Amazing Race Exclusive Interview: Lyn & Karlyn

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IGN TV: Obviously a lot of time was spent on the show showing the rivalry between you guys and Dustin & Kandice. Where did that animosity between the teams begin for you guys?

Lyn: I honestly don't have a pinpoint bottom where the animosity started with the beauty queens. My thought behind the whole situation was, they discounted our ability to stay in the race early on, as did probably most of the teams. And so because there was a vying to be the first female team in the final three -- and of course if you're the first female team in the final three, you possibly could be the first female team to win -- and so because that was out there, and the first female team was eliminated in leg two, you know, it was like, "Okay, we can definitely get rid of them," because no one saw us as a threat. And so with Jamie and Kellie leaving early on, and they didn't see us a threat, they basically knew that they were good racers. And I give that to them, they are good racers. But they counted themselves in the final three, discounting us. But I think, like Karlyn said, her one-liner on one of those episodes was, "We're like roaches." We just wouldn't die! We wouldn't go away. And every time they turned around, we were still hanging in there. And so I think that fueled the animosity. "How dare they not go away?" They expected the competition from James & Tyler and the Erwins and Godwins and those kind of folks; the folks who looked like they should have been competition. But we stayed in there, so I think once they couldn't easily get rid of us, it really became whatever, however cutthroat they had to be to get rid of us. And I think that's really what the animosity was. I don't think it had anything to do with personalities, because we interacted very limitedly.

IGN TV: Karlyn, you especially had some pretty harsh words for Dustin & Kandice after they Yielded you, but weren't you going to do the same thing to them?

Karlyn: Yeah, exactly. And at the time, it was just a lot of things said out of anger. But I was more upset about the fact that we had gotten there first. So the first time in the entire race we're here, we're the first team, and the Yield is somewhere where we can't get to it. And I said, that very night, I know we're gonna have to run for it, and I know they're gonna beat us trying to get to the Yield. So it was just kind of like… that was the part that irritated me. But the fact that Dustin & Kandice did it, that really irritated me, because I'm thinking, "Why wouldn't you go a little bit faster and get one of these teams at the top out? Why would you pick us?" Because you keep saying how weak we are, but yet you keep trying to get us out.

IGN TV: You guys had some tense moments near the end, particularly around the time of the camel meat roadblock. How would you deal with those arguments?

Lyn: Karlyn and I have known each other since we were 14, so we've known each other over half our lives. And she hasn't changed from who she was when I met her, and I haven't changed from when she met me. And so it may not work very well for other folks, but basically, what we just end up doing generally is ignoring the other person until they cool down some. And I know how to push her enough to get her to continue to do what she needs to do, but not push her so much that she shuts down completely. And the same way with me. I think that a lot of where the explosion came in was where you have to think out of the context of where that was. We were literally at four days from being back home. That's how far it was. It didn't look like much in terms of Sunday evening TV time, but we were at five and a half weeks of constant go-go-go-go-go, away from our families and with extreme fatigue. We were at the end of a double leg. And so to be at all of that, it definitely was just a melting point, you know? I think both our emotions were high. The fact that it was, okay, we've got to get these girls out of here, now, because we had been disappointed that they weren't eliminated the leg before. So there was a lot of emotion going. And so I think it was just the same way it is with any other relationship, when you have a whole lot of stress, or even at work. You're high strung about whatever the issue is and somebody says anything, and it sets you off. And I think that's really where we were.

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