Houseguest Video Recommendations and more from Big Brother’s Joseph Rodriguez

Posted By: John Powell

September 6, 2024

Houseguest Video Recommendations and more from Big Brother’s Joseph Rodriguez

Joseph Rodriguez. Photo: CBS.

By John Powell – GlobalTV.com

There will be no rewinding for Joseph Rodriguez. The Florida video clerk missed the jury by one week but strangely enough that is not what bothers him the most. Below, Joe details what really upset him about the game and gives his video rental recommendations for the Big Brother 26 cast.

John Powell: Joe! It’s great to be talking today. How are you?

Joseph Rodriguez: Hey, pretty good man!

John Powell: When I was growing up video stores were part of my culture for sure. My favourite store – Queen Video – was great because they had a lot of horror movies you couldn’t find anywhere else, movies from Italy, Japan, etc.

The best moment there that I ever had was renting Dario Argento’s Deep Red. When I brought the tape up the counter the clerk told me I didn’t want THAT version and brought me the UNCUT release, which was so cool!

I am going to test your video clerk skills here. Which movies would you recommend to the remaining houseguests.

John Powell: Angela

Joseph Rodriguez: Oh, my gosh, I don’t know. Um, Fatal Attraction?

John Powell: Cam?

Joseph Rodriguez: Belly.

John Powell: Chelsie?

Joseph Rodriguez: I don’t know, oh, Hoop Dreams!

John Powell: Kimo?Joseph Rodriguez: I would recommend The Last Kiss or some type of rom-com or something like that.

John Powell: Leah?

Joseph Rodriguez: Actually, I don’t know.

John Powell: Makensy?

Joseph Rodriguez: I would recommend 500 Days of Summer.

John Powell: Quinn?

Joseph Rodriguez: Some stupid horror film.

John Powell: Rubina?

Joseph Rodriguez: Don’t know.

John Powell: T’kor?

Joseph Rodriguez: Probably a documentary or something.

John Powell: Yesterday you were very stunned and shocked by the vote. How are you feeling today?

Joseph Rodriguez and Julie Chen Moonves. Photo: CBS.

Joseph Rodriguez: I feel kind of idiotic in some sense. I feel like I made a lot of mistakes along the way that kind of resulted in this. So, kind of feel foolish in some regards but it is what it is now.

John Powell: It seemed like you were talking closely with Mackenzie and Quinn. You seem to have pulled a lot of people on your side. I guess that’s why the vote was so surprising. Who do you feel most betrayed by?

Joseph Rodriguez: I mean, I don’t know if ‘betrayed’ is a good word. I don’t feel betrayed by anybody. They don’t owe me anything. I was lying to all them the whole time so I don’t expect them to save me or anything like that. I was surprised by Makensy a little bit. I feel like nobody ever talked game with her and I was trying to extend an olive branch to her. Apparently, I went about that the wrong way with how I talked to her. I just felt like she’d really never taught game with Kimo so I was kind of surprised that she would vote for him to stay over me.

John Powell: Quinn was an ally and he put you on the block. How did you feel about his gameplay and his HoHs?

Joseph Rodriguez: I like Quinn, fine. But, his gameplay was very questionable at times and still is. He put Cedric on the block and he went home. He put me on the block. Now I’m talking to you. I feel like there were several times throughout the season he did things that were questionable but obviously I wasn’t perfect either.

John Powell: Why do you think they kept Kimo over you?

Joseph Rodriguez: I think they probably saw me, this is just my suspicion, that they probably saw me as a more dangerous player and somebody who was knew how to play the game. Kimo kept to himself sometimes. He wasn’t hustling and stuff like that. While I was a little bit more active in the game.

John Powell: What was your strategy going into the game?

Joseph Rodriguez: My strategy was to try to be honest with people and try to be very open and real with people and hope that they would think that meant I was always telling the truth whenever they would talk to me. That’s why you see some harsh moments from me with Angela and Makensy, talking to them very directly. One, because that’s how I am as a person and two, I felt like it could make them think that means I’m always being honest.

John Powell: We saw a big shift when Tucker was voted out. How has the game changed?

Joseph Rodriguez: I think it’s made things a little bit more open because nobody knows who to target now. He was always the guy that everybody was going after and now everybody feels like they can do their own thing. Honestly, I kind of breathed a sigh of relief a little bit when he was gone. I wasn’t necessarily like thinking it was Game Over. I knew it wasn’t good for my game certainly but I didn’t feel like it was done by any means. Now, everybody’s just going after who they feel like the biggest threats are. We are going to end up with an end game of people who you might not expect to be there.

John Powell: Who were your true ‘ride or dies’, who did you trust in the game?

Joseph Rodriguez. Photo: CBS.

Joseph Rodriguez: Um, f—–g nobody. I mean, I thought that like Tucker and me, I think he was being genuine with me. I’d be curious how true that was but I feel like he was being genuine with me. He wanted to go the end with me and I would have gone to the end with him as well but it would have I would always do what was best for me in a given situation. I came here to win. So I was trying to make the best of what I had in a given situation. I was not trying to stay loyal to a person just for the sake of staying loyal.

John Powell: Are you disappointed you missed the jury?

Joseph Rodriguez: I don’t really care about not making jury to be honest with you. I was kind of not feeling certain people in there. I was kind of annoyed by a lot of the people in there so the thought of staying in the jury house with them wasn’t something I was looking forward to.

I don’t really care about getting to vote on the winner. That doesn’t really matter to me that much. Most seasons, a nine person jury, I would be on the jury. So the thing that was bitter in the moment for me was the fact that it went back down to two nominees which to me is what Big Brother really is. I got to play Big Brother, obviously, but it was a different version of it and sometimes I just felt like the twist went on for way too long. That was what kind of annoyed me in the moment seeing that it went back down to two nominees, not really the jury thing. Now, I told people in the house I wanted to make jury…but that wasn’t super important to me.

John Powell: Who did you not want to be in the jury house with?

Joseph Rodriguez: I don’t want to get into all that. I mean, you know, I guess, Angela was not like my favorite person in the house. She obviously we had a bond to a certain extent because I always knew she had love for me and it’s hard for me to truly dislike somebody who loves me that much but I didn’t agree with a lot of things she did. She is just not my cup of tea.

John Powell: Who do you hope wins?

Joseph Rodriguez: I guess Cam or Leah but it sounds like they’re in trouble. How far they’re gonna make it now? T’kor winning would be awesome. I feel like she’s been playing pretty well and she would deserve it. So I think that T’kor would be somebody I like to see win and I wouldn’t mind to see Chelsie win either. She wasn’t my favorite sometimes but she was a great player so I could respect that.