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Three Ring Circus: The Amazing Race Season 17, Episode 7
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The Amazing Race takes the teams to Russia, where tradition and spectacle collide. Racers must immerse themselves in the circus for a demanding detour before tackling a Road Block that requires dressing as a babushka. Costumes, culture, and chaos make this leg one to remember.
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Health Concerns Among Hosts
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Hello, everybody. Welcome back to season 17 of The Amazing Rewatch. We're watching season 17 of The Amazing Race. We're on episode 7. It's been a couple week um couple weeks of a break for you guys.
00:00:24
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Not for us. I'm still sick as I was the last two episodes of the first batch. I'm really not even that sick. It's just like I have like a sore throat, like a tickle in my throat, which makes me cough.
00:00:36
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Yeah. And it kind of makes my voice sound... lower than it is. It's not that bad though. I know. But like, I don't have like really a runny nose. I'm not like extra tired. I don't have like body aches. It's just like an annoying cough and it's so annoying.
00:00:50
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Yeah. Because it makes it hard to sleep and... Well, can't wait till sick season is over, but we just got into it. So yeah, we're just, just making sure that Cece doesn't get sick.
00:01:42
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ah allergy shot treatment. Yeah. But that doesn't have anything to do with like her asthma. Well, because her asthma is also triggered by allergies too. So the allergy shots is going to make it so that she like hopefully doesn't have asthma flare-ups due to allergy triggers, but it can still be triggered by viruses and other illnesses. So, him
00:02:08
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It's annoying, but... Anyway, that's what's going on with us. Sorry. What's going on the race?
Amazing Race Episode Highlights
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We had a weird last episode because we were in St. Petersburg and um Nick and Vicky checked in last, but it was a non-elimination leg, but Phil didn't ever say anything about a speed bump on this leg. And nothing was ever said about a speed bump on this leg because there was...
00:02:37
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um production issues on the last leg we're not sure exactly what they were but so they weren't eliminated and they weren't penalized for being last so kind of weird and we also don't know how behind they were because we didn't get all the departure times on this episode So our first team to part depart are Jill and Thomas at 830.
00:02:59
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then they give us Brooke and Claire at 835, Michael and Kevin at 840. And then none of the other teams get a time. Yes, because they start to arrive at the... the circus place and it's closed, which means everybody is going to catch up and start at the same time at the circus. So, yeah. So the clue, they open it and the clue says, join the circus. And it says from St. Isaac's cathedral, go to the Octavo circus. Okay.
00:03:26
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And Phil says, um he says, from St. Isaac's Cathedral, which was the um museum of atheism during the Soviet era or something like that.
St. Isaac's Cathedral: A Historical Journey
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So I looked into that a little bit because I was interested in that. So um St. Isaac's Cathedral um After the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Soviet government punished el pushed atheism and cracked down on organized religion. In 1931, St. Isaac's was closed as a church and turned into a museum dedicated to science, anti-religious propaganda, and atheism.
00:04:08
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And religious services were banned and was replaced with science and so so sheist socialist ideology. Sorry, I need to get better at um the In the 1990s, it... oh since the 1990s, it still functions as a museum, but religious services do occur on Orthodox holidays. and
00:04:34
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So it's a museum for atheism, but also a church? Well, it was. Or did the museum content change? um Let's see. and Because that seems very oxymoronish.
00:04:48
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Moronic? Moronish. Moronish, yeah. Moronic. No, so yeah, it was it was like a basilica, a church, and then it was turned into a museum. Now it's still like a museum, but you can do religious services in there because it's such a historical religious building, but it's not like its main building.
00:05:10
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Yeah. Purpose. But I'm saying is the the museum, you said it's still a museum. Is it the museum for atheism still? Oh, I don't know. Or did the type of museum that's there change? Let's
00:05:26
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It's no longer primarily an atheism museum. Instead, it's a state museum monument that focuses on the building's architecture, history, and art while still functioning as a historical attraction.
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yeah. Nice.
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nice You can climb the colonnade for panoramic views of St. Petersburg, tour the lavishly decorated interior, and learn about its history.
Detour Challenges: Song vs. Plates
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So, the teams arrive to this circus and the gates open and the clue is a detour and the choices are circus band or circus clown.
00:06:06
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ah So for circus band, they have to choose an accordion player to teach both team members a Russian folk song. When they can perform the song correctly, they get the clue. Pretty straightforward. Circus clown is they go under the circus big top and learn a traditional plate spinning routine. If they can keep 10 plates spinning simultaneously for 10 seconds, they get the clue.
00:06:27
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Yeah. So I think we would do the band. Yes, I think so too. And the whole time I kept thinking, hmm. I never did learn how to play the accordion. You said you were going to play us a Christmas song. I know.
00:06:38
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Did you forget or you just didn't? I just didn't have time.
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But now i I guess I need to learn how to play the accordion because it could be a task on The Amazing Grace. But it did look like they only had to play the the piano part on the left hand. They didn't have to do like the chords and stuff with the right hand. Yeah. So yes, both me and Sadie play the piano. So that would have been definitely what we would have chosen. Yeah.
00:07:00
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Well, everybody chooses the plate one except for Nat and Kat and Gary Mallory. And they learn that, like, they learn the... I think they learn the song. And then they're introduced the second part. And then they're introduced the third part. So they're learning it in three shorter parts. And then they have to put it all together. Yeah. But Nat and Kat come up with a system of, like, numbering their fingers and saying the numbers out loud while they're playing, which works well. And then Gary Mallory...
00:07:27
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don't have to Seems like Mallory is like kind of has musical talent. Yeah. And chat or Gary was like, I just followed what she did. Yeah. So the other teams are doing the plates. Some of them are having a harder time than others.
00:07:43
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um It looks hard. like Yeah. But i noticed later on in the episode when they get a closer look at the plates, the plates look kind of concave inwardly.
00:07:54
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So they sit on the pole. Yeah, there's like a little divot that's like where the post sits. Because, yeah, that would be really hard. um But Jill and Thomas end up switching detours.
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Thomas says, if the challenges are right next to each other, we should at least try to see what the other one is about. Yeah. Which is not a bad idea. That makes sense. Because you don't have to travel to the next one. Mm-hmm. um and some teams are getting frustrated like nick and vicky nick calls vicky a dummy dumb dumb you know we yeah we try not to swear in this episode i mean in this uh podcast so you guys can understand what that that was um which if my partner called me that
00:08:39
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I'd be like, um excuse you? Try again. I just can't believe people... Well, I would never call you that because I don't really swear, like, ever. so i mean my, like, romantic partner. Oh, yeah?
00:09:03
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Phil says, teams must find out that they're looking for the bank bridge. They have to find the canal bridge guarded by four creatures with golden wings. That's what the clue says. Find the canal bridge with guarded by four creatures with golden wings. So they run out and ask like taxi drivers, do you know what this is? And all of them pretty much know what it is. Yeah. Seems like it's a well-known place.
00:09:23
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And then Nat and Kat finish closely after them. So Chad and Stephanie finished, switched detours as well.
00:09:34
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And Thomas is really struggling with the accordions. um Nick and Vicky finished the plate detour and Gary and Mallory finished the ah accordion detour. And Michael and Kevin finished the plate detour. So the only teams left at the detour are Chad and Stephanie and Jill and Thomas. Yeah.
00:09:51
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And so Brooke and Claire get to this bridge first and the team and the clue says teams must travel on foot from the bridge to this historic building.
Church on Spilled Blood: A Historical Task
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It's, a they don't really tell us what the building is. They just give them the address. They the address, yeah.
00:10:06
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It's like just kind of a tower. um The clue also states, teams cannot pay a taxi to lead them. Once they get to the building, only two team members can climb the stairs at a time. Then they must work out that the figurine on the ledge is leading them to a St. Petersburg building.
00:10:22
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The church on spilled blood. Then they must walk to the church to find the next clue. Yeah. Those are all very important notes. Yes. And some people miss them. Yeah.
00:10:33
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And I and just talking about like buildings in St. Petersburg. This is like obviously a very iconic like everybody. If you see a picture of this building, you know that it's st peters in Russia and St. Petersburg. But I didn't know that it was called the Church on Spilled Blood.
00:10:49
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Yeah, I didn't either because you so it is like very ornamental and colorful. So when you think of, you like Anastasia and stuff like that, that's the building that you think of. um It's called the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood.
00:11:06
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But it's not, I did kind of like read a little bit. It's not about the Savior spilled blood. It's like, um, and the assassination of a czar, right?
00:11:17
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It was built on the exact spot where czar Alexander the second was assassinated in 1881. Yeah. It is a memorial church, not a typical parish church commissioned by Alexander the czar's Um,
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<unk>ar's son um
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It was looted and damaged during the Russian Revolution. it was used as a warehouse during the Soviet times. What? And it was restored and reopened as a museum in 1997. It's no longer an act of church. It's a museum and memorial.
00:11:50
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One of the most photographed landmarks in all of Russia. It's very cool. It like, it almost looks like a circus. Like, just very whimsical looking. Mm-hmm.
00:12:01
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Yeah. like we said, the clue is they can, they must travel on foot from this bridge to this tower.
00:12:10
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And then only two team members. So, like, one from one different teams. Yeah. Go up the ladder, look over, and and it says the figurine on the ledge. It's kind of like behind them on the window of the tower. Yes. Not on the ledge that they're facing looking out. And they probably don't get any. They probably just see like look for the clue. Yeah. At the top. Because a lot of them climb up and they're like, we must be looking for red and yellow flag, which is not what they're looking for. And some of them have a hard time seeing the figurine. But yeah.
00:12:41
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um So Nat and Kat get the clue at the bridge and Nikki and Vicky are really close by them and Michael and Kevin as well. But Michael and Kevin turn around and ask their taxi driver to lead them this address. And even like right as he said that Michael says to Kevin read the clue carefully don't miss a word.
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Yeah. And then they ask their taxi to lead them. Yeah. But why is Kevin the only one responsible for reading the clue? Well, I don't know if you've said to Kevin, just like in general, like we need to read the clue carefully. Yeah. But it's like a lot in this episode. So clues are a very big part of this episode. And just seems like there a lot of this episode, there's a lot of teams where it's like one team member opens it up and reads it.
00:13:27
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Why do they do that? No. We would definitely be double reading both of us five five times. Yes. Yeah. So Gary and Mallory get the clue back at the detour.
00:13:39
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Chad and Stephanie also kind of figure out a number sequence with their fingers, kind of like Nat and Kat did. And Jill and Thomas end up switching detours again. Yeah, they back to the plates. Because Thomas is not getting it.
00:13:51
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And they see that everyone else inside of there is gone. So they're like getting nervous. They know they're like in the back. So Chad and Stephanie finished the detour and then Jill and Thomas finished at very last.
00:14:02
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Mm-hmm. um Other teams start arriving to this address, but they have a hard time um seeing the red and yellow flag above the doorway of this yeah tower. Yeah, it's pretty small.
00:14:15
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So they're kind of all like running around this area trying to find it. Nat and Kat and Nick and Vicky end up working together and they find it first. And Nat and Nick go up. it's Kat. Oh, Kat and Nick. Yeah. Go up the top um ladder together to look out and see Vicky.
00:14:32
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And Nick ends up spotting the little figurine. And he's like, when we go down. oh because other teens are arriving and are waiting at the bottom of the ladder. Yeah. And while they're looking out on the buildings, there's like some graffiti on a building that says DS 13. And they're like, is that it? And Kat's like, well, I think it'd be more obvious than that.
00:14:52
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So that's why he has DS-13 in his mind. And he says, let's tell them something about DS-13. So he yells down the ladder. They're like, did you find it? What is it? And he's like, it says, take your chances with DS-13. don't know. I don't know. I'm not sure. they're sitting there at the bottom of the ladder also.
00:15:10
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They see Michael and Kevin pull up to this address with their taxi because they they didn't have their bags on their back. Yeah. And they're like, where's your bags? And they're like, oh, it's in our taxi. And they're like, you weren't supposed to bring a taxi.
00:15:23
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Yeah. They're told point blank right there. You weren't supposed to bring a taxi. Yeah. Yeah, and they just kind of like ignore it. They don't say anything or read their clue again or anything like that. Yeah, it just kind of like – And nobody else kind of like says anything either. so and But Kevin also says about the DS-13, he's like, I don't think Nick would lie to us because he's awesome.
00:15:44
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Well, okay. In my mind, would be the exact opposite. If somebody is coming down the stairs and willingly giving that information out, I'd be like, they're lying. Mm-hmm. Because what would more risk realistically happen is somebody comes down. What'd you find? You'll just have to go up and find it. Like, sorry, can't tell you. Yeah.
00:16:02
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If somebody is like, oh, I saw this. Yeah. Why didn't Nick even have to say anything? Well, he could say anything using a tactic trying to lead them astray. But also like if it was me, I'd just be like, go figure it out. Yeah. Yeah.
00:16:16
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We're not here to help each other. We're here to beat each other. um So Thomas and Mallory go up the ladder together. yeah Thomas and Jill made it to the bridge way before Chad and Stephanie did. yeah they Chad and Stephanie finished the detour before that. I wonder what took them so long to get to the bridge. I don't know. To tell us anything about that.
00:16:35
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um And they figure out the church they need to go to. And so nat and Kat and Nick and Vicki end up getting to this, the church on so of spilled we see that Kevin and Claire went up? Oh, yeah. Kevin and Claire went up after. and that's when Kevin kept saying, like said a couple of times, well, do you think it's what Nick said? And Claire's like, no. Let's keep looking. He's like, well, I don't think he would lie to us. And then they see the figurine. He's like, oh, I think he lied to us. Yeah. Yeah, of course.
Peter the Great: A Controversial Legacy
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So Nat and Kat and Nick and Vicki get to this church and the clue says Peter the... says where am i where am i peter the great is buried inside me so phil says now the teams have to figure out the riddle is leading them to the peter and paul fortress once there they must search for the garage key courts to find their next clue and as they're looking around they're like oh let's take a taxi it doesn't say anything on this one that we can't Which is correct, but.
00:17:34
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And then they ask an information desk and the guy, the information guy was like, I don't know. Doesn't know. that was i wonder if he was of information or just like security or something. Yeah. Because he was standing inside a booth kind of thing. Yeah.
00:17:46
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And he doesn't know where Peter and Paul Fortress is. That seems like it would be very well known in that city. Like where Peter the Great is buried. Because isn't he like. ah He seems great. Well, um I think there's mixed feelings about him.
00:18:01
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He was born in 1672. was... In one? 1672? Yeah. He was Tsar of Russia from and the first emperor of Russia until his death in seventeen twenty five um he
00:18:25
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He was the man responsible for modernizing Russia. So when he was younger, he traveled throughout Europe disguised as like a regular person, just studying Europe and seeing kind of the way they ran things, engineering, navigation, medicine. um things like that and he came back to Russia and pretty much like changed everything he um like changed the military navy the calendar fashion and he even like taxed people who had beards because beards was like old Russia and he wanted people to be more European so and he founded St. Petersburg it was built in ah this swampy area facing Europe instead of
00:19:10
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in Moscow facing Asia. That's why so the capital of Russia changed to saint St. Petersburg because it's more European, closer to Europe. um But people, he ah was controversial because he was very, um like, didn't really care about the human cost um and, like, the cost of all this change and things like that. Like, building St. Petersburg was really dangerous.
00:19:37
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and a lot of people died building this new city. Um, he also, um
00:19:43
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tortured and killed his own son because of treason. He thought he was like being treasonous. um And, but he, they say he was brilliant, terrifying, and fascinating.
00:19:57
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um He's praised as the father of modern Russia, criticized as a tyrant who destroyed traditional values and used symbolically by leaders who favor strong central powers. Without Peter, Russia wouldn't be Russia, but he broke it to remake it.
00:20:12
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So very influential on the ah history of the country. Yeah. But a controversial figure. So
00:20:22
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And that's where he's buried is Peter and Paul Fortress. So did he name himself Peter the Great? like how I don't know. I've always wondered like how people come up. Alexander the Great, Peter the Great. Yeah.
00:20:34
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Let's see. What was the other? Ivan the Terrible. Yeah.
00:20:38
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Ivan the Terrible, was he more like um
00:20:41
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Turkish? I don't know. I'll see. Ivan the Terrible.
00:20:45
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The Grand Prince of Moscow. From 1533 to 1547. Ivan the Terrible? Uh-huh. So, the Great... Peter the Great was not commonly commonly called the Great during most of his lifetime. The title was formally applied near the very end of his reign and stuck after his death.
00:21:05
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So...
00:21:06
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He had other official titles granted to him. So Peter the Great, father of the fatherland and emperor of all of Russia.
00:21:15
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um I want to know why
00:21:18
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um Because he was the first czar.
00:21:21
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Oh, he was the Tsar of Russia and then the Emperor.
00:21:24
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Peter the Great changed his title from Tsar in 1721 because Russia fundamentally changed and he wanted the world to recognize that. So Tsar, Tsar, T-S-A-R, comes from Caesar.
00:21:39
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The word Caesar, like Caesar. And traditionally implied as ruler of a large but somewhat isolated realm. Czars were often viewed as semi-eastern monarchs, powerful but not quite in par with the kings and emperors of Western Europe.
00:21:52
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And Peter hated that perception. So after winning the Great Northern War, he changed from the Tsar of Russia to the Emperor of Russia and was no longer a regional power. It was an empire.
00:22:04
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That is interesting. I didn't know that.
00:22:07
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We learned so much. Hopefully you guys are learning as well. Yeah, because we're not in a new location learning about something, but we're learning more about St. Petersburg and just random of things.
00:22:17
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So Ivan the Terrible was called the Terrible because his Russian nickname, Grozny, meant formidable or awe-inspiring, reflecting his power and ability to inspire fear in his enemies through his brutal, paranoid, and violent reign.
00:22:31
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And he was the ruler when? 1533 1540. Oh, the Prince of Moscow and
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fifteen thirty three to fifteen forty oh he was the grand prince of moscow and all of Russia from to first and Grand Prince of all
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from fifteen forty seven to fifteen eighty four
00:22:54
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don't know. Okay. Anyway. Hold on. I want to find one more thing. I want to know who is the Paul in the Paul and Peter um fortress.
00:23:04
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Who is the Aren't they both um like apostles? Well, wouldn't the fortress be ah Peter the Great?
00:23:13
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Oh, Paul and Peter fortress. I didn't even think of that. Like, cause anytime you hear the words like Paul and Peter, Paul and Peter walked. I don't know. that That's like apostles.
00:23:24
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Okay. Yeah. It is. The fortress is named after the cathedral of saints, Peter and Paul. which sits inside the Peter and Paul fortress. The cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul is a cathedral inside the Peter and Paul fortress.
00:23:39
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And Peter the Great, who was a different Peter, is buried inside there. Who are Saints Peter and Paul, yes. But Peter Great is buried there, but it's not named after him. Maybe that's why people were confused. Maybe. p Or like Peter, that i don't know. Anyways.
00:23:54
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But St. Petersburg is named after Peter the Great, not Peter the Prophet. The Apostle. Okay, let's continue. So they have to now they can take a taxi from the Church of the Spilled Blood to the Peter and Paul Fortress.
00:24:13
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So Nat and Kat and Nicky and Vicky are the first to figure that out and get in taxis and head there. But Nick and Vicky have a hard time getting a taxi. And this is when Nick calls Vicky a moron now yeah at this point. He is not very kind. He doesn't use very kind words to her. But she never reacts to it.
00:24:31
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She never is like, what did you say to me? How dare you say that? She seems like it's so normal. Yeah. She literally has no reaction when he calls her these names. That's not a good sign. Yeah.
00:24:41
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Okay. But what I'm wondering is can they take a taxi to this spot? Because like Michael and Kevin arrive in a taxi to the next clue and Brooke and Claire see them. And Brooke's like, they came in taxis. That's not fair. And Claire's like, well, they'll be penalized. Well, they weren't supposed to take a taxi from the tower to the church.
00:25:03
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That's what they did. Okay. They arrived from the tower to the church and Brooke and Claire saw them going from their taxi to the clue at the church. Okay.
00:25:13
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what What's confusing? Well, then why did I put that part of my notes in this order? Because Brooke and Claire, they walked from the tower to the church.
00:25:24
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Yeah. And then at the church. No, Brooke and Claire took a taxi from the tower to the church. Oh, that's right. Yeah. But they realized it.
00:25:35
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Yeah. Later. Yeah. So, yeah. um Maybe this is why they were confused, too. because Yeah. So, okay.
00:25:45
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I have to go in order. My notes are all free. All free. get so confused. So we have Nat and Kat, Nick and Vicki taking a taxi to Peter and Paul fortress.
00:25:56
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Then
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um Brooke and Claire and Michael and Kevin, they're the ones that took a taxi from the tower to the church and they arrive and get the clue. But they were supposed to walk from the tower to the church.
00:26:08
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And. Oh, and it's somebody else. I think it was Nan Kat that say. That's not fair. Yeah. But they'll be penalized. Yeah. Okay. so Stephanie and Chad are the last ones to get to the tower to climb up the ladder. So Stephanie climbs up by herself and she can't figure it out or see the little figurine. So she goes down and tells Chad to go up and look and he finds it and rubs it in her face.
00:26:31
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Yeah. But they figure it out. But then they take. a taxi from the tower to the church as well. Chad and Stephanie do. Yes.
00:26:41
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So as the teams, some teams are taking the taxi from the church to the fortress, Claire rereads the clue and she says, it says we had to walk from to our next destination.
Navigation Errors and Penalties
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She's talking about the clue from the tower to the church. So they tell their taxi driver to go back to the tower and and then they walk to church, get another taxi, go to the fortress. So they fixed it.
00:27:03
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Yes. Which is very important. And then there's another really weird thing. I'm so sorry. That happens throughout this whole episode with the taxis is that they all leave their bags in their taxi just like sitting. Everywhere they go. Yeah. So like, for example, like Gary and Mallory, they followed the cool cool clue correctly. They took a taxi from the circus to the bridge. Right.
00:27:30
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Then they walked from the bridge to the tower and then they walked from the tower to the church. but So now they're at the church and they know they have to go to the fortress and they say, we need to go back and get our bags. Yeah.
00:27:43
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So do they take another taxi all the way back to the bridge or is the bridge not very far away? I think they walked back. to Well, I don't know. But their bags were in a taxi still at the bridge and so were Nick and and Vicky's. Yeah. right Yeah.
00:27:57
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And Jill and na Thomas, I think. So they all had to fix that or like go back and get. Yeah. By the time they walked back to get their bag, they just got that taxi and took it to the fortress. Yeah. But like getting from the church to the taxi at the bridge like two clues ago. Yeah. Like I wonder if these were not that far apart. Like, you know, they're kind of all like in a quote unquote downtown area. But still, like if I was leaving the taxi, I would.
00:28:24
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Even though everything says like go on foot, like I would go back, settle up my cab, take my bag and then go on foot. Yeah. Because you don't know how long you don't know if you're going to come back. Yeah. And why would you want to sit there and let the cab run that meter? Yeah.
00:28:39
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When you don't know how long it's going to take and if you're even going to come back at all. That seems so silly to me. And very weird that lots of teams did that. Yes. So, yeah, very weird.
00:28:49
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um So, some teams at the beginning of the pack start arriving to this fortress. So, Nat and Kat get there first. And the clue there is a roadblock. It says, between the two of you, who's the real player?
00:29:02
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So the task is they have to learn a centuries-old Russian game called Garadky. Using a wooden bat, they have two tries to clear all the wooden pins before they're reset. It's kind of similar to American Boeing.
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Then they can move on to the next pin formation, and they have to clear three formations. So instead of a bowling ball, it's like a long stick. And it's like five little sticks into in a different formation. Yeah, like kind of like in a star or like set up in tower type thing. Yeah. So Kat's going to do it, and she gets the first formation on the first try.
00:29:37
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It seems like the trick of it is to kind of like throw it low to the ground so that it like slides. Yeah. And some people really pick it up and some people really don't. Yeah. Um,
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um
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So this is... um So Brooke and Claire had run back to the church and they get in a cab and they go to the fortress. Michael and Kevin arrive and ke ah Michael does the roadblock and then Brooke does the roadblock.
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Yes. And Michael really struggles with it. Yeah. Like um Kevin at one point says it took him an hour to get the first formation. Yeah. That's crazy. So like...
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That's like a long time not to really change your strategy. Right? Like try something else. And maybe he was exaggerating like, oh my gosh, we've been here for an hour. He seemed really frustrated. but
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Kevin seemed really frustrated with his dad. is And he says, i wish we would ah I wish I would have done this one, but I've already done four and we needed to make it more even. so Because we're on late seven. yeah my Kevin has done four and Michael's only done two.
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Yeah. So he needed to do that. but So Kat ends up finishing the roadblock first. And the clue says enter the fortress and search for this bastion where the pit stop for this leg of the race is the last team to check in may be eliminated.
00:30:53
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And they are team number one. They did not make any mistakes throughout the leg and they win $5,000 each.
00:30:59
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um So then all the teams start arriving to this roadblock at different times depending on if they had to go back and get their bags and find a cab and all this stuff like that. So um Nick and Vicky arrive and Nick does it and then Chad and Stephanie arrive and Stephanie does the roadblock. So they made up a lot of time but that's because they took a cab when they shouldn't have. Yeah and I didn't even clock this one actually I got surprised at the end.
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Chad and Stephanie arrived at that point? Well, no, I got surprised at the end that they got a penalty. Because was like, oh, i I didn't even realize that they had taken a cab when they weren't supposed to. Mm-hmm.
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It gets wild from here, guys. I texted Sadie. like I watched it and i was like, this is a good episode. yeah It's pretty wild so Nick does really well on this game. He picks it up super easy and he finishes the roadblock first. Kat finished the roadblock first, then Brooke second, then Nick third.
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so He passed up a couple of teams. Thomas and Jill arrive and Thomas does it. So, Brooke and Claire and Nick and Vicky arrive to the mat about the same time. Brooke and Claire are team number two. And Phil says, you guys corrected yourselves, didn't you? They said yes. So, they really caught... That was really good catch on them. Yeah. And then Nick and Vicky are team number three. They didn't make any mistakes.
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Yeah, they did really well. They did really well. And they're this is probably their highest place yet. I think so. And, like, they... In a normal circumstance and a non-elimination, like they would have had to have a speed bump on this leg.
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So I wonder how they would have done with that, but they didn't. So, yeah. So Gary and Mallory are the last to arrive to the roadblock and Gary does it.
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And he throws it and gets his first one on his first try. threw it so hard. Yeah. Like they flew. And I'm like, oh, okay. He's got this. That's that's the strategy there. And Michael is still really struggling. He finally finishes his first formation after every single team has arrived. Yeah. And they got their second.
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roadblock.
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And he says, we have to go settle up with our taxi. So him and Jill run out of the fortress, find their taxi and settle up with, try to settle up with him. But they don't have enough money. So they end up paying him like some American dollars. At one point it looked like Thomas like wasn't going to pay him some money and they tried to walk away and he like grabbed their bag. Yeah. um They pay him some American dollars.
00:33:46
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Gary Mallory, Gary finishes the roadblock quickly. He was the last one to arrive. did really well, they already have their bags with them. So they've already settled up with their taxi and took their bags from their taxi.
00:33:59
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So they can go straight to the road the pit stop and they end up being team number four. Yes. Smart. Yes. That one, that one's not as confusing. That one's not as like confusing to us because like you arrive thinking you might hurry and finish the roadblock, get back in your cab, then drive the pit And somewhere else. Yes. So don't know. I just would always lean towards just like, and if you settle up with your taxi, then you let it go. Then they leave. Yeah. So this one, it's like a little bit like, okay, I can see that how they'd have to go back to their taxi. Yeah. Now.
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It'd be hard to know, but I still probably would never leave my taxi if I had to go on foot somewhere next. Leave your bags in the taxi? Yeah. Yeah. No, never. So. So this one. Well, and then like um Kevin and Michael, like if he really was there for an hour, my mind would just be like that taxi meter is running. Mm-hmm.
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So 10 minutes in, if they hadn't got it yet, I would be like, okay, we're going to go out and pay the taxi. and Because it's probably a spot, like it's a... it's A um major city. Touristy destination, you know, or like place like a place that people go. It's probably not that hard to find a cab. Oh, at this fortress. At the fortress, yeah. So I would not let my taxi just sit there and run. Mm-hmm.
00:35:19
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so Michael and Stephanie are kind of going back and forth. They're the last two to be doing the roadblock. Stephanie's kind of struggling. Michael's finally getting a hang of it. um Jill and Thomas are team number five.
00:35:31
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And so Michael and Kevin, Michael finishes the roadblock and they have to run out to pay their taxi and get their bags, settle up. And again, they don't have enough money and they have to pay with like American dollars. And they, at one point, try to walk away and the driver grabs their bag and he's like, please let go of my bag, sir. Yeah. Well, please pay him the money. Yeah. I can't. Is that not a rule? i can't believe that that's not a rule that you can't just not pay the cab. I know.
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like there was a time There was a point where like so many seasons ago where I can't even remember. Well, it I mean, obviously it was at the finale with Joyce and Echenna. Like, yeah they had to um give away their wedding ring. They wanted to give away their wedding ring rather than they knew they couldn't check in without paying their taxi. Yeah.
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So that's what I'm saying. Like, how do they think that they can just walk away without paying him? Yeah. Because Joyce and Uchenna had some money, but they didn't have all the money. yeah So how come Michael and Kevin think that they can walk away paying them some money, not all of it, and have be able to check in? Yeah.
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So it is a rule. yeah Maybe they just thought, okay, well, if we just like try to give them what we have and walk away, then they'll just be like, whatever. Because it seems like if you don't have the money to pay, but the cab driver says it's okay, then that's fine. That's different. Yeah.
00:36:54
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But if they're asking for the money, you have to pay them. I don't know. And they should. Yes. um So Michael and Kevin are trying to pay their taxi.
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Stephanie finishes the roadblock and they say, like, we don't have our bags. And Chad's like, I think we have a shot without the bags. And Stephanie's like, so we're going to leave them. He's like, I think so. She's like, okay, I'm going to trust you. Like, let's, I guess. So he, they want to run to the pit stop without their bags. They're going to forego their bags the rest of the race so that they can check in at the pit stop before Michael and Kevin. Yeah. Yeah.
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So they end up getting up to the um pit stop mat. And um Phil says.
00:37:43
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Michael and Kevin. Okay. Yes. So Michael and Kevin.
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So they're really bummed. Yes. But they're running back to their cab and Chad's like, let's keep running. You never know what's going to happen. Run. Yeah. like Keep running. And so Michael and Kevin arrived to the pit stop and Phil says, you guys broke a couple of rules. Did you know that? and They're like, no. He said you had a taxi lead you to the tower.
00:38:50
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Then you took a taxi from the tower to the church. Each occasion is a 30 minute penalty. So you have a one hour penalty. You have to wait out. And they're very bummed, obviously.
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they go sit aside and they're like pulling out their papers and clues and rereading them. And Kevin pulls out the clue that says, you must walk to your next destination. i think And Michael's like, oh, you didn't read the clue.
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Yeah, Michael's like, I didn't even – or Kevin's like, I didn't even see that. And Michael's like, oh, you didn't even – you didn't read the clue all the way. And like – but why is it just Kevin's responsibility? That's what I'm saying is like, how come Kevin is only one that reads the clue? You know, because – This is just my perception of their team. Like Kevin thinks that his dad can't do anything. Yes. So I feel like Kevin is just like, I'll read the clues. I'll take care of it. And Michael's like, okay, whatever. So in that instance, it's like, okay, if he didn't read the clue and he didn't let Michael read the clue, then that's his fault. Yeah.
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And also when Claire or Brooke literally says to Kevin downstairs, I'm Why did you guys bring a taxi? You weren't supposed to have a taxi. that should have been a clue. Like a ding, ding, ding. but Maybe let's read our clue and make sure.
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they were there at the tower at the same time as like several other teams. and Like they're just not aware. Like you should have been seeing these teams running instead of getting in cabs.
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Yeah. Like just be more aware of the people around you and what they're doing. Also, don't be so naive to like believe other people. yeah and He wouldn't lie to us. Yeah. Anyway, so Chad and Stephanie get their bags and settle the taxi. They run back and get to the mat and Phil says, are you aware that you broke a rule today?
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This is where I was like, oh my gosh, I did not know. i for i didn't even clock that they took a cab and they would also get a penalty. So, yeah, they took a taxi from the tower to the church, which is a 30-minute penalty. He says, however, Michael and Kevin have a one-hour penalty, so that means you are team number six. And then Michael and Kevin get up there, team number seven, and they are eliminated.
00:40:55
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Yes. Yes, it was so kind of a wild ride there at the end. It was crazy. So, Michael and Kevin, um i they, Michael's like, I feel like when teenage kids,
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I feel like when kids become teenagers, you become strangers. And I have really got to know Kevin a lot better during this leg. And Kevin's like, it's been great to spend the time with my dad and like connect with him, things like that. But I'm like, you guys definitely deserve to be eliminated. Like that was those too many mistakes in one leg.
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And like I've liked them, but yeah, it's like Kevin like gives off the vibe that he thinks his dad is an idiot. Yeah. Yeah. Like his dad is so so nice and kind and like tries really hard. And Kevin is just like, oh, he can't do it. He can't do it. He can't do it. i'm not even going to have him read a clue because he's such an idiot. He's not even going to know what the clue says. Like, I know he's not so mean about it, but like us as viewers, it's kind of like, okay, well, your dad is not stupid.
00:41:56
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He's an adult man too. Like he can be a teammate. It's not just you having to like lead the team on every single thing. Yeah. Yeah. And, like, why would you even – if you thought that he was so incapable, like, why would you even pick him as your partner to run the race with? Like, why why wouldn't you apply with somebody else? And, like, the last, like, the pit stop was at, like, a cathedral.
00:42:16
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The clue said the cathedral, but it was actually at a park across the street. yeah and Michael was the one. And Kevin saying, it's in the cathedral. it's in the cathedral. and like, Michael's like, let's just go look. And Michael was right. Yeah. He's not stupid. you can rely on him a little bit. Yeah.
00:42:30
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Anyways, so – I think Kevin did say something like in the little exit interview. He, ah he did say something about that. Like, you know, it made me learn to, um,
00:42:41
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ah like trust trust him and yeah. And like, I know that he's a good example, you know, stuff like that. So they had a positive experience and everything was great, but they are eliminated. They deserve to be eliminated. and I'm,
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ah yeah it's all right that they're going okay well let me tell you so also one more thing Chad was a much nice was much nicer to Stephanie on this like he still kind of like made her a little bit like anxious while she was trying to do the final roadblock and not be the last team but he wasn't like the worst he's ever been yeah so he was better on this like except for when he found the figurine and like rubbed it in her face yeah but he was still kind of like joking Yeah. it And there was even like when they were trying to decide who was going to do the roadblock, Stephanie's like, should I do it? And he was like, yeah, you do it. I trust you. I trust you. Yeah.
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So, yes. And she said at the end, like he's been making progress and- Yeah, so we released our first batch of episodes this week and I've been like re-listening to them. And like episode one when we're introducing the teams, they've only been dating for eight months and they've already bought a house together and he said he's going to propose to her on this season.
00:43:55
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They don't even know each other for that Forgot about that already. I know. That's what... Like, when I go back... And i've there's already been a couple of things that we've said in the first episode that we've repeated throughout the season that, like, we've completely forgot about. Like, just little mention, like, little things about us personally even that we probably say several times in the first season that we don't even remember because we repeat ourselves. So...
00:44:16
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It's interesting to go back and listen. It really is a weird thing to be like, I don't know if I've said this already. Or just like, I know I've said this already, but i'm going to say it again. i don't know. Or like, we said it in season 12, but this is season 17 and some people haven't listened to season 12. So you guys might have heard it several times, but some people might not have heard it at all
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um Well, some interesting info about this episode, um just kind of a continuation of the last one.
Life After the Amazing Race
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Nick and Vicky came in last in the previous leg. They did not face a speed bump in this leg. Post-race interviews revealed that the penalty was waived and that everyone's placement in that leg was equalized at this leg's detour. So I think that was why...
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We found this the circus was closed. They made it closed on purpose until everybody was there to equalize because of the production. um The in compensation for various production difficulties in the previous legs classical music detour which affected all of the teams.
00:45:16
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And okay. So that was like the pianos. and Yeah. Yeah. So something happened with production during the previous leg that affected everybody, especially Nick and Vicky. So they waved the speed bump and the penalty and they made sure that everybody arrived.
00:45:33
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Like everybody could start the detour at the same time to make it equal, make it fair. That's good. Yeah. And also, there's an episode of Better Call Saul where this episode was prominently shown on in a scene where Kim and her partner were watching The Amazing Race together.
00:45:53
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i I've never seen that show. but i haven't you know I need to watch it because I love Breaking Bad. So there there's an episode where they watch The Amazing Race. So then Michael and Kevin, they actually did pretty well.
00:46:08
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and they took seventh then third then ninth so they were last but it was a non-elimination and then they took fourth fourth third and then seventh so their average was 5.29 so they yeah they were definitely kind of like back and forth but not terrible um some interesting things about them so michael is from taiwan Um, this is the largest age gap for a parent child team of 39 years.
00:46:35
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Kevin is only 19. Well, Well, I can see that he's very naive and acts like he knows everything. He's Kevin is the first amazing race contestant to be born in 1990 besides the family season.
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And he is the youngest male racer to perform a roadblock. Um,
00:46:55
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And the first teenage racer besides the family season. Okay. um After the race in 2014, Kevin starred in a crime drama film called Revenge of the Green Dragons.
00:47:08
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And he turned down a role for the Netflix series series Master of None in 2015. So he did become kind of like an actor. And has done a few things. He has a Wikipedia page and it talks a lot about um like his social media, his YouTube. Like because that's – he was like a social media personality at the time of the race. Like with his dad. Yeah.
00:47:34
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So he like started doing videos and then his dad joined in and he was like getting famous on YouTube and –
00:47:44
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He's done he's like started a couple of charities. But then like a few years ago, he he like took all of his videos down
00:47:54
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and became a monk. Oh, interesting. Where does it say that? There's something. Yeah, he like converted to Buddhism and went to Monk College. No, no, no, no, no. no Monk College? Monk College was um a blog that he wrote.
00:48:17
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It was a blog that he wrote and then he took it down. I don't know. You can read his Wikipedia page, which is Kev Jumba. K-E-V-J-U-M-B-A.
00:48:29
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If you want to know more about him. But basically, yeah, he is. He took all of his social media stuff down and doesn't do that anymore and was an actor for a little while, but also doesn't do that anymore.
00:48:40
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And there's nothing I can find about Michael. But I think he is still alive. He would be Michael would be.
00:48:49
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Well, it doesn't have his birthday on the Wikipedia page. Well, if in 2010, Kevin was and they had year age difference. it out. We can math. So, yeah.
00:49:01
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fifty eight and that wasn't sixteen sixteen years ago so he's seventy four now look at us we can figure it out we can do math um so yeah kind of an interesting post-race thing we i think we'll definitely be leaving russia next week oh yeah i think we'll be going somewhere in southeast asia um i kind of remember or maybe turkey we haven't been to turkey since five two and five or seven i think because it was when we went with um our favorite old couple
00:49:40
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Meredith and Gretchen? Yeah. They went to Turkey? They were on the same season with the brothers, right? Yeah. And like Rob and Amber and Joyce and Yuchana.
00:49:51
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Okay. Pretty sure. What is season Amazing Race season seven? I'm going to double check.
00:49:58
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Season seven.
00:50:01
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So, Well, and the episode title on like our podcast episode title is instanul Istanbul, not Constantinople. Okay. And it's the one yeah like it has like the most downloads because I think people just like search for that song and then.
00:50:17
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that's Listen to our episode instead. Yeah. They went to Turkey in like nine and ten.
00:50:23
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So I'm guessing turkey. That's my guess. Okay. But great episode. Yeah. It was a good one. We will be back with episode eight. And we'll see you there. We're winding it down.
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See you soon.