bearcatfan

I’m having a hard time watching this season. I have skipped ahead to seasons 5 and 7 which I found much more enjoyable. For those I can hardly wait to see the next episode.

I guess that was too early in the show’s run for them to realize that the race wouldn’t try to kill them. I recall one of them (Peach?) being really freaked out and believing it.

Just finished watching this season. The first few episodes I was wondering what all the fuss was about Flo but, wow, did that change! However, when she was in the cab thinking that they were 2nd and Ken and Gerard had won, I saw that there was a kind person in there. She was ok with losing because they were good guys. I was ok with the brother alliance as they were both being outcasts at that time. As the season progressed, it was fascinated how the alliances changed from leg to leg. On to season 4!

I don’t believe he was playing to the cameras either. The one exception was after he finished mending the fishing net but I believe that was because he knew he looked really nerdy in those glasses. I think if you are always playing to the cameras, it will effect your racing as you are more concerned with the cameras than the race. The Gen X Anthem just popped up in my timeline. I love that one too! I am also Gen X so I relate.

Watching this season for the first time. My initial impression of Oswald and Danny was that they were going to be high maintenance that whines about everything, but I was wrong and like them very much (I’m up to episode 6). Funny that Gary and Dave considered Blake to be a child when he had already founded a company and sold his interest in it by that point.

I liked the 5 stages of Costco one mainly because it’s very true. I consider it a victory if I get out of there under $200. The snack aisle is my danger zone!

So much focus on painting a door knob that did not change anything in the outcome of the race. To expand on what ProfCrash has stated here, the only thing that not painting the doorknob would have done is maybe, doubtful but maybe moved them up to 2nd. In that case they would still leave at the EXACT SAME TIME on the final leg! If painting the doorknob have led to Arun and Natalia passing them I could understand the angst. It did nothing to change the final standings. Why are people so fixated on this?

I don’t understand the hang up about this. We saw a couple minutes of footage at the mat that had to of been from 30 minutes of time. You have no idea if she ever thanked Penn on the mat but she has consistently said throughout the race and in the interviews since the finale that he was the best partner. Penn knows how she feels and that’s more important than her thanking him publicly to make the viewers happy. I hope no one you know suffers from anxiety. Someone in my family does and those kind of comments would make her feel like a lesser person because she didn’t conform to your expectations. I’ve seen how those type of comments effect her. You don’t recover from a panic attack quickly. Even if you can recover enough to take steps forward it can effect you for days. People with anxiety do a lot of pretending during those days. So while thanking him wouldn’t have made her collapse, the panic attack meant that she was less concerned about thanking the one person she knows has her back and more concerned with holding it together in front of everyone else.

Kim just had a major panic attack that almost caused her to quit the race. In all of the podcasts/interviews that they have done the past couple of days she has been very complimentary of Penn. In the extra clips throughout the race she has often said she has the best partner and she was extremely supportive of Penn when he screwed up in London. I don’t know why some are so hung up on her not acting how they think she should act in a few minutes of edited footage. My nephew’s wife suffers from anxiety and I’ve seen first hand how it effects her and how the judgmental bull she hears from others makes her feel like less of a person.

They only finished about 20 minutes behind second place and they had to have spent more than 20 minutes at the elevators. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think that they could win.

Dusty said on one podcast that he wants to run the race again just to prove to himself he could win. He even said if he win, he would donate his winnings. He also feels that if the same 3 final 3 ran 9 times, each team would win 3 times. He felt they were very evenly matched.

I heard that as well. I rewatched it this morning and she does seem subdued. Maybe that’s why the TAR gods gave her luck with her boat choice.

From different podcasts, Kim had a panic attack the morning of the Portugal leg and almost quit. Penn actually called the producers to let them know and somehow she decided to go ahead and take it one step at a time. Penn said the producers handled it well although I’m sure they were initially panicking. They don’t plan to change their lifestyle. For example, Penn damaged Kim’s car and rather than buying a new car, they are just going to fix the dent. Ryan and Dusty were only 22 minutes behind Rachelle and Cayla at the finish. I haven’t heard how far behind they were from Kim and Penn but Dusty did mention that they (the FAs) had a 15 minute head start on the final challenge. I’m guessing that was a traffic quirk. Cayla said when Penn and Kim showed up, she knew they (her and Rachel) would lose. Kim said the best training she had for this was her years as a reporter when she would use a map to tell a coworker how to get to whatever story they were covering. She worked in Orlando at one point which is not exactly the easiest place to navigate quickly. I haven’t see Ryan on any of these podcasts and no reason has been given. Dusty was on Lala/Lulu’s earlier this week and said Ryan was busy.

I think his glasses are for reading and other close work. His distance is probably fine for driving, it’s just fine detail that is difficult. It’s just a part of getting old. My eyes are the same. I can see road signs just fine but trying to see those columns would be very difficult. My glasses are the cheaters I buy from Walmart as I only need them to read.

Kim took notes and I bet she and Penn went over them on the plane ride back. You could tell at the end she was spent. I really enjoyed this season. I hadn’t watched in a while and recall that when I did there was usually at least one team I couldn’t stand. That didn’t happen this season, even though I could sometimes find some racers annoying. Even though my favorite team won, I would have been fine with any of the last 3, even Dusty and Ryan. Dusty may annoy me at times but he seems like a decent guy. eta - it’s Ryan that doesn’t need the money. He’s rightfully being compensated for spending 10 years in prison for something he didn’t do. I watched the documentary they did and his attorney who helped him clear his name said that usually when she shows prosecutors evidence that someone has been wrongfully convicted, they do the right thing and help get the person released. That didn’t happen in Ryan’s case.

I never saw the clip from the preview where Penn asks Kim “did they get it?” Because if that, I was expect them to lose. Then I realized that he had small white rocks in front of him when he said that so that must have happened in Portugal, but they didn’t show it during the show.

Mine doesn’t talk. He starts watching videos on his phone with the volume up high!

The three best teams are the final three.

I can row a boat but I would be guessing on the explorers. On vacation when I was about 9 I had to row back to the dock when my dad’s friend couldn’t figure out how to do so.

When he said it I recalled the Supernatural episode where Sam yelled “no one uses penultimate!”

My 14 yo daughter is the same way. She leaves every morning without a coat even when it’s in the teens. Her excuse is that she just needs to walk from the car into school. The only time she wore a coat this winter was when she went skiing with some friends.

What I like about their videos over some others that I see is that there is no pretending that it’s a real situation and not a staged one. So many I see try to pretend that whatever crazy thing occurring is real. Kim and Penny’s are parody songs, parody videos (like the Hallmark movie ones) reverse role play with the kids or some other original content. There’s no “you won’t believe what happened when I came home early” type things that are clearly staged. ETA the “Men of Target” that Penn did with a couple of guys a few years ago was very funny.

According to what Kim said in the podcast, I think she at least knew it was attached to the rock because she said at first she thought the had to use fake rocks for the ones the coins were attached to and scanned the area looking for fakes. Then when she realized they were all real, she looked near the cameras because she figured they wanted the rocks close to the cameras. That didn’t work either so when Rachel (sp?) found one, she went over to look at it and that when she realized that they were imbedded in the rock. She mentioned that she realized that they could have a flat bottom. I think she meant that she had assumed that the coins would make the rocks uneven. While I don’t want Arun and Natalia to win, if they do it isn’t going to be a huge disappointment. They do seem to be perfectly fine people. There have been teams in the past that I’ve cheered when eliminated (Weavers) and that won’t happen here for me.

My son has ADHD so I get it too. A video they did from last summer recently came up on my Facebook where Penn had a discussion with his ADHD. He said it was very easy to write as he just wrote down what was going through his head. It was funny, but also enlightening. He went from Saturn to the Titanic to Billy Zane to his fantasy football draft in a couple minutes. I don’t believe that Kim and Penn have marital issues and I don’t believe that Dusty’s family is being damaged by his anger issues from when he was younger. Being there for 3 hours would have tested anyone’s patience and I didn’t think that Dusty’s reaction showed anything to be concerned about. I know people without anger issues that would have ended up throwing those rocks! Penn knows Kim better than anyone here so if he says humor helps bring her out of her funk then that is true no matter how anyone else feels about it.

Watching the extra clips now. Kim was there for 2 and a half hours herself at the rocks. Phil also has some fun with them by not telling them immediately what place they are in. As they hadn’t seen any other teams after the rocks, they really don’t have a clue. Phil told her that she had touched the correct rock several times and she she wasn’t surprised. Arun and Natalia got lost going from the rocks to the theater. Ryan talked about how he has had nothing but love and support his whole life but Dusty has not. Makes me wonder what happened in Dusty’s childhood. Also, it says something about Ryan for him to see himself as the lucky one after being unjustly imprisoned for 10 years.