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TAR CANADA 2 Contestants - Ryan Steele and Rob Goddard (Co-workers)
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Ryan Steele and Rob Goddard (Co-workers)
Ryan Steele
Twitter: @ryansteeleshow
Age: 36
Occupation: Bartender/Sketch Comic
Current City: Vancouver
Hometown: Langley, B.C.
Strengths: Running, public speaking, eating
Fears/Phobias: Spiders
Favourite Travel Destination: Madrid
Pet Peeve about Teammate: “When Rob tries to be funny.”
Rob Goddard
Twitter: @rgod2014
Age: 24
Occupation: Bartender/Fitness Trainer
Current City: Vancouver
Hometown: Smithers, B.C.
Strengths: Athletic, confident, kind
Fears/Phobias: “Reveinka – Ryan’s drag persona.”
Favourite Travel Destination: Bali
Pet Peeve about Teammate: “Ryan takes things too far sometimes to embarrass me.”
TEAM BIO
Ryan and Rob are two good-looking, wisecracking bartenders who work together in Vancouver’s West End. They are big personalities who know how to turn on the charm in order to make the tip jars overflow. They have great comedic timing and seem to have no problem calling one another out on their flaws, but always in a playful manner. The 12-year age difference between them is often mentioned but neither thinks it plays a real factor in their friendship.
Ryan is a sketch comic with aspirations of stepping out from behind the bar and launching his comedy career full-time. He’s had some great success with different viral videos and a live comedy act, The Ryan and Amy Show. He knows that a career in comedy isn’t the easiest way to pay the bills.
Rob is a former Mr. Gay Canada who has turned his hobby of working out into a budding personal training career. Ultimately, he wants to step away from the bar and work full-time as a trainer.
POTENTIAL ROADBLOCKS: The two unanimously agree without hesitation: “Directions.”
Both Ryan and Rob want to win 'The Amazing Race Canada' to move away from the world of bartending and be financially secure enough to focus on their real passions. They are two young men who are determined to race and win.
Motto: “Stay calm and don’t give up – we’ve got this hun!”
Team they most associate with from Season 1: Jet and Dave
Leafsfan.:
Bartenders Ryan and Rob hope their sense of humour will help them win 'The Amazing Race Canada'
Wisecracking bartenders Ryan Steele and Rob Goddard know their sense of humour and athleticism are two of their greatest strengths. They’re just hoping the other teams don’t see it that way.
“I hope teams don’t see us a threat because we’re the younger-ish guys. I hope when they actually meet us they’ll realize we’re just nice, fun guys. I’ll be cracking jokes maybe too much. People will have to tell me to shut up,” says Ryan, 36.
The two friends met while working together in Vancouver’s West End more than five years ago and have been inseparable ever since.
“We really got along and started working out together and started doing everything together,” says Ryan.
“We have fun together,” adds Rob, 24. “We like the same kind of comedy. We get each other’s humour. We work really well together. We just understand the bar life . . . we’ve never had a fight that I can think of.”
The friends travel well together – they just returned from a three-week trip to Australia and Japan – and know they can handle whatever the “Race” throws at them.
“We got along pretty famously . . . I’m sure we will get in little fights. I know I’m going to be the one who’s probably going to get dramatic or aggravated but hopefully the pressure of everyone watching will kind of keep me cool,” says Ryan.
“I don’t think we’re going to have any major fights. It’s just going to little bickering back and forth at the most,” adds Rob.
As well as bartending, Ryan is a sketch comedian and Rob is a model and personal trainer who has been studying in Australia. Both friends would like to win “The Amazing Race Canada” so they can use the money to pursue their dream careers full time.
“I wouldn’t have to bartend anymore because that is getting in the way of my career right now . . . if I could just commit to comedy it would be a dream,” says Ryan.
“I’d like to pay for schooling, do more travelling, just focus on my goal,” says Rob.
While Rob is seasoned in everything from kayaking to mountain climbing, he hopes the “Race” will give his buddy Ryan a chance to experience some extreme sports as well.
“I definitely want him to do things he hasn’t experienced like skydiving. I’ve done quite a bit (of that stuff) so we’ll figure it out when we get to the challenges.”
Other than spreading out the physical challenges, the team has one other strategy going into the “Race”: don’t give up.
“Some people are at these challenges forever . . . you’ve always got to have in your mind don’t give up, don’t freak out and hopefully we can go as far as we can,” says Ryan.
Source:http://www.ctv.ca/TheAmazingRaceCanada/Articles/Season-Two/amazing_race_canada_season_2_ryan_rob_sense_of_hum.aspx
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.. and friend to longtime poster here at RFF.. goooo Rob and Ryan!! :yess:
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https://www.youtube.com/v/sUIh1J_c1S0
Credit: Youtube user: cisolatw
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Off the radar and on the run
Competing on the Amazing Race Canada was a learning experience for Ryan Steele.
For one, he didn't know if he could survive without having his phone to constantly update what he was doing through social media.
"It was hard," he laughed about the first couple of days without the device.
"You are cut off from the world (and) for me to go off the radar for five weeks, I was a little bit scared about that."
In the end, he adapted to life without his cellphone and admits he found it quite refreshing.
"I always tell people I come from a time when we didn't have cellphones and life was just fine back then," Steele said.
The other thing the 36-year-old learned, was that he was capable of doing more than he thought he was.
"I surprised myself," he admitted.
"Some of the things I did, I thought I would be way more scared doing (and) in the process of doing them, I never cracked, I was always calm."
That is about all Steele is allowed to say about his time on the Amazing Race Canada, which premieres on July 8.
The show was filmed throughout the month of May and sees 11 teams compete for top spot.
The prizes include $250,000 cash, the opportunity to fly free for a year anywhere that Air Canada flies worldwide in business class, two Chevrolet Silverado trucks and gas for life from Petro-Canada.
The teams race against each other over 25 days, completing challenges along the way, with the team who arrives last at their destination eliminated over the course of the show.
In the show, Steele — who grew up in Langley, where his parents still live — partners with his friend and co-worker of five years, Rob Goddard.
They both bartend at 560 Nightclub in Vancouver.
"I don't think I could have done (the show) with anyone else," Steele said. "I was always the one who would freak out a little bit more and he was the one who would stay pretty calm."
Steele said he has watched every season of the Amazing Race — this is the second of the Canadian version and there have been 24 seasons of the American program.
"I love watching reality TV and I thought it would be fun and good exposure for me," he said.
While bartending primarily pays the bills, Steele's passion is being a sketch comic.
With that in mind, Steele wore a shirt promoting The Ryan and Amy Show during the Amazing Race Canada.
The Ryan and Amy Show is a live sketch show he does with Amy Goodmurphy. They also have comedy videos online at their website.
The show — which he describes as Kids in the Hall-esque — has been on for three years.
The four years prior to that, he starred in The Ryan Steele Show.
Goodmurphy holds a day job and Steele works nights, so one of the biggest challenges is balancing their time in their schedules for the show, their other jobs and their personal lives.
They are also working on some TV projects with an end goal of working solely as comedians.
The fact Steele is trying to make a living doing a comedy show wouldn't surprise his former classmates in Langley. Steele graduated from H.D. Stafford in 1996.
As a high school student, he was heavily involved in school plays, student council — pretty much everything, he said.
Following high school, he took a break from acting, but got back into it in his mid-20s.
And it was around that time that Steele, who lost a testicle to cancer at age 19, began doing cancer awareness fundraisers — which were more sketch and comedy-based — came up with the idea for his show.
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The Amazing Race Canada will air on Tuesday nights this summer, beginning July 8, at 9 p.m. on CTV.
Steele and Goddard will host viewing parties during the season at The Junction Public House (1138 Davie St.) in Vancouver.
Source:http://www.langleytimes.com/entertainment/265830361.html
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