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00:00to start tell us a little bit about yourself give us your name where you're from and what you do
00:09hi i'm jimmy i'm from washington dc and i'm a strategy consultant what's your reaction to
00:15getting to play big brother this feels incredible all right i've been on edge on my seat for like
00:21the last few months at this point well i guess month and a half but it's incredible i mean like
00:26if you had told me a year ago today when i was celebrating the fourth of july in idaho
00:29that i'd be now sitting in the big brother diary room talking to you i would be i would tell you
00:34you there's no way that was the case and right and especially like younger me jimmy who was watching
00:40bb16 10 years ago shortly after after coming out and shortly after having my my parents lose our
00:46house like if you had told me flash forward 10 years the 25th anniversary of the show i'd be
00:52sitting right here i wouldn't have believed you and i am so excited to be here it's insane and i'm ready
00:58for this summer of twists and turns i can't wait to see what's ahead in store for us why will you win
01:04big brother i'm gonna win big brother because i have a strategy background professionally and
01:12personally i come from a world where manipulation and understanding who you want to get something from
01:18and when you want to get it is key and i come into the house with a strong amount of self-awareness
01:24i know what i need to say i know who i need to say it to and i know exactly what i need to do
01:30to win i'm ready to put my chips on the board i'm ready to show my cards and i'm just ready to play
01:35and ready to play to win i'm not here for the experience okay some people come into the big
01:40brother house for the experience baby i am here to win because that 750 000 check is gonna have
01:45my name on it i know i'm gonna win big brother first i've been manifesting it for weeks now all
01:55right i've been seeing myself walk out of that onto that stage seeing julie chen for some reason the
02:01confetti is purple to me so i've been seeing that i'm excited for everybody else to see it too
02:04but i i have the smarts i have the social game and i know what it takes to win competitions and when
02:11you need to win competitions i know how to play people and i know how to manipulate them but at
02:16the end of the day i also know how to build relationships with and create friends i know
02:20how to work a house in a group of people in a way that strategically matches the goal that i'm trying
02:26to achieve which in this case is winning big brother so i'm gonna lean into that social game
02:31i'm gonna play with my competition and strategy smarts and i'm also gonna make friends along the way
02:36and and walk out of that house collecting a check of 750 000 all right tell us a little bit about your
02:43life in the outside world and how that has prepared you for big brother um outside of the game i'm um i'm
02:50jimmy um i i work i play tennis i hang out with my animals and and my my long-term boyfriend sean
02:57um and i'm have a lot of really close and tight-knit friends i've i've moved around a little bit i went
03:04from florida to to a college where i knew nobody and built a whole network from there and then after
03:09college i did it all again in a whole new city built a whole new network and a whole new group
03:13of friends and through that process you find a lot of confidence in yourself you really understand who
03:17you are what you want to put out into the world and then what you want to get from the world too and
03:21i think that breeds a level of insight and maturity that somebody at 25 actually has that i i think
03:28is really cool and so into the house i bring my smarts i bring my life experiences and i bring this
03:33unabashed confidence and understanding of who i am and what i want to put out into the world and
03:39what i want to receive from it why will you be the player to watch this season listen i'm gonna be the
03:46one to watch this summer because i'm gonna give y'all strategy i'm gonna give y'all gameplay i'm gonna
03:52give y'all personality if you couldn't tell i'm gonna give y'all interesting television all right
03:57because that's what we're here for we're here to play a game we're here to make friends and we're here
04:01to make good tv what are your biggest strengths yeah i mean going into the game i have a strong
04:07strategic background again both personally and professionally and i'm really ready to see that
04:12exercised in the house and in the game i'm also really resilient i think that's really important
04:17in the game as well whether it's a competition where you're behind and have to catch up a little
04:21bit or maybe you're thrown up on the block and a black back and a blind side and you really have
04:25to lean in and use last minute time to talk people into letting you stay or getting them to vote maybe
04:31a way that they didn't expect to and i think not giving up fighting for every point something that
04:36i'm really used to doing is going to serve me really well in the big brother house and i'm also
04:40a triplet so i know how to stick out amongst a crowd and i know how to you play that to my advantage
04:46know when i have to lean in and know when i have to lean out in the key moments and i really think
04:50that's going to work to my advantage in the house what are your biggest weaknesses gosh i think i'm
04:57really trusting i think that's going to be a weakness of mine once i really latch on to people
05:02um and feel like i have a good connection um i feel like i'd be vulnerable to a blind side so i
05:06definitely think that's a weakness i'm looking forward to or maybe not so much um and i also think
05:12uh a weakness i have is is maybe i i won't think i need to win a competition because i don't want to
05:17show how strong or how smart i am but maybe it was the right time to win that competition so those
05:22are the two things i'm kind of kind of weary about is that i'm over trusting and maybe and maybe in a
05:26way that leads to me not not winning a competition that i might need to win because i don't feel like
05:31i have to win it at the time do you plan on keeping any secrets about yourself from the other house
05:36guests absolutely you think i'm gonna walk in this house and tell everybody i have a professional
05:41strategy background or that i'm from washington dc especially right now no i am a tennis coach and i
05:48am from bradenton florida all right i don't need people worrying about my professional background
05:51i don't need people worrying about where i'm from i want them to focus on this personality and i want
05:56them to focus on how fun i am i want them to focus on the fact that i'm a triplet but i 100 will not
06:02be telling anybody what i do for work or where i work will you be more of a hero or a villain in the
06:09house i'm definitely more of a villain but see when i say that most people actually tell me i'm
06:15more of a hero so i think it could go either way in my mind i'm more of a villain um when it comes to
06:21snap 2 i really do and i also think i i tell it how it is and i'm kind of a sorry i don't know if i
06:25can say but i kind of am so i also read it down uh very consistently so i think i'll definitely lean
06:31more towards the villain side but again a lot of people tell me i'm good-natured and a lot nicer than
06:36i think i am so who knows maybe i could be a hero maybe a villain who's a hero does that work
06:41how will you crush your enemies i'm gonna crush my enemies by being their friend i think there's
06:50something so interesting about being a frenemy with somebody and then turning around and putting
06:55them on the block you know what i mean and then sitting there in front of the entire house telling
06:59them exactly what i think of them so i think that is a really good way to shut somebody up also like
07:04a few reads here and there definitely definitely help but i'm always ready to put somebody in their
07:09place i'm the youngest of three and i've always had to fight for my own and i'm ready to do that
07:13in the big brother house what are you bringing to the show that nobody has seen before well you
07:19guys have never had a triplet on so that's new um i also think i'm gonna bring like a unique and
07:24interesting energy i don't really give a what people think about me and i think that's gonna bode
07:29well for me in the house and with america i'm also not afraid to run right up to an edge and just jump
07:35right off and see where it goes and i think that's a unique twist that especially maybe the more modern
07:39seasons some people have been i've been afraid of um but again i bring a level of strategic knowledge
07:45ingenuity and also a level of happiness and energy kind of all wrapped up into a cute little gift
07:50basket if i do say so myself what's your fan level with big brother yeah i would say i'm a solid fan
07:58um i've seen most big brother seasons not all of them um i started watching with my mom um primarily
08:03around like earlier big brother seasons around bb10 um and then i've just watched since then so
08:08i've seen a lot of the show um i wouldn't consider myself a super fan but i'm definitely a big fan of
08:12the show and definitely understand how the ins and outs of the shows work the unique characters that
08:16exist and really how to play a solid game that that you really want to do to win right not showing
08:20all your cards at once but moving strategically through the game what's your strategy going into the game
08:25yeah so going into the house i want to be a part of a bigger alliance right away right i don't want
08:31to form the alliance i want to be in situations where the alliance comes to me because the last
08:35thing you want to do is everybody finds out you're trying to form some bigger alliance right
08:39then within that bigger alliance that's usually around six to eight people i want to form a couple
08:44different threesomes i want to find one two maybe even three different groups of three i said group
08:49of eight maybe a group of nine all right so i want to find those threesomes within the larger group
08:53and within that i want to find a ride or die and what i call a good div diva's too long diva's just
08:57right and through that i want to make a few final twos and a few final threes that way you have an
09:03alliance within an alliance the bigger alliances they always break up they always implode a few weeks
09:08into the competition so you need to have those smaller alliances together so that when the bigger
09:12alliance breaks up you have something to latch on to then from there you figure out who your competition
09:18is you figure out who's running the other side of the house who the masterminds are and and you
09:23eliminate them you get them out right away you don't want to be like cody and bb16 when he had
09:27the opportunity to send derrick home and didn't all right i'm gonna be the one who's gonna send my
09:32competition home when given the opportunity and when i have all the power all right so my strategy going
09:36in is to build that bigger alliance build smaller alliances within that alliance and have a few final
09:41threes and final twos that i can really lean into when the time is right and at the end you want to
09:46take somebody to final two that you know you can beat you don't want to pull a chelsea and mckenzie
09:50all over again when when mckenzie should have taken cam with her come on she would have beaten him all
09:54right i'm not taking a chelsea with me to the final i'm taking somebody i can beat and that's how
09:59i'm gonna win bb27 what makes big brother such a successful show after 25 years big brother has been
10:09such a success because every season there's something a little different there's a new twist there's a new
10:15turn and the house guests always have a willingness to adapt to what's coming and the house guests are
10:20always different every season there's always a different crop of people with interesting
10:23personalities and i think that brings america coming back to see what's in store right but there
10:29is a framework right it's it's literally like a box of chocolates you open the box and you know
10:34there's chocolate in it but you don't know if there's a macadamia nut inside you don't know if
10:37there's peanut butter inside right and it's always a welcome surprise so i think big brother's been
10:42successful for so long because there's a formula and a lot of variables within that formula that
10:47keeps the show interesting and keeps people coming back and hell this season they get to see me on
10:51the screen all right so that's that's even better for them to come back 25 more years after this
10:56you