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Season 16 Premier!: The Amazing Race Season 16, Episode 1
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After a short hiatus, we're back with Season 16 of The Amazing Rewatch!
Listen in as we discuss the premier to TAR Season 16 and hear our thoughts about all the new teams and tasks.
Neither of us have seen this season, so it's exciting to watch with fresh eyes and no memories of what will happen. Makes it pretty exciting and we hope you'll follow along!
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Introduction to Season 16 and Personal Updates
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Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the amazing rewatch. This is Jessica. That's Sadie. Hello. And this is season 16.
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sixteen Yeah, we're finally getting around to, was going to say film, we're not filming to record. And it has been a couple months.
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We said we were going to get a big head start on this season. know. I was just telling Jeff that... We're not like so far behind, but we weren't making as much progress as we should have been. It was a really busy summer.
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This is exactly why we took a little break. Yes. Because we've been really busy. Yeah. Sadie started a new job. Yeah. And... anne Olivia started kindergarten. We did a bunch of family stuff. We traveled around.
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I mean, I didn't do much traveling, but Jessica did some. Close by. yeah Kind of. Montana was the furthest I went, which is not crazy. Anyway, so
Nostalgia and Events of 2010
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it kind of feels nice. Like, I watched the first episode of season 16 today, and it was kind of nice to get back into Yeah.
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Yeah, I've i it been missing it too. Yeah, for sure. And so I watched it last week, actually. And think we've said this at the end of last season, I have not seen this season.
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So it's kind of fun to watch like a brand new one to me. Yeah. So there's some people, we'll get into like the introductions and stuff, but there's some people in the season that are in the all-star season.
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Yes. Which I've seen them in that, but I haven't seen this. You haven't seen the season either? Uh-huh. Okay. Well, that's exciting. So um as we usually do ah the beginning of a new season, we kind of talk about what was going on in our lives and in the world at the time that this was airing so the air date for this first episode was february fourteenth twenty ten 2010 and 2010 i was getting ready to i was in my last semester of college i was gonna i graduated may of 2010 yeah got my bachelor's in three years to my own horn a little bit yeah
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but That's really good. I did it fast. i took I took enough credits in high school to get a semester. hu And then I like overloaded my credit load.
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like a like I was taking 25 credits yeah or more the last couple of semesters. Because I was just like, I just want get it done. yeah like I don't want to do a whole year, but I don't want to graduate halfway through the year. Because, i don't know, it just feels funner to finish at the end of the year.
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So I just did it. Yeah. And Well, Well, I was in my senior year of high school. i was on the drill team. I was the captain of the drill team.
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um That's pretty much it. Drill team takes up your whole life. Yeah. Not a lot else going on. Yeah. It was kind of funny because I graduated college, Sadie graduated high school, and our little sister Georgie graduated graduated middle school all in the same year. was Yeah. They lined up perfectly.
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And it was 2010. It was just like a nice even number. So some of the things that happened in 2010. Do we want to do this first or do we want to do like music and movies and stuff first?
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um We usually start with music and movies so we can do something different. Okay. I'll It doesn't matter. So, um i think, was it in season 15 where we talked about the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world in Dubai?
00:03:56
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think so. So, it officially opened January 4th of 2010. Nice. nice So, it wasn't finished when they filmed that season, that episode.
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But it. of In season 15. Yeah. But now it's finished in 2010. um It's funny because while we were on our break, we posted ah bonus episode with Brett and Mark from season 37.
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And they have a Burj Khalifa thing from their season when they're in Dubai. And they're like asking their taxi driver, what is that building? And he's like, Burj Khalifa. And they're like, Wiz Khalifa?
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what does he have to do with Dubai? and It's like such a funny. I'm pretty sure I named the episode of seasons 15 that we are there was Khalifa. Yeah. And it actually has the most listens of anything.
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Really? Any episode of season 15. That's funny. That happens when like when one of the episodes gets named like a song name or like a person or something like Like somebody's searching for West Kalifa and they actually end up listening to a podcast episode.
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It's random podcast about a show that... um Okay, so then there was also that huge earthquake in Haiti um that killed like a lot of people. <unk> and that was also in January.
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There was another big earthquake I think in Chile that year as well. And another kind of natural disaster. we're going to see if I can say this. Volcanic ash from several eruptions of Mount Aja Fjallajåkul in Iceland.
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ah the There was like so much ash in the air that it was like disrupting air traffic across Europe. I just went to Iceland a few months ago, so.
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Now she speaks the language. Yes. I'm an ex expert at ice Icelandic. The Grammys that they were, let's see.
2010 Grammy and Oscar Highlights
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Okay. Record of the year 18. they were
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let's see
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right record of the year was Use Somebody by Kings of Leon. What's the difference between record and album? i don't know. Let's see. Album of the Year was Fearless by Taylor Swift. That was her first album of the year.
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That's crazy. That was her second album. And it is a good one, but I wouldn't say it's like her best. No. But it was like definitely because it it came out when I was at Snow College. So it was like a formative time for me. So I still love it, but yeah. um Album of the year recognizes an entire body of work.
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honor honoring the artists, producers, and engineers for a full album. Record of the Year honors a single song, acknowledging the performance and production contributions of the artist, producer. So what's the difference between record and song? I was going to say, well, there's also a Song of the Year category, which was Single Ladies by Beyonce. Record of the Year is the best recording. Okay. Record of the Year honors the best recording.
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acknowledging the performers, producers, and engineers, while Song of the Year honors the best composition. Recognizing the songwriters. just the song and Yeah. Songwriters. um Best New Artist that year was the Zac Brown Band.
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Um...
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That's Poker Face won a few Best Dance Recording. That was a good song. Alright, the 82nd Academy Awards.
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The Best Picture was Hurt Locker. Best Director, Catherine Bigelow for Hurt Locker. Best Actor, Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart. Best Actress was Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side.
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Supporting Actor was Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Bastards. And... supporting actress was Monique for precious based on the novel push by Sapphire. It was so annoying that they said that whole thing every time. ah bios Yeah.
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Because i think they got a few awards. yeah Best animated film was up. Uh, best. I always liked the best music too. Best score was up.
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Oh, and best song was the weary kind from crazy heart.
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um We also had the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Sports and Cultural Impact in 2010
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Canada took the most golds. The U.S. took the most medals overall.
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The Super Bowl XLIV would be what? 49. would be 40 IV. 44. excel would be forty i b be forty four Yeah, because the I is before.
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So Super 44 was the Saints and Colts. And the Saints won thirty one to seventeen
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What else? Oh, and then another, the m NBA finals that year were the Celtics versus the Lakers. And the Lakers won 4-3. was good finals. Yeah. ah good close yeah yeah a good final so Oh, there was a couple of other things.
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The iPad, the first iPad came out in April of 2010.
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And i think that was kind of all that was interesting. The Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, their first since 1961. Okay. So got a little sports, got a little entertainment in there. So tell us about the movies and music of 2010.
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Okay, well, the top movie of the year
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wasn't released in 2010. It released in 2009. Avatar. I was going to say it was Avatar probably, wasn't um So that was the number one movie of 2010, but it was released December 18th, 2009.
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two thousand But then Toy Story 3, Alice in Wonderland, Iron Man 2, and Twilight Eclipse were the top five movies of the whole year. Some other honorable mentions for the first half of the year.
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um Inception. That was good one. Despicable me Shrek Forever After, How to Train Your Dragon, The Karate Kid, Clash of the Titans, Grown Ups, Shutter Island,
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Valentine's Day, Robin Hood. Robin Hood. Is that like the Russell Crowe one? Yeah. Yeah. I was thinking, can well what's the one with the other guy? Kevin Costner? Yeah. Is that like from the ninety s Yeah. Like what? Not that one.
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um Date Night. That's a long time ago. Yeah. Didn't seem that long. Sex and the City 2. um Prince of Persia.
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I really liked that one. Yeah. Back in the day. It's probably. Yeah, I don't think I aged very well. No. Night and Day. one's a good one. and Tom Cruise. Yeah.
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And Cameron Diaz. The A-Team. Bounty Hunter. um the Last Song. yeah Oh.
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A fave. i haven't watched that in a while. Yeah. So some good ones. Not as strong of a year as other years, but still pretty good.
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Yeah. um Like that that action comedy with a little bit of romance kind of seemed like Date Night, Bounty Hunter, Night and Day would all be yeah that category, I would say. Yeah.
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The backup plan. The backup plan. Was that ah Jennifer Lopez? Yeah.
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Yeah. Like still those rom-coms and stuff. Yeah. When in Rome. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. so top songs. The number one song of the year is TikTok by Kesha. Need You Now, Lady A, so so hey Soul Sister by Train, California Girls, Katy Perry, OMG Usher, Airplanes by B.O.B.
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Yeah,
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yeah just kind of that. a Teenage Dream Telephone.
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um Empire State of Mind.
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Yeah, yeah. I Got a Feeling, Fireflies. Yeah.
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When like Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Katy Perry were big time. Yeah. Number one TV is always as always is American Idol. Yeah. And Dancing with the Stars.
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American Idol Thursday. Dancing with the Stars results. Sunday Night Football. NCIS. Criminal Minds. 60 Minutes. The Big Bang Theory. two and a Half Men.
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The Voice or has started. um Desperate Housewives is still on there. Grey's Anatomy. Survivor. um Modern Family. This was the last year of Lost, too. Was that on there?
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Mm-mm. The last season. lot of people didn't like the last season. Yeah, because they are. it was weird. i When you rewatch it, though, if you rewatch it now, it's like, it makes a little bit more sense. It's not as weird as back in day. I liked it. Mm-hmm.
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Survivor, Modern Family, The Bachelor, So those are some TV. um Yeah. If you go back and watch Lost Now, like it's it's a better it's a better ending now when you like watch it again. i don't know if it's nostalgia, but also you kind of like understand it more.
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It was a lot to take in. just like I think the reason that people don't like it was because it didn't really answer a lot of questions. Like there were still a lot of unanswered things. Yeah. Yeah. And people were like, what?
00:14:03
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That's it? but And just like the last two episodes got to be like so like, oh my gosh, there's a lot happening right now. Yeah, it was a lot. I did like a recent rewatch, then I don't know, a few months ago.
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Yeah. and They were like on the island back in the 70s, but also like living current lives where they never went to the island. Yeah, the flash. And meeting each other. was, yeah, a lot happening in the last couple episodes.
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Yeah. We talk about Lost lot on this This podcast, because, yeah, maybe we'll just do a whole lost podcast. We say that all the time, but. I know. After this, the possibilities are endless.
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Yeah. In six years when this is over, when the amazing rewatch is over. Yeah. So, yeah, that was what was happening in pop culture at the time.
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Wasn't, like, the strongest year for stuff, but it was good. When did Biggest Loser start? Yeah, that's kind of been in the news lately with that new documentary. I want to watch it. but two thousand Wait.
00:15:03
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That was like when I was in high school. It came out a while ago, I think. yeah I just watched the documentary. And yeah, 2004. We watched it a lot when we were a little. Or like in the day. Yeah, in high school. we were like well with our mom.
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It was like so inspiring. and Yeah. It's like, oh my gosh, look what they can do. and now it's like, oof. But yeah, you go back and watch now. And if you watch that documentary, it's actually a really good documentary.
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And it shows you like how much culture has changed in these years. And yeah, the documentary is good. What's it on?
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so Netflix. Yeah, I'll need to watch it. I feel like they need to bring up back a different version and kind of redeem themselves. But they have like an executive producer on the documentary and everything. they don't really seem interested in that.
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But yeah. You guys should watch that. Yeah. Well, okay.
Amazing Race Season 16 Overview and Initial Challenges
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We will start getting into the premiere episode of season 16.
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And we start in Los Angeles. And they come in on like buses. I guess I can't even remember exactly where they start, but the first people that start talking. So when the episode started, I was kind of like looking down at my phone and the second this girl started talking, i was like, oh my gosh, that sounds like that girl from Miss Teen USA. And then I looked up and I was like, it is her. And I knew that. I knew she was on the show.
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You know like knew who she was exactly. Yeah. Like right when she starts talking. Also, just to say, no this is the sixth season in a row that we've started in LA. Hmm. It probably is easier for them because that's like where the production is probably based. and But yes, if you guys don't know this girl.
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i personally believe that U.S. Americans don't know how to read a map because they don't have maps. And yeah the South Africa and the Iraq and such as...
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That was seriously like one of the first like YouTube videos remember watching. yes. And I feel so bad because you could clearly see that she was just like scrambling.
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And that is a hugely yeah like nerve-wracking pressure moment. And you just cannot like prepare for something like that. Yeah.
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How old was she at the time? was Miss Teen USA. So she was probably 16. She's She's only 36 right she's young she's only thirty six right now in today yeah so she's like my age it was 2007 so like 17 or 18 so she says the question was recent polls have shown a fifth of americans can't locate the u.s s on a world map why do you think this is and her response was i personally believe that's my favorite part the opening because you can see like okay
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I personally believe that US Americans aren't able to do so because um some people out there in our nation don't have maps. And I believe that our ah education, like such as South Africa and ah the Iraq and everywhere like such as And I believe that they should. Our education over here in the US s should help the US, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries.
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So we'll be able to build up our future. It's so good. That was like one sentence that didn't... I know. It's just It didn't even make anything. It's just like rambling.
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Oh my goodness. But she clearly like acknowledges that it was... Like what she said was silly. Yeah. Yeah. So when they're introducing... She, yeah.
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Yeah. So she's on there with her boyfriend, Brent. They're both models. Yes. And her name is Kate. We haven't even said her name yet. Or Katie. Katie. It's spelled C-A-I-T-E.
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And they call her Katie. And then we have Jet and Cord, who are the Cowboys, brothers from Oklahoma. They are a Amazing Race Fan favorite for sure. they come back twice more, I think. Yeah. so So that pretty much lets you know that they're not going to win But also everybody knows that they come back. So it's not a surprise.
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um And they are fan favorites for a reason. We'll see yeah that. Steve and Allie are a father and daughter from Southern California. So he was a coach of the Phillies when they won the World Series.
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and sir How do you say it? Series. The World Series. Oh, he said that? Yeah. I said, how do you say it? I'm like, how do you say that? that's how he it. World Series.
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The World And being in the major leagues, you have to be away from home for seven months out of the year. so it's good for us to like have this bonding time together, which is nice. We have Dan and Jordan. They're brothers from Rhode Island.
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One of them is gay. and He said he's not going to pretend to not be gay. Because we had like gay brothers last season that said they weren't going to tell people they were gay for some reason.
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um Dana and Adrian are a married couple. They've been married 17 years and were high school sweethearts. Then Jordan and Jeff. They are dating long distance. They met on Big Brother.
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Jordan actually won 11.
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Jodi and Shannon are a grandmother and granddaughter team, and they're both triathletes. Louie and Michael are undercover detectives from Rhode Island. like but Two Rhode Island teams is crazy. Yeah.
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And there's two Jordans. Oh. There's two Jordans, a Jodi, a Jeff, a Joe, Jet. Yeah. A Dan, ah Dana. Uh-huh.
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Yeah. Yeah, we got a lot of similar names here. Okay, and then we have Monique and Sean. They are best friends and attorneys.
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um Then we have Joe and Heidi. They are married parents from California. And Carol and Brandy are a dating couple from Los Angeles.
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So Phil says, welcome to the amazing race. Read your clue. ah Run to your bag and read your clue and figure out how to get to the airport using public public transportation.
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Only the first three teams will get on the first flight. Everyone else leaves about an hour later. And so he says, um the world is waiting for you. Travel safe. Ready, set, go.
00:21:39
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How does he say it? The world is waiting for you. Travel safe. Go. I don't think he says ready, set, And they run to their bags and it says race to Santiago, Chile. And so they have to figure out.
00:21:53
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They're in downtown LA. They have to figure out how to get to the airport the fastest. One of the cowboys says, this is not like this is not like where I live. The county I live in has one light and it flashes yellow. And he's in downtown LA right now.
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Flying to Santiago, Chile, which is also very... Yeah, it's going to be a big city. um So some teams get directions from like a bus driver telling them to take the flyaway bus.
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And other teams are getting on the metro. And like some people, some of them get on the metro and then a couple of teams barely miss it. The next one leaves in 20 minutes. um Other teams are getting on that flyaway bus.
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The teams that end up getting to the airport first are Monique and Sean, Jordan and Jeff, Dana and Adrian and Carol and Brandy. But Carol and Brandy don't get on that first flight because they're the fourth in line.
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And so all the other teams are on the second flight. The first flight has a layover in Dallas. The second flight has a layover in Miami. That one leaves an hour later. um But as they're sitting there at the airport waiting to board their flights and stuff like that, the first flight keeps getting delayed for technical.
Challenges and Pitfalls in Chile
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Mechanical Mechanical problems. And those teams end up deciding to get a tickets on the second flight. So everybody's on the same flight. Why is it that um public transportation, like the metro in l LA is just like nobody rides it?
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I don't. you would I just don't think it's a very good system. think it's very like, but they're updating it for the Olympics. Olympics? Olympics for the Olympics.
00:23:32
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do The Rugrats episode where they do the Olympics. They call the Olympics. The Olympics. The Olympics. um um Yeah. So they're updating it for the Olympics, I hear. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's so weird. Like people just drive everywhere in L.A.,
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And I don't know why. because I don't think it's a very extensive system. Just doesn't go as far as people need need 28 by 28. 28 initiatives to happen before 28 Summer Olympics.
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That's only three years from now. A new line. ah new blue line. silver line. an LAX line project.
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I feel like that would make a big difference. Just like one to go out to the airport. An airport metro connector station. There's a lot of stuff that they're doing. But yeah. And I read something today about like a bullet train.
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Let me hold on a second. I've always thought that they need a train going from Salt Lake to LA. I think it would be full all the time. Yeah. There's people that go LA.
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Utahns love Disneyland. Yes. And California. yeah And lots of Californians go to Vegas. h
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Okay. California's long-delayed bullet train slated to run in the Central Valley by 2032. So like going north? but It would be like la to San Francisco, isn't it?
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Yeah. It will cost $87 billion. Jeez.
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I can't even comprehend that kind of money.
00:25:08
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Well, that would be good to have that. Oh, what? It would be good to have that. I hope they actually do it. Yeah. Yeah. um I was going to say one important thing that happens while they're at the airport is that Jet and Cord decide to change their money in LAX and the place doesn't have Chilean money and the closest is Brazilian money. So they change it to Brazilian money.
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Yeah. They think that just getting like the closest is good enough. Yeah. But it it won't be good enough. No. um And also while everybody's at the airport, they're all kind of talking about Miss Teen USA. Yeah. like talking to each other. You know, that girl's the one who said and the Iraq and such as and kind of making fun of her.
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I'm sure she's been made fun of a lot in her life. so she probably and probably doesn't affect her that much. so Like we said, everybody's on the same flight. That flight lands and the teams get on, um Phil says, the teams must get on a bus to get to the city of Valparaiso, famous for its funiculars. Make your way to the top of the ascensor via Seca to find your next clue.
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So there's a bus that leaves at 1215, one at 1220, and one at 1230.
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And this is where Jet and Core tried to use their Brazilian money to get a bus ticket. and Yeah, they almost get on the second bus, but the bus driver tells them no. So they are on the third bus. The third bus has the detective friends, the cowboys, and the grandma and granddaughter.
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and all the other teams are on the buses before that. Yeah, and they're not very far apart. No. So not too crazy. Yeah, so the first bus arrives and teams get in taxis. They're heading to this... um Like the top of this hill.
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And then the second bus arrives and they all get in taxis too. They're really close together. When they get to the top of the hill, the clue is a roadblock and it says who has the balance of a cat. And the courage of a lion.
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Oh, and the courage of lion. It doesn't say that for until later. Yeah. So what they have to do is walk on a cable the length of a football field 120 feet off the ground. So it's like two two cables basically. There's one that they hold on to and one that they walk.
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across Yeah. They're of like shimmy sideways. Yes. We've done something like this before and they do it in the future. Yeah. um But um so Katie from Brent and Katie. katie Jordan from Jordan and Jeff from Big Brother.
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from...
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Joe. Wait, who's Joe? Joe and jo and Heidi. The married parents alie from from Steve and Allie, the father and daughter.
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Dan from the brothers. And Brandy from the the dating couple from l LA. They're all like the first group of people to start the roadblock. And those are the ones who do the roadblock.
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Monique and Sean and Dana and Adrian were on the first bus, but they've gotten a little bit lost at this point. Yeah. It seems like their drive their taxis are kind of following each other and they hit like... So all the people from the second bus pass them.
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um So Katie actually finishes the roadblock first and the clue says take the 120 year old funicular down the hillside to find your next clue. So her and Brent start walking and they don't read their clue very well because they're just like where are we supposed to go? Where are supposed to go Let's just keep walking. And they just walk all the way down the hill. They don't take the funicular.
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Which is not good.
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And the third bus arrives. So those teams are getting their taxis. um that This is when the teams from the first bus right yeah arrive. And then Sean and Adrian are going to do the roadblock.
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And Adrian decides to do the roadblock because he's so Adrian and Dana are the married couple. And Adrian's like kind of like a big strong dude and he thinks that his strength is going to be like beneficial in helping him get across the cable.
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Yeah. And um like Dan, one of the the brother, one of the brothers. He falls off the line and he's like, how do I get myself back up? And he so he just starts pulling himself along the line like backwards. upside down and backwards. Yeah.
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And he seems to be going faster doing that than he was when he was. It kind of seems like it might be easier. Yeah. And Brandy's really struggling. She's like wobbling like crazy.
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Some people make it look really easy. Like Katie made it made it look really easy. Brandy's not making it look easy at all. She's making it look very difficult. But it seems like the taller people have a harder time.
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Like the shorter people, it's not as hard for them. just have like more, like a lower center of gravity or something know. um Well, Jordan finishes the roadblock and Dan finishes right after her. And in that time, Brent and Katie get to the clue box at the bottom of the hill.
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And it says, time to paint the town. So it's not a detour. It's just a task. Just a task. So they have to use four cans of paint and carry the paint cans and a ladder up the steep incline of Templeman Street.
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Searching for the house matching their paint color. Once they finish painting an unfinished section of the house, they'll get the next clue. so they're kind of wandering around.
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They can't find the painters. all the Some of the other teams are all kind of like finishing the cables. And the last few teams are starting the roadblock.
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Adrian is ah struggling. He... Has fallen off like a couple of times. And he doesn't figure out to pull himself along. He kind of just like hangs there. Yeah.
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And tries to get back up. But like a. ah gi A super safety specialist. safety specialist comes along and like hooks on to him and has to drag him back to the beginning. Beginning. Yeah.
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And in that time, the last few teams are showing up. So, Louie and Michael get to the roadblock and Louie ends up doing it And he passes Adrian on the line.
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And um Jodi and Shannon arrive and Shannon does it. that's the grandma and granddaughter. And Shannon is the granddaughter.
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so she it pretty It was funny what they said. was like, who has the balance of a cat? And Jodi, the grandma, was like. Not me. Basically. Not me. Yeah. Jet and Cord arrive and Cord does it.
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So...
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This is when like Adrian falls again and Louie's finishing up and Shannon finishes up. So it's not looking good. No.
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For Adrian. It's not. In the meantime. yeah. was going to say in the meantime like the other teams are looking for these houses. Some of them at be at the beginning of the group like had a hard time finding the house. Then eventually people are looking are finding them. Yeah.
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Jeff and Jordan actually finish first. And it says make your way on foot to the Palazzo Barbarica. And at this 90-year-old chalet, you'll find the pit stop for this leg of the race. The last you need to check in may be eliminated.
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um And then ah the father-daughter team, Steve and Allie, they are looking for their house. And they have red paint cans. So some people have like blue, yellow, red, green.
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Yeah. All different colors. That's the color of house they're supposed to find. And they're kind of walking around and they walk into a house that's under construction and the walls are half the wall is red. they're like, oh, this must be it. And so they like, they just think that that's supposed to be it. And and the construction workers are like, ah they're just watching and looking at the cameras and laughing and like, what is going on here? And they don't stop them. They're just laughing. know.
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One says, look, I don't know what they're doing here. I mean, it's subtitles, obviously, because he says it in Spanish. But yeah. um and And then when they finish, somebody was like, it looks ugly.
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And they ask for a clue and nobody has any idea what they're talking about. yeah because the area of the wall that they painted was way bigger than the small square area on the side of the house everybody else was painting. And it wasn't very, like, even. And they turn around and put their hand out to the guy.
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And he doesn't do anything. He's just laughing. And she pulls out an old clue envelope. And she says, do you have one of these? And he's just, like, laughing at her. And she's like, Dad, I told you. i don't think this is right.
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Yeah.
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oh Yeah, so they eventually find the right one, apparently. Well, we don't really see them do anything. No, like that was really the last we saw of them, I think. So it is it is doing a lot of back and forth now between...
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The last few people doing the roadblock and these people trying to paint. I think everything was pretty close. Yeah. Because so also the brothers lose a paintbrush. Yes. And try and find it. And they were like, I think just somebody, when they picked up their stuff, picked up our paintbrush and it's lost. Like that somebody took it. So we just need to go. Yeah. So they finished without that paintbrush. Yeah.
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when Michael find a blue wall that has like graffiti on it and think they're supposed to paint that and start painting it and it's not like I just like I don't understand like usually stuff on the race is not that like it's usually pretty obvious like there is somebody there facilitating yeah and watching and like there to like pass you off yes it's not that obscure and people think about it way too much yes and they just find this wall on the side of the and think that that's what they're supposed to do. Yeah, because they had blue paint. Yeah. And the graffiti was on wall.
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But it was a different kind of blue. But yeah, it was not the same color anyway. So. But they figure it out, I guess, because we don't see anything more. Yeah. Yeah. So team number one to arrive are Jordan and Jeff, and they went a trip to Vancouver.
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And they did really good on this episode. episode Yeah. Team number two are Brent and Katie. Yeah. Well, they're the second to arrive. Yes. Phil says, however, you're the second team to arrive. However, you have incurred a 30-minute penalty. When you went down the hill, you were supposed to ride the funicular, but you didn't.
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So you have to wait out your penalty here. And in that 30 minutes, lot happens. So these teams are all really close. Yeah. Because I'm like, oh, 30 minutes is not that bad of a penalty. Yeah.
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But there's quite a few teams that check in in the meantime. Monique and Sean. Monique and Sean who made way. Yeah. Because they were like the last people to show up at the roadblock. But I think they found the the the painting task quickly and easily.
00:36:12
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so So, yeah. They're team number two out nowhere. Crazy. um And the Cowboys. They were number three. They also made up a ton of ground. Yeah.
00:36:23
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They found the house really quickly too, I think. Yeah. And like were moving really quickly and helping each other carry the ladder and just like went really fast. And Cord did the roadblock really fast.
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Mm-hmm. So yeah. And then dan and Jordan arrive and they get a 15-minute penalty for losing their paintbrush.
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So they would have been team number four. But team number four are Steve and Allie, the father-daughter team. And Joe and Heidi, the married couple, just end up like on the mat. Like we didn't see anything about them since they went to the... There's just like too much to show. Yeah, too many teams at this point. um Team number six are Carol and Brandy.
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And then now the time has run out. So Brent and Katie are team number seven. Yeah, that's a huge difference. Yeah. Team number eight are Dan and Jordan because their 15 minutes ran out.
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And Louie and Michael are team number nine. And when Phil tells them that, they're like surprised that they're so low. Yeah. It's like you were like the last on the last bus and one of the last teams to get to the roadblock and you started painting the wrong wall.
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Yeah. Why are you surprised that you're number nine? And at this point, Adrian has still been on the roadblock. Yeah. And he falls again. yeah Off the cable.
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And all the teams are already checked in. Yeah. Jody and Shannon were team number 10. Yes. So that's that's not good. No. the Bill actually comes out to the roadblock.
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Yeah. And eliminates them. Yeah. All the the teams have checked in and I'm sorry to tell you that you have been eliminated. So um dan Dana was really nice about it. It was really hard for her to like stand there and watch which this would be very Very frustrating, but she was really positive and supportive, but also frustrated.
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But she was saying, she says, i can see that he's doing his very best. That's all I can ask of him. I can't be mad. of you Yeah. I can't be mad at him for doing his best. Yeah. Which I think is really nice.
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But that's a really awful way to go out. Like you haven't even done anything yet. I know. like Like that was the first, but literally the first task. Yeah. That you didn't even finish. Yeah.
00:38:44
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So they're gone. And we didn't get to know them very well. And and they seemed really nice. So it's kind of sad, but. Well, okay.
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Are you telling us about so Santiago or this Valparaiso? and I was just going to talk about Chile as a whole. so this is our Chile. third time to chile We were there.
00:39:06
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we were there in 7, right? And 11, think. Let's 7 and 11, yeah.
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seven and eleven yeah And i just remember 11 because they were in like the desert of Chile. And that's when they all got like altitude sickness and stuff.
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Because the desert in Chile is the driest desert in the world. The Atacama Desert is at 7,500 feet. Driest place on earth.
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Which people don't really like. You would think that that would be the Sahara. Yeah. But it's not. um So Chile is officially the Republic of Chile. It's in South America on the West Coast.
00:39:51
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And it has, it's one of the longest countries. Well, it's the second largest country in the world. Brazil is a little bit longer, like 95 kilometers longer than Chile. Hmm. Um, it has, it's the narrow strip of land between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.
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Has a population of 17 and a half million and is about 300,000 square miles. Shares borders with Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. And has the Drake Passage to the south, which is like between South America and Antarctica. andarctticica And it controls several specific islands, ah Pacific islands.
00:40:30
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what It controls several Pacific Islands. One of them is Easter Island. Specific Pacific Islands. Yeah. I was saying several Pacific and I said specific.
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And and um the language is Spanish. Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid 16th century. And replacing the Inca rule. and
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Chile emerged as a relatively stable authoritarian republic in the 1830s after their 1818 Declaration of Independence from Spain. During the 19th century, Chile experienced significant economic and territorial growth.
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and the eighteen eighty s it gained its current northern territory territory during the war with Bolivia and Peru. um and experienced rapid population growth and urbanization.
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It relied increasingly on exports from copper mining to support its economy. During the 60s and 70s, the country was marked by severe left and right political polarization and turmoil. And there was a 1973 Chilean there was then a military dictatorship under a augustto pino pinochet which is like a well-known person in history, but not a good person. Um, his regime ended in 1990 and,
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um they've had kind of pretty much like a stable democracy since then. ah Chile is a high income economy. One of the most economically and socially stable nations in South America.
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um It's a founding member of the United Nations. It has um five UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It's a large exporter of wines.
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It has the biggest swimming pool in the world. It's right along the Pacific Ocean. It's longer than... holds 66 million gallons of water.
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What is this? A swimming pool. Oh. It's like the length of a thousand yards. I don't know. um There's penguins in Chile.
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And the first the oldest mummy in the world was found in Chile from 550 BC. Yeah. So a lot of people go there like...
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um like
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Adventure travel. Yeah. For the mountains and skiing and hiking in the Andes and stuff like that. And also to go to South... I mean, but to go to Antarctica.
00:43:17
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And... Yeah. So... I would like to go to Chile. Chile. Chile. che Well, I will tell you ah about Dina and Adrian.
00:43:31
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They... Are the first team to be unable to finish the challenge and reach the pit stop on the first leg. Which is sad.
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They're the first African-American team to be the first team eliminated.
00:43:47
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Besides the black family on the family season. That's their last name. The black family. Yes. If you haven't listened to season eight, go back and watch that one. So their race average was 11 because they were 11th place.
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And they, ah Adrian's Facebook is now defunct. It is not in existence anymore, but Dana is still on Facebook and, um she posts quite a bit like reels and stuff on here. And On May twenty 23rd, she posted a reel of her and Adrian.
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says, happy anniversary, 33 years strong. So they're still, looks like they're still traveling together, doing lots of adventures. This is, oh, there's a hot air balloon.
00:44:52
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We love that. We always like to hear when couples stay together. Yeah. And that's crazy that when they did this in 2010 and they said they'd been married for 17 years and now it's 33. Yeah. Yeah.
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yeah 2010 doesn't seem that long ago no it doesn't and she posts a lot about this loft 22 cakes in dallas i don't know if she works there or she i don't think she owns it but oh my goodness these cakes look amazing and they look delicious and i don't even like cake that much but i want to eat one of these so anyway if you live in dallas go to loft 22 cakes
00:45:35
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All right. Well, ah So since neither of us have watched this season, how are we feeling so far? Great. Okay.
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um I think it's going to be a good season. Do you know who wins? No. I do because I have to look at all this Wikipedia stuff and I can't avoid it. So... Guess. I'm going to guess like the top three teams. Okay.
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Because I wouldn't be able to. Yeah. um I think. I'm going to go back and look at the names.
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I think. The Cowboys make it to the top three but don't win. Okay. I think Brent and Katie. Make it to the top three. And.
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Jordan and Jeff. I think those would be the top three.
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Unfortunately, I don't think grandma and granddaughter are going to make it very far. Probably not.
00:46:31
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going to see actually.
00:46:33
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We do stay in Chile. One more leg. Where do you think we're going to go after that? I can ask you the next episode.
00:46:39
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Oh, you're going ask next time? I'll ask you the next episode. Yeah. Sorry. I asked you a question and then said, don't answer that.
00:46:48
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All right. Okay. Well, I'm excited. I'm excited to see a season that I haven't seen yet. And it's going fun. And I am curious to see what people say about this season, like, at the end of it.
00:46:59
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Yeah. Well, by this time, we uploaded an episode at the end of July. it was our first, like, sister session thing that we're calling it, like, a monthly recap. By the time this... Goes live in October. We'll have August and September posted. So go back and listen to those. Because they've been fun to record. Something new. Something different.
00:47:19
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Yeah. And you get to know us a little bit better. We all know you want that. Yeah. We actually have had some new listeners and like somebody that reached out to me just a couple days ago and messaged me and she said, I just found your podcast and I'm loving it.
00:47:35
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And actually we'll talk about this on the sister session. Yeah. So come listen to that if you haven't. August. Wow. Okay. Thanks for listening. Goodbye.
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Bye.