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The second plane’s teams are now at the Roadblock and the "petrified" Joey volunteers, as does the much calmer Max.

At the first scorpion hole, Bates’ Bushman gets the digging under way but then Bates has to take over and start scooping out dirt with his hand. Overall, the hockey player is pretty giddy about the task and rather pleased with the super-pissed off looking scorpion they find and get into his jar. Caroline, on the other hand, is reacting like a normal person and is hesitant to just stick her hand into the freshly dug hole.

As Max and Joey start digging, the first of the last place teams arrives and it’s Mona & Beth. Mona assumes this Roadblock for the Sock ‘er Moms.

Bates & Anthony’s next clue directs them to drive their trio of Bushmen down the road they just came in on.

Shockingly, when the Mullets arrive at the Roadblock, Wynona finally accepts one. Granted, she accepts it with the most trepidation possible and because Chuck has already done five of them, but she’s actually doing one. And Pam is up for her team.

Caroline is the next one done and it seems that part of the task is that while the bushman catches the scorpion, the racer has to at least touch the animal, along with digging with their hands. Here’s a fun fact that I will never ever try to prove as a myth: You can apparently calm a scorpion by putting it in your mouth and sucking on it. Several Bushmen do it with such a result.

So far out of the Roadblock, we have Team Slapshot in the lead with Caroline & Jen behind them in second and Max and Mona finished with the task but still needing to rejoin their respective teammates.

As Meghan ponders where Joey is since Mona & Beth have now passed them up, we cut to Joey about to wet himself at the prospect of having to touch the scorpion. Sounds like a good time for a commercial. Please oh please let one of the ads be for Depends.

My pleading goes unfulfilled, but Joey does overcome his fear that the scorpion would rock him like a hurricane. You didn’t really think that the entire challenge wouldn’t result in at least one reference to the '80s hair band, did you?

Bates & Anthony are now at the Detour, which is a choice between Fire and Fowl. For Fire, they have to go with their Bushmen to start a fire using two sticks, zebra manure and grass. Then use the fire they start to light the elder’s pipe to get the clue. For Fowl, they have to use the necessary materials to construct a snare trap used to catch a guinea fowl. It looks like it uses several sticks and twine. When they show that the trap works properly, they get their clue. The brothers choose Fire and the singers are next up, electing for Fire as well.

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