So, if you don't disclose, you could put your team at risk when a challenge for eating nut encrusted meat with a boot of beer comes up.

I guess the upshot is, if you can say there is ANYTHING you 100% wouldn't do during the race, you're not getting on the show. (Realizing in the moment that you can't do whatever is different.)

There's a difference too, between "I'm deathly afraid of heights" and "If I eat nuts/wheat/shellfish I WILL LITERALLY DIE." The first is the kind of do-the-thing-you-think-you-can't-do drama the show thrives on, the second would get CBS sued.

Yeah, that's what I meant -- I could fool myself into thinking I could bungee jump, but that's different from something you literally could not do.

Yeah, I thought it was a little odd to have a required drinking task, especially a lot of alcohol. I am such a lightweight I would have been seriously wasted after that amount of beer. But whatevs. It was funny to see the dad so happy to see the task.

Since I'm just getting into the swing of it, I'm just now feeling the love of the cowboys. They are seriously awesome and funny and smart.

I'm glad last episode's McBickersons assessed what was going on and tried to make adjustments. And the brother on the challenge with her was really sweet with her genuine fear.

There were the recovery male models a couple of seasons ago... I can't recall any alcohol-related challenges in their season.

Dudes -- Top Model starts on Wednesday. I don't think I really want to watch it. But I'm sure I will....

LEON!

I accidentally posted this in bureau--

I'm watching ABDC randomly at the moment, and it is so not grabbing me. I saw an episode the other week, of some kind of regional finals or something. The episode I'm watching now is Lada Gaga...and the crews are not great for me (OK, just the three I've seen, earlier ones in the ep may have been awesome--the one did mention they've been in the bottom the last two weeks!)

I watched the Hooters "Undercover Boss" and it made me so angry. Ooooooooh. I wanted to smack people.

How could you not watch new ANTM? Andre Leon Talley in a turban and a caftan. That is all.

Oh also, Undercover Boss is excellent reality TV crack. So manipulative and yet soooo satisfying. The episode with the Hooters dude was rage inducing, but all of the other ones have been cheap tears, cheese-fests. Did you see it this past Sunday? The 7-11 driver from Kazakhstan who kept talking all that "only in America/What a country!" blah blah like some modern day Yakov Smirnoff? And then the boss gives him and his wife, who only see each other two days a week because he works nights and she works days but that lets them be like lovers, an all expenses paid vacation so they can spend enough time togehter to get sick of each other like a good American pair should do? O. Em. Gee. I admit that I kind of love this creepy, fake show.

How could you not watch new ANTM? Andre Leon Talley in a turban and a caftan. That is all.

Is he a judge this time around? I'm trying to stay away from ANTM...