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[00:00:30] It's the Purple Pants, it's the Purple Pants, it's the Purple Pants Podcast. You better get your headphones in, listen up quick. It's the Purple Pants Podcast, you better listen in public, might make your stomach hurt. Ooh, Podcast, you trying to unwind, you better get that box wine. It's the Purple Pants Podcast, you trying to get your snack, you better hurry right back though. It's the Purple Pants, it's the Purple Pants.

[00:00:56] Hello, hello and welcome to the Purple Pants Podcast Pit Stop. I serve as your humble and oh so gracious host, Bryce Isaiah. And I thank you so much for tuning in to this week's recap in our 500th episode. If you could be so kind to ensure you are subscribed to the Purple Pants Podcast, we are available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you can find podcasts.

[00:01:24] The Purple Pants Podcast awaits for you to subscribe and you can watch this audio podcast on video. Head over to the Bryce Isaiah YouTube channel. Click subscribe, give this video a thumbs up and let us know in the comments what you think about this week's recap. I am here this week with my amazing co-host, Miss Brooke Cam High, the winner of Amazing Race Season 29.

[00:01:49] And I'm so excited to be celebrating the Purple Pants Podcast milestone of 500 episodes. It's so crazy to think that we've come a long way since the maiden voyage and we still have so much more to give and we've reached 500. And I'm so happy my newfound love for Amazing Race and to share my 500th episode with you and Amazing Race.

[00:02:16] Brooke and I are getting in to episode three of season 37 of Amazing Race. We are talking the express paths. We're talking the detours. We're talking being a ninja. We're talking words disappearing when they are wet or emerging when they are wet and disappear when they are dry. So much more in this fun episode. So let's get into this week's Pit Stop. Pit Stop. Pit, pit, pit, pit stop.

[00:02:46] It's a pit, pit, pit, pit, pit stop. It's a pit, pit, pit, pit, pit, pit stop. It's a pit, pit, pit, pit stop. Pit, pit, pit, pit, pit stop. And we are back. Your Purple Pants Pit Stop Duo covering Amazing Race Season 37, Episode 3. I am really excited to be here with my good, good, good, good girlfriend, Miss Brooke Cam High.

[00:03:15] Some forget she might be a lawyer, but at any given time, she might have to swear somebody in for a deposition. And she's there and ready. Brooke, how are you? I am well. How are you? I am amazing because we get to talk about Amazing Race Season 37, Episode 3. But even more importantly, Brooke, guess what? Tell me. This is the Purple Pants Podcast 500th. Did I say it right? 500.

[00:03:45] 500. 500th episode. Oh, my God. And guess what? I knew. Ah! Cheers! Happy 500th. Thank you so much. It is so crazy to think that this is such a huge milestone. And I know we are here to talk about Amazing Race, but I just couldn't be remiss to just thank the Purple Pants Posse, all of our listeners and watchers, and of course, with you. And it's just so special to get to have 500 episodes.

[00:04:14] And I get to talk about Amazing Race. It's almost the amount of kids that Scott and Lori have, but it's okay. It's 500. And again, I just am so happy. I'm so proud to see where the podcast has gone, and we are still going many places. So again, I can't thank everyone that is listening and watching. And if you want to celebrate with us, you can subscribe to the Purple Pants Podcast. It's available anywhere you listen to podcasts. And you can subscribe to the Bryce Isaiah YouTube channel.

[00:04:43] That would be a great 500. And put some 500s in the comments. Yes! 500. 100. 500. 500. 100. 500. 500. Don't stop now. 500. 500. 500. 500. 500. 500. Okay, listen, all right, but I'm just on tight end. We could do this all day. Congratulations. I am so happy to have been part of a small part of the 500.

[00:05:09] I remember saying congratulations on 100, which was like, you do a lot, man. That's a lot of episodes. That's more than most any TV shows ever run. That is 20 seasons of a regular network television show. That's nuts to me. So congratulations. Everybody like and subscribe to Bryce because, you know, he deserves it. He's the hardest working man in podcasting. So thank you for having me here for 500.

[00:05:36] I know you told me off the air that we're talking about your favorite show for the 500th episode, which might be a lie, but I don't care. I'm saying it anyway. And we'll talk about anything you want this time. Okay. Well, listen, I'm excited. We got a lot to unpack in this episode. It is so many things happening. I thought this was so many people's episodes. At this point, there really isn't a team that I am not rooting for. Everyone in their own way and right, I am rooting for. There are some people.

[00:06:04] There is one cuss out I got to give today. Just one. But everything else, I think it's all love. And I'm cracking up. And this season is really, really, really great. I said it the first episode. I'm saying it the second episode. So in the third episode, I, again, am loving the old school amazing race that we are getting because in previous seasons, the order just didn't change too much. They all was starting at the same time.

[00:06:34] They all started flights. What I am loving in this episode is that the order changes a lot. It is, oh, it's like. I couldn't keep anything straight. I've got 16 pages front and back because let's get real. But I sort of started giving up. I just started to be like, meanwhile, all this is happening. This is also happening. There are just so many flippy flops going on and switches and movement. And it was too much. This might be. Now I feel badly because it's episode 500. A ridiculous disaster.

[00:07:03] But we're going to try and make it all make sense because a lot has happened. And you are right. This is episode two gave us travel agency, old school, amazing race and airport drama. Episode three gave us so much like detour, roadblock, placement switching. I have one day. It's minuscule. It's about the Express Pass. It's fine. But this episode, this season is not disappointed even once.

[00:07:32] And I have a feeling it's only going to get better. So should we talk about it? We should. I'm excited. And I think my issue with the Express Pass might be your issue with the Express Pass. Wait, so we're going to agree on something? I don't know. Well, who? Probably not. Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? Because listen. And also, shout out to Phil. The other day while I was in the airport. Where was I? I think I was in San Francisco.

[00:08:00] Brooke texted me and calls me. Not Phil. Just randomly posted our clip of the Phil elimination. Did I say it right? No. Okay, let me try. Phil elimination. Hold on. Wait, no. Let me say it wrong so I can get it. Phil elimination. Phil elimination. No. No, just get right. Phil. Phil. Phil-lation. Phil-lation? No. Oh, that's it. That kind of sounds nasty. Just get rid of the E. Phil elimination. Phil elimination. Phil elimination.

[00:08:30] What? Yes. I'll disagree with you at this point because yes, correct. Done. That's what I've been saying the whole time. Phil elimination. I wish that I had the ability to cut back to previous clips because no, it's not. But I love you. Anyway, Phil put us on his Instagram page talking about the philimination. So thank you, Phil. Phil. He's currently out there filming season 38 of the amazing days. Wait, wait a minute. Brooke. We forgot about that. We need to talk about that real quick. Okay.

[00:08:59] I mean, listen, it's not spoilers because it's all over the world. It's all over the internet. Allegedly, they are filming season 38 right now. And it is the big brother contested season. And I, I'm so excited because literally it's like six teams are actually my friends that I know and that I love and that I'm rooting for. And so it is very interesting. You're going to have to tell me who you're going to root for the most because they can't all win.

[00:09:28] You got to like somebody a little bit better. Well, I mean, it's hard. I think there is Kylan and Taylor who I love. That is rumor. That is Jack and Jazz that I love. There is Izzy and Paige that I love. That is rumor.

[00:09:58] I love that. There is Tucker. There's Hannah and her sister from the cookout that I love. Who else? Am I missing? I'm sure I'm missing a lot of people, but those are the people that off the top that like, they my friends, like I know them. So I'm super excited for season 38. That will be a fun season. And so it also is just, it's crazy because I haven't, again, I'm new to Amazing Race. And so I don't always, I guess the spoilers are out there when they are filming, but I

[00:10:27] guess when there are big brother contestants all around the world that people are actually like getting the snapshots of them running the race. That's wild. This is like my first go round of that, but I don't want to be spoiled. No, I don't want you to know what happens. I try and be clear of that. And so it sucks because I've had to mute, like, you know, you can mute words on Twitter and different things. So I've muted the Amazing Race. So it sucks because I'm not seeing a lot of posts, but I don't want to know anything

[00:10:56] or anything, but I am just like really happy for the alleged season that is happening. It's happening. It's real and it's happening. I know a little, but I don't know much because I don't like to know. But so far it looks cool. Anyway, thank you, Phil. We appreciate you putting us out there. Hope you're having fun. And he agreed. I was right with the elimination. Thank you. Actually, he agreed with neither one of us. So I'm not doing this. We're not doing this. Not for 500. It's a day of celebration.

[00:11:26] It's a day of happiness. We're not doing that. I'll go to 2000. I'm right. But anyway, let's go on because listen, we got a lot to go on. I'm going to let you have it because it's your day, even though if you go back and watch the tape, you are wrong. Okay. So episode three, season 37, we are going from Osaka, Japan to Kyoto, Japan, and we're staying in the same country, which you would think would make me mad. But you know what? Surprise tournament. It doesn't. I loved everything that happened in this episode.

[00:11:54] And I'm okay when you stay in the same country, especially if you're going to like a totally different area with a different feel and a different vibe. And that's what you got in this episode. So I want to say in the last, but what season did Ricky and Cesar win? 30, 36, the last one. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And these two episodes alone. Oh, they travel more miles than the entire day of 36. Like, yeah, it's, it's just a fact.

[00:12:23] Shout out to Ricky and Cesar though, because, Cesar, because they were in Japan recently. Yeah. And they put on their Instagram. They went to all the places from this episode. So I don't know where they got their intel, except they kind of do, but whatever. And they went and basically showed some of these tasks from like the producer's point of view. So very, very cute. Loved it. I love when everyone does all of their stuff about the amazing race. I like that we're a supportive podcast that supports all of the other people doing all of their other things.

[00:12:53] Absolutely. Absolutely. And again, I, one of the reasons why I love amazing race and we'll just go on, on, on, on and on and on is I feel like amazing race doesn't get the respect that it deserves. Like, again, I come from survivor, which is arguably the best reality TV show out there, but I feel like survivor big brother, they get put on this pedestal. And I feel like amazing race is like their cousins. I just, sometimes I, you know, I have this fight with you, Brooke, but I feel like you are an amazing race winner.

[00:13:23] Greg and John, amazing race winner. Ricky and Stays are amazing race winner. Like, I don't feel like we put enough respect on a net on your names. And which is really a passion of mine. And you know me, I always try to uplift and big everyone up. And that's why I always roll out the red carpet for my amazing race family. Any Bryson win event that we go to, we treat everyone, but you know me, especially I treat my amazing race family, like family, like you guys are stars. I just feel like it doesn't get celebrated enough.

[00:13:53] And as I am discovering it with little platform that I have, I like to uplift and love. So that was just a little, hold on, wait, child, not already. Hold on. Wait, sorry. That's, that's my TED talk. Okay. My TED talk this week is put some respect on amazing race. Thank you for coming. Oh, that's the shortest TED talk of all time. I will say amazing race fans, however, are awesome because I won't name names, but then

[00:14:20] with a person or two on the Twitter, since you've muted things, maybe you didn't see it. It was all big brother saving a show with dying ratings and race by having big brother contestants on it. The tweet was deleted almost immediately because rather amazing race fans were like, where's your Emmys big brother? Or where's your like, how great are like people came at? Did you see Lewis respond? I did. Oh yeah. No, Lewis clapped back. First of all, that was Josh Martinez. Also, I love Josh Martinez.

[00:14:50] I love Josh Martinez. And so we'll just leave it at that, but shout out to Lewis. Okay. Cause Lewis clapped back and then he ended it with little Joshy. I said, Ooh, Lewis. Uh, but shout out to Josh Martinez. For the record. I don't want to be part of this fight. I just wanted to bring people's attention and talk about how great the amazing race fans were for sticking up for a show that some little dying, nothing show.

[00:15:14] The amazing race is arguably by me, the best reality show on TV and the fans are amazing. And we have the Emmys to back it up. So that's that story. Um, it's been 13 minutes. We haven't talked about the show at all, but also I think that for your 500th episode, we should just make this a 500 minute lot. I'm just kidding. That's a long time. What is that? Like six hours? I don't know.

[00:15:43] It's too many hours. Okay. Might've took that long to get the darts and the figs. Cause that was a lot. That this is, this episode had something that happens almost never happening, which is a bunch of people try to detour and everybody, not a single person finish it. Everybody switch. There's usually somebody who finishes a side of a detour. If you go to it, there have been times where nobody has gone to a side, but if people go to it, somebody will correct me.

[00:16:12] I don't remember the last time where people went to something and nobody finished it, like multiple people going. So here we go. So first things first. Would you say, uh, maybe to the producers that like, this was just not a good challenge. Like, not that it wasn't a good challenge, but like, so you say you still, cause I feel like it's too hard. If no one, if the five old brothers after a meditation session.

[00:16:40] So here is the problem with the challenge. Mind you, we're all over the place. That's my 500 episode. The problem with the challenge and lies, they should have had more than six things there. They should have had like 10. Yeah. But here's the thing. The stars were apparently very easy and the blow darts were very, very easy. It was just about those. The sticks. What do you call them? The nails. Sure. Totally. Um, the other thing was this huge piece of paper. Now, if you know how to make an origami crane, it's actually very easy.

[00:17:09] You can do it in about three minutes, but if you've never done it before, and by the way, I made you a present. I was going to talk about it only got there, but I made you a little purple or you just blacked me out. Sorry. Hold it. Sorry. Oh, let me see. I made you a little purple origami crane for the purple pants podcast. I'll send it over to you. I may miss out a little one too, cause it's easier with regular paper than construction paper, but it did that for you. Holden will be proud. Thank you. That's for you. So I had named him Reginald. Anyway.

[00:17:38] Come on, Reggie. Yeah. Reggie's coming to you. It's going to be on the shelf behind you. Okay. Rewind a little bit. Um, the express passes back and we are told at the very beginning of this episode, at the very beginning of next episode, there's going to be a new twist called the driver's seat. I might have a gripe with this. I think a lot. I watched the previews for the next episode. First of all, they're going to Bali. I am psyched. Second of all, everybody's pissed.

[00:18:06] I don't know who gets this driver's seat, um, like reward, but I know who doesn't. And I won't tell you who, because everyone's on the preview going, I want revenge. I'm angry. Everyone is pissed at whoever has this power. So I don't know how I feel about one team having what seems like that much power, but I'm excited for next week, if for no other reason than a new twist to the game.

[00:18:31] So at the beginning of this episode, we have Jonathan on at 831, Scott and Lori at 853, Alyssa and Ninja Josiah at 857. We have Jack and Carson at 908. Melinda and Erica, I was so wrong about this team, at 919. Me too. So wrong. Courtney and Jasmine at 927. Pops and Jeff at 928. I was also thinking a little wrong about them. Bernie and Kerrigan a minute after that. Mark and Brett at 937. Mike and Nick at 938.

[00:19:00] And Colin Holden bringing up the rear by a lot at 1034. Jonathan and Anna say they're going to stay on their toes. Apparently Jonathan is very sensitive to the heat. So I'm curious to see what happens next week in Bali. I don't know why they shared that. If not to tell us that something was going to happen in the future, we're shadowing. Try Vietnam in July, Jonathan. It's not great. Scott and Lori talk about, Lori talks about how she's not a runner. Girl, I feel you. What does she call it?

[00:19:30] Slagging? She called it slogging. I wrote it down because I'm going to steal that. Slow jogging. Not even jogging. This is a slow jog. And I'm going to adopt this into my everyday vernacular because I also, when I'm wrong, I am wrong. Very much underestimated Scott and Lori. Because apparently having 347 kids will prepare you to stay in the top tier of amazing racers on season 37. Okay.

[00:19:57] So Jack and Carson have decided without even knowing what anything is, they're going for the express pass. This is it. Courtney and Jasmine talk about how they keep their stress levels down because they are nurses in high stress situations and they can stay calm through anything. We shall see. We're going to take it down. We're going to take it down. We're going to take it down. We're going to take it down. Und deshalb sind wir zu Shopify gewechselt. Die Plattform, die wir vor Shopify verwendet haben, hat regelmäßig Updates gebraucht, die teilweise dazu geführt haben, dass der Shop nicht funktioniert hat.

[00:20:24] Endlich macht unser Nemo Boards Shop dadurch auch auf den Mobilgeräten eine gute Figur. Und die Illustrationen auf den Boards kommen jetzt viel, viel klarer rüber, was uns ja auch wichtig ist und was unsere Marke auch ausmacht. Starte dein Testen heute für 1 Euro pro Monat auf shopify.de slash radio. Bernie und Kerrigan are trying to, they have to get on a bullet train to Kyoto and Bernie and Kerrigan, well mostly Kerrigan is trying to figure out what the bullet train is. She's like, I think it's like a train.

[00:20:53] And Bernie's like, it's a train. It's a train. Yeah, but I think, and she's like, it's in the name. Like it's, these two I just think are so much fun. But I'm with Kerrigan though because it's like, is it really a train? What? Did you not see the movie Bullet Train? Oh, you should. Brad Pitt, um, a lot of people get murdered on the bullet train. It's a great movie. It's like a good airplane movie. It's really, it's like a fun, came out a couple years ago. Super good movie. Is it really a train though? Right.

[00:21:24] What do you mean it's a train? Because for me, a train is a chugga chugga chew, right? The bullet, there is no chugga or no chew. It's right. Right. And so that for me is like really what makes it a train. Chugga chugga chugga chugga. Shoot. Uh-huh. The bullet train, like it's kind of like, again, I'm with Kerrigan. Kerrigan is like a cross between a rocket and an airplane.

[00:21:56] Okay. It's your episode. So I'm just going to let you have it. But it's, it's, it's train. Like, I don't know how to argue that the bullet train is a train. So, no. Okay. I'm lying. It's more of a cross between a trolley and a rocket. Totally. You are absolutely right. Congratulations on your 500th episode. Thank you. Because it's not really a train though. What do you mean it's not a train?

[00:22:22] Like, it's a train, but it's not really a train. A train should not go that fast. I don't know how to respond to that. When you pass the speed of lightning. It's only going like 200 miles an hour. It's not the speed of, you know how fast the speed of light is? Okay. 200 is a lot. What's the fastest you've ever driven on a road? Well, I got a ticket that I can tell you.

[00:22:50] Because I've hit like a solid 140, 145 driving when I shouldn't have. So, 200 doesn't seem that unreasonably fast to me. Girl, fall off of a bike going three miles per hour and tell me how fast 200 miles per hour is going. This is, okay. So, I'll just go like this. On train number one, we have Scott and Lori and Jonathan and Anna.

[00:23:16] When the train, just assume I'm air quoting it every time, stops. Both teams go their separate ways. These, like nobody, Jonathan and Anna are not working with anybody, which is fine. The best part about this is Jonathan and Anna get in a cab. And Scott and Lori are in the cab directly in front of them. And they're like, how? Jonathan's like, how did they do that? Physics, I don't understand. Here's the thing. I love Jonathan and Anna. I don't even know if Jonathan is working with Anna, right?

[00:23:42] Like, Jonathan is on a team by himself, okay? Yeah, we'll talk about that. But I do love Jonathan, though. I love both of them. I actually love her. She, I have to take a lesson from her, too, because their relationship is a little working Scott, a little. And so, I think she is perfection. Okay. So, on turn, it's a turn. Two, you have Alyssa and Josiah. Also, dark horse. I love, what love, what love.

[00:24:12] They may hate me. I don't care. Even though I love them. And we have Jack and Carson, who I also love. They are the biggest nerds in the best way. They say some things I don't even understand, but I don't care because they're great. And then, on screen three, which leads to 10.06, this is my favorite moment of the episode. I know I have so many, but this is one of them. Thompson, Jeff. When I said last week that Erica helped Jeff, like, get on an airplane and that I don't

[00:24:41] know if he was by, if he were by himself, if that would have happened. Shut up, Brooke. Because wrong. Thompson, Jeff. Get a very nice gentleman in the front of the line for the bullet train to not even let them cut, but to switch spots to go to the back of the line so they can have his spot in the front of the line. And so, Jeff doesn't need Erica. I was wrong. They talk their way into cutting the line, which is great because then they're the only team that makes the third train, which leaves at 10 or 6 a.m.

[00:25:10] Like, this is how you play the amazing race. That was Pops' episode, right? Yeah. Where Big But Little Jeff is weak. Big But Little or Little Jeff is strong, right? That was a classic Black father move because that's something my stepdad does. He's at the grocery store where he's, like, getting his meat cut. Like, he'll be like, hey, my son's got an appointment. Do you mind? Can I take your number?

[00:25:38] Like, I've watched my stepdad do that. I'm like, what? Like, what? He's still gaming them. Hey, hey, hey. I'm not talking about cutting. I'm talking about you taking my spot so that nobody else gets mad. We're not pushing people back. But I want your spot. That guy did it. It was great. It was great. It's like, yeah. Amazing. And so they end up on that train. I almost felt like it was like classic old school, like Amazing Grace. Like, I feel like that's what you would do.

[00:26:06] So I love how at times we don't hear much from pops. Yeah. Yeah. Evidently, man, a few words. It's golden. I'm going to say, like, what would Charlotte do? Like, this is like a what would Charlotte and Myrna do? And they are following the Charlotte and Myrna playbook in the airports and at the train station. So they watched Amazing Race season five, I'm guessing. Or they listened to us. I don't know.

[00:26:31] But on train four, which leaves about a half hour later, you have Erica and Melinda. I feel for Erica because they feel like her mom. Not necessarily that she's negative, but she's pointing out facts. I see Melinda. No, no, hold on. Because I, too, have been accused of being negative. And I think I am just realistic. Like, if something is happening, even if it's not good, I'll be like, oh, that happened. And Erica's like, calm down. But she wasn't that calm. She was just saying what was going on around him.

[00:26:58] So I give Melinda a lot of credit. She is just reporting on the happenings of the moments. I agree. I absolutely agree because I have a lot of Melinda in me. And I don't even think at times it's being negative. It's just like, I just say what's going on in my mind, right? And I think, and again, Erica, I do owe you an apology because I will say, where is it at? Hold on. Not okay. Hold on. Wait, I don't know what to do.

[00:27:27] Okay, Erica, welcome to my TED Talk. I think when I first saw this happening, I don't play about Melinda. So I thought you were like not being so negative. But I think what it is, is that you've been around your mom your whole life. So you know how Melinda operates. So you just snap her out of it real quick. And so it like, at first glance, I'm like, hey, not too much on Melinda, but actually Erica, a little bit more on Melinda. Because she receives it. It's like a quick snap. It's like a kid.

[00:27:57] When you almost see a kid touching something, so you say don't touch it, you gotta hit that hand real quick. So I like it. Thank you for coming to our TED Talk. So I also thought, Erica, I was, this is the team I was most wrong on because I thought they were going to be out first. I just assumed you had an older lady and her daughter. They don't live, like they're not near each other now. I didn't know what the relationship was going to be. I didn't know. Honestly, I underestimated how strong Erica was going to be. I don't think they're going anywhere.

[00:28:26] And Courtney and Jasmine also are on that train. On train five, which left at 1039, you have Mike and Nick, Bernie and Kerrigan, and Mark and Brett. I got nothing to say about that train. And then on train six, which left at 11, what did you say? Rocket. I thought you said not. Okay, fine. That left at 1118, you have only Han and Holden. Also, I assume they're out from the beginning of this episode. I'm watching this episode thinking they're done. I also want to just take a moment.

[00:28:55] I think that I was also a bit wrong. Oh, you may. Okay. Okay. So welcome to my apology tour for Han and Holden. I thought they were going to be out early. I thought he was super young. They don't live together. They said they're not particularly close. Like they haven't seen each other in like seven years. That's probably not the right fact, but it's something like that. I love this episode because they let me see more into their personalities. And Han is great. All good things. But Holden, I had no idea this dude had such a personality.

[00:29:25] He is like zen, but also awesome and sarcastic and hilarious. And their relationship is great. And they talk about how he played soccer. And he was like, amazing. I think I played like, I was like a sophomore starter and just like what division? He's like, we're going to talk about that. Not important. Doesn't matter. But when in there are nailed things, like I was wrong. And I hope they stay around for a long time because I actually am very much enjoying their interaction. So a thousand pardons and what was in the McDonald's bag.

[00:29:54] Thank you for coming to this apology tour. Now, real quick, because we do want to know what was in the McDonald's bag. Holden did post on his Instagram trying to get a sponsorship from McDonald's. So shout out to Holden. Again, when I first saw this team, I knew that I was going to love them. I thought my love would be for Han because she's the older sister. But I should have known because I am the younger sibling that Holden got a little like little swag to him. He gives me like.

[00:30:25] He was in a fraternity. He has that like, you know, like, but he's like funny. He's interesting. And I also thought it would be Han that will be getting Holden together. But for real, for real, it's Holden getting Han together. And I like it. Thank you. OK, so we finally. 30 minutes in, get to Kyoto. OK, so Scott and Laura get to the clue board right before Jonathan and Anna.

[00:30:51] And I really do think this is like starting to grate on Jonathan a little bit where he's like, how? How is this happening? OK, and we get the root information, which is by a piece of I'm going to mispronounce it, like Omikuchi fortune telling paper. Dip it in the water and reveal the location of your next clue. It also should have said write down this information because if this paper dries, the clue name is going to disappear. But I also thought that was cheating, though, like from Amazing Race. Like, why would it disappear?

[00:31:20] I feel like after you wedded, it should be there. But I loved it. It led to one of the best scenes of the episode, unfortunately, at Courtney and Jasmine's expense. But I love them and they were good sports and whatever. So anyway, they dip the paper in and it sends you to Shirameen Jinju Shrine or something like that. Don't judge my pronunciation. I don't speak Japanese, although I do feel like Carson does.

[00:31:47] And or at least has just a very good accent or is faking it well. I don't know. So Jack and Carson get to the clue box third, followed by Josiah and Alyssa. Carson may have just learned six words. I don't know, but he does those six words very well. And it makes me think he has some sort of background in this. Scott and Lori make a mistake. This is my tisk tisk for Scott and Lori this episode. It's little, but they are, I believe, the only team, maybe Courtney and Jasmine do it, who let their taxi go.

[00:32:16] Everyone else has held their taxi and said, we'll be right back. And Scott and Lori are now behind, even though they were in first because everyone else kept their car. Come on, guys, you know. This is when we see Han and Holden finally start the leg. And we see these two little deer in the streets of Osaka. And I'm thinking, adoption time. Let's go get the deer. Why are there deer roaming the streets of Osaka? I don't even see the deer. Two big, great. Okay.

[00:32:42] So Pops and Jeff will say land because apparently they're on a rocket in Kyoto as Jonathan and Anna gets the roadblock first. The roadblock says, who is up for some kicks? This is, you want, you have a gripe? Because I have a gripe. I do. I do have a gripe. Okay. So I like this. I just felt like for the express pass.

[00:33:06] Now I haven't seen a lot of amazing race, but I thought for express passes, you have to leave the location that you're at and do something else. Not just do the same thing. I was like, this is too easy. That is kind of what pissed me off a little bit. And I'm like, that's a little weird. Now, what I will say is what I loved and why I was like, now Scott and Lori might be our winners of this amazing race season.

[00:33:31] Because when they got there and saw that the two teams were doing it, Scott said, we don't need this. We're going to leave. Like Lori said. Oh, Lori. Shout out to Lori. Scott said, Scott did it. Okay, so for anyone who doesn't watch the episode but just watches us, which I now find out is actually people. Hi, Jace. Okay, so what you have to do is basically play happy sack with like a kind of soccer ball for five kids. Now, I never played soccer. I actually don't.

[00:34:01] I did. Matt did. This is not hard. Like this is even I could do this because I would do this with my nieces and just kick around a ball. I'm like, this is not particularly difficult. Hear me out. It's not? This is the first time in any amazing race season that I can remember where the express pass was gotten by just two people doing a roadblock.

[00:34:24] I have seen where a U-turn has been both teammates having to do a roadblock. So that is the, that is like the, maybe not a U-turn, some penalty where the penalty was both teammates had to do the roadblock. I see that too. Right. Right. So, but this struck me as way too easy, but I didn't mind it because we got this moment with Scott and Lori. So what had happened was Jonathan and Anna show up. Jonathan goes first, does great.

[00:34:54] Anna admits, I don't play the sports ball. And so I don't, I'm not going to be good at this. This is where I feel it's a little broken Scott. She's trying and she's talking to herself and she's hyping herself up because she, like I, likes to talk to herself. He is getting a little bit frustrated that his wife is not good at this and decides, I'm just going to walk away. I don't care if she needs, she's, she's going, that was good. Right.

[00:35:18] And he's gone because he's decided to take five and counts as 10 in the corner because he needs to calm down. All the while, Carson does this and then it's Jack's turn. My favorite moment of this episode is Scott does it because apparently teaching 612 kids to play soccer will prepare you to be very good. I don't remember what this is called, but we'll be, it makes you good at this. Right. So Scott gets it and looks at Lori and says, do you want to try?

[00:35:48] And she just said, no, she doesn't even, she doesn't even go. She goes, no, because they're playing psychological warfare with everybody else. Everyone else sees them leave. They're not in the first place. Everyone starts to freak out. They're not in front of the pack anymore. I loved this. Lori didn't even think about it. And honestly, they could have very well gotten the express pass because he had caught up. And if she was any like half decent at it, she would have beaten the other two. Doesn't even matter. She doesn't even care.

[00:36:17] They'd rather be in first and they're out. Good. Yeah. I thought it was so smart. Again, especially when two teams are there and they are like, yeah, what's the point? Let's leave and try to get this first place. Let's like, I, chef's kiss. I loved it. Because we like you.

[00:36:42] But, so instead of highlighting Jonathan, I feel like I'm going to highlight Anna. Because it is, this is a case of know your audience, right? And I think that the problem in relationships, sometimes even though I'm not in a relationship, but listen, welcome to counseling with Bryce, right? The problem. Hold on. Hello.

[00:37:09] Well, welcome to relationship with Dr. Bryce. The problem sometimes in relationships is that people have needs and people have wants. The problem sometimes is, is that you are looking for your needs to be met by your partner, but your partner needs and wants are different. And so you are expecting them to give you the love and reassurance that you need when really,

[00:37:39] it's within. And so if you have the hindsight to know that my partner in this moment cannot give me what I want, but you can get it from within. Because if you look for that from your partner who cannot give it to you, then you will get frustrated. But if you have the hindsight to know who your partner is and know their strengths and know their weaknesses,

[00:38:08] you know that I won't look for him in this moment. Because if I do, I will get upset. And so my good friend Anna has taken love with Dr. Bryce before, because she knew that in that moment, Jonathan could not give her the reassurance, because Jonathan only knows. One, number one, he only knows. And Anna knows.

[00:38:38] I can't get that from him. So I have to dig deep inside of me and get it from myself. And Anna got it from herself. Thank you for coming to Dr. Love. Hey, Bryce. Hey, Bryce. Yes? I just met someone called Dr. Bryce or Dr. Love. Where's that guy from? Because he had one of them. I don't know.

[00:39:06] I think he has some Count Chocula cookies or some cereal. I don't know. I've never met him before. I'm single. I need to take some of his counseling advice. It was very wise. He's very wise. If you ever see him again, tell him I think he's wise. Meanwhile, we have Courtney and Jasmine, Erica and Melinda, Brett and Mark, Nick and Mike, and Bernie and Kerrigan all getting to the invisible paper part of this thing.

[00:39:34] I want to say they did show, and I like this is the 90-minute episode thing because we're learning more about people. They did show a little bit about Kerrigan in the car where she talks about, I'm not Black enough. I'm not Hispanic enough. I never really fit in. So no matter who you are or how you identify or what you look like or whatever, you can achieve anything. And so I love that positive attitude. I really, really like this team. And the one thing I will say, and I know it's jumping ahead a bit, but when Kerrigan

[00:40:01] goes to do this task and Bernie doesn't do it, and we all know that Bernie would have done it in 10 seconds because she's the best at everything. Shout out, Bernie. Love you. I very much appreciated that jump. Sort of a little bit different. Bernie knew what Kerrigan needed and gave Kerrigan the support and reassurance that she needed Bernie sat there and she was like, you've got this. You're doing great. And she never once said, at least to the camera that they put in the episode, I should have done it. Like they just left that part out.

[00:40:30] She's sitting there praying. You can see in the back. She's like, just don't say anything bad. She needs positivity. But she was very positive and supportive of her partner, which I loved. Anywho, at this point, Anna has gotten the express pass. And Jonathan's whole demeanor changes from, you know, I'm going to count the 10 in the corner to my wife is amazing. Oh my God, she did it. I knew she could do it. She's the best at everything. It's hilarious. It is just so funny.

[00:41:00] I love Jonathan. Right. Like now he, now he come back. He's like, I knew you could do it baby. Never, never had a doubt. Never for a second questioned it guys. Could you not air the part where I'm in the corner cursing the world? Let's just not put that on the air. Cause I, I was always supportive. Like it's just, these are rewriting history a little bit, but I'm okay with it. They tell a story about how Carson plays soccer, but how really he like chased daffodils instead of chasing the soccer ball.

[00:41:29] When they're pretty funny, the second Jonathan and Anna get it, Jack's like, okay, we're out of here. So they're in second. Jonathan and Anna are in third with the express pass because we all knew she could always do it, especially Jonathan. Jonathan and all those other people that we just mentioned way are at the invisible ink at this point. Um, and who cares? So they have to go to this temple. I'm not going to pronounce it right. Yusaka Joe should not, sorry.

[00:41:59] I'm not even going to bother for the next clue. I like this. This is very much reminiscent of like an old season too. It's not go here, do something, go here, do something. You're done. This is go here, find something. It will send you somewhere else, then do something, then find something else and then go somewhere else and do something. I like that there are extra stops. The amazing race is doing me a solid and giving me extra stops because it allows for the changing of the leaders and people to get lost. And I enjoy what all of that means.

[00:42:29] Agreed. Hmm. I need to breathe. So I was hoping you were going to say more than I mean. Okay. I mean, I love it. I do. I think it's great. Great. Okay, cool. Breathe. Here we go. Meanwhile, Han and Holden's train slash rocket, whatever arrives. And Holden says, we're going to move with urgency, but we're going to move with purpose and we're going to dig deep.

[00:42:55] And I like his whole normally like that Zen hippie dippy stuff just annoys me. Not with that. I enjoy really am enjoying them. And I'm sitting here still thinking they're going home and being like, well, damn, because I'm actually really enjoying them. This makes me sad. I'm not happy about who went home. I want to make that clear. Side note, watch our interview with the third while fourth eliminated team of the amazing race. It was lovely. They are lovely. Big fans. Okay. Yes. Josiah and Alyssa get to the Roebuck fourth.

[00:43:25] He does it, which is interesting to me because she says she's a D1 soccer player from T-U. From where though? From where though? From where though? Okay. Alyssa is a D1 soccer from my alma mater. T-U. T-U. Shout out Temple University with my girl Alyssa. Okay. When she said that, I said T-U. There's not really many times that I get to like kind of sort of celebrate my school that I went to.

[00:43:55] And for a long time, I felt like, you know what? Temple don't really celebrate me like that. But maybe like two, three years ago, they did write a piece about me. And so, yes, it's in the Owl News. So you can read that. But shout out to Alyssa for being in the Owl News. Yes. Because we're the Owls, the Temple Owls. My high school mascot was the Owls. Not ferocious. But okay. Great. We have something in common. Shout out to Temple. He does it, which I don't totally understand. But maybe they're switching back and forth. And I don't know. And he does it really well. They do it super fast.

[00:44:23] So I just sort of think if this is something you know is your thing and you know you're not right at the front, I mean, switch up the order. There'll be something that he's good at. I mean, it's something else with being a ninja. He wants to be a ninja more than anything. So, but fine. Josiah does great. He does it fast. They're in. They're out. They're moving on. That was a good throw. They're moving on. While this is happening, so many back and forth. Scott and Lori get to the detour.

[00:44:49] Now, the detours options are fold it or fling it. In fling it, you have to throw three spikes, three throwing stars, and three blow darts each at these targets. Sounds easy. It is not. No one completes it. And again, I question. I'm sure an amazing race, like a survivor. They have a dream team. They do. Is it called the dream team? I don't think so. Okay.

[00:45:20] The testers. The testers do it, and they have to make sure it's doable. And I have had this conversation with people, like with the production people, because I was curious when I was running the race. They are all tested. In fact, fun behind the scenes little note that at least for my season, I know the seasons before I don't know what happened in COVID because they sent people home. Once you are eliminated, you are sequestered. You are brought to the finale city at the time of the finale.

[00:45:44] Eliminated contestants from our season tested all of the tasks for the finale episodes. Not only were they tested by testers, but eliminated cast members did the driving around the track and the changing of the tire and all of the stuff for our finale episodes. I'd like to meet the testers of this one because this seemed like fairly impossible. However, again, like I said, I just think the issue of this wasn't that it was so hard.

[00:46:11] They just needed more supplies at the actual playing field when it was live. Well, the thing is, if one person could learn to throw the spike, I mean, that one would have gone so fast. If one person got it, like that would have been so unbalanced the other way because in folding, you had to make a little origami crane that was about, I don't know, 150 times the size of this little origami crane. It's pretty good. Check them out. Hi. Hi. How are you? So the paper was huge.

[00:46:41] I don't know the dimensions, but it was longer than people's. It was probably like eight feet by eight feet or something like that. Seven feet by seven feet. And making an origami crane not terribly difficult if you know what you're doing. And they did have a demonstration there, but you had to wait for it to be over and then watch from the beginning, which, as we all know, I find annoying with demonstrations. But what are you going to do? So God and Laura decide to be ninjas because that's what their kids would do. And they want to make their kids happy. Great. Great.

[00:47:11] So while they're doing this, I have everything written in like chronological order because there's so much skipping back and forth. So that's how I'm going to do it. Well, we're not even close to these two, but sure. Fine. The five brothers get there way later. And they decide to be ninjas also. And here's the thing, though. If I got that good ones, no one was good at the ninja. It's not against them. Nobody could do it. It seemed like they got the hang of it, though. But I would have been a ninja, though.

[00:47:38] If I would have read that, I would have thought that ninja would have been a little easier. So I'm not mad for the people that went because reading and hearing the clue, I would have went for the ninja. Plus, they're right next to each other. You give it a shot. If you're not good at it, you go do the like I know how to do this. Like I could do this like quickly. I still would have wanted to go be a ninja just because it just looks like more fun. Like whatever. So anyway, this time Erica and her mom and Courtney and Jasmine are at the magic paper. Pops and Jeff are at the roadblock.

[00:48:08] This is what I was waiting for. Pops does a roadblock. He did the one with the climbing, but this was like a little bit because everyone was doing that at the same time. You didn't really get to like experience Pops doing a roadblock. He's great. He's kicking the ball so hard because his leg muscles don't allow him to kick something softly because he is just such even tapping. It will make the ball go flying 50 feet into the air. He falls over. He doesn't even care. Like Jeff is like, get up. You got this. He's falling down. He's he's but he doesn't stop smiling. He doesn't very quickly.

[00:48:37] They're currently in fifth place at this point. I really, really enjoy them. They've got the smarts. They're having fun. I thought they would be out kind of early just because they got lost in New York City. And that's a grid. But you know what? You don't need you have taxi drivers driving around. We'll see what happens if they have to drive themselves. Yeah, I love Jeff and Pops. And I love it. It's father's son. But it's more like brother. Yeah. Best friends. Right. Like I like how like if my dad were to fall while doing a challenge, I would have been like, oh, dad, get up. Like Jeff's like, you got it. Get up.

[00:49:07] Like, let's go. Come on. Keep it moving. I like the way that they motivate each other. And, you know, they're from the Midwest. So, like, you know, sometimes big cities might be a little, you know, because he got lost in New York. So I was I was worried. But it is so good to see how savvy they are and how like interesting. Yes. And like how just the way that they connect with people. I love it. I do, too. That's a good way to put it.

[00:49:35] They they make good connections, whether it's with another team in the alliance with Eric and Melinda or whether it's just with random people online and getting to switch spots or the desk agent at an airport helping them out. They have a good social game going. Yeah, we call it swag. They have very good swag. They're just like cool people. And the cream of the crop was Pops and Jeff and Melinda and Erica teaming up that I love

[00:50:03] that that for me sealed the deal for Erica. I love Erica. And why did they team up? Because we have to keep the old people in the race. I enjoyed the logic. Yeah, you were saying go back to Erica because we can't talk about her enough. Yeah. And I love how like willing she is to help. Now, mind you, I do sometimes on the amazing race. I don't always like to see teams help each other. But at this portion of the race, I love it. I think it's imperative, right?

[00:50:32] Because it's like if we could group up and we could get it through. Yeah. And I like the fact that this is not the first team that Pops and Jeff have teamed up with, right? They've teamed up with the nurses. Boom. Now they got Erica. It's like you can sense that they are like good people and that one of their strengths is that like we lean on other people or we know how to like maneuver. So I love this pairing of mother, son, father, son, mother, daughter, father. Wait. Right. Mother, daughter, father, son. Yeah. Love it. Exactly. Okay.

[00:51:00] So Nick and Mike, bread and mark, Brody and Kerrigan are at the magic paper. Nick and Mike held their taxi, smart boys because other people did not. Meanwhile, Courtney and Jasmine did not hold their taxi and they are trying to figure out how to get to the next place. And they're like, we should ask a bus driver. So they go to ask the bus driver, but their paper has dried and they can no longer read the location that they are going to. Thankfully, I don't know if production provided it for them or if they had it on their own.

[00:51:29] They have a bottle of water with them. So they redouse their paper in water and they know where they're going. It's like a fun little scene. I enjoy that. At least the bus, though, the bus stopped this time and it looked like he tried to wait for a little bit, but then he was like, oh, listen, I got to continue on this route. I got to get these people to work. But shout out to the bus driver for stopping for our Queens. Okay. Okay. Back to the detour. So we're at fling it. The spikes were obviously the hardest part.

[00:51:56] Almost everyone wants to be a ninja and then gives up because being a ninja is hard. Scott and Lori. Yeah. They have decided to give up. But Jack and Carson get there and they start talking some Dungeons and Dragons shit that like I don't understand at all. But they did say they were going to teach me Dungeons and Dragons. So I'll learn it someday. And I'm excited. They do badly immediately, but they're having fun. And something that I thought that Carson and Jack did smart was like, okay, well, listen,

[00:52:25] there's nobody there. Let's go try it. Let's go to the real thing. And then that's when they discover like, oh, wait a minute. We only get three. That's not enough Dungeons. It's not for Dungeons. Too many Dragons. We got to go. So I love the fact that they were like, this ain't going to work out good for us. So let's go. And you know what? I agree. When you have two, big and bigger. When you, Ted Talk. I don't know.

[00:52:51] I feel like maybe we've discussed this in the past, but I'll say it again for emphasis. Hi, my name is Brooke Cam. Hi. I'm in season 29 of The Amazing Race. Welcome to my Ted Talk. When you get, for future Amazing Racers, when you get to a detour, sometimes they are on opposite sides of the city. When they are in the exact same place and one of them looks fun and one of them looks, you know, less fun. I'm not against you trying the fun one, especially if it's something that's objective.

[00:53:20] If it's not, I would usually say do the objective one over a subjective one where somebody judges your ability to dance or your ability to act or whatever, whatever. In this case, I have no problem that all the people wanted to try and be a ninja. Scott and Lori, I think, said it best. And they were like, I know it's going to take a minute to put on the outfit and whatever, whatever. Give it a shot. The other one is right inside. I got no problem with this. But do what Scott and Lori did. Do what Jacqueline Carson did.

[00:53:46] If it's not working out for you, do not spend 38 tries. That's not a number I picked randomly. I believe that's the actual number that Josiah and Alyssa dropped to do the task before they went inside. So try it and then move on. Okay. Thank you for coming to my tent. Hmm. Yes. Okay. So let's see. We've got these people give up. These people give up. Jonathan and Anna show up. He said she's good at throwing things. I feel like there's a slight somewhere in there.

[00:54:16] And then they try for a bit. Okay. Cause I caught that. I caught that. Okay. I feel like Jonathan been, he had to duck a couple of times. Okay. I heard it too. Okay. Then Josiah and Alyssa show up. He's in heaven. I don't think he cares what goes on right now. All he wants to do is be a ninja. Japan is his happy place. His brother's been there now. He's been there. They never want to quit. But again, you heard my TED talk. 38 tries. It's too many tries.

[00:54:45] And so, and, but they are just so supportive and so loving and so wonderful that I get not wanting to like start from scratch when you've been trying something for so long, but you would like to think if this were a dance challenge or something, I would have said, don't quit because at some point the judges are going to get a bit easier on you and you'll probably get it. If you've been there for that many times. However, when it is hit a target or not hit a target, it's not something that a judge can say, okay, you did it. Either you did it or you didn't do it.

[00:55:14] And since they weren't getting better and there were other teams still not there, they absolutely made the right decision and went inside to start folding the huge crane. So I think they stayed too long, but that's okay because they're still in it. I love the list is though. Like her just tenacity of like, I want to get this. I like we, we are quitting and this is not how I want to go out. But also it was like Josiah in that moment, like, listen. We get it. Does he have a brother? Josiah.

[00:55:45] Do you have a brother? An uncle? A dog at this point? Because I need some companionship and I need some companionship that's going to talk to me like that. Because I mean, in that moment, I'm at the airport and I'm like crying. It's six in the morning and I'm just like, oh my God. Like, I love how, because he's just so hype. He's so like, you know, I'm going to be a ninja.

[00:56:13] And then Alyssa kind of is getting upset. He just grounds her and he's like saying the exact things that you need to hear. So I, Josiah. If you have a dog, I need someone to talk to me like that. If you have a talking dog, I'll take it. Because that shit's going to make me rich. I would like your talking dog. Okay. Back to folding. We got Scott and Lori. Again, he makes paper airplanes. First, I don't think this is what you're supposed to be doing. I don't go to church.

[00:56:41] But I feel like in church, you're probably not supposed to be making paper airplanes. But I don't know. I'm not judging. Everyone does what they do when they do it. And that's cool. But he makes paper airplanes in church every Sunday. With his kids. This is my surprise of the season, these two. Like, maybe when you make 517 paper airplanes every Sunday, you become good at folding an origami crane. Oh, no. Okay. They're so far ahead. Whatever. We're jumping back to the roadblock. I'm sorry. We're all over. But I don't care. Erica gets there.

[00:57:10] Erica played volleyball in college. A bunch of sports in high school. She's fast. But I personally feel like Melinda should have done this one. It was not particularly physical. Melinda hasn't done any yet. And I feel that they're going to get to a point. This has been three legs. They're going to get there where Erica's not going to be allowed to do anymore. And then if it's something that Melinda can't do, if it's like a lot of running, which you can tell that she needs to slow down a lot. She is from the school of Brooke and the school of Lori, where she likes to slog.

[00:57:40] She might be in trouble. So this is one where you can see afterwards, Erica's like, you should have done this. Melinda should have done this because you got to save Erica for something harder in the future. Mike and Nick. I don't remember which one does it because I'm not going to lie. Sometimes I have trouble telling them apart. Well, they're both like handsome. In previous episodes, I could tell them apart because Nick was the calm one and Mike was a little, Mike got a little hype. So I was like, okay, I'm more Mike than Nick.

[00:58:07] But then in this episode, I was getting them confused because they both were getting hype with each other. But I love the sibling fighting that took place this episode because it, again, reminded me like growing up. I also felt like at one point in time, Lori and Scott were going to come out and have to like sit. They were gone. They were way gone. But I will tell you. Sorry, go ahead. No, I just thought they was going to have to come back.

[00:58:36] I thought Phil was going to say, hey, Scott, Lori, we have some siblings. Go fix it. Okay. I will say when Nick and Mike, especially tell you, Han and Holden, that you need to calm down there when there's a world where Mike is telling you to calm down, I think you might be a little too hyped up. I was cracking up though. And I don't know if it was Nick or Mike when they were at learning the origami and Nick is like me and was like, look at those siblings over there. Look at them.

[00:59:06] And Mike is like, hey, hey, we're here. Demonstration. Right. So whichever, I want to say Mike, whichever one does it, they're very fast. It's seven. Brett does it. They're fast. They're at eighth. Bernie and Kerrigan get there. Since Bernie did the first two, Kerrigan decides to do this one. She's nervous because she doesn't play the sports ball, but she, and she's here for what looks like too long. But again, we said earlier, good job, Bernie. I'm being supportive. Good job, Kerrigan. I'm not giving up.

[00:59:38] Meanwhile, at the detour, because we're going back and forth. Because nobody's at the same place at the same time. It looks like teams are figuring out, but no, it's not. They're not. Because nobody's actually getting anywhere. Jonathan and Anna switched. Carson and Jack switched. Carson used to make, first of all, this is hilarious. He used to play soccer, but not really. He picked flowers. He used to make origami cranes in the library during school instead of playing outside with the other kids. This kid's great. These two are very funny to me. He's like Sater.

[01:00:07] He has a story for everything. And Sater had a job for everything. I was working out for them. And their social media presence is absolutely amazing. Their reels and stuff that they put out for the episodes and their podcast is great. I think they had Rohan and Maya on last week. So if you haven't checked their podcast out about Amazing Grace, make sure you check it out because they be cracking me up. Okay. I have to plug my Dungeons and Dragons brothers.

[01:00:37] Are you going to let them teach you too and we can play together? No? I don't know about that. I don't know. It might be fun. I don't know. People like it. Let's see. Okay. Josiah and Alyssa are still trying. They're at like 30 something tries. Give up. Move on. Okay. So Scott and Lori are making this crane. They are very good at following directions. They've probably done every art project for all 412 of their kids. So that's probably why they're good at this. And they are done first.

[01:01:05] At the same time, Han and Holden are at the Invisible Paper. So you know how far back these two are. They are sappy enough, however, to write down the location in case the paper dries. While this is happening, Courtney and Jasmine are at the roadblock and they have caught up to Bernie and Kerrigan. Courtney does the roadblock, which is probably not the right answer because she's a band geek instead of a jock. Said from love from a chorus geek and a band geek myself.

[01:01:33] So she does as well as she can do. She only gets frustrated really once that you can tell. And they both say, Kerrigan and Courtney both say, as long as Han and Holden don't show up, we are fine. Six seconds later, Han and Holden show up. And this is Holden's moment to shine because he played soccer in high school. Tell me. Holden killed it.

[01:02:00] Holden's like, I'm used to doing this practicing before we play a game. Now I'm just in Japan playing with three random people that I'll never see again. But Holden came in and smoked it. OK, it must have been that fuel from the McDonald's from last week's episode. Holden came in and smoked it. And this is what I will say. A team like Han and Holden, I keep my eye on. Right. Because it's like they are still at the back of the pack.

[01:02:29] However, in a season like this, anything can happen. We can see how fast you can move forward. They are on the right trajectory. Right. Like if they keep making these pace and progress, like anything can happen. But they got to learn to communicate better. But also, I don't want them to because I love it. Right. Because it's really fun to watch. It is. And it's like it's siblings. And so it's like they yell at each other, they're screaming, and then they get it together. So that's what I love the most about it.

[01:02:56] That's exactly how my brother and I would have been minus the get it together part. We would have just been yelling and screaming and never would have gotten it together. But I didn't care. I wanted to run this race with anybody. He gets it in one try, which is amazing for him and not so amazing for the two ladies who are there trying, who are like, oh, my God, like legitimately one try. While that's going, Erica and Melinda have found Pops and Jeff, have brought them to the detour clue and have decided we're working together to keep the old people in.

[01:03:25] Which is good for Pops and Jeff because they walked right past the detour clue. So thank you to Erica and Melinda for helping Pops and Jeff. Yes. When they get to the clue, they all decide together they're going to do the fold it. When they do get to the fold it, they keep getting confused, but they are very good about going back, watching the demonstration again, because even if you waste five minutes watching the demonstration, you're not going to do what other teams did, which is one of the original folds being done backwards. And then you have to start the whole damn thing over. And that is annoying.

[01:03:52] So, yeah, Mark and Brett are also at the detour. They have decided to fold it. They are a little bit starky at each other. And I think, at least the way it looks on TV, Brett is like, I think this is how we do it. And Mark's like, but if you're not sure, let's watch. Just let me figure it out. Yes. So I'm Brett, though. Right. Let me try it and figure it out. But I'm also Mark, though. Like, this is an amazing race. And there are steps that are crucial.

[01:04:22] But I'm also with Mark. Wait, is it Brett or Mark? Mark? Brett. Brett's the one who is like, I think I know it. And Mark's like, let's go watch the damage. Yeah. I'm with Brett, though. Like, let me get my zhuzh. Let me figure it out. Because it's like, that's how I am. No, and I'll tell you why. I love you. Wrong. And I'll tell you why. Listen, I can put together IKEA furniture. I don't need instruction. I love putting together IKEA furniture.

[01:04:50] The problem is, the problem here is, even if the furniture is correct at the end, I think they still would have gotten a no because these tasks are about following all the steps. It reminds me of being back in Venice and making that mask that we had to make. And teams made it look right at the end. But if you didn't put that black coat on the bottom before you put your color coat on and smoosh it together, even if it looked right, you were getting a no because you didn't do the steps right. And this is about the steps.

[01:05:18] And so I got to tell you, Mark, I would say, is right. Because even if you made it look right at the end, if you skipped a step or did them out of order, I think you were getting a thumbs down. So I'm team Mark on that one. Right. Let them cook for a little bit. Then go. But, you know, but I understand. It's your 500th episode. Like, honestly, I want to let you be right on everything, even when you're not. But Bryce, you're right. You're amazing. OK.

[01:05:46] Mike and Nick at this point now try to fling it. They are being ninjas. They are sort of getting it looks like they're getting the hang of the sticks, the spikes, whatever they are. Um, but they're not. They do for a second. And then they realize, oh, my God, we don't have any leeway whatsoever when we get to the testing area. And one of them, I'm going to guess it's Nick who says, let's stop for a moment and ground ourselves.

[01:06:13] This is also where the 90 minute episodes come in, because we learn for some reason we learned this that 10 years ago, Nick was assaulted, had to have his jaw wired shut and had to learn how to navigate through life with what's the word I want? Difficulties happening around him. Maybe this is where the meditation comes from, because they sit, they think, and they realize we're two guys from New York. We're not ninjas. Let's go fold something instead.

[01:06:42] So smart move. They decide to go. Scott and Lori have fixed their crane, even though they did it backwards. Then they fixed it. Blah, blah, blah. Long story short, they're at it. Josiah and Alyssa are still struggling at fling it. But at 38 tries or something ridiculous, they have their moment where she's at a 10, he's at a one. They meet at a five. They're in love. They're wonderful. They decide we're not ninjas. Let's go fold something. Although when they're folding something, Josiah looks at the camera and says, I'm still a

[01:07:12] ninja, which I love. They're so cute. Kerrigan is suffering at the roadblock. Courtney is suffering at the roadblock. Connor and Holden show up now at the detour and decide immediately that they're going to fold it. They don't even bother. Wait, am I skipping something? I don't even know. They don't even bother thinking about flinging it. That was somebody's folded paper in the past. Whatever. Erica, at this point, decides to just start doing Jeff and Pops' crane for them because this is what an alliance is.

[01:07:42] So she's going over there and she helps them, which I'm for. If you're going to help and maybe there's, I mean, look, let's get real. Maybe there is a task coming up that is brute force. That's what I was thinking. You're going to go. Remember when I made that crane for you over there? Remember when I showed you where that detour clue was? Can you have your dad come lift this 400 pound thing for my mom? Because she can't do it. Only if she can. I don't know. I feel like, but Jeff and Pops are so good people that I don't even feel like she'll have to act. They will just do it.

[01:08:11] Because at first when I'm watching this, I'm like, Erica, girl, you're doing too much. However, it's still only the third episode. And so it's like, okay, cement this relationship. And so I really do feel like it will come back full force or full circle and help her. So initially I was like, but also it's Pop and Jeff. So also I, you know, I don't, I'm always going to be on Pop and Jeff's side. So I like this, but I mean, not too much.

[01:08:40] She's just doing it for them, but she didn't do the whole thing. She just fixed the one. There was one fool that I think everyone was getting a little bit wrong. And if you skipped it and missed it, then your whole thing was backwards and you're hiding your tail where the wings were supposed to be. And what's a whole mess. What was taking me out though, when Scott and Lori did it, they're stood up towards the end of the episode. People were just holding them up. Like, please, please. It's good. Oh wait. Oh no, no, it's good. I swear.

[01:09:06] I'm like, there is no way y'all are asking for a check and y'all are holding that. That ain't even a swan at that point. It should stand. It should just on its own. Just like that. Just this. I'm really proud of this. I'm sending this to you in the mail. Okay. Anyway, Carson and Jack start to get something that looks like a crane, but Scott and Lori are first. Carson and Jack are second. Jonathan and Honor are third. And it's a race to the pit stop. Con Kai, Con Yoji Temple or something like that. Don't get mad at my mispronunciation, please.

[01:09:36] But between Scott and Lori and Carson and Jack, it is legitimately a foot race to the end. And I shouldn't even be surprised anymore. Honestly, like I just shouldn't. Scott and Lori are my surprise team of the season. I wrote them off so quickly. Please accept my apologies. Please. Listen, I love them. I feel like they're ahead of the pack too much, though. Right? Like it scares me. Well, I would agree with you.

[01:10:04] But for our next episode, there's this thing like called the driver's seat, where if you get there first, you basically get to determine everybody else's fate. So you know what? Although I can't imagine. They have to have some sort of bunching point before that. There's going to be. Well, they're going to Bali. So there's going to be a flight. So it can't just be this order. But I'm really curious to see who gets this power and even more curious to see who they decide to piss off. OK, so.

[01:10:31] Courtney finally, finally, finally gets the roadblock after being the last person there. She even does an extra kick for good measure. She's crying. She's relieved. We hear the story because it's a 90 minute episode about her mother and how she went from healthy to sick with brain cancer quickly and how she knows she wishes her mom could be there to watch this. But she's watching it from above. I am legitimately sobbing. So damn you. Amazing rights for doing this to me every freaking week. But something makes me cry. And this was it.

[01:11:00] I really, I mean, it seems you would think they're out. But at this point, no, because there are still people at the detour. Yeah. Some of those people are Alyssa and Josiah who after they decided to swap, come inside and see Mike and Nick, Mark and Brett and Han and Holden all still there. Now, Mark and I think Melinda and Erica get it in four. So they're out of there. Brett, Mark get it almost immediately thereafter in fifth. Hoffs and Jeff get it almost immediately thereafter in sixth.

[01:11:29] OK, so we have seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven. So Alyssa and Josiah. So kind of fell through folded. Like if they did this in the beginning, I'm thinking they might have gotten first place because they didn't actually do the mess up that Scott and Laurie did. So but that's OK. He wanted to be a ninja. He tried. I feel like he's OK with that. He is an origami ninja. He's an origami ninja. That's actually a cool nickname. Yes. So listen, I like it.

[01:11:58] Ninjas come in all different shapes, papers, heights. So Josiah, you are an origami sumo ninja. In the shape of a crane. So Bernie and Carrie go to fling it for a hot second, but then they swap. And let's talk about this real quick, though, because, OK, Bernie do know everything. But I want to just shout this team out real quick because we saw them have a kerfuffle at the airport where Scott was ear hustling.

[01:12:26] And Kerrigan was saying, well, every time I say something, Bernie, you want to do something else? I liked in this moment because I want to give a shout out to Bernie because Kerrigan was like, are you thinking we should switch? Bernie got Bernie said, what do you what do you want to do, Kerrigan? Like she was empowering her. Right. And like just the way that Bernie stood there, you could see that like Bernie was purposely like, OK, we had to talk about this. Let me listen to Kerrigan. And Kerrigan was like, let's switch. And they did it.

[01:12:53] And I was like, OK, see, I love this team. Like I said last week, the ying and the yang. It was a rocky start, but they are getting their communication down. OK, and so it's like. We're we're on a good trajectory, so I really love this team. But like when I saw Bernie and them had that conversation, I'm like, wow, like they really corrected their errors like they're really good friends. I love them. I love Kerrigan standing on her business and saying, like, we need to switch. Bernie said, let's go.

[01:13:22] And Bernie should be good at making origami because we know Bernie is good at everything. So it's like it's a win win. Let's go. Love them. That's a really good point. You didn't even think about that. But you're absolutely right. Like when they had the conversation, she's like, this is how it's going to be in the future. And you know what? One leg later, this is how it was. So. Claps to both of you. That was a good job. Done with this. So where are we in all this confusion? I don't know. Page 15. Folding. Courtney and Jasmine have arrived and go right to fold it.

[01:13:51] Josiah and Alyssa are out in seventh. We talked about that. Bernie and Kerrigan have now decided to go to fold it. They have folded some stuff. They asked for a check, but it is wrong. Their tail and their head and their wings are reversed. So the whole thing's messed up. Nick and Mike and Han and Holden have decided to work together just to get out before other people. And Nick and Mike go in and do the fold. There was like one fold that everyone's messing up. Do the fold for Han and Holden that they had messed up. What's up?

[01:14:21] Mike don't wash his own clothes. He just take it to the laundromat. And Nick, they mom still fold their clothes. Okay. I just, I love the Firehose brothers. They're so, they're so interesting. They are very entertaining. And it's funny because like they're helping Han and Holden. But at the same time, they're like, yeah. We're trying to watch a demonstration of your siblings. Siblings, calm down. From the super calm Mike of this team, you guys need to take it down a notch, which is hilarious to me. Hey, you. They meditated.

[01:14:50] So they got, they got these in. So they, they're locked in. And it causes them to get out of there on eight. Han and Holden at ninth. Bernie and Kerrigan get out in 10th. However, they cannot get a taxi. And editing being what it is, we see Courtney and Jasmine last. And they make this comment that I just think is the funniest line of the episode. I think it's Courtney that says, if we were in a hospital, the patient will be dead at this point. Which is so funny and so twisted. And at least they still have their sense of humor.

[01:15:18] And I love that it's dark and twisty. It's my kind of humor. I'm a fan. They get out on 11th. They make it look like, since Kerrigan and Bernie can't get a cab and these two just got out, who's going to make it to the pit stop first? Well, let's talk about it. Scott and Lori get there first. And they get $5,000, which is going straight into Lori's pocket. Because Scott's getting out of it. So riddle me this, Brooke. Real quick. Because I had a question for you. Okay, so we don't have the Travelocity Gnome anymore. Right.

[01:15:48] So like, they're giving trips, but then they're giving money. So is it, are we just, and when you get the trips, isn't it really like just money for like what the trip will cost? So in every season, there are some legs that you get money. There are some legs that you win a trip. There used to be a leg where you win a car at some point and whatever. Or you do have to pay the taxes on the trips and whatnot. But... Not the taxes. The taxes. No taxes. The taxes. Well, true.

[01:16:14] I think where you could, at least they used to be, don't come at me if your season was different. You didn't have to take the trip. At one point, I think that would give you like cash value. But I think now it's, you don't have to take the trip. You don't have to take it, which means you don't have to pay the taxes on it. But, hmm. So these, it used to be you get a trip, period. Now that Expedia took over for Travelocity, it's you get like, Expedia's thing is one key cash. And that is, but it's for a particular trip.

[01:16:42] So basically they're giving you a trip, but they're just plugging Expedia and saying it's one key cash for the value of this trip. So you're still getting your trip. Anyway, this is a $5,000 price, which Phil is like, for you to share. And Laura's like, no, it's not. It's all mine. I just really like them. And Scott's like, yeah, it's all hers. That's fine. Carson and Jack come in four seconds later. They're literally, they don't, Phil doesn't even have the chance to congratulate Scott before Carson and Jack. And I really think if they run a little bit faster, they probably couldn't get first place.

[01:17:12] Jonathan and Anna come in third and I'm scared. I'm like ducking because I'm like, oh no, third place is the worst place they've been. Jonathan's going to have a conniption. It's not going to be good. But it turns out if you give Jonathan an express test, he's not mad about not being first. So, you know, they have the express pass and he talks about how he knew they would get it. His wife is a superstar. I'm like, dig yourself out now. I love, I just love them. I love them both. I can't wait to meet them face to face. Okay.

[01:17:41] Erica and Melinda are good. Are shocked that they're fourth. They're like, we've climbed up. No one's more surprised than they are. And I really, I really like them. I was wrong. Brad and Mark are fifth, which is great for them because at the end of the last episode, they were really down at the bottom. So they've started to climb back. I have a feeling they're going to continue to climb. Pops and Jeff are sixth. Josiah and Alyssa, I think could have been first or second, but are seventh. And that's fine. Josiah gets on the mat and says, do I look like a ninja?

[01:18:10] You just get this man like to a dojo immediately. Nick and Mike are eighth. Han and Holden, in today's surprise, even though they started so far behind, come out ninth due to, I'm guessing, Holden's soccer skills. Yes. Because it's not. Yes. Well, and the help from Nick and Mike. Bernie and Kerrigan show up in 10th. And unfortunately, Jasmine and Courtney are last. But they do say some very kind things about each other. Talk about spending their life together.

[01:18:40] And they ride off into the sunset. And I'm sad they're gone. I actually very much enjoyed watching their dynamic and wanted more of their humor. Gone too soon. Yeah. They were so calm and so methodical and so like, you know, I think, right. And seeing Courtney get frustrated this week was really hard. But seeing her pull herself together, seeing Jasmine support her, it was sad to see them go. But I'm glad that we got to meet them and have time with them on our TV screen.

[01:19:09] We did do an exit interview with them. So you should head to the Bryce Isaiah YouTube channel now and check it out. I think that they are amazing. And I'm sad that they're gone. But I'm excited that we have another episode coming next week. Now, I don't know how I feel about the driver's seat. Well, I don't know. But I will say, if I could just say one thing. Could you just make me big for one second? Because I'm vain and I want to see myself bigger. Thank you. OK, ladies and gentlemen, please. My name is Brooke. I was on season 29 of the Amazing Guys.

[01:19:38] I just want to take a moment to talk about one Bryce Isaiah. Not only is he the sparkling sunshine of a human being that you see on this podcast weekly, but in real life, he is genuinely just one of the kindest, most wonderful people. If you get to meet him, you are lucky enough to meet. So, since the Sins is 500th podcast, I would just personally like to make a request that you go over to his YouTube page.

[01:20:07] And while I am a fan of the Amazing Race over everything else, the man does everything. It's Survivor. It's the Amazing Race. It's Real Housewives. It's basketball. It's everything. If you're not the Amazing Race, what's wrong with you? But even if you're not, there is something for everyone on Bryce's YouTube, on his podcast, Purple Pants, everything. The man is the hardest working man out there. So do a favor. Do yourself a favor. Go subscribe.

[01:20:37] And when you have some time, watch anything and everything he's done because I promise you, you will not be disappointed. Congratulations, Bryce, on 500 episodes. Cheers to 500 more. Brooke, you're amazing. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. Boom. Thank you, Brooke. I really appreciate that. Those kind words from Ms. Brooke Cam High. I got so into Amazing Race with you, I forgot it was the 500th episode.

[01:21:06] So what a way to end it. What a way to spend it on the pit stop with Brooke. Brooke, I appreciate you, Brooke, so much. I appreciate our listeners. And I appreciate the Purple Pants posse. I was in, where was I? In Nashville this week. And as I was leaving out in Nashville, someone stopped me and was like, are you going home to watch the Amazing Race? Because you and Brooke got to record. And I don't know why it took me off guard. Like, I was just like, you watch?

[01:21:33] And he's like, well, I don't watch Amazing Race. I just watch you and Brooke break it down because it's much better that way. So I appreciate it. And, of course, I had to video it and send it to Brooke at an ungodly hour. And, of course, she was on it immediately. Oh, I watched it. And then I showed it to my husband. And I was like, look. We do. So we love the posse. We appreciate you. And we will see you next week. And, yes, cheers to the Purple Pants podcast for hitting a huge milestone of 500.

[01:22:03] It is something that I do need to celebrate. And it's something that I need to talk about more. Because, you know me, I try to be a humble king. I don't like the brown. Well, someone's got to give you your flowers. And let it be me because you deserve it. This. I dropped it. This is coming to a shelf near you soon. What do I call it? Reggie? Reggie. Reggie. Reginald. Reggie for sure, yes. Well, thank you, Brooke, for sharing 500 episodes with me.

[01:22:30] We'll be back next week covering Amazing Race Season 37. We'll cover Episode 4. Bye. It's a Purple Pants. It's a Purple Pants. It's a Purple Pants Podcast. You better get your headphones in. Listen up quick. It's a Purple Pants Podcast. You better listen in public, might make your stomach hurt. It's a Purple Pants Podcast. She's trying to unwind. You better get that box whine. It's a Purple Pants Podcast. She's trying to get your snacks.

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