Bros & Shows - Team Rob or Team Candiace? (The Traitors Full Recap)

Episode Date: February 9, 2026

What's up Bros? The traitor infighting has come to a head. Rob and Candiace square off in this episode as Candiace tells him that he cannot be trusted. The faithfuls are keying in on Candiace after her vote for Rob at the round table. Other than that, they don't really have any idea about Rob. Will Candiace do enough to point people in his direction? Does the love for Rob have an end date? A new traitor is brought into the fold at the end of the episode, but will it be enough to fool the faithful? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, we got traitor in fighting. We got a lot of question marks. And we got a game that was being played so carefully, seemingly going off the rails a bit. And ding dong, the dickhead is dead. I don't care about spoilers. We're excited here. As there's a drive in a deep left field by Castellanos. Oh, man, it's 8 o'clock.

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This was, uh, this was an interesting episode. It was a lot of, uh, a lot of weird things going on here. I don't know that I've seen a more genuinely lost group of faithfuls since I started watching the show. Like usually they're on to something. There's something here, something there. It's sort of a continuance of last year, but with way less intelligent faithfuls. It's very bizarre to watch.

But it's interesting because they're stumbling into the right direction. So I will give them the traders are pushing them in the, I guess, Ron is pushing them in the right direction. Otherwise, like they're not doing anything on their own. They're very lost as far as like who to focus in on. and the Colton, obviously, we start out in the turret. We'll just get right into this whole thing. And we see the fallout from the Lisa being the one that was whacked.

And Candace is now concerned, obviously, that Rob is going to come after her. So when you start the infighting, this is a natural byproduct, is questioning everything, questioning Rob, questioning your trust. What I do want to ask you before we get into all the other stuff. Now, I wasn't here to talk about last week. You and Brand ran through that. I listened to it. I agreed for the most part in mainly thinking, like, it wasn't time for traitor infighting yet.

I think we're going to push that off a little bit. That being said, I understand where Rob was coming from. But I think the biggest takeaway for me was the second that Candace wrote Rob's name down, I was like, oh, no, like that. That's going to be the smoking gun, I think. Yeah, I mean, it could be the smoking gun for Rob for sure. I don't really know what else Candace can do, though, because Rob immediately set his sights on that. I think it was, if we look at this across the board, where we started, how we got to where we are, it all started because Rob voted for Lisa, which if they, if Candice and Lisa could sit down with Rob and understand why he voted for Lisa, because I still weirdly think that that was the right choice.

I mean, he hadn't really created many waves. he was friends with Colton but aside from that he wasn't making a ton of relationships people were like scared to walk over to him as we heard Johnny Weir say he's too hot but he hadn't done enough that was out of the ordinary if he had voted for somebody else I forget who I guess it was um Ron still when wait no who was the first time that Lisa yes the first time that Lisa up was against Ron if he had voted for Ron after sitting at that table saying I believe that Ron's not a traitor it would have been a little weird if he voted for Lisa he didn't say anything about Lisa So he's just going with the crowd. And she didn't end up going home. Like Lisa was already suspicious. Colton was on her. The way that the game was moving, if Colton said a name, everybody kind of just went in that direction

because the faithfuls aren't figuring anything else out. And without Colton moving forward, they're still not going to figure anything else out. They're just like running around with no real idea what's going on. So Rob voting for Lisa was not that big of a deal. Candice and Lisa's reaction to Rob voting for Lisa was the problem because it pushed him into a corner where he had to start fighting for himself. I genuinely think that he thought he had to do this.

And as it kept going, once you get rid of Lisa, you do have to start getting people to look at Candace. Because she doesn't trust you. Lisa's gone. She still blames you for Lisa being gone, even though Lisa was already on her way out. She had a foot out the door. There's nothing Rob could do to save her. There's nothing Candace could have done to save her. So the fact that they're not, Candice isn't looking at this like shit.

Yeah, Rob voted for Lisa, but like she was already gone. There's not a lot we can do. And if we get rid of her before she fucks up again. Yeah, if we get rid of her before she fucks up again, it's not going to leave any stink on us. Like we can continue through this game and be okay. But instead, it was the fact that Rob spoke up at the round table and did so much. He didn't really have to speak last week. I don't think release it to go home.

That was a mistake too. That's a big mistake for Rob because then Candace is looking like, Jesus, dude, you're trying to get rid of all of us. I have to protect myself. The only way to protect myself is to throw out a vote. And maybe people will look at you because I put your name out there. She didn't do a good job of explaining why she did it, though. That's the big downfall for Candace. For Rob, he shouldn't have spoken up at the round table.

If he didn't, you can still get Candace on your team. You guys can still move forward. It's still too early in the game for it to be one trader left with recruiting of another trader. So I don't really understand that. I think a lot of things moved very quickly and they didn't really think things through necessarily on either side. And trader infighting always spills over.

It's the worst way too, because if there's traitor infighting, they're going to start looking at who was fighting. And it's only a matter of time before somebody pieces it together. like, hey, I watched last season. Remember when Boston Rob and Bob the drag queen were going after each other? Yeah. Do we have another situation like this? So it does leave him out on an island that I don't think he realizes yet.

Yeah. And, you know, with Candice voting for him as well, like that just brought attention to her. Previously, there was none. Nobody was keyed in on her. So it's one of those situations where like, you know, watching from home is super easy to be like, leave a motion out of it. Is it possible? Like we have yet to see a trade.

turret where some shit goes down and they're able to just sideline the emotion, which eventually leads to the downfall of the turret. And we're watching that now. And that's why I think personally, I thought it would have been a good move to actually recruit here and sacrifice. I think you come together as traders, be like, look, shit got a little haywire. I know you don't trust me. I don't really trust you now because I bet you're gunning for me.

Let's recruit somebody that's completely innocuous. we'll point all the fingers at them, we'll get them out at the round table, and we'll start from scratch. I think that was a potential out for Candace, but I did know she had an uphill battle going into this episode because the infighting, because she wrote Rob's name down,

and because you know Rob is now got a vendetta against her to try to take her down. So that sets the tone for like this whole episode. Yeah, and they didn't really discuss too much about recruiting. I would have liked to have seen more of that. Because I bet you they did at least float some names out there. Like, okay, if we were to recruit, who would we bring in? We know how these shows work.

They cut a lot of these things. But I imagine they would have had to have a real discussion about it. It wasn't just immediately Rob saying, well, it's up to you. Look, we burnt Lisa. Lisa's gone. So it's completely up to you, whatever you want to do. Now, Candice, thinking in her moment, this is my best idea, is to get rid of Colton so that Rob could then be alone again.

and have to come back to me. And then we have to work together because he doesn't have another person in this game, but that's not how it's going to play out. So going through the list of people that they are suspecting of killing, they've got Colton, they threw Natalie out there quickly, but Natalie would have been dumb anyway because there's already a little bit of stink on her for the dinner. Leave her to float out there.

She's a good spokescreen. But you go through and you're looking at Colton, you're looking at Eric and you're looking at Mark. And Eric and Mark, I think, are the easy, that's the normal thing to do. All right, get rid of somebody. that way it kind of throws people into a frenzy. I didn't see that happening. And you can even see that the morning after they're talking about who's still not here.

That would be weird if Eric was gone. That would be weird. They didn't even discuss Mark. That's how far off the radar he is. I know. So for this to be between those three, you've got a weird situation where Candice thinks it's the right move to get rid of Colton. Because if Colton's gone, Rob's alone. He pushes back to me.

Rob thinks it's the best move to get rid of Colton because then it seems like I sacrificed my friend. but in reality, Colton's already floating Candace's name out there. So he's already done his job. I don't need him to do anymore. And it's going to look like I'm making a sacrifice so that I can get back in with Candace. And both of them are right, but it just depends on who's got more support. Yeah, exactly. And it becomes a popularity contest at that point as we're going to see play out later.

But at breakfast, we're waiting to see who got whacked. Lo and behold, Colton, see you later, pal. no tears were shed over his demise. But the more interesting thing that's happening around the table is not the fact that Colton got killed. It's people talking. And now you have, and this is what I was afraid of, like the second Candace wrote a name or wrote Rob's name, I was like, no, don't do that. Because I really think that she could have won this game. Like I do think that she had the demeanor, the poised, the intelligence.

Like she could have taken this all the way. That was one brief, ever so quick moment of fuck you. And I think it was going to bite her in the ass. And now you have people at the table in Mara, who hasn't really done a whole lot, right? She's kind of been sitting back, following along with it Rob's doing. Now you have Mara speaking up and going, that was a weird vote, right? And other people are like, yeah, actually, it was a really weird vote. Like, why do you think she'd throw that out there and then say it's a throwaway vote?

Like, well, we have to ask her. And when they ask her about the throwaway vote, that's when suspicions are really going to climb up. because in the same sentence, she says, I'm not going to just throw away a vote. And somebody clocks and goes, whoa, wait, you, you just said that you threw away a vote with Rob. She's like, yeah, but no, well, nobody's going to vote him out. So I was like, oh, no, oh, no, like they're on to you. Yeah, they're absolutely on to her. And I feel like there was a pathway there where she could have explained this a lot better.

And the way that it played out in my head was, yeah, I voted for Ron over and over again. because I truly thought that he was a traitor, or I thought that he was at the very least a bad faithful, and he just needed to go because otherwise we're going to get stuck on him at roundtable after roundtable and it's a distraction. So if you use that same sort of idea and floated over to Rob, like, yes, I wasn't sold on voting out Lisa. I don't want to go against Housewives. I wasn't sold on voting out Natalie because I don't think there was enough there. I voted for Rob because this is the first time that he suddenly stood up and started talking at a roundtable.

I thought it was weird. It could have been a throwaway vote, but I wanted to just float it out there. This is my way of floating Rob's name because I thought that his behavior last night at the roundtable was weird. You can say my behavior was weird because I've been so stuck on voting for Ron because I was set on that. Ron's gone. I don't have a fucking idea now.

And I'm not going to vote against the Housewife. But I will float Rob's name out there because he was weird. And he was all of a sudden very strongheaded. And he was going after Lisa. And he was teaming up with Colton. And I just thought it was weird behavior. So I'm going to float it out there. This is now me formally floating Rob's name out there.

That's why I put the vote out there. If you had a good reason to do that instead of, well, you know, I knew that he wasn't going to get any votes. Neither is fucking Mark. Neither is Mara. Neither is Tara or Johnny. You know, throw anybody's name out there. You threw Rob's name out there with intention. You don't have to say my intention was I'm also a traitor and I want to get rid of Rob.

You can say my intention was he was being weird at the round table and I wanted to float his name out there to get people talking about it. just so maybe we can have a discussion this morning. That's it. And if she did that, yeah, the way that these faithfuls are working, they're not incredibly intelligent and they're not thinking that deeply. They're doing everything on the surface level. But at least you give yourself a chance. Her explanation was awful.

Yeah, it wasn't great. And it honestly caused more people to look at her than side with her. And it sucks because, like, I love Candace. I love the way she's played. And even now, like, if you take away that one misstep, that one misfire, and she doesn't have to try to explain it away, she maps out everything else. Like, she's thinking about the Colton of it all. How is that tie him with Rob? She's like, well, okay, he's clearly using Colton to get names out there and he's

going to push mine. All of this is true. Every speculation you're currently making, Candace, 100% on the nose. It's just that one thing, that one name that you wrote down, I don't know if she's going to be able to come back from that. And that's, yeah, this is, this is the first time that she's had to be defensive. This is the first time she's had to play any defense. When it comes to the thinking of this game, she's top tier. She's unbelievable. The fact that she was able to clock exactly why Rob burnt Colton was incredible.

I mean, Rob didn't expect that. Rob thought he was three moves ahead and they were actually neck and neck. It's when she has to explain herself that she got into trouble. She didn't expect to have any heat on her, which is bizarre because when you do that and you throw a throwaway, out there and they have nothing to lean on. They have no evidence out there. This group is going to go after the weird things that you do. And that's just how it plays out.

So you would think that she'd be more prepared for that because she's so great at thinking through everything. She just kind of talked herself into a corner. I know. It's that one little hangnail got her. And it sucks because like as we're deliberating before we start the mission, no one knows. No one's even, we're talking about fucking Stephen,

Natalie's still getting floated out there. And the only other name that's coming along with it is now Candice because everyone's like, well, that was weird, right? Everybody, it's like, yeah, that was weird. But they're still not convinced. So there's still a path somewhere in here. I couldn't figure it out. And it would have taken phenomenal gameplay out of Candice to try to salvage something here.

I couldn't find it. I don't know if she had something. I think that the last ditch effort you could have had is that conversation that her and Rob have a little bit later. If they were able to somehow come together in that moment, like there was a last ditch effort. But even then, now Rob is putting himself on the line for Candace. And if she gets voted out, then everyone's going to look at Rob.

So there's a lot of moving parts. But I love going after this morning, though, when people are just completely dumbfounded. Like, we were thinking about putting Colton on the chopping block. We were going to go after him. I mean, yeah, we've got Candace kind of floating around there. But somebody's got to get rid of Colton. And then he gets murdered. I don't know what the fuck I'm doing.

Tara Lipinski walking through. I love her and Johnny's relationship because it seems like such a strategy that we're seeing nothing of because they're not doing anything. They're just like, do people know that we know each other? Do people know that we're best friends? Let's hug in secret out the whole. Yes, they can tell. They know you guys are in the same industry. They know that you guys do commentating for figure skating.

You're both world champions. It's a small bubble. I'm assuming we have them to look forward to in the Olympics over the next couple of weeks. weeks. But yeah, we know that you guys are friends. You guys don't have to be secretive about it, but Tara walking over to Johnny, like, I'm so bad at this game. I have no idea, which is that that's the beauty of traitors. If you're really fucking bad at this game, you're not a threat to anyone. And also people don't think you're a traitor. So you will make it super far. And you can win that way if you don't either one, if you don't let on that you know anything or if you truly don't

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of whatever the team gets. So they get a blank canvas with a name. They have to recreate this painting. Then you have to find it in the warehouse. It was a fun one. You know, we get some wacky moments with the crews on both team, posing for the pictures.

I had a nice time. I thought it was funny watching the whole thing. Rob talking about milking a horse was bizarre. He's like, oh, yeah, she's down there. He's going to meet the parents moment. Yeah.

I got nipples, Greg. Can you milk me? Says the horse. But yeah, Cand is getting down. down there and like milking a cow very clearly. I really want to get and I was looking for it.

Although we do get in trouble for this, but we post pictures because people just look at the picture and they don't ask a fucking question about the show. They comment on the silly picture. Yeah. I'm still, I'm holding you guys. You guys are in suspension right now.

I'm putting good pictures up. But if it happens again, we're going to go right to a blank canvas and I'm just going to say, what are your questions? Because you guys can't handle it. But I really want to find that picture of Dorinda because her reenacting a cow and they zoomed in on it was so funny. Dorinda walking in every morning,

acting like she was going to get murdered the night before is still unbelievable television. I still think she's going to make it all the way to the end and get burnt because there's still a traitor amongst them. Yeah, probably. It's going to be interesting to watch this game. Next week's going to be really interesting after this week. But Kristen gets the shield and we add 12,000 to the pot,

making it a total of 150K. So nice work, everybody. Pot's really growing. It's much better this year. remember last year it was not that high at this point of the game it was very no one was doing missions right last year so it's nice to throw in that uh the helicopter the helicopter the helicopter worth like 50 grand 50 grand yeah because like this pot's embarrassing they were at like 60,000 for like the last episode they're like um well we can either split this five ways and you guys

can make like 12 grand or uh yeah no we're we're just going to try to put everything into this last and just good job. You came close to the circle. We'll give you 10 grand for that. Yeah, the helicopter was originally supposed to be a total of 20,000 probably. And they're like, we need more. 60. All right, cool.

We're back on track. But we're at pre-table deliberations. So everyone's bopping around. We're trying to get a feel on who's thinking, what? The overwhelming majority is pointed at Candace. And it doesn't help that you have Rob, who I don't know if they're blinded by the hotness. I kind of think it's that, the hotness and the quiet. routine. Everyone is fairly convinced that Rob, even with the name popping up, and that's what's a

bummer for Candace. I think she had, I don't think she thought that one through. I think that was 100% reactionary. You come after my girl, Rina. Fuck you. I'm going to write your name down. Ha, ha. Ha, ha. Gotcha, bitch. But at the same time, I do think there was an inkling in there from her. Like, maybe this will get people thinking about Rob a little bit. Unfortunately, for Candice, it didn't at all. Nobody is honing in on Rob. Nobody thinks. it's robbed. They're actually saying things like, well, it's like Kristen's like it definitely isn't Rob like, oh, no, he's like too good of a dude. Kristen, you just told yourself that you clearly are not picking right. So maybe go against your intuition. And then your intuition is Rob is the king of

the faithfuls. So I don't get it. As Candace says, everybody just wants to drink Rob's bathwater, which I thought is very funny. And it really is, honestly. And I do wonder if we're not getting the full edit because we've heard this before and we've heard it from like boston rob and bob drag queen on their podcast these round tables are long they're like 40 minutes long and they're going back and forth discussing this that whatever so i do wonder if rob is more outspoken it just seems like up until that point before lisa was a mannished from the castle it seemed like rob hadn't spoken so he's not on anybody's radar he's just the quiet guy in the background so it stood out to me watching like shit this is the first time he's talked why is no one talking about that i know

But maybe he is talking and he's like echoing other people enough where it's not that big of a deal to the other people in the castle. I don't know. But the idea that Candace voting for Rob is like, I don't know, it's just traitors 101. Like, why? And if now we think that she's like, you would imagine there would be a secondary conversation, especially after we get to the round table and everybody's talking about Kansas. Before, when we're talking about Candice, why are we not saying, yeah, the throwaway vote was weird. She's a traitor. Why wouldn't it be also the throwaway vote was weird?

If she's a traitor, does that mean Rob's a traitor? Like, that's just a natural progression of thought in my brain. Maybe. But like the way people are talking, I don't think we will. I don't either. And like that's, it's unfortunate because, you know, Candace, again, was kind of a product of her own demise. But at the same time, if you had a group of faithfuls that wasn't thinking themselves

into a circle, you might. might have helped more. I still think you're gone no matter what at this point. But your hope is that they catch on to Rob after you're gone out of the castle. The pieces are there. You definitely have the pieces to put that puzzle together. And even Rob is going to get concerned that somebody's going to after this. But we don't see anybody starting to go down that path as they're sitting and deliberating. Again, Stephen gets brought back up. And now Johnny is talking about Candice, but he warns Candice at the same time. He's like, hey, your name's coming up.

There's a lot of people talking about you. So it just gets really messy. And that's when you get Rob and Candace having this like last ditch conversation. Well, I really like even in Candace before this. Stephen and Candice sitting down one on one was interesting. And this was a very desperate move by Candice because she's just trying to get people on board. And if people are also floating Stephen's name around there because Colton said it. And Colton also said Candice's name.

maybe they can team up. And I actually kind of like this. And again, it's a last-ditch effort. Candice is already kind of like waiting for that final nail in the coffin. Pulling Stephen for a chat is very interesting because it's like, hey, I'm hearing your name. You know that you're hearing my name. Where is this all coming from? It's coming from Rob because Rob was Colton's buddy.

He's the one who's stirring up all of this. Everybody's still going back to what Colton said before he left. And because he was a faithful, now they're really keying in on the names that he was putting out there. So let's just try to think this whole thing through. And I love that she's just asking these leading questions for Stephen who's like, fuck, my name's out there. I don't know what to do. What am I supposed to do if my name's out there?

He's not really thinking about the game. He's such an ultra faithful that he's like, shit, I got to watch my own back now. I didn't really think about this. I was just going to go with the crowd. I was just going to try to figure out what the evidence was at the roundtable. I don't know what to do now. But I love this sit down with Rob and Candace because this was so out in the open. and I know we saw that when Stephen and Candice were sitting down in Candice.

Like, Dorinda, give me a second. Let me just talk this through with Stephen over here. Well, that's a big tell. No, Dorinda, it's not a big tell. Trinda, you're not good at this game. At that moment, I'm like two fucking traders are not going to sit down one on one in a very open space and discuss things. It's not a tell. And then five seconds later, Rob walks in and he's like, hey, can you give me a moment with Candace?

Sure, absolutely. Steven's out. Let's have a little tat. Tete tata. What's the word? Tad tatt. Tad tatt? What's the word? Cudita. No, not a coup d'etta. Tata. That sounds weirdly right. Tata. Damn it. We're ready. French. I don't speak French. Yeah. I don't, you know, what are you want to do? A French lesson, apparently. But I agree. And, you know, watching them talk, there's still a tiny part of me that's like, please figure this out, guys. You've done so well so far. And, you two can take this home.

Like if you can figure out a way out of this, like obviously you're up against a wall now, but maybe there's a way forward. Rob tries to extend the olive branch. At this juncture, if I'm Candace, I'm not trusting him now. If they had talked about the turret

and were able to come to some kind of agreement, that's one thing. You've heard him floating your name out there. You saw what he did to Renna. He's setting you up the same exact way here, more than likely. This is not a genuine conversation. So she tells him.

Like, you know what? you're not a traitor, you're a snake. And I'm coming for you. You do what you got to do. I'm going to do what I got to do. And we're going to both our separate ways. So we head into the roundtable with tension. Well, what do you think about Rob's response to all of that being you're taking this too personally?

Like, it's just a game. You got to like, I love that when we get that in traders because it is very funny. And I do think that this year's crowd is less dramatic than last year. They definitely are. Rrying. Last year was bizarre. I mean, I still picture Dan. Danielle crying in a corner when somebody went home.

Like, shut up. I'm tired of that. I actually died last year. Yeah, it was bizarre. But this year, we're not really getting a whole lot of that. And I don't really think this is that big of a deal. Like, yes, the game is called traitors. But that's traders with an S, plural.

We're together. We're a team. We're supposed to be a team. At some point, yeah, sure, you're going to burn a trader just because you want more money, but not right now. It doesn't make a ton of sense. I don't think that Candace was necessarily taking it that personally. I thought that she was realizing what was going on.

She can read the side and say, Rob, you're coming after me. And you said you wouldn't. We got rid of Colton. You gave a sacrifice. I thought we were good. But I know that you're behind all of this. And I love that when we had that conversation earlier with the, I fucking hate that they call themselves the dagger six.

That's lame as shit. But you've got the conversation with the laggers with the dagger six. And they're talking about Candace. And Rob thinks that he's being really smart and he's moving in the shadows. and he's putting things out there. Candace clocks it. And that's why I say that she's really good. She's incredibly intelligent for gameplay.

She just simply cannot talk her way out of that corner. So getting emotional, I don't really think was part of this. I think Rob was gaslighting and probably just trying to get a rise out of her. But I love going into the round table. He's like, yeah, you know, my role, I'm not going to do too much. You know, I can just kind of hang back a little bit and I can just try to get a rise out of her, get Candace worked up. And then obviously everybody's going to be looking at her as long as I just,

don't do too much, I'll be all right. And then like 10 minutes later, he's talking to himself again. Yeah, you know, I just, I can't get her too worked up because then she's going to come after me and I don't know what she's going to do. Is she going to go scorch earth? It's like, dude, do you want to get her worked up or not? Like, this is the same thing with Lisa for me. I don't think Rob needs to do that much.

Like, yes, if she points the finger at you, you defend yourself and you say, yeah, that's likely conversation coming from a traitor. But you don't really have to point the finger at her too much, much like you didn't have to do that with Lisa. It's just going to get you in hot water. Yeah, and the other part of it is Candice, she's not going to get worked up unless she wants to. Like, if she wants to make a scene, she will. But she's also very, that's why the mistake of writing Rob's name down was so much of a like,

because we've watched Candace on TV for a while. And that was like such a, oh, fuck, no, because like she doesn't usually put herself in spots like that. I mean, other than like the Monique shit, we can talk about that, but that's a Potomac issue. but no like we haven't seen any of that throughout the game we haven't watched you get overly emotional even when she's talking to rob i agree with you where he's like i think you're taking too person it's like she's not like she's actually pretty calm cool and collected i think she's just reading the writing on the wall she knows that you're coming and she's not going to sit there and play this game is going to say may the best man win when we get in there i go fuck yourself so yeah i agree with you

i think he was trying to poke and trying to prod unsuccessfully as we watch her at the round table. She's very calm. You know, she's trying. You can see the wheels turning. She's trying to find an angle, trying to figure out a way to go. And Johnny is the one that starts it off. And he goes to Stephen route, which was, you know, very, very short-lived.

The only evidence they really had was that Renna dumped her gold into Stevens' trunk at that last challenge, which was easily explained away. I saw she didn't have a lot. I just straight up asked her, hey, can you dump that in my treasure chest? And she said, okay, like, it wasn't that. serious. And here's where you need and start to have the erics of the world, the erics of the show start to stand up. Right. Mark, I would imagine, is going to get more involved starting next week. You're going to see people start to take shots because they have to. They don't have anybody else

to lean on anymore. So you get the shy people starting to come out of their box a little bit. And that's what Eric does. And he's like, all right, well, I'm going to go. First, let me just say, wonderful work traders. Love you guys. Love what you're doing. So this isn't personal. But yeah, I had to reevaluate everything. And I could not get past the fact that Candace wrote Rob's name down because. And like, it's a, the ability in which she's played this game up until this point and doing so well is actually her detriment.

Because when she missteps, it's so out of the ordinary that they're like, up until this point, you were misconstancy. And bam, you drop Rob's name. So that immediately had me questioning everything. And this is the explanation that we were talking about earlier. This was Candace's last chance to potentially explain this away. And she doesn't do a good job. She just kind of fumbles around it a little bit.

As you said, I think the clear choices were I didn't want to vote for a housewife. Like you said, you could allude to, you know, I've been curious about Rob. That was my way of bringing it up. I, at the end of the day, this group of faithfuls is so desperate to try to find somebody that they know as a traitor that they were locked in on Candace before they walked into that room. And it would have taken an absolute miracle for her to spin something to get Candace out of there. But as we go around the room, everyone's kind of saying the same exact thing. And the tough part about the Lisa defense, I didn't have enough evidence for Lisa or Natalie. Eric had a great response.

Well, that's interesting because everybody else had enough. Everyone else heard the Lisa argument and that was enough for them. You're the only one that seemed to deviate from that. And you're not really explaining why. And that's a huge red flag. Yeah. And I do think the Lisa stuff is easily excusable. And you can do this in a way that doesn't really insult everybody because their reasoning was stupid.

Their reasoning made no sense. They're getting to the right person with the wrong evidence. Evidence. Yeah, and it makes no sense to me. And if you're looking at it like that, I mean, what? We're going to listen to Jam Jam, who's being completely yanked away from the table, thinks that he kissed her. He should not have been allowed to say that. No, he shouldn't have. But we're basing it off of did she actually kiss him? Did she air kiss him? Like, that is ridiculous evidence to me. It doesn't make any sense. Just because we found the right traitor with the wrong evidence doesn't mean that I needed to vote for Lisa. I'm not going to go against the housewife

because we're trying to figure out did she kiss him or did she not kiss him? It's stupid. That's a very easily excusable thing. And then to just point it back at Rob, there's so many different ways that you can go about this. And I feel like she was just doing a really bad job because she was trying to pin it on,

well, Colton's gone. And Colton was the leader of the roundtable. He's the one who's floating out names. What's, you know, why am I not to think that Rob's the one who's feeding him names? He smokescreened him by killing him, I guess. Yeah, no, it doesn't add up and you didn't draw enough of a connection. Like, yes, we all know that Robin Colton were friends, but you didn't draw enough connection and there's no evidence to prove what you're saying is true.

So if you're going to use that as your last ditch effort, no. I still think you'll lean on the fact that he was all of a sudden very vocal last week. Why was he very vocal? Maybe there was something going on and there's obviously something going on there and who's to say that the traders aren't infighting? Like create chaos and say, what if this is a situation where the trade are going against each other. What if this is a situation where Rob is over there trying to get Lisa out for some reason? And then we actually see Lisa and Rob go back and forth for the first time

when Rob's not really communicating with anybody else and he's not speaking up at the roundtable. He does it now kind of bizarre. Maybe it's traitor infighting. If you get traitor infighting into people's brains, you still want your lasting image if you're going to be voted out for people to look at Rob because you're pissed at Rob for doing what he's doing. That's what you said you were going to do. that's what you say you're going to continue to do. If you did that and created this idea of traitor infighting, then people will use you in the way that you want them to use Lisa and Colton. Look at Rob.

We just started fighting out of nowhere. He's been planning my name out there. Is it traitor infighting? Then Rob might be gone the next week for all you want. And that's exactly what you want. So at least do that. It just, I don't know. There were so many options there for her.

And I feel like she didn't land on a good one. No. And I think that you just credit that to the fact that she knew she was up against a corner. and, you know, thinking your way out of a box in that scenario's got to be really difficult. So, like, I'm not even going to falter for not finding the right way to try to get out of that whole thing. Like I said, the minute that she wrote Rob's name down, like, the popularity contest was against her. And unfortunately, in this game, that tends to carry weight until almost the very end is, like, who's the most popular. Boating for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes.

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Conditions apply. But we go through with the vote, and lo and behold, we lose Candace, which sucks, and it was almost a unanimous vote. And I would just like to take this opportunity to give her a little golf clap. It was a tremendous job. She really played the game well. It was one thing, one little thing in the inability. for them to come back together in the turret that led to her downfall she could have taken it i think

her and rob together really could have taken this whole thing home if they because then you know we get to the turret afterwards because nobody knows what the hell's going on everyone's speculating everyone's trying to figure it out and in my head i like rob's rob's little uh i guess get back at the end it's like why is she going after me and every single person's like yeah that is kind of bizarre it doesn't really a whole lot of sense. You're not doing anything. Like, I guess you're just being good at your faithful job. So now she feels threatened by you and that was the last ditch effort.

I don't know. But let's get this last trader. Let's get somebody else. Let's figure out what we're going to do, Rob, right? You're going to lead us, Rob? Yeah, big guy. Come on. You got us.

I don't want you to know. Never leave us, Rob. Never leave us. But yeah, I didn't really know. And obviously, we know how it works when there's one trader left, Alan coming into the turret. If he puts that second piece of paper down, which I didn't know it was an immediate rule like you have to get another trader in.

I thought that it was more like you have another option and you can do this or that or whatever. And when he puts that second piece of paper down, you know what's going on. He has to pick another trader. That trader will join him in the turret that night and then they'll murder somebody. So we do get let in on Rob's thinking. He's kind of working through who he wants to add on to his team. There's not really a lot of good options in my brain. I mean, you can use the strategy of let's bring Johnny and

here and then burn them immediately, but then you're in the same spot. And I get the appeal of wanting to be a single trader. That's what my head went is. I think it's time for a sacrifice. I think that you have the chance to throw people towards a group that's unassuming, such as a Mark Ballas, such as even with Eric. And as we find out at the end of this episode, he taps Eric in, which I think that's a good move on either side.

But if you look across the board, you're kind of picking from a group of Eric's at this point. Like there's, you don't really have that conniving person that's floating around in the faithfuls. Yeah. So I actually agreed with him. I had immediately went to once Candice is gone. Somebody in that group is going to start to piece together towards Rob,

the traitor and fighting. It's inevitable. He knows that. So it's one shot to pick somebody, tap them in, and then set the whole house after that person. And then you get the, at least another week of,

well, Rob is the one that told us about, let's say, he picked Mark, Mark, and it turns out that he was right. So that'll buy him at least one more week to try to figure out what he wants to do. But I do understand going the Eric route of I'm tapping him in to work with him for at least I need to get through three roundtables with him. It's tough. Like now it's, this is why if they had been able to put aside their differences and avoid killing a another trader until, I don't know, two more round tables, right? Yeah.

They could have gotten there in a much different, much different place. Yeah, I get that. But I also understand his appeal of wanting to be alone and getting somebody that he can pick because he still has the dagger and he's got two more roundtables to use that dagger. So we can either defend himself or you can get the other trader out. And those are the things that he's going to have to think moving forward. And honestly, having that dagger is just as good as having another trader in there or it's just as good as still having Candace in there.

there once you got rid of Lisa things were set in motion you kind of had to just clean house whether it's candis getting rob out or rob getting candace out once that infighting starts there's no way it's going to end and you do have to figure that out now eric coming into the turret is he going to immediately think shit rob led the charge against lisa rob led the charge against candis is he going to burn me the same way do i have to start pointing people towards rob i would love to see that happen so would i that be great i do think it's going to happen i do think like at least initially he's going to come in and just kind of be subordinate a little bit. Like, yeah, let's just do whatever you want to do, Rob.

Like, I'm just happy to be here. I got to figure this whole thing out. And then maybe he'll start to turn. I don't know how it's going to work. But I love Eric. I love that he going back to hearing the laugh and being completely wrong, hearing footsteps being completely wrong. And now he's like, look at this handwriting.

This is the trader's handwriting. I know exactly who this is. It's Johnny. And it's not Johnny. So we do get to see at least his reaction immediately seeing. Rob, he's floored. But from here, I don't know where we go. Is Rob going to do more of the same?

Is he going to get rid of Johnny and then immediately set his sights on Eric, get Eric out? And then he's last man standing for, you know, what could be another two episodes. We never really know how long these seasons are going to be. I think they always try to make them around like 10 or 11 episodes plus the reunion. But we'll see all please. We got what? How many more faithfuls to get rid of? I don't know.

We'll see. I don't know. It depends on how many they have left because last year I think they had five left. yeah that sounds about right no there was four winners no it was four winners it was gabby dillon lord iver and oh fucking iver i forgot about him

yeah yeah so there were four left at the end so maybe i think they usually try to do four left and we've got rob eric tara johnny natalie thirinda mara

am i missing anyone uh Kristen. Kristen, yep. So there's eight left. So we could still be missing somebody knowing us. We could easily still be missing somebody. But yeah, I would imagine there's probably two full episodes left in the finale.

Yep, that sounds about right. But let's get to some questions, see what the audience has to say about it. This is a good way to start it from Sarah Polardi. Not a good, not a question, but Happy Colton is gone. We all are. We all are from Ha, Haleo. do you think the faith bulls will catch on to why Candace was going for Rob eventually they'll start putting those pieces together that's why his next move is really important because he's going to have to throw people yeah if he can throw people sufficiently and he can get people to look like if he can make enough moves to separate himself from that these this group of faithfuls is not going to figure it out because they tend to just overreact at the time and then forget about it in a couple episodes so Yeah, they pretzel their own brains.

Yeah. Ryan Stomeman 83, did Rob just ruin the show? He is a boring trader. I don't know if he's boring. I mean, I do think that compared to even last season and last season kind of ticked me off, but it is a bit boring. It's a bit stale. It's still a great game show, but it is a bit stale from the traders.

So I don't know if he ruined the show. I just think it to ruin the show. It's just he's playing it like. Holt and ruin the show. Yeah. He's playing it, you know, you might not like the way he's playing the game. He's not playing a bad game. He's playing a dangerous game now because when you start picking off other traders,

like it automatically draws attention to you whether you want to or not. So it's dangerous. And yeah, it's quiet, right? He's the silent assassin currently, which is not always the most exhilarating TV. But no, I still think it's a good season. Like, I'm enjoying it. And I think that next week is going to be really interesting to try to see. How is he going to try to think his way out of this one?

And more importantly, does Eric have it in him to step into that turret and immediately try to take down Rob? That's how the traders win this game. If you can get Rob out of there successfully, tap somebody in that you really trust Eric, Eric and Mark being in the turret to end this thing, they have a shot. They really have a shot. I don't know if there's another tap left, though. This is the second tap opportunity. So there's solo tradering? I think it would be solar trader for Eric if he gets Rob out.

Okay, that would be interesting. If they are able to tap one more person. I really want to see what I really want is Rob gone, then Eric gone, and I want a group of faithfuls looking at each other at the end. It's like, ugh. That'd be fun. I don't know what you're about. And that would be really fun to see.

From Mike the Stalian, do you think Stephen will realize that Rob is a traitor after he asked to speak with Candice? Again, we are expecting a lot from this group of faithfuls that have not been able to figure anything out. So I'm going to say no. I'm going to say he never talks to anybody about that and he never pieces the pieces together. I think he brings it up because I think they are like, they're not dumb people.

They're just playing a dumb game currently. Like they need to shake off this because they're leaning on Rob. They don't have that. And that's what they've been doing this whole time. They've been leaning on Colton. They've been leaning on Rob. They've been leaning on other people.

We need one person that's actually a faithful to understand that and be like, okay, I need to think for myself now and take a shot. And if you miss, you miss, but someone, that's why I respected Ron. Ron didn't do that bullshit. Ron was willing to take a shot. And he got crucified for it because he took the first shot and missed with Portia. Then everybody was despite the evidence being stacked against her because she said, I murdered.

No, everyone forgot that part and just decided to team up on Ron. And it looks like Dorinda was a massive part. of that. No surprise there. What an asshole. But we need somebody in the faithful group. And it could be a Stephen. I've got my money on Kristen. I think that she's poised to take a big step in this game. I think she wants to. And I think that that's what you're seeing throughout the faithfuls is like they want to be that person. And then they go to start being that person. Yeah. And they kind of step back and defer to rob. I think it's funny too. For that group of faithfuls. Like, there's so many of them that haven't done anything and they're not really good at the game and they're admittedly not good at the game. But every time that they take a step where they're like, oh, I think I've kind of figured this out. I'm going to try to play. They get knocked down. Like Johnny right now, this is the first episode that he's been in the mix, trying to figure things out, talking to other people, having secret conversations. And he's like, wow, I feel like I'm really playing the game. I might have a nose for this. Immediately he's going to get voted out next week.

I actually think if Johnny can stick around. Obviously, there's some eyes on him now. But if he's able to wheel and deal this one, I think what the Candace murder or vote out and finding out she was a traitor did for him, I think that rattled him so much. Like he has like a visible reaction to that. And like he talks about it.

He's like, I can't believe I aligned so closely with a traitor and this, that, that's the other. That might have lit a fire. And he might have finally looked. looked and been like, you know what? I can't fucking trust anybody. I can trust my girl, Tara. Tara, it's time for Operation Figure Skater. We've been waiting. Now's the time. Let's take a shot and see how we do. Johnny could be the missing piece to this puzzle to really light a fire under the trader's ass because that's the other thing is this false confidence we currently have

after going two for two in the last two weeks on traders is actually not good. Because again, as you said, you look at how they got to those points. It was the traitors pointing them at each other, one, and two, picking up on evidence that wasn't actually there, i.e. the kiss from Rina. So they are going to have a semblance of false hope, but then again, what I hope comes from that. If they really take a second, they can put this together and look at it and be like, all right, hold on.

The rob piece is something. It's something more than we're giving it credit. for we need to take a step back and johnny feeling so scorned by somebody he was so close to might then in turn go i'm also close with rob i get the same vibes from rob rob's kind of been doing the same things as candis boom you can put that together i have i'm putting all of my eggs when it comes to the faithfuls in the johnny basket and in the christin basket but i also need them to finally latch on to what multiple faithful said there's got to be a dude Yes, guys, there has to be.

Statistically, there's a dude in that tower. Start looking at the dudes. They say these things. Then it gets to the table and it's out the window. We don't come back to it. It's unreasonable. It's almost like you replaced every faithful in this game with an actually competent person.

And you're like, this makes sense. Why don't they do this? Because they have proven so far that they are completely and utterly incapable of doing this. That's what I think the Candace thing to Johnny. Yeah, you mapped it out perfectly and you're like, this is exactly what would make sense. They haven't shown any sort of confidence. I've got faith in Johnny, dude.

I got faith in Johnny's an Olympic champion. He is a smart fella. He can put this together. And I think that getting scorned by Candace is going to leave a mark and he's going to start looking at the people around him. I do. I really do. I've got putting my faith in Johnny Weir.

He's got this. All right. Well, last one here. I had it in here somewhere. From Kay Lookerwoods, agree or disagree. If Rob and Candace went to the end, they would win together as a team. Agreed. I completely and utterly disagree.

Rob has shown the entire time that he's willing to burn a trader. I think if Candice and Rob got to the end, he would try to put some stink on her and win by himself. Oh, yeah. I'm more meant could they, like, are they good enough to have pulled it off together? Yes, absolutely. Yeah, but Rob would burn her at the end. Yeah, I agree with that too. I'm just saying, like, if they did, that's what I was saying earlier.

They just, well, that was the question. I know. No, the question was, would they win the money together? Oh,

would they win the money together? Oh, okay, okay. My bad. I didn't know that. I thought it was just, could they win together.

Yes. Unequivocally, yes, they could have danced circles around the remaining faithfuls, which is kind of a bummer. That would have been fun to watch. But again,

like I understand where it fell apart. It's going to have, next week is going to be telling. Next week is going to be so telling to see where these faithfuls are at. Like, my God, guys,

like, someone catch a, with someone pick up the scent. It's right there. The pieces are there. And I know it's easier to Monday morning quarterback this one, but like we can do this. Johnny, Kristen, I'm looking at you. Tara's going to be, by the way, the admittedly worst at this game.

That's her words, not mine. Oh, yeah. And she's going to win. Like, she just has to have one moment of brilliance. And that's where Operation Figure Skater comes in. Operation Triple Axel, go. Let's wrap this thing up. You got anything else?

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