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Champagne Dreams: The Amazing Race Season 16, Episode 6
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The Race stays in France as teams pop into the Champagne region to race through vineyards and cellars. With self-driving in play, navigation mistakes cost valuable time, and one strategic detour choice comes crashing down for a few unlucky racers. We dive into the bubbly highs and messy lows of this dramatic leg.
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Introduction and Episode Setup
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Hello. We looked at each other and we're like, who's going to start this time? Oh, you should actually start. Well, but I'll just... Okay, Okay, hello.
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Hello. This is the amazing rewatch. We are Jessica and Sadie and we are talking about season 16, episode 6. This is our last episode in the first batch for the first half of season 16. Yeah.
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And we were in France the last episode. It had big focus on like World War one That's what the detour was about. There was no roadblock. um And there was a blind U-turn.
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A good, exciting episode. So, Joe and Heidi were eliminated. And um Michael and Louis were team number one. Yes.
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Yes.
France Elimination Trends
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Something that I forgot to say, something that was interesting about the last episode, it was the first time since season four that somebody has been eliminated in France.
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I think we may have we've gone to France before, ah like since then. But either non-elimination, or like you just travel through it, or for whatever reason, that's...
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Season four. ah was like Chip and Riken. Yeah, we went to France in season six.
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And...
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Well, we haven't been there since season six. Oh, really? That's That's weird. Then I guess that's why. Yeah. Yeah.
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Wait a second. We went in season one season four.
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yeah hold on a second. I gotta look at this. one
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four,
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six. Yeah, and this was, but this
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And 10. We were there in season 10.
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Okay. 10 was like BJ and Tyler, right? Yeah. and Tyler and James.
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Or were they the same season? No. BJ and Tyler won season 9. Tyler and James won season 10. Who were the frat boys?
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Eric and Jeremy were the ones that were in season 10. nine with BJ and Tyler, right? Yeah. um Okay. I'm trying to get to the top of my notes
Joan of Arc Statue Challenges
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here. So this will be interesting because Sadie didn't actually watch the first like 30 minutes of the episode. Yeah. I just kind of briefed her um and then she watched the last 15 minutes.
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Yeah. So we'll see how this goes. Louie and Michael, he has sharp nails. Sorry. Sorry. Louie and Michael um depart at 747 AM and it says drive yourselves to the city of Rems.
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R-E-I-M-S in France. So I'm not sure how I would. Okay. He has this pig toy that is so loud and annoying. Sorry. um And then it says find the musician playing the singing saw and at the Joan of Arc statue.
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Outside the cathedral. It's chaos right now. Oliver, our podcast doggy, is not being a very good podcast doggy tonight. Some nights he's so quiet and calm and doesn't make a peep. And some nights, like does tonight.
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He's playing with his pig toy and, like, throwing it. Here. Come up here. Okay. So then Steve and Allie depart at 8.04. The Cowboys at Jordan at Carol and Brandy at 839.
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um And they are all commenting about like how cold it is. so it's, it looks like it's kind of winter. I'm pretty sure they filmed this in like November, December.
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So, um and they start arriving in this town and asking for help um about where to find Joan of Arc.
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You good?
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So Dan and Jordan, they so they find this lady that um they ask for directions and she's trying to say cathedral. But she has like a really strong French accent.
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And she says cathedral, like And one of them is like Kathy Drone. Kathy Drone. And they think that's what she's trying to say. That's the title of the episode. Kathy Drone. Kathy Drone. Yeah.
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Then they realize, oh cathedral. Okay. And then we have Brent and Katie leaving at 948. So they're about an hour behind. Yeah, that's way later.
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um Steve and Allie are the first ones to get to this statue of Joan of Arc. And the clue is printed on a cork, like a wine bottle cork that says Champagne Le Clerc Briant.
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And they have a person there that's like helping them with directions that they met. And he says it's it's in the city of Epernay. So they know where to go.
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Then the cowboys and the detectives arrive next. And Jet and Cord get the cork. And it says Champagne on it. And they're like, ooh, we saw on the map, like, the town of Champagne.
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We need to go there. Because this region is the Champagne, the Champagne region of France. Yeah. So they get in their car and they start driving to this town that's, like, 40 kilometers away.
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um But Michael and Louis go to, like, the tourism office to ask where to go. And Dan and Jordan also do that.
Navigational Difficulties in France
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And then we have Jeff and Jordan leaving at 1028.
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So they're almost an hour behind Brent and Katie. Yeah. So they're pretty far behind everybody else. Yeah. And we don't have like a great equalizer. No, because there's no flights.
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There's self-driving. Yeah. um Jordan said like when they're driving there, she's like, Joan of Arc, like he carried all the animals. Yeah.
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And Jeff's like, that's Noah. She's like, oh yeah, Noah's Ark. Oh my gosh. ah That's interesting. Yeah. Do you know much about Joan of Arc?
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um Not really. I just, I was looking her up. I listened to a podcast about her recently. I think on History Chicks, possibly. um We have talked about that podcast before. Yeah.
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And it was really interesting, but I forgot a lot of it. But yeah, she was young. She was like, 15? 15? she died at 19. Yeah. So Joan of Arc was is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.
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claiming to be active ah Claiming to be acting under divine guidance, she became a military leader who gained recognition as a savior of France. She was born to a peasant family in northeast France in 1428. Oh, wait,
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ah wait no no. In 1412. In 1428, 1428, she had her visions and stuff like that. Yeah, so she like 16. To help save France.
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She requested to be taken to Charles VII and said she had these visions from the archangel Michael... It's called Archangel. Archangel. That's why was like, I repeated it because I wasn't sure.
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um Yeah, so.
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participant um Yeah.
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So, I remember when we were a little, there was, we had like animated movies about yeah like heroes it was yeah so it was the makers of like the scriptures like the book of mormon stories yeah but they had a series that was like heroes yeah and there she was one of them and there was like galileo and yeah louis pasteur and abraham lincoln george washington and What was the name of those? Christopher Columbus, even though i don't think people regard him as a hero much these days. No.
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um Who else was there?
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What was the series called? it's It's from Living Scriptures. Okay. Okay. the company.
Cultural and Historical References
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They're still in Grandma and Grandpa's basement behind that towel. Wow. wow Well, Living Scriptures has its own streaming platform. Yeah. Service. Wow.
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Which, I mean, that's good. big Like, I remember when mom was buying those videos, like, each VHS tape was, like, $20. Yeah. yeah It was, like, a traveling salesman coming around to.
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Coming. Yeah. And, like, remember when she bought those encyclopedias? Times were so different then. That's so weird. Yeah. That people traveled around to sell encyclopedias to people.
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I'm just looking up these pictures and it's like, it's such a blast from the past. yeah
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Animated hero classics. Okay. Yeah. I knew had something. Oh yeah. William Bradford. I remember that one. Yeah. Yep. The first Thanksgiving. Wow. Yeah. The Pocahontas one.
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Florence Nightingale. Harriet Tubman. Okay. Yeah. I remember these. Yeah. It's very much coming back to me. I know. where Where would you even watch them now? It's like the same animation as like the Swan Princess. Yeah, because Living Scriptures made Swan Princess.
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Interesting.
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I love Swan Princess. I know. I didn't know that they made. Yeah.
Champagne Challenges
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I mean, it's not like a church story, but it's – and I don't know if it's – um
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branded as living scriptures but it's like the parent company like nest or something like that but it's the same the same company huh yeah okay well now where are we um we are at the roadblock steve and ally um are having trouble navigating they were the first ones to like find the first clue but no they have gotten a little bit lost so Dan and Jordan and Michael and Louie are first to the roadblock, and it says, who's ready to cave in?
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So they have to rappel 100 feet down into the aging caverns of the winery. Once inside, they have to search the caverns filled with champagne bottles um for the one that is specially marked. Then they'll use a saber to slice off the cork to celebrate their victory.
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When the champagne shoots out, the clue will come out with it. So Louis of Louis and Michael and Jordan of Dan and Jordan are doing the roadblock. And then Steve and Allie do get there and Steve is doing the roadblock.
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So we have and Cord who have gone to this town far away and they get there and they are like asking for directions. And the person they find is like, you need to go to Epernay.
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And they're like, oh, we are in the wrong place. Yeah. Luckily, 40 kilometers is not too far away. yeah And they're not the only ones that yeah loss go to the wrong place over the course of this episode. yeah so Jordan is the first one to find the champagne bottle.
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And so they they get the bottle and they take it up out of the cellar. And then this guy shows them like hands them the saber and shows them how to cut the cork off.
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And... I'm pretty sure that he was supposed to wait a little bit longer for this guy to like move his fingers before. Oh my gosh. Because he like, he goes and he's like doing it in slow motion. And all of a sudden he like does it fast and the guy jumps so hard.
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And I'm like, I don't know if it was because he was surprised about the cork or that he almost got his fingers sliced off. Yeah. Scary. Yeah. Could have had to. So if you haven't watched it, you should go back and just like watch that moment because he looked scared.
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um But the clue says it's just like a little rolled up piece of paper inside like a little plastic cylinder. And it says Tottinger Tottinger la Marqueterie.
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And they must figure out that it's a chateau in the nearby village of Pierie.
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And then that It gets really confusing for people because Tattinger, I think, is like the name of like a champagne company, champagne brand.
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who And they have a store or like, yeah, some sort of office in Reims, the city that they came from before this.
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But this La Marqueterie is the chateau of like the vineyard. So everybody asking for directions They get told to go back to this town that they were already at.
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So Brent and Katie get to the city of Rims. And they're trying to find the Joan of Arc statue. And they find it statue that has animals on it. And Katie was like, oh, that must be it. It seems like she's also thinking of Noah. Yeah.
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and The Ark. yeah and noah's ark is a-r-k right and joan of ark is a-r-c yeah what does of ark mean joan of ark that would be like is that the city she's from see
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There's a ah TV series called Joan of Arcadia. Did you ever hear about that? It's got Amber Tamplin in it. No. um It's not a place but a modern modernization and translation of her father's surname.
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Dark. are D-A-R-C. Like D. Apostrophe. Like Day Arc. Yeah. Probably. Okay. Okay.
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Um, so yeah they're, they're trying to find the statue and Katie seems like she's in like a really bad mood. Yeah. And Brent's like, should we ask those people over there? And she's like, no.
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And he's like, okay, well, what do you want to do? You want to just stand there? and anyway, they do get directions and they go to the right place. Meanwhile, Louie finds the marked bottle. Then Steve, Carol and Brandy arrive at the roadblock and Brandy is going to do it.
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um
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Dan and Jordan are some of the teams, one of the first teams to get the directions to go back to that other city. But Louie and Michael get direct the correct directions and they have somebody offer to like lead them there.
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Nice.
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They've had a couple of good episodes in a row. Yeah, they've been doing really well. Um, so we're kind of just like going back and forth here. Brandy finds the bottle. Steve and Allie get the directions to go back to that other city.
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Jet and Cord arrive at the roadblock. Cord is going to do the roadblock, but they get the directions to go back to that other city.
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So Louie and Michael are the first ones to get the next clue, which is a detour. The choices are Tower or Terra. And in Tower, they have to build ah a tower of champagne glasses to exactly 15 levels high. So it's like, you know, like a pyramid basically, you know?
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Um, and it says, ah they have to solve the equation to figure out how to get only one glass on top and build the tower without breaking it, then fill it with champagne.
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And then Tara, search an entire square kilometer of the barren wintry land for a tiny cluster of grapes marked with race colors. Then take the grapes to the harvest foreman.
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Yeah.
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Louis and Michael choose Tara because they're like us with the the glass champagne bottles. We're like bowls in a china shop. So it would not be good.
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So they choose to search for the grapes.
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I feel like I'm talking a lot. Okay, well, I haven't got to this part quite yet. But I can give you some info on where we're at. Okay.
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Because you've mentioned a few different names of towns already. Rem, Eparnay, and Pieri are kind of of the ones that we're in here.
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So, this area is known as the Champagne province with all these cities in there. Um, it's in the Northeast of France.
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Um, it's the Champagne wine region known for the sparkling white wine that bears the name. Um, and see.
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Champagne. And we talked we talked about in the last episode that the um monk named Dom Perignon is like the inventor of champagne. hu And he was from this region.
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And there's lots of rolling hills and forests and vineyards. um It has like ah chalky subsoil with lots of elm um minerals and...
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um
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Like it says belemnite fossils. I don't know. It's just good for growing, growing vines. And um champagne is obviously made from the grapes.
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And in this region, it was invented in 1697. 300 300 million bottles just of champagne are produced every year. The most expensive bottle ever sold was $2.07 million. dollars What?
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Yeah. Why? In 2013, Taste of Diamonds Champagne was made by the UK-based company something. Something French. gu day
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Gaudet Diamantes or something like that. The price tag is due to the fact that the logo is handcrafted from 18-karat gold and embellished with a 19-karat white diamond.
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So mostly for the bottle. Yeah. Sounds was like. um
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A standard bottle of champagne contains about 49 million bubbles.
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A champagne cork can reach 25 miles per hour when popped. um
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So the soil in the champagne region contains prehistoric sea organisms. Yeah. like crustaceans in the ground. It gives us soil its unique characteristics. Chalky soil is very porous, which helps the grapes to thrive.
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It's global champagre but champagne day on the 4th of October every year. the old as um yeah The oldest bottles of champagne were found in the Baltic Sea in 2010 that were produced between 1782 1788.
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Drinking champagne every week can prevent memory loss.
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But not too much. Yeah. Because then they would make you lose your memory. Yeah. So, yeah. Does champagne have less alcohol in it than wine? Or is it the same?
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No, not necessarily. It's just sparkling wine. Just lighter? Yeah.
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Not really lighter, though. Champagne is a very strong taste, actually. But not bad. it just Well, some people might think it's bad, but strong. Yeah. i was trying to I was looking at it on a map, this region, and I was wondering if I rode a train through here, but I don't think I did.
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Because it's kind of like It's not far from Paris, so it's kind of like almost in between Paris and Belgium. Yeah. But I went probably more north than east.
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so Yeah. And there's not too many places to – I mean, lot of places in Europe are closer together. But if you go to like Paris on a vacation, Champagne is not very far away. Like a lot of people do Champagne day trips. Yeah.
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Well, actually, Jet and Cord talk about that because they they went to the wrong place um at the beginning. And then they also went to the wrong town like everybody else in the middle.
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And they're they're like, people pay thousands of dollars for the tour that we went on today. Yeah. But we got to do it for free with a Mercedes. Yeah. For real. It probably was like a nice drive, but not where they wanted to go.
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yeah But they were not the only ones. So luckily, i mean, not luckily, but the only ones that didn't go to the wrong place were Michael and Louie and Brandy and Carol.
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Yeah. Everybody else went back to the city of Rams and then had to go back to Pieri. Yeah. So, Brent and Katie finally find the roadblock. Brent is going to do it.
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He finds it pretty easily. Jeff and Jordan get to the roadblock right after Brent Katie leave. Jeff does the roadblock. And Steve and Allie, when they get to the Tatinger whatever, the store, he like somehow scraped the front of his the car yeah really bad. He ran into something and it like took the it didn't make the tire go flat, but it like dented in the bumper like down by the tire yeah did you see this part huh they're mercedes yeah yeah it's gonna be expensive so they find out they're not in the right place and they leave but the like as they're driving away the car like they can hear and feel the wheel rubbing against something that got knocked out of place so they stop and they are like
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trying to knock this piece of plastic or piece of car out of the wheel well, and they can't quite get it. So they're like, do we need to call for a new car?
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and as we know, like they don't get a time credit or anything if they have to wait for a new car. And so they like almost consider it, but then Steve is like, oh wait, I have duct tape in my bag.
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So they get duct tape and they fix it like well enough to be able to drive. It's good thing to put on. Yeah. And he said as they were driving, he's like, my wife threw it in there last minute and thought it might be helpful.
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So. Nice. Yeah. Duct tape, gloves. Gloves, flashlight. Yeah. Headlamp. They need they all used headlamps because they were down in that ah like dark cellar finding the wine. So we're adding all these things to our list.
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Yeah. And then... Jeff is the last one to do the roadblock. He finds the bottle. And it's funny because after he like breaks off the cork and like the champagne is flowing out, the the guy that's helping them, he lets Jeff drink some of the champagne, but he didn't let anybody else because like Brandy really wanted to and Steve wanted to and they like pretended to go drink the the champagne and he was like, no, but he let Jeff drink some.
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That's interesting.
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pick-me-up.
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So Louis and Michael are the only ones that have started the detour
Pit Stop and Team Dynamics
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so far. And they find their grapes. And the clue says to drive themselves across town to the next pit stop, La Orca. La which is the cultural administration building for the region of Champagne.
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And they are team number one, and they went a trip to Le Blanc Spa and Resort Riviera Maya, which is a very nice resort. Nice. I have never sold it before, but I want to. yeah And I want to go there. It's, like, really fancy.
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Nice. and then, from what you told me, Carol and Brandy finished their detour as well. They chose the... Grapes?
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Yep, they chose Tara. Yes, they find it fast and then they go to ask for directions and they see this cop parked on the side of the road and they go to ask him directions.
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But Brent and Katie, who have not done the detour yet, they see Carol and Brandy talking to this cop and getting directions and they're like, oh, let's just follow them.
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So brett Carol and Brandy are going to the detour. Brent and Katie are following them. Carol and Brandy run up to the mat and Brent's like, oh, we haven't done the detour yet. yeah And we don't have the clue to come to the detour or to come to the pit stop. So they turn around and leave and Carol and Brandy are team number two.
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Which is, i think, the best they've done. i think so. Yeah.
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and then i'm i got to this point this is where you're at okay steve and ally get to the detour they also chose the grape one and they didn't really have a hard time finding the grapes they check in as team number three um jeff and jordan seem to be lost they're looking for the vineyard and they're like right they but they're they went to the wrong place and they're told to go back to epinay and brett and katie do get back to the detour where they were supposed to be what they bypassed originally they chose grapes and so they're walking around and they're not like in a hurry
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No. Katie still has a bad attitude. Yeah. She's really like Brent. I hate. We said the same thing about Carol and Brandy last episode. I hate it when the person who has a huge opinion about what detour they do lets the other partner choose the detour and then when they choose it they get mad.
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That's just exactly what happened. Katie is in a bad mood. She told Brent to choose a detour and he did. And she is just mad the whole time that he chose that detour. And she's just like not yeah wish in a hurry. She's not trying really hard. She's not like even like it. You can see the way they film it.
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She walks past some marked grapes several times. Yeah. Not even looking that Her heart is not in it And she just keeps saying how much she wants to change detours, change detours. So they decide to do that.
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Dan and Jordan when they get to the detour they chose the tower one which is pretty hard you have to get it really high 15 layers is like taller than a person yeah and they have to make sure that the glass doesn't fall um but they're not fighting too much on this one not as much as they fought in the past they don't ever fight like too much but yeah Did you see how they finished it though? Yeah. So they got like 12 layers of the pyramid shape and they needed 15. So they just stacked like the last three or four on top of yeah each other straight straight up. So there was like four single glasses. Yeah.
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And they started like filling it that way and it looked very precarious. Yes, it did. It did not look like those top four were going to hold up I was surprised that they even let them do that. Yeah. Like I thought that they would have to start over or Yeah. Add more to each layer to you know, make their way up.
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Yeah. But they let him do it. So. this bottle of champagne is like. Oh, yeah. it's not just... Half size of their body. Yeah. it's not just, like, a regular bottle of champagne. It's, like, a huge one that's going to fill, like, all 15 layers.
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Not quite, but it's really big. Yeah. And heavy. And they have to hold it, like, up above their head. Yeah. And not shake and be very careful and make sure it doesn't tip the whole tower over. um So, when Brent and Katie get to the detour, they're kind of, like, watching Dan and Jordan finish up.
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And...
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um
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Let's see. Watching Dan and Jordan finish up and they... Hold on. I'm kind of confused on my notes. Hold on a second.
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Well, Dan and Jordan finish. They didn't spill their champagne or tip over their tower. Oh, the while they were searching for their grapes, the Cowboys showed up.
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And they were in a much bigger hurry. Yes. They were like ready to... get in and get out, and they were running. They weren't just, like, moseying on around, taking their time, taking, like, a sweet walk. They were, like, running.
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And they found it quickly and got out of there, and they check in as team number four. So that's when Brent and Katie decide to switch detours because they saw how fast they got in. kate Katie says, Brent's to blame. Yeah. And he's just like, okay, fine.
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And so they go back to, they go to the other detour, see Dan and Jordan finish up, And they start building the tower and they get to 15 layers and they have like a precarious top couple layers as well.
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And they're filling it up and it tips and shatters. And so they switch detours again. Yeah. Back to grapes. And normally this would be a death sentence for pretty much any team, but Jeff and Jordan are still
Non-Elimination Leg and Team Backgrounds
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very lost.
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Yeah. Yeah, big because they were so far behind and they also went to the wrong city. They are now just getting to the detour. They choose tower and they see that Brent and Katie are outside searching in the grapes.
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And they're really happy to see somebody else there. And they're like, if they've been here this long searching, then it must be hard. Let's go inside and build yeah the tower. So they start um that side of the detour.
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um And then Katie finds some grapes. But it's like the same thing again. Like you can see the way they film it. She walks past some grapes a couple of times. Yeah. um And it's kind of interesting because it's a winter and there are no other grapes on the vine. And they're the ones that are marked are like big grapes.
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So how they miss it over and over and over is interesting. Because there's like not other really a lot of other grapes to look at. I think there were some unmarked clusters of grapes. Yeah. And that's a big like size of land. Yeah, but it doesn't look like they had like... If there's seven teams left, there's seven marked clusters or whatever. It was just like there's enough...
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that people will find them. Like, you know, when they, some needle in a haystack things, it's like, there's only as many as how many teams there are. So the first team has more chance. The last team has less of a chance. It doesn't seem like it was like that.
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Yeah, I don't know. um But Dan and Jordan did check in his team number five. So we see Katie sees the grapes and they have to still drive themselves to the pit stop. And then Jeff and Jordan are filling up their tower and you're like, oh, it could be close.
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But no, Jeff and Jordan, their tower falls. yeah So then they decide to go look through the grapes. And at this point, it's really dark. Brent and Katie do check in his team number six.
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And then Jeff and Jordan check in his team number seven. And he's like, Jeff and Jordan, you're the last team to arrive. He's like, what? Yeah. yeahs Like in a funny, joking way.
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And they are and eliminated this time. No, not elimination for them. I've enjoyed them enough. Like, they haven't been my favorite team or, like, my favorite couple that we've seen.
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But they haven't fought so much. They haven't been the worst people to fight. They are entertaining. But they've made too many mistakes. Yeah. They struggled sometimes quite a bit and...
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Well, they took first in the first leg. Yeah. And didn't Brent and Katie take, like, second? Probably. And then the last few legs, both of those teams have just been struggling, making too many mistakes.
00:33:16
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And then Michael and Louis have been the opposite. Like, they were almost eliminated in every South American leg. Yeah. And now in Europe, they have just, like, take they've won three legs in a row. Yeah.
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So – Um, well, Jeff and Jordan's race average is 5.67. So yeah, they did take first, then six, fifth, eight, seventh, seventh. So really after the first leg, they fell back and.
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um They were saved by that non-elimination. and they would have been gone if Joe and Heidi didn't get U-turned. Yeah.
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So they did get an extra leg out of it. um Okay. So they, Jordan and Jeff, competed on Big Brother. Jordan won, didn't she? huh Didn't Jordan win?
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I I think so, possibly. And then after the race, they were on they were again on Big Brother 13. Jeff finished in seventh place. Jordan finished fourth place.
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Jeff was awarded $25,000 because he was voted America's favorite house guest. yeah um
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Then they also were on 16th.
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I don't know. On September 5th, 2014, Jeff proposed to Jordan at the Big Brother house after hosting oh hosting a competition during Big Brother 16. She accepted and they got married in 2016. And they're still married? They're still married.
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Oh, nice. And they have two kids. kids. let's see. one child born in 2016 and one in That's the same as mine.
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They are the first team to consist of two former Big Brother house guests. Allison, I think from season... five I don't even remember.
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She was eliminated like pretty early on. Yeah. And we didn't like her at all. She was on big brother, but she had like a non big brother boyfriend with her. Yeah. But the Jeff and Jordan are not going to be the last big brother team. We'll have Brendan and Rachel, Cody and Jessica, Derek and Claire, who just broke up recently, like a couple days ago.
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um And then like all of season 38. Right. Well, all of season 38 is big brother person with their significant other. With their plus one. Yeah.
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and Okay. Maybe not significant other, but plus one, yeah.
00:35:49
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And so they have a podcast called, hold on, let me find it, Together Mess. Together mess. Yeah. and yes Yeah.
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Like togetherness, but M instead of N together mess. They look similar. Jeff has gray hair though. He looks young, just has gray hair.
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um But yeah, it seems like they're doing well, pretty successful. mean, she did win big brother, so they got a nice payout for that.
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Although a million dollars does not go as far as one would think it would. No.
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it probably It went way further back in probably, what, 2010? Yeah. When she was on whatever year. But, yeah, their pictures are really cute. Lots of them, like, traveling, cute kids, two little boys.
00:36:45
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Um... I want to go listen to one of their excuse me one of their podcast episodes just to see what it's about. I don't know if they like talk about Big Brother or if it's just like a...
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ah It says... From Big Brother to The Amazing Race, Couples Therapy, in their very own jeff and their very own Jeff and Jordan Do America. Never heard of that show, but this team knows just how messy life can get. Listen each week as they dive into parenting, marriage, reality TV, pop culture, and so much more.
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That sounds like something I would like. Yeah. um So, yeah.
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i I like to hear when they... Stay together. Yeah. Get married. Have kids. Yeah. um
Season Reflections and Future Outlook
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Okay. Well, we are at the end of our first batch of season 16.
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And it's been a good season so far We said at the beginning of the season that, like, people have said this is not one of their favorites. But I've liked it so far. Yeah. Yeah. I think we probably like it just because it's new to us.
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Yeah. And we know, I mean, there's been a lot of other seasons that we've seen but don't remember much. But yeah having something completely new kind of feels exciting. But yeah, I've liked it.
00:38:00
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There haven't been any teams and I'm like, ugh, they're the worst. Yeah. Everybody's decent and yeah relatively enjoyable. Yeah. Yeah. So I think we will leave France um probably stay in Europe before we go to Asia.
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yeah.
00:38:20
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I think I saw where we're going next. It's new location to the Amazing Race, I believe. Nice. Okay, so um as always, thank you for listening. Let us know what you think. We love to interact with people on our Instagram and Facebook and email, so send us a message and we'll see you in two weeks. Yeah.
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