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Duck Herding in Vietnam: The Amazing Race Season 15, Episode 1- Part 2
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In Part 2 of the epic Amazing Race Season 15 premiere, the teams leave Tokyo behind and head to Vietnam—where the challenges get physical and the pressure skyrockets. From chaotic duck herding to intense breakdowns, this episode reveals which teams can keep it together when things get tough.
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Episode Introduction
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Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Amazing Rewatch. This is season 15, episode 2. We are coming at you about two minutes later than when we said goodbye, last episode. and we watched the episode together.
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it was part 1 and 2 in one episode. But we had a lot to say the last episode, so we're breaking it up. Yeah. We get really chatty with the first episode. Yeah. And we, yeah, we have but lots of extra stuff.
Memorable Teams and Moments
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But what we didn't talk about is, have you seen this season? Oh, so i don't know. Because there are a lot of memorable teams on this season.
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But it could be from... But it could be from... The All-Stars. Yeah. All-Stars. Or stars ah Unfinished Business. Because they're... Yeah. My teams that are so memorable are All-Star teams. Mm-hmm. So... I don't know.
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Okay. And I don't know who wins or how far people get. So... Yeah. I do... I am pretty sure I have watched this because I do remember... um Like last leg, we had the elimination before they even left the starting line. And I do remember that.
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um and don't remember some of the teams, but I do remember some. And I think i'm I'm pretty sure I remember who wins. Oh, and then the really memorable thing that happens towards the end of the season.
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But I think like all Amazing Race fans remember it. the
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Oh, yes. Yes. Did you hear that? Yeah, we did talk about that. ah So I might know that just because it's so memorable for all Amazing Race fans. Yeah, it's like the watermelon to the face and just like those things that... to the bathroom. Yeah, like the things that you hear in the lore, but you don't know if you've seen it personally or not.
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Yeah. um Okay, so this is Leg two, but still episode one.
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So. Because last leg we only had a roadblock. Yeah. Not a detour. This one we also only have a roadblock. We don't have a detour.
Episode and Leg Confusion
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Oh. So we're two legs in and don't even have detour.
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um Let me actually look and see how they do this.
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Well, maybe at some point they have like a continuation or.
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mean a continuation? Just like, no, it doesn't. It's.
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So our episode titles are going to be. Kind of off because if I do 15.2, like season 15, episode two like three. episode two is like three Season 15, episode 3 is like 4, and it's like that through the whole... Well, we always just say episode.
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Let's just say episode. We always say 15, episode 4, episode 5. So this one will be titled episode 1, part 2. Mm-hmm. Okay. Okay. but Yeah, because it's um it's like that till... Or we could say the season 15, episode 1, part 2, leg 3.
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Okay, no. So if you're listening and you're following along, just know that the episode title and the leg number are not going to be the same this season because they did legs 1 and 2 in one episode.
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Yes. So... As a quick recap, if you did not just listen, which you probably did because you watched this episode because it was one episode. Yeah. But... You're so eager to hear what we have to say. Yeah.
Race Tasks Begin
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Maria and Tiffany were saved by a non-illumination leg um in Tokyo. They will have a speed bump. And...
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Here we go with part two. Megan and Shane, who were first check in at 1219 p.m., leave at 1219 a.m., and the clue says, make your way to Cai Bay, Vietnam.
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Land in Ho Chi Minh City and take a two-hour bus ride to Cai Bay. Once there, race on foot to Bendulik. Bendulik? Is that right? Boat dock and search for the next clue. Sadie just took a bite of I'm going say goldfish. Sorry, I don't want to bother you people who have misophonia.
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So Zev and Justin leave at 12.36 a.m. Lance and Carrie at 12.40. Marcy Marcy and Ron, Flight time and big easy at And this is where we find out that they have for this League of the Race.
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Brian and Erica at 1244. Gary and Matt, 1245. Garrett and Jessica at 1251. Sam and Dan, 1254. Micah and Kanan at 104. And then Maria and Tiffany at 322. Because they also had a two-hour time penalty.
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So between all the other teams, there was like less than an hour. But then to them.
Flight Booking Challenges
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But so some teams decide to book... Tickets for this flight at a hotel business center. Like an internet cafe. Some teams just decide to go to the airport first.
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The teams who booked at the hotel got the tickets. The people who went to the airport kind of struggled. So like Megan and Shane, Brian and Erica, Gary, Matt, and Maria and Tiffany were booking at the airport and they were told that there wasn't anything left on this flight that everybody else got on. Mm-hmm.
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But apparently, thanks to Brian and Erica, who begged to pay economy, but be sat and in business. Yeah.
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They all got on this flight. And got business class seats. Yeah. So worked out for them. And they're like, thank you, Brandon and Erica. Yeah. And while at the airport in this line, this random guy recognized Tiffany as a poker player. And Sam and Dan overheard this.
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So Sam and Dan are brothers who are not telling people that they're gay. And Marie and Tiffany are poker players who are not telling people that they're poker players. Yeah. and And Sam and Dan do this because they they're super handsome. Like, they're cute boys. And they i think they are hoping that, yeah which is exactly what Marie and Tiffany do. They're like, oh, Sam and Dan are so cute. Let's work with them.
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Yeah. So they want to flirt with the girls. And then Marie and Tiffany don't want people to know that they're poker players and stuff like that. but So this flight lands.
Bus Journey to Cai Bay
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The teams start taking taxis to this bus station.
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Find out that the first bus leaves at 3.30. So some teams make it on this first bus. Maria and Tiffany, Sam and Dan, Micah and Kanan, Flight Time and Big Easy, and Marcy and Ron.
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make it on this 330 bus. And it's very crowded. is packed tight. And right now it's like raining crazy. my gosh, yeah. So like the taxi ride from the airport to the bus station was crazy.
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Like the streets were flooded. People on their mopeds and like just like ponchos. Yeah, when they're walking, the water is like up to their... Like their calves.
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Yeah. And like people are just like walking. Like everybody... That's local kind of has like flip flops on. Yeah. But these these racers have 10 shoes. That they have to wear the rest of the race.
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And the first bus leaves and other teams are getting to this bus station and the next one is supposed to leave 445. That has everyone else, which is... Do you have that down? I did not write that down. Everybody who's not who I just said.
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So I know it has Zev and Justin and Brian and Erica And it would have Megan and Shane, Lance and Carrie.
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Garrett and Jessica. Gary and Matt, Garrett and Jessica.
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And maybe that's all. Anyway, so they're on this bus and they realize that it's not going to leave for like over an hour. Yeah, it's supposed to leave 445. And so they're like, let's all pitch in some money, which is only 100... Dong.
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Dong, don yeah. And ask them, which if we all pitch in 100 dong per team, that buys off the whole but that buys out the whole bus and we'll ask them to leave right away. now Which they agreed to, which was really smart.
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And their bus is way less crowded. And looks a lot nicer too. 100 dong three cents. No. I wonder if it's $100 US then. $100? That's not what they said, though.
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They said $100. They just said $100. Yeah, they all said $100. they So maybe it was dollars. Because that's three cents. Yeah. No, it's.003 cents.
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Less than one cent. There's no way that that's... Yeah, it must be $100. had for that leg. That is a lot to give up for ah also for the fact that – Because it doesn't matter. Yeah. They arrive to this dock in Kai Bay and it's closed.
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It closed at 5 p.m. It doesn't open until 7 p.m. It looks like they got there right after it closed. Yeah. The first bus,
Speed Bump and Mud Pits
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yeah. mean It opens at 7 a.m. So if they spent 100 U.S. dollars on that – To get there and then realize that they didn't need to. Yeah. Yeah.
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I wonder if we were in that situation where the smart, amazing racers who know everything about every single season that's ever happened, and we'd be like, do you guys really think we're going to get to the next place this late in the evening? And the thing we're going to do is going to be open, and you're going to spend $100 US dollars on that But then what if it is open and then everybody's like, you convinced us not to. It's your fault. They'll be like, well, then one are going be eliminated and that was my plan anyways.
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We'd be the villains. Yes.
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um Yeah. So on this bus, Zev gives one of the bus workers his jacket. And everybody was like, oh, that was really nice of you. And that's all.
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Yeah.
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I just wrote that down. Thought it was important to say, I guess. And that's all. There was also a chicken on the bus. Yeah, underneath the bus. Like in the storage area. Yeah.
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ah Okay, so. So, theyre yeah, they get there and it's closed and they're like all... Where did these chairs come from? There's like lawn chairs and food. I think there's just like... street food everywhere in Vietnam. They probably found a cart.
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but They're all eating pho and having dinner and spending, it's like probably over 12 hours that they have to figure out what to do. Yeah. When it opens the next morning, the clue says, race through the Mekong Delta on sandpans to the mud pits, these mud pits.
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Here you'll collect mud and carry it to, do you have this more Yeah. Okay. Collect nutrient rich mud to take to a nearby orchard to fertilize a fruit tree. Once ah the mud covers the roots to the designated red line, the farmer will give you a clue.
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Give them a clue. So this is where Maria and Tiffany have their speed bump. So they have to find this soup stand and order ingredients for traditional Vietnamese soup called pho and then return and combine the ingredients and serve the soup to the dock masters to get the next clue.
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And it's not hard. No. It's a very easy speed bump. Yeah. Finish it quickly. All the other teams are on their boats and get to these mud pits. This is where Erica's face... there was i She looked so displeased.
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What was she even saying i doing that about? have no idea Her face, she had like stank face real bad. If you could look up in the dictionary what Sinai is, like that, she just was on the boat and she was looking...
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So evil. Yes. She's a very beautiful person. Oh, yeah. She looked very evil. So i wonder i wonder what was going through. It's like but RBF. Yeah. Like when you just, you're not thinking about it and your face just looks really grumpy. I'm pretty sure I have that a lot, but.
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Anyway. Yeah, they finish their speed bump. All the other people are at these mud pits. And when it says mud pits, that's... This is... It almost swallows them whole. Yeah, it's like quicksand.
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Yeah, like, it literally goes all the way up to their hip, some of them. And they can't get out. They have have their teammate pull them out. So it's like right along the banks of this river. You get off your boat and you, like, have to get into a mud pit.
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And there are some, like, bridge log kind of things to walk over and put them on top of the roots of these trees up to this line but anyways it takes several trips because it's like it's a so it's like a tree and then it has ah a little fence square fence around it and they have to fill the whole fence up to the red line so it's it's kind of a lot of mud and they have to go back and forth a lot yeah and they get really dirty
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Yeah, so and then on these boats is we start getting hints of Micah's fear of water. She starts saying she's scared of water. She's just learning how to swim.
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and this will be important yeah
Duck Herding Roadblock
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later. So keep that in mind. Put a pin in that. Yeah. So this rob this ah task, it's not even a roadblock, right?
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No. This task, it just depends on who... you know maybe it's one of those situations where it is a detour but nobody chose the other one and so they didn't even air it so megan and shane finish first and the clue says return to the boat dock and travel on foot to kai bay field to get your next clue and marie and tiffany get to the mud pits so they basically are all caught up it's a very easy speed bump Then Garrett and Jessica finish, Brian and Erica, Gary and Matt, Flytime and Big Easy, Sam and Dan, Marcy and Ron, Lance and Carrie, and Zev and Justin.
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I keep saying Sam and Dean from like Supernatural. As Sam and Justin are heading back to their little boat on the stage. bridge kind of thing Justin falls in the water and they're yeah passs he's get he gets back on the boat and they're heading towards the dock and he's looking for the clue and he can't find it anywhere And they're like, we can't go on without it.
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So they have to turn the boat around. And it had fallen out of his pocket or something around where he fell out of the boat. Yeah. And it kind of, it got stuck on a spot on the dock. So it didn't fall into the water, which was lucky.
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um So they were able to find it. So they um head back out. And Maria and Tiffany are finishing like right at that same time. So they're all pretty close on this lake.
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Megan and Shane get to this field first. And this is a roadblock. And it says, who's feeling just ducky? I love this task. So, yeah, it's a roadblock. And so it says, using only flags as a guide, you have 10 minutes to lead a flock of 150 ducks from the pen across the bridge and back again and back into the pen. If you don't finish in 10 minutes, you have You have to give up your spot and try again. So there's like maybe four fields of ducks that can be going at a time.
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So Megan is doing the roadblock. Jessica, Erica, Matt. Matt is the farmer's son from Montana. So I feel like he's going to be good at this.
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He doesn't look like it, but I think he... He worked on the farm a lot too. Oh, yeah. He doesn't look like it. um Flight time, Sam, Marcy, Micah, and Carrie are the people all doing the roadblock.
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as As of now. So Megan and Jessica, they were the first ones to start and their time runs out. They weren't able to finish the first time. They make it look really hard. Yeah. and Erica also makes it look hard. Her pants are falling off of her. Her yellow thong is like, she's got major whale tail. Yeah.
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Yeah. ah Sam is the one that ends up finishing first of the brothers. um And it says, make, the clue says, make your way to Cho Kai Bay, which is a market along the Mekong River and search for the Basak.
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Basak 3 Riverboat, which is the pit stop for this lake. So, again, this is like, seems like a fast lake. Matt is the one ah that finishes next.
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um Erica's time runs out. Flight time finishes. Carrie finishes.
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Tiffany had ducks growing up. Yeah. And she did well and she finishes next. And then Justin and Zev.
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So ah Zev is the one with autism and he did so good with this um task. And it was so funny, like the way that they edited it, the like the music was just calm. And Justin calls him the duck whisperer. And all the other teams are like, wow, he's really good with these ducks.
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Yeah, because like all the other teams that have been struggling, they've been like yelling and like, just like chaotic. And their teammate is yelling
Race to the Pit Stop
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at them and stuff. And Zev just is like floating behind the ducks with his flags. Yeah.
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They go over the bridge. And yeah, he's the duck whisperer. so Megan and Jessica and Erica have to do a second attempt and Micah does too.
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They're the ones, like the last four that are struggling that had to do it a couple of times and all the other teams did it on their first time. Okay. So the first team to check in are Gary and Matt.
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Yeah. Because Sam and Dan, who were the first to leave the roadblock, they just started fighting. What were they even fighting about? Well, they're they're kind of saying like...
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um well they they can't agree on how to get to this dock to this boat and one of them says like they're pointing this way or they're both trying to be the leader oh that's right and they can't agree on what to do or where to go and they're who should take the lead yeah so they don't get first place we wouldn't have that problem you would just i would be the leader But I'm the one who knows where to go.
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just kidding. Yeah, I would definitely defer to Sadie's ah directional judgment. So, yeah. got Gat and Mary. my gosh.
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Matt Matt and Gary are team number one. And they went kayaks in their landlocked state of Montana. They're like, oh, cool.
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And team number two are flight time and big easy. So that was good. They went from what was it like sixth to two or something yeah like that. Yeah, aka Herb and Nate.
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when yeah When Phil checks them in, he's like, Herb and Nate, you're team two. I'm like, who are these people? He probably doesn't ever say that again. i think he always refers to them as... Yeah, I don't know. but and Number three are Sam and Dan. And number four are Lance and Carrie.
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um All these other teams, you know, they're doing the duck thing. It ends up being Erica and Jessica are the last two teams to... do this roadblock.
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And like Jessica does it again and she doesn't finish in time. Erica does it get doesn't finish in time. And Garrett and Brian are just like yelling at them like trying to tell them what to do and they're getting super frustrated.
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Brian says something here that we like looked at each other and we're like what does that mean? He says there's two teams left and we need at least a bronze medal here. Yeah. I don't get that.
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Yeah. but does What does that mean? Because you're way past third place. Yeah. Two doesn't even mean bronze. I don't get it and the second to last is not bronze.
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It's like three is bronze. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What? I don't We don't know what he meant by that. And so, Zev and Justin checking his team number five. Megan and Shane number six.
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Maria and Tiffany number seven. Micah and Kanan number eight. And Marcy and Ron number nine. Erica... erka And Jessica are doing their roadblock. Erica finishes like right before Jessica. Seconds, yeah.
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They have to close the gate and then run and get the next clue. And it's like literally so close. And then they have to, whoever just makes it to the dock first.
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And that ends up being Brian and Erica. So team number 11 are Garrett and Jessica. And they are eliminated. Yeah. And this is the team who have been dating on and off again from Northern California. And they have... We haven't seen a lot of them, but we the little that we've seen, they have had struggle with communication issues.
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And he says that, like... she's a Latin America, of Colombian. What was she? Yeah. And she gets so worked up about things and it's very dramatic. And I'm more like, but it seems like he's the dramatic one.
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So when they're told that they're eliminated, he like turns around and he like throws his hands up on the, on the wall and he's like, he's mad. And Phil says, does he get angry like this normally? Yeah. She's like, yeah, all the time. Yeah.
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And they're like, basically like, we don't know if we want to get married still. Yeah. I always, in these types of relationships, I'm like, if you're so on again and off again, i just, it just doesn't seem to be working. Yeah.
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So why don't I, yeah. So I'm assuming you're going to tell us they didn't end up together. Well, why don't you tell us about Vietnam first? Oh yeah. Okay. So. And then I'll tell you. This is our third time to Vietnam. Yeah.
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We're in the area of Cai Bay, which is like on the southern area of the country. It's a river land mixed town in Vietnam.
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It's rural province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. um There's lots of docks that handle passengers and goods and floating markets.
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And the population of 2020 was 293,000 people. was two hundred and ninety three thousand people and
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um There's not a lot of information about Kai Bay specifically, but like I said, this is our third time
Vietnam's Historical Context
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to Vietnam. So we've gone over a few things about Vietnam before, but I'll just tell you, Vietnam is officially known as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It's a country at the edge of Southeast Asia has about 120,000 120,000 square miles with a population over 100 million, which makes it the world's 15th most populous country.
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One of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia. What? ah Yeah, Mike. One of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.
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Vietnam shares borders with China to the north and Laos and Cambodia to the west. So what what is the second Marxist-Leninist state in Southeast Asia? I don't know.
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um i mean It just means they're communist. Vietnam is communist. um
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Its capital is Hanoi, but its largest city is Chi Minh City. and
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They gained independence from Japan in 1945 because they were under their rule during World War two Before that, they were colonized by France.
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ah There's a lot of, like, French architecture still in the area. um Obviously, there was the Vietnam War. ah
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um The Vietnam War began between the communist North Vietnam, supported by the Soviet Union and China, and the anti-communist South Vietnam, supported by the United States.
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and it didn't go well for us no it's a very interesting part of history me and jessica mentioned it a lot like it's kind of like it's really fascinating because you don't learn a lot about the vietnam war in school it's like you always start with the revolutionary war and then get to like world war ii and then you go to the next year and you do the same thing over again So you don't learn a lot about this time of history, but if any of you have a chance to deep dive into the Vietnam War, it's very fascinating and
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like just... kind of how like we've always thought that we're always told that you know like the United States is the good guy and always comes in as the hero and saves the day that's not how this war went anyways yeah um if you have not read it before and are interested in like a fictional book about Vietnam the women is a popular one right now and I read it a few months ago and it's really good
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By Kristen Hanna. She's a really good author and it makes it like digestible even though it's really sad. Yeah. But it was a very sad time. A lot of sad things happened. Yeah. But I was thinking of Forrest Gump too.
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When I think of Vietnam. Yeah. um Yeah. And we were in Vietnam in like season three when Terry and Ian were there and Ian was actually in the Vietnam War.
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yeah,
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yeah that's all I have to say about that. I think I've mentioned before, like it's definitely kind of like an up and coming travel destination. Like it's really popular. People want to go to Vietnam for travel right now. it's um It's not super expensive once you get there and it's like really clean and really safe and Nice.
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Yeah. It'd probably be easy to... Is it easy to do like the Philippines and Vietnam on the same trip?
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I mean... Philippines is closer to Vietnam than it is to West, but ah Philippines is island, islands. Yeah, but it's, like, not very far from there. No. I'm just wondering if that's kind of, like, people do that, you know, a thing. I would assume that, like, if they're going to go to, and like, a second country other than Vietnam, they would probably do like, Cambodia or Thailand or Malaysia because it's, like, all right there on that peninsula.
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The other country that is Marxist-Leninist is Laos. Oh, okay. Just so you know, that was bothering me.
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Answer. Or question answered. um Okay. Well, Garrett and Jessica... This is like the shock of the century to me.
Post-Show Surprises
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They are married and are still married.
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Wow. Yeah. That is crazy. I never, i would not bet my life on that. Yeah. Maybe not shock of the century. There's, but one of the most shocking, ah after the fact like bios of these teams yes i would not have guessed that they stayed together no but i guess he proposed to her in sequesterville and she said yes and they got married and they have three kids and they are so cute yeah in this and in this farewell thing it didn't even seem like they wanted to yeah yeah they just like seemed so over each other yeah like we don't even know if we're gonna be together yeah where was sequesterville have been romantic
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I'll look it up. I don't know. Season 15. They call it Elimination Station in this... ah Oh, it says right here. Vietnam. Oh. So, they say...
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so there average Was 9.5. They took 8th place and 11th place. And that kind of like they seemed like more of the team that would do better than what they did.
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I think.
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Well, these last two, these first two legs, like the teams were just so close together the whole time. It's kind like. really wasn't like. Nobody has had a chance to. To show brains or brawn or. pull away or pull ahead of the group yet.
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Mm-hmm. So, um they eh, that's not interesting.
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Yeah. So they got engaged at elimination station and they got married and they have three daughters. Um, Garrett is his Instagram is private and his Facebook is out of date, but Jessica, um, she is a currently a photographer.
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Where's her website right there? Interior lifestyle and portrait photographer in the San Francisco area. I think they still live in San Francisco. Nice. And yeah, her work is really nice.
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And their kids are super cute.
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And
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She looks exactly the same.
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He looks a little different, like, oh you know, aged. However many years, 15 years. But she looks exactly the same. It's that Colombian blood, I guess.
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Yeah. So, yeah, I'm happy for them. I would not have expected that, but... Sounds like they're doing great. Yeah. And...
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that is I'm trying to find... have so many tabs open now. Where's Zencaster? Right there. Okay. So that is leg two, but part two of episode one.
00:30:10
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So stay tuned for leg three, episode two. It's going to be confusing all season. um i I think we'll stay...
00:30:24
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Maybe in Vietnam, one more lake? What do you think? What's your guess? um i think maybe we'll go to another Southeast Asia country. Yeah.
00:30:36
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Just like a bus ride or something. Yeah. I'm sure within like the next couple of episodes, I will see the order of elimination and like the ah route. But usually the first couple of episodes, I don't know where we're going or who gets eliminated.
00:30:51
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Yeah. So it's always nice to have a little bit of a surprise. um And we are getting into
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Like more of my recollection.
Prime Era of Amazing Race
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Definitely like seasons one through 10 probably. Even if we had watched them, we didn't remember anything about them.
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So now we're kind of getting to it more of... This is probably what I would call like the prime time of Amazing Race. For sure. Like 10 through 20 probably. Yeah. Is a lot of like fan favorite teams...
00:31:27
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It was when it was watched the most. Yeah, it would when it was winning all the Emmys. And yeah.
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its It feels different now because we just finished watching season 37, which is right at 37, which was the last one that just aired in 2025. And it was a great season. I really liked it, but it just it just feels different.
00:31:50
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Yeah, it's like they're they're missing an element of, like, realness. Yeah. It's, like, not super – it's, like, not raw and real Yeah, it's, like, so, like, edited and perfect. And yeah they – I think we've talked about this before, but they, like, definitely
00:32:09
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don't cast, like – controversial people. Yeah. Even though this season did have somebody. This did have somebody. Yeah. Finally, people were, like, talking about the season. Yeah.
00:32:19
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Saying more things. But, yeah, they, like, are very... They're just safer. Yeah. For sure. More lately. And that's fine, too. It's still interesting and, like, really nice to, like, see the cool places that they go and the tasks and stuff. But I, yeah, definitely think, like, 10 through 20 was... It is really interesting because you can obviously... It's obvious that people are interested in, like...
00:32:40
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interesting characters like traitors is so popular right now and like secret lives of mormon wives is so popular it because those because it's so dramatic so dramatic but like those personalities are so interesting and strong and dramatic and stuff it's like it doesn't need to be that dramatic like that's not why people watch it but maybe just like a little bit something yeah but also it's like we've met some of these people from these recent seasons and or like interviewed them and they're so nice and so kind it's like yeah you deserve to win a million dollars and run a race and spend time traveling the world so i love that too so yeah and we don't want i know that people you know are definitely more careful because everything is on the internet now yeah and if you have watched this season and you know who we're talking about when we say jonathan like he's getting a lot of heat right now yeah
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um To the point where he had to go get a diagnosis for autism. Yeah. two To... be like, why did I act that way? Why is everybody mad at me? i wouldn't say to like justify his behavior, but like right kind of give an explanation of why yeah in the past it's like, was Jonathan from season five? Season six? Yeah. From season six on the spectrum.
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Is that why he acted so terrible? Not that people on the spectrum are terrible. I'm just saying. Yeah, we have to be careful what we say here. I'm just saying that it's like... very very different and i think he was just a narcissist jonathan from season six yes yes for sure and that word gets thrown around a lot too but i think that oh yes for sure he definitely has that yes going on for him people use that word too much nowadays but he was definitely yeah um
00:34:25
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Yeah, so it would it would be interesting to see more, little bit more drama between the teams, but also, i don't know.
Modern Reality TV Dynamics
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Yeah, people just have to be more careful now because they know that what they do will live on forever.
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Yeah. Yeah. um or just be like Rob. i know, be entertaining. Because, well, I mean, Rob was pretty cutthroat, but that's why people liked him. But like the whole thing is like he was never Yeah.
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He just didn't care about anybody else. Yeah. And that rubbed people the wrong way. but But he was so respectful to his partner. Yeah. But he was the same way on Traders. Like, he was never rude, but he was cutthroat. Yeah.
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And he played a game. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I wish we had more Boston Robs. And I can't believe that. I mean, it's been, what, 20 years that he's been on TV now? so he's They just announced the cast of season 50. Oh, yeah, and Mike White. Mike White's on season 50 of Survivor. yeah Yeah, so I'm like, maybe we want to start Survivor at season 50.
00:35:28
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No time like at the present. Yeah.
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I don't want him to win, though. He's so rich. I know. Maybe he's going to tell us that he'll give the money to some to charity. People are like, he could win this whole season by telling people, don't vote for me.
00:35:44
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vol i don't even know. Do they vote or don't vote? That's how little I know about Survivor. It's like, don't vote for me and I'll cast you in season four White Lotus.
00:35:56
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If I win, you all get to be on my show. But I think game everybody in season 50 are returning people. So yeah to join a season 50 would be like, wouldn't know anything. Yeah, you have to the personalities and yeah everything.
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I don't know. Interesting stuff. I'm sure I would like Survivor if I watched it. i just don't know if I have the time to devote. I wouldn't have to go back to season one, but maybe start.
00:36:21
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Well, we said that after Amazing Race, we're going to do a Lost podcast. and After Lost, we're going to do Survivor podcast. Yeah. Oh, and um America's Next Top Model in there somewhere. somewherere so So we have podcasts until the day we die yeah if we wanted to. Because 50 seasons of Lost would take us a long time.
00:36:40
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No, of Survivor. 50 seasons. That's what I meant. They're kind the same thing. I wish there was 50 seasons of Lost. Lost. wicked We could eliminate Lost from that list because it's not reality TV.
00:36:51
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True. If we like keep the theme of reality recap. I know. Recapping
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America's Next Top Model. would make me sad. Yeah. Just thinking back to those days of that reality TV. was It was so culturally significant, though. Yes, it was.
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We watched it a lot. Yeah. I will still re-watch them from time to time. Just like if I...
00:37:20
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don't have a show that I'm currently watching or something that I have been watching ends. I'll be like, all right, let's pick an old season of America's Next Top Model. And I usually fast forward through all the drama. I just watch the photo shoots and the judging. Like, yeah, I don't know why I just like to, even though i've seen those photos like a hundred times each. Yeah. Like, oh yeah, that was a really good picture.
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Yeah. That was great. I don't know. Um, I forgot what I was just going to say.
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I don't know. All right. Anything else? No. Okay. Bye. Bye.