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Raenstorm
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07-16-2004
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 4:58 pm
Starting this thread for tonight's show. Previouslys on now...
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Raenstorm
Member
07-16-2004
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 4:59 pm
7 families remain. Who will be eliminated next?
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Raenstorm
Member
07-16-2004
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 5:14 pm
Back at Rocket Park and 3rd pit stop. Bransen family leaves at 1:15 PM. Find largest office chair in the world - over 100 mi in Aniston, AL. One member of each time must climb it to get next clue. Off they go. 1:18 PM. The Linz family is off next. Schroeders off at 1:33PM. Daughter talking about being the underdog?? (They are leaving in 3rd place - how are they they underdogs?) 1:44 PM and the Godlewski's are off. Some bickering with the sisters. 3:34 PM the Weavers off. The older daughter says a prayer in the backseat for them to catch up with the other teams. Mother talking about how hard it is to lose your husband/father. Schroeders saying they do not like the Weavers. At first they felt bad for them losing their father but then they realized the mother is a witch. They make more comments here but I missed it. 3:50 - Paolo family is off and bickering already. Son taking the info from his mother and yelling at her. 3:53 PM Gaghan family off and running. Running to beat the Paolos to their car. Bransen family arrives and gets clue. Drive themselves to Talladega, AL (18 miles) - find International Motorsports Museum? I missed exactly what it was... the Bransens comment on how this next clue will be hard for the Weavers. Linz family arrives and gets their clue. They are off again. Scroeder family arrives at chair and gets the clue too. They realize they passed Taladega. Godlewski sisters have their clue and are off again. Bransen family arrives in Taladega. Ahh Motorsports Hall of Fame. Complete one lap around the track in the Super Speedway. Biggest Motorsport facility in the world. They won't be driving a racecar, though. They will just a multi-person bike and, pedaling as a team, complete one lap. Other teams arriving at Taladega now. Bransen, Schroeder, and Linz family all there. A little let down that they have to pedal - not drive around the track. They are off and pedalling... the bikes are round - not normal bikes. Gaghan family gets their clue and are off. Weaver family arrives and gets their team (huh? Not sure how the Gaghan's beat them). Weaver's get their clue and now not sure what to think. Youngest daughter says she doesn't really want to go there and mother says she can just sit in the car. Paolo's now have their clue too... Bransens about halfway around as theh Linz family gets on their bike. They are off on their way. Schroeders arrive and get on their bike as the Bransen's cross the finish line. Travel 200 miles to Hattiesburg, MS and find Southern Colonel (trailer home dealership). Godlewski sisters get their clue and are off to the track. Linz family pedalling away with Schroeders behind them. Schroeder father says imagine how pissed the Weaver's will be to find that clue? Weavers arrive and get the clue and older daughter says, "Ohh, Mommy we can't."
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Raenstorm
Member
07-16-2004
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 5:25 pm
Back with the Weavers not wanting to do the challenge. The Mom tells them they can do it and reminds them that their Daddy loved racing. She repeats that we can do it. They are out on the track now. Schroeder father wants to stop and raise the seats on the bike. Daughter annoyed at him. Linz family finishes and is off. They pass the Godlewskis as they finish and the Schroeders finish now. Weaver family on their bike and off on their way. Godlewski family also pedaling away. Godlewskis finish and get their clue. Gaghan family gets their clue and is off to the track. Weaver mom says visiting Taladega was a big break through for her family. They cross the finish line and get their clue. More talk from them as we go back to the Gaghan's getting on their bike. The younger daughter can't even reach the pedals... Paolo's arriving now as the Gaghan's finish and get their clue. Father Gaghan notes that there is lightening in the sky and wants to get to the car before that... Paolo's on their bike and off. Linz family passing the Bransen's. One of the Bransen's moons the Linz brother driving and they all laugh. He flashes them back and yells now it is the=ir turn. Paolo's finish just as a big storm rolls in and they are off. Bransen family stops for gas and looks in phonebook for Southern Colonel. Linz right behind them. They arrive at the trailer park and get clue. They are spending the night and must search among 37 trailers for times. I missed the times...7:20 and 7:40 and 8:00 I think? Once they pick a time - they are stuck with it and that trailer is taken. Schroeders ask a cop and he tells them trailer home place but Father doesn't think that can be it. They then go find some people and look online - find the same thing. Meanwhile the Weavers stop at gas station and ask for directions and get them to the mobile home place. Schroeders look in phone book and realize that it has to be the mobile home place. Daughter upset. Linz and Bransen families both have 7:20 times. Godlewski families and Weavers arrive together. Godlewskis settle for a 7:40 without looking for others and Weavers grab an 8:00. Schroeders are fighting a bit. Schroeders talk to Godlewskis - Godlewskis tell them to look for 7:40... they find an 8:00 but the daughter wants to keep looking. Gaghan family arrives now... I think they took an 8:00 but I'm not sure. Paolo family arrives ... Schroeders see them and decide to take the 8:00. Daughter is very upset and crying at them taking the 8:00 and being with the FL team. Paolo's still looking.
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Raenstorm
Member
07-16-2004
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 5:40 pm
Back with the Schroeder daughter still crying. Paolo's take the 7:40. Bransen family up and out. Drive themselves to Richland, MS. Find a BP gas station and search for man named Les for next clue. Linz and Bransen's out together. Linz sons saying that the Bransen daughters are cute. Other families all out now too. Bransen and Linz families arriving at the BP station. Linz brothers get their clue. Drive to the Pelican State... find Fairview Riverside State Park... I missed the name of the place. Both families figure out that LA is the Pelican state and off they go. One family looking at a map too. Godlewski sisters pass right by the BP - one sister said it wasn't the right gas station. Paolo family turns in though and they realize they screwed up eventually. Paolos have their clue and are off. Godlewski sisters finally get their clue as the Schroeders arrive at the gas station. Weavers arrive too... Gaghans also get their clue. One family needed gas but I missed who... Schroeders fighting now =- daughter is pissed that the FL team is ahead of them. Ahh, Maddisonville, LA. Godlewski family is bickering. Getting a little mad at each other - then they high five but some tension still there as one sister shakes her head at the other. Linz family arrives at the park. DETOUR. Work or Play. Work -two person handsaw to cut slices off a log 12 in in diameter. Must cut off 4 slices. In Play they will go to river boat and play a round of 21. They must win a total of 3 rounds. Linz debating what to do... Sister wants to play. They decide to do it. They must put on appropriate costume wear... Bransen's also doing this task. Both teams paddling across the river and getting on the riverboat. Schroeders realizing that this place is right down the street from where they used to live. Paolo's slicing away at the log. Godlewskis arrive and doing the Work. Linz family... I think they have 0 of 3 =rounds. Bransen family has 1 win. Gaghan family deciding to do Play. Linz family still has no wins. Linz family decides not to Play anymore and leaves the boat. Paolo family has 2 of their 4 slices. Gaghan family arrives at boat and starts playing. They have 0 of 3 wins while the Bransens have 2. Paolo family has 3 slices now. Linz family has 1 slice. Paolo family is done. Drive yourself to next pit stop... drive across world's largest bridge to New Orleans and run through French C. to Perservation Hall. Last team to arrive may be eliminated. Bransen family gets their 3 wins and is off. They tells the Gaghan's to stay patient. Weaver family arriving now. They decide to Play. Linz family finally completes their slices and are off. Weavers are off across the river. Godlewski sisters finish their slices and are off. Weavers arrive and start playing. Gaghan family has no wins yet. Weavers get 1 win. Then they get 2 wins. Gaghan's debating what to do....
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Mamabatsy
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08-05-2005
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 5:48 pm
Hey Raen, Thank you again for doing such a wonderful service for us West Coasters. How sad I will be to see New Orleans pre-Katrina, but I really appreciate this and all your transcripts.
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Raenstorm
Member
07-16-2004
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 5:54 pm
Gaghan family decides to change to Work. Paddling back now. Paolo family off and driving. Bransen family also on their way with Linz family right behind them. They say they are going to huff it when we get out of the car. Godlewski family on their way. Sister says she is going to take her backpack and the others tell her not to do that because they may be running all over the place. She is crying now and tells us that crying is a way to let it out for her. Trying to make her sisters feel guilty for making her cry and the sisters say she did it to herself. Schroeders arriving as the Weavers leave. Gaghan's slicing but having trouble... Schroeders start to saw but decide to change to Play. Off and they are playing. They have 2 wins as Gaghan's cut away. Gaghan's finish and are off. They are working in the rain at the end. Schroeders get 3 wins and are off. They are excited and off they go. Weavers driving over the bridge now. Gaghan's on the bridge too. Paolo family in New Orleans now. They park and are off. Have to go 6 blocks. Bransen's park and are off. Asking people for directions. Schroeders on the bridge - they wonder if it's not fair since they know their way around. Linz family parks and is off. Bransens racing away. Paolo's yell at their mom that she's going the wrong way. Bransen family - you are team #1. They jump up an down and hug. So happy they are team #1. They win a trip for 4 to Orlando with accomodations to Universal Florida and complimetary tickets to IOA and Universal Studios. Paolo family is team #2. They hug and are happy. Godlewski family parks and is off. Linz family is team #3. They clap for each other and high five. Phil says, "Is it my understanding there was a moon out today?" They laugh. Godlewski family is team #4. They clap and hug. Weavers have parked and are out of their cars. Gaghan's park now and are out. Schroeders have parked now and are off. Weaver family is team #5. Son hugs Phil. .... Gaghan's asking for directions as the Schroeders are running. Gaghan's look a lil' lost and not sure they are in the right place. Gaghan family is team #6. Schroeders - you are the last team to arrive. Phil with very serious face. They have been eliminated from the race. Mother breaks down in tears as does the daughter. Phil asks what happened today? Father says that they couldn't find the park and he used to work a mile from it - says it was shameful on his part that he didn't know where the park was. Daughter says she loves her Dad but wishes that he had listened to her and feels like she could have been more forceful. Father says he blames himself for everything that happened to the team but is glad to see they can deal with stress and hardships when they may arise.
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Raenstorm
Member
07-16-2004
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 5:55 pm
Thanks Mama - My pleasure. It was hard... still a lil' choked up seeing New Orleans here. Phil just talked about people coming to the aid of those hurt from H. Katrina.
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Raenstorm
Member
07-16-2004
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 5:58 pm
On the next TAR: Teams leave the US and DJ's nerves get the best of him. He has a fear of heights and having trouble. Sharon struggles to keep her sisters in the game - looks like they are having trouble with a baseball/softball task? ~fin~
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Stopjustwatchin
Member
08-19-2005
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 6:04 pm
Well, I'm not sad to see the Schroders go...especially after tonight. One mistake after another for them. Not that I don't still want to see the Paolos out of there, but I was happy that the Gaghans beat the Schroders to the mat. Can anyone tell me how the Paolos got to second place????? It all came back to the 7:40 depart time being left for them.... Hopefully, they do something to falter last week. I will say the Bransens have definitely elevated to near the top of my list right now. They are vieing neck-and-neck with the Gaghans for my favorite team to this point. And, for some scary reason, the Linz family is in third. FWIW....
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 6:04 pm
It was difficult to watch the teams in New Orleans knowing what would happen there soon.
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Stopjustwatchin
Member
08-19-2005
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 6:08 pm
Oh, one more thing...the Weavers got so lucky that they got the worst Blackjack dealer ever! If that dealer really busted that many times in a row, having to pay the whole table that quickly - he would be quickly replaced. I'm seriously impressed with the Gaghans after tonight. They got stuck with the "best" Blackjack dealer...switched...and still pulled off the WORK relatively quickly. Shows a lot right there!
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Azriel
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 6:17 pm
How can it be the Blackjack dealers fault? He just pulls up the cards and follows the set rules for the dealer. He doesn't get to make choices or have any control of what they do or over what card comes up next.
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Clutterfree
Member
10-24-2003
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 6:20 pm
The minute I heard the remark about the longest bridge over Lake Pochetrain (please forgive the spelling; I feel like I should know the spelling by now, but I don't)and saw that large body of water which would soon spill into New ORleans, it felt so eerie....I wonder WHEN exactly that segment was shot? and even though I didn't like the Schroeder family (esp. the father), his remarks at the end about taking on future difficulties gave such a foreboding feeling...I was glad Phil gave a reference to helping Katrina victims, but I wish they had made time for a slightly larger public service announcement. It felt like a beat or two longer of respect and acknowledgement was needed. I may tune in tomorrow's morning show to see the Schroeders interviewed, more to catch up with how they are doing in the aftermath of Katrina than anything. Prayers for all in New Orleans and surrounding areas as another storm gathers steam headed for the gulf....
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Wilsonatmd
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01-23-2001
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 6:24 pm
It seems like the thing to do in the Blackjack, considering all 4 had to win, is for everyone to stay regardless of what they have, even if it's a 5 or something, and just wait for the dealer to bust out 3 times. Still eerie with the Schroders being eliminated in NO tho....
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Stopjustwatchin
Member
08-19-2005
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 6:32 pm
How can it be the Blackjack dealers fault? He just pulls up the cards and follows the set rules for the dealer. He doesn't get to make choices or have any control of what they do or over what card comes up next. In a casino, it's always the dealer's "fault" in the mind of the owner. Usually by no fault of his own, it's just the owner needs a scapegoat for losing. And, since we know they were professional dealers, I just bring up the point that in a regular casino setting, he would have a line at his table of people wanting to win. I guess there is a logic to this since every dealer shuffles his own cards. But as they say...sometimes the cards just love you (maybe it was the reward for the Weavers for enduring the racetrack).
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Stopjustwatchin
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08-19-2005
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 6:36 pm
Still eerie with the Schroders being eliminated in NO tho.... I'm still trying to figure out exactly how I feel on this. I definitely found it extremely ironic, at least. But, as is become very, very clear this season...we can see the foreshadowing in the show as to who will be eliminated. Editing to show all of the mistakes of the losing team is really starting to get old....
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Nickovtyme
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07-29-2004
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 6:39 pm
Schroeder's = Karma. That's two teams in two weeks that were eliminated for hating on the Weavers. That Schroeder daughter really irriated me tonight. Especially when she was whining that she "was stuck with the Florida team". What is with all the Weaver hate... Give the Gaghans some props because essentially, the two adults are doing the work of four people.
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Peeper
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06-14-2004
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 7:28 pm
Wilson, that is what I was thinking too. No one hit, just sit there until the dealer busted 3 times. That would have gone pretty fast
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Padivius
Member
08-21-2003
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 7:38 pm
I thought for sure they would take the time at the end of the episode (maybe with some text on the screen) about how the Schroeders were doing in the wake of Katrina... I know we've heard they went to stay with the Rogers', but it would have been nice for the to show that the Schroeders were safe. I also thought it was eerie when the Schroeder father was talking about the strength of his family and how his faily showed him that they can cope with whatever hardships come their way... How foreboding in the weeks to come for them...
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Padivius
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08-21-2003
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 7:42 pm
By the way, did anybody else laugh at the Weavers' assertion that Lake Pontchartrain was one of the five Great Lakes? That was too funny. Where do they go next week that's out of the US?
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Jimmer
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08-30-2000
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 7:50 pm
On the Blackjack question, how would the dealer bust if no one hit? He’d just win and win and win. I’m impressed with the Gaghan’s staying power. They are very physically fit people and they seem like a great family. It’s nice the way they let the kids participate as much as the can. As far as I’m concerned, they are keeping it interesting. I shouldn’t say that I was happy to see the Schroeders lose, but out of all the remaining teams, they were the ones that I liked the least. I know I’m in the minority here but I don’t mind the Paolo’s that much. The sons really love the game, the Dad is very competitive and I’m getting used to the yelling back and forth. I still don’t like the Weaver’s much. I know that they lost their Dad and I feel bad for them in that way, but it seems that it is all that they talk about and focus on (or at least that is the editing). I have no clue what is wrong with the sisters – they just seem to be losing it for no reason whatsoever. It was nice to see the Bransen’s and the Linz’s having some fun on the race. The competition is so serious that it’s great to see teams have a good time. My wife was laughing over the "Great Lakes" reference. All in all I’m still enjoying this season far more than I thought I would, but I do want them to get these teams out of the trucks and into a different country!
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Julieboo
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02-05-2002
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 8:03 pm
Sad that the Weaver mom told her kids that Lake P was one of the 5 Great Lakes.... The one pink sister is a real crybaby. I agree with Jimmer. Yes, it is sad that the dad died, but geeze, enough already. Focus on the game. I still like the Gaghans quite a lot. Stassi-what a brat. The stepmom cried really hard when they lost. I never remember anyone crying like that before in all the losing contestants that I remember seeing. I remember seeing people cry cuz they were emotional over their partner, etc, but never cuz they lost.
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Ark
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07-10-2001
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 8:05 pm
I'm just not getting all of the Weaver hate going on. I know that if I'd recently lost my husband and my kids had lost their father and we'd all been fumbling around in the dark to find a way to pull our family back together, that husband/father would be foremost in our hearts and minds and we would talk about him...alot. OK, so maybe they aren't a lot of fun to be around. Tough, they're raw and bleeding and everyone wants to take jabs at them. I can't believe that none of the teams have an ounce of compassion for them and instead get their hopes up that they'll crumble at the race track. I don't care how anyone finishes in the race, many of them are losers in life in my eyes.
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Azriel
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08-01-2000
| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 8:18 pm
You know what the Shroeder father did that irritated me more than anything else tonight? When he went in the gas station to look at the phone book - he tore the whole page out of the phone book and took it with him! How RUDE! The Weaver's only lost their dad a year ago and I think it would be hard to be in a 'family' race and not be aware 24/7 that your father/husband wasn't there with you. It would be hard for me not to focus a lot on missing my father if I was in the race. I really admire how the Weaver mom relates to her kids and supports them and how they support their mom. I didn't think I would enjoy this version of the race as much as I am enjoying it. It's different, but still very interesting and fun to me. I'm also even starting to like the Gaghan family now.
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