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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
00:09my name is zach cornell i'm from atlanta georgia and i am a marketing manager
00:14what's your reaction to getting to play big brother i am so excited to be on big brother
00:21it's been a dream of mine and i really just have fallen in love with the show i am so fired up to
00:29actually be in the house i like i know that everybody's going to come in there day one and
00:35just be this crazy energetic mess and so i'm going to use that to my advantage i'm already thinking
00:40strategy right now when it comes to it because people are going to want to be out there people
00:44are going to want to show themselves so i'm going to use that to my advantage hopefully we have
00:48somebody too crazy to vote out week one and uh look man i'm just blessed and i'm really happy to be here
00:53so why will you win big brother i really do feel like i am the complete package and i don't say
01:01that in a cocky way i just know that from all the different steps in my life i mean i was a pastor's
01:06kid that grew up very shy in a very sheltered home and i had to come out of my shell when i got to
01:12college right i mean it was my first day in college when i saw somebody smoking weed for the first time
01:17right so i had to really adapt and then you ultimately move from there to into professional
01:22baseball right you're living with seven people in the same house all is all at once you know and so
01:27there's a lot of different aspects in my life that i've had to really change myself to understand
01:32what's going on in my environment and ultimately that is going to be the number one reason why i'm
01:37going to win big brother right i feel like this is always an ever-changing game and when i see people
01:43there in day 45 sleeping taking a nap not really paying attention to their surroundings it drives me
01:49insane as somebody who is a competitor who somebody who really appreciates the show i just know that
01:54i'm always going to be on my feet whether it is like you know working out i'm going to make sure
01:59that i'm always there with somebody right or if it is somebody that is not even you know closely related
02:04to me that has different you know likes and dislikes i'm going to be that person that is going to be
02:09there for them i have an interest of getting to know everybody i'm really interested in getting to know
02:14all their deepest darkest secrets and i know ultimately that is what it's going to take to win
02:18big brother so that is why i'm going to win big brother what's your strategy going into the game
02:24so i mean look when it comes to my strategy entering into the house i know that i will be perceived as a
02:30threat day one i am somebody that is more athletically built uh somebody that can really interact well with
02:36other people around them and so i am going to really push me being a pastor's kid week one i want to be
02:43somebody that you feel like you can trust immediately when you get into the house because
02:48i know that people are going to be worried if people like them if they dislike them especially
02:53when it's 15 random people that you've never met before right and so week one i plan on laying low
02:59i want to be that person that is there uh just kind of holding your hand somebody that you feel like
03:04you can talk to in a very stress-free environment every single day right and i don't want to be the
03:10type of person that is they hey like let's create this alliance i want you to be the person to tell
03:15me that right and so week one i do want to lay low for that reason hopefully there are a bunch of
03:20crazies in there hopefully there's another angela that you know goes off the deep end and uh is
03:25ultimately the person that would kick out week one right and so that's my ultimate goal build those
03:30deeper relationships and then once we get into weeks two three four that's when you really start to
03:36see these alliances form that's what i ultimately want to do i want to be in there with a final two
03:42with somebody that you would have no idea who that person is or you would have you would never be able
03:48to guess them right and so i want to have that final two i want to be in a bunch of different alliances
03:53with people that i feel like i can relate to as well so i am going to play a much more uh risky game
03:59when it comes to really interacting with people and trying to create those alliances but honestly i feel like
04:04that's your best case scenario to win the entire thing and that's what i'm going for i'm here to
04:09win it not to get second third or fourth what are your biggest strengths yeah so when it comes to
04:15strengths i i feel like uh i'm very confident in myself uh when it comes to being a very athletic
04:22person being somebody that can uh be the center of the room to really start conversations i feel like i am
04:28that person right and so i do know that there are weaknesses that come with it but uh when it comes to
04:34really being an instigator i am that person what are your biggest weaknesses well when it comes to
04:41weaknesses i also know that the way that i can play can be a threat as well if you are somebody that is
04:48too far out there uh when it comes to trying to interact with people if you are the person that is
04:53trying to start the alliance people can perceive that as a threat so i know that it can be a double
04:59edge sword being somebody that is very confident in the game uh so i'm going to have to use it very
05:05carefully and very wisely when i get into the house do you plan on keeping any secrets about yourself from
05:11the other house guests you know i i was deciding whether or not if if i was going to reveal that i
05:17played professional baseball in the washington nationals organization but i honestly feel like i can
05:23use it as a strength so i will be revealing it when i get into the house um so no to answer your
05:29question there won't be anything uh that i will be holding as a secret what are you bringing to the
05:35show that nobody has seen before i'm gonna be that person that is an all-around player right i know that
05:42in last season you had people like mackenzie who was a challenge beast or you had somebody like
05:48chelsea who ended up winning the show that was somebody that was uh working behind the scenes and
05:52really dictating the flow of the game and uh i want to be that person that combines the two right
05:57i really appreciate what tucker did last season uh flipping the house upside down and so my goal
06:04ultimately is to go in there and be all three at once right i feel like i've watched enough big
06:08brother i've watched enough competition shows to realize when you need to take that step forward and
06:13when you need to really reel it back right so to be somebody that you've never seen before my ultimate
06:18goal is to be all three of those people from last season what makes big brother such a successful
06:24show after 25 years i wouldn't say i am becoming a super fan right and so like when it comes to big
06:31brother i feel like it is the most raw and authentic show out there i mean you are stuck there for 90 days
06:37with the same people a lot of these shows only last for three weeks right and so you really have to
06:43uh grit and grind your way through this show because it's all about uh mental stability in this house
06:50and i really appreciate that about big brother because you always have to stay on your toes because
06:54you never know what the next step is and you know you have no idea what you know uh big brother's gonna
07:00throw at you you know it's all about surprises and uh that's that's what i really appreciate about big
07:05brother why will you be the player to watch this season i'm gonna be the one to watch this summer
07:12because i am gonna be that person that comes in there with charm i will be the person that will be
07:16um flirting it up with fellow people uh getting along with other people um and being that person that
07:23everyone feels like that they can come to right and when it is time to flip the house upside down when
07:29it is time to really dig my heels in and win those veto challenges i am going to win them right
07:35if there is somebody that needs me as a pawn when it comes to an alliance i'm not afraid to do it
07:41if it is for the right scenario um and i am very much so willing to play the game on the edge right
07:47and that's what i know america wants to see that's what i envision myself coming into the house being
07:52able to do and so that's the reason why people are going to want to tune in so would you be open for a
07:58showmance i am gearing up for very beautiful women to come into this house now i will say this my mom
08:05is very uh religious and she's filipino and she told me she's like zach if i see you even sleeping
08:11next to another girl when you get back to our house i'm going to murder you so i do have that in
08:17the back of my head when it comes to uh a showmance but look i already told her i said i'm gonna do
08:23whatever it takes to win the 750 000 and uh if i do happen to find love in the process then i'm i'm more
08:30than thrilled so we just i know that's going to be lingering in my mind as i uh start to talk to
08:36women my age in the house so will you be more of a hero or a villain in the house being a hero or a
08:44villain it really just comes down to who am i in the house with i'm gonna be honest with you because
08:49um i i view like somebody like a tucker as somebody you know in the house with the other people
08:57people in the house with him view him as a villain however as somebody that's watching
09:02like in america we viewed him as a hero or at least i did right and so it's going to come down
09:07to the scenarios when we get into it um and i'm not afraid to turn on people so you could really
09:13perceive me as a villain when it comes to it because i'm not afraid to uh turn on people lie
09:18cheat steal do whatever it takes to win what's on your big brother bucket list honestly my bb bucket
09:25list is to win head of household i feel like that is the number one thing that i've always dreamt of
09:30especially you know growing up and so uh yeah that is my number one thing to do what will be the
09:36easiest and hardest parts of being a house guest i feel like the easiest thing being a house guest
09:42this summer is actually to get along with everybody however the hardest thing is to get along with
09:48everybody for 90 days because i know by day 60 there's going to be somebody that pisses me off by
09:54either not putting their you know their plates away or something like that it's going to irritate
09:59me so the ultimate goal is to stay even keeled what are some standout moments for you from the past
10:0525 years of big brother the two biggest things that i really enjoyed was when zach in season 16 called
10:13out devon uh and made fun of pow pow at the same time i found that absolutely hilarious and then in this
10:19most recent season i love tucker's run when tucker ran through and uh flipped the house upside down
10:25that is something that i've always envisioned for myself and uh yeah i i want to do the same thing