Topic: TAR36 LIVE STREAMS AND COMMENTARY HERE! EP 9 5/8/2024 8:30-10PM CENTRAL TIME

[RachelLeVega]

HAPPY TAR DAY!  


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[RachelLeVega]

We're almost at the end, 2 more hours until we get to our penultimate EPISODE, three more legs to go!

[RachelLeVega]

30 minutes 'til I leave the dugout!

[ghmorello]

The Amazing Race featuring MLB pitcher, Bartolo Colon.  Can you name all the teams he played for?

[RachelLeVega]

5 minutes!

[RachelLeVega]

And we are back on the air!

Previously on TAR, 6 teams raced through Barbados! Angie got into the swing of things at the RB, but breaking away from their crew lost them valuable time. Juan & Shane appeared sunk, but muscled themselves past four teams. Ricky & Cesar continued to dominate while Rod & Leticia were stumped and stuck. But in the end, Angie & Danny came up short. Coming up tonight, final 5 compete in next week's finale.

[RachelLeVega]

All teams flying charter into Dominican Republic. They arrive in Puerto Plata with establishing shots of the city life and mountainous and lush terrain. Group 1 depart from under a bridge - Juan & Shane and Ricky & Cesar. ROUTE INFO: Make your way through the jungle and search for your next clue.

Juan keeps reminding themselves they are competing for their families.

[RachelLeVega]

Juan & Shane are taking Ricky & Cesar's chances of leading more seriously. Ricky & Cesar are also in concurrence as both reach the clue box. ROADBLOCK: "Who sees the writing on the wall?"

One team member must dive into a grotto and identify 10 petroglyph symbols and find complete matches back on land to match the drawings to receive their next clue.

Cesar and Juan do the task and start trekking to the water.

[ianthebalance]

BRING ON THE BARTOLO BIG SEXY COLON GIFS

[RachelLeVega]

Group 2 of the remaining teams depart. Rod feels they are the strongest team. Another Super Bowl reference without having to pay for a name drop. Vinny focusing on collaboration and communication with Amber. She wants to not be so stubborn and stone-headed. All reach the RB. Yvonne & Melissa want to be the next all-female team to win and talk about their dynamics changing on the race. They say they are loud out and about, but are surprisingly quiet and studied on the race.

[RachelLeVega]

Juan is leading the direction while Cesar trailing right behind. Juan takes the dive into the grotto. "Let's go baby!" (Imagine Sean doing this task.)

Full intro and commercials.

[elthemagnifico]

wow rb looks like so much fun ngl 

[RachelLeVega]

We return to Juan and Cesar. Cesar dives in and says the water was so perfectly warm and cooling. We see yet another natural waterslide on this season. Really?

The two start searching for symbols in the cavern. "They could be anywhere." - Cesar

Rod smokes Melissa and Amber on the way to the grotto. Melissa reveals she worked in vice presidential security. Fascinating. Melissa ends up catching up to Rod and even Rod is shocked.

[RachelLeVega]

Amber is falling out of it and reveal she and Vinny are in a lot of debt. They want to pay off student loans with that million dollars.

Juan finally sees some petroglyphs. He has hesitations of jumping off these rocks saying it's from growing older. We see more symbols and Juan goes into a beautiful natural pool leading to the puzzle rocks. Cesar comes in from behind as well seeing a turtle symbol.

[RachelLeVega]

"Angry calamari." Cesar is also wrong as Juan goes back to relook at the glyphs. Rod and Mel are now at the petros. Juan gets another check with still a majority incorrect. "What's wrong, buddy, let's go!" - Shane. Juan is stumped and is trying to rationalize what is wrong.

Cesar is also incorrect for a big portion of it. Last three teams' racers are here!

[RachelLeVega]

Cesar decides to work with Rod to get the answers. Juan is still incorrect. "Oh, you can flip these!" - Juan realizing one of his mistakes.

"That looks like fish bones."- Amber

[RachelLeVega]

Amber says there are very subtle differences between the two rocks. She's going to do process of elimination. Melissa notices some she didn't see at all. Cesar now working with Melissa. Cesar sees this is going to be extremely tricky with all the teams there now.

Commercials.

[RachelLeVega]

The pandemic-era seasons really love their canyoning tasks don't they.

[ianthebalance]

The pandemic-era seasons really love their canyoning tasks don't they.

Though this is more interesting to me than most of the stuff done all season so I embrace the canyoning

[elthemagnifico]

The pandemic-era seasons really love their canyoning tasks don't they.

they have to rely mother nature to work with the course 

on other topic easily the best task of this season. not only it can be physically taxing, especially if you need to start over but also you have to rely on your memory to order those stones properly without getting the detail wrong. fantastic task. this could also compete with some of the best tasks on modern and classic TAR too

[RachelLeVega]

We return to the same jungle we've seen for the past 30 minutes! 

Melissa and Cesar trekking up stairs while Juan calls for another check. No good. Melissa points out some petroglyphs to Cesar and vice versa. Amber sees some are distractors, but is still incorrect. She called out for a check like she's in the middle of nowhere by herself. "I don't want to do this again." - Amber

Cesar is correct and receives his clue. He goes back to help Yvonne. Are you kidding me.

[RachelLeVega]

ROUTE INFO: Don Manuel's Finca de Cacao

Melissa is still incorrect even after help!

[RachelLeVega]

Ricky & Cesar are leaving in their chauffeured ride from a farmer to the cacao estate. "Process of elimination at this point."- Amber. She's still wrong. Melissa still asking for help from Rod...

Juan calls for a check and are all right! The pilots leave in 2nd.

[RachelLeVega]

Juan says they have to make every single step count after leaving all those other teams behind and to catch up to the boyfriends. Melissa still incorrect while she overlooks Rod's answers, in which he is correct. They leave in 3rd.

Amber calls for a check while Melissa onlooks. Amber passes! Melissa calls for a check and is still incorrect.

[RachelLeVega]

"When you get in that car, I want you to tighten up your shoelace." - Vinny. Rod & Leticia head out into their car. Leticia says Amber & Vinny were the ones that headed out around the same time they did and didn't see Yvonne & Melissa any further.

Meanwhile, Melissa flipping over rocks hoping to get a random match correct. Making her situation worse.

Commercials.