Host Phil Keoghan also weighs in on the new twists.
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The cast of ‘The Amazing Race’ season 37.Kit Karzen/CBS
So I can do three pops per show.
It gets expensive if I do too many of those.
That’s something we’ve been talking about for a while.

‘Amazing Race’ season 37 host Phil Keoghan in Hong Kong.Kit Karzen/CBS
So there’s a lot of really good strategy involved with it.
What is it like for you having a double elimination on the very first leg?
Yeah, it’s the hardest thing.

‘Amazing Race’ season 37 host Phil Keoghan.Kit Karzen/CBS
That’s really tough to do and to execute.
You want people to go long.
So Murphy’s Law.
People say to me sometimes with the non-elimination legs Oh, you guys must just make it up.
And I’m like, You have no idea.
You have no idea how impossible that is to do.