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Compass & Cowboys: The Amazing Race Season 16, Episode 3
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In this episode, we head to Argentina where teams swap their passports for ponchos and step into the world of gauchos. The Detour tests everyone’s patience as racers struggle with compass directions, leading to a flurry of detour switches and second-guessing. But while most teams get lost, Jet and Cord—the cowboy brothers—prove they’re right at home, riding high in their element. Saddle up as we break down the drama, the strategy, and the standout moments from this action-packed leg!
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Introduction to The Amazing Rewatch
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Hey, everybody. This is Jessica and Sadie, and you're listening to The Amazing Rewatch Season 16, Episode 3. We have always, like, forgotten to Not a lot, but sometimes, most of the time, we forget to say the day that it airs.
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February 2010. twenty eighth twenty ten
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um
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that's that that she um it was a fun episode i i liked this episode yeah it was it seemed a little bit chaotic as it like there was people in different places the whole time so it was very very back and forth yeah so we'll do our best to keep it a little bit organized for you as we tell you.
Jet and Cord's Journey Begins
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But um we had the teams in Chile the last two episodes.
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um The first team to depart are Jet and Cord and they depart at 11.20pm and it says take one of two buses on a six hour ride and and into Argentina then drive yourselves to the old saloon called El Bloche Viejo which is called the old joint.
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Find the roaming gnome and in the wall gang and play a hand of five card stud against the Travelocity roaming gnome. Apparently this is a saloon where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were at or something like that.
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Yeah, they hid out when they were in Argentina. Yeah. I didn't know they were in Argentina. So, yeah, they're... Because there's like a picture in the clue...
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And Jet and Cord pull it out and they're immediately like, oh, that's Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid. Yeah. And I would not be able to. I probably would not have recognized it right away either.
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so Well, the first bus leaves at 830 and there's only room for three teams. So the next two teams that depart are Joe and Heidi and Carol and Brandy, both at 1155, I think. Yeah.
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So they head towards the bus station.
Challenges and Setbacks
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And and Kord are kind of like asking around for somebody that speaks English and they find somebody that lived in Argentina and has been to Bariloche where this saloon is at and get some information from her.
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and then the next scene we have is Katie throwing up and just really, really sick due to suspected food poisoning.
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And Brent says that he's not feeling very well either. So that would be so hard when you are like you have to be on and well to to do well in this game and then to not feel good.
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I had food poisoning the other day, like maybe a week or two ago, and like you just like feel like you can't even get out of bed. Yeah. It's like debilitating. Yeah. Yeah. So to do it in another country on a race and yeah, it would be awful.
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Yeah. So they end up going to the hospital and they, they're past their departure time now. Cause they have to go and they get like fluids through IV and like try to get rehydrated. And um then all the other teams are leaving past the time that Brent and Katie are supposed to leave. And they're like, you know, at this point,
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It is what it is. And if you know. But they don't know that these buses don't leave until later in the morning. Yeah. So if they're very lucky. Well, unlucky. Yeah. But also lucky. In the circumstances, it worked out.
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Yeah. So, okay. Do we need to say all the times
Poker and Roping Challenges
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that they leave? Monique and shan leave at 122.
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Jeff and Jordan at 201. Steve and Allie at 223. Dan and Jordan at 224. Louie and Michael at 312.
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And then they have $48 for this lake. And then when Brent and Katie feel well enough to leave, they leave at like 5-ish. Or 35. Okay.
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And riding a six-hour bus ride when you have food poisoning sounds awful. Yeah. But it would be better than like trying to run around and doing tasks. yeah So it's nice that they can like get some rest.
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So the buses arrive and they get in their cars. And this is one of those situations where we talk about all the time, jet and cord are driving their car and they're in front and Joe and Heidi and Carol and Brandy are driving their cars behind them. And jet and cord are like, why are they following us?
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And I'm like, because they're going to the same place that you are going. Yeah. I don't understand. They're not going to sit back for 20 minutes and say, let's wait so they don't think we're following them. or i Yes, I don't get that question. like ah From the very beginning of this show, I'm like, I don't i don't get it.
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They're going to the same place that you are. Of course they're following you. So they end up like pulling over. they They think that the other two teams don't know where they're going. So they pull off the road and the other two teams pass them.
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And they're like, maybe they'll get lost. And then they get back on the road, but they all go to the same place and arrive at the same time. Yeah. Which is this saloon.
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And they they go in and there's different tables set up with card games and they start playing the poker game, which I don't know how to play poker. Yeah.
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yeah What was this one? Five card stud? Yeah. Yeah. It seemed like there was absolutely no skill. It seemed like they just dealt the cards and yeah whatever hand you got, you got.
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So I guess maybe poker is something to learn before you go on the race, but also like yeah yeah like you said, there's really nothing can Yeah, that one was just like... Just get your cards and see if you win or not.
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But um Heidi and Joe win first and Carol and Brandy right after them. And the bottom of the gnome that they get says, Cliff it to Pinay.
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Pinay Gaucha. Pinay Gaucha. Which seems to be right around the corner. Yeah, it's nearby. And Gaucha, it has to do with like gaucho, like a cowboy.
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And it's a roadblock and it says, who's ready to rope something? I think it said, who's ready to get roped into something. Roped into something. but And um so this person needs to choose a roping station and rope a target.
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18 feet away and pull it to them to get the clue. So it's these steer heads connected to hay bales that they have to rope. By a steer head, like a plastic one, not a real one. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. As soon as I saw those, I was like, we could do that. Yeah. We... I've seen those um our whole lives for 36 years now at this point. I have seen those and I've been taught to rope many times. Our Our family is like into rodeo and roping and the ropes that they were using. We're not like very, there weren't really the real ropes, you know, like they were very like, they were weird. They were like loose rope flat. and They weren't
Detour Dynamics
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like roping ropes.
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Yeah. But, um, So Heidi does it and Carol does it. Jet and Cora are right after them. And Jet does it? Yes.
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And they're like, we saw that when we were like... Like, so excited. We've done it a million times. We knew exactly what we were doing. He said that some people were like, got mad because was like, that was made for us. They thought it was unfair. Yeah. We didn't throw a fit when they knew how to speak Spanish and we didn't. Yeah.
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Which is true. You know, there's... There's always going to be something that somebody's good at. Yeah. Or that they speak the language and other people don't. or you know, they've done it before, you know And I'm sure there's a lot of times where they have the race set up before they even pick the teams out.
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Yeah. And just happen to know how to do is like, oh we have this fun cowboy leg. Yeah. Let's cast these cowboys. That'd be great. Yeah. yeah I'm sure that that has something to do with it.
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So, he does well. He does it on the second try. He's embarrassed that he missed it on the first one. yeah I can't believe I missed it. I'm not surprised. you like The rope is not like a real rope. Yeah. but yeah anyway so The clue says, drive to Puente Nero... Nero Way. Nero Way. Search for the cliffs overlooking... Search the cliffs overlooking the river.
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Yeah. And... Jordan and Jeff get there and Jeff does the roadblock. Yeah. So this is now the second bus. They're like starting to arrive. Yeah.
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And this is where things like start getting really spread out based on the circumstances. ah and but you Just what everybody's doing. So the cowboys arrive at the next clue and it's a detour. The choices are horse sense or horse power.
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um Horse sense is Visit a gunslinger who will give you a set of directional coordinates. Using an old-time compass for reference, follow the coordinates by counting out a specific number of steps to find a bag of stolen money buried in the ground.
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I typed burning in the ground. Buried in the ground. um And then deliver it to the bandit at the train station. If the coordinates on the bag match the coordinates on your sheet, you'll get the next clue.
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And then horsepower. Make your way to a polo field and put on polo attire move the practice pony down the field and alternate turns to attempt to score a goal in nine swings of the mallet or less.
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So when I first heard this, I thought the horse sense one sounded easier. I'm like, oh, just like take steps.
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That probably would have been the one that I initially would have thought to choose. But that one, when we look at it and watch the teams do it, it does not look easier. Yeah. It doesn't, but I think they do it wrong. Yeah, people were not reading the clue. And yeah.
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Well, Jed and Cord choose horse power. They think that they get to ride actual horses. So they're like, heck yeah, let's do that one. Yeah, they actually show up and there's horses there. Yeah. and Cord, I think, is walking by them and like kind talking. trying to pick a horse. Like which one's going be nice. Kind of talking to the horses and seeing which one. And Jed's like, we have to ride this. It's a tall wooden horse. Yeah.
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That they have to pick up and move down the field as they go. And they, yeah, they're not happy about
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Carol and Heidi finish the roadblock and get the clues. And um Steve and Allie get there and Steve does the roadblock. And Brent and Katie are really struggling with navigating. Mm-hmm.
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And Brent apparently is not very good with directions, but he also doesn't know how to drive a stick shift. Like useless partner. Yeah. So they're having a hard time, and they're kind of way in the back there.
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Yeah. they're both not in very good mood because I still don't think they feel very good. No. And they're frustrated with being lost. And yeah, they're not in a good situation. But um when
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like Jeff finishes the roadblock, so these teams are starting to finish the roadblock, head over to get the detour clue and pick which detour they're doing. um Louie and Michael and Monique and Sean get to the saloon and Louie ends up doing the roadblock and Sean does the roadblock.
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And Joe and – wait, no. jordan Dan and Jordan are kind of lost as well. So, yeah, all the teams are kind of spread out. um Like – hold on, got to sneeze.
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Joe and Heidi and Carol and show up to the detour, and they choose Horse Sense. Because they don't want to work with a horse.
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Yeah, and it looks like when they open the clue, you can there's the um a gunslinger at the beginning of the horse sense detour. And you can see him from like the clue box.
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Yeah. And so people choose horse sense. A lot of people choose horse sense because they're like oh it's just right here. Yeah. And horse power, you have to... Drive your car there or something like that? um No, I think you it was because there was a sign that said horse sense horsepower.
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yeah so I think it it was walkable, but it was a little further. Yeah. yeah Well, Jen and Cord end up finishing the detour first. And the clue says make your way to Estancia 14 Chacabuco.
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This enormous ranch at the foot of the Andes Mountains is the pit stop for this leg of the race. Last team to check in here may be eliminated. and And can we just say that they're team number one at this point and yeah not have to come back to them?
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They are team number one and they win a 10-day trip to Patagonia. Which is where they are yeah now. Which I think that would be kind of cool to like be able to come back and actually like see the things in the areas that you've seen. Yeah.
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Because that is also something that we talk about, you know, just like you have been to this place, but you haven't really seen anything. But also you get to do things that people don't get to do.
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Yeah. While you're in these places. Yeah. So anyway. But you're not like taking in the... Yeah, you're there for 12 hours and then you move on. so I would love to go here.
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I want to go to Argentina really bad. I can tell you a little bit about Argentina while we're... Okay. I like the name Baraloche. That sounds like a fun place to go.
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um Well, it's they pretty much just like... They didn't give us like the name of like the town or whatever, where they're at, really. I'm just talking about Argentina as a whole.
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Bariloche not the town? Well, Bariloche the name of the saloon. No. Bariloche is the town. The saloon was ah something.
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Kind of similar. Bariloche Viejo.
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The old joint. Bariloche. Bariloche. okay which is different well i'm not talking about bariloche i'm talking about argentina okay
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sorry my and sadie voice still got her covid i'm like pretty much over it but my voice still doesn't sound amazing so this is our fourth time to argentina this is our second country in this season and
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I'm just noting that because I'm tracking all this and forgot to write this one down. And it's officially named the Republic of Argentine. Oh, the Argentine Republic.
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It's in the southern half of South America. it covers about 1 million square miles. Making it the second largest country in South America after Brazil. Brazil.
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the fourth largest country in the Americas and the eighth largest country in the world. um It's bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay and Brazil and Uruguay and Chile and the Atlantic Ocean.
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And it has largest cities, Buenos Aires. And it has a federal system. it
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The world famous tango was invented in Argentina. And is home to one of the world's largest Welsh communities.
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um It's populated province of Patagonia is home to one the largest populations of Welsh speakers outside of the UK. Welsh is a weird language. Yeah.
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A number of small settlements founded in the 19th century... About 70,000 people as identify as put identify as Patagonian Welsh.
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And there' there's Welsh influences in the regional places and language and local dishes and um names. That's interesting. Like when you think of like European immigrants, you think most of them go to like the US or Canada. Yeah. Like you don't think of people immigrating to South America.
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Yeah. But it makes sense that they would. Yeah. Argentina is the first Latin American country to legalize gay marriage. It's one of the safest countries for LGBTQ plus travelers.
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And...
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It's known for its wine regions and it's the fifth largest wine producer in the world.
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Argentina is home of the gaucho culture, which we see in this episode. It's what this whole episode is about today. um The gaucho denotes an entire culture and the way of life that peaked in Argentina during the late 19th century.
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Many famous Gauchos have um passed into Argentinian folklore and are recurring characters in Argentine literature, arts, and music.
Race Strategies and Standings
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Today, Gaucho culture survives in the countryside where rodeos and displays of horsemanship are still regular events.
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um It's due to the legacy of early Spanish colonization, which and introduced horses and cattle into the Pampas region in the 16th century, which is like ah the grasslands where there is a lot of agriculture.
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And um yeah, the real Butch Cassidy and Sundance kid were um here at some point.
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They were notorious outlaws in the late 19th and early 20th century who robbed trains and banks They fled to South America where they were believed to have died in a shootout in Bolivia in 1908 or 1909. I didn't know that.
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Yeah.
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I
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need to watch that movie. The 1969 film depicts their death in a dramatic Bolivian shootout.
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But some theories suggest they escaped and lived um in obscurity for, know, how long? Who's in that? Is it like Robert Redford? Mm-hmm.
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And Paul Newman? Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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South ah Argentina has around 20 recognized languages. um English is commonly spoken there and understood. there so a lot of people like it's a good place to travel.
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There's a lot of ski resorts and um seems like like a great place to visit, a great place to live.
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And I would like to go there. Yeah. Me too. Yeah. I have not been to South America yet at all. You haven't either, right? Yeah, that's a good place to put on my list.
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I mean, it's already on my list. i'm just I'm looking at a map. So the place that we were in in Chile was... Puerto Veras. Yeah. Right. So yeah, this Bariloche is really not that far, but like, it's like the Andes mountains are right in between it. So that six hour bus ride is, it doesn't, it's not very far, but it's through the high mountains.
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Yeah. So it's like probably halfway down the country of Argentina and then just, just to the east of the Chilean border.
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that's where we're at.
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Cool. Yeah. So, yeah, we had Jet and Core checking his team number one. So back to the other teams. um Like ah Joe and Heidi start doing the – horse sense which is the direction one this one was so weird and yeah he was like he wanted joe wanted to choose that one because he has a compass on his watch and he knows how to use it he says and so he's like okay we have to go northeast and then we have to go this way this way she's like but you have to go 166 steps or whatever 100 whatever is said he says no you don't have to count your steps it's only of people who don't have a compass
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What does that even mean? You're just going to keep going forever? Yeah. Like how long, how do you know how far you have to go that direction? And she's like, oh, okay. And so they start walking and they, yeah, this is just, it was like a very weird thing to say about.
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Yeah. And they didn't even like go to, because the starting point was that, so the compass that they're referring to in this a task is just like a pole in the ground and then it has like the four arrows going north, south, east, west.
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And so you're supposed to start from that pole. And they basically start walking from where they like where they were standing, where they got the clue. And yeah it's like how... And so this field of like grass and sage and stuff like that, it just has a lot of different...
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um bags buried but it also has just ropes buried with no bags on them. Yeah. And there's a lot of different bags with different coordinates on it and you have to pick the bag that matches your coordinates and turn it into the person. Yeah. So you can't just pick any random bag or any random rope because some of them are empty, some of them have different coordinates and stuff like that. Like the way he read the clue was very weird. The way he understood the clue, I guess.
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So... They're off to a bad start on that. yeah And um like Steve and Allie get there. They choose horsepower. Brent and Katie are still lost.
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And so the last three teams at the roadblock are Louie and Michael and Monique and Sean, who have been doing it for a long time. And then Dan and Jordan show up.
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I guess not the last three teams. They're Because Brent and Katie haven't showed up yet. But these three teams are doing it um at the same time. Jordan. Is it Jordan? I think it's Dan. Dan.
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They look really similar. Yeah. So I probably won't know until like the last like three episodes which one is which. Yeah. So Dan does the roadblock and he ends up getting it before Louie and Sean do. And then Louie gets it right after. And Sean's pretty discouraged. She's been there for a long time doing it.
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And um
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Jeff and Jordan are doing the detour and they're having issues as well. They, yeah, they're struggling because they think they think that the gunslinger is the bandit. Yeah.
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They miss the part where it says they have to go to the train station. On the clue. Yeah. Which is in his hand. and Joe and Heidi even say like, where's the train station? And Jeff's like, i don't know. And then he's like, what are they talking about? what The train station. Like, hello?
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yeah And so they keep going up to the gunslinger and they're like, do you have the clue? And he doesn't like say anything. they're like, what are we doing wrong? And so they just keep walking around and like,
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pulling bags out of the ground and then bringing of that to him and he doesn't say anything. Yeah. Or, and like, so who knows if one of them was right at one time and they just, yeah. Yeah.
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And Carol and Brandy are really struggling because they are, they're just like arguing a lot. Yeah. And like Carol sees just a shovel in the distance. And instead of keeping counting her steps and directions, she's like, oh, there's the shovel. Let's start digging here.
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So they kind of like lose track where they are. And um they're just not communicating very well, blaming each other for different things. They end up switching detours and go over to the horsepower one.
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And... Joe and Heidi also switch. Yeah. They go they do find the bandit, but they didn't have the right bag. so they were like, let's just go do the other one.
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Yeah. Because they were just walking randomly and just picked up some random bag. Yeah. Because they were following his watch. Yeah. But Steve and Allie, they finished the detour. They...
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Didn't switch detours or they didn't get lost or anything. They are like flying under the radar. Yes. don't hardly ever see anything of them. Well, they made a huge comeback on this episode. So they check in as team number two. yeah Yeah.
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And yeah, we didn't like. They just kind of like sneak right in there. Yeah. The way that they did it. So instead of like getting up on the horse, because the thing was pretty high up there.
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And instead of like getting all the way up there, Steve would just like lay on his stomach across the back of the horse and hit the thing. Yeah. And then when they had to carry it, he was like making all these noises like.
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And Allie was like, dad, are you OK? Are you hurting? And he's like, I'm 57. What's not hurting? yeah she's like just tell
Aftermath and Personal Stories
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me what hurts yeah but yeah they're getting along and they made a big comeback and they're team number two um carolyn brandy end up finishing the detour and they're team number three that was like miraculous i thought they were gonna they were fighting a lot so um so other teams are showing up to the detour and they're choosing horse sets first like louis and michael and dan and jordan and
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They end up switching detours and Sean is – Brent and Katie show up and Sean is still roping. Yeah. And Brent does the roadblock and he gets on the second try.
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So she's really, really discouraged because she's been there for a really long time, I think. But she ends up getting it eventually. So all these last few teams um are like finishing a detour or switching detours and –
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Jeff and Jordan finally read the clue. Yeah. So I think they were the only ones that actually finished the horse sense detour. Yeah. There was a lot that started it. Yeah. But most switched. They finally did finish it. And the clue was printed on like a ah gold coin.
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And they said, where well, Jeff said, he's like, we're so stupid. We should not reproduce.
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Yeah. um Until the end. so Because Monique and Sean do that one at the end. Oh, that's true. But yeah, so they do finish. So they end up being team, Joe and Heidi are team number four.
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And they're Jeff and Jordan are team number five. um So the last team is doing the detour at the same time on the the horse sense one. So by the time everybody's kind of like switched and figured out.
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So Louie, Michael, Monique and Brent and Katie and Dan and Jordan are all doing the detour on the polo field at the same time. And like Brent and mean Dan and Jordan had to start over a couple of times because you have to get across the field and nine hits and they don't for a couple of times.
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and like, ah Louie and Michael don't too. And Monique and Sean have to start over, you know, all this stuff. So ends up being Dan and Jordan finish and they check in as team number six.
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And then Brent and Katie finish and they're team number seven. And the last two teams are Louie and Michael and Sean and Monique. Louie and Michael finish and they check in as team number eight.
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So Monique and Sean are the last team. And we know that all the other teams have already checked in. Did they switch detours before the other teams left?
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No. So they were the last ones there yeah and then switched? um So they were like, this those wooden horse is really big and really heavy. And to carry it back across the field... every time because you don't get get it in the nine tries or whatever.
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And they're like, we had to make the decision to switch detours because we were afraid of hurting our backs. Like we're really, our bodies are really tired and we don't want to injur ourselves. So they switched to the horse sense detour and go do the compass thing.
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And they end up finishing it and they don't give up and they wanted to, Show their kids that they could, you know, they don't give up and they could be proud of them and the way they would, you know, the way they could be proud of their moms and for finishing.
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so they do finish the horse sense and they check in and they are team number nine, but they are eliminated. So.
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Yes. Um,
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They took second in the first leg. Yeah. And then took fifth and then took ninth. So they definitely did really well in the beginning. And then just that the rope that roping challenge, I think, just really did them in.
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And i wonder if they would have started with the horse sense detour to begin with, if they would have been able to. Get it done before some of the other teams at horsepower.
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I don't know. don't know. It's one of those. Never know. The world may never know things. So their race average was 5.33. Taking ninth overall. Trivia.
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um
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there is no post-race ah trivia but they do have a Facebook page. So they, some of their franchise trivia is one of those things. Okay.
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The oldest, youngest, all-female team in a season in the U.S. version. Wow.
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Yes. yeah so Yeah. You have to like, okay, think about that. So I think they, are they the only female team in this season? I think so. So they're the oldest, youngest all-female team.
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They're the oldest, youngest in a season. Grandma, granddaughter. Oh, that's right. So they're the youngest compared to those. In their season. Yeah. But they're oldest in the rest of the – like compared to the rest of the seasons.
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but The oldest of the youngest. The youngest. Yeah.
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Their average age was 39 at the time of the race. Okay. So anyway, um they are on social media. Monique – um I mean, she posts pretty regularly with her husband and kids and looks like she has two daughters that are probably, you know, like early 20s by now.
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So she's a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles. She met Barack Obama in January. So
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um does it say what she does for work? I don't know. Why won't it go back to that spot?
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And then Sean,
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um she's a real estate agent in the DC area.
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i looked at her website and like looked at one of the listings that she has. It's a
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A one bedroom, one bathroom condo in DC that she's selling for like $475,000. Utah real
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utah real estate is getting high, but it's still not like, it's still not like New York and DC and some of these places. So when I look at these, I'm like, Oh, okay.
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I guess it's not that bad.
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Um,
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But she doesn't, I think her Facebook is a little bit more like locked down in privacy. So she doesn't have a ton of posts like other than just like profile pictures.
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So that is what they're doing.
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And I can't tell we because both of them have like kind of like private Facebooks. So I can't tell if they are friends with each other on Facebook because that always is like the question I ask with teams of friends is like, are they still friends?
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Yeah.
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So, So, all right. This is like three. Next is like four. We're getting into the mid part of the season.
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It happened so fast. I feel like legs four through like nine. Happened fast. and then we're like, okay. And then, yeah, 10, 11, 12 is like, oh my gosh.
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Yeah. Is the season not over yet? Yeah. Yeah.
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um I was kind of like looking at the, like on the Facebook page or the, yeah, the Facebook group of like the amazing race fans. And this season is kind of generally not well liked.
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I don't really know why yet because I have not seen it. So. Except for like the Cowboys are on there and everybody likes They're like a fan favorite. Does your hair smell weird? It smells good. Smelling your hair.
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I took a shower before you got here. Yeah. a I took a shower. So yesterday i ran ah like one of those mud run races and my hair was nasty and I washed, I like shampooed it twice and i still like it's clean, but it like the texture is weird. Like it just kind of was like probably dried out your hair. Yeah. it Yeah. It felt really dry and like harder to style and stuff. So yeah.
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Yeah.
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But it was fun. I have a giant bruise on my leg and my forearms are sore from like, have you ever done one of these? So sometimes like a lot of times the obstacles is like you go into like a pit of like muddy water and then you have to get yourself up.
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So all of the stuff that they dig out to make the hole, they then pile up to make like a ah hill. So you have to get out of the water up this hill and it's like slippery mud.
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So you can't do it unless you have somebody that's already done it up at the top of the little hill pulling you up. So it's kind of like, you know, everybody that's running the race, whether you know them or not, you're all just kind of like working together.
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So you have people that are behind you, like you get real up close and personal because they're just like grabbing your butt and like pushing you up. And then somebody up at the top that you don't know usually is up there like pulling you up. And then once you get to the top, you turn around and help the next person up.
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who And so anyway, my forearms are really sore from like pulling people up out of the muddy pit. Yeah. And then I have bruises all over, but it was Yeah.
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Sounds not fun, but glad you had fun. hello It was fun. I did it with my best friend and we just like chatted. We didn't take it seriously at all. We walked almost the whole way.
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so We did do all of the obstacles though. We didn't walk around any of them and like skip them. Did some people do that? Yeah. I mean, you're paying money to do it. So it's not like they're going to be like...
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Yeah. You can't finish the race. Some of them, like a Spartan race or like um Tough Mudder, you have to do the obstacles or you have to do burpees. So this is this is was a just for fun one. It's called the Mud Girl Run.
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It's not a ah serious one. Okay. So anyway, it's a good place to start. Okay. Okay. Okay, well, um thanks for listening. Come see us in episode four and goodbye.
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Bye.
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