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A Mat to Remember: The Amazing Race Season 14, Episodes 10 & 11
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Sadie and Jessica break down The Amazing Race Season 14, Episode 11, as teams continue their journey through China. Tammy and Victor’s language advantage could be the key to maintaining their lead—but in The Amazing Race, nothing is guaranteed. The episode builds to yet another unforgettable finish at the mat, featuring a moment that Race fans still talk about today. Don’t miss this iconic recap!
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Introduction and Scheduling Challenges
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Hello, everybody. This is Jessica and Sadie, and this is Amazing Rewatch. And we had to do things a little bit um not like our usual process this month because it has been ah crazy month. Yeah.
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A crazy couple of months. So these episodes are a little bit late, but it's still April. Yeah, so there's an extra Wednesday in April, so we are just extending our... We're doing a third block instead of... Or third batch instead of two.
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So yeah welcome to the last part of the season. Yeah, season 14. um We... Yeah, it's been just really busy few days, so we're kind of just ah catching up with this and...
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It was a little bit like, kind of forgot where we were and what we
Journey to Beijing: Clues and Conflict
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were doing. Yeah. this season, so. It was Easter and Sadie went on a work trip to New Orleans and I had a business conference.
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I'm going to Italy in like five days, so we're hoping that we can get everything done before I go. It's crunch time. Yeah. Well. yeah. Yeah. Okay, so we were in China.
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um guang guilin guilin yeah and the first team to depart are kishenzhen at 1 48 p.m and it says fly 1 000 miles to beijing china once there make your way to langzi zhan guanmen dian foot massage spa to find your next clue Then Tammy and Victor depart 149 and Margie and Luke at 150 and then Jamie and Kara at 212.
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So remember those first three teams were doing the calligraphy detour together. yeah All arrived on the mat at the same time. And that's when there was the fight. Yeah. Yes, the big blow up between Margie and Luke and Keisha and Jen. And Keisha and Jen say that they just like don't want to dwell on it anymore. it's yeah done. It's over with.
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Margie and Luke seem to not feel the same way. They want to. They keep bringing it up. Yeah. yeah um Not necessarily to Keisha and Jen, but to. Yeah, just like in their interviews and stuff. but And they really want them to be eliminated.
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Yes. But. So they have $40 for this leg and Tammy and Victor go to a travel agent first to find out that the earliest flight is at 5, 10 PM. Um, the rest of the teams just go to the airport, find out the same thing. They're basically all on the same flight.
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Um, but while they're at the airport, Keisha and Jen are standing behind Margie and Luke at the counter. And, um,
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ah For some reason, they can't use the credit card provided. Yeah, they say no international credit cards at this counter. So they're trying to buy their ticket and they say, you can't use this credit card here. You need to go to this other counter. And Keisha and Jen hear that.
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So they walk over to that counter first. And Marjorie and Luke don't like that. Yeah. They're like, oh, you're not going to honor the order that we arrived in?
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Yeah, which, like, in that situation, I don't know. I would do the same thing. Like, if I was Keisha and Jen, I'd be like, all right, well, we're going over here.
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Yeah. So, they all ended up on the same flight. My opinion might change if I was in Margie and Luke's position and Keisha and Jen got the last flights yeah or the last seats, maybe, but...
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Yeah. and um The other thing that happens at the airport is, as we know, Tammy and Victor can speak Chinese and nobody else can. And so they go to a counter and they are asking to be put towards the front of the plane.
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And they get on row five and other people are farther back. And, um yeah, it seems like Jamie and Kara are like at the back of the plane. Yeah.
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But anyways, their flight lands at 8.05 and... Yeah. Yeah. yeah And Tammy and Victor are the first ones to get off the plane. So it worked for them. And Jamie and Kara are the last. um And these teams are just like outside the airport looking for taxis.
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And when they're like running to taxis, Luke kind of like runs into Keisha on the way to the taxi. It didn't look like it was on purpose. Yeah. They're just like a scramble and she turned around and he was right there. Yeah.
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So, um but Jamie and Kara end up arriving first at this clue and it's a roadblock and it says, who's feeling manipulative? And it says, this person must drink a Chinese medicinal tea and then experience a 10 minute foot massage, which runs a fine line between pleasure and pain.
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And then when you're done, you have to drink another cup of tea to receive your next clue. And it says it takes 10 minutes. the player The person can say uncle and have a break, but they must restart the massage from the beginning.
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Yeah. Which why would you do that? Yeah. If you knew you had to start over. Yeah.
Detour Dilemmas: Diving and Swimming
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So, Kara does it and Keisha and Jenna are right behind them and Keisha does it.
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And they make it look like it is very painful. They are. They're so dramatic about it. Like, Kara's actually crying. Yeah, she has tears. And they're, like, writhing in their little chairs. Yeah. and and they make it look really really terrible and it's pretty funny because cara is there doing hers before keisha and keisha's like sitting there like waiting for it to happen to her and she's like looks very concerned like is this sad um temi victor arrived not long after and tami does it and then luke does it and temi's kind of like zen about it yeah she's breathing through it and
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Luke is kind of in between. Like, yeah there's a few moments that he, like, it's like, ah. And then, but he mostly is pretty calm. Yeah. It reminds me of the task that they did on, like, season 35 or something like that. Yeah, in Thailand with the massage. Yeah. And was it?
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feel like they've done this a few times. Like, there's a couple of, there's, like, one season where they do, like, the cupping Yeah. And that's painful and and it was like and like a skin thing. Todd and Ashley were doing it and he accidentally said stop Stop, yeah. But he didn't really mean it. He just was like – and they actually had to stop it. He was like, wait, what?
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And she got really mad. Yeah. yeah and Well, none of these people stopped the massage. um
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I really wonder how I would be at this because – I actually quite like foot massages that are like deep. When I was working at Olive Garden as a server, I would come home and my feet would hurt so bad.
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And so I would have Jeff like massage my feet and he could not push hard enough to like even make it make me feel anything. So I wonder if I would – I'm sure they have a technique and like spots that they hit that's like – Yeah. That hurts, but – Yeah, they seem pretty intense, but maybe Jeff can take some. And 10 minutes when you're doing that probably feels like so long, but like a 10 minutes in like a nice massage goes by so fast. Yeah.
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I hate that. Like a 60-minute massage and you're like, oh, it's over? Like already? went so fast. Well, Kara finishes first and the clue says make your way to Guangzhou.
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Wang Kai Nadatorium. Nadatorium. To find your next clue. Keisha finishes right after. and then Tammy Luke finish. And these drivers seem to not really know where this place is. Mm-hmm.
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And, yeah. So, Jamie and Kara are, like, they're kind of talking. They're walking with Tammy and Victor trying to find taxis. And Jamie and Cara are standing by a taxi and Tammy and Victor ask the driver if he knows where it is and like give him directions to go there and then try to get in. Because can speak the language.
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And Jamie and Cara basically let them help them. Yeah. And then they're like, no way. This was our taxi. Yeah. And so they get in and they go. And then Tammy and Victor, they find another taxi and they were like, we don't want to get a fight in a fight with her because she scares us. Jamie says,
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um there are that without fail, Tammy and Victor are always up to some trickery. It's like, what have they done? i haven't, yeah. Have they done a single trick?
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They've literally just been minding their own business yeah the whole time. Just because they can speak Chinese is making her mad because... She probably thinks they're some, like, doing some, like, voodoo ma magic or something like that because she just hates foreign language so much. She thinks that they're doing all these tricks.
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How dare they speak a foreign language? ah Well, it does end up that Tammy... And Victor get dropped off first because they were able to communicate that they needed to go to the north door. Yeah.
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Which they did not tell Jamie and Cara's taxi that. so Yeah. So they get dropped off there first and they get the clue and it's a detour and the choices are sink or swim. S-Y-N-C. Yeah.
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Sink. Like NSYNC or swim. So, sync, teams try to master the skill of synchronized diving by jumping off the three-meter springboards and hitting the water in perfect unison. When they perform a jump in which they hit the water simultaneously and receive a passing score of five from the judges, they'll get the next clue.
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And then in swim is change into the revolutionary Speedo laser suit. Product placement alert. Yeah. The same type of suit worn by Michael Phelps when he won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
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They must then swim eight lengths of the pool in a 400 meter relay with the team member members alternating every two lengths. They're competing against Michael Phelps's world record time, but they don't have to beat it.
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Yeah, so it's like they're not actually competing. They're just being compared. Just so that we can see how slow they are, basically. But they do have to each complete 200 meters of the relay to get the clue.
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So... i would definitely do sync i think so, too. We would... i Okay, so i think that
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we would at least try to do sink. Yes. A couple of times. Because if if you're like coordinated and like in, you know. Yeah. You could do it pretty fast. But swim also seems like you just got to do it and you can get it done. Yeah, but it seems the hardest part of that task is getting that swimsuit on. No kidding. That's like what I was like. I would choose the other one just so that I wouldn't have to put that thing on. Yeah.
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It's like. It looks like can't even get ah around their bodies. And Margie even says she can't even breathe in it. Yeah. and And all these people are pretty thin. yeah And like Keisha, she was like, this suit is not made for people with thighs like mine. Yeah. So I'm like, oh, it definitely would not have fit me then.
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Yes. So definitely start with s sink. Yes. And try it a few times. And these people will make it – They make it look way harder than it yeah seems like it actually is.
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Tammy and Victor? Yes. And Keisha and Jen. Well, so Keisha is like terrified of swimming. Yeah. So Tammy and Victor arrive and Tammy's like, I can't really swim that good. Let's try sink.
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Yeah. But it doesn't seem to be like a phobia. But Jen, on the other hand, she is like so terrified. Yeah. And so the when they have the wife vests for the swim option, and then she chooses sink, that seems crazier to me. Yeah.
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It's like they gave you a way to just pass it, to just do it. Yeah. Yeah. and even if you go slow, you'll finish. Yeah. and also, of the other reasons I wouldn't want to do swim at first is like, because I can't dive headfirst. Oh, I know. Like jumping off the platform and like trying to dive in headfirst. They were all like belly flopping. Yeah. And I'm like, yeah, that would be so embarrassing.
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I'd have to dive feet first or jump in feet first with my nose plugged. With my nose plugged. Yeah. Yeah. No, so i yeah, the, we would definitely start with sync. But yeah, they, Tammy Victor make it look really hard. They were so. it's like they don't even, they didn't even try to like look at each other. i don't even know. So anyways, they choose sync. Keisha and Jen arrived. They originally choose sync.
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Jamie and Cara choose. Swim. Swim. And then Margie and Luke choose swim. Yes. So. was. It was like. To go all the way down and back. of Olympic sized pool. That's really long. That's really hard. Yeah.
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Um, but when Kara says we have to beat Michael Phelps this time and Jamie's like, we don't have to beat it. Then we'd be in the Olympics. We'd be in the Olympics. Yeah.
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Yeah. It's like, it would actually literally be impossible because no human has ever beat that.
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I know. You'll be here forever. Yeah. I don't know by this point they have, but, um, But they they do it. um Jamie is just not very nice to Kara.
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She's like, what are you doing just hanging out at the end? I'm tired too and I'm not just hanging out at the end of the pool. Yeah. like she just She's not a very nice friend. No. But um they actually end up finishing first.
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And the clue says race across Beijing to the drum tower for the pit stop of this later race. And this is... The drum tower is like
Beijing's Historical Context
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at the famous wall.
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Not like the wall of China, but like the men the city walls. Yeah. So they finished in 9 minutes 53 seconds. And Michael Phelps' time was 4 minutes.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. So Tammy and Victor are trying a few times. They get like a two and then they get a one and a two and they're like hanging out in that two and one score. And Tammy's like, I don't understand what we're doing wrong. And I'm like, you can see exactly what you're doing wrong.
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Anything in sync at all. whatsoever not one thing like have a plan they just kind of like get up there and she watches victor jump once and then she thinks he's going to do it again and they just and then she kind of just like flops off the end of the diving board yeah and like when you're watching the olympics and the people do team diving they like talk to each other like yeah three one two up down yeah yeah well but like do that i think we could get it But, you know, maybe like four or five tries. yeah I think we could get it. I know we're saying that as we're sitting on our couch.
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So, but still, it was pretty like, oh my gosh, what are you doing? And they they stick with it for a long time. Yeah. Margie and Luke, they do a pretty good job.
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They finish the detour. Yeah. In about eight minutes. Yeah. So, once again, we have like... Well, okay. Keisha and Jen decided to switch. Yeah, they tried it a couple times. times And they get those really awful swimsuits or like speedos on and Jen is wearing a life jacket and Keisha does one leg down and back and she's literally just like pulling herself on the rope that's like divides the lanes, like pulling herself back and she looks like she is dying and Jen's like, we need to switch. Are you listening to me? We need to switch. And she's like, okay.
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After she just almost killed herself doing that. They're athletes. I cannot believe how bad they are at this. Yes, they're definitely not swimmer athletes. They are like probably basketball or something. Yes, basketball and volleyball. But still like endurance. yeah like and i Because Jen has the fear of water, but it wasn't even she wasn't even in the water. Keisha was the one that was just like pulling herself along. yeah So they go back over to sync as Tammy and Victor are still doing that and they're kind of like switching back and forth like Tammy and Victor will go then Keisha and Jen will go but then Tammy and Victor will be like are you guys going and like Jen is kind of like freaking out and she's like no no no they're like okay well we're gonna go they kind of pass them up and keep trying they're still only getting threes and fours and keha and Jen are getting like twos and threes and Jen starts getting really
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discouraged and like freaked out yeah i think she just thinks like we're never getting better at this and i'm gonna have to keep swimming and yeah and it's freaking her out a little bit so she kind of has a little breakdown And Keisha is very supportive and nice to her.
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Tammy and Victor finally decide to switch. Yes. And they're like, we should have done this the first time. Because it's just, they just have to just like do it. They don't yeah struggle really. They just, yeah, you just have to do it. It's like you should have switched. 10 minutes, 30 seconds. So you should have switched a long time ago.
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but so they finished the detour so Keisha and Jen they decide to switch again because they're just like we're not going to get that and we just to do the other one we just have to like get through it yeah and Jen is wearing a life jacket and Keisha puts one on too she's like I'm gonna put one on solidarity yeah she she also needed it too yeah yeah so Everybody's finished their detour and they're heading towards this pit stop. It took Aisha and Jen 18 minutes though.
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Yeah. I didn't notice the times. Double the time that it took took like Margie and Luke and Jamie and Kara. That's okay. But they did it but they finished. Yes. um So teams are getting into their cabs and heading to this pit stop. Victor, as they're walking to a cab, he starts saying like, oh, my leg, my calf is cramping. My leg is cramping.
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Oh, now my other leg is cramping. And he like goes to sit in the taxi. He screams. Yeah. And he like can't even get his legs in. He said they're all they're seizing up and he can't. sit down or yeah. It's painful. I guess I'd be like, just put your legs in the car and shut the door.
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Yeah, she – this is like an example of this episode where these siblings are actually very kind to each other because Keisha was so nice to Jen. So patient and just – and they they knew they were last and she just kept saying like, we just got to finish this. Let's just finish it strong. They probably expected it to be eliminated. Yeah, you don't want to give up. You yeah feel proud of yourself.
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You know, let's finish strong, finish strong. And I think they were they were like swimming to be eliminated. They were like not – in that much of a hurry yeah was what it looked like but anyways and Jamie and Cara are in their taxi and they're like freaking out Jamie's actually crying because she's like this might be the first time we actually have a good taxi that's going to take us where we need to be and we're going to get first place and we just haven't had a first place yet and she's really excited and really wants to be first and they get there and Phil says you are the first team to arrive however this leg of the race is not over yet and you're still racing
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Here's your next clue. And it's to be continued. So.
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So I think that we should just, because we have already also watched the next episode 11. And we need to do two episodes tonight. I think we should just just do it do a double episode. So tell us about Beijing while we're on our little break right here. Have we been to Beijing before? We have, right? Yeah, a couple of times.
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I think that was where we went in season one. Yeah. And I think we've been there another time or two since then. um So Beijing is the capital city of China.
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It has more than 22 million residents. It's the world's most populous national capital city, as well as China's second largest city after Shanghai. um It's home to the headquarters of most of China's largest companies and houses the largest number of Fortune 500 global companies in the world, as well as the world's four biggest financial institutions by total assets, which I don't know what they are, but um the world's wealthiest people live here 100 billionaires.
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billionaires Beijing beats out New York City with 99, Hong Kong with 80, and Moscow with with 79. In 2022, Beijing became the first city to host both the Summer and the Winter Olympics because they did Summer in 2008 when they were talking about it on this season, and then Winter in 2022.
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But that predates this yeah this season.
Overnight Race and Detour Choices
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season ah Beijing is known for... the season predates The second Olympics in China.
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Yeah. In Beijing. That's what I meant. Beijing is well known for having a lot of modern and traditional architecture combined um because it's a very old city.
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It's one of the oldest cities in the world with a rich history dating back over three millennia. The city is six times older than New York City. um So, yeah, it's like the center of the city has Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City and the really old part of the city. And then it's kind of built in rings because...
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As the city grows, it grows outward. so it kind of has like rings around the city that gets more modern and um kind of how the city is set up. The historical artifacts around Beijing are ancient.
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Like the Great Wall of China was built in by the Qin Dynasty in 207 B.C. So they started building the Great Wall of China a long time ago.
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It's a very old wall. Yeah. it's been bill It's been built over 2,000 That's crazy. At At some point, it's just like, all right, do we need this anymore?
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Yeah. um The Han Dynasty... Made it the longest it ever was. ah The most recognizable sections of the wall were built during the Ming Dynasty. Anyways, so it has a lot of history there as well.
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It's old. um has Beijing is the political center of the country for... the past eight centuries and was the largest city in the world by population for much of the second millennium.
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money ah Beijing is one of the most important tourist destinations in the world. In 2018, Beijing was the second highest earning tourist city in the world after Shanghai. And it has over 178 museums and has eight UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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um Very popular. Lots of people there, lots of tourists, lots to do and see. Yeah. and seems very interesting.
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So this season filmed in October 2008. of two thousand and eight So it was like right after the Olympics, which would have been in like August of 2008. Mm-hmm. so Yeah. um And Tammy and Victor said that they had been there for the or the Olympics. So they literally were just there. Yeah.
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And they had mentioned that like the city that they were in just before this was South China. And they're now in North China and it looks pretty cold. And they told them it was going to be cold. Yeah.
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um So, yeah.
00:24:20
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Well, okay. So we're going to just mosey on over to episode 11 and continue on. So Phil hands Jamie and Cara the clue and it says to make your way to Dongmin.
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And they arrived there and the clue there says to search the shops for the Travelocity Roaming Gnome. And the next clue is on the bottom of the gnome. And Margie and Luke aren't far behind Jamie and Kara, so they come in as team number two. Phil tells them they're still racing. Tammy and Victor come in as third, tells them that they're still racing.
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And Keisha and Jen arrive in last place and are expecting to be eliminated, and they are really happy to hear that they're still racing. And they continue on.
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So at this point, it's like the middle of the night because their plane arrived at 8.05 and there was like nothing that closed or anything. They were able to go do all their tasks.
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So it's the middle of the night. Yeah. And... um So they go to this marketplace and they're all kind of there searching for the gnome. Margie and Luke are the first to find it. And it says to go to the Gu Guanzhi Beijiao and find electric bicycles to ride past Beijing's ah Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square to the Dongdan subway station.
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oh So Jamie and Carl were pretty discouraged. because Because they really wanted a first place yeah and they got one, yeah but it wasn't like an actual check-in or a prize or anything. so um So Jamie and Cara get to this marketplace first and it says they're – wait, did you already say they're supposed to look for the gnome? Yeah.
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Yeah. I did all of them. yeah. And so there they find it first. Margie and Luke found it first. Oh, yeah. And then Jamie and Cara, then Tammy and Victor. Yeah. But Tammy and Victor are the first to get a taxi.
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Yeah. And so they're all riding in their taxis to this next place and the sun is coming up. So now it's like the next morning. So they've been awake all night and still have a full leg ahead of them. So I'm sure they're so tired.
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Yeah. And it's also leg 10. And yeah. Yeah. So Margie and Luke and Keisha and Jen get to the bikes first. But Tammy and Victor are the first to the clue?
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Yeah. No, wait. Tammy and Victor get to the bikes first. Oh, okay. And I don't know why I wrote it like that. um They get to the next clue first. Then it's a detour. And the choices are Beijing Opera or Chinese waiter.
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Beijing Opera. They have to make their way to the... Huangguang Higuang Opera House and make their way or where they will make each other up as a princess and a gentleman at the Chinese opera.
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And they have to like put on makeup and outfits. So when they're both made up and fully costumed, they must present themselves to the opera master for the next clue. Chinese waiter make their way to the Huangguang Higuang restaurant. So it sounds like they're in the same place.
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And choose a table of hungry patrons. The customers will give their orders in Mandarin and they will have to recite the orders back to the chef. When they've set the orders correctly, the staff will prepare the dishes and they have to serve them back to the customers to get the clue.
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Yep. So, obviously, tay and Victor choose Chinese waiter, which is very smart of them. Yes. Which also doesn't seem very fair, but... Yeah.
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but um I would... We would choose opera, I'm sure. Yeah. And so they get to the restaurant and they write down the orders on a piece of paper. They do pretty good. They only make one mistake on the first time around. They say squid instead of fish. Yeah.
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But then they fix it and get on the second time and have to deliver the dishes and they get the clue that says make your way on foot to Wing Changji and caution U-turn ahead. And Phil says this is the second of two U-turns on this season. This is not blind U-turn. The team will have to don't know how words it. Put it.
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They have to put their picture. Yeah. same Own up to. Like own up to. Own up to. Yeah. Yeah. So they go there and they end up U-turning Keisha and Jen because they say like these other teams are really strong or like down to the last of teams, whoever's going to get in the final for the ah mill million dollars.
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And we don't want to end up in a foot race against Keisha and Jen because we will lose. Yeah. Which makes sense. Yeah. And so they U-turn them and they write on their picture sorry i can't outrun you yeah and then they head to the next clue which is make your way to dong hua men yee shee street market to find your next clue so everybody else doing the opera of the opera detour which makes sense yeah so keisha and jen are there first and they start doing the makeup and jen's like doing keisha's makeup and she's like you will scare the children
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And Keisha's like, can I please be the princess? Yeah, she's like, I never get to be the girl. i like Keisha. Yeah, I like her too. And then Margie and Luke start doing the makeup and it is so funny to watch Margie look in the mirror. I was watching this with Olivia sitting next to me. i was laughing so hard. She's like,
00:30:05
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what you laughing at what is so funny but luke is literally like finger painting but instead of using brushes or anything like that like when he puts the eyebrow on it's like so thick and margie is so annoyed and she's like luke use a brush i'm like oh he's like mama sorry i'm not a girl It looks so bad. Yeah, every time she looks in the mirror, she's like, oh my gosh.
00:30:34
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Oh my gosh, like when It And he keeps telling her to hold still. He's getting super frustrated because she keeps looking and like getting mad And he's like, just hold still. And at one point, he like throws the brush down. He's like, I'm done. I'm finished.
00:30:48
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Their makeup is like the white makeup with really bright lips and... Like the pink cheeks and like black, like dark eyebrows. yeah So it's like very...
00:30:59
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But anyways, like the challenge is not to do it correctly. Perfect. It's basically just put makeup on somebody's face and get dressed. Like it doesn't even. Because they do not look good. No. At the end the They don't.
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But they get, they don't even like say anything about it. They just pass. So anyways, they, so Margie and Luke, they pass and then, or do Keisha and Jen do it before them?
00:31:21
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um I think Keisha and Jen finish first. Yeah. They finish first. Yeah. And um so this the restaurant and this opera place are really close to each other. And that next clue with the U-turn is like right there.
00:31:38
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Like they don't really have to go anywhere to get to this. But it's inside. Yeah. So Keisha and Jen leave the building and start walking and asking people, um where what is it? Wing.
00:31:51
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Wing. wrong i I didn't write it down. Wing Changji or something like that. They keep like saying that and nobody knows what they're asking or where that is. So they're walking and walking walking and they're supposed it's just like right there.
00:32:05
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So they missed it. So Margie and Luke get to that one first. They see that somebody's already been U-turned. They just head to yeah the next place. Margie and Luke kind of struggle too. Like at one point, all three of them, because Jamie and Kara are done too, and they yeah um are all outside looking for this. And Margie and Luke are the first ones to find it. and Well, because Luke says um usually U-turns are right by the detour. Yeah.
00:32:31
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Which is a smart thing to remember. Mm-hmm. So, um, and it seems like the clue has the name of this place written down like in Chinese, but people still don't know where it is. Yeah. and um, was it Keisha and Jen find somebody that like, she calls her friend. Yeah.
00:32:56
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And she's like, my friend says that this means opera. Yeah. And they're like, oh, well, let's just go to the opera house and start over and retrace our steps. And they go and they find it. And
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say that they say that to Jamie and Kara. They're like, we're going to go back to the opera house and start over.
00:33:11
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And Jamie's like, or Kara's like, if we do that, they're go to people are just going to tell us to come back out here. So they don't do that. And they keep searching. But it sounds like Keisha and Jen were out there for like an hour.
00:33:23
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Yeah. For an hour. they get to the thing. They see that they're U-turned. So they head to the restaurant, which is right there. And this is like the way they do this.
00:33:36
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So they obviously don't speak Chinese like Tammy and Victor do. So they're writing down the names like phonetically on the piece of paper. And when they go back to the kitchen to tell the waiter or the chef what it is, like they have subtitles underneath of what they're actually saying in Chinese. Yes. It's just like so ridiculous. I wrote down some of them. Hold on. Let me tell you.
00:33:55
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Yeah.
00:33:57
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So one of the dishes is new taste beef. And the way that they said it is oil comes again to please the mouth. Yeah. It's like, are they really saying that or are they just? Yeah. Well, so Tammy and Victor were explaining this um after they finished the detour and they're like, Chinese is it like a very nuanced language. Like you you say the same word almost, but like just the inflection and the way you say it and your tone makes the meaning different. Mm-hmm.
00:34:29
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So, yeah. So, good luck, Fish. When Keisha and Jen said it, it said, good doll basket drum. Yeah. It's just, they there is a bunch of them You'd have to watch the episode to, like, see all the translations, but.
00:34:43
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And then, like, the waiter or the chef keeps telling them no, no, no. And they have to go back to the people at the table and ask again and get, like, better yeah written down. And it's like, how are they ever going to get this? Like, how is this even possible?
00:34:57
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But they do. I don't know what the difference is from the first time they say it to the second time. but You'd have to – I don't know. I don't know. Because if it's just –
00:35:06
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The same syllable, but just the way you say it, that would be really hard. But maybe they were kind of lenient. Yeah. I don't know. So, in the meantime, Kade, Tammy and Victor got to that market.
00:35:19
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And the clue there is a roadblock. And it says, who... Who has a taste for adventure. Yeah. Yeah. So they have to eat a plate of crispy creatures, grasshoppers, larva, scorpions, and starfish. And once they finish the plate, they'll receive the next clue. And you would for sure be doing this one. It'd be really hard.
00:35:41
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It would be hard. So Victor is doing the roadblock and he like picks up there. Like some of the larva are on like these skewers and he starts picking it up and like going to take a bite. And they're like, we'll fry it.
00:35:52
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He's like, oh, thank goodness. So that probably does help. Yeah. Um, The worst looking one was the starfish. It looked the worst. Like the inside just looked like this grainy, weird. Yeah.
00:36:06
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Gray stuff. I don't know. i think the the scorpion or the grasshopper would be... Yeah. The hardest just like visually. Yeah. Because those grasshoppers were gigantic.
00:36:17
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Yeah. So Victor does the roadblock and he like says it's pretty gross but he gets through it and does pretty good. Yeah. And and they're gone before anybody else even arrives. Yeah. So...
00:36:29
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Make your way to Niao Chao, which is known as the bird's nest for the pit stop. This was like the main place. The centerpiece of the Beijing Olympics.
00:36:40
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And so they head there and they end being team number one. And they win a trip to the Galapagos Islands and they are in the final three. Yeah. great prize. Yeah. This is like...
00:36:52
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kind of one of those like bucket list trips you know like not very many people go there yeah so and I think they deserve to be in the final three they've done really well and they have worked really well together the only thing the issue that they had was like in Transylvania yeah and they overcame that yeah and then after that and yeah and even that wasn't like a Huge thing. Right. It was a very civil disagreement yeah between the two. And they corrected moved on and did great the rest of the time.
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They're very They if we don't win Beijing League, we will bring shame to our families.
00:37:34
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And they won. So, their families can be proud of them. Yes. And it does seem, because this is the third leg in China now. So, that does seem a little skewed in their favor for sure. Yeah.
00:37:45
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but But like they like we said, like do they map out on an entire season before they even have teams come on? I feel like they do. Yeah. So like it's not their fault that the producers are like, oh, this team can speak Chinese and we know we're going to be in China for three legs. Let's yeah cast them.
00:38:03
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Yeah. Or it's like, oh, they speak Chinese. Let's make this season work in their favor towards the end. No. i think I think they would have to have the route first. Yeah.
00:38:16
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So that's what I mean. It's just, yeah it's not like they, you know, it's not anything on their end or whatever. But so next we have Margie and Luke get to the roadblock and Margie does it and finishes it and they get to be team number two.
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And they're also in the final three, which is pretty awesome. And Margie says like, at first I did this for Luke, but now I'm doing this for myself. I'm actually having a really good time and learning a lot about myself. And this has been a great experience and can't wait to finish finish it out so Keisha and Jen finish the second detour before Jamie and Kara even find the clue box they said they were looking for like three hours and Jamie is really mad at Kara because when Kara said that like
00:39:06
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Let's not go back or whatever. Yeah. And when they get to the clue, and Jamie's like, if it's inside, I'm literally going – or I'm going to be livid. And it is. And Kara's like, well, if we're just going to be defeatist, let's we not even go along go on anymore.
00:39:23
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And Jamie's like, oh, like you haven't been like this the whole time. Yeah. Like they're just not happy with each other right now. Yeah. And – And I see the frustration for both of them. Yes. Like if I was Jamie – And Cara kept saying, like, no, let's not go back.
00:39:40
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Like, what else? What do you have to lose at that point? If you've been searching for three hours, why would you not just try that? Yeah. Or even just, yeah, let's just go back and start over. let's Yeah. It can't be that far away. when they're Because it doesn't say, like, take a taxi. Yeah. It says on foot. Yeah. Yeah.
00:39:56
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It really can't be that far. And yeah, like if they they would think about it, like Luke did, they would know that if somebody has to go do the other side of the detour, and both detours are right there together, that U-turn is not going to be that far away.
00:40:11
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Yeah. Yeah. So... Keisha and Jen had got to the roadblock and Jen is doing the eating challenge while Jamie and Kara were still looking for this clue.
00:40:24
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They got it and they get in their taxi and head to this market and get there. And it looks like Jen is like towards the end of her yeah eating. Probably like two thirds. And Kara does the eating and she is like going really fast and Jen is going really slow.
00:40:41
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And Jen is taking tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny little bites and taking like a whole scoop of water every time she takes a bite. And she has a lot to eat. Yeah. And she's drinking. She says she drank like four bottles of water. Yes.
00:40:54
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And Cara just, like, downs. Yeah. Cara just, like, downs it. She makes up a lot of time. And Jamie is, like, super proud of her. She's just sitting there. She's like, oh, my gosh. I can't even believe what I'm seeing right now. She's super impressed. And it seems like they're fine again. Yeah. So.
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So Jen finishes, but she's saying like, oh, I really have to pee. I have to pee. I have to pee. And they're like, let's get a taxi. They're looking for a taxi. The first one doesn't know where this pit stoppage, which is crazy. Yeah. How would you not know? Notable place in Beijing the month after the Olympics.
00:41:28
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Yeah. um So they finally find one that does have know where it is. And then on their way to this pit stop, Kara finishes and they get in a taxi.
00:41:41
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They almost know yeah yeah almost second leave their gnome sitting on the counter, which they realize, and they grab him, and they go. so But their taxi is flying. Yeah.
00:41:53
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He's going so fast, and they're like, oh, my gosh, finally somebody that knows where they're going. They really have had bad luck with taxis, yeah but also because they're not very nice to them. Yes. Yes. So, yeah, I don't feel bad for them when they're not going to talk to their taxi driver or one of them specifically. Yes.
00:42:10
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So in the taxi, Jen keeps saying, I have to pee. I have to pee. She's like I'm going to ask Phil if I can pee before he checks us in. Like, oh, my gosh, I can't. I have to pee. And then they get dropped off.
00:42:22
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And they're, like, in the vicinity or, like, the grounds of this place. Yeah, they're, like, right outside. And there's public toilets right there. And she's, like, I have to go. And Keisha's, like, okay, well, I just – I don't want her to pee herself. So, you know, I'll let her.
00:42:36
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And the way they edit it seems like she's in there for a long time. It's, like, hurry up. Yeah. And Keisha's just kind of, like, sitting there being really patient – And Kara and Jamie are dropped off and they're running around the grounds.
00:42:50
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Jen comes out of the toilet. They're running out around the grounds. Everybody's, they're looking for Phil at the same time. And it usually in almost every episode in the past, like the person that gets dropped off first, yeah even though they edit it to make it look like it's close. Mm-hmm.
00:43:11
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They still arrive at the mat first, but then yeah we see Phil and the people that run up to the mat are Jamie and Kara. Yeah. I like, I knew this happened.
00:43:23
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I haven't seen this season, but I've heard this thing happen so many times, like in yeah the lore of Amazing Race, you know, the sister who had to pee and lost him a million dollars, you know, and it's just like, I knew this was going to happen, but still was like appalled.
00:43:39
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It like pissed me off. I can't believe somebody would do that. Like also, you know, I'm not there at the time maybe, ah but I would actually pee my pants for a million dollars. I'd be like, sorry, Phil.
00:43:52
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Yeah. so look But i can't believe I can't believe it. I know. She lost a million dollars because she had to pee.
00:44:03
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And so she ate all that disgusting stuff for no reason. Yeah. I guess not no reason. They had an experience. But like know you went through all that just to lose it for a toilet break.
00:44:15
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Yeah. And I... I understand, like, when you get to the point where you are just like, I cannot yeah hold it one second longer. And it's just like, it's almost painful. Yeah.
00:44:29
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But, yeah. But really, like, even if she, like, touched both feet on the mat and then ran, yeah they would still have to let her. And then Keisha could just stand there and be like, oh, listen, you just tell us we're going to be in the top three and she'll go do what she needs to do.
00:44:43
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Like, I would literally do anything before that. i would I would land on the map before anything. Well, yes. And okay, so Phil tells them that they're eliminated and Jen is like so sad. Yeah. And she feels so bad. She feels so guilty. And Keisha is so nice to her. So nice. Yes, she is like.
00:45:07
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The reason, and this is true too. She says the reason we've made it this far is a lot to do with her. Which is true. Like they could have been eliminated in episode, i don't even know, two or something like that. If she hadn't, you know, like it it is true.
00:45:21
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But still, like she's a very, very, very nice sister. Yeah. Because they would have been eliminated last episode if it wasn't a like extended leg because of Jen.
00:45:35
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yeah And then they're eliminated now because of Jen. Like, Keisha is very nice. Yeah. And she says she's not going to hold it against her. Well, it's funny that you
Reflections and Future Updates
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say ah that you would have peed yourself.
00:45:51
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And I probably would have too. But I looked up a couple of interviews. And this one is in People Magazine.
00:45:59
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um And it says, you're the first team to be eliminated because you stopped to go to the bathroom. Looking back, do you wish you had just peed yourself? And then Jen says, in hindsight, we didn't lose this simply because of the bathroom break. And I've gotten a lot of emails and phone calls and text messages saying I would have just peed my pants.
00:46:16
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But you never know until you're in this situation. And I don't regret stopping. I had to pee so badly. And then Keisha says, There were more factors than just that the pee break that made us come behind ah the cheerleaders.
00:46:29
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They had a really fast cab driver. They got dropped off closer. Kara ate those bugs so fast. so um And then there was another one This is with TV Guide magazine that they say something else about it.
00:46:44
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Yeah, I mean, they were U-turned. It took them a long time to find that clue box, you know. So there is a lot of things. It's not just down to this. Yeah. But... um So this one says, um it didn't take me five minutes to pee. um But the bird's nest is really big so and we got dropped off on the other side.
00:47:05
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So with all the tourists around and... um
00:47:09
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but Oh, it's right here. It says it wasn't seconds like Phil said, but it wasn't hours. It was a few minutes. But they basically they're saying like even if she wouldn't have stopped to pee, they probably still would have come in fourth because they got dropped off on the other side and Cara and Jamie got dropped off on the right side.
00:47:28
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um Okay. They just have to make it seem that way for entertainment. Yeah. Yeah. And then this one says, did you think about holding it in or peeing your pants? And Jen says, no, because it was so painful at this point to hold it
00:47:43
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And Keisha says, in hindsight, you can say that you would have done that. But when you're caught up in the moment, you don't know what you would do, yeah basically. so Yeah. And, yeah, if you don't think, like, because they left the roadblock first. And so they probably thought, okay, we have two minutes to pee, you know. Mm-hmm.
00:47:59
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But, so that, yeah. But I think that they probably still would have been eliminated based on where they got dropped off. So.
00:48:09
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Interesting. Okay, let me tell you about...
00:48:16
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I have to be careful because Keisha and Jen are also coming back for season 18. So i have to make sure that I don't tell you things about the next season.
00:48:26
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So they are the first African-American team of sisters. They're the first team to finish last on a no-rest leg. Keisha is the first African-American lesbian to compete on the race. And um
00:48:41
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see.
00:48:42
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And then the rest are for season 18. Okay. And then so season in like 2010, think. 11. Yeah.
00:48:52
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eleven So they they come back for 2018, mean season 18, and then 2012, Jen had a baby girl with her boyfriend, and then they her and this boyfriend got married, and then they had another baby in 2015.
00:49:10
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And she does have like a Facebook and Instagram, and her kids are so cute.
00:49:16
The Amazing Rewatch
And Keisha only has ex profile, Twitter, whatever.
00:49:23
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So I don't really know. But it doesn't have anything extra about her. So I don't know if she is married or has kids or anything. But we will see them again a couple of seasons.
00:49:38
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Which season 18... The title is like unfinished business. And I think they are perfect candidates for that. because Yeah. Yeah. We see a lot of teams from this season.
00:49:49
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In season 18. Yeah. I am going to miss them. I really like Keisha. um I'm glad Margie Luke are not going to be talking about them anymore.
00:50:01
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Yeah. That's annoying me. And... Yeah. Yeah. It's a good final three. A solid. Yeah. ah Yeah. the Phil says to Jamie and Cara that they are in in a position to make history to be the first girl all-girl team to win. And they're excited about that.
00:50:22
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So. Yeah. and we And don't think we've had a mother-son team win, have we? Have we ever had a mother-son team win in the whole history of the race?
00:50:32
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I don't know. that I can think of. We've had Boy Boy, Boy Boy, Zach and Flo, Boy Boy, Chip and Kim, Freddie and Kendra, Joyce and Uchenna, the Lynn's family, BJ and Tyler, Tyler and James, Eric and Danielle, TK and Rachel, Nick and Star,
00:50:53
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So Nick and Star were the first sibling team, right? Besides the Linses. It's like the first sibling pair. Yeah, they've all been like either boy-boy or like boy-girl romantic.
00:51:06
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Except for the Lins family and like Zach and Flo. And then Nick and Star. So, yeah. It's a nice shake-up on the final three, I guess.
00:51:18
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ah It'll be interesting if... ah Tammy and Victor win, there'll be another brother-sister team. Right in a row.
00:51:27
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So, okay. So, next episode of the podcast is going to be the finale, then
00:51:35
The Amazing Rewatch
So there will only be two episodes in this second, third batch of podcast episodes. That's okay. Yeah, that's perfect. We just need to figure out when we're going to watch and record. yes So have a good day. It's night for us. Thanks for listening. Come back for the season finale of season 14 and we're excited to see what happens.
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