The Amazing Race US

”It’s Never The Quiet Ones” (with Brooke Camhi)

Michael & Logan return once more to have an audience with the Queen of Amazing Race – Brooke Camhi – and chat about everything Amazing Race 29. In this episode:
Brooke & Logan become hair buddies.
We beg for compliments.
What was it like to be around Scott’s scream first-hand?
Brooke got recognised.
Can Brooke laugh at the Greece & Vietnam leg now?
Brooke has a very appropriate Amazing Race connection.
Michael toots his own horn.
Brooke reveals a secret about the cast bios.
How was Brooke cast?
Who was Brooke’s second choice?
Would 29’s cast have still been the same even without a schoolyard pick?
Where did Brooke want to go?
How miserable was the Greek ferry?
What is Brooke scared of?
What was the biggest mistake that Brooke & Scott made?
Brooke finally realises the main aim of Amazing Race.
We teach Brooke about Amazing Race Canada.
We discover Scott’s dark side.
We discuss the U-Turn drama and how Brooke made amends.
What was the biggest challenge Brooke faced?
How subtle were Scotty’s comments?
Did Scott ever find his express pass?
Brooke volunteers to watch something with us.
Would Brooke do Survivor?
How did Brooke & Scott win?
There’s a pop quiz.
Why couldn’t we see Scott skydive?
Michael reveals a secret about the intro music.
A myth gets busted.
We talk about audition tapes.
What was the last thing Brooke cried at?
We briefly discuss how much TARC sucks.
What aftercare is available in the Race?
What were the abandoned episode titles for Rado?
Why was Brooke’s edit so negative?
When did the Race become a bit more Brooke?
How was Vietnam?
We discuss swollen feet.
Which quotes annoyed people so much?
Did Brooke hate Vanck & Ashton?
What did TAR teach Brooke?
We ask personal questions.
Logan gets corrected.
Was there anything Brooke regretted bringing?
How did Brooke try and cover up being upset?
Brooke tries to get us to sing.
Go-to karaoke songs.
Who would we race with?
Which ride at Disney removes kidney stones?
And the outro gets heckled.
Join us next week when we talk to Scott Flanary (spelt like Canary!)

”Have Faith In Me, Radoski” (with Michael Rado)

Michael & Logan are back once more to chat to one of our podcast drunkles, Michael Rado. In this episode:
Rado tries to claim a title.
We accidentally date the podcast again.
What happened at the 29 finish line?
How was Rado cast?
Would Rado have made the same choice with all the options at the start line?
Who went on the trips they won?
Does Rado regret helping Brooke?
What happened when no-one was allowed to be friends?
Does Liz have magical map powers?
Mike critiques our impression.
A running joke bears fruit finally.
Why didn’t Rado meet Logan at the finale?
Where is the most convenient place for us all?
How sober was Logan at the 29 finale?
Michael discusses his favourite audition video again.
Why did Vanck & Ashton get U-Turned?
How would Rado have fared in Vietnam?
We obviously discuss the Scott scream.
Rado makes a tattoo bet.
What was the biggest thing we didn’t see?
What should you do if you accidentally encounter a wild Covino?
Logan gets exposed as being Uncanadian.
We take our usual Belgian Mole detour.
Were there any countries Rado was disappointed not to go to?
Did Mike & Liz prepare for a memory challenge?
Rado makes a swift exit.
And we make not at all timely predictions for Survivor New Zealand and South Africa by recording them before the most recent episodes aired.
We're back next week with another great guest - Brooke Camhi!

Mona Covino

Michael, Logan & Michelle return for the final time to recap the last two episodes of Amazing Race 30 and its visits to Hong Kong & San Francisco. In this episode:
Michael is in denial.
One Racer had a pretty poo-poo ending to their race.
Have Michelle & Logan learnt their lesson from last week?
What classic Amazing Race moment will Michael be recreating?
Should the driver have taken Kristi & Jen on the funicular tracks as a shortcut?
We talk Speed Bump history.
Are they writing detour names just to get onto the face cream clip?
Is it racist to claim that Henry would know Mandarin?
What do camera operators do when their teams have been eliminated?
Logan talks about finale parties and reveals how he got into the 28 one.
How do you break the briefcase task?
Should Bertram have called in a favour for the Roadblock?
What would Michael’s ideal version of this Roadblock have been?
Why are winners so important?
What would have happened if Henry & Evan had got run over by a ding-ding?
Where is the world’s largest Chinatown?
Who would you want to be against in the finals?
Two teams had an unaired connection.
One team in the alliance had a misleading edit.
Should Kristi & Jen have got a penalty at the Roadblock?
Is Michael’s brother a savant?
Michelle has smelt one of the Racers.
What constitutes an Australian food group?
Logan’s lapsed vegetarianism returns.
How did one small error cost Henry & Evan $975,000?
Why does Michael tell jokes?
There’s a celebrity cameo.
How would we have improved the baseball task?
Where did Rebus puzzles get their names from?
Logan hates fortune cookies.
Why wasn’t the final challenge a Roadblock?
We try to break the final challenge.
Michael tries to make sure that Logan & Michelle will never forget this podcast.
What is a hockey fight known as in Boston?
Impression myths get busted.
What happened in 29’s Tanzania legs?
One Racer took on a traditional Epcot challenge.
How would the final challenge be improved with a few more game show elements?
Why was 29 so much better than 30?
Which Racer from 29 is “has been known to be overserved”?
Brittany gets some advice.
We identify a recruit.
Michelle gets called out over her Amazing Race shrine.
What are Brooke & Scott like in real life?
How do you ignore a fight strap?
We make plans for our 250th podcast.
Who is a former fatty?
How would a partner swap work in 29?
We discuss a promise made during last season.
What is the weakest currency?
Why is a winners’ quote important?
Was this the most awkward top two ever?
Why is it disappointing especially that Kristi & Jen didn’t win?
Michael rants about the edit.
Where will the winners go next?
Why didn’t this season work?
How much impact does a winner have on the quality of a season?
Are they the worst winners ever?
And what will happen for Season 31?

You, Me & Daly

Michael, Logan & Michelle return to recap the ninth and tenth legs of Amazing Race 30, its visits to Bahrain and Thailand and also to celebrate Michael’s 200th podcast. In this episode:
Michelle guesses her intro.
Michael regrets his life choices.
How would April & Sarah have done with the camel milking task?
Why did these legs feel so old-school?
Why did we see such a vacuous inane opening scene?
We explain how Brittany showed her class and dignity online.
We make our choice between being nice and being smart.
Michael worries for one Race alumni if he ever has to go to Bahrain.
We recast a cult film.
Has Production been watching Amazing Race Asia badly?
Who is the Kelly & Christy of TAR30?
What happened on the flight?
We discuss our respective flight mishaps.
Why don’t we like the UAE?
Michelle hates long-sleeves.
What was the unaired task?
Production defied Phil’s guidance.
How do you argue on TV?
Why did we have to see Henry & Evan not be able to break a pot?
How do camels make everything better?
Michael uses a long convoluted WIDM metaphor to explain a point.
We try and avoid talking about penises.
Logan discusses the kids’ show he’s been watching.
We discuss terrible hashtags.
Was Leg 9 really meant to be an elimination?
We briefly touch upon HaMerotz’s latest twist.
What will Lucas & Brittany’s legacy be?
Why will Henry & Evan win?
One team is the complete antithesis to Brooke & Scott.
Why is one particular team so ignorant?
How are we celebrating the 200th episode for Michael and why is it a stinger?
Australia has a different meaning for the term “frog men”.
Michelle & Logan try and sabotage the edit.
There’s more love for Conor’s phrasing skills.
Why did no-one carry the frogs in their t-shirts?
Is there logic to choosing a fun detour in an obvious non-elimination?
What is a “boys’ detour”?
Michael explains why the difference between being passive and lacking self-confidence.
Who is the Amazing Race version of Sherlock?
How does our intro music reveal a different type of winners’ edit than what we’re seeing this season?
We tell people to stop being racist.
Why are Winter Olympians generally so intelligent?
There’s some begging for impressions.
Michael compliments something from Amazing Race Canada 5.
One songthaew leads down a wormhole of early-2000s gameshows.
Jen misses out on the coveted Quote of the Episode title.
Why have they never used San Diego?
And we make our final predictions.

Zimbabwean Fried Chicken

Michael, Logan & Michelle return to recap the seventh & eighth legs of Amazing Race 30 and its trip to Zimbabwe. In this episode:
We of course repay the favour to Justin & Diana.
The podcast gets a new slogan.
Logan gets fact checked.
Why were the departure times missing?
The chat is brought back to anoraks.
Michelle gets a challenge.
Michael thinks of Canada.
We have Family Edition flashbacks.
Who was the booby prize of the singles season?
How should Phil have woken everyone?
Mealtime at the Bush Camp gets spicy and a cameo from a Race alumni.
How would we have arranged the partner swap?
Which is faster – a horse or a car?
Why does Brittany mention the engagement so much?
One side of the first detour was a little bit Israeli.
Who is the funniest character of the season?
What is the difference between a rower and a paddler?
What were the rumours when the Inspector Gadget film came out?
Logan shows off his knowledge of Disney films.
Why does Conor hate zebfas?
Was this actually a double-length leg?
Should Evan have helped her rivals?
Michael proves himself to basically be Veruca Salt.
Logan learns what a haberdashery is.
Why were those two teams U-Turned?
What do we know about Zimbabwe?
One NPC proves himself to be a touch Probstian.
We display our Knack for terrible puns.
Why did Eric & Daniel lose?
History repeats itself at the Pit Stop.
We love Henry’s glasses.
We play an awkward game of “List each other’s achievements”.
Michelle experiences some satellite delay.
Logan reveals his next big trip.
And what will happen next week?

SpaMerotz LaMillion

Michael, Logan & Michelle return to recap the fifth episode and sixth leg of Amazing Race 30 and its visit to Prague, Czech Republic. In this episode:
We discuss the plan to let Covino & Rado get Logan drunk.
Why is the season going to feel even quicker in Canada?
Michael teaches us about beggers and Logan teaches us about gypsies.
We bring up Michelle’s telling of the most Australian story in history from the Hunted podcast again.
Was this the worst flight scramble in Amazing Race history?
How will the partner swap work?
Who benefits most from the partner swap?
This U-Turn sucks.
How could you make the U-Turn funnier?
How can you prove that the Earth is flat?
Michelle reveals her favourite word.
The “that” detour sees Amazing Race channel Giles the Butler.
Does anyone on the podcast know how to pour a perfect pint?
What was Henry doing with his life rather than drinking beer?
What is one of the scariest things that Michael has ever done?
Why are Trevor & Chris so like Michael & Logan?
Michelle despairs of a dirty joke again.
How difficult is it to pour a glass of foam?
Michael invokes the Mole (obviously).
Why didn’t Alex & Conor U-Turn?
Why did they make the W-Turn board so public?
Conor becomes a walking stereotype.
How would HaMerotz have done the beer spa task?
It has been a bad week for dad bods.
Should you ever take the underground over a taxi?
Eric & Daniel prove themselves to be even more underedited than we thought.
Was this leg full of more Communist propaganda?
Michelle is afraid of hay fever during Roadblocks.
The elimination structure is weird.
What did Kristi & Jen do to anger Travelocity?
We imagine what the pitch meetings for Big Brother 17 were like with Phil.
Who provided the voice for the Roadblock phones?
One pair displays a particular talent for social games.
How would we improve the Roadblock?
Is the big twist going to be the Revival Pass?
Logan wants more tongue.
Is the Partner Swap the biggest twist ever?
Who will be eliminated next?
Which African countries will be visited next?
And is there anyone we want to see paired up?

The Walking Ced

Michael, Logan & Michelle return to recap the fourth and fifth episodes of Amazing Race 30 and its legs in Southern France. In this episode:
Why is Logan like Trevor & Chris?
The editors are back in our good books.
We find a positive for the season.
Our least favourite team get a history lesson.
Michelle asks for a little cooperation from Mother Nature.
We rename pétanque, for Logan's sake.
Phil is a traitor.
Our comparison for one team proves a little *too* on the nose.
How does Conor avoid paying rent?
Michael has one of his traditional rants.
Michelle says the word "bread" a bit too much.
Logan’s sartorial choices come back to bite him.
We tire of hashtags.
Why was Evan super lucky when she chipped her tooth?
One Racer joins a dynasty of actors & dictators.
We discuss the adorable dog.
Michelle learns about competitive eating.
Logan is figuratively on “literally” watch.
We rank old people.
Who has gained the most from the Double-Battle?
Is the Mayor of Les Baux still alive?
We welcome some airtime (finally) for Trevor & Chris.
What did Evan do during the rest period?
One team gets a lesson on European cars.
Logan mentions he’s been to Dubrovnik.
What did Lucas really want to say when he proposed?
Was a six-year old in charge of the second Roadblock?
Michael asks for some rotten fruit.
Logan learns about pergolas.
There’s the glorious return of Australian words for things.
We imagine Alex & Conor’s home life.
Anaesthesia is somehow relevant.
What is Logan’s drink of choice?
A rant from Amazing Race Canada returns.
Michael spots some monkeying with the timeline.
What were Lucas’ “headphones”?
Michelle shows her Balinese knowledge.
Everyone hates a proposal.
What condemned Joey & Tim?
What would Elimination Station have been like by this point?
We reveal our next project after Hunted & Amazing Race.
And who will (not?) be eliminated next?

The One with the Different Features

Michael, Logan, Michelle & Ben return to recap the third episode of Amazing Race 30 and its visit to Tangier, Morocco. In this episode:
We celebrate that milestone of 218 episodes.
Why is this season better than expected?
Ben gets corrected.
Is this the least-competitive cast ever?
Michelle’s double life gets revealed.
We’re not surprised that Henry & Evan know languages.
We suggest a change for future seasons that will make twin teams much easier to watch.
Ben reveals his love of intros.
We worry for the Travelocity Gnome.
Logan loses his Simpsons know-it-all credentials.
We avoid etiquette and discuss Michelle’s age.
Why didn’t Shawn call out to Cedric?
One team turns to cannibalism.
Was there a consequence for not dancing?
Michelle gets excited and asks for a new ringtone.
Michael offers a shovel.
What are the stereotypes of IndyCar drivers?
Who was the last person that Amazing Race made famous?
Logan asks for more dancing.
One team gets compared to Michael’s favourites.
And we separate the cast into tiers.