Hey Julie! - Big Brother & Survivor Recaps
The Big Brother casuals podcast hosted by Big Brother casuals. Brett Rader and Danielle Gibson come to you Fridays during Big Brother & Survivor to make superficial judgements about strategy, showmances, Julie Chen's wardrobe choices & Jeff Probst's delicious reading of the Applebee's menu.
The rest of the year they chat about TV, movies, offscreen drama between BB contestants and more.
Follow us and send in your questions on Twitter @HeyJulieBB.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 371
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
BB25 Week 5 Recap: Red's dead, baby & SHOCKING nomination spoilers
Brett & Dani are back with a new episode, and what fortuitous timing: they started taping about 10 minutes after Cameron's nominations were revealed on the live feeds -- and boy are they a doozy. Mix…
BB25 Week 4 Recap: Everything changes, everything stays the same
Brett & Dani are back to recap another week of Big Brother 25 (in)action. Dani is PEEVED at the events of the week & the use of the new invincibility twist to effectively make the week a complete was…
BB25 Week 3 Recap: Hisam Pressure Cooked!
Dani & Brett are back with another episode, recapping Felicia's HOH which sent Hisam packing back to his glorious life being a doctor and cabaret performer. They also chat about Blue & Jared's relati…
BB25 Week 2 Recap: HOHitis claims Reilly, Hisam & is Cirie an industry-plant?
Dani & Brett are back to recap the happenings from Week 2 of Big Brother 25 including Hisam's HOHitis run wild, his successful anti-Reilly campaign and how the whole affair is likely to cost him the …
BB25 Week 1 Recap: Quite a lot has happened
No, it's not November already. BB25 only started 9 days ago, yet it feels like a full season has blown by, and we're already the empty husks of ourselves. Why is that?
Well, Reilly had one of the m…
BB25 Premiere Recap: Cirie changes the game, dud comps & Julie's onion dress
Brett & Dani are back (ON THEIR BIRTHDAY) to recap the first episode of Big Brother 25 and look at the first 36 hours of feeds. The BB25 broadcast premiere was the usual mix of good and bad, with awk…
#BB25 Cast Reaction: The young, the old, the nepo babies & the Australians
Brett & Dani react to the incredibly promising cast of Big Brother 25. Two people named for colors! Two nepo-relatives! A whole lot of olds! An Australian! This cast has everything.
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'Barbenheimer' reviewed, The Rock's SAG donation & why we love 'Full Circle'
August is mere days away and this is quite possibly our last podcast for the next few months without any Big Brother season 25 news.
Kicking things off, Brett talks about his big day at the movies se…
Is Tom Cruise aging out of 'Mission: Impossible'? Will we watch a senior citizen 'Bachelor'? Is Jonah Hill cancelled?
Only 2.5 weeks left until Big Brother 25 premieres, so we still have more general pop-culture content for you.
Brett saw Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning: Part One this week and has some thoughts…
The end of 'The Idol', 'Blackberry' is a tale of Canadian hubris, cottage cheese-core & the death of social media
Brett & Dani are back with a new summer episode as we trudge through only a few more weeks without Big Brother.
They open discussing a contentious viral tweet from last week, before diving in to the …
A holiday weekend with No Hard Feelings, Asteroid City & The Bear season 2
Brett & Dani are back with a hot summer pod to celebrate the holiday weekend. Dani recounts her strong feelings towards the Gran Turismo trailer before sharing her thoughts on No Hard Feelings, which…
It was the week of the lost submarine -- also we love 'The Idol', do these Apple TV+ shows exist & who is your favorite type of New York guy?
Add 'lost submarine' to the lyrics of Billy Joel's neverending 2020s edition of "We Didn't Start the Fire."
Brett & Dani are back for a new pod to cover the week that was in pop-culture while we stil…
More reactions to 'The Idol', Is 'Black Mirror' season 6 a flop & why 'The Flash' & 'Elemental' bombed
Brett & Dani reconvene for another pop-culture heavy podcast in the absence of any solid Big Brother or Survivor news. They revisit HBO's The Idol and continue their praise of it, despite The Weeknd'…
Live from Toronto! Reviewing the Canada bar scene, thoughts on HBO's The Idol, the Succession finale & Baby Gronk got rizzed up
Join Brett & Danielle for a very special episode! Brett is in Toronto for an extremely rare face-to-face podcast recording session. Danielle hangs out in Brett's hotel room for a discussion of Brett'…
Survivor 44 finale! Yam Yam goes the distance! An unnecessary Undercover Boss tangent!
Survivor 44! We hardly knew ye! It only felt like a few weeks ago that we were still complaining about this season being stuck in separate tribes (and effectively carrying a split-tribe mechanic deep…
Penultimate Survivor 44! BB25 delayed? Survivor 45 leaked? 'Air' disagreed upon!
Dani & Brett are back with the second to last Survivor 44 recap of the season, and it's not really much of a recap. We're all over the place on this one:
- Dani reviews having a party for 1-year-olds…
Danny's De Niro Departure, a dark Carolyn rises & Brett plays Zelda
Brett & Dani are back to recap the latest episode of Survivor 44. BUT FIRST, Dani asks Brett about his experiences playing the new Zelda game.
In Survivor-talk, they chat about the news that future …
Franny's folly, Survivor 44's A-listers vs. B-listers & Dani explains Vanderpump Rules to Brett
Brett & Dani are back to recap another week of Survivor 44. Frannie was sent packing (and into the loving embrace of future-bf Matt Blankenship) this week after winning the episode's reward challenge…
Kane rolls a critical fail, fake idols are duds & are Marvel movies just bad network TV?
Brett & Dani are back to recap the latest episode of Survivor 44, peanut butter cereal, Dani's thoughts on Marvel movies and the Bob <3 Abishola drama that literally tens of people are talking about.
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