I actually thought Azaria and Kendekea would eventually fall victim to being too overconfident. Someone should have let them know that every obstacle can't be crossed with a damn algebra equation.
Yeah, apparently they were both engineers or something. Which is why this clip is pretty damned funny:
http://www.cbs.com/innertube/player.php?cat=167406&vid=&format=&auto=1
Then click on Episode 6 -> Two Brainiacs On a Boat --and prepare to laugh your ass off.
That might have cost them the elimination, since they weren't too far behind the second-to-last team.......
On a side note regarding them, and maybe others noticed this too... They had one of the absolute creepiest brother/sister relationships I've ever seen featured on TV. At first I found myself making jokes about it, but it went past joking to downright weird at times. Just something I noticed. Maybe the producers saw it and figured it could generate some controversy.
Yeah, it was weird. They had that really ugly blow-up at the airport in Lithuania (I think) that gave me the creeps, too. On the other hand, one of the web clips on CBS' site shows them taking their helpful ticket agent (in Africa, not Lithuania
) out to lunch, so they sometimes showed a nicer side.
You can clearly hear Azaria ask for "economy" tickets on the show, but they must have been so agitated, insisting on the quickest flights to Croatia, that the ticket agent gave them business-class and they neglected to read their boarding passes. (I think I'd have noticed the much-higher price.
) Tough way to lose a race, when you'd placed first 4 out of 6 times before then.
There's a lot of interesting background stuff in those clips and outtakes, too. More info about the war and how it affected Dubrovnik, footage from the 'elimination station' (a beautiful mansion in Portugal) where teams go after they're eliminated, etc.
Azaria and Hendekia don't actually go there immediately (they phone the teams there with the news that they're gone). Apparently, they have to run some 'decoy legs' so that any observers in future locations (Italy, India, Alaska) can't tell exactly which teams are left. Tricky!
I wouldn't say I know them particularly well, but they've helped me out in regards to DragonCon programming. Kynt is always good for helping drum up promotion, and also knows how to get into "the DragonCon mindset." Anybody who independently tries to talk the Birthday Massacre into applying to play gets points from me for certain. Glad to see him and Vyxsin on TV.
I liked your phone tale of when you tried to contact Kynt while he was out of country and got his roommate.
"He's not here...it's nothing bad, but I can't talk about it."
And you immediately guessed that he was on
Survivor, which is amazingly close...and a lot closer than
I would ever have guessed.