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TAR 33 ORIGINAL PRE-RACE Speculation (dates/cast/routes)
Plaidmoon:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on May 25, 2020, 10:24:15 AM ---There are places in the US that are riskier than some countries. So sadly that is no more safer than other countries.
I am wondering if this might have to be done all by charter flights? That way at least the passenger manifests would be known. Would take away airport drama but if all teams and production are tested every few days at least that would give some security... since we will likely not have a vaccine this year.
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Charter flights make sense. With far fewer flights right now, depending on commercial flights might extend the filming to 30 days instead of 21-22 days. Production might have to leave a day ahead of teams instead of 10-12 hours. Also, teams failing to get a ticket on a sold out flight or missing a connecting flight might easily end up a day behind everyone else.
theschnauzers:
It may well have to be charter flights, given the current obstacles in many countries to scheduled commercial aviation. You might want to go to the CNN site or to Will Ripley’s own social media when he documented his flight back to Hong Kong where he lives, after reporting from Tokyo for three and a half months. Instead of five hours, it took him 23 hours before he could go home, after being held for a COVID19 test overnight. He had to go into an immediate 14 day quarantine.
That’s one thing that complicates any travel at this point. Other countries have closed their airports to any international traffic.
OMGitsGARRET:
Interesting interview with Phil
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/06/29/future-travel-according-amazing-race-host-phil-keoghan/
RachelLeVega:
--- Quote from: OMGitsGARRET on July 01, 2020, 07:39:53 PM ---Interesting interview with Phil
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/06/29/future-travel-according-amazing-race-host-phil-keoghan/
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Just going to extract some highlight points from that interview. In blue is the most critical of the interview.
--- Quote ---And in his downtime, he’s been watching global plane traffic on flight tracking apps, pondering the future of travel and looking forward to seeing his family in New Zealand again.
Hannah Sampson: Have you been thinking about how you expect your own job and the production of the show to change?
Phil Keoghan: I’ve been thinking about it a lot, and I’ve talked about it a lot with people, because we come into contact with so many people when we travel. Say in Europe, how do we go to a country there and we’re working with drivers and security people and production people and we get in a confined space with them in a car and drive five hours to a location — how does all that work?
Are we wearing masks and are they vetted? Are we vetted? Are we constantly having our temperatures taken? I don’t know. I’m really interested.
Will people ever shake hands again? Like will we arrive in a foreign country and shake a hand? Are we going to be more like the Japanese and is it going to be a nod or a bow or an elbow? So much is going to change.
H:Do you have a target date in mind for when — not the show, necessarily — but when you think travel might be back?
P:But isn’t travel back? I mean, it’s not like it went anywhere here in the United States...I’m not sure that we will ever fly at the capacity that we flew before. Because I think what’s going to happen is travel is going to become more expensive because — just like the expense of adding in the extra security after 9/11 — we’re going to now have to add in a layer of expense to deal with the cost of medical checks. That overhead has got to be covered by somebody; there’s no such thing as a free lunch, right? Somebody’s got to pay for it, and ultimately it’s going to be the consumer.
Now, we’ll be safer as a result, but there’s going to be a cost to that, so I just don’t think we’re going to get back to the bus-terminal-type travel that we had before where it’s like everybody freewheeling into an airplane and picking up a $69 flight to go to Vegas. I just don’t think that that’s going to happen anymore.
H:Anything else that has been on your mind related to travel in the last couple months?
P:The sad part of it is I think that as travelers, we will connect less with people who are different and we will become more tribal and insular and maybe less accepting of difference over time. One of the great things about travel is it’s a great way to learn acceptance and to open your eyes to different cultures and different ways of thinking.
So I do worry that travel also would become too expensive for people who can’t afford to get away, and then it becomes just an elite commodity and that would be very sad. But at the same time, I do think we can all just be more polished, if you like, with the way that we travel, just a little more appreciative of the fact that people are looking after us. It’s an honor, I think, to be transported in a beautiful plane and fly somewhere.
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Overall, a solid Q&A.
OMGitsGARRET:
I have no idea where to post this so if this is the wrong spot, then feel free to move it to the right spot.
Some news on a potential season 34 (pre-pandemic). Celebrities Lance Bass & Arden Myrin were going to be a team on an upcoming season that was scheduled to film in August of this year, presumably this is for season 34. Celebrities Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang were also in-talks of participating as well. Not sure if this was for a special "celebrity" edition, or if they were just going to be on a "regular" season. Obviously due to the pandemic, this has all likely been scraped or at the very least postponed.
This information is revealed here on this podcast starting at 19:20 and lasting for about ~8 minutes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hungry-girl-who-loves-flavor-w-arden-myrin/id1092361338?i=1000473753461
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