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Unfinished Business!: The Amazing Race Season 18, Episode 1
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We're so excited to be recapping Amazing Race Season 18: Unfinished Business! And the season starts out strong with a great premier episode!
There are so many good teams coming back to race again and give it another try at a million dollars!
Did your favorite team come back?
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Introduction to Amazing Rewatch Season 18
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Amazing Rewatch. This is a very exciting season. Yes. Season 18, Unfinished Business. We have teams returning...
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How many were there? 11, I think. 11 returning teams. 11 teams. Some fan favorites. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. um They don't call it like an All-Stars because it's not like winners. or and it's Yeah. it was People who were close to winning. or Yeah, there was just like something that happened on their original season that...
Cultural Context of 2011
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And I wrote down all of the things that they said when they were introducing the teams. But first, um we like to kind of go back and talk about the time that this aired, which was February to May of 2011.
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And what we were up to what the world was up to what music, movies, pop culture was up to. 2011, this time period, I had just moved back from Virginia and I got a job in St. George at Barnes & Noble.
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So I lived in St. George for like... eight months, I think. And like right in the middle of this time period. So loved that job. I made $8 an hour. That's crazy. My rent was $115 a month.
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Really? That I shared with the two other girls. Yeah. you like shared room even. Yeah. But she was never there. She worked in for like a, some like youth,
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like a like a juvie camp, you know? So she was like gone pretty much all the time. yeah She was only only home like every other weekend. So basically had my own room for $115 a month.
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who And it was so great. I loved living in St. George. Yeah. I was living in St. George at this time as well. I was at the like spring semester of my first year of college.
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And it was great. Formerly Dixie. Yeah. It's not called that anymore. What is it? Utah Tech? Utah. Yeah. Utah Tech University nowadays. And just enjoying being in college.
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and Not a lot going on. My arms are tired. so I just told Sadie that I went to Walmart and I didn't think I needed a cart because I wasn't going to get that many things and then i got more than I expected and it was heavy.
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Your basket? Huh? Your basket. i didn't get any I didn't even get a basket. Oh. I just carried it in my arms. Oh.
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Yeah. That always happens. Okay, well. So. I'll tell you about the top movies of the year. What can you guess was the number one movie of the year?
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I feel like probably a Harry Potter movie.
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Maybe. Yeah. Harry Potter 7 part 2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2. Which I do love.
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Yeah. I do too. That's one i rewatch a lot. That was the number one movie of the year. And Transformers Dark of the Moon was number 2.
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Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn part 1 was number 3. Hangover Part 2 was number 4, and Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides was number 5. I was going to say probably a Pirates of the Caribbean is in there somewhere.
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So in the top five movies, none of them were, they were all like s sequels. Yeah. Was Bridesmaids in there anywhere? was that the year before? That was number 12. 12? Okay.
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Fast Five, number 6, Cars 2, number 7, Thor, 8, 9.
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes 9 and Captain America 10. So Captain America and Thor came out in the same year. Like the two originals? Yeah. Only like two months apart.
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Really? Yeah. They were really setting up those Avengers. Yeah. So other notable movies that came out in the first half of 2011 Bridesmaids, X-Men First Class, Rio,
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Just Go With It, just Oh, that's ah Jennifer Aniston. Yeah. and not a lot other of other ones during that first half of the year.
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And so are you going to talk about music? Because I'm pretty sure Adele was like, took over the world at this time. Because that six months that I worked at Barnes and Noble, they played that ah album, 21. Yeah.
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yeah Like the whole six months. Really? Throughout the the store. That's funny. So anytime I hear one of those songs, it takes me back to Barnes and Noble. Yeah. Yeah. The number one song was Rolling in the Deep. Yep.
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by Adele. Number two, Party Rock Anthem, um LMFAO. Number three is Firework, Katy Perry. should listen to that today actually. Four is ET, Katy Perry.
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Five, Give Me Everything, Pitbull. Six, Grenade by Bruno Mars. Seven, F.U. or Forget you by CeeLo Green.
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Eight, Super Bass, Nicki Minaj. Nine, Moves Like Jagger, Maroon 5. And ten, Just Can't Get Enough by The Black Eyed Peas. There's quite a bit of, um in like the top 100, there's quite a bit of Katy Perry, Pink, Adele, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Kesha, Black Eyed Peas, Lady Antebellum, Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, Britney Spears.
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so very memorable. Do you know music did do you know the lyrics to Grenade? The I'd catch a grenade for you. What's the next thing?
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Throw my hand on a blade for you. I always thought it said throw my head on a plate for you. And I was like, that's extreme. Like, wow. yeah
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So, yes, I didn't know. I just learned this in like the last like couple years that that's what the actual words were. Yeah. Yes, and... Okay,
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okay so the number one show of 2011 is Sunday Night Football. NCIS was number two. Dancing with the Stars, number three American Idol Wednesday, number four. American Idol Thursday, number five.
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Dancing with the Stars results, number six. NCIS Los Angeles, number seven. Big Bang Theory, number eight. The Mentalist, number nine. And the Voice, number ten.
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NCIS. I've never watched NCIS before. I haven't either. It's one of those ones that has so many seasons that it would be an investment. It's crazy. It's like the number two show yeah over Dancing with the Stars and American Idol.
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Yeah. That's crazy. um Some other shows, Two and a Half men Modern Family, The Good Wife, Hawaii Five-O, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Once Upon a Time.
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Yeah. There you go. Movies, TV, music, 2011. twenty eleven Well, speaking of movies, Oscars,
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it was let's see the eighty third academy awards the best picture was the King's Speech.
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Best actor was Colin Firth for the King's Speech. Supporting actor was christian Christian Bale for the Fighter. Best actress was Natalie Portman for Black Swan.
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Best actress in a supporting role was Melissa Leo for the Fighter. Best animated film was Toy Story 3. Cinematography was Inception.
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best song was from Toy Story 3, which I... Let's see. We Belong Together in Toy Story 3. I think I've only seen that one a couple of times. I watch one and two mostly.
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My kids have never been like a big Toy Story... big Toy Story lovers. Yeah. When Olivia was little, we were really into Toy Story. So I watched three a lot.
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And The Social Network won Best Original Score. And then 2011 Grammy Awards. Let's see.
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Adele.
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Basically won everything, I think.
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oh Record of the Year was Rolling in the Deep. Album of the Year was 21.
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Song of the Year was Rolling in the Deep. Best New Artist was Bon Ivar. Is that how you say it? I've heard Bon Ivar. That's what I say, Bon Ivar.
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and i do I mean, I don't listen to a lot of things that he does, but I do like what i have listened to, and The Exile with Taylor Swift is like one of my favorite songs of hers. Yeah, that's a good one.
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Um...
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Let's see who won best. Yeah, Adele won just like everything. Pop vocal album. trying to find who won best new artist that year.
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It's like all the way down at the bottom.
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Oh, thought you just said Bonnie Bear. Oh, did I say that? Oh, you're right.
Amazing Race Season 18 Begins
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man. Okay. Some other things that happened. Oh, so the Oscars were hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway, and it was like a disaster because James fra james Franco was so dumb.
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um Some other things that happened. There was that 9.1 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that killed 20,000 people in Japan. i do remember that.
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Osama Bin Laden was captured and killed in this time period. Um... Oh, the Super Bowl. I was going to tell you about... We just watched the Super Bowl in 2026 and it was very boring.
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The halftime show was Black Eyed Peas with Usher and Slash.
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And...
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um
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The FIFA World Cup was won by Japan. And probably one of the biggest pop culture moments was 2 billion people watched William and Kate's wedding in April of 2011. And I was one of them. I got up.
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I watched it at like 3 o'clock in the morning. Really? Mm-hmm. Didn't know you were such a real fan i yeah yeah i' like i loved her she i just thought she was like so cool and pretty and she was a quote-unquote commoner but i mean a very rich commoner but yeah still a commoner yeah and yeah there was a lot of people that watched that wedding
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So how long ago was that? 14, 15 years ago? So they've been married for almost 15 years now. Yeah.
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Yeah. So that's some of the things that were happening the first half of 2011 around the world. Yeah. around the world ye And then also The Amazing Amazing Race. Season 18.
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Which was filmed ah November and December of 2010, but aired first half of 2011. we are starting, right? Yeah. we in Springs, California.
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yeah so we are in palm springs springs california and the like phil is just talking and saying like this is i have like a hair on my um microphone and keeps getting in my mouth like tickling my phil did not say this no no phil did not say this but um he is saying like this is a season like no other and unfinished business and we'll have 11 teams back and behind him there's like a bunch of these like paper airplanes in a field yeah you're like so something is happening with those they're big they're on like six foot tall poles yeah metal poles blowing in the wind he said that um palm springs is like the second second most
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energy. Wind in the country or something like that. I don't even know. And... my closely um So yeah. Talking about wind and then there's paper airplanes there and so you're like, okay, we're going to start off with something like this.
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The teams come in on these little side-by-sides and... they He tells us like who they are and kind of what happened on their season that's making it for them.
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For them to have quote unquote unfinished business. Yeah. So our first team is jet and Cord, who are brothers from Oklahoma. They are the Cowboys.
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And we were big fans of them when they had their season. Season 16, believe. And they were cut in front of at the Shanghai airport.
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But I don't think that that's actually true. Yeah. When we talked about that's how he introduces it and says Dan and Jordan cut in front of the airport. And, you know, and when we talked about it in our season, it didn't affect the actual outcome of the yeah episode or the season.
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yeah. Yeah. And then we have Margie and Luke, who are mother and son. Luke is deaf, and they're they like almost won, but Luke did the final task in their season, which was 14, I think, and he really struggled and got passed up by the other teams.
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Yeah, and felt really bad about it. Said it's all his fault that they didn't lose. That they didn't lose? i mean That they didn't win. and so...
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yeah But I hate it when people say that because it's like, well, there was a lot that led up to the whole thing, you know. yeah But then we have Amanda and Chris. They are engaged. They are from Margie Luke season. And they were U-turned by Margie and Luke and were eliminated.
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And I literally can't even remember them. Anything. Like, I looked at their faces and was like, I can't remember you at all. You were not memorable.
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they I don't think they were like bad people or anything or annoying or I don't know. They just were not not memorable.
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memorable. Then next we have Flight Time and Big Easy. Globetrotters. They were stumped by that phone task in Prague.
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Was getting help from somebody who was like helping him and then decided not to help him after all or something. It was kind of an interesting situation. Yeah. And then they ended up taking the penalty and were eliminated. Yeah.
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But they're fun and they're entertaining. We like the Globetrotters. Yeah. I like all of the teams that have come back. Oh, yeah. Well, except for one.
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Except for one. Oh, yeah. yes Then we have Mel and Mike. They are father and son team. And they were from season...
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i think also 15. Yeah. And mike that's Mike White with the TV. No. Yeah. Let's see. Mel and Mike. Amazing race.
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Season 14. Okay. So the TV like producer and writer, Mike White and his dad, we also liked them as well. They were eliminated in Cambodia? Thailand. Thailand.
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um With direction issues. Yes, they went off course. Then we have Kent and Vixen. and But we have Kent and Vixen now.
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Oh, is it spelled different? it's written and pronounced Kent now. It used to be Kent. Yeah, with a Y. Yeah. And Vixen is still the hardest word yeah to spell, the hardest name. yeah I start with an X every time.
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but do like X, Y, V, like I switch the first three letters. Yeah. ah Anyway, they self-destructed in Italy. This was season 12. They got really, really, really lost and just kind of like fell apart. Yeah.
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Then we have Gary and Mallory. They were just barely on season 17. They're the father and daughter team. She was like in Miss America and they're really happy, fun, nice team. We liked them a lot.
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Mm-hmm. Then Keisha and Jen, they are sisters, and they had an untimely potty break in season 14.
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Yeah, which at the time as well, we kind of talked about how they edit edit it. To make it look way closer, but it actually wasn't that close. But still. But they say that even The girls say that and she's like, I'm not going to drink four bottles of water before. On the way to the pit stop at this time. And Keisha's like, that's good.
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So they're like playing into it. Yeah. But anyways. Okay, then Zev and Justin, they are best friends. They are from season 14. 14. 14. fourteen fourteen i feel like we have a lot of 14s. Yeah.
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Zev. but Well, that was like a favorite. Yeah. 15. Season 15. And they had they lost their passport. Yep. So they were eliminated because of that.
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Then Ron and Christina from, i believe, 12. The father and daughter... they also got to the finale and Christina was like they were there first and could have won but they got tied up on the final task the memory task it was that really hard one where it was like you have to have four animals and two vehicles and yeah one food and yeah it was probably the hardest final task that they have had so far yeah definitely and um who was the guy that
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Did it? They won? TK and Rachel. Yeah, today rachel Rachel did it. oh Yeah, she like went she did it pretty quickly. Yeah. And then we have Jamie and Kara.
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They're the NFL cheerleaders and the friends. And they're from like Margie and Luke. and oh Yeah, also 14.
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We were not fans of them when they raced before. And why did they get eliminated? Why they for unfinished? It they traveled off course on the last leg. Basically, their taxi driver was not good and Jamie yelled at him the whole time.
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Yeah. That was our like, biggest gripe about them was that... They were so rude to people the whole time. Anybody that didn't speak English. English. Yeah.
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Speak of the English. Speak of the English.
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Yeah. And they even say in their little interview, she's like, people either loved us or hated us. And I don't know. Did anybody love them? was to say how many people loved them. I don't know.
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So we'll see how far they make it this time. So phil they're all good teams. Like they all like made it probably to the top five. So yeah this is going to be so interesting. And I do. I know that I watched this season and I know who wins, but I don't remember who like the top three are okay so um phil says the first team to check into the pit stop on this first leg of the race will win the express pass and he said and another new another thing that's new is
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You'll see on your backpacks that there's no clue. You have to find me something. So you have to go into the airplanes. field of paper airplanes. The field paper airplanes.
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The first eight teams to bring me what I need will be on the first flight. And the second flight will be the rest. That one leaves about 90 minutes later. The last team to give me what I need will receive an automatic U-turn.
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On the first detour. On the first detour. um if Bring me what I want. And if you're correct, you can drive yourselves to LAX.
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Yeah. Bring me the Queensland and Northern Territories Aerial Services. So all the paper airplanes have different like airlines airlines names on there.
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But they don't some of them don't realize that. Queensland and Northern Territories Aerial Services stands for Qantas. Yeah. Q-A-N-T-A-S.
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Some figure out pretty quickly. Some of them don't. Well, some of them were like, it starts with a Q and ends with an S. Like, was that part of the clue that we didn't hear Phil say?
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I don't think so. Because a lot of them said that starts with a Q and ends with an S starts with a Q and ends with an S. And there was like other other things that had that description like Queensland Pacific or like some you know there's a couple others that are like oh that let's try this one.
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They're probably just like a like strategy of like quick to see it quickly. Like, look for Q&S, you know? Yeah. I don't know.
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I don't think he gave them anything more than what we heard. Yeah. i was I wasn't sure why they were all saying that. And it's kind of weird that they start in Palm Springs and they immediately drive to LAX.
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That's not that close. It's like over two hours away. Yeah. Just like start in LA. There's not really a major airport in Palm Springs though. Yeah. Just like a small one.
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So he says, good luck, travel safe, go. And they all run into the desert where all these paper airplanes are and are looking for the Qantas paper airplane and there's s ones that say like Queensland's, pu Queensland Pacific. One says like Queen Express, things like that.
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Queensland Express or something. um So the first teams to bring Phil the right paper airplane and are on the first flight are Mel and Mike, Zev and Justin, Jet and Cord, Kent and Vixen, Ron and Christina, Flight Time in Big Easy, Margie and Luke, and Jamie and Kara.
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So the teams on the last flight are which is supposed to be 90 minutes later, are Keisha and Jen, Gary and Mallory, and Amanda and Chris. So Amanda and Chris are the last ones, and they are getting the U-turn.
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and Amanda's like, it wouldn't be the first time. It's happened to us before. and she she's like, that is so stupid. We are already being so stupid.
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um So, they have that to look forward to. So, they don't seem to have a hard time getting to the airport and it's not like they're like rushing to the airport to be the ones on the flight because they already are determined what flight they're going to be on. Yes. And they're going to Sydney, Australia. if Oh, yeah. Clear.
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Yeah, they're going to Australia. um And the people in the first flight are in the air. And it shows us like some footage of somebody like having a medical emergency. Some guy had a heart attack in the air. So this flight has to land in Hawaii for an emergency landing, which is going to put them behind.
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And they're like, the first flight's turned into the second flight. and But Big Easy is like, the most important thing is that the person is okay. Yeah. I did write that down too. I was like, he's the only person that said that. Yeah. At least that we saw. Yeah.
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That would be really frustrating. But you're also on a flight with eight people instead of like a few. Yeah. And you're like... not completely out of it you know so the second flight lands first at 10 20 all three teams get off this flight and get on the train because they're supposed to go to the very okay so where's that clue i or what did he say i wrote it down i know where why can i not
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Make your way by train to Sydney Harbor and take the ferry to Ocean World in Manly to find your next clue. So they all get on the same train to the ferry station, get on the same ferry and head over to Manly, which is, I'm guessing, like a suburb of Sydney. Yeah.
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And it seems that somehow Mallory found out that the other flight hadn't landed. Yeah, I think she heard it from like a a flight attendant. Yeah. So they know that they are ahead or at least they think they do. Yeah.
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And k Chris and Amanda are really hoping to get the express pass because they have the U-turn. they're like, if we have the express pass, then we can just skip the second half of the detour.
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So they're really excited to be in the lead. um But then the second flight, i can't remember if you already said this, lands at 1047. So they are about 27 minutes behind, which is not a lot.
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Mm-hmm. and they are running to the train. um the Cowboys, Mel and Mike and Ron and Christina all miss the train and the rest of the teams make it.
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And then those teams go get on the ferry and the Cowboys miss the ferry. Yeah. So they got pretty far behind. But the first three teams, Mel and... No, no, no.
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Gary and Mallory, Keisha and Jen, and Amanda and Chris arrive to the next clue. And it says, who's ready to get tanked? So it's a roadblock.
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And they have to search for a compass on the floor of a million and a half gallon tank. And this is a side note. A million and a half. Is that one and a half million or one million and one half gallons? Okay.
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Pretty sure the first one. I know. Just the way he said, I was like a million and a half gallon. I would say like one and a half million gallons. But it would be the same question.
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But it. One and a half million. One One million and a half. One and a half million is much different than one million and a half. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that didn't jump out at me. Anyway, so they're surrounded by sharks and stingrays. They have to then decipher a sentence written out in nautical flags by matching each flag to the corresponding letter or number on their compass.
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Then they will decode the message, um which tells them to go to the manly 16-foot skiff sailing club, find the Commodore, and tell him the secret catchphrase of, I am between the devil and the deep blue sea.
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So Mallory's going to do this roadblock, Keisha and Amanda. And Keisha and Jen talk about how Jen is afraid of water. Neither of them are very good swimmers, but Jen really struggled with like a swimming task. We had difficulty in water last. Yes.
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Because they were like in Russia. Russia doing like the swimming and they just... They went back and forth on detours. They had either swim across the... Or do a dive. Yeah, that one was rough. Yeah.
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For everyone. who They switched it a few times. Yeah. um so Mallory gets the compass first and Amanda gets it behind ah not too long behind her.
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and then Keisha as well. It doesn't seem like difficult to get it once you're in there or impossible to find. Then...
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then
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they so mallory starts doing like the word scramble they have to like get it climb out get out of their gear take their compass to like the outside of the building on this like deck yeah and like sit there and work on it and so mallory gets started and um keisha and amanda are like right behind her and then the other teams from the second flight are starting to arrive and getting to the clue.
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And this is when like the Cowboys had missed that ferry, that train in that ferry. um But Cord says this race can turn anywhere at any time, which is true. They're staying positive.
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And they definitely had a few instances of that in their race. where Yeah. they They're just so good at tasks. Mm-hmm. So they just know that they need to just keep plugging along and something. Until now. until Yeah.
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Well.
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yeah So. It was weird. They just like missed everything. The teams doing the roadblock are who are coming up are Flight Time, Margie, Kara, Justin, Bixen,
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um Christina, Mel, and
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This is when Mallory finishes the word search first and she goes up to her dad and she knows that they need to find the sailing club. So they ask for directions there and they get there and they tell the guy that I am between the devil and the deep blue sea.
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And they get the clue and the clue says teams must fail sail 16 foot skiff across the waters of Manly Bay. Locate the buoy to find your next clue.
Challenges and Alliances in Sydney
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And that's pretty intense. At first I was like, how are they going to do that? But they have a couple of like professionals, on yeah sailors on the boat with them. um But it's still pretty intense. Yeah, they're like hanging off the side of this boat and going pretty fast. It does look pretty fun.
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um Yeah. Sorry. um Yeah. So then Amanda and Keisha kind of like work together and they finish up and this is when the other teams are kind of starting to finish their dive. The Cowboys arrive and Jet is going to do the roadblock. Right?
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Jet? Yeah. Yeah. Margie and Kara start working together when they get out um of the tank and like doing the flags because they kind of had a little bit of an alliance in their first season and they like trust each other.
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um
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and Kish and Jen...
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the
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The clue for the skiff. um but Gary and Mallory are finishing up. They get back. And that clue says, make your way to Shelley Beach for the pit stop of this leg of the race.
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First thing to check in here will get and the express pass. The last thing to check in may be eliminated.
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And it doesn't seem to be super far away from here because they check in as team number one, Gary Mallory. They win the express pass. And Phil says, but you are still racing. Yeah, because he did say you're the first team to arrive. Yeah.
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You're first team to arrive, but you're still racing. um Read your next clue and go. no rest. Yeah. And Mallory kind of reads the beginning of it. It says, keep racing. You're headed to the back of beyond.
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And she's kind of like. Frazzled. Delirious about it. And then she keeps talking and feels like, stop talking and go. yeah She's like, ah. And so they run and they're still racing.
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But we're not sure where they're going or what they're doing. Still racing part. Yeah. And then Amanda and Chris are number two and Keisha and Jen are number three. um the other teams are starting to finish the clue at the roadblock and getting to the skiff and um like Zev and Justin, they go tell the guy the clue. I am both between the devil and the deep blue sea.
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And Margie and Luke and Jamie and Cara show up to the guy and they say, I am the devil in the deep blue sea. They don't have the between. So the guy says, not quite right. And so they have to run back.
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Well, so the Globetrotters also, they don't even know anything. They leave before they even got the full phrase. And they're like, we just saw people leaving. So we just left. Yeah.
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And so they ask Zev and Justin to give them the answer. And they and they give it to them. And Zev does. Or Justin does. Yeah. And then Margie. Well, and then flight ah Big Easy's like, I owe you one. And Justin's like, yes, you do. Yeah.
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And so they go up to the guy and Margie and Luke and Kara and Jamie are standing right there and they lean up to him and whisper it in his ear and he gives him the clue. And then they're running.
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Sorry. Then you can tell this part. i So Margie and Kara go back to like go to the flags, but they see Zev and Justin and they're like, what is it? What is it? And and they were like, we already gave somebody help.
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We don't want to give any more help. Yeah. So we can't help everybody. Yeah, so they go back and I don't even remember. Oh, yes. So Christina and Mel are working together to just decode this puzzle. And they tell Margie, they say, we'll tell you the answer if you'll tell us how to get there.
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Yeah, because Margie and Luke are running back with Jamie and Kara and they're like, what is it? What is it? And she says, if you just lead us there, we'll tell you. We can all say it together. Yeah. We haven't even tried to make it there yet.
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But yeah it's early in the race, I guess, and okay to make alliances at this point. but Vixen also leaves without having the whole phrase because she's like kind of one of the last ones there and she doesn't want to be left there. So she leaves.
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And Margie also tells her the answer. They were like way too generous with this. Yes. I know. I was surprised. I don't know if I would have done that. I wouldn't. Well, Jet and Kord go up to the Commodore to give the answer and ah the Commodore's like what like, do you have something for me? And they're like, what?
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They're like, this is a sailing club. He's like, yeah. What do you have to say? Or something like that. And they're like, oh. Yeah, like he didn't even know he was supposed to decode a puzzle or something. I'm not sure. Well, he like got the sailing club part and so they just had to go the sailing club. Okay. That's right. Okay. So they have to go back.
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All these teams are doing their sailing on the skiff and
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it's not too difficult because they have help from the professionals. Flight times, and like the Globetrotters almost tips over. Jamie and Kara's does flip. They have to flip it back over.
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and I don't think any of them missed the clue. Like all of them grabbed it on their first try because it was just like on a buoy and they can't get out and swim. The clue specifically says no swimming to the next clue. So they have to grab it as they sail by.
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So as these teams are checking into the pit stop, Jet is figuring out the clue still. So team number four are Zev and Justin. Number five are Flight Time and Big Easy. Number six are Jamie and Kara.
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Number seven, Margie and Luke. Number eight, Ron and Christina. And number nine, Mel and Mike. And then Jet, he says he has the clue figured out. So they walk all the way there and he still doesn't have it. Yeah, he says something completely wrong. like I think he says the part. Like the HMS, like something about like the name of a ship or.
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Yeah, hold on, me...
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All of them look so disappointed, too, to hear that they have to keep racing. Yeah, they're, like, probably so tired. So it says, decipher the sentence in Nautical Flags, so it's,
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Manly, 16-foot Skiff Sailing Club. Find the Commodore. So I think he, like, found, like, find the Commodore in the middle. But he hasn't got the last part, which is I am between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea, which is you're supposed to tell the guy. That's the most important part.
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So he doesn't have it again. And so they have to walk all the way back. And so then Kent and Vixen check in as team number 10. So now they're the last team. And then it says to be continued.
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And yeah, jet still can't figure it out. Yeah, to be continued. Did you see Kent slapped the guy's butt on the pit stop when Phil's like, you're still racing. And so they like leave the mat and like the guy who introduced them, welcome to Australia. Like a surfer dude. Like without a shirt on and Kent like slaps his butt when they were running away. Abby was talking to me at this point. So...
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Yeah, so Jet still can't figure it out. And Cord is standing there. And he's, this is how they always were. They just, they were good teammates. They weren't mean to each other. didn't each other, like, upset or feel frustrated or, um you know, and he's like, I'm going to tear down all these yeah if we have flags and take them with me. You can't walk back here again. And um Jet's like, I cannot figure this out.
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And it says to be continued. So, and I was really wanting to watch it right away because we, I at least love the Cowboys and I don't want to see them eliminated. And if they're continued racing, there might be some travel. If they'll hurry up, they could get back in it.
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and Yeah.
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But Chris and Amanda have ah like to do U-turn. Oh, yes. They have to do U-turn as well. I know. I like, it's really hard for me because I'm looking at the information about all the teams as they're eliminated. So it's hard for me to not see the order of like the elimination, but I would love to, cause like I said, I remember who wins, but I don't remember like who gets eliminated first or last.
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Well, Like, you know, the order of elimination. And it's fun to be surprised, but also with my portion of what I do is not easy to be surprised. Yeah.
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Well, I'll tell you my portion of what I do. Australia. This is our fourth time to Australia. Our first time was in season two. and then we were there again in season And then nine.
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four and then nine and now in 17, so we haven't been there for a while. And... oh yeah, 18. I need to erase that.
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Let me fix that.
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Who won last season? um Nat and Kat. I did not have that written down.
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Okay. So, Australia.
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Yeah.
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Aboriginal Islander people have lived in Australia for at least 65,000 years, making them among the world's oldest continuous cultures. Hundreds of nations and language groups existed before the Europeans' arrival, which was about 1770. Captain James Cook claimed the East Coast for Britain. In 1788, the first first British penal colonies ah ah were established at Sydney Cove.
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um So expansion from colonization caused me's major displacement, violence, and disease for the indigenous people. 1901, six colonies united to form the Commonwealth of Australia.
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They fought alongside the British in the world both world wars, increasing independence from the UK through the 20th century. And in 1967, wait, no, sorry, that's not... um oh wait no sorry but's not um In 1967, referendum expanded federal rights for indigenous Australians.
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Not sure what those rights were. But there's ongoing reconciliation efforts today. um the They have a prime minister...
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governor. They have two houses. They have a house of representatives and a Senate, two major parties, the Labor Party and the Liberal Party. Voting is mandatory.
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Didn't know that. You can do that. I guess you can. if It's your your rule. You make your own laws. Yeah. um People of Australia are known to be very outdoorsy.
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and There's a strong coffee culture. It's multicultural population, large Asian, European, and Middle Eastern communities. um They like sports like rugby, cricket, Australian rules football, and surfing. Yeah.
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um they' The Great Barrier Reef is just off the coast there. They have the outback, deserts, rainforests, unique wildlife like kangaroos, koalas, wombats, and the platypus.
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There's more kangaroos in Australia than people.
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has the world's longest fence.
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I want to know how long that is. It's the dingo fence in Australia. 3,488 miles.
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To keep dingoes out? Sounds like. um I guess. ah
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It's through the southeastern part of the continent to protect sheep flocks from dingoes. Yeah. Built between and Hmm. Um...
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um
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So the city of Sydney, because that's where we are in this episode, has about five and a half million people. um It's in the state of New South Wales. million and a half? Five million. Yeah. It's the oldest European settlement in Australia.
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often mistaken as the capital but it's not. Founded in 1788. It's now Australia's financial and tourist center.
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There's like the Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Bondi Beach and um it's like has very active lifestyle, diverse food scene. It's expensive. It's one of the priciest housing markets in the world.
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um But it looks like a great great place to live, so I can't i can i can see why. Yeah. um Over 100 beaches in the metro area of Sydney, so that's another reason why.
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And
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ah has mild winters, warm summers, and lots of sunshine.
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And it's a place I would love to go to. I haven't been to yet. Takes a long time to get there. Yes. Yeah. I was just thinking about that. Like they're probably that long flight, then a full leg and then have to keep
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racing. And yeah, like that's probably why they had that face. Yeah. But I like that because we've said before, like, I wish they had non-elimination on the first leg. Give people another chance. And we've already grown to love some of these teams. So it would be hard to say goodbye to them immediately. So I really like that they did that in this season. I think. Yeah. They do it in other seasons in the future as well.
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and Yeah, I think that they knew that. They're like, man, we can't eliminate somebody right away. yeah All of these fan favorite teams. Yeah, so I like that. And I'm excited to see what happens because it really could anything. Anything could happen. Because it said um back to the, what did it say? What did she read?
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To the back of Beyond. So it sounds like they're going to like Outback. So they have to travel there. So Jet would hurry up. They could make it. Yeah. Hurry up, Jet. Yeah.
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So. so Yeah. Well, i am looking forward to this season. Mm-hmm. I think it's going to be fun. I'm trying to think if there's like any memorable moments. I think – well, because Margie and Luke also come back for another season too. And so there's one task that I'm thinking of that I don't know if it's from this one or that season. Mm-hmm.
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But if it comes up, I'll tell you. Okay. Well, join us on episode two. I'm excited to watch it. Yes. Probably too late for me to watch it tonight. but Yeah. I'm getting kind of tired, actually. You guys can listen to this right now. Yes. Listen and then watch and then listen.
00:45:56
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And that's why we put these out together so that you can binge them. You're welcome. Yeah. Sometimes it's harder for us, but also sometimes it's easier. Like trying to do one podcast episode a week, I think would be hard with just like the our schedules.
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Yeah. But also trying to record six at a time also can be hard. But anyway. Life is hard. i know. But we love you guys and we love like just it's fun. It's exciting. we've been doing it for a long time now. Gosh, yeah. It's been like five years or four?
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Four. Four years? Yeah, in February. Yeah, like so right now. um Yeah, it's been good.
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Anyway, okay. Goodbye. Thanks for listening.