- We have a crazy announcement.
Drum roll, please.
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- We are on Season 33 of "The Amazing Race".
- Wow! (upbeat music)
It premieres on CBS on January 5th.
That's a Wednesday.
It's very soon. - It's very s...
- I'm sorry, I'm talking so much with my hands.
"The Amazing Race" is an institution.
We've been fans of it for a long time.
It's always kind of been on our bucket list, right?
- Yeah, so 11 teams of two race around the world
doing really physically and mentally demanding tasks,
all in hopes of winning $1 million.
And it premieres January 5th on CBS.
- Also, I can't believe we've had to keep this
a secret from you for so long.
- Okay, we've already filmed it
and we can't tell you what happened.
- What we can tell you is that, like all things,
when Kim got the call to be on the Race,
she sort of overthought it a bit,
she had a lot of emotions.
- [Kim] I don't overthink things.
- You sometimes overthink things.
You were like, this is on my bucket list,
but I'm gonna miss my kids.
But $1 million! How will we get our work done?
We can see the world. What am I gonna wear?
I need to go shopping right now
and go online and buy a lot of stuff.
- That is somewhat true, (Penn laughing)
that I did overthink everything.
Honestly, I knew that we would be
the old couple on the show.
- I wasn't sure.
- [Both] But we were.
- I mean... - We were...
The cast has been announced. - Yeah.
- You can go look. - Average age.
- They're lovely, lovely,
lifelong friends. - Young.
- Love them.
- Young. - Young.
- Young, so...
- A lot of them had never heard of "Punky Brewster".
- I was just gonna say. - Yip.
- I was overthinking it and Penn's like,
babe, I got this. I used to be an Eagle Scout.
I've got an enormous reach. I can break dance.
I can karaoke. It's gonna be great, it's gonna be fine.
- Because that's how you win the show.
- Just break dancing and karaoke.
- That's mostly true, that's 75% true.
- We asked our kids, we were like,
do you think we should do this?
- Because it was a month away.
- A month... - Yeah.
- You're gone for a month without a form of communication.
No cell phone. No nothing.
Which sometimes you're like, oh, that sounds ideal.
But that's so hard.
So our daughter said, at the time she was like,
are you just gonna remember a random month in February?
Or are you gonna remember going on "The Amazing Race"?
- And that was it. - That was it.
- That was it. So we went.
We went in February of 2020, late February of 2020.
Does anyone remember what happened late February of 2020?
- We started the race and then we're in another country
that I can't tell you.
And we turn on the news and they're like,
breaking news, everything across the world is shut down.
Airports are closing. Schools are closing.
Good luck finding toilet paper. Goodbye.
I'll be doing Zoom from my bedroom from now on.
(Penn laughing)
So we were in another country
as the world was shutting down.
- We didn't think it was gonna come back.
They called us several months later
and said that they were gonna start it.
I gotta tell you, CBS came up
with the most comprehensive safety plan,
and they've told us this,
that they've ever done for any show to make sure that,
you know, in the middle of a pandemic,
we were gonna be able to finish this.
- We talked to all the producers before we went back
because honestly we felt like it would be irresponsible
if we were just gallivanting across the globe
and there's still a pandemic raging.
- Because let's be honest, that's what the show is mostly.
It's a lot of gallivanting. - A lot of gallivanting.
- There's a lot of gallivanting going on.
- Have you seen a person gallivant?
Anyway, so they're testing protocol
and the bubble they kept us in.
The race had just been re-imagined.
Still very entertaining.
I can't tell you anything other than that.
- Here's what we can tell you.
There are gonna be some parts, if you watch it,
where you're gonna be like,
- Wow. - You guys are
not smart. - Morons.
- Yeah, and some other times you might be like,
wow, they're kinda cool, but...
- They're not gonna show those.
They're gonna edit the smart parts out
and they're gonna put all the moron stuff on, right?
- I'm very nervous...
- Yeah, I know, we're gonna look crazy.
- how this is all gonna play out on the television screen.
- But it plays out January 5th.
Get ready to see some stupid stuff.
- Or great stuff. We don't know.
We are so excited to be able to tell you this, finally.
- Yeah.
- We have had to keep this secret for so long.
We're the old couple
- We're the old couple.
The people that we met are some lovely young people.
- They are young.
- We didn't realize how old we were.
- They call us mom and dad.
- That's our name. - Mom and dad.
- Isn't that great? - That's great.
- We are the old...
And we're not old.
- Compared to them we're super old.
- We are.
- Bye.