The Gaymazing Race

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. 

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!

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" wi...

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...

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 an...

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!

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...

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 br...

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."...

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...

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 profound...

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 P...

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, an...

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...

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!

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...

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 :)  

  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 re...

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. T eam Tragedy of Heterosexuality (Jonathan and Ana) are having a ROUGH leg, as Jonathan won't...

We've reached leg 9 of The Amazing Race, and all of the teams are excited by the old world charm and "verticality" of Napoli, Italy–and it's the first time TAR has visited this destination. Mark is "gagged" to be there, and we learn more about his and Brett's backstory as godpoppas and donors to their lesbian BFF neighbors in Las Vegas. J onathan and Ana have their best detour yet and work well to...

The Amazing Race continues in Sofia, Bulgaria, and we wonder: which TAR intern had to book the dungeon on Peer Space for the fire-walking Express Pass challenge? Nicole thinks this episode in the "A"-range for its gay score when all of our straight guy competitors take tremendous joy dancing in the water with circles of local men,, as the teams have to dive "Like a Prayer"-style to fetch an ornate...

The Amazing Race teams face their first self-drive in Bulgaria, as well as another double U-turn. Our Gaymers end up lost beyond all hope, it seems, after struggling with navigation lagging nearly three hours behind everyone else. This leaves teams What About Bob (Han and Holden) and the Basic Bros (Nick and Mike) vulnerable to the  U-turn, which is exactly what Erika and Melinda do to the boys. A...

We've reached the halfway point of The Amazing Race, and the teams are in Dubai for some SATC2-coded adventures, along with two roadblocks, a fast forward and lots of diving. We learn that Han has a boyfriend (sad) after she says "YES, CHEF" during a tea challenge, but where the Lorde taketh, they also giveth, and we get a few Gaymazing moments (perhaps unintentionally) courtesy of Holden. Our Gay...

Nicole and Karen get into the gayest episode of The Amazing Race this season, as Cirque du So Gay (Mark and Brett), and The Gaymers (Jack and Carson) both wind up on top–but who tops whom between them? Meanwhile, the tragedy of heterosexuality plays out as two of the remaining three straight couples face the dreaded double U-Turn. Karen, who is based in NY until the end of the season made her way...