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Calamity

Friday, July 25, 2003 - 01:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yep, Seamonkey...or take the risk of going for the FF and losing it to another team and then having to backtrack.

And even though it wasn't planned, I couldn't help thinking C/R were incredibly lucky to get that FF. What an amazing experience that must have been. I thought it was especially moving when Reichen (I think it was him) commented on how it felt to hold the orangutan's hand and look into her face. I think if more people got the opportunity to interact with other species - especially highly intelligent and socially evolved animals such as orangutans - we would not be so willing to allow them to be used and abused in the name of human progress.

Beachcomber88

Thursday, July 31, 2003 - 11:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
We should title this episode "Me no speakum English". All the shots of the confused Korean cab drivers with those vacant stares. I enjoyed it!

I can't believe how incredulous the boys were about not being able to find a cab driver that could speak English. So much whining. So many looks of exasperation. Hello boys. You...are...in...SOUTH KOREA. Of course they don't speak English! Faulting a Korean cab driver and getting upset that he doesn't speak your language would be akin to a Korean tourist in NYC getting pissed off that a New York cabbie doesn't know how to speak Korean. Although somehow I don't think a NY cabbie would be so patient as the poor confused Korean guys were.

Goes to show how egocentric we Americans can be. Guess we should keep in mind that there's other cultures out there besides just ours...

Crazydog

Friday, August 01, 2003 - 08:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree. I've always been a little irritated by Racers who just go around shouting "English? English?" everywhere. They had a travel guide, would it have killed them to have learned how to say "do you speak English" in Korean. As much as I disliked the Guidos, I thought it was a nice touch for them to use their travel guide and say "Tiantian Park" in Mandarin.

I really don't mind these two, I think they have settled down a lot since the beginning.

Bastable

Friday, August 01, 2003 - 03:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't think C&R were as "exasperated" as the show's editors led us to believe. If you re-watch the tape, you'll see that we were shown the same clip of them looking frustrated--twice! And it was slowed down to slo-mo, to boot! The editors really stacked the deck against them. They never acted like they expected the drivers to speak English, but that they were frustrated that they needed one but couldn't find one. That's not terribly ethnocentric--it's like desperately wanting an Ace when the dealer gives you the Queen of Hearts.

Chip and Reichen are consistently kind and respectful to every person they meet in the foreign countries. They always take a moment to appreciate the places that they see and the things that they do. Other teams tend to grab the clue and split, but C&R have open minds (but I guess if you're forced to live on the fringes of society, you'd eventually come to appreciate how others feel). I really like that about them.

A far cry from Teri and Ian, who barked at people and threw trash on the street wherever they went!

Is it true that C&R have split up since the show was taped?

Spear

Saturday, August 02, 2003 - 01:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sorry, but Chip and Reichen begging in Venice and calling a woman "old bi*ch" for declining to give them money is worse than anything I've seen Teri and Ian do. They never aired this (there's a clip on the CBS web site), so you can't say the editors have been unkind to them.

Seamonkey

Saturday, August 02, 2003 - 10:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
They are my favorites of those left and were in my top three overall. Bastable, it is commonly thought that Chip/Reichen have split up.

Sunshyne4u

Monday, August 11, 2003 - 12:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I remember hearing Reichen explain to the others how he met Chip. It was his first "experience" after getting out of the Airforce. They hit it off and were supposedly "married" although they had been together just a year.
(Sounds to me like this wasnt exactly "true love")

Tishala

Monday, August 11, 2003 - 02:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
No. They had been married a year but had been together for 5 years.

Bastable

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 05:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Did anyone catch them on The Early Show?

Schoolmarm

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 06:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, I caught them on the Early Show. They didn't say too much, just got the check. They looked happy. Actually Kelly/Jon and Dave/Jeff were interviewed more. Dave and Jeff actually showed that they had personality!

Phil presented the "BIG CHECK" to "Reichen and Chip"

Nothing about their personal lives or dreams of how to spend the money. Reichen said a bit about the race, and Chip was asked if he is always so intense.

They showed clips of the skydiving and Jon in the buff, and the run to the finish.

Seamonkey

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 07:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm waiting for it to come on here.. since I'm watching for it I'm guessing they won't be on until just before 9am..

Ocean_Islands

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 10:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I saw them in person! That was cool. I think there were more racers than spectators, too.

Hippyt

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 10:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well,are they still together??? That's the big question.

Lslb

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 10:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Neither of them (Chip & Reichen) had on their wedding rings on the CBS interview this morning. Reichen kept his hand hidden most of the time, but good views of Chip's hand throughout. Towards the end Reichen's hand was clearly seen without a ring. They both had them on throughout the race. That makes it look like they aren't married anymore. Makes me sad.

Hippyt

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 11:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Aw,me too. I was hoping the rumors weren't true.

Seamonkey

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 01:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hmm.. I didn't think to look for that but did sense, something.. but of course I was looking for it..

I guess I could have a fantasy that they just sent out the rings to have matching stones set in them, but.. probably not. They didn't see hostile to each other tho.

Ocean_Islands

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 08:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's true neither had rings on. And once the cameras moved away, Chip and Reichen were not in close proximity.

Reichen in person to me seemed a bit cold and narcissistic in a model kind of way. Chip looked normal but I do have to say they seemed a bit awkward, both of them, in a way that Kelly and Jon did not.

Debra and Steve looked exactly -- and I do mean EXACTLY -- like they did on the show.

Ric_Munoz

Saturday, August 23, 2003 - 12:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
In case you miss it in the "General Discussions" section, here's the exclusive "morning-after" interview the boys gave to The Advocate. Juicy/yummy inside info! Enjoy!

http://advocate.com/html/stories/897/897_amazing.asp

Madelane

Saturday, August 23, 2003 - 09:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ric thanks so much for that article! It was great! Did you notice in the third paragraph it says Chip twice, and I was like, wait, who is the pilot and who is the businessman? Confusing until the end.

p.s. I live in West Hollywood too.

Ric_Munoz

Saturday, August 23, 2003 - 09:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Madelane: Greetings from the neighborhood! (We live on Cynthia between Hilldale and Hammond.)

Glad you enjoyed the article (very difficult not to!). I hadn't noticed the double-Chip ID in the 3rd graf; I'm sure the writer was too ga-ga from the interview to write the piece calmly. All during the season I would often refer to Reichen as Chip (but never Chip as Reichen)--I'd confuse myself every time, too. Just a little while ago I watched the finale for the 4th time--my BF thinks I'm crazy to watch it again ("You KNOW who's going to win!"). It's still fun AND suspenseful!

Seamonkey

Saturday, August 23, 2003 - 12:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
SUPER article!!!!!

Moondance

Saturday, August 23, 2003 - 12:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
WOW thanks Ric_Munoz! That was GREAT:)

Madelane

Saturday, August 23, 2003 - 02:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hmm Ric, same block as my friends Courtney and Juan-Pablo, and their friends Rachelle and Chris. And now another friend Heather lives on Phyllis! I'm actually going to a housewarming there tonight!

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, August 23, 2003 - 10:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Great article, Ric_Munoz! Thanks.

Lancecrossfire

Saturday, August 23, 2003 - 11:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ric, that was a very good article. I thought the played a good game all along the race.

Ric_Munoz

Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 10:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Glad you all enjoyed it!
(Madelane: Hope you had a nice time at the housewarming; we ambled over to dinner with pals who live by the Westside Pavilion.)

Puttergirl

Monday, September 01, 2003 - 07:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If this has already been posted, forgive me.
http://www.realityworldtv.com/index.php

"Reichen & Chip Update
Amazing Race 4 winners Reichen and Chip tell TV Guide Online that their relationship has been strained since filming the show. "Chip and I have undergone a lot of stress since the race ended in February, and it put a lot of pressure on our relationship," Reichen says. "We're just trying to work through things privately right now." Meanwhile, Reichen will appear in the season premiere of Frasier as the part of the "Impossibly Handsome Man," while Chip has "been approached by a couple of people to maybe go out and speak around the country to kids in schools about what it means to be gay."

Tabbyking

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 02:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
well, the number one thing people fight over in a relationship is money....and the only thing that really changed after the race was that they won a bunch of it...
they seem like a very nice couple of guys and i hope things work out in whatever way is best for them, whether it is together or apart.