Amazing Race 2025 Let the Race Begin!

Yes. Some people were picking and blowing the non rice bits out and some people just dumped everything in!

I loved how everyone was hugging the lady with the clue after the rice challenge. A few didn't and you could see her leaning in for her hug!

 I was giving him grace after the second episode, but know I'll be happy when he is gone.

As much as they completely blew the 2 advantages, I had a heavy eye roll at Mormon dad giving them the "I'm disappointed in you and ignoring you treatment" as some kind of mature way to behave with other adults. I loved that all the teams arriving together were calling them out to Phil at the mat on trying to play the "we're old and not a threat" card. 

Mom of the mom and daughter team needs to trust daughter more. 

Not sad to see Bernie & Carrigan leave.

I won’t miss the team going home, even though the guy on the other double u turn team is getting on my last nerve.

I thought the couple voted out live in a utah bubble where everyone is supposed to be nice and don't understand how annoying they were.. too good for the rest of the teams. they weren't particularly humble and focused too much on being parents and grandparents.

the amazing race is a place you can be nice but you need to show your human side too.. and competition should be expected, not friendship as you go through.

Jonathan has been annoying me since the beginning when he was so pouty about not being first, and then today he basically said he expected to be first every leg--or at least really wanted to be.

And when he gets upset he needs Ana to be there doing exactly what he wants her to do, but when she was upset his response was "Stop crying." Nice.

And the way she immediately makes excuses for him over and over again makes me think he does this even when not on The Amazing Race.


ETA:  She seems very practiced at tossing out those excuses to me.

I was very disappointed that Scott and Lori went home. Not because I particularly like them, but I particularly do NOT like Jonathan. wow. The way he speaks to her, and his complaining, etc. And of course other teams are going to put a target on them so what does he expect? 

I hope they have some major snafu next week that causes them to be last. 

I typed before I had finished the episode and Jonathan kept getting worse!  He is such a man baby.  Just sitting there drinking his water and not communicating with his wife is just awful.  And then he left his water bottle on the curb.  I know that is minor, but his deliberate littering just irritated me even more.
I would like to think when she watches this she will see how terrible he is, but I think she will just make excuses.  I wonder what her friends and family will think?  

I liked Scott and Lori! Jonathan is such an annoying whiner, I’m bummed they got to stay.

That's what DH said when Jonathan was saying how he was having such a hard time with everything---that he should have saved the Express Pass for a task like one of the ones in this leg. A U-turn situation is the perfect time to whip out an express pass.

I wondered if that was what he was thinking every time he put his head down on the surfboard.  He was insufferable the entire day!  

I didn't really care for the live vote U-turn.  To me, it felt like a way to get rid of one of the top teams just because they were a top team not because they choked doing a challenge or got lost or something.  It's possible Jonathan and Anna would have U-turned Scott & Lori (based on their vote) but it wouldn't have been a guaranteed elimination because of the staggered start times for the other teams.  

I didn't care for the live vote either. I hope they don't make that a permanent part of the game.

DITTO that!!

I didn't care fr the double u-turn. I was reading on Reddit, and I 100% agree, if they want to do a double U-turn and basically take down the top 2 teams, they need to make the road block after it way harder. It should involve some sort of skill. This one was kinda lame and a poster noticed: "I don't think there were any position changes at the road block which in my opinion is bad game design."

This did nothing to shake anything up and basically left the top 2 teams who were give the double u-turn fighting for their lives.

 They kind of wanted it both ways. You can't vote for us because we are so nice and friendly, but any vote we make is reasonable because we are competing. 

They were treating all the teams like they treat their kids.  It worked really well for Scott to get one of the girls through the drum challenge but was embarrassing to watch them give Jonathon and Ana the silent/I'm so disappointed in you treatment when they caught up to them after the rice challenge. Personally I would have thanked them for obviously wasting both advantages. 

I wasn't impressed with the "we're over it" and "it hurt when you gave us 25 lbs" but "we're over it, let's move on" and then their vote showed clearly either they hadn't moved on and/or they think it is fine to vote for friends. And clearly having to produce 25 lbs didn't slow them down any.

I do think he was close to heat stroke based on that behavior. It was scary.

Not that I'm a fan. He won't be able to watch these episodes without recognizing what an ass he is.

It must kill him that Pops and Melinda are showing better stamina that his sorry self. I'm really rooting for both their teams to go far. And didn't Melinda and Erika beat another team to the mat this week? 

I also liked that Han and Holden seemed more in sync and no bickering this week.

Almost forgot to mention that I loved the last pit stop was staying with local families - such a cool opportunity!