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Amazing Race Season 36, Episode 10 part 2, "The longest minute of my life"
Film date: 2022-11-17
The is part two of episode 10, it covers leg 11 which was broadcast together with leg 10 in one episode.
The last pit stop was in the Dominican republic. After all the elimination footage is done we get a shot from the airport where Phil walks towards the plane together with the remaining teams and tells them where they are going.
"
We are going to the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia", Phil
Ricky gets very exited when he hears this because he was born and raised in Southwest Philadelphia.
Teams are released together from the top of the steps in front of the Philadelphia museum of arts (aka The Rocky Steps). We notice that every team is wearing their backpacks, apparently production would not let them dump them.
Route info: "Welcome to Philadelphia. Drive yourselves to Lincoln Financial Field to find your next clue. You have $20 for this leg of the race.
Rod & Leticia follow Ricky & Cesar to the football stadium, and when the boys have issues parking Rod & Leticia can run past them, and pick up the clue a couple of seconds before them.
Teams reach the clue box at Lincoln Financial field (12km) in the following order:
1. Rod & Leticia
2. Ricky & Cesar, seconds after #1
3. Juan & Shane
Road block: Who's got team spirit?
In this road block contestants must become an Amazing Race mascot, this is like a sports mascot but with a big giant globe on the head. They must then run a mascot obstacle course and finally hit a target with a T-Shirt gun.
What is not shown in the episode that the first task the mascots had to do was to carry a cake up the stands and smash it into a supporter's face.
Of course Ricky has experience acting as a mascot, not that it helps him very much.
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the roadblock):
| 1(+1) | Ricky* & Cesar | (7-6) | Hits the T-shirt target on his 4th attempt |
| 2(-1) | Rod & Leticia* | (7-6) | Hits the T-shirt target on her 8th attempt |
| 3(+0) | Juan & Shane* | (6-7) | Hits the T-shirt target on his 2nd attempt |
Route info: "Find your next clue between Pat's and Geno's"
Pat's and Geno's are two Cheese steak joints laying across each other at an intersection.
Juan & Shane ask a guy outside the stadium and he says they are looking for two pizza shops. After some confusion they select Pat's pizza on the map and get directions to it. Unfortunately this is the wrong place. And not only that it is in New Jersey and about 10km out of the way. All in all this detour costs them about 40 minutes.
"
Its not looking good, but such is the race", Shane
Teams find the clue box at Pat's and Geno's (4km) in the following order:
1(+0) Ricky & Cesar
2(+0) Rod & Leticia
3(+0) Juan & Shane
Route info: "Drive to Headhouse Square to find your next clue."
Teams reach the clue box at Headhouse Square (2km) in the following order:
1(+0) Ricky & Cesar
2(+0) Rod & Leticia, while Ricky & Cesar are doing the task
3(+0) Juan & Shane, just as team #2 is leaving
Route info: "Recite the preamble to the Declaration of Independence from memory to receive your next clue."
Teams are given a copy of the preamble with four paragraphs, two in black and two in red, and each member must pick a color and recite those. The text reads:
We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among
Men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed,
That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or
to abolish it,
and to institute new Government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organizing
its powers in such form, as to them shall
seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness.
This is a fairly difficult task. The text is intricate with many odd words.
"
My memory is not that good at this point in my life you know? I had too many concussions.", Rod
"
Why is this so hard?", Rod after 10 failed attempts
"
Oh, dude, this is gonna be tough for me, bro.", Shane when he sees the text he need to learn
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+0) Ricky & Cesar, on their 2nd shown attempt
2(+0) Rod & Leticia, on their 11th shown attempt
3(+0) Juan & Shane, on their shown attempt
Route info: "Drive yourselves to the Betsy Ross house to find your next clue."
Teams arrive at the Betsy Ross house (2km) in the following order:
1(+0) Ricky & Cesar
2(+0) Rod & Leticia, just as Ricky & Cesar leave
3(+0) Juan & Shane, apparently about 1h after Rod & Leticia
Road block: Who wants to earn their stripes?
In this task contestants must listen to three historical figures and the piece together America's first official flag. They will get a bunch of stripes with names on them and must use the ones with the 13 first states in order they were ratified. And they must place 13 five-point stairs on the blue field.
The historical figures say stuff like:
- The colonies are listed from top to bottom in the order they became states.
- The first colony to be ratified is Delaware, of course.
- Virginia is the tenth to be ratified, right after New Hampshire.
- On a map, North Carolina is above South Carolina, but on the flag, it sits four stripes below South Carolina.
- In addition, there are 13 stripes on the flag that alternate red and white.
- Each stripe represents a different colony in the order they are ratified into states.
- The fourth stripe on the flag represents Georgia in the south, followed by Connecticut up north, referred to as the Constitution State.
- George Washington visited me and asked for 13 six-pointed stars, but we ultimately settled on my suggestion of five points.
- The stars formed a circle on the blue portion of the flag.
- The state you are standing in now is second and is where our Constitution was written and signed
- Maryland is the seventh, just after Massachusetts.
Teams can go in and listen to the figures as much as they want, but it seems as if they may not write anything down.
Each team get a kit of stripes, many more than needed, and a bunch of stars with five, six and seven points.
Leticia really struggles with this task. It seems she had the most problems with the stars. It took a long while before she notices they have different numbers of points.
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the roadblock):
| 1(+0) | Ricky & Cesar* | (7-7) | Before any other team arrives |
| 2(+1) | Juan* & Shane | (7-7) | |
| 3(+1) | Rod & Leticia* | (7-7) | |
Route info: "Run to the Arch Street Meeting House to find your next clue."
The Arch Street Meeting house is only 100m away and nobody gets lost on the way there, i.e. there are no placement changes.
Route info: Solve a three-dimensional Liberty Bell puzzle to receive your final clue.
Each team is given a giant box of parts and need to put together a life size three dimensional copy of the Liberty Bell.
"
But opening up the box was a little intimidating", Cesar
"
Sorting everything at the beginning and taking the little extra time to actually put them aside was really helpful.", Cesar
By the time teams get here they are well separated and this task is not very difficult, so there are no placement changes.
1(+0) Ricky & Cesar, before the next team arrives
2(+0) Juan & Shane
3(+0) Rod & Leticia
The next clue is a route info which tells them that the finish line is at Glen Foerd Estate
As usual the producers are trying to make it exciting. So we see Ricky & Cesar struggling with directions while Juan & Shane get to the pit stop without any trouble. In reality Ricky & Cesar probably reached the mat long before Juan & Shane even left the bell puzzle.
"
Really? Checking your hair?", Cesar to Ricky as the latter checks himself in the mirror during the final drive
Teams arrive to the mat (20km) in the following order:
1(+0) Ricky & Cesar, win the $1,000,000
2(+0) Juan & Shane
3(+0) Rod & Leticia
"
Eight countries, 14 cities, 11,711 miles", Phil sums up the race
"
It was truly a gift, every single leg.", Cesar
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