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Ready, Set, Eliminate?!: The Amazing Race Season 15, Episode 1- Part 1
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The Amazing Race is back with a bang in Season 15! In this two-part premiere, we break down Part 1, where teams face a jaw-dropping twist before they even leave the starting line. With the pressure cranked up from the first few minutes, alliances form, tensions rise, and the race to Tokyo kicks off with high stakes. Join us as we react to the drama, the strategy, and that shocking early elimination. Buckle up—it’s going to be a wild ride!
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Welcome to The Amazing Rewatch Season 15
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to The Amazing Rewatch Season 15. 15. That's a pretty big number. I know. Feels like a milestone.
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Yeah. And... ah
Busy Lives and 'Maycember'
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We, I've forgotten how to podcast because it's been a while since we recorded last.
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We've kind of taken a break this month. Have you heard of the term Maycember? Like, because you know how December is super crazy and busy with everything for holidays and yeah they somebody came up with the term Maycember because May is also almost just as busy as December with end of school Yeah.
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and then Sports starting. i feel like my life has been taken over by soccer and softball. Yeah. It has been very busy. And it's like, so my work. Is in the school district. So I have a lot of stuff going on at the end of the year.
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Dance recitals. You know, all the yeah extra stuff that's not normally throughout the year. So,
Jessica's Travels
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yeah. It's been crazy. And then Jessica went on a trip. Went on two trips.
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Yeah. Went to Italy. And then I went to Disneyland. i so I decided very last minute to go to Disneyland. Yeah. Anyway, so. Yeah. We are supposed to be releasing our first batch of season 15 on the first Wednesday of June.
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We're going to try. That's in five days from the time of this recording. Yeah. Six days. so But we've already watched two episodes. Yeah. Well, the episode one is basically two legs.
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Yeah. So i was going to say- that helps. we going to do one episode? I think so. One podcast episode for this one. Because it was one episode on the TV. But I said like part one and two.
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Well, nothing happened in like one. yeah Really? Not very much happened, I guess. So. And I forgot that we usually do like a what was happening in.
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oh yeah. In at this time. when What was happening? Okay. When did
Nostalgia Trip: What Happened in 2009
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this air? Amazing Race 15.
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It aired September to December 2009.
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So season 14, I think we did the beginning of 2009, right? Yeah. So what happened in the second half of 2009? I was, what was I doing? I was in my last year of college.
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Well, it was my third year, but I graduated in three years. Toot toot my own horn. Nice. So was technically my senior year, I guess. I don't really have like a like,
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My junior and senior year were just together, I guess. Yeah. Yes. And I was a junior in high school. um Okay. So I can start with Yeah, you might start because you do music, movies.
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And TV. And TV. So the top movie of 2009, 2009, I think we've already talked about it last season, but can you remember what we said it was?
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It was probably some sort of Marvel Spider-Man Transformers. It was Transformers Revenge of the Fallen. Okay. Then number two was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
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Number three was up. Number four, Twilight New Moon. And number five, Avatar, which was released the year before, but was still in top five for 2009. Yeah. That was a big deal.
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Yeah. So other notable movies in the second half of 2009, have The Blind Side, 2012. that the movie about the world ending? Yeah.
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two thousand and twelve was that like the movie about like the world ending The Blind Side? No, 2012. Oh. Yeah, I feel like it was some sort of disaster movie. yeah I don't know if I ever watched it.
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um A Christmas Carol... Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Alvin and the Chipmunks, the Squeakquel, and Glorious Bastards, which is one of my favorite movies.
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Have you watched it before? It's really good. Slumdog Millionaire, Couples Retreat, Paranormal Activity, Sherlock Holmes,
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The Princess and the Frog was number 41. Wow. Wow. wow
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crazy. Zombieland.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
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Marley and Me. So So yeah, some remember memorable movies in that year. Top music of 2009. The number one song was Boom Boom Pow by the Black Eyed Peas. Boom Boom.
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That's a good running song. Yeah. It's got a good like. Good beat. Yeah. Poker Face, Lady Gaga, Just Dance Lady Gaga, I Got a Feeling, Black Eyed Peas, Love Story, Taylor Swift, Right Round, Flo Rida, I'm Yours, Jason Mraz, Single Ladies, Beyonce,
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Heartless by Kanye West and Gives You Hell by the All-American Rejects. There was a lot of Taylor Swift, um some Pitbull, Rihanna, Drake, Kelly Clarkson, Beyonce, Katy Perry, Britney Spears, 303.
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Lady Gaga was in the and here a lot. She had a really good year in 2009. That's when she like came to be Was this the year that we did our road trip to California?
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think it was. And listen to the first... Poker Face? I going to say the first album. I think we talked about this the last... Maybe we did. The last season. is sounding familiar. listened to Taylor Swift's first album a lot.
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And the top TV of 2009. We always... This is the time of... American Idol Tuesday was number one. American Idol Wednesday was number two. Dancing with the Stars was three.
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NCIS four. Sunday Night Football five. Dancing with the Stars results.
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Grey's Anatomy, Two and Half Men, Desperate Housewives, Big Bang Theory, Survivor, The Bachelor, House, Brothers and Sisters, Castle, Lost, The Amazing Race, Cold Case, Private Practice.
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So, It says Amazing Race was 26, Lost was 24, lost was twenty four
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Desperate Housewives was 13. That's such a good show. I heard they're going to do a reboot. I heard that recently too. That piece is amazing. Oh, I heard it on Casey's podcast.
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Our cousin Casey has a of pop culture podcast. I think we've talked about it before on here. Yeah. he On the phone with Casey On the phone with Casey K. The reboot is called Wisteria Lane.
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It's focusing on a new group of friends living on the iconic cul-de-sac. And I would love that for that to happen. Yeah, if you want to know what's going on in the pop culture and um on the world, everything you need to know, listen to On the Phone with KCK. It comes out every Monday.
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Yeah. K-A-C-E-Y. Yeah. And that's all I got. Okay. Well, speaking of
Disney's Marvel Acquisition
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pop culture, some of the pop culture and world events in the second half of 2009
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um Disney acquires Marvel for $4.24 billion. dollars And that was a good investment because they've definitely made that back um a lot of times. Yeah. um Let's see.
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I'm kind of just scrolling through here to see if there's anything
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that stands out. Marvel has changed so much since then. Yeah, it's very different. It's crazy. That was like, I mean, Iron man was the first one that came out, right?
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When was that? I think so.
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came out in 2008. 2008. Let's see.
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may second two thousand and eight
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what see
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There's lot of, on this website, there's like a lot of golf um awards. I don't know why.
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61st Emmy Awards.
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um What the? it's a good thing. Disney did not release the original Iron Man movie. Paramount Pictures released the film. Oh, okay. Disney acquired Marvel in 2009. Yeah. going to say that was after.
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ah Iron Man came out. so Okay. The Emmy Awards. 30 Rock won Outstanding Comedy Series.
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Mad Men won Best Drama.
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History was made by The Amazing Race. Both programs won their series categories for the seventh straight year.
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So, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Amazing Race tied for this. They both won their series categories for the seventh straight year, broke the record for the most consecutive victories in a major category.
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Good job. Yeah. Amazing Race would lose the following year. Oh, no.
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What's the category? Reality TV show? um Yeah, I think so. And The Daily Show is like best variety show.
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Alec Baldwin won best lead actor in a comedy. Toni Collette, best actress in a comedy. Bryan Cranston for Breaking Bad, a lead actor in a drama. Glenn Close for Damages, lead actress in a drama.
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John Cryer, Kristen Chenoweth, Michael Emerson. Ooh, Michael Emerson for Lost. For Best Supporting actress Actor in a Drama Series. He's so good.
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He's like, it's Ben. Ben Linus. He is like so good at being. At Ben Linus? Yeah. Yeah. They definitely picked the right person for that.
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Yes, I've listened to a Lost Recap podcast and he actually was a guest several times on that podcast. And it was so interesting to hear him talk. Because like he's not like that in real life.
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I hope not. Yeah, he's super kind and just like... Yeah, it's like when people just embody that character, you can't even like separate the actor from the character.
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Joffrey from Game of Thrones or something like that. Like he had to like um take himself out of school because people are being so mean to him because he played Joffrey so well.
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Like I feel like it would be hard to. People could just not. Yeah. Yeah. Jeff Probst won for best um host for a reality show.
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Okay. Let's go back to the big list.
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All these pauses will be edited out. So you don't know that they're there, but Sadie does. for That's why I'm keeping quiet.
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Tom Brady throws five second quarter touchdowns against the Tennessee Titans, an NFL record for touchdowns passed in one quarter.
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Tom Brady definitely has fallen from grace since then. I think people still like him, but he's... Yeah. It's kind of weird.
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It's been a very weird trajectory for him. He's going to retire, and then he wasn't. And then that caused him to get a divorce. And that probably wasn't the only reason. but A Netflix deal...
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of some kind like yeah it didn't wasn't there like a roast of him i didn't watch it but yeah there was a tom brady roast oh this one's interesting because we are utah jazz fans jerry sloan becomes the first coach in nba history with 1 000 wins with one team he was awesome yeah and the jazz have not been the same since no Taylor Swift and Brad Paisley win big at the 43rd CMA Awards. That was back when Taylor Swift was still singing country music.
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Did you see that they replaced Taylor Swift with Brad Paisley on that mural in Nashville, I guess? No. I guess, yeah, there's like a I don't know if this is true or if this is something that somebody shared on Facebook that is one of those things that everybody says is true and yeah it's misinformation.
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But um there's like a country legends mural somewhere in Nashville and Taylor Swift was kind of like in the middle of this painting. And there's, you know, Tim McGraw and Reba McIntyre and like all the famous country singers. And they they painted over her and put Brad Paisley on there.
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It looks like it's true. Is it? 2020. Yeah. The Legends from Nashville mural at Legends Corner replaced Taylor Swift by Brad Paisley in 2020. That
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was five years ago. Yeah. The reason for the change, the mural undergoing an overhaul by the artist who decided to make the change. Some sources suggest that he changed the change was due to Taylor Swift's transition to pop music.
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yeah
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um Back to Tom Brady. He earned he got $25 million dollars for that Netflix roast. People can sit and make money all they want if I get paid $25 million.
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but i would sit through anything for million.
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that's funny Um, the American music awards, Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson are the winners, but Michael Jackson died earlier that year.
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So he had, what is that? The posthumous.
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Susan Boyle releases her. I dreamed a dream album. I still go back and watch that, um, audition from time to time. yeah It just like makes me happy. And you know what I watched today?
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Like five times. The So You Think You Can Dance with Twitch and Alex Wong. That's the best. Get out of my mind. Yes. have maybe watched four or five episodes in person of So You Think You Can Dance and that happened to be one of them. I think we probably watched that together because I think. was in Virginia.
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Well, I watched it at that time then too because like. like how did i catch how did we catch that memorable one i don't know never watched the show i know that's i'm like it was so meant to be because it's still to this day is like i think people's favorite dance that ever came out of that show for sure and that was such a good show good even though i don't watch it very much it was a really good show there's a lot of people on that show from utah utah Oh, yeah.
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And now they're all in Dancing with Stars. Yeah. um Yeah, i I just got the hankering to watch that today and then I watched it like five more times. Yeah. It's just so good.
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It is. RIP Twitch. That was so sad. Yeah. um Okay, is there anything else interesting? i think we're, hold on, I'm going into December right now and then.
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Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
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And Tiger
Tom Brady's Legacy
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Woods quits golf. Announced an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage. ah That didn't age well either because isn't he golfing again and is not married to that lady anymore?
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think so. So.
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Womp womp. What is that? Isn't that like a trend right now? Airball? Yeah. On the internet. Holy airball. Yeah. I don't keep up with much of the trends.
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I'm probably like two weeks behind. Yeah. No. and That one's pretty current. But by the time this comes out, will probably not It's crazy how fast trends. yeah how fast trends go through nowadays so I think that hits the highlights who a lot of like political and world events that are just complicated and this says in March Bernie Madoff pled guilty of that was crazy we missed that one I guess in the a recap of the first half of the year yeah that story is really fascinating
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Yeah.
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There's a movie about it, isn't there? Yeah. What's his name? Is it Jeff something? It's It's not Jeff Bridges. Jeff. Jeffrey.
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Maybe not Jeff. um The Wizard of Wives on HBO. I don't know. Has has Robert De Niro.
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No. Maybe. Maybe I'm thinking of something totally else. Jeff Daniels is the person I'm thinking of. He's like in Dumb and Dumber, right? Doesn't he play Bernie Madoff in something?
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I don't...
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There's no readily public information connecting Jeff Daniels directly to Bernie Madoff. So I think no. Thanks, AI. Google AI. All right.
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Well, okay. I think we should get into the episode fifteen one Season episode 1. Yes. We are meeting
Introduction to Amazing Race Season 15
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the 12 new teams of this season. we will do a bit more of an in-depth breakdown on the bio episode, the biography, if you don't know what bio means.
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um So go listen to that if you want to. you don't have to if you don't want to um so we are starting in los angeles which we started in los angeles the last three seasons in a row yeah 12 13 14 and now 15 all in los angeles they're getting they're losing their creativity yeah it probably just is easier because that's probably where like production is and stuff yeah but um They're at the Los Angeles quote-unquote river. Yeah, it's a trickle.
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Made famous by like the scenes in Greece and stuff. It's like that concrete
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gorge. Yeah. but With like a tiny sliver of water going down it. And the team's... are We'll just go back and forth.
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So the first team we see is Brian and Erica. They're a married couple from Nashville. And Erica was Miss America in 2005. And then we have Lance and Carrie. They are engaged and they are from Salem, Massachusetts.
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Rhea and Tiffany are professional poker players. Why don't they give us the location of all of them? They give it like where they're from for like all but two teams.
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I don't know. Anyway. Then Zev and Justin, they're best friends from l LA and they say that Zev has Asperger's. So that's like going to be an interesting thing for the season.
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Yeah. but He's funny. Yeah. And Asperger's, I don't think that's like a, I don't think that you call it that anymore. I think it's just kind of, it's all on the autism spectrum. yeah But it's more, it's more like high functioning. Yeah.
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It's now considered part of the broader autism spectrum disorder. So. Yeah. But we will say Asperger's because that's what he called it. And that's what it was called at the time. So then we have Micah and Kanan.
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They are a newly dating couple from Tennessee. They're singer songwriters from Nashville. Then we have some fan faves, Flight Time and Big Easy.
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They are har there on the Harlem Globetrotters basketball. Have you ever watched the Harlem Globetrotters? Why is that so hard to say? Harlem Globetrotters?
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They came to SUU once. In fact, I think that the Harlem Globetrotters game was the game that I fell down the stairs and broke my foot. Oh my gosh.
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Yeah.
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It's all coming together. I know.
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They're an American exhibition basketball team. So they like. They do stands. Like a performance kind of thing. But in like comedy and yeah. And they played those at the Capitals, the Washington Capitals. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. It started in 1926. Oh, wow. On the south side of Chicago. That's 99 years ago. Yeah. At this time. Huh.
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Cool. On the south side of Chicago. Yeah. Not Harlem? They began as the say Savoy Big Five, one of the premier attractions in the Savoy Ballroom. And then they became the Globetrotters and then then the Harlem Globetrotters.
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So. Huh. And they are, will you look up how tall they are? Because, so flight time is the shorter of the two.
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But I think he's still pretty tall, but Big Easy is just so tall. Yeah. That it makes him look short.
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um Okay. He is... flight time is six three Okay. So it's not like giant, but yeah pretty tall. Yeah.
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Big Easy is...
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6'9". Yeah. That's pretty tall. Yeah.
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Okay. um So then we have Sam and Dan. They are brothers from Missouri. And they are both gay.
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this That's them, right? Yeah. Okay. And Gary and Matt, they are a father and son team from Montana. ah matt has like so they're like hair yeah bright pink hair and the dad is definitely like a cowboy and kind of like a farmer yeah just like a montana rancher yeah so they look very different but yeah yeah i like them eric and lisa are married and they're yoga teachers i don't know where they're from
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Yeah, and they say, we're like yoga in the hood. Like, that was annoying. it like I think they say because they're like, they're not, they ride motorcycles. Yeah. But they do yoga or something like that.
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Then we have Garrett and Jessica. They've been dating on and off and they're from Northern California. Marcy and Ron are dating from San Francisco. They've been dating for a year. They met online.
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And then make they're they're older they're the elderly couple of the group. wouldn't call They're probably in their, like, late fifty s Well, so they're the oldest of this one, but I wouldn't call them elderly. Yeah, true.
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And then we have Megan and Shane, and they are dating, and they're from San Diego. Yes, and his name is spelled so annoyingly. annoyingly. Yeah, it's like C-H-E-Y-N-E. Yeah.
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So, Phil says... This season starts with ah twist a twist. There's a new challenge. The details are in the clue. you're If you're unable to complete the challenge, you will be eliminated right here.
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One team won't even get past the start line. The world is waiting for you. Good luck. Travel safe. Go.
Challenges in Tokyo Begin
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So all the teams run to their backpacks and the clue says, fly to Tokyo, but first search the wall of over 1000 license plates for only one of 11 from the Shinagawa district, which is their destination in Tokyo.
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What they haven't been told is the logo for this district is printed at the top of the clue. Once they get the right license plate, they will get a ticket for one of two flights to Tokyo from LAX.
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So there's like a chain link fence here on the LA River with ah thousand over a thousand license plates. So they're all trying to figure out.
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And a lot of them do have Japanese symbols on them, but it's not. I mean, only 11 of them have the specific one that they're looking for. So most teams don't see that at first. And so they just like go to the the fence and they're like, oh, that one has yeah Japanese writing on it. Let's take it. and Phil says, that's not correct. That's not correct. That's not correct.
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I'm not sure. um i think Maria and Tiffany were the first one to figure out that the... It's Justin and Zev do. Oh, is it? And so then teams start fingering it out and getting the clues right.
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And it's pretty stressful because that's a big deal to be accepted on the Amazing Race and then not even make it out of LA. So the last two teams fighting for this last and haven't figured out that the logo is on the thing and are just like process of elimination are Lance and Carrie and Eric and Lisa.
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So Lance and Carrie... Not Dave. I thought his name was Dave for like the first 10 minutes of this episode. And I like every time they were on the screen, I was like Dave and Carrie. not even a Dave. I know. yeah um They're the couple from Massachusetts. And then Eric and Lisa are the yoga teachers.
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yeah So they are just, yeah, running back and forth. And then Carrie and Lance are the ones that end up getting it. So Eric and Lisa are eliminated on the spot. Yeah.
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Yeah. and they're pretty bummed. They do say, we took a beating for everyone and we want them to have a good time. So if we have to be eliminated so they can run the race, like, we weren' you're welcome or whatever i'm like...
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I would still be really mad. Yeah. um But yeah, that's the loss we see of them. So yeah goodbye. Bye. And we get in the car and Lance is already blaming Carrie that it was her fault. Yeah. That they didn't get it.
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I told you to read the clue. I said read the clue. Don't ever blame your teammate for that. Like you can read the clue just as easily as they can read yeah You said you'd be the ones that read the clue. No, no.
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So the two flights go into Tokyo. There's an American Airlines that leaves at 1245 and has six teams. And there's a United Airlines that leaves at 115. So only 30 minutes later that has five teams.
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So the six teams on the first flight are Maria and Tiffany, Marcy and Ron, Megan and Shane, Flight Time and Big Easy, Gary and Matt, and Zev and Justin. And then the five teams on the second flight are Sam and Dan, Micah and Kanan, Garrett and Jessica, Brian and Erica, and Lance and Carrie.
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So they are scheduled to land 30 minutes apart. The first flight lands in Tokyo at 3.55. and then the second flight lands at 4.03. Yeah.
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So literally eight minutes or yeah like whatever. So that was lucky for them. But before... When they were at the airport waiting for their flight, the people are starting to introduce themselves to their teams.
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And um Maria and Tiffany, who are the poker players, they are saying to people that they work for a non-profit for homeless youth in LA. They don't want to tell anybody that they're poker players.
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And it's like... Because they don't want to put a target on their back immediately from the beginning. Yeah. Which I don't like that. Well, and like a couple...
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but Later in the episode, they say, like, we're really successful poker players. Yeah. And we don't want people, like. Yeah. one point, she says. We make a lot of money. We're rich poker players. Yeah. It's like, yeah, you shouldn't say that if you're trying to win money. Because people will want to target you.
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Yeah. Which is probably exactly why they're doing that. Yeah. So yeah, the teams land basically at the same time. they get on like ah train type of thing to get to this neighborhood that they're going to And it's to a studio.
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Maria Ho. That's funny. Maria Ho is her last name. She won $5.5 million dollars in 2025 playing poker. She's still playing? Yeah. I'd still play if I was that good.
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how much um How many? $5 million? $5.5 million. dollars Wow.
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So, yeah. They do well. Let's see what Tiffany. Tiffany. Tiffany Michelle. that her last name?
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ah She won $380,000 in which would have been right before this. So that's pretty good.
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Yeah. But I don't have, like, total data. So where they're heading to is this, um like, television studio in this neighborhood. And they all start arriving at different times. But it doesn't matter because they all are going to be doing this together. So it's like they come into this television studio and it's...
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lights and yelling and crazy and it's a Japanese game show so I wondered what if like if the second flight would have landed 30 minutes later when it was supposed to would they have waited for that flight to land to start or would they have started with the teams that were there I don't know because the wheel had like the number of teams. Right.
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Anyways, so this game show is like a big spinny wheel, kind of like the wheel of fortune. And on each sliver of the spinny wheel is either ah sushi roll or a wasabi bomb.
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And it's called Sushi Roulette. And it's a roadblock. And it says, spin the wheel with nine sushi rolls and two wasabi bombs. You must continue playing until you get the wasabi bomb and have two minutes to eat it to get your next clue.
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So, like, yeah. they It spins. Everybody who gets sushi has to eat it. And the two people who get wasabi bombs have to hurry and eat that within two minutes. And they'll get their clue. So, it's basically just luck.
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There's no skill to this. I mean, eating is a skill. But yeah getting your... If you... get your picked to eat it yeah so ron who is marcy and ron dating from san francisco and literally can't even picture that person in my mind right now he had glasses and kind of like white balding hair oh the elderly man yeah
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Okay, so Ron and Shane are the first to get the Wasabi Bomb and they finish it and get the clue. And it says...
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theyre They're given like a flag, like a tourist guide, tour guide has like up there. Match your colored flag with the colored visor of 20 Japanese tourists from the audience and lead them to the Shibuya Scramble Crossing, which has 1 million people cross every day.
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That is insane. Then go to the Kono Hachimangu Shrine for your pit stop for this leg of the race. Yeah. So we're like 10 minutes into this episode and we're already talking about the pit stop. So it's like, what?
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Land at the exact same time of each other and then get to a roadblock that has no luck. And that's just on luck. Yeah. And go to the pit stop. Yeah. I don't like that. There is a little bit of like change in...
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order like after people start leaving like leading the team or leading the tourist so it does take skill to leave the tourist yeah that's true that does affect a little bit but for the most part it's like kind of when you finish you go do you like wasabi yeah i use wasabi when i eat sushi but very little that was a lot they were big it would be so painful and not good yeah and it would very much clear out your sinuses because i think i can handle spicy food better than you can but i don't like sushi so you probably have to do this one i i think i could do it but it'd be painful yeah we went to a mexican restaurant the other day and sadie was like this salsa is really spicy and i tasted it i was like not even a little bit
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I must have got some, but I don't know, but yeah, I'm not very good with spice. I always think of that roadblock of Freddie and Kendra eating the spicy soup and hungry. Puked in his own bowl. Yeah, and had to eat his own puke out of the bowl.
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And she was crying for it. I'm so sorry. You have to do this. who like so spicy that you puke that's pretty spicy yeah okay so garrett and justin get the second wasabi bomb garrett is the dating on and off from northern california and justin is the friend of zeb and justin yeah and they do it garrett basically Almost doesn't pass. He only has eight seconds left. Yeah.
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Justin has 30 seconds to spare and Zev, who is the one that has Asperger's, he's like, good job fat cow. like Yeah, he's very he just like a dry humor.
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he is really funny. he is funny. I think it'd be very entertaining to be his friend. Justin's probably laughing all the time. And then Maria gets the third wasabi bomb.
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Just her. Just her. The poker player. And she... um The time is counting down. And it she swallows the last bite like a couple seconds after the two minutes. Like she doesn't get it.
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So she ate a whole wasabi bomb for nothing. Yep. And she really struggled with it, obviously. so now she has to do it again. and then they spin and she gets it again. Yeah, immediately. Yeah.
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And she says to Tiffany, I can't do another one, Tiffany. But she does. And she finishes with only one second left the second time. I know. was like, open your mouth. She almost didn't finish again.
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But she does. In the meantime, those four teams before are leading their tour guide, their tour tourists to this shrine.
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And Marcy and Ron led their team really far out of the way. They asked for directions and it says they're two miles away from the Shibuya crossing. Yeah.
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And it seemed like the shrine was not far from the crossing. Um, so they basically had to find that first. And you would think that anybody would know where that is.
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Yeah. In Tokyo. Yeah. So. The crossing. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm surprised that they got so lost. Yeah. And they were the first ones to leave. Yeah. So, and.
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is it marie maria what's her name marcy mar marcy marcy she's very interesting she's like dancing and playing harmonica and telling her people to dance and all this stuff and i'd be like let's just get to the i know and these poor people that have been like walking for miles around tokyo forever yeah So, yeah, she says she's, like, eccentric. I'm like, yeah, you are.
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And Zev and Justin are walking. One of their tourists has a shoe break. And it's just, like, some of these tourists probably were like, I was not prepared for it.
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didn't want to do this. and Megan and Shane end up checking in as team number one before, like, a lot of teams are even done with the They haven't even eaten the wasabi.
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And they went a trip to Aspen and Vale with lift tickets, rentals, ski lessons. This Konohachimangu shrine is part of like a shrine for the Shinto religion which I don't really know much about so I'll tell you a little bit about this place this religion I mean and then I'll tell you about the place so Shinto is a Japanese indigenous religion with core beliefs centered around the reverence of nature and the kami K-A-M-I Kami is
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um the belief in divine spirits or deities that are thought to inhabit all things both and animate and inanimate.
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um A key principle is living in harmony with the kami in the natural world emphasizing purity, family, solidarity, and the importance of ancestral spirits.
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And they believe in a non-punitive afterlife where spirits reside with the possibility of returning to the world of the living through rituals and festivals. sh Shinto does not have a single founder or a set of core doctrines or specific sacred texts, making it different than many other religions.
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Seems pretty peaceful. Yeah. um and We have been to Tokyo before on the race. This is our third time to Japan.
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But yeah, we have been to Tokyo. Tokyo. It the capital city of Japan with a population of over 14 million people and the city proper. It's one of the most populous urban areas in the world.
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The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes six neighboring prefectures, is the most but populous metropolitan area in the world with 41 million residents. I can't even comprehend that many people in one place, in one small place.
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Like Japan is an island. Yeah. And that's not even like the population is like so concentrated. The population density is 6,400 6,400 inhabitants inhabitants per square kilometer. 6,400? Yeah. Jeez. Per square kilometer.
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sixty four hundred yeah you per square kilometer
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And in comparison, the New York City
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population density, i have to go by a square kilometer because. Because I can't do that math in
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Well, that doesn't make sense. Tokyo.
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Population is super square.
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So Tokyo has population density of 15, like 16,000 per square mile. New York City 29,000 per square mile.
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new york city has twenty nine thousand per square mile New York City is also an island. So. I think Tokyo is just. Just more spread out. Yeah.
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But 41 million people. That's a lot. Yeah. That's like way more than New York City like area. Yeah. For sure. Before the 17th century, Tokyo was known as Edo. E-D-O. It was mainly a fishing village.
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Yeah.
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From the late 1940s, Tokyo underwent rapid reconstruction and expansion. of 2023, Tokyo is home to 29 of the world's 500 largest companies.
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The second highest number of any city. It's It's the first city in Asia to host the Summer Olympics and Paralympics in 1964 and again in 2021. Um...
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Tokyo's nominal gross domestic output was 120 trillion yen. Okay, 1 trillion in 2021. Tokyo um tokyo is the second largest metropolitan economy in the world after New York City.
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um Yeah, it seems like a pretty interesting place. I would love to go there. Japan is like probably number one on my list of places I want to travel right now. Yeah.
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And I think it's like a really clean city and people have really good experiences traveling there. And ah i would love to just eat sushi in Japan for every meal as much as I possibly could. and Yeah.
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I have a travel agent friend that's um planning a trip for some clients to Japan, but they do not want to do anything except for like see Pokemon stuff, like eat at Pokemon restaurants and museums and stuff. Like she's like, do you want to do like any sort of like cultural activities or anything? They're like, no, we just want to do Pokemon stuff.
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that That's interesting. Yeah. I can't imagine bying a lot of that loving something so much that you do.
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I don't know. Like i I would like to take a – like I want to take a trip to England to see um like filming sites for Pride and Prejudice. I think that would be fun.
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But we would do other stuff too. Like only Pride and Prejudice. Yeah. Japan is experiencing a significant and ongoing population decline marked by a shrinking working age population, a low birth rate, and a high proportion of elderly citizens.
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This poses significant challenges to the country's economy, social structure, and future sustainability. They have um some of one of the lowest fertility ah lowest birth weight rates um in the world, and people are opting for smaller families,
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um There's high living costs and career pressures and evolving attitudes towards marriage and family. ah Japan has the world's highest proportion of population over 65.
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And yeah, so the Japanese government has implemented various policies and initiatives to address the population decline, including efforts to encourage childbirth through childcare subsidies, housing subsidies, and even financial so incentives for couples.
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um Policies aimed at increasing marriage rates, such as offering financial assistance for weddings, accepting foreign workers, particularly high-skilled individuals to address labor shortages.
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The UN predicts that Japan's population could continue to decline significantly, potentially reading reaching 87 million by 2060.
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What is their current Japan curve? So it's 35 years. That's not very long.
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And they're at 125 million. They could get down to 87 million by 2060, which is not very far away. That's crazy. That would be a huge difference in their economy and everything.
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I think that's kind of like a problem all over the world. There's just people like falling birth rates, except for like in Nigeria. Yeah. And like African nations and maybe India. Yeah.
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um
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And even, but like i assume Japan has universal health care because I'm pretty sure the U.S. is the only one that doesn't. Yeah. And so, if even, like, countries that have universal health care and, like, don't have that cost of, like, having a child are still not having and children.
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Like, it's just, like, a world, a global... problem yeah but also we have a lot of people in this world and we're not doing a very good job so maybe i know to have less people actually i listened i think it was freakonomics an episode that was like is it the worst thing in the world for the population to decline a little bit i can't remember what the answer was yes or no it's good or bad well i was ah we talk about how like our grandparents are always like
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Oh, there's just so many people on the road. There's so many people on the road. Yeah. then when When they were born in the 1930s, the population of the world was 2 billion. And now it's 8. We're at 8 billion. Yeah. So, yeah, there are way more people on the road because there's just way more people in general. So, it's like in that short amount of time, we've increased so quickly.
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And, i like, i think about tourism, too. just Places are so overrun with people traveling there. And it's good, you know, like people want to travel and see the world and see things, but it's just like it almost is unsustainable in a lot of places too. Yeah.
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And just like a burden. But they need, like that's their main source of the economy, of like their, you know, economy. Yeah. Is tourism. But where's the balance?
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I don't have the answer, so I'm not qualified for that. What's the perfect number of people in this world to, and when somebody some people are like, did Thanos have really, was Thanos the bad guy?
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Was he really the villain? He had a good idea, maybe. Just the way he went about it was not.
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um Okay. Yeah. Yeah. About Japan. Which I want to go there. really Yeah. I would love to go to Japan. So we had that first team check-in. Team ah Justin and Zev check-in as team number two.
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And ah Big Easy and Lance get the fourth Wasabi Bomb. So it's just people getting Wasabi Bombs and people leading their tour groups. Kind of back and forth. And...
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um
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b Brian from Brian and Erica. She's the Miss America. They're from Nashville. He... There's only like three teams left.
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And he gets a wasabi bomb. And so does Brian. And... Brian is who you were talking about. Oh, Gary. great Gary and Brian get wasabi bomb. So Gary and Matt, which are the father-son.
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Sam and Dan, which are the gay brothers. And Brian and Erica, which are... The Nashville couple. She's Miss America. Are the last three teams at the roulette. So Gary and Brian.
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Get the wasabi bomb. And Brian doesn't finish in time. So Gary and his son, Matt, get the clue and head out. And so that means like Sam and Dan were really disappointed. They were like, oh, well, we're done.
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You know, we're the last team left and there's literally no chance for us. And it was just based on luck. But Gary, ah but Brian doesn't finish. And so.
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So Dan gets the wasabi bomb. Yeah. And he finishes in less than a minute. Yeah. He scarfed. He was like, I'm not going to take advantage of this luck that we just had that, you know, like, yeah, he scarfed it down.
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So Brian and Erica are just the last team in the studio. All these other teams are leading their groups and, Lance and Carrie checking his team number three, which is crazy because they left the roulette thing quite a bit later. Yeah, think they found somebody immediately to help them and, like, lead them.
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At this point, Marcy and Ron finally get to the Shibuya crossing. Yeah, they were the first to leave. And they've they've led their people on a long walk. And other people are kind of struggling leading their group, like Maria and Tiffany...
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are having a hard time and at one point they count all their people and they're missing two people. And they're like, where did they go? And Maria is mad at Tiffany because Maria was at the front Tiffany was at the back and Tiffany wasn't counting.
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Yeah. And Sam and Dan and Maria and Tiffany are kind of working together with a map. They decide to split up and Maria and Tiffany are trying to decide like, do we...
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Go looking for the, like, do we drag our tourists around longer and keep go looking for these people? what do we do? Which they do do that for a little while. I think they they take the whole group and, like, kind of backtrack a little bit.
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who So Marcy and Ron check in as team number four. is that where we're at? Yeah. And then Flytime and Big Easy are team five. And Brian and Erica were the last team to leave the roulette, but they found a guy that what but knew exactly where he was going.
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And Garrett and Jessica, they have a tourist that has to go to the bathroom. Yeah. So now we're getting to, like, the final few teams that are all kind of lost. And it's like, you have to go to the bathroom right now. I'd be like, are you serious?
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i We just saw last season that the bathroom trip cost them a million dollars.
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And so
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Brian and Erica end up checking in as team number six. Yeah. Out of 11. And they way later than almost everybody else. Yeah. Out of 11 teams, they left the last at the roulette and they checked in as team number six, which is crazy. Yeah. Gary and Matt number seven.
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ah Maria and Tiffany are still missing their two tourists. Garrett and Jessica check in as team number eight and Sam and Dan as team number nine. Micah and Kanan, they get to the map, but they're missing one person.
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And Marie and Tiffany are still missing their two people. So Mike and Kanan leave the mat and they have to take all their tourists with them. They kind of go around the corner and that lady that's missing is right there.
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But she's like crying. Yeah. It looks like she got hurt. She's limping and she's crying. Kanan picks her up and like carries her to the mat. And they check in as team number 10.
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So um that means Maria and Tiffany are the last team and they decide not to go look for those two missing people. Their tourists are so frustrated. They're like getting mad that they are just being dragged around everywhere.
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And so they decide to just check in. And it turns out to be a non-elimination leg and they're getting two-hour penalty And a speed bump.
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Which is not elimination leg on the first leg. It's crazy. We've never had that before. But also somebody's already been eliminated. We did. Okay. Well, okay. So we're 55 minutes into this episode. So I think we should stop and do a part two. Okay. Like a second episode. But let me tell you about um
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Lisa and Eric. Is that their names? They are. I mean, i already forgot about them. Yeah. Yeah.
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There might not even be anything to say.
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Oh, that sucks. They're from Encino, California. And the starting line was Los Angeles. They literally, like, didn't even leave their neighborhood. Oh, my gosh. That's kind of sad. I wonder if they had to go to sequester.
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Like, okay, I guess we'll just go to Portugal for a month. Hmm.
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Um...
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Okay, so their trivia. One of Eric's students applied for them for The Amazing Race without their knowledge. Prior to this, they have never watched the show.
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So I don't feel that bad for them. Yeah. They didn't care that much. They are the first team to be eliminated at the starting line. The first team to be eliminated in the United States besides the family season.
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First team to be eliminated in California. Traveled the shortest distance in the history of the race. Yeah.
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That's not a fun record to have.
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Um.
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Oh. So, okay. It says, first team to voluntarily leave the show after being eliminated. Therefore, they were not sent to sequester bill. Yeah, they're like, what? We're mad at you guys. We're not even doing, like, what? They just refused.
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I don't know. So, they weren't at the finish line either. Hmm.
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Um.
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Let's see if they have. Yes, they have Facebook.
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I have a mutual friend. Oh, it's Bill. It's always Bill. It's always Bill.
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He's still doing yoga. i think they're maybe still married.
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Maybe not.
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Let's find Lisa's. Lisa.
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Lisa Pasco.
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She's doing art. She posts a lot of videos and reels and stuff. Wow, like every day. Sometimes multiple times a day.
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About finding your happiness, finding your joy, finding your purpose, spiritual growth, soul healing, higher self, hashtag manifest, has to hashtag inner guidance.
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So she's definitely still doing all the yoga stuff. Nice. Wow. She's got a lot of stuff to go through here. I'm not. If you want to see what she's all about on Facebook, she's there.
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So find her. Lisa Pascal. It doesn't have, they do not have like married on their profiles and at all. So I don't know if they're still married.
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We do not see them very much in this episode and we will not see them again. So goodbye, Eric and Lisa. goodbye for this episode. We'll see in episode two.
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Goodbye.
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Thank you.