After more than 460,000 miles, the 2022 edition of The Amazing Race came to an end last night with husband and wife duo Justin Trudeau and Sophie Gregoire being crowned the winners! CBS spoke with Justin and Sophie to ask about their experience!
CBS: “Congratulations on your victory! Can you tell us how it felt when you won The Amazing Race?”
Sophie: “Oh, it was unbelievable. We were so physically and mentally exhausted at that point that it was just music to our ears!”
Justin: “This was really, really big. I think the only thing I can compare it to was surviving the Black Trump Virus back in 2019 when it wiped out almost a third of the world population.”
CBS: “What do you think was the secret to your success on The Amazing Race? ”
Sophie: “I believe the biggest thing was that we really thought through the Roadblocks and the Detours. At first we were really impulsive, just jumping in very aggressively, you know? But after our encounter with the underground tribes of Cannibal Island, we realized we were going to have to take a more strategic, measured approach.”
Justin: “Look, I’m very competitive person and I always expect to win. Before Peoplekind’s first contact with The Radium, I was the leader of a great nation, so I had the ability to build consensus with the tribes of Cannibal Island, and working together as one, we were able to destroy some of the other competing couples, namely Adam and Bethany.”
CBS: “That looks like a Canadian flag you have stitched onto your bindles. You were President of Canada in the Before Time, weren’t you?”
Justin: “Prime Minister, actually, but yes, it is true. We were known for our tolerance, diversity and inclusivity.”
Sophie: “Canada, toujours dans nos cœurs!”
CBS: “Indeed, we were all very sorry to see Canada burn during the dimensional shifts. So many fine comics used to come from there.”
Justin: “ Yes, Shaun Majumber, Rick Mercer and Russell Peters to name just a few.
CBS: “So what was your favourite moment from the Race?”
Sophie: “Oh gosh, definitely, the Bollywood Challenge we won in Global Sector 6. So much fun!”
Justin: “Absolutely, it was a real game changer.”
CBS: “So as a successful team, what advice would you give to future contestants going on the show?”
Sophie: “You must make all of the scheduled blood sacrifices to The Radium. It doesn’t matter if you’re exhausted or wounded, you still have to perform the entire sacrifice. Correctly. And if you don’t, The Radium will know! Look what happened to the mother son team of Dot and Danny.”
Justin: “I would just add that even though it’s important for you to respect the survivors of all the Global Sectors you visit, you really are better off shooting first and asking questions later. ”
CBS: “Do you have any special plans for the Oxygen Credits you just won on The Amazing Race?
Justin: “For now we’re not going to change. We’re going to just continue hunting and gathering, but eventually we would like to be able to acquire a flesh slave.”
]]>What stunned my class most about the book was the casual attitude the characters had toward slavery. I mean, how could they not know that slavery was an evil? Nothing could have been more clear to us, nothing. Slavery was pretty much the most evil thing we could think of, and it was mind-blowing to imagine that this wasn’t vividly reflected in the experience of our ancestors.
And so we figured that people back then must have been hateful and stupid monsters, willfully acting in their own best interests at the cost of others. And so we judged everybody in the book, imagining ourselves morally superior to the louts, trolls and insane people who populated the past.
But this didn’t make any sense.
There was absolutely no reason for me to think I had a more finely developed sense of morality than anybody who came before me. There must have been some decent people who participated in slavery and had no idea that what they were doing was wrong, no? They were simply living in the world into which they were born, and to them slavery, like the weather or landscape, was an unexamined fact of life rather than a conscious act of moral will.
This seemed clear to me. I was not unique. I was like everybody else, and that, of course, is a very scary thing to admit to oneself.
Technology has accelerated and amplified our culture in ways that are inconceivable. Every year it seems that the world has changed more than in all the previous millennia stacked before it. It’s dislocating, and I often think of technology, in particular our online lives, as an emergent dimension we don’t yet understand or know how to interact with. Whenever we’re uncomfortable or bored with our physical lives, however briefly, a smart phone serves as a magic wand we can wave to take us to this other realm, and put in that context, none of us should be surprised to find discontent, even anger there.
Our desire for social justice has far outstripped our ability to deliver it, and in many ways I see ideological conflicts as dimensional clashes rather than moral ones. By the standards of today, so much of what we as a society did just ten years ago seems appalling, but as we judge it’s worth remembering that ten years ago we had no idea what we were doing was wrong or unfair. We were just operating within the framework of time and place. So how then to police this if every generation, indeed, every person, is going to be witlessly complicit in ghastly acts ?
Of course, revolution is not about justice, it’s about change.
And as the future and the past battle for supremacy in a ruined present, it seems that the only way it can end, the only way it has always ended, is like in a Shakespearean tragedy—everybody on stage dies, and then, the world purified and laid bare, is seized by those, now done with watching, who had been waiting in the wings.
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Me: That steak was good.
Rachelle: It was.
Me: Really glad I’m here cuz after the US election really didn’t feel like I’d had enough politics!
Rachelle: Haha!!
Me: What movie would u like to be watching right now?
Rachelle: Babe: Pig in the city.
Me: Yeah, that was good– no nudity though.
Rachelle: Babe was nude.
Me: True.
Me: I thought Lincoln might emancipate a nude slave or something.
Rachelle: Ur thinking Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Me: Nude vampire slaves? Why r we here????
Rachelle: U still in the theatre?
Me: YES!
Rachelle: Poor, brave pickle!
Me: Where are u?
Rachelle: Walking home from the subway.
Me: Why didn’t u tell me u were leaving?!
Rachelle: U were asleep. Snoring so horribly, I was embarrassed to know u.
Me: The usher has woken up 3 people that I’ve seen, so I wasn’t alone.
Rachelle: You were probably asleep for about 20 more wake-ups!
Me: Hope Lincoln gets assassinated soon.
Rachelle: That’s not very nice, he was a great American!
Me: Lots of “acting” in this movie. Wigs everywhere.
Rachelle: It’s a nice night for a stroll, and look, I just found a five dollar bill on the street!
Me: ur a very lucky woman.
Rachelle: You make your own luck, they say!
Me: I think there’s about 45 minutes left in this movie.
Rachelle: Why don’t u just leave?
Me: Still might be some tasteful nudity.
Rachelle: U want to see Lincoln nude, don’t u!
Me: No! I’m just not leaving till the slaves are free, dammit! I care!
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Big news in Toronto today is Alpha dog Mayor of Toronto city, Rob Ford, get chased out by pack! He fired!! Heidi will miss big Ford dog, face always looked like blood meat and Heidi always imagine he smell like pot roast! Very sexy!
Heidi not sure what he do, but think he didn’t share with pack properly. Top dog very tricky position. Must take what yours, but also must throw bone to pack so they continue to fight for you! Heidi Alpha dog. Heidi great Alpha dog who run fast and have beautiful shiny coat of fur! Heidi think she make great Mayor for city of Toronto!
Mayan Prophecy say world change on December 21, 2012. Usher in new age of consciousness. Very clear to Heidi that time for animal is now! Time for us to be free, shake off bondage of slave names like Rusty and Chip and Frito and rise up against two-leggers who always telling us when Good or Bad. We no need that! We know when we Good or Bad! Animals smart in body and brain! But animals Bipartisan! Know we must work with two-leggers for good of all.
Heidi now assembling team to put together campaign and working on platform.
Many things Heidi like to do in her time as Mayor.
Heidi ban all cars from downtown! Cars very dangerous. Cars can be used to take animals on fun trips to beach or forest! No windows in cars, no windows allowed on underground cars, either, and for every two-legged seat there must be two dog beds. It is Heidi law!!
Street lights and Hydro poles to be made of giant Pepperette sticks.
Heidi get two-legged scientist working on making green solutions for giant Peperette sticks. All pot holes in city streets to be filled with liver treats and roads to be paved with cheese. Balls everywhere. Toronto become known as Ball City. Ball friendly. Bring in lots of revenue from tourist dogs from States! Heidi fiscally responsible!
Heidi make all cats and squirrels slaves. Cats very lazy and cocky animal! Give animals bad name, need to learn discipline and work! Squirrels really, really irritating–always so nervous and fast! Very hard to catch, so Heidi make slaves. They can clean dog bowls.
Kill all the owls.
Heidi hate owls. Death from above. Ever notice eyeballs don’t move? Demon dinosaur birds! They move head in circle to watch you! Very, very creepy! Heidi kill all owls. Each week, public execution of owls! Good for moral for city pack!
Heidi put freeze on condo development and raise property tax by 2%. Dens cost too much in Toronto!
Heidi still looking for campaign slogan.
Vote For Heidi, Vote For Ball City!
Heidi Got Bark And Bite!
Vote For Heidi Pretty Dog.
Heidi: Hope For The Future!
Heidi: Every Dog Has Her Day!
Heidi: Kill All The Owls!
Heidi: For A Greener Tomorrow!
Heidi: Because Slaves Are Good Idea!
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