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The Nail In The Coffin: The Amazing Race Season 14, Episode 3
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The teams arrive in a new (to the Race) county: Romania!
They try out their hand at some gymnastics and venture to Dracula's castle. One of the teams really struggles with letting go of control as they venture WAY off the path.
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Introduction to Season 14, Episode 3
00:00:07
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Hello, Amazing Rewatch listeners. This is Jessica and Sadie, and we are here with Season 14, Episode 3. We literally just recorded Episode 2, and then watched this one, so this is very fresh in our minds.
00:00:21
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Yes. And that is good for us, because sometimes we have a long break in between watching and recording, so... Yeah. Or like the the first episode, I watched it like a week, almost a week and a half before we actually got around to recording it. So yeah, it's nice. It it does eventually like come back to you is like more easily than you would think. But this is good.
Race Location Clarification
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so So left off in Germany and the first team to arrive. Technically Austria.
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What do you mean? The pit stop was in Salzburg, Austria. Oh. Huh. Yeah. But the whole, the whole leg was in Germany except for the pit stop. I think, well, you said that the, um, the paragliding thing was in Germany and Bavaria, but then the detour, they did like the, the Austrian schlag pies. I think they were in Austria for the detour.
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Hmm. and Interesting. So do I put that country down? Yeah. Have we not been there yet? We have, but do I put it down again?
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Yeah. Because like more than half the lake was there. Okay.
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Well, then our first team to arrive in Austria were Tammy Tammy and Victor.
Flight Ticket Strategy and Challenges
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And they will depart 10.13 a.m. m
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It says travel by train to meet Munich and then fly 700 miles to Bucharest, Romania. Once there, take a taxi to the gymnastics hall where Nadia Cominici trained.
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And Tammy Victor decide to go look for tickets before they get on the train for their flight. Well, Victor decides to do that. Yeah. Yeah.
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And that that is the beginning of many ways that he just kind of steamrolls her through this episode. Yeah. And his decision is the best decision, apparently. So, but it does end up working out for them.
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Kind of. Because they get tickets on 320. are they? It is... Yeah, 320.
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Yeah. it is yeah three twenty So, no, actually, they got tickets on a 445 because the people at the the travel agency didn't think that they could make the 320.
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But then they go to the airport and they were able to get on the 320 or something like that. So, all the other teams, there's kind of a big gap in between departure times.
00:02:58
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um So, Mel and Mike depart at 1201. Amanda and Chris, 1212. Margie and Luke, 1231. and Victoria, 1253. margie luke twelve thirty one brad of victoria twelve fifty three Jamie and Cara, 117. Keisha Keisha and 151.
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Mark and Michael, 2. And Chrissy and Jody, 242. Yeah. yeah So we were curious what the gap was going to be between those last three teams. It's like four and a half hours.
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Yeah. Between the first and last team. So yeah, it was a large gap like we had expected. There was even a really large gap between Mark and Michael and Christy and Jody. Yeah, 42 minutes between last and second to last.
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Well, minus the eliminated team. Yeah. So third to last and second to last. year So Tammy and Victor board their 325 flight as the other teams are making their way on train to...
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Munich. and some teams get some people on the train to help them book flights on their phones. So this guy is helping Brad and Victoria book a flight on his phone and there's a flight that leaves at 4.45pm.
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Oh, wait, no. there's he books There's a guy that books a ticket for Amanda and Chris that leaves at 445. And another couple are helping Brad and Victoria book a flight and they see the 445 one and the guy on the train, he's like, oh, that's not even possible.
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And they're like, we're not even going to try for that one. There's no way we can get from the train to the 445 flight. Yeah. Well, the people that were helping Chris and Amanda said that too. They're like, it's not possible. You won't make it. And they're like, we'll run. Yeah.
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So they did it anyway. But yeah, Brad and Victoria decided to try a different option. And then the next flight that everybody else ends up getting on doesn't leave until 9.30 p.m.
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So Brad and Victoria really didn't want to do that flight. So they try to, they find another option that leaves at 7.30 through Amsterdam. And they're the only ones on that flight. Yeah.
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And it is it the only flight with a layover? Is the one from the other ones, they don't have layovers? um It didn't seem like it, but it didn't specify.
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But the one that they were going going to be on still arrived earlier than the one that than the 930 flight that everybody else was going to be on. Yeah. So they decided to risk it, but then that plane, the plane to Amsterdam is delayed.
00:05:29
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Yeah, so while it sounds like they find out that the plane to Amsterdam is delayed before they board. Yeah. And they know they have a short layover Amsterdam. I would have just been like, oh, never mind. We're not doing that. This happens and it bothers me because it's like, you know you're not going to be the last team if you get on that flight with everyone else.
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Yeah. You're risking it to be... maybe a little bit of a head like Maybe a little bit ahead of them or eliminated. Mm-hmm. you're going to be landing at midnight. Mm-hmm.
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There's going to be something ahead that's going to be closed that one isn't going to open and people are going to be waiting. So you might as well just take the flight that you know everybody else is going to be on and be safe. Yeah.
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Yeah. So obviously the way that we're talking, they don't make that layover in Amsterdam. Nope. Right in Victoria. And they're told that there's not a flight that leaves it until 930 the next day.
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That's not good. That is very much not good. And they were like, oh, we're sick to our stomach. And can you imagine that feeling? Just like, yeah no.
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And knowing that you're the only ones. Like, even if you had one other team with you, you wouldn't be so defeated. But yeah. Yeah. I, cause that happened with Joyce and Echenna too. And the all-star season, they were the only ones that tried to risk a short connection for a little bit of a payoff, but it's like, you're trying to be, you're being too greedy.
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You need should just, sometimes you just got to play with the other kids. Go with the pack.
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And then another team that has issues is Tammy and Victor. They're on their earlier flight. And in the air, it says that there's issues with their planes. Yeah, like mechanical. They turn around and head back to Munich. And so they get on the same 930 flight as everybody else.
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Yeah. And the other teams are, like, pretty surprised. Yeah. They're like, oh, you're here. Yeah. and so the first group of teams, that
Late Night Gymnastics Roadblock
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930 flight...
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white or let's see the 445 flight had mel and mike amanda and chris and margie and luke and they land and they get in taxis and head to this gymnastics training center and they landed like around midnight ish or something yeah it's really so i was just thinking that they this wasn't gonna be open i thought so too but it is And there's little children. I know. They're just doing their cartwheels. Why these little kids doing gymnastics at midnight? and
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And when they get there, it's a roadblock and it says, who's ready to who's ready to access their inner Nadia? hu I have actress on there.
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I want you. Does your research about Romania talk about, did you look up Nadia? Yeah. Cominici. Cominici. Yeah. Tell us about it. Before we go to the roadblock.
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Well, she is a Romanian gymnast born in 1961, five-time Olympic gold medalist. And in 1976 at 14, she was awarded the first perfect score at the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976. Did I say that already? Yeah.
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She received six more perfect tens for events And won three gold medals. In 1980 in Moscow she won two more gold medals. And achieved two more perfect tens.
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During her career she won nine Olympic medals. And four world artistic gymnastic championship medals. She's best known for her artistry and grace. She's the most iconic gymnast of the 20th century.
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And she's lived in the United States since 1989.
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When she defected from then communist Romania. And she married American gold medalist gymnast Bart Conner.
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And yeah So she's very talented. Have you ever watched like a YouTube video of her? Is it the one that the parallel bars that like flips around her waist? and Yeah. It's crazy. that's even That's illegal now. They won't even. Yeah. Like that's not a move that you can do now.
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Yeah. But she, yeah, just like tiny little 14 year old. And I believe that the score said 1.0 because like the scoring thing wasn't even like configured to be able to even do a 10.
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Yeah. They didn't even have, she lives in Oklahoma. That's weird. That is a weird place to live. They didn't even have 10s yet. Yeah. And now the gymnastic scoring system is like Yeah. Way different and not even like that anymore.
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She started doing gymnastics in kindergarten age six.
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And so you got to get started early you want to be good like her. i can't even imagine like
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ah especially nowadays. I don't know how it was like back in 1976 or like in another country, but like little gymnast girls, like their whole lives are gymnastics. They don't do anything else.
00:10:41
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So much money for just like a sliver of hope to go to the Olympics. And it's, they take five girls every four years to the Olympics. The odds are not great.
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ahh Yeah. It's like,
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Literally once in a lifetime very elite group. Yeah. And you can do like college gymnastics. I think, ah you know, scholarships and stuff. Yeah.
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But yeah. I can't imagine like dedicating my life that like to one thing so hard. Yeah. Yeah. yeah So she's really impressive.
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These teams arrive. And it says, this teammate must learn three different gymnastics disciplines, the balance beam, parallel bars, and floor exercises.
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Once performed correctly and in order, they will get their next clue. And so from Chris and Amanda, Amanda does it. From Margie and Luke, Margie does it. And from Mike and Mel, Mike does it.
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Yeah. Luke says, I don't want to wear a girl's leotard. Yeah. They don't make the boys wear the girl leotard. No. Like a little singlet, which are still not flattering. Yeah. These leotards are very unflattering for boys and girls. yeah Yeah. Like it makes them look like they're in diapers. Tell them that they needed to have like a bikini wax.
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I don't know. And they all have such nice legs too. Yeah. And there's like um one of the girls, it's a white gymnast outfit. And she's wearing like a black thong. and Yeah. You can totally see through. I think that was Tammy. Yeah.
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So um I'd be like, you couldn't have got a more flattering color here. But they, yeah, Amanda did really well. She finished it pretty easily. And i did you get what this clue said?
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um Travel by train to the city of Brasov, but then I didn't get anything else. Which is located in the Transylvania region. And they take a taxi to the Vicerica Niegra region.
00:12:39
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which is a church, to find the next clue. I know somebody from Transylvania. Really? Yes. He kind of looks like a vampire, too. That's weird.
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doesn a What does a current modern-day vampire look like? Like, his name is... oh gosh.
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I forgot what it was called. what is what What he's called. The city he's from is Cluj.
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But yeah, he he's like a sales director for one of the suppliers that i work with. Interesting. And he had lots of vampire stories.
00:13:18
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That's funny. um Well, we'll get to that in a little bit. Okay. um Amanda, she finishes first. Margie after her. And then Mike after her. And they go to the train station that they're supposed to take to Transylvania. And it doesn't leave until 630. So they have to hang out there.
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The second flight lands. all those teams get to the... um gymnast center so keisha from the sisters mark from the brothers cara from the friends and christy from the friends i think jody oh jody do the roadblock tammy and victor were like dropped off in the wrong place or something and they finally arrive and tammy does it And they all finish.
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Tammy barely finished. Yeah, she was really struggling. And the way she did her cartwheel, it's like she's not a gymnast. No. Which I'm not either. but No. And she has many other strengths. she and mean, she's a lawyer. I'm sure she's incredibly smart. Yeah. But that was that was not her forte. Yeah. And she was struggling because I think she was like, she mentally, she said she was worried about the other teams and not being last. and Yeah.
00:14:27
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So she kind of struggled and she was the last to finish, except for Brad and Victoria. Yeah. So all the team all those teams get to the train station and get on that 630 train.
00:14:39
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And he at this point, we see like Jamie and Kara interacting with Luke. And they have become really close friends and they really put in an effort to communicate with him, even though he doesn't speak.
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I mean, they like write things down on paper. Yeah, he doesn't hear. Yeah. So. They really, does these two teams really get along and work well together. And they're just, it's so they're being really nice and putting in the effort, which I think is really cool.
00:15:10
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And finally, Brad and Victoria's flight departs amster Amsterdam. Yeah. And all the teams are on their way to the detour. They've but already finished the roadblock.
00:15:22
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Yes. So it's called, is it called the black church? Yeah. In English. Yeah. So the clue there is a detour and the choices are gypsy moves or vampire remains.
00:15:35
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Yes. You can go ahead. Yeah.
Detour Options and Pit Stop Race
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i just copied and pasted this from the amazing race at Wikipedia page. Cause Phil was talking real fast. So Gypsy Moves.
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Teams must travel to a gypsy encampment and help a family of gypsies move from one camp to another by loading their belongings on a traditional horse-drawn cart and unload them at another location. Once all of the items have been unloaded, the head member will hand them their next clue.
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Vampire Remains. Teams must drag a chained coffin to a field of stakes on the land of Bronn Castle. braun castle ah Once there, they must unlock and untangle a series of chains to open the coffin to find several antique frames.
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They must then impale the frames by smashing them against stakes until they find one containing a flag. And they'll trade the flag for the next clue. So, I don't think gypsy is a very politically correct term anymore.
00:16:34
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I looked it up. So did Oh, okay. Did you go to the Reddit thread? No, I just did like a Google search. learned something new so it says in English, it has a history of being used as an adjective, like free-spirited, aren artistic, bohemian.
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But this is incorrect and moderately offensive. It's also been used as a verb to jip somebody. Yeah. I didn't know that. Oh.
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I thought it was like JIP. Oh. Because, you know, that's why it's politically incorrect is because people say gypsies. Like steal people's stuff. Yeah. And I did not put that together. I didn't know that.
00:17:17
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So don't say gyp. when Yeah, I got gyp. And don't say a gypsy. Well, you I guess you can. So it says, as far as referring to the actual ethnic group, Roma or Romani would likely be more appropriate. I believe some members self-identify with the term gypsy, but it's not polite for others to use.
00:17:36
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We use it in this because that was the name of the task. Detour. The task. yeah um and yeah probably in wouldn't have named it that. but Yeah. Times change and people learn and things are different.
00:17:54
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Yeah. So it doesn't sound like it's the most offensive thing. Yeah. But also it's where if you have another choice of words, then use that. Yeah. So Amanda and Chris, Mel and Mike are kind of the ones there first and they choose Gypsy Moves and they arrive.
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And Mel and Micah realize that it's like a little bit more physical than they were expecting. There's like a piece of a car that they have to put on this horse-drawn cart. And we know that Mel is injured. Yeah. So this is difficult for him.
00:18:25
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he thinks it will be. Yeah. um And then Tammy and Victor and Jodi and Christy choose vampire remains. They're kind of the first ones there at that task. And these two teams...
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kind of separate, Jodi and Christy immediately find the correct place. But Tammy and Victor. Victor sees this white and red marking on the trees yeah and is convinced that this is the correct way and they start walking up this hill like straight up a hill like following these markings on the trees and tammy is like i don't think that it would be white and red it would be yellow and red and victor keeps saying i just feel like this is right i just feel like this is right let's just keep going and she does and they are up climbing on that mountain for a long time yeah
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They do a lot of climbing yeah and keep going. And he keeps saying, like, trust me. And she's like, just don't think give me a reason why you're thinking this. Yeah, like, how long are we going to keep going? And then he's like, I can't tell you that.
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you Like, yeah. yeah He was just, like, so obstinate. yeah Is that the right word? think so. And it's like, at this point, you know you're pretty close to other teams.
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And the race doesn't do this. Like, they don't make it so impossible to find. yeah They do make some things difficult, but it's not you have to scale an entire mountain. Yeah. And at one point, one of the markings has ah an arrow going right and left. like It's like a double arrow.
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And Victor's like, oh, now what do we do? and Tammy's like, I promise you that they would not have put an arrow that looks like this on the route. Like, this is not right. Yeah. So finally he kind of breaks down and tells her that he'll follow her.
00:20:14
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and wait, did you read the detour quiz already? Like what they are? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Tammy is like, tell me why we get to follow your intuition and not mine.
00:20:27
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And I think that kind of was the thing that got to him. And he like, he like almost started crying and just like sat down on the side of the hill and was like, okay, let's, let's go back. Yeah. So, the other teams, it seems like Gypsy Moves was quicker then. Yeah. Keisha and Jen, Mark and Michael also chose that one. And then Margie and Luke and Jamie and Kara chose the Vampire Remains.
00:20:49
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Mm-hmm. But yeah, Chris and Amanda, who did ah Gypsy Moves, were done first. Mm-hmm. And it said, oh, I didn't get this clue. What does it say? Make your way to the Villa Panoramic, a mountainside cottage overlooking the castle linked to the story of Dracula.
00:21:08
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But Chris can't find their fanny pack. Yeah. so You put it down somewhere. Yeah. So they're, like, running around looking for it. And they go back to the place where they, like, dropped off all of the ah stuff and found it there.
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you ever Why would you even take that off? I don't know. I really don't know. think it's so... yeah I would like literally tape it to my body. Yes. I was going to say sew it to my Yeah. But that seemed a little extreme.
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It's a little tense, but yeah. If it meant a million dollars, I don't know. Maybe that might not even be worth a million dollars, but... um I don't know if it would be either. So they find it, but Mel and Mike...
00:21:55
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left the detour second but they passed them since kristin amanda had to go find their fanny pack and like going to the pit stop is kind of like up a hill and mel and mike are going really slow and kristin amanda are kind of like coming up and they're going much faster so you think they might pass them but they don't and mel and mike are team number one yeah and they went a trip to costa rica so that's pretty cool um
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A little bit about this area.
Romanian History and Dracula Legend
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so we um we flew into Bucharest. It's the capital and largest city of Romania. Its population and the greater metropolitan area is 2.3 million, which makes it the eighth most populous city in the European Union.
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um The city became the capital in 1862 and is the center of Romanian media, culture, and art. In the period between the two world wars, the city's architecture and sophistication of its elite earned Bucharest the nickname of Little Paris, or the Paris of the East.
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And although many buildings and districts in the historic city were heavily damaged or destroyed by war and earthquakes, many survived and have been renovated. In recent years, the city has been expecting an economic and cultural boom as one of the fastest growing high-tech cities in Europe.
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ah The word Romania comes from the Latin word Romanus, which means citizen of the Roman Empire.
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The Parliament Palace in Romania's capital city is the second largest building in the world, behind only the Pentagon.
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um Is the Pentagon the largest building in the world? I think by, like, square footage because it has, like, floors and then I think, like, down in the basement.
00:23:38
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It doesn't look that big. Yeah. But... According to legend, Bucharest was named after a shepherd called Bucher who was in love with a young lady named Dambovita, like, the river that flows through the city.
00:23:50
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That's so romantic. Um...
00:23:53
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Romania is home to four Nobel Peace laureates. um George Pellade for medicine. Elie Wiesel. Herda Mueller and Stefan Hell.
00:24:07
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So. Oh, um Google says that the Surat Diamond Borzai in India is the world's largest office building and surpassed the Pentagon in 2023. Oh, OK.
00:24:21
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Interesting. Makes sense. to interrupt. That's right. ah The Romanian language is 1,700 years old.
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The earliest Homo sapien fossils up to now were discovered in 2002 in southwestern Romania in the Cave of Bones. The fossil's age is estimated to be 42,000 years old.
00:24:41
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Wow. Interesting. Yeah. They're vampires. So, now... Yeah, vampires were there 42,000 years ago. The area of Transylvania...
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The reason it's known for being a vampire place. ah Vampires are often associated with Romania, primarily the region of Transylvania, because of Bram Stoker's famous novel Dracula, which features a vampire count from Transylvania. um The novel's inspiration for the character was Vlad the Impaler, who was also...
00:25:16
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A real life Romanian ruler. Solidifying the connection between vampires and Transylvanian popular culture. And Vlad the Impaler. Yeah, he's a real person.
00:25:28
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um He was way back in the 1400s. He was the son of Vlad Dracul. Dracula. Yeah, Dracula. It's Dracula without the A. they were fighting the Ottoman Empire back in the day.
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He's a like a Romanian national hero.
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But I don't know why... Impaler is a hero? That sounds... He's often considered one of the most important rulers of Romanian history and a national hero.
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I think he's known as... i guess maybe he impaled the enemy. Yeah. And not his own people. yeah I think so. um I found this guy that I know.
00:26:12
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His name is Roresh Dimitru. And I just want you to look at his picture and tell me.
00:26:19
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Okay. I can see that.
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i was I was thinking of somebody like super like, translucent skin and really tall and skinny like thin i don't know like no he just like he looks very like eastern european he has a unibrow yeah he's got like not translucent not sparkly skin like translucent i know i was joking
00:26:45
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oh yeah like like very white like who's that one guy the one of president trump's aides or lawyers or want That one guy that's like super creepy that looks like a vampire for real? I don't know.
00:26:58
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I think his name is Steve Miller. Google Steve Miller. Oh, okay. Now you say his name. Yeah. he's He doesn't look like a vampire. He looks like... pedophile? Yes. That's literally the word I was going to say.
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Don't sue us, everybody. That's literally the word that was going to come out of my mouth. yeah um Yeah. He is a creep. He's creepy looking and probably not a good back to Romania, i for some reason, like, Romania has always just kind of, like, spoke to me as a place that i want to visit. Like, even in high school when everybody's like, oh, I want to go to France. I want to go to Italy. I'm like, I want to go Romania. Around the Paris of the East.
00:27:40
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Oh. Well, Vlad the Impaler is known, he was famous or infamous for his frequent use of impalement as method of execution and punishment, leaving a trail of impaled bodies throughout his territory.
00:27:54
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He was a cruel but brutal, cruel and brutal ruler. Brutal ruler. Brutal ruler. And had a brutal reputation and inspired the novel, which was published in 1897.
00:28:10
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But also a hero. Yeah. I don't understand. Because he fought the Ottoman Empire.
00:28:17
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But yeah, it's yeah, it's very like, is there, does it touch a body of water? um I think the Danube River goes Well, I mean like a sea or an ocean something.
00:28:32
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I feel like it's land. It does the Black Sea. Okay. A little part of it. um Yeah, it borders Ukraine, mold Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary.
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It's a very interesting part of the world that you just don't hear about a lot. Mm-hmm. But I'm sure there's so much to offer and a lot of history. Oh, clearly. Yeah. This is our first, our first time coming to Romania. This is now our 68th country on the race.
00:28:59
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Wow.
00:29:00
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Um, And then speaking of impaled, so this task where they have to break these like wooden frames on their stake, it's filled with what looks like blood. It's probably not actually blood, but and like splatters yeah on them and looks kind of crazy.
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Yeah. I don't know which one ruy we have done.
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I don't know how descriptive was the clue on climbing a mountain to get to the coffins because I think that would difference. don't think it said anything about climbing the mountain. Yeah.
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And that made a huge difference. So I think we would have picked the coffin one unless it would have been more descriptive on that they had to climb. Yeah. because I mean, when Tammy and Victor got back down the mountain, they like walked on a flat part and he's like, ah there's the arrow. And we got to go back up. Right there. and the Yeah. They just had to walk up like maybe 20 feet.
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Yeah. So.
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Anyways. Yeah. um Yeah. either one really but obviously the one was way faster so um my computer died right here in one of these parts so I feel like I missed some stuff okay well we said Mike and Mel were team number one and then Amanda and Chris were number two um number three were Keisha and Jen number four Margie and Luke number five Mark and Michael number six Christy and Jodi
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So we still have tamy and Victor lost or they finally found the correct arrows.
Elimination and Personal Stories
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But they they they um slid their coffin down the hill to like the spot where you're supposed to open it. And they were like trying the key that they had.
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And it didn't unlock anything. And they realized that the key that they needed fell off. And I was like, oh, my gosh, they're never going to find it. Because like the ground was just like covered in like dead leaves. Mm hmm.
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And they were feeling pretty defeated at this point because they had just yeah scaled this mountain unnecessarily. But Victor found it. Yeah.
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Miraculously. yeah And they were able to finish the task and they checked in as team number eight. And then we finally see Brad and Victoria. I think we did see her.
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You know, like maybe a little clip of her doing the roadblock. But then, yeah, it shows them doing the vampire um detour. And for some reason, they got way more covered in that blood material than everybody else did. and it was the middle of the night.
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It was creepy. But they are last to arrive and they are eliminated. Yeah. And we're super bummed because we liked them and they seemed like they probably could go far.
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Yeah. That was just like bad decision. Bad. Yeah. And it sucks for Tammy and Victor too, because like they were on that flight hours before everybody originally. They They could have now they're yeah something out of their control that was got them off on the wrong foot right from the beginning. Yeah.
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So yeah. Tell us about Bride of Victoria. There's really not much to say actually. There's like not any
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any information given post-race. um It did say that Victoria applied for Survivor multiple times. I could see them being on Survivor. Yeah. And then she submitted a photo with her and Brad, which helped them get cast on The Amazing Race.
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And they are the first team to be eliminated in Romania. And there are no social media links and their names are pretty common. It's Brad Hunt and Victoria Hunt. I Googled, are Brad and Victoria still together? And something was like, Brad and Victoria divorced, but then Victoria found out she was pregnant. And I was like, I don't think this is the same Brad and Victoria.
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I don't think she was having children. Yeah, because they were, she was only 47 the time of the race, which is still childbearing ages, but, you know, getting kind of up there. Yeah.
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So I can't really find much about them. So I hope that they're, oh, actually, that's not true. I found something on Reddit. You can always count on Reddit to find some dirt, like some dirt.
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um Apparently, she was on um and episode of Extreme Cheapskates, which is on TLC. And she made an appearance on that show.
00:33:36
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ah and highlights include peeing in a bottle to save on her water bill. Really? That's weird. Yeah.
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But that's all I have. She didn't seem like that kind of person. I would never have. thought that about her yeah um
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yeah that's all I can find alright well so we hope that they're doing well they did mention at the beginning of the episode that Brad is ah recovered recovering alcoholic and drug addict yeah and he's been sober for 25 years so good for him yeah that's awesome
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And at the point of the race, like, um, filming, they had been married for nine years. So they met after that period of his life. Yeah, so.
00:34:29
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Um, well, i think that is all. I wonder if we're leaving Europe now. i kind of took a glance at the route.
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Um...
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Where do you think we're going? You make a guess. Um, I think we're going to go to Africa.
00:34:49
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Interesting. Interesting where we actually go. Okay. Not your guess. Okay. Well, thanks for listening. um stay tuned for episode four.
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Where is the button that I need? Right there. Okay. Yes. That's all. Thank you. Goodbye. Bye. bye
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You should have a dream.
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They actually dream a lot. They'll be