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The hockey brothers are in third but not by much. They all have a stunned reaction to the prospect of meeting the President but they should know better than to be fooled by now. I mean you go from a dude dressed up as Dr. Jekyll to the President of the United States, really? It’s not going to be the actual president. But let them live in ignorant bliss. Actually, Super Republican Max doesn’t seem too enthused about the idea of meeting Obama as you would expect but he says he respects the office and that the majority of people voted for him. I don’t think he believes a word he just said. If The Amazing Race was produced by Mark Burnett, then I wouldn't be surprised if the teams are meeting the dude that Burnett used to play Satan in his Bible miniseries.

The newlyweds get in the cab and instruct the drive to go the address provided (1100 Penn Ave.), whereas the other two teams point their drivers to the White House itself (1600 Penn Ave.). This flub could be all that Max & Katie need to keep the lead to victory.

Keeping with the rouse, a “secret service agent” greets Max & Katie and ushers them into the location. Meanwhile up the block, the moms are dropped at 1600. Bates & Anthony, on the other hand, have realized their minor flub and are dropped off at 1100.

The reality of the charade doesn’t set in to Max & Katie even after they are walked through what looks like a food court to a photo store, where they have the picture taken. Their new photo is then superimposed on an image with the President. The clue on the back of the photo instructs them to proceed to the marked car parked at the Tidal Basin. Knock three times on the back window to get a briefcase with their next clue. The newlyweds are off.

While they leave, Mona & Beth’s White House dreams are dashed by a guard that points them to the actual 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. You would hope that these ladies would've realized that the address wasn’t for the actual White House (1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is pretty famous). They should be ashamed of themselves and be taxed without having representation in the U.S. Congress. Oh wait, if they were D.C. residents, they already would be.

Bates & Anthony have gone through the motions of meeting the "president" and are now heading to the Tidal Basin just before Mona & Beth have arrived.

Max & Katie are at the marked car and get the clue. It’s a Roadblock and a Switchback to the Spy Games task. The team member has to say a certain phrase to a correct agent out of the 50 walking the perimeter of the Tidal Basin, who will give them a specific reply. Then they will have to use their memory to crack the code on the case. The code is the order they finished in New Zealand, Indonesia and Vietnam. This is a nice twist on the usual recall Roadblock teams face at the finish. I really don’t know how any of these teams will perform on this task. Each team will have their own phrase and combination, it seems.

Max is the chosen one for his team even though his memory is not as good as Katie’s. The phrase he is saying is “Where can I get a good half smoke with chili?” Before he starts, Team Slapshot is there and Bates is on Roadblock duty for the brothers. His phrase is “I did not dress warm enough for this weather.”

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