The Gaymazing Race

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  BONUS EPISODE - The Gaymazing Hacks w/ Guy Branum 28.05.2026 25min

  Hacks writer, producer and all around awesome person, Guy Branum joins us for an insider's debrief about the show's "D'Amazing Race" episode. Plus, we get into the most beautifully lesbionic "Montecito" ep, which Guy co-wrote. 
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  BONUS INTERVIEW w/ Izzy and Paige! 17.12.2025 1j 3min

  Nicole and Karen have an epic post-race exit interview with Team LezBoss, Izzy and Paige. Get some inside scoop and all the sapphic love!
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  Ep. 73: Inevitable in NYC: The Amazing Race S38 Finale 15.12.2025 1j 2min

  Karen regales Nicole with stories from the LIVE Amazing Race S38 finale at Berry park, while Nicole tells Karen what actually happened in the episode that started with the end of the road for our beloved Team LezBoss (Izzy and Paige), and culminated in the inevitable victory of Jas and Jag, who won 6 legs along the way.  We also get into how meaningful it is to see the self-dubbed "Turbanators" win the race in NY, since The Amazing Race began in 2001, and Sikh Americans were targeted with misrecognition and suspicion after 9/11.
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  Ep. 72: "Izzy is Very Talented With Her Hands" in Paris 08.12.2025 42min

  The final four Amazing Race teams descend on Paris and we are reminded repeatedly that the U.S. was once  a democracy worthy of gifts from allies like the Statue of Liberty. At the Moulin Rouge, everyone must can-can in gendered outfits constituting what Nicole calls a "hate crime" on our gender non-conforming Team LezzBoss. The two judges at the Braille Institute steal the show with their coffee breaks, as everything seemingly boils down to slow & steady vs. fast hands on Braille typing machines. The final three will be determined by a scramble across the city of lights  for tri-color puzzle pieces. Will our last Gaymazing team survive to compete in the final?
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  Ep. 71: "I'm a Little Bushy Here, I think" in Milano 02.12.2025 56min

  The final 5 teams of the The Amazing Race make their way to Milan, where they're all struck by the revelation that all but one team–Izzy and Paige, aka Team LezBoss– has a Big Brother winner. In Survivor-like fashion, we see a MEDIC on screen as Adam from the Brothers Keffiyeh suffers a scary plunge in his blood sugar. Jas and Jag continue to coast, while Izzy and Paige use their eye for detail and therapized perspective on life to finish with their highest placement yet! Karen returns from Puerto Rico and has a lot of women's studies professoring on her mind as she and Nicole catch up on the feminist politics of the show.   
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  Ep. 70: Lesbian Retirement Plan in Athens 25.11.2025 58min

  The giant has been slayed this week in a SHOCKING turn of events in Greece. We've got Sisyphus (aka a caveman), the Greek alphabet, women helping women (sometimes), and a real shake up in the order of things! Nicole and cartoonist, illustrator and Jeopardy champion guest cohost Ajuan Mance  talk about all of this while Karen is away at an academic conference. Stay tuned!
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  Ep. 69: "Worried You're Becoming a Vegetarian" in Bucharest 18.11.2025 58min

  The Amazing Race teams descend on Bucharest, where they encounter a harrassy sinister chicken as they harvest Christ's eggs in a big city park. All Express Passes have to be used up on this leg, as Eric and Tucker, and Jas and Jag continue to vie for the top two spots, with Kyland and Taylor trying to play spoilers. Team LezzBoss, Izzy and Paige find religion when they are blessed with a PAN FLUTE challenge at the detour.We are gifted with lesbian jazz-scatting on a public transportation platform. Adam, from the Brothers Keffiyeh, is running on fumes and needs to eat something before crashing out. And all teams have to make mixed street meat kabobs (Mici, in the vein of Lule or Kofte) before the pit stop, and we wonder what kind. 
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  Ep. 68: "Non-Gentleman's Agreement" in Romania 10.11.2025 1j 14min

  The consequences of running with the "Trainwreck" alliance come home to roost with team Sissy my Sissy, as The Amazing Race makes its way to Bucharest, Romania from Split, Croatia: Joseph & Adam nab the crucial last ticket on the first flight away from Natalie and Stephanie! Paige takes a 13,000 foot skydive roadblock for Team LezzBoss to spare Izzy the angst, and nearly all the teams make shit bricks at the detour in their bid  to move on to the next leg. Tragically, the talented Negrotti sisters are eliminated in this episode. NOOOOOOO! But Nat and Steph came on to TGR to talk about it, and so much more…YAYYYYYYYY!!!!!
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  Ep. 67: Ston Butch Blues in Croatia 03.11.2025 51min

  Are team LezzBoss getting the villain edit as the weeks wear on, while Jas and Jag are getting the lovable multifaceted hero edit? This week of The Amazing Race moves fast with lots of self-driving and a detour that makes our teams choose between hauling salt, or gathering oysters. We learn all about Kristene and Rubina's sisterly bond forged through trauma, as they do their race "for their mama." Izzy is seen working her frustrations out on a wheelbarrow that she ultimately apologizes to, while Taylor too lets out a yawp of frustration at a navigation and q&a challenge. 
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  Ep. 66: Sisterhood is Powerful in Dubrovnik 29.10.2025 53min

  This episode of The Amazing Race moved us to tears as dastardly U-Turns,and  a controversial "gentleman's agreement" led to three all-female teams competing to stay alive at the end of this leg in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Just when we were starting to feel for Jas and Jag after they struggled to hail taxis last week, they decide to U-Turn team LezBoss, while the Brothers Keffiyeh, Joseph and Adam pick on our short Pinay KWEENS, Kristene and Rubina. A glorious tuxedo cat plays the role of Greek chorus at the monkfish filet challenge, and Izzy lets the double birds fly in a barn burning episode with feminist flair and despair.
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  Ep. 65: Bathhouse Kings and False Bottoms in Budapest 21.10.2025 49min

  The Amazing Race heads to Budapest, where teams have the option of taking a direct sleeper train from Prague that arrives an hour later, or enduring three transfers to land an hour earlier. Which would YOU choose? Team Sissy-My-Sissy proves they can thrive without the Trainwreck alliance, and Izzy and Paige offer the realest lesbian bathing suit representation we've ever seen on TV. We're profoundly upset by taxis passing up Jas and Jag bc of their appearance as (in their own words) "turbanators." Plus, a clown gets overheated after being joyfully tackled by the Brothers Keffiyeh who required 135 attempts to complete a juggling challenge.
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  Ep. 64: Foam Party + Strap and Plow in Kutna Hora 13.10.2025 1j 27min

  THEEEEE Izzy and Paige join Karen as guest-hosts this episode, while Nicole is off in the Pacific Northwest causing trouble. We recap the episode together from their insider's perspective on what it felt like to run this leg, while reveling in all the gaymazing moments yielded by resident beer expert Stephanie, and Kristene of the 1-shot goal at hockey. Plus, we get a candid take on how Izzy and Paige feel about the Trainwreck alliance and the strategy behind the Driver's Seat twist (or as we like to call it at TGR, the Knee Deep in the Passenger Seat strategy). This is a fun, super-sized episode! Video will also be available on our YouTube channel. 
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  Ep. 63: Swiping Right for HRNKY PRNKY in Prague 06.10.2025 50min

  The teams dive into some old-school Amazing Race travel (by train) from the Netherlands to Prague. At the top of the pack, Jas and Jag (the self-dubbed "turbanators") ally with the Brothers Keffiyeh, Joseph and Adam, and team Sister-my-Sister / Huju (aka hug-jump), Natalie and Stephanie. Team Orange, Kristene and Rubina sound like they're speaking Klingon at the tavern crest-matching challenge, and Team Lesbos, aka LEZBOSS, Izzy and Paige tell us their love story, complete with photos taken in a U-Haul. 
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  Ep. 62: "We're Doin' it For the Queers" 29.09.2025 1j 1min

  We're back covering season 38 of The Amazing Race, which is filled with Big Brother contestants and GAYS! Phil greets teams in the "cradle of democracy," as they're collectively tasked with human bowling, creating cheese pyramids and color-coordinating gerber daisies, the flowers Karen calls "90s lesbian coded." We LOVE Izzy and Paige, who look like they're already part of our friend group (Thanks for inviting us to the S38 Hollywood Premiere Party)! We also have our eyes on the core lady-to-lady teams who finished near the top at this week's pit stop, including Nicole's early fan-fic faves, Kristene and Rubina (hi Pinay sisters!). We're also obsessed with Natalie and Stephane, the team we're calling "sister-my-sister," who "huju," or "hug jump" their way through the opening episode. SAD NEWS: we are no longer a part of the elimination station junket, but we'll be bringing in some of this season's teams by other means. 
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  Ultimatum: Queer Love S2E3 - Magan Moans Sadly 10.07.2025 1j 10min
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  Ultimatum: Queer Love S2E2 - "They F****** 'Til The Room Stank" 04.07.2025 1j 36min

  Creator of the Ultimatum Fantasy League Dani Wassel, and raconteur, writer and performer Amanda-Faye Jimenez join Karen and Nicole to process everything from "The Choice" to "Ultimatum Day." We discuss a range of topics from trial spouse criteria, to dommy mommy issues, to sexual loopholes and "good old fashioned tribadism." Happy 4th of July!
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  Ultimatum: Queer Love S2E1 - Butterflies and Cockroaches 28.06.2025 1j 10min

  Surprise! TGR returns with 3 special bonus episodes on season 2 of THE ULTIMATUM: QUEER LOVE. Karen and Nicole gather queer experts, friends of the pod and Ultimatum enthusiasts to join them in astute, if also sometimes raw and raunchy assessments of the couplings, uncouplings and potential throuplings of Netflix's messiest queer dating show. This week: Greta La Fleur and Poulomi Saha join us to introduce all the couples, haircuts, trial spouses and more leading up to "The Choice." 
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  Ep. 61: Elimination Station for the S37 Amazing Race Finale! 26.05.2025 1j 40min

  Join us for some intense and candid Elimination Station interviews with the final 4 teams, Josiah and Alyssa, Jonathan and Ana, Han and Holden and Jack and Carson. So much gaymazing processing, truth talking and big love! Follow our IG @gaymazingrace for updates on footage taken at the watch party :)  
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  Ep. 59 & 60: "Shout Out to All My Lisbons" / Queer Little Weirdos 20.05.2025 1j 27min

    The Amazing Race reaches its breathtaking end, and we dive into all the Gaymazingness the final legs in Portugal and Miami have to offer. We're left with a cliffhanger at the end of the penultimate episode, in which team ToH and the Soccersexuals compete for the last spot in the finale. In the finale, we see teams face their greatest fears while trying to achieve their greatest hopes. Have we reached peak Gaymazing from this most beloved reality franchise? What protocols of therapy and calling in has The Amazing Race brought to us this season?   
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  Ep. 58: Our Strategy is to Make it Pretty in Strasbourg 12.05.2025 58min

  This was a tough episode of The Amazing Race for the contestants and us. The teams joust head-to-head, which brings up a lot of masc issues with the str8 guys, before consuming eight varieties of French soft, semi soft and hard cheeses on an empty stomach, followed by running up the stairs of a cathedral. Team Tragedy of Heterosexuality (Jonathan and Ana) are having a ROUGH leg, as Jonathan won't stop berating Ana for her every move, even though (maybe because?) he was bested at the joust by Carson. Team What About Bob (Han and Holden) give us Winnicottian lessons on what's "good enough" to stay in the race. The Gaymers (Jack and Carson) rightly proclaim "The race is not the place to work out your control issues." Sadly this leg ends with the saddest of outcomes, because our beautiful, handsome, shining knights of Las Vegas, Cirque du so Gay (Mark and Brett) meet their bitter end in the pinot gris fields of France.