Mikes More than Meets the Eye

[Mike Birbiglia]

Now it's my moment!

I'll first start off with a quote.

"Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln

How he gets away with owning that quote is beyond me. I wish I could own an every day phrase.

"Hey, how are you doing?" - Mike Birbiglia

That would be cool, I'd easily be the most quoted person ever.


I'm over trying to pump up my ego though, lets move on. Abe's quote applies well here I believe, as you both played the game with the best effort that you could and well the results are clear as day being together in the final 2. In my mind I feel as though you both should be applauded for reaching this point in the game. :::golfclap:::

At the end of the day you were the best Adam Levine and Johnny Knoxville that you could be and that made it worthwhile to watch this game as long as I did from pre-jury to then jury house.

Unfortunately there can only be one winner and the other is just the first loser. I want you both to know that my vote it up in the air, and up for grabs so your answers are vital in the decision of who gets my vote. I was originally bias towards one person but that's not how I want to my vote to be decided. So lets begin with the questions.




Questions for both of you!

So, I'm here in Jury, 3rd one voted off and yet I've been blessed with the opportunity to cast my vote due a series of circumstances. In this 3 part question, I want to know: 1) Are you surprised that I get to vote? 2) Do you feel like I deserve the opportunity to vote? 3) Do you have any concerns of how I'll vote considering at the time of my eviction the thought of me voting was probably not even in the spectrum of possibilities?


Through out the 10 rounds of the game, as people were being evicted and alliances changed, or did not, I'm sure the person(s) you have a bullseye on also changed. To the best of your ability please list the player(houseguest only, Penn doesn't count) for each round that you had in your crosshairs the most for that round and a short line explanation why at that moment they were your biggest target/threat.


List the instance in this game that stood out the most for you as the moment where things didn't go your way, or you were most frustrated. The more details the better of course.


Question for Johnny

I'm going to flat out call it how I see it. You lied to me. I didn't foresee someone that I bonded with so early and so closely with to do that. Even giving you the benefit of the doubt, I looked back time and time again and I don't see any other way I can work it through our conversation that points else wise. You told me that you were keeping me with your vote when I was up for eviction. Come to find out after the vote that you did the exact opposite. Why lie? If you would have casted doubt in the slightest I'd have given you a pass, but in our convo it's clear as day. It's just something in the future you should take into consideration before you commit your vote to someone to possibly offer more doubt so that is doesn't affect your game later. Extend your thoughts as best as you can, but no need to dwell on why voted how you did, just why you felt you had to lie?

Question for Adam

I felt a whole rollercoaster of emotions with you. I felt like that was probably my biggest guard as to why I didn't let my guard down and allow myself to work closer with you. We were always able to talk out our differences and here at the end of the game I'm able to respect you more for that. As I was observing the game I noticed a few instances where you appeared to either be cocky or have a level of attitude towards some players to which can only be explained best as undesirable. I was curious if you felt this is a true statement, or if it's just a perception of conversations on the boards that were misconstrued. If you did conduct yourself this way was there effort put into it, or is it just naturally the person you are? How do you feel it either hurt or helped your game whether it was reality or perception?



Thank you so much gentleman for your time. It was a pleasure to get to know you and to play with you, albeit for a short amount of time. You are both good characters who I wouldn't mind running into again.


"Good luck, and may the best man win!" - Mike Birbiglia

[Adam Levine]

So, I'm here in Jury, 3rd one voted off and yet I've been blessed with the opportunity to cast my vote due a series of circumstances. In this 3 part question, I want to know: 1) Are you surprised that I get to vote? 2) Do you feel like I deserve the opportunity to vote? 3) Do you have any concerns of how I'll vote considering at the time of my eviction the thought of me voting was probably not even in the spectrum of possibilities?

1) Yes, but if you’re active, you deserve to.
2) Well I guess I already answered that in part 1. Plus it proves your actions may matter to those you thought it wouldn’t.
3) Not at all. Do as you wish.

Through out the 10 rounds of the game, as people were being evicted and alliances changed, or did not, I'm sure the person(s) you have a bullseye on also changed. To the best of your ability please list the player(houseguest only, Penn doesn't count) for each round that you had in your crosshairs the most for that round and a short line explanation why at that moment they were your biggest target/threat.

I’ll use my DR for reference:
By the end of week 1, I said I wouldn’t mind Christie, Dianna, Drew, and Noah to leave. I formed relationships with them the least at that time.

By the end of week 2, I was pissed at the whole house apparently, ESPECIALLY Bradley for not going through with your backdoor. I said I hated everyone but Nicki, Kate, and Johnny. At this time, me and Johnny were not f2’s yet.

By the end of week 3, Johnny + Adam = Official F2. I felt the house was divided, with Lindsay, Mike, and Sandra against me, Bradley, and Nicki. But in my nomination ceremony had I won the endurance HoH, would’ve nominated Bradley and Sean. Lol I don’t think I make sense. Everyone’s a target lol

By the end of week 4, I had loads of alliances and f2s. I had a f2 with Johnny, “Adam’s Angels” consisting of me, Nicki, Kate, and Dianna, categorized with Bradley, hated by Sandra and Lindsay, and was “working on” Sean and Drew. At this point, I was liking my odds.

By the end of week 5, I still had my eyes set on the one and only Sandra. But when we lost Bradley, I was sad.

By the end of week 6, my HoH reign, I nominated Lindsay and Dianna with the intention of Drew as a replacement. To restore Johnny’s trust mostly for reasoning.

By the end of week 7-8, I was going after Lindsay. I was obligated to nominate both Sean and Nicki, which I didn’t want to do, and campaigned to Johnny specifically (since we only needed one vote) to vote out Lindsay over Nicki.

Since that, I was just concerned about Johnny and I making final 2. Which happened with me voting out Nicki over him, and him doing to me by voting Sean out over me.


List the instance in this game that stood out the most for you as the moment where things didn't go your way, or you were most frustrated. The more details the better of course.

Easy, the time I was most frustrated was when Bradley led me on to believe he would go through with nominating you after the veto was used. He actually told me to campaign for votes to ensure you would go. It pissed me off he made me campaign for votes just for him to nominate Lindsay right after. So lame! I was pretty pissed.

As I was observing the game I noticed a few instances where you appeared to either be cocky or have a level of attitude towards some players to which can only be explained best as undesirable. I was curious if you felt this is a true statement, or if it's just a perception of conversations on the boards that were misconstrued. If you did conduct yourself this way was there effort put into it, or is it just naturally the person you are? How do you feel it either hurt or helped your game whether it was reality or perception?

Ok, I think I’ll officially accept the Dipshit Award for the season. I don’t do well with texting, or posting on boards in general. I’m very straightforward, barely utilize exclamation points, or capitalize for that matter. And all this can be perceived as being a cold person. However, on aim, I’m a completely different animal. I’m interactive, crazy, funky, fun, and since I have that “face-to-face” communication, I can quickly and easily provide clarification for the type of message I wished to convey. Like I said before, my efficient personality make me submit things quickly without necessarily revising or thinking things COMPLETELY through. I mean it was thought out for the most part, but I do see how things I post could be taken for shock value.

Insofar as this helping or hindering my game, I think it could help people think they can beat me in F2, because of how much of a dipshit I was. But regardless, my intentions weren’t evil, though some of my words were. Just when I get into the game, I have no filter with my honesty. And something I guess I can say I’m proud of is how honest I was in the game. But it is the method I went about spewing my honesty that made me undesirable, and I understand that. We all dig our own graves, and I’ll be happy to lie in mine

Good luck Mikey!

[Johnny Knoxville]

So, I'm here in Jury, 3rd one voted off and yet I've been blessed with the opportunity to cast my vote due a series of circumstances. In this 3 part question, I want to know: 1) Are you surprised that I get to vote? 2) Do you feel like I deserve the opportunity to vote? 3) Do you have any concerns of how I'll vote considering at the time of my eviction the thought of me voting was probably not even in the spectrum of possibilities?

1. Yes, I am surprised that you get to vote. I definitely didn’t see that coming.

2. Sure, I mean it seems as though you were still keeping up with things consistently after your eviction, and it is important to have an informed jury. I am not quite clear on why you are voting instead of Britney who lasted a round longer, but I trust Penn’s judgement.

3. Nah, you are entitled to vote however you want.

Through out the 10 rounds of the game, as people were being evicted and alliances changed, or did not, I'm sure the person(s) you have a bullseye on also changed. To the best of your ability please list the player(houseguest only, Penn doesn't count) for each round that you had in your crosshairs the most for that round and a short line explanation why at that moment they were your biggest target/threat.

Week 1: Dianna
Dianna and I just didn’t really click. In week one of this game, there were a lot of people that I hit it off with right away, but with Dianna it just seemed like neither of us was that interested in having a conversation with each other. Noah had also informed me that she had mentioned to him that she would consider nominating me if she was in power, so I wanted her out for that reason as well.

Week 2: Christie
By this point in time, it was clear that she was an inactive. Keeping inactive players around is just not my thing and it never will be.

Week 3: Lindsay
Lindsay and I barely talked throughout the first half of this game, and by now I was beginning to see how strong of a player she was. I wanted her out because I felt like I would be a very easy nomination for her if she won HoH, and I definitely felt like that was within the scope of possibilities.

Week 4: Kate
I wanted Kate out because she was beside Britney on the block, and I really got along well with Britney. I really tried to get Adam to flip his vote on this one, but it was pretty much an impossible task because of Adam/Brit’s history and Kate's standing in the house.

Week 5: Lindsay
By this point, I was just frustrated because she had been a target of mine for quite a while and she persevered through every time I thought she might get evicted. I felt like she was Roadrunner and I was Wile E Coyote with the amounts of times she had survived being targeted. And she was initially nominated beside Sandra, who I was close to, and who I knew would probably be sent home if she was sitting beside anyone but Lindsay.

Week 6: Dianna
This is the week where I got over my paranoia regarding Lindsay, and my target changed to the one player left in the game I had absolutely NO relationship with. If you are in jury, and there is one person you NEVER talk to then IMO you are an idiot not to go after this person. This was the week that I flipped the vote and got what I wanted.

Week 7: Kate
I felt like I had probably just hugely pissed her off by keeping Lindsay around, and she was alright at challenges so I wanted to get rid of her before she won something. But then she got herself expelled.

Week 8: Drew
By the time final 6 rolled around, I had gotten to know Nicki, Lindsay, Sean and Adam really well on a personal level. Drew and I were still kind of distant.

Week 9: Nicki
At this point, personal relationships were pretty much irrelevant because I loved everyone in the final 5, so I had to go entirely off of strategy. I knew Nicki was tight with Adam at this point, whereas Sean and Lindsay were tighter with me. I wanted to maximize my odds at making the finals.

At the last minute, I decided against evicting Nicki for two reasons. The first is that I knew Adam already felt bad about nominating her and that Nicki was upset on a personal level – I didn’t want to make things worse after he had just totally came through for me. And second, Lindsay was a bigger comptition threat and would be more likely to prevent Adam and I from making the finals together.

Week 10: Nicki
Sean was HoH and Adam wasn’t an option in my mind.

Week 11: Sean
I was HoH and Adam still wasn’t an option in my mind.

List the instance in this game that stood out the most for you as the moment where things didn't go your way, or you were most frustrated. The more details the better of course.

The part in the game where I was most frustrated was when Lindsay won the veto in the week where Sean was HoH.

I had been wanting Lindsay out for a while at this point, and I knew that Adam wanted Sandra out. When those two were Sean’s nominees, I wasn’t thrilled to see Sandra up, but I figured Adam and I would try to ensure that the nominations stayed the same and that we would figure out our voting after the veto. So when Lindsay won and Sandra informed me that Adam had helped her with the veto, I was livid.

At the time I felt like it was completely selfish. He knew how badly I wanted Lindsay out, but he helped her stay through the week anyways. I did not feel like I would have done the same thing back to him by helping Sandra with veto that week. It felt like a direct move against me, even though in hindsight it wasn’t.

Anyways, I definitely voiced how pissed off I was to him, but we were able to work through it.

I'm going to flat out call it how I see it. You lied to me. I didn't foresee someone that I bonded with so early and so closely with to do that. Even giving you the benefit of the doubt, I looked back time and time again and I don't see any other way I can work it through our conversation that points else wise. You told me that you were keeping me with your vote when I was up for eviction. Come to find out after the vote that you did the exact opposite. Why lie? If you would have casted doubt in the slightest I'd have given you a pass, but in our convo it's clear as day. It's just something in the future you should take into consideration before you commit your vote to someone to possibly offer more doubt so that is doesn't affect your game later. Extend your thoughts as best as you can, but no need to dwell on why voted how you did, just why you felt you had to lie?

You are right, I did lie to you. The reason that I lied about your eviction was that I had made up my mind that I wanted Sean to survive the week, and I wanted to do everything I could to ensure that would happen.

In a normal situation, I probably wouldn’t have lied. But the thing is, you were holding on to a power that could change the outcome of a vote. When the vote was going down, I was under the impression that it would be 5-4 not 6-3 because Britney only flipped at the very last minute. If I told you that I was voting for you, I’m sure you could have done the math to figure out that you needed to use your power, which I believed could have very easily resulted in Sean’s eviction. I didn’t want to be the cause of him being sent home, so I lied to you because it seemed like the safest option.

Anyways, I am sorry if I hurt you on a personal level by lying to you. It probably comes down to the fact that our outlooks on lying are kind of different. I enter a Big Brother game expecting to be lied to, so when I find out that someone has lied to me it doesn’t really bother me that much. Likewise, I also don’t feel that it's a very big deal to lie to someone in an ORG because again I kinda assume that it is a given. But I can see that other people enter ORGs with different expectations, so I should not assume that everyone will see things the same way I will. You are definitely right that I should get better at taking the consequences of lying into consideration. Not because of how it will impact my game, but rather that I don’t want to hurt people that I value as friends.

[Lindsay Lohan]

I need to get a tattoo of a bullseye on my forehead...