Hey Julie! - Big Brother & Survivor Recaps

Brett & Dani are back to react to this week's #bb25 final five eviction which sent Cirie packing to the jury house and a final four of Bowie Jane, Jag, Matt & Miss Felicia. They also discuss who would win in a Matt/Jag final 2, and why that choice is harder than it seems, why Cirie had such a hard road to the end during the final half of the game and how Bowie Jane's continued domi...

Happy Halloween Boils and Ghouls! On a very SPOOPY episode of Hey Julie, Brett & Dani react to this week's double eviction on #bb25 & a worm-tastic episode of #Survivor45 which saw Brando go home on an interesting episode which revealed a lot about how various relationships are progressing in the tribes. Also on the episode, three different pop-quizzes, Halloween movie discussions and...

Brett & Dani are back after Dani's long travel weekend. In a rare Monday night episode, we chat about the latest in #bb25, including Cory's demise, Jag's steamrolling of the latter part of the game & the return of Johnny Mac. Leading things off, we chat about last Wednesday's surprising episode of #Survivor45 in which Sean effectively quit due to an overwhelming case of mai...

Brett & Dani are BACK together and they're feeling things. Brett is hungover and panicked because his computer isn't working. Dani is going off no sleep and trying to eat a bowl of soup during the podcast. But after a week apart, they are back together at last, and that's all that matters. We recap the Bowie Jane HOH week in #BB25 that sent the space cowboy Cameron packing to the j...

Terrible (or great) news for you listeners: Dani & Brett are separated this week...but we still have a podcast for you. We braved our continental divide to bring you a podcast on this MOMENTOUS week in the #BB25 journey. Brett & Dani each deliver a 30-minute solo pod with their thoughts on the eviction of Mecole, Brandon's exit from Survivor and the RISE OF BOWIE JANE. Also, Julie Chen...

It's been a long few weeks on Big Brother 25 . Jared and Cameron have seemingly been around for weeks, despite both having been "evicted" at the last week! In a miraculous turn of events, one of them actually went home this week and the game progressed slightly closer to it's conclusion! Brett & Dani recap a week in BB25 that was boring, made very little progress & probab...

Dani & Brett are back after another exciting week of Big Brother and recap the humongous, stupendous, game-shaking double eviction that happened on Thursd-- oh wait, no one was actually evicted on Thursday night. Grodner and the BB producers got our asses again. Well, we recap what happened this week including the double eviction that wasn't & where Cirie's place is in the house with her son Jared...

Brett & Dani are back after another week of BB25 action in which Izzy was sent home nearly unanimously and the first cracks are beginning to appear in Cirie's armor. But oh, so much more happened! Bowie Jane appears to be playing the game! The cheekiness will not stand! America & Cory finally put their words to work and flipped the vote against Izzy, instead of just talking about it! M...

Brett & Dani are back with a new episode, and what fortuitous timing: they started taping about 10 minutes after Cameron's nominations were revealed on the live feeds -- and boy are they a doozy. Mixing things up a bit, we kick off the episode with SPOILERS about Cameron's nominations and if we're truly in for a groundbreaking shift to the #bb25 season. Moving backwards, we also ch...

Brett & Dani are back to recap another week of Big Brother 25 (in)action. Dani is PEEVED at the events of the week & the use of the new invincibility twist to effectively make the week a complete waste of time. Brett thinks that it's just an unserious show doing unserious things, so it's actually Big Brother doing what it does best. Who is right? They also talk about how the produc...

Dani & Brett are back with another episode, recapping Felicia's HOH which sent Hisam packing back to his glorious life being a doctor and cabaret performer. They also chat about Blue & Jared's relationship, Cory's social game, and Mecole's hilarious sick of this shit edit. After mourning the loss of Hisam, they move to the result of Thursday night's Pressure Cooker comp...

Dani & Brett are back to recap the happenings from Week 2 of Big Brother 25 including Hisam's HOHitis run wild, his successful anti-Reilly campaign and how the whole affair is likely to cost him the game in Week 3. They also chat about the needlessly long Nether-Gorgon competition, if the producers did Matt dirty with the veto competition & if Cirie's effortless play and amazing DR...

No, it's not November already. BB25 only started 9 days ago, yet it feels like a full season has blown by, and we're already the empty husks of ourselves. Why is that? Well, Reilly had one of the most chaotically simple HOHs and still biffed it, about four hundred alliances and sub-alliances were formed in about three days, Izzy has spun out into crazy game-talk with the entire cast, oh an...

Brett & Dani are back (ON THEIR BIRTHDAY) to recap the first episode of  Big Brother 25  and look at the first 36 hours of feeds. The BB25 broadcast premiere was the usual mix of good and bad, with awkward introduction packages, an even more awkward Frankie Grande clip & four pretty stupid competitions, resulting in four night-one nominees. In the feeds, a new HOH has been crowned and targ...

Brett & Dani react to the incredibly promising cast of Big Brother 25 . Two people named for colors! Two nepo-relatives! A whole lot of olds! An Australian! This cast has everything. Follow Hey Julie on Twitter and submit your questions  ⁠ @HeyJulieBB ⁠   or on our  ⁠ Discord server ⁠ ! Watch Hey Julie on  ⁠ YouTube ⁠ Follow Brett  ⁠ @BrettRader ⁠ Follow Danielle  ⁠ @Danimop

August is mere days away and this is quite possibly our last podcast for the next few months without any Big Brother season 25 news. Kicking things off, Brett talks about his big day at the movies seeing both 'Barbie' & 'Oppenheimer', which both earned two major thumbs up. Brett shares the palpable excitement of seeing both movies, why they worked & how there could be a pot...

Only 2.5 weeks left until Big Brother 25 premieres, so we still have more general pop-culture content for you. Brett saw Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning: Part One this week and has some thoughts...some thoughts that it was mid. Dani is cooling on Barbie one week before the film's premiere. Are we already Barbie 'd out? They also talk about rumors that the next Bachelor will be an olde...

Brett & Dani are back with a new summer episode as we trudge through only a few more weeks without Big Brother. They open discussing a contentious viral tweet from last week, before diving in to the season (or series) finale of The Idol . Later, they talk about the surprisingly fun (and pro-Canada) film Blackberry , which chronicles the rise and fall of the mid-aughts smartphone. Also, Brett s...

Brett & Dani are back with a hot summer pod to celebrate the holiday weekend. Dani recounts her strong feelings towards the Gran Turismo trailer before sharing her thoughts on No Hard Feelings , which prompts a career-lookback at Jennifer Lawrence, who is seemingly hitting the reset-button after years of franchises & flops. Brett talks about how Wes Anderson may need a career reset of his...

Add 'lost submarine' to the lyrics of Billy Joel's neverending 2020s edition of "We Didn't Start the Fire." Brett & Dani are back for a new pod to cover the week that was in pop-culture while we still wait for BB25 to commence in August. Dani wants to talk about Jennifer Garner and Tom Holland hitting the media circuit for unseen Apple TV+ shows, Brett provides a theo...

Brett & Dani reconvene for another pop-culture heavy podcast in the absence of any solid Big Brother or Survivor news. They revisit HBO's The Idol and continue their praise of it, despite The Weeknd's confusing presence and general online-hate for the show. Danielle watched The Waterboy (1998) recently and a discussion about early-era Adam Sandler movies ensues. Both Brett & Dani w...

Join Brett & Danielle for a very special episode! Brett is in Toronto for an extremely rare face-to-face podcast recording session. Danielle hangs out in Brett's hotel room for a discussion of Brett's 18-hour impressions of the city she calls home, Canadian attitudes & customs and the pilot of HBO's The Idol / the finale of HBO's Succession. Danielle also talks about finall...

Survivor 44! We hardly knew ye! It only felt like a few weeks ago that we were still complaining about this season being stuck in separate tribes (and effectively carrying a split-tribe mechanic deep into the individual portion of the game), and now it's over! Brett & Dani react to Wednesday night's exciting finale which saw Yam Yam claim the crown as season 44's sole survivor, usi...

Dani & Brett are back with the second to last Survivor 44 recap of the season, and it's not really much of a recap. We're all over the place on this one: - Dani reviews having a party for 1-year-olds and drinking too much wine - Brett talks about seeing a familiar face in the leaked cast of Survivor 45 - Will Big Brother 25 be delayed into the fall due to the writer's strike, and w...

Brett & Dani are back to recap the latest episode of Survivor 44 . BUT FIRST, Dani asks Brett about his experiences playing the new Zelda game. In Survivor- talk, they chat about the news that future seasons of the show will be going to 90 minutes and whether that is good or bad for the casuals. They talk about this most recent episode of the show, which saw Danny voted out while Carolyn made...