BONUS INTERVIEW w/ Izzy and Paige!
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Nicole and Karen have an epic post-race exit interview with Team LezBoss, Izzy and Paige. Get some inside scoop and all the sapphic love!
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Ep. 73: Inevitable in NYC: The Amazing Race S38 Finale
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Karen regales Nicole with stories from the LIVE Amazing Race S38 finale at Berry park, while Nicole tells Karen what actually happened in the episode that started with the end of the road for our beloved Team LezBoss (Izzy and Paige), and culminated in the inevitable victory of Jas and Jag, who won 6 legs along the way. We also get into how meaningful it is to see the self-dubbed “Turbanators” win the race in NY, since The Amazing Race began in 2001, and Sikh Americans were targeted with misrecognition and suspicion after 9/11.
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Ep. 72: “Izzy is Very Talented With Her Hands” in Paris
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The final four Amazing Race teams descend on Paris and we are reminded repeatedly that the U.S. was once a democracy worthy of gifts from allies like the Statue of Liberty. At the Moulin Rouge, everyone must can-can in gendered outfits constituting what Nicole calls a “hate crime” on our gender non-conforming Team LezzBoss. The two judges at the Braille Institute steal the show with their coffee breaks, as everything seemingly boils down to slow & steady vs. fast hands on Braille typing machines. The final three will be determined by a scramble across the city of lights for...
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Ep. 71: “I’m a Little Bushy Here, I think” in Milano
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The final 5 teams of the The Amazing Race make their way to Milan, where they’re all struck by the revelation that all but one team–Izzy and Paige, aka Team LezBoss– has a Big Brother winner. In Survivor-like fashion, we see a MEDIC on screen as Adam from the Brothers Keffiyeh suffers a scary plunge in his blood sugar. Jas and Jag continue to coast, while Izzy and Paige use their eye for detail and therapized perspective on life to finish with their highest placement yet! Karen returns from Puerto Rico and has a lot of women’s studies professoring on her mind as she and Nicole catch up...
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Ep. 70: Lesbian Retirement Plan in Athens
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The giant has been slayed this week in a SHOCKING turn of events in Greece. We’ve got Sisyphus (aka a caveman), the Greek alphabet, women helping women (sometimes), and a real shake up in the order of things! Nicole and cartoonist, illustrator and Jeopardy champion guest cohost Ajuan Mance talk about all of this while Karen is away at an academic conference. Stay tuned!
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Ep. 69: “Worried You’re Becoming a Vegetarian” in Bucharest
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The Amazing Race teams descend on Bucharest, where they encounter a harrassy sinister chicken as they harvest Christ’s eggs in a big city park. All Express Passes have to be used up on this leg, as Eric and Tucker, and Jas and Jag continue to vie for the top two spots, with Kyland and Taylor trying to play spoilers. Team LezzBoss, Izzy and Paige find religion when they are blessed with a PAN FLUTE challenge at the detour.We are gifted with lesbian jazz-scatting on a public transportation platform. Adam, from the Brothers Keffiyeh, is running on fumes and needs to eat something before...
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Ep. 68: “Non-Gentleman’s Agreement” in Romania
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The consequences of running with the “Trainwreck” alliance come home to roost with team Sissy my Sissy, as The Amazing Race makes its way to Bucharest, Romania from Split, Croatia: Joseph & Adam nab the crucial last ticket on the first flight away from Natalie and Stephanie! Paige takes a 13,000 foot skydive roadblock for Team LezzBoss to spare Izzy the angst, and nearly all the teams make shit bricks at the detour in their bid to move on to the next leg. Tragically, the talented Negrotti sisters are eliminated in this episode. NOOOOOOO! But Nat and Steph came on to TGR to talk...
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Ep. 67: Ston Butch Blues in Croatia
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Are team LezzBoss getting the villain edit as the weeks wear on, while Jas and Jag are getting the lovable multifaceted hero edit? This week of The Amazing Race moves fast with lots of self-driving and a detour that makes our teams choose between hauling salt, or gathering oysters. We learn all about Kristene and Rubina’s sisterly bond forged through trauma, as they do their race “for their mama.” Izzy is seen working her frustrations out on a wheelbarrow that she ultimately apologizes to, while Taylor too lets out a yawp of frustration at a navigation and q&a challenge.
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Ep. 66: Sisterhood is Powerful in Dubrovnik
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This episode of The Amazing Race moved us to tears as dastardly U-Turns,and a controversial “gentleman’s agreement” led to three all-female teams competing to stay alive at the end of this leg in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Just when we were starting to feel for Jas and Jag after they struggled to hail taxis last week, they decide to U-Turn team LezBoss, while the Brothers Keffiyeh, Joseph and Adam pick on our short Pinay KWEENS, Kristene and Rubina. A glorious tuxedo cat plays the role of Greek chorus at the monkfish filet challenge, and Izzy lets the double birds fly in a barn burning...
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Ep. 65: Bathhouse Kings and False Bottoms in Budapest
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The Amazing Race heads to Budapest, where teams have the option of taking a direct sleeper train from Prague that arrives an hour later, or enduring three transfers to land an hour earlier. Which would YOU choose? Team Sissy-My-Sissy proves they can thrive without the Trainwreck alliance, and Izzy and Paige offer the realest lesbian bathing suit representation we’ve ever seen on TV. We’re profoundly upset by taxis passing up Jas and Jag bc of their appearance as (in their own words) “turbanators.” Plus, a clown gets overheated after being joyfully tackled by the Brothers Keffiyeh who...
info_outlineBoth Karen and Nicole are recording on the road after their own planes, trains and automobiles, so their Amazing Race recap is a little more “gestalt” than precise for S37, E4, as the teams travel to Kyoto on the bullet train.
Ironically, both our sapphic fanfic team, Bernie and Carrigain and our actual sapphic team, Courney and Jasmin are in trouble on this leg after being confronted by a sporty challenge. Soccer opens our eyes to the bisexual potential of a couple of the other teams. While all the teams struggle with being ninjas, including our gaymers, Mark does give good face during the fold-it origami challenge.
At the pitstop, we learn about a NEW challenge structure called the “Driver’s Seat,” which conjured echoes of Chappel Roan in our heads. Sadly, Nicole welcomes our sapphic nurses, Courtney and Jasmin to Elimination Station.