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Season 19 Finally Here: The Amazing Race Season 19, Episode 1
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Season 19 of The Amazing Race is officially underway! We're introduced to a brand-new cast of teams as they kick off the race with their first destination: Taiwan. First impressions are everything, and this premiere quickly reveals which teams have the potential to be frontrunners and which ones are already struggling to find their footing. Join us as we break down the challenges, memorable moments, early alliances, and all the drama from the season premiere!
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00:00:07
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Hello,
Welcome Back!
00:00:08
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everybody. Welcome back from like a kind of a long break. And yes we apologize, but here we are. Yeah, I think we missed a month, but that's like two months because we do every other month. So it's kind of been like four months. Yeah. I don't know. And by the time this comes out, ah it'll be July, right?
00:00:29
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We'll like watch the season through June and this will come out in July. Oh, I don't know. i thought we were Because basically June is tomorrow at the time of this recording. So...
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This may be June, it may be July. We'll see. But welcome back regardless. yeah We're happy to have you here. Sorry about the break. Life has been really chaotic. and yeah But we are happy to be watching season 19. And
Season 19 Begins
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I'm pretty sure i said at the end of season 18 that I don't think that I have seen season 19, but i think I have. I think I have too. I recognize a couple teens, not all them. Some of teens, yeah. Yes.
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So, yeah. So I don't know who wins. A refresher. I'm pretty sure I remember who wins. ah
Reflecting on 2011
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um But yeah, so we usually start a new season with kind of like a what was going on in the world, what was going on in our lives. This season... was filmed in June to July of 2011 and aired September to December of 2011.
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So um season 18, which feels like a million years ago, we talked about the first half of 2011, kind of music, movies, pop culture, world events, stuff like that. And so now we will cover a little bit of what happened in the second half of 2011. Mm-hmm.
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What were you doing, though, in 2011? The second i half of 2011, was just doing my... i was starting my second year of college.
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Okay. And... Not much else. Okay. So I graduated college ah in 2010 and went to Virginia that year. So 2011, I think I was just – – let's see.
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I worked in St. George. Yeah. i I stayed with you for a couple weeks in like July of 2011 when you were living in – Yeah. So I lived in St. George for a time and then I moved to – ah up north as we call it in Utah and got a job at a a blind company which was a wild ride as a like secretary yeah I was like the the installation scheduler
00:02:45
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And people got real upset about not getting their blinds installed. installed And they were so mean. And i just like, i was what, 22 years old? And I just like, so the worst in humanity came at me over window coverings. And i never recovered.
Entertainment Highlights of 2011
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Yeah.
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i my i worked as a front desk host at a hotel. Oh, yeah. that Same. They're very terrible people that check in at hotels and are very demanding and very ridiculous. And yeah.
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Yeah. People. And then you're young and you think... Yeah, like, wow, my last job I was working in a a gift shop at a national park and everybody was just so happy to be on a trip and everybody was so pleasant. And then I came to this job and holy cow. Yeah.
00:03:37
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Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's see. Some interesting things that happened kind of in that space of time.
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um Beyonce announced her pregnancy and apparently that was like, it's on all of these lists. Like what happened in 2011? Beyonce announced her pregnancy. Kim Kardashian had her 72 day marriage to Chris Humphries.
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She was engaged, married, and divorced all within basically this time period. yeah Let's
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let's see. The Cardinals won the World Series. They beat the Texas Rangers in seven games.
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So it sounds like an exciting series. Sometimes I would like to be more into baseball.
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Well, it's kind of fun. I mean,
2011 Emmy Awards
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I could if I wanted to. There's nothing stopping me. um The Emmys, 2011 Emmys, were in September 2011.
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Biggest winner of the night was Modern Family. It won Outstanding Comedy for the second year in a row. Mad Men won Outstanding Drama for the fourth time. Have you ever watched Mad Men?
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No. either. But i just listened Jon Hamm's interview on Good Hang with Amy Poehler, and they talked a little bit about Mad Men, and I'm like, I would watch that show. Yeah.
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And then Downton Abbey won Best Miniseries or Movie. Yeah.
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We love that one. Yes.
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Let's see who won like the acting. Oh, Amazing Race won Outstanding Reality Competition Program. Yay. Nice. Jim Parsons won Best Actor in a Comedy for Big Bang Theory. Melissa McCarthy won for Best Actress for Mike and Molly.
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Kyle Chandler won for Friday Night Lights Best Actor in a Drama. um I'm pretty sure... ah wait, never mind.
Movies and Music of 2011
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Office.
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And then Julianna Margulies won Best Actress in a Drama for The Good Wife. And those are kind of all the exciting ones.
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Oh, Ty Burrell and Julie Bowen won Best Supporting Actors. Peter Dinklage, Best Supporting Actor in a Drama for Game of Thrones. Was everyone on Modern Family considered a supporting actor?
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um And Maggie Smith won Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Downton Abbey. Okay. I just learned this literally today.
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ah Have you watched Outlander? A couple seasons. Okay. So if you've watched Outlander, ah i don't even know what a season it is. I think it's four. Kind of one of the villains of the season is a guy named...
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Tom Brown? um some Something Brown. And the actor that plays him is Maggie Smith's son. But he goes by Chris Larkin. Like, he changed his last name so that he wouldn't be, like, you know, have the preconceived notions as a Nepo baby.
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Interesting. I'm looking it up. He was awful in that show. But, like, good. like he Richard Brown. Yes. Yes. He acted it so well and he was like such an awful character.
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Oh, I can see it in the eyes that he's yeah her son. Yeah, for sure. Interesting. Yeah. Okay. So I think...
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A lot of the things on this list are going to be kind of like your area of expertise, the music, the movies.
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Trying to just see if there was anything else that is like, I gotta to say that.
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New Girl came out. Oh, but that's TV.
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Oh, I saw something that just said Alex Trebek. Jeopardy host Alex Trebek suffers a minor heart attack.
00:08:05
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All right. That's what I've got. Okay. Well, though we probably already talked about the top movies of the year last time.
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So I usually go over the top of the whole year and then do a few... honorable mentions for like the last half of the year. So
TV Shows of 2011
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number one movie of 2011 was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part two.
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Number two was Transformers Dark of the Moon. Number three was Twilight Breaking Dawn part one. Number four was The Hangover part two and number five was Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides. So all sequels.
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And then there was Fast Five, Cars 2, Thor, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Captain America the First Avenger. Some others that happened in the latter half of 2011 was was Sherlock Holmes, The Game of Shadows, Mission Impossible, Ghost Protocol, The King's Speech.
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Oh, so you were that was like one title. Oh, sorry. Ghost Protocol, The King's Speech. True Grit. Um... Alvin and the Chipmunks, Chipwrecked.
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Real Steel. The Muppets. Limitless. Tower Heist. Oh, I liked that one, actually. I thought that one was funny. Moneyball was 44. That was, like, popular.
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oh yeah. That's pretty far down there. Yeah. Black Swan was 50.
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So, yeah. Oh, Water for Elephants was... Oh, that was in April. And some popular music of the year. The number one song was Rolling in the Deep by Adele.
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Then there was Party Rock Anthem LMFAO, Firework by Katy Perry, E.T. by Katy Perry, Give Me Everything by Pitbull, Grenade by Bruno Mars, Forget You by CeeLo Green, Super Bass by Nicki Minaj, move like Moves Like Jagger, Maroon 5, and Just Can't Get Enough, The
TV Preferences and Comfort Shows
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Black Eyed Peas.
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There was a lot of Rihanna, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Pink, Rihanna, Adele. m Lady Gaga, keha Kesha, Kesha.
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So that's what was happening in that time. Good time for music. the When you said Super Bass, it actually did remind me of a thing that I saw in here. The Sophia Grace and...
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Oh, yeah. Her little friend that came on Ellen and did that. And they just like got super famous. Yeah. That was in 2011. Wow. So. And now they're... I mean, I think they're both like married and have kids now. I think so. Yeah. I think so.
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um Number one TV program was Sunday Night Football. And then NCIS. Then Dancing with the Stars. Then American Idol Wednesday. American Idol Thursday.
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Dancing you with the Stars Results. NCIS Los Angeles, The Big Bang Theory, The Mentalist, The Voice were the top 10 TV shows of the year. um There's also, yeah yeah Modern Family, Blue Bloods, The Good Wife, Grey's Anatomy, Hawaii Five-0, Desperate Housewives, Once Upon a Time.
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The shows that premiered 2011 are Game of Thrones, Suits, American Horror Story, Bob's Burgers, Shameless, and Teen Wolf. So some really popular debuts that year. And ah New Girl, like you said.
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Yeah.
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I watched five of the six seasons of New Girl and then I just like stopped watching. Yeah.
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Yeah, and i I like it. It's not a repeat watch for me A lot of people, it's their repeat comfort watch. Yeah. Not for
Podcast Recording Logistics
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me. i It was okay, but it's not. Do you have a comedy? i like You've said before that your comfort watches are like Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones. and like I feel like it's all these dark... Yeah.
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complicated stories and I'm like I put on The Office or yeah friends yeah if I put on a easy TV show it's usually Schitt's Creek or i yeah don't watch a lot of sitcom TV shows yeah it's weird or Downton Abbey those are the ones I rewatch yeah so yeah I really don't watch a lot of sitcom shows I guess
00:12:31
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Well, okay. So let's get into this episode. We are starting in Los Angeles. Okay. Of course. Yeah.
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We have started in Los Angeles. I know. Let's see. um One, or I'll say like Southern California. One, two, three,
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four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten of the 19 times.
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mean, they're there for such little time. It's probably just like, okay, production is here. Let's start here. yeah We are introduced to the
Amazing Race Teams Introduction
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how many teams? 10? 11? 11. 11 teams.
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So we'll just do a quick rundown. Andy and Tommy are former Olympic snowboarders from California. They were in the, well, one of them was in the 2002 Olympics and one of them was in the 2006 Olympics.
00:13:28
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And they both look really familiar to me, but I don't dare look up what they're familiar for because I don't want them. I don't want to spoil anything, but they both look familiar, not just because of snowboarders.
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Yeah. think they're from something else or something else. The only snowboarder I know is Sean White. Yeah. Male. I know. Chloe Kim. And then there's eth Ethan and Jenna.
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They're survivor winners. And they've both won Survivor different seasons, and they've been dating for seven years. And Ethan has ah overcome stage four cancer. Yeah, in remission.
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um Lawrence and Zach are father and son from Thousand Oaks, California. Ernie and Cindy are recently engaged. They live in Chicago.
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Justin and Jennifer are brother and sister from Stone Mountain, Georgia. Bill and Kathy, they're married grandparents from Oregon. thought his name was Phil the whole time until the very end, but it's Bill. I was like, do we have two Bills or do we have two Phills?
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Not a second Phil running the race, but Phil the host. Yeah, Bill and Kathy. um You said they're from Oregon? Mm-hmm. Liz and Marie are twin sisters from Illinois.
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Jeremy and Sandy, they are dating. and They're from the San Francisco Bay Area. Ron and Bill are partners and flight attendants from Southern California. Yeah.
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Amani and Marcus, they've been married for 10 years.
First Challenge and Hazard Penalty
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They're from Georgia and Marcus was an NFL player. and then Kehlani and Lisa are former showgirls from Las Vegas.
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And they're at a Chinese ah type of building in Los Angeles. I don't know. They don't really tell us what it is, but it looks like a traditional Chinese like temple type of thing. Yeah.
00:15:28
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And there is Phil. He says, first team to check in this leg of the race will win the express pass and can use it before leg eight. And we will start with a challenge immediately. So there's this big wall full of umbrellas, paper umbrellas um that have letters on them. It says, the first challenge is a word puzzle using the letters letters above the umbrellas and then words.
00:15:56
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Three letters on the umbrellas that will you will be using twice to find the name of the destination. It was kind of confusing how they explained it. Yes. So above the puzzles, there are letters W-A-N-P-E-I.
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And on each umbrella, there's three letters. They're all random. Random letters. They have to find the umbrella that has the letters T-A-I. T-A-I will be used twice to come up with the word Taipei, Taiwan.
00:16:26
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And so they have to find that umbrella with TAI and Phil says, we'll say yes. And then they can go to the airport and get on one of two flights, a China air flight that has the first eight teams and an EVA air that arrives 20 minutes later with the rest of the teams.
00:16:41
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Well, it's only three
Passport Drama
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teams. But the last team to finish gets a new penalty called a hazard. Yeah. That has to be completed on this leg. Yes.
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So i was saying, I think if I saw the words W-A-N-P-E-I, I would already know where we're going. Taiwan, Taipei. So we would know to just be looking for an umbrella that says T-A-I. Yeah, and some people kind of start out a little bit more strategic than others. Most people are kind of just grabbing any umbrella and running really quickly and telling, and Phil's just saying no, no, no, no. no yeah Some people are actually looking for like a word scramble.
00:17:19
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Yeah. um But the first team to grab the right umbrella are the snowboarders, Andy and Tommy. And it says, make your way to Taipei, Taiwan.
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And then Imani and Marcus are right behind them. And then it just, all the other teams are getting it or not. But the last team to get it are Lisa and Kehlani.
00:17:42
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And so they are getting the hazard. Oh, and then. So they they get the keys to four- sponsored car to go to the airport and Kehlani and Lisa stop at a gas station for directions and they drive away and you see a shot of one of their passports lying on the ground just outside by the gas pump and they drive away and we're like oh my gosh I know and the it's like don't don't do do and the photographer or the cameraman has to
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just Yeah, just like, He films it and has to just not tell them or say anything. Yeah. And so, yeah. So, we're like, wow, that's going to be interesting to see how that goes because that would be so sad to just like immediately be eliminated because you don't have your passport in the first hour of the Amazing
Flight Dynamics and Strategies
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Race. Yeah.
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So, all the other teams are making their way to the airport. The teams on this China Air flight are... Ron and Bill, Ethan and Jenna, Ernie and Cindy, Imani and Marcy? marcy Marcus. Marcus. Lawrence and Zach, Justin and Jennifer, Andy and Tommy and Jeremy and Sandy.
00:18:55
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Yeah. Ron and Bill, knew... they Because they didn't leave until later, but they knew exactly how to get to the airport. Yeah. Probably because that's like their home airport. So other people stopped at a couple places to get directions to.
00:19:10
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one team stopped at that gas station. Same, yeah. And asked somebody there. Andy and Tommy. Yeah. Who stopped. Because they were the first team to leave. They stopped at that gas station and asked. And then... This will be important later.
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So then there's the last three teams on that fight for least 20 minutes later. And I don't know who they are. Bill and Cindy.
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Kaylani and Lisa. Bill and... Bill and Kathy. Oh, Kathy. Oh, yeah. Ernie and Cindy. Bill and Kathy, Kaylani and Lisa, and I don't know.
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Lawrence and Zach? No. Liz and Marie? Yeah, Liz and Marie. Okay, but so before that happens, Kehlani, when they're driving, Lisa's driving. Kehlani's in the back seat. She's like, Lisa, I don't think I have my passport. i don't know where it is. She's like looking through her bags and Lisa's like, are you serious? I really hope I didn't drop it when we were at the gas station. Yeah, so they go back to the gas station and they didn't see it anywhere. They ask the people working there if it was turned in and they said no. So they're like, well, let's go to the airport. Maybe somebody picked it up. Maybe somebody has it. One of the other teams. Mm-hmm.
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Which, I mean, I guess what else do you do? Right. At that point. But Lisa's pretty frustrated because they get to the airport and Kehlani's like, you need to communicate me with me. And Lisa says, Communicate what?
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We're not doing anything. We're not going anywhere. I'm not going anywhere because you don't have your passport. And they start yelling and getting each she's like, we need to make a plan. What plan? You don't have a passport. Yeah. well What do we do? Where are we going? We're not going anywhere. you don't have a passport.
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And other teams are mingling in the airport. And...
Exploring Taiwan
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Ethan and Jenna weren't going to tell anybody that they won Survivor or were even on Survivor, but they already know they look like. People recognize them. And they have been telling each other. All the teams have been telling each other they already won Survivor. And they have both won a million dollars. And they're like, well, they're just being greedy. Yeah. Which is true. And then you hear over the overhead, which I don't know if this is post-production to keep it more interesting. Can Kehlani blah, blah, blah come to the information desk? Yeah.
00:21:26
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And they get there and this guy this random guy at the gas station who Tommy and Andy had ah asked originally, do you know where the airport is? he found the passport and he got on Twitter and he said, i think I just saw the amazing race.
00:21:42
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And somebody left their passport on the ground. I don't know what to do. And somebody responded, you have to take it to the airport. That's where they'll they'll be stuck there if you don't... Because they don't have their passport. Yeah, their dream will die if you don't take their passport. So this guy, like he got on Twitter. There two friends. And yeah, and got that back to them and they were able to check in for their flight. Went to the airport to give...
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their passport to to them give and where do you even walk into there where do you park where do you walk in and be like hey can you so find this person in the airport right now because i have their passport i yeah i don't know especially lax is probably like yeah huge so that's very very lucky the very very luckiest And so, yeah, they all made their flights. Yeah.
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The first flight lands in China. And phil Phil says, when teams arrive, they will make their way by bus to Ximending Commercial District.
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Yes. But is it China?
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Taiwan is not China. Did i say China? Yeah. Oh, I didn't mean to say that. It's Taiwan. Sorry, didn't mean to say that. Well, I mean, that might be kind of a sore subject because I think China thinks that Taiwan is part of China. Yeah. But Taiwan does not want to be part of China.
00:22:55
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Well, we can talk about it right now. So they're in Taipei, Taiwan. It is a capital and special you municipality of Taiwan located in northern Taiwan. um It
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home to about 2.5 million people. um Greater Taipei is home to about 8 million people. So less than I thought that would be. And the name Taipei can be can refer to either the whole metro area or just the municipality alone. Taipei has been the political center of the island since 1887 when it first became the seat of Taiwan province.
00:23:36
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um
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uh taipei is the economic political education and cultural center of taiwan it has been rated an alpha city which we learned is basically an alpha city is the largest city in an area that doesn't have any other large cities yeah it has railways high highways an airport bus lines uh high-tech industrial area um
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a highly urbanized area, um has been settled for at least 25,000 And from the early 1960s, Taiwan saw rapid economic growth and industrialization. And in the 21st century, it has...
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um Oh, it's an expert-oriented economy. The political and international status status of Taiwan is contentious. Despite being a founding member of the ROC, wait, sorry. Despite being a founding member, the r ROC no longer represents China as a member of the United Nations after UN n members voted in 1971 to recognize the PRC instead.
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So instead of the Republic of China, it's the People's Republic of China. The r ROC remained maintained its claim to the sole legitimate representative of China. And so I'm trying to say is Taiwan is claimed by the PRC, which refuses to establish to diplomatic relations with other countries and countries that correct recognize the ROC.
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I'm sure somebody has a a dummy's version of Yeah, Taiwan operates as an independent democratic country with its own government, military, and economy, but it's officially political its official political status is highly contested.
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um Taiwan...
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What Taiwan thinks is officially known as the Republic of China. Taiwan functions as an independent state. What China thinks is the People's Republic of China views Taiwan as a breakaway province and part of its territory.
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To maintain diplomatic relations with the PRC, most countries, including the United States, do not have official diplomatic ties with Taiwan. However, many however many nations maintain robust, unofficial commercial and cultural relationships with Taiwan and supply it with weapons for self-defense.
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So I put on our list of ah countries that we've been to, Taiwan is its own country. We've been there once before. When did we go there? Oh, we have? I don't remember doing that.
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Did we talk about this before? but Probably. we were there in season
Confucius Temple Task
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12. Okay.
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So we probably have so already said all these things. How do we not remember anything? I know. So if you guys, i'm going to talk about something on our sister session of May, our May sister session that like I really do have the worst memory, but I think I'm listening to a book right now that I've already listened to.
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but I'm not sure. I've done that before. Once or twice. So friday we've probably already talked all about Taiwan and I just don't. And we're like, yeah, it sounds confusing and complicated. That's why I don't remember it. Cause it's confusing and complicated. Yeah.
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Wow. So okay there's a few more things. oh um
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Taiwan has recorded the longest rainbow ever. and lasted all almost nine hours. Okay. Kids in Taiwan go to school for the longest amount of time, about nine to ten hours a day.
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Jeez. Jeez. It's one of the freest countries in Asia, which is interesting. According to the Human Freedom Index, Taiwan consistently ranks high thanks to its strong democratic institutions and commitment commitment to individual liberties, which translates to freedom of speech, religion, and assembly, making Taiwan a vibrant hub for open express expression and diverse viewpoints. Okay.
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It was a Japanese colony colony for 50 years between 1895 and 1945.
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um
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Bubble tea was invented here. That's really popular. um Has a second highest concentration of convenience stores.
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Confucius lived here. He has a living descendant that lives in Taiwan still.
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You talk about Confucius a little bit at this lake. Yeah, like he was born in 2006. He's the 80th generation descendant of Confucius. Who was Confucius?
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I don't know. That's a long time to track. To know your lineage? Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:47
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Okay, Confucius is...
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A Chinese philosopher who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages.
Confucius Task Struggles
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um His philosophical teachings, called Confucianism, emphasize personal and government morality, harmonious social relationships, righteousness, kindness, sincerity, and a ruler's responsibility to lead by virtue.
00:29:10
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Confucius considered himself a transmitter for the values of earlier... Okay, that's... um He lived 551 551 BC.
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So, that's a long time ago. um
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Confucius is credited with having authored or edited many of the ancient texts. um
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So... guess just the founder of Confucius Confucianism and
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like a scholar and a philosopher. philosopher Do unto other do not do unto others what you do not want done to yourself. The golden rule. Yeah. Comes from Confucius apparently.
00:29:54
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Wait. He championed the silver rule or a negative form of the golden rule. So the golden rule is do unto do unto others what you do unto yourself. He said do not do unto others what you would not do.
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Which we would not want unto you. Yeah. guess I didn't really. Yeah. The silver rule versus the golden rule. That's another new thing we learned. Yeah.
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Yeah. i do He does come up later. So, okay. So, the flight lands and the teams have to get on a bus and go to Ximending Commercial District. Instead of of looking for a clue box, they'll look up and figure out they're looking for a billboard that will reveal their next destination. um When they're on the bus going to this district,
00:30:41
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People are talking and saying like what they do for a living and stuff. And Marcus doesn't want anybody to know he played for the NFL. And so when they ask him what he does, he said he protect he protects famous people.
00:30:53
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he Yeah, he protects. Yeah. And he's referring to, like, Tom Brady. Peyton Manning. Peyton Manning. Wait, was it Peyton Manning or Tom Brady? Maybe both. I specifically remember him saying Peyton Manning.
00:31:06
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Because he's... He blocks them. He's a blocker. A blocker of some kind. And so... they're like, oh, you're in, like, security? You're, like, a security detail yeah security agents he's like yes he's like i'm not lying i did protect famous people um and the second flight lands not too long after before the first bus even gets to this area yeah um but phil bill and kathy don't make it on the same bus as the other teams from the second flight so they're like behind behind
00:31:38
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So the first bus arrives and the teams get to this area. It's a shopping district with a lot of billboards and stuff. And the clue says look up. Yeah. But it doesn't say billboard or anything like that specifically.
00:31:52
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So they're looking for something that's red and yellow. and I don't know which one of them. they're She's like, everything is red and yellow. It's like they're national colors. Like somebody's wearing a red and yellow construction hat. and Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:04
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Someone's wearing red and yellow boxers that are hanging out of their pants. And the snowboarders ask him if he has a clue. He's like, what are you talking about? And so they're all running around, kind of have a hard time finding this. Some people look right at it and Yeah, they're like right under it. And it so I think so a couple of teams even are like, could that be it? No, it wouldn't be that easy. Yeah. And somebody says, well, it's always because it's red and yellow balloons that fade away and reveal these Chinese letters.
00:32:35
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And the snowboarders, they say, it's always stripes. It's not balloons. That can't be it. Yeah. So it's tricking people. Yes. The first team to figure it out are... Amani Amani and Marcus. Amani Marcus. And Justin and Jennifer.
00:32:53
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And they ask people to translate the words for them. And it ah says that they have to go to the Confucius Temple. The Taipei Confucius Temple. um And so, yeah. Takes people a long time to figure it out. Some people start figuring it out. Making their way to this temple.
00:33:11
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The last couple teams, so the twins, Marie and Liz, are working together with Kehlani and Lisa. And Bill and Kathy are on their own. And they're really struggling.
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They have a very hard time.
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And some teams start arriving to the road to the Confucius Temple. Jeremy and Sandy get there first. And it's a roadblock and it says, who's ready to play telephone? It says, Confucius says, who's ready to play telephone? So, at this temple, there's a payphone on the wall in this hallway, and they have to dial a number. They will hear a proverb, with not and they cannot take any notes, and they must recite it word for word to a monk to get their next clue.
00:33:54
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And the proverb is, and all things success depends oh in all things, success depends on previous preparation. And without such previous preparation, they're sure to be failure. They have to get it perfectly correct. They have to use the right and and all that stuff. So a big group of teams start arriving about the same time at the beginning. So Sandy from Jeremy and Sandy does it.
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Amani, Ethan, Cindy, Ron and Jennifer are doing the roadblock.
00:34:30
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And the girls the couple girls teams and Bill and Kathy are still looking for the clue at the district.
00:34:38
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And some teams are struggling more than others with this proverb, but Cindy is the one that that gets it first. And the clue says, travel by taxi to the Dajia Riverside Park.
00:34:49
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Search under the bridge to get your next clue.
00:34:52
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And then other teams start getting it. couple other teams start arriving. Andy does the roadblock. Zach does the roadblock. um The girls get the clue eventually. Yeah, this is when they finally figure that out.
00:35:21
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Kathy was a school principal and I was a teacher for 30 years and we're really embarrassed that we can't get this. But they seem really positive and kind to each other, but they're really struggling. yeah Eventually they say they had been searching for four hours. hours.
00:35:37
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That is so crazy. And it looks really hot there. Yes. And it was July. So it probably was super hot. They look exhausted. Yeah. So other teams start getting the roadblock correctly and start making their way to this river under this bridge, the Dajia Riverside Park. And
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when they get there, it's not a detour. It's just a task. Just challenge. Yeah, a task.
00:36:03
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And it says, join the Dragon Boat Race team. So one teammate must paddle while the other must keep the rhythm of the drum. So there's These long dragon boats with probably 20 people rowing. And somebody at the front with a big drum that has to keep the rhythm.
00:36:19
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And one teammate has to row. They have to go down and back, it looks like. So it doesn't look difficult once you just find the place and get in and do it. You don't have to balance or... it doesn't look like they even care if you keep the time with the drum or anything. You just... And there's, I mean, 19 other Chinese rowers. helping you. Taiwanese rowers that...
00:36:42
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Basically do all the work for you. So once you get there, it's not that hard. um So Ernie and Cindy, they got there first and they are first to finish the boat race. Oh yeah, I keep saying Ethan and Cindy. I don't know why I have Ethan.
00:36:57
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Yeah, we're all sorts of confused. The first few episodes are always... trying to get names straight and everything but yeah ernie and cindy cindy finished the boat race and it says make your way to the next pit stop the martyrs something yeah i didn't get that either but it's a sacred murder shrine yeah sacred ground for the changing of the guards for the fallen soldier the last two check in may be eliminated So other teams start arriving. Like we said, it's not really a struggle to do the rowing part. Other teams are finishing up the detour and making their way to the rowing thing.
00:37:31
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Phil and Kathy have still been searching for like four hours. Kehlani and Lisa and Liz and Marie were at the roadblock. And Kehlani did it pretty quickly. Or Lisa. Lisa did it pretty quickly. It looked like it was edited to look like she got it on the first try. Yeah. Meanwhile, li Liz.
00:37:53
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The twin. Is there for a long time. She's really, really struggling. And eventually, finally, Bill and Kathy find the clue on the billboard. While Liz is still really struggling with the The proverb. And her twin, Marie, is not very sensitive or supportive. She's much like, what are you doing? Oh, my gosh. You already made that mistake. You just said the same thing over again. Write it down.
00:38:19
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I can't write it down. Well, figure it out. Why are you taking so long? Yeah, she's like yelling at her. But. Team start checking into the pit stop. team Well, first we have Lisa and Kehlani. They have to go do their hazard. Oh, yeah. Because they were the last to check in for that first umbrella challenge. So they are told to go to the core City Pacific Mall to search for the next clue. And it is an indoor bungee jump.
00:38:43
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The only one of them has to do. So Kehlani does it and... Doesn't take too long. Yeah. So I'm sure like with traffic and, you know, the driving and stuff, it is annoying for it to...
00:38:54
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For an extra task, but they do it quickly. So teams start checking into the pit stop. Team number one are Ernie and Cindy, and they win the express pass.
00:39:06
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Number two are Jeremy and Sandy. So Jeremy and Sandy... Ernie and Cindy were the recently engaged couple from Chicago. Jeremy and Sandy are the dating couple from San Francisco.
00:39:19
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Team number three are Justin and Jennifer who are... Brother and sister. Brother and sister. Who were also fighting a lot of this leg already. Yeah. And...
00:39:30
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Bill and, oh, Liz finally gets her proverb, makes their way to the river. Bill and Cindy arrive. Bill and Kathy. Bill and Kathy. Oh, my gosh. Bill and Kathy arrive. You're getting them all mixed up. Yeah, and Kathy does the roadblock, and she gets it on the first try is what it looks like. Yeah.
00:39:48
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Team number four, Ethan and Jenna, the survivor contestants. Number five are Armani and Marcus, the football player and his wife. Team number six are Lawrence and Zach, the father and son. son Zun, the father and Zun. Zach is the Zun. Lawrence is from England. And when they get in the bow, he says, i was the cockswain for something, for the coastal force in England. And I was like, what is cockswain? I looked it up.
00:40:14
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It's a vital member of a rowing crew who does not row but steers the boat, relays tactics, and motivates the rowers. Yeah. So this was a perfect challenge for him.
00:40:26
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Number seven are Andy and Tommy, the snowboarders. Number eight are Ron and Bill, the flight attendants. And number nine are Kehlani and Lisa, the showgirls.
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And number ten are Liz and Marie, the twins. So Bill and Kathy are finishing up their boat race and get the clue to go the pit stop. They seem exhausted and just understand that they're so far behind everyone.
00:40:52
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But they're still very... You know, positive and yeah love each other and glad for the opportunity. They get to the pit stop and Phil says they're last team to arrive, but they are not eliminated. Yeah, a non-elimination on the first leg. And I don't know if they've had that yet. oh They say this in first first time in Amazing Race history, we will have a double elimination the next leg. Yeah.
00:41:15
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And all all Bill says is, whoa. Yeah. They both look so tired and exhausted. And they thought they were going home. And he's like, whoa. They're not like, oh, my gosh, yes, we're still in it.
00:41:28
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They're like you're like, whoa. We had mentally prepared for this being the end. And we are tired. But it's fine. They're going
Episode Reflections and Future Plans
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to go get a 12-hour rest period and renew their energy. And they are now.
00:41:44
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But they are in really good shape. like Oh, yeah. In their little um intro package, it was like showing them doing like pull-ups. Pull-ups. Both of them. Yeah. Yeah. And yard work and outdoor stuff. So they're like in great shape for their age. And I'm...
00:42:00
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These are one of the teams that I remember for some Right. I remember, i don't remember much about them, but I remember their looks. and Yeah. And their names. Yeah. And i also, i feel like I remember Amani and Marcus. Uh-huh.
00:42:13
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And Liz and Marie. But i don't know if i remember Liz and Marie because they remind me of the twins from season five, I think. Or, no, season seven. where When was the, who won season five um chip and yeah yeah that was the twins i'm like am i thinking of them yeah they kind of have the same look so um yeah i remember couple of the teams i feel like i remember i don't know snowboarders remember them from something else they just seem really familiar
00:42:44
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Yeah. And the the race definitely does cast like archetypes. Yeah. Like they have like a formula that they cast. Yeah. Because I'm like, have I seen Amani Marcus in another couple that I'm thinking of? There was the football player just in like season 34 or six, the one that Ricky and Caesar won.
00:43:05
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That wore the orange? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so I don't know if I've seen these people before. I'm remembering other people. Yeah. But I do know that I do not know who wins.
00:43:17
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I do know that I don't know. But from this first episode, I feel like some strong contenders for first place or top, I'll say top three could be Ethan and Jenna, Imani and Marcus,
00:43:34
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um
00:43:37
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Ernie and Cindy. I'm to say that's my top three. Okay. I know who wins, but I don't know the top three. Who do you think will be the first teams to be eliminated in the double elimination? um Well, right now it looks like Liz and Marie and Bill and Kathy. But would think Bill and Kathy would have to stick around a little longer if I'm remembering them.
00:44:00
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so um
00:44:03
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I don't know. Jeremy and Sandy are just so forgettable. Yeah. There's always one of those couples that I'm like, who are you? Yeah. Or like when we run down like the list of all the teams, i'm like, oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:44:17
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So i yeah, have no idea about next episode. I'm interested to see if they'll give us time, departure times, and see how far behind they actually are. Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of getting less and less common for them to tell us when people are leaving. Yeah, which I don't like. Yeah.
00:44:35
The Amazing Rewatch
We want to know how people are stacking up. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah, well, I'm excited for another new season. I've kind of felt, like, deprived from The Amazing Race. I know.
00:44:46
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haven't had I haven't watched an episode in a few months and it's been kind of weird. so Yeah, it has been weird. but Jeff, my husband, asked me a couple of days ago, he's like, feel like you and Sadie haven't recorded an episode in a while. i'm like, it's because we haven't. haven't.
00:45:00
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So then Sadie was like, we should watch an episode and record. And I'm like, you're right, we should do that. We've been busy with a lot of things. Yes, and it's an exciting summer coming up, but we will try to stay on top of everything.
00:45:12
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If you move, what are we going to do?
00:45:15
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virtually. That's what a lot of podcasts do. I know, but that's not as fun. I know. That's an if. I don't know if that's happening. It might be. I don't know. Who knows? I don't know. Yeah, I know. It'll be a surprise for everybody. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you so much for tuning in to this premiere of season 19. We can't wait to have you listen to us for the next 12 episodes and for the rest of the season.
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And we're excited to see how it goes. And we'll see you soon. Bye.