because it sort of ruins your everyday interaction.

And-- and you just can't survive here that way.

At least I can't.

Um, it seems to me that as much as this is a game

show and a competition, it's also just a group

of people living together.

And to me, it's-- it's, uh--

it's more important.

And I think we're healthy to focus on living together

in a sort of healthy, harmonious sort of way,

as opposed to just trying to win and make it to the end.

Do you feel like that kind of philosophy

is common amongst all the house guests?

Um-- that's the one thing we don't talk about with one

another, is our philosophy and how much we really want to win

or how much we're expecting to win

or how cutthroat we're going to be and all of that.

So I can only kind of guess at who I think is being really

competitive about this and not.

I-- I don't think anybody here--

I have a close enough relationship

with everybody here.

I don't think that anybody here that's left

is just willing to win at all costs

and trying to protect themselves.

I do, however, think that probably

some people are a little more competitive

about it than others, sure.

NARRATOR: Tomorrow night, the house guests nominate

their own for banishment.

Find out who it will be on the live edition of "Big Brother."

[music playing]

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Because we're living today.

Feel the thread of life.

And don't be afraid.

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