This is California, the heart of America's wine country.
Here in Santa Barbara, these idyllic vineyards provide the
perfect destination for cycling enthusiasts like me.
These teams riding in the pell on the behind me have no idea what lies ahead.
But in the end, one team will cross the finish line first, win
$1 million, and "the amazing race."
The 11 teams are -- Dave and cherie, married clowns from Tampa, Florida.
For bar numb and Bailey circus.
Are you guys ready to get started?
I do strongly believe in what goes around comes around.
The carnival that we have built up hopefully will come around
and work for us in our favor.
Tada!
Bopper and mark, lifelong friends from Kentucky.
We're from the other side of the tracks.
We've never had nothing.
Never did think we'd ever get nothing.
Come and get it!
If we don't win the money, we've not helped our kids and family at all.
It's useless.
We are going to win the money.
Misa and maiya, sisters from San Diego, California.
We started golf when I was 12 and maiya was 11.
I went to school at ucla and turned professional in 2009.
People think that we're pretty girls and that we're dainty.
Maybe a little prissy.
But that's not the case at all.
There will be no crying.
We are athletes.
We know what it takes to win the race.
Branden and Rachel, recently engaged from Los Angeles, California.
Our relationship started on "big brother 12" and we fell in
love in the hammock.
You're not crazy.
I'm crazy about you.
Rachel and I proved that we are both strong competitors.
We did so by winning "big brother" together.
I won "big brother 13."
We are not in the race to make friends.
We are here to win $1 million.
And nobody comes between me and my million dollars.
Perfect all the way around.
The muscles.
Going to the gym.
The tattoos.
The team is going to think you got your typical Jersey
shore guys, but hopefully we'll show them wrong.
No situation over here, but I got a solution.
A lot more going on than they think.
Nary and Jamie, federal agents from Los Angeles, California.
There aren't that many women in this field.
As a woman, you really have to prove yourself.
As opposed to a standard male in this profession.
You have to be tougher doing the profession that we do.
Doing this race, this is going to be cake to us.
I like cake.
Rachel and Dave, married two years, from Madison, Wisconsin.
I'm a major in the army.
I've been in the military for 16-plus years.
I was over in Iraq for approximately one year.
I didn't realize the magnitude of how much you change when you're apart.
What the race will provide us hopefully is to be that
catalyst, to reconnect and reconcile our marriage and our
friendship and our common bonds.
Elliot and Andrew, twin brothers from scottsdale, Arizona.
?
06: 00:06: I am a musician in a rock
group.
I'm a professional soccer player.
We sort of went in different directions.
But we always stayed close.
We're twins, so he's my best friend.
There's really no other way to describe it.
Like a life partner, but we're not gay.
You can't say that, dude.
Kerri and Stacy, first cousins from Gulf port, Mississippi.
Stacy and I are the typical Daisy Duke country girls.
We do like our eye shadow and she likes to puff her hair, but
at the end of the day, we will be in the mud getting dirty with
the best of the big boys.
We're packing a little punch behind this.
Vanessa and Ralph, dating, from San Antonio, Texas.
Ralph and I have been dating for about a year.
We've known each other for about 15 years.
I used to stalk him.
He got married.
Stalked him some more.
He got divorced.
I got married.
So I got divorced.
And now we're dating.
So we'll just keep the racing to around the world and not down the aisle.
There you go.
How about that?
Art and j.J., border patrol agents from Southern California.
Art and I are supervisors of a 40-man unit that patrols the coastline.
A lot of times it's life or death, so art and I have to be teammates out there.
We're going to laugh and rib each other.
We're going to have fun.
I'm the brain and he's the brawn.
Ain't that unbelievable?
It's like beauty and the beast and he thinks he's the beauty.
Welcome to "the amazing race."
You're about to begin a physically grueling, mentally draining, life changing
adventure.
There are 12 legs on this race that are designed to push you
like you've never been pushed before.
The winners of this first leg of the race will win the express pass.
The express pass can be used before or during any challenge
that you don't want to complete.
All you have to do is hand it over before the end of the
eighth leg and move on.
The fact is, I will be eliminating most of you.
But if you make it to the final leg and you cross the finish
line first, you will win "the amazing race" and $1 million.
A million bucks!
Your first clue is up in the air -- literally.
In one of those balloons.
When I say go, you can run over there and start pulling them down.
There are 100 balloons, only 11 have a clue.
When you find one, you can get into one of the new Ford
tauruses parked out front and continue racing.
Is everybody ready?
Yeah!
Whoo!
All right, let's get this race started.
The world is waiting for you.
Good luck.
Travel safe.
Go!
Let's go, man.
Come on, honey.
Come on, art.
Stay steady.
Quick.
Here!
Go straight, go straight.
Let's move, let's move.
Go, go, go, go, go.
No.
Pull it down.
Go straight, go straight.
Come on, art.
Grab it.
There's nothing.
Dang.
Get it, get it.
Grab that one right there.
Go.
Nothing.
Find me a balloon, honey.
This one here.
Yes.
Open it up.
Yes.
Ralph.
You got it?
I can't breathe.
Got it.
Santa Barbara.
Come on.
Yeah!
We got a clue, yeah!
We got one!
Got it!
Fly to Santa Barbara.
Where's Santa Barbara?
Go, go, go.
Right here.
Yes.
That's what I'm talking about.
Fly to Santa Barbara.
We're in Santa Barbara.
I know.
Let's grab this gray one.
And we're off.
You are now heading to Santa Barbara, Argentina.
Yeah, baby!
Whoo!
Starting off big.
First you must make your way to Los Angeles international
airport in the American airlines check-in counter to pick up
tickets to buenos ars re.
L.A.X. Airport.
I can just taste the burritos already.
Only the first six teams will get tickets on the fastest
connecting flight to salta, the closest airport to Santa Barbara.
Yeah, baby!
Good job.
We have to go to the American airlines ticket counter in l.A.X.
Yeah!
So we're flying to Santa Barbara.
Not bad for our first amazing race.
Santa Barbara, Argentina.
Sparkles in frnt of us.
Argentina!
She looks like sheet rock.
Whoo, we're going to Argentina!
Yes!
Woohoo!
Come on, baby.
Be gold.
Nothing.
Please, God.
All right.
Oh, thank God.
Fly to Santa Barbara.
Thank the lord.
Let's do it.
Slow and steady.
Come on.
We're on "the amazing race,"
homie.
We're going to do it.
Me and you.
Like finding a needle in a haystack.
Keep going.
Hustle.
These hills are killer.
God, this is grueling, ain't it, man?
I'm getting ready to throw up.
If you got to throw it, do it, let's go.
Come on.
There's got to be two more clues.
We've got to beat the last team.
We're not giving up.
I know we can't lose.
Here we go, baby.
Thank God.
Fly to Santa Barbara.
He just got one.
Who did, they did?
We're on top of that, baby.
Don't you never lay down on me, baby.
Throw up, get it up and let's go win that money, baby!
Just calm down.
Let's go.
Country boy can survive, baby!
There's one more clue.
Where the heck can it be?
Oh, no!
Making like soup and a pot of taters.
I'm going to be sick.
We after $1 million, we ain't stopping to throw up.
Pull over right now.
Any time my partner is in the back seat, there better be a barf bag around.
When you got loot on the line like this, baby, you pee your
pants if you have to.
This is so physically draining.
But we have heart, so we're not going to give up.
We fight to the end.
Remember that.
Oh!
How did we miss it?
Fly to Santa Barbara.
Come on.
Let's hustle, ok?
How did we miss that?
All teams are now making their way to salta, Argentina, by way of buenos aires.
Elliot and Andrew, Brandon and Rachel, nary and Jamie, art and
j.J., art and Jay, and Vanessa and Ralph are landing 2 1/2
hours ahead of the other five teams.
When they land they must drive themselves to the town of Santa
Barbara, Argentina, to pick up their next clue.
Oh yeah.
Yeah yeah, right here, art.
S.U.V., right there.
This is it.
T's go.
This is it, this is the car.
We're currently in first place.
I take currently in first instead of currently in last.
I know.
Those poor suckers at the airport.
I don't think they've left yet.
We're on the second flight out.
There's six teams that took out in front of us.
We're just hoping some of them make a mistake so we can catch up with them.
The Hawaiian girls, Jersey boys, and the clients.
The girls from Mississippi.
They got the badonkadonk.
Right there.
Ok, go, nary.
Go.
Make your way to the lavaqete.
Search for your next clue.
Follow them.
Now we're driving towards Santa Barbara.
It feels great.
Now we're in the lead out of our group.
First lead in "the amazing race."
Salta.
It's a cute little town.
Oh gosh.
Stay up with the crowd, kerri.
Do you know how to drive it, David?
I'm working on it.
Oh, baby.
You better be getting on up the road.
Going for the pass.
There you go.
Team uno.
We passed the Jersey boys.
I haven't seen any other teams.
They're just long gone.
There's no one in sight.
I just don't feel like we're fast or strong.
So I was really feeling like it's going to be harder and
harder to recover the longer I didn't see any other teams.
We've got to run our game the best we can.
Let's not panic yet.
As you can,
time. T seen aeain a long I'm pretty sure 're inast
I don't cry very often.
Don't worry, hon.
We'll get there.
The tears of a clown.
Follow them.
Designated spot right there.
Park there.
It's a freaking airport.
Get it, art, get it.
Let's be first.
Oh, it's a roadblock.
Who's got a great sense of direction?
I'll do it.
Find your partner after they have jumped out of an airplane.
Oh, God!
This roadblock requires one team member to use their
sense of direction and search for their partner who must take
a terrifying 10,000-foot sky dive.
Whoo!
Once team members reunite, the jump master will hand over their next clue.
Who's got a great sense of direction?
You do.
Who's got a great sense of direction?
You do.
Finds your partner.
Oh, no!
Damn it.
So when I discovered that the nonparticipant is actually the
sky diver, I was completely demoralized.
I mean, what better location in the world to sky dive than do it.
Y'rjumpinout of a
direio I art, I'm not taking pasure I don't li hts that ch.
I think you're playing with death.
We're just trying to reference the map on where supposed to go and pick up our
partners once they jump out of the plane.
Rachel and I share a common ground with the border patrol agents j.J. And art.
They're government employees.
They have a similar Alpha male persona and myself.
We're looking about three miles.
All right, good deal.
Whoo!
Lord, help me.
This goes against all laws of nature.
Let's do it, man.
It's going to take me about three miles.
I've got to get to where we're going, park, and then I've
got to go find j.J. When he lands.
The road is representing as it's depicted on the map right now.
There's a bend about a mile up.
Whoo!
Let's get it!
Woohoo!
Park here.
Yep, here it is, baby.
Oh, here we go.
I don't see the plane.
We just got to keep an eye out, man.
I can't believe I'm doing this.
We're up in the clouds now.
Oh, my goodness.
There's the plane.
Yeah, good eye.
Look at that, man.
Looks like a mosquito.
Oh!
Oh yeah!
Here we go!
Oh, my gosh!
No turning back now, j.J.
Whoo!
Yeah!
Here we go, j.J.!
Whoo!
Oh, my God!
Whoo!
Yeah!
Go, boy!
Oh, thank God!
Whoo!
Oh, my God, I'm so scared!
When we jumped, after I got over the initial shock and I
actually started to breathe, it was so beautiful.
The Argentinean country side is amazing.
Like I am the luckiest person in the world.
Whoo!
Sky diving is the biggest rush that I've ever had.
You're just falling at an incredible rate and you're
looking down at this gorgeous view.
It is phenomenal.
Woohoo!
Running on the beach, I didn't think it was going to be this far out.
Brendon, this is amazing!
She just had the experience of a lifetime.
Dude.
That was awesome.
It was fun, but it wasn't fun.
Thank you very much.
Drive yourself to patios decafayate and search for your next clue.
Er let's get back to the car.
This is so cool!
There she is.
Let's go, rach!
Hey!
Search the grounds for your next clue.
Let's go in the car.
Over here.
I see them.
Got the clue.
Make your way.
Make your way to the -- it has me a little nervous.
Makes me think of being in the air and I'm terrified of heights.
Let's go.
Whoo!
Yeah, baby!
Whoo!
Amazing!
Who's the first person that thought, you know what?
I'm going to get into an airplane, strap on a parachute and jump out.
You've got to be borderline crazy.
My uterus is in my throat.
Come on, come on.
Who's got a great sense of direction?
I'll do it.
You got to jump, baby.
Yeah!
Man, I wish that had been me?
Go on, get her done, baby.
Go on.
Who's got a great sense of direction?
You do.
You go.
I'll do the roadblock.
The nonparticipating team member will be sky diving.
Is that me or you?
You say you were doing the roadblock.
All right, so you got to jump.
When we learned that it would actually be me jumping out of
the plane, to say that my heart went into my gut is an understatement.
Oh, my God.
I'm literally about to throw up.
You can do it.
All you got to do is dive.
This is an awesome way to face your fears.
I'm freaking out.
I'm ready.
Ready to rock 'n' roll.
I'm nervous, but I'm ready to do it.
Let me show you how mark will look coming out of there.
Aahhh!
That's how he'll be going.
What the hell am I doing?
Danny can't drive stick, so I knew right off the bat, we're out of luck.
God help me.
Day before I left, my mother says to me, you sure you don't
want to try to learn stick?
Mom is always right.
Got it going in first.
We're moving.
There it is right here.
Keep going.
Dude, they're right behind us.
I know, art, I know.
We're in a sprint.
You got to outrun these guys.
We are right on the tails of the border patrol.
I hate them for a reason.
I'm running.
Outrunner.
Get the cloak right there.
Compete in a contest.
Teams must now make 120 empanadas, the national dish of am, tee fa.
Following an ongoing demonstration, teams must make 60 meat-filled and 60 with
chse.
Is tt there are specific Doe crimping patterns for each type.
When the champion approves of 120, tms can rao the pit op.
The first team to arrive will win the express pass, and the
last team to check in here will be eliminated.
We've got to watch them do it.
One, I see.
Squeeze it like -- thumb over.
That's it.
We can do this.
This is empanada-making music right here.
16 each.
My big fat fingers aren't doing the greatest job in the world.
They're different.
You're doing the cheese ones.
There's two different kinds of empanadas.
They're totally different techniques.
There's like a twisting technique for the meat ones and then there's a pinching
technique for the cheese ones.
You got it?
I got it down.
There's a clue right there.
Next clue.
The last time may be eliminated.
Let's do it.
Empanadas!
They're different.
I'll do cheese, you do meat.
Oh, my God!
Eah, this is crazy ahh!
It was just rlly cool
it was just an awe experience that was ess.
Here we go.
We' still in it.
Come on.
Mine are pretty, pretty, pretty.
She's saying no on mine.
Dang it.
I got stuff coming out of mine.
No?
Come on, lady.
Oh no.
Mine's meat.
I got to twist mine.
I got to pinch mine.
Whoops.
Empanada contest!
We can make empanadas.
This is so frustrating.
What do you expect from a couple middle-aged men?
I know thousand barbecue steaks.
Baby, we're making empanadas in Argentina.
I want to eat so bad.
No joke.
I want to rub my face in this.
Oh, my God.
I can do this.
X marks the spot where Dave's going to be.
And we're stalled.
Come on.
Why the hell did I turn out here?
If I don't see some kind of marker, this is going to be very difficult.
Looks like it's on the right side of this road.
Uh-oh.
Oh no!
Oh gosh.
Please, God, help me get out of this.
Shoot.
Basically I pulled off the road where I thought it would be, and
the sand was a lot softer than I thought.
I honestly hope that somebody comes by.
To help.
Feeling a little sick now.
Oh, man.
Legs up.
Oh, God.
That was great.
Up, up, up.
That was not a dainty landing!
What's up, my brother!
I need help.
Drive yourself to -- let's head that way.
Let's go, sir.
I'm behind you.
Oh!
Woohoo!
Oh, my God.
I'm 10,000 feet, I'm literally in the clouds.
And I was just terrified because if the parachute doesn't open
correctly, what is going to happen to me?
You know, what is going to happen to my family?
I was having a breakdown.
Oh, my God.
I can't do this.
And I was thinking of my kids.
Like if I showed them that it's ok to run away from their fears,
then they're going to be complacent and think it's ok
just to duck and hide from everything life throws at them.
So I just had to do it for them.
Oh, my God.
I opened my eyes and I was like oh, my God.
I am flying.
It felt so good.
It was liberating.
But I'll never jump out of a plane again.
If mommy can do this, you can do anything.
I just got stuck and I'm in a big hurry.
I'm in the race of my life pretty much.
Trying to find my sister.
And I can't get my car out.
I'm very frustrated.
But these nice gentlemen are trying to help me out.
I'm just praying that they can get this unstuck.
I made a huge error.
Come on, go, go.
Yeah!
Thank you.
Stop, stop, stop.
Thank you so much.
Hey, Dave, we're not last!
Yes!
Let's do some jaunting.
Let's go, baby!
Oh!
Oh, my God.
You got everything?
Make 120 empanadas.
Oh, my God.
Look at that.
All chef boy yardee like.
Dang it.
I know.
Did you see what she told you?
I did.
I get it.
Come on, you can do it.
Hi.
Good to see you.
Let's go.
We got to hustle.
Babe, yours are so good.
That's 59.
Come on, baby, we got this.
All right.
I'm done.
Are you done?
Can you help count mine real fast?
Kick it into full gear here to get this done.
I think we're still behind, but we'll see.
They still have to be judged.
We have to make 60 of each, you said?
Count them carefully, baby, because we can't mess up.
You have 61.
We're done.
Where's she at?
I have got to get first place in this leg of the race.
The express pass gives you a huge advantage above every other team.
No.
Where is she?
It's border patrol.
Mine need to be more twisted.
She was like the empanada Nazi.
All sealed.
Yea!
There we go.
Lost the express pass.
Search the grounds for Phil.
Whoo!
Jump on that mat, guys.
Whoo!
Welcome.
Thank you so much.
Rachel and Dave -- we've been waiting for this.
It's a good start.
You are team number one.
Congratulations.
That's got to feel good.
Feels amazing.
Express pass!
Exactly.
The express pass is a great piece of power in your pocket.
A little perverse, but we'll take it.
Congratulations.
Second team is coming in behind you.
Shoot.
Congratulations, guys.
Brendan and Rachel, you are team number two.
Congratulations.
Team number two!
Good job, baby.
Not too shabby.
Come on, please, please, please.
Bay know.
-- Bueno.
Art and j.J., you are team number three.
It's a nice effort.
Whoo!
Nary and Jamie, you are team number four.
Yeah!
Whoo!
Vanessa and Ralph, you are team number five.
Whoo!
Elliot and Andrew, you are team number six.
Oh!
Thank God, dude.
Good enough.
This is it.
Roith here.
This looks like we're in seventh spot, pi brother.
Empanada contest.
Right here.
You watch that side.
You do that one, I do this one.
You know what you're doing, sir?
Just trying to mimic what I see.
You make 60, I make 60, right?
Right here.
Make 120 empanadas.
Let's go.
We got to go through the front entrance.
Here's a clue.
Compete in an empanada contest.
This way.
Compete in an empanada contest.
We got to do it.
This is the first time I have ever made a pinata.
It ain't a pinata.
It's an emp -- well, call it whatever you want to.
I don't know.
Oh, this is terrible.
Make little pinches.
I'm horrible.
I eat out all the time.
I never cook.
Make 120 empanadas.
Do we need our bags?
No.
Right here.
That sucks.
You got to help me.
Come on, let's do this.
We got this.
I usually don't have time to do a lot of cooking.
He's a good microwaver.
Yes.
Five teams are here, only four of us are going to g on.
We make a Japanese wonton all the time.
We love wonton.
I do.
He's had a rough day today, from steak to cooking.
I'm not getting it.
I'm trying, man.
How am I doing, good?
Yes?
No?
That lady was coming over saying no.
Come on, Danny.
This is terrible.
Man.
Me and Danny are coming from behind, but I'm not worried.
I'm confident in Danny's skills.
Come on, Stacy.
My style was a little bit quicker.
Stacy's took a little bit longer.
So when I finished with mine, I jumped on to the table and started helping her.
That's when we went to beast mode.
Coming down to the end.
Just keep cooking.
We're still in this, cherie.
I know we got to go fast.
Get them right the first time.
We are the comeback kids.
60 each.
How you doing, all right?
Just concentrate.
Oh, my God, you got this.
My hands are freaking shaking.
You can do this.
Make the last one beautiful.
Let's go.
They just left.
And they have their bags.
We have to get our backpacks.
Wow, you're celebrating.
Kerri and Stacy, you are team number seven.
Yeah!
Here she comes.
I know, I'm working on it.
Thank you.
They just left.
Where are you, Phil?
That was honestly one of the worst feelings.
They're freaking clowns.
Whoo!
Jump on that mat.
David and cherie, you're team number eight.
Yes!
Oh, man.
Yes, sir!
You are team number nine.
Thank you.
Just make them flat like this.
No, you go, go, go.
Judge?
Oh, man.
We got to push through.
Please, please, please.
Come on, finish.
We don't quit.
Are we good?
Let's go.
Let's go this way.
Get our backpacks.
Come on, come on.
They forgot their bags.
Come on.
Come on, quicker.
This way.
Two more.
Oh, my gosh.
Is he here?
Where is he?
He's here somewhere.
Is he over here anywhere?
Where is hell is he?
Let's just go around by the cars.
We've got to run.
Where did they go?
Where is he?
Judge?
Please, please, please.
Come on, Joey!
I think he's over there.
Ow!
Sorry.
Come on, Joey!
Joey fitness and Danny -- oh, my God.
You are team number 10.
Oh, my gosh!
You know how close that was?
We come from behind.
That's our motto now, I guess.
We don't give up.
There he is, maiya.
I see him.
They were right here this whole time.
Misa and maiya, I'm sorry to tell you that you are the
last team to arrive and you have been eliminated from the race.
You were standing right there.
We didn't see you at all.
We were looking for you, Phil.
We wanted to find you.
We've never had that happen before where a team has
been that close to the mat where another team managed to overtake
them like that.
I can't believe we made this mistake.
I just can't believe it.
It's just really, really frustrating.
It's like when you're really focused and you want it that
bad, it's literally tunnel vision.
I couldn't see anything besides a few feet in front of me.
You're scanning and you just -- we had so much fight in us.
It's just so surreal that we made such a huge mistake that
cost us $1 million basically.
I think she needs a hug.
I know.
You tried really, really hard.
It's just beyond disappointing that we're going to go out like this.
We've proven that we had a lot of heart.
But it's just the hardest thing knowing that sometimes that's not enough.
Stay tuned for an exclusive look at the upcoming season.
This season on "the amazing race" -- exotic destinations.
Oh, my gosh!
This is insane.
Frustrating challenges.
Mark, come on, man!
Ow, ow!
Dang it!
And explosive confrontations.
All you've been doing is talking crap about me this whole entire race.
You're driving me insane.
Silence is golden.
Then why don't you shut the up.
Which team has what it takes?
To win "the amazing race."
"The amazing race" is supposed to be fun and good.