Okay, maybe we didn’t finish in the place that we wanted to, but we didn’t finish in last place in any leg and have to go through a “non-elimination leg” and so on. But looking back at it as a whole, I guess I’m satisfied.
It still is frustrating, not that we didn’t win, but leg-by-leg we could have moved up to the top of the pack. He told me that we made it the entire race and ran a great race. I wished that the race would have ended in Taiwan. I called him up on Saturday and told him that I didn’t want to watch this final show. We both had a big party together in Chicago for the Taiwan leg and had a great time. JC: So did you honestly surprise yourselves with how far you got on the race? NF: You should have been inside using your Blackberry or working with robots. So you learned a lot and I don’t see that happening now with young people.
So you were doing a lot of outdoor activities and helping your dad build a fence and so on and so forth. I never saw television until I was in high school. I think it’s more than just because you are 70.ĭJ: Right, but what I’m saying is years ago, depending on your family of course, you learned to do a lot of things. I think your personality has a lot to do with it, since you have lots of hobbies and you enjoy fixing things and working with your hands. NF: I don’t think it’s simply a case of you being old and that’s why you are a jack of all trades. You did repairs, you camped out, you had to do all of this stuff because you had no money. And because I am this old, in the 40s and 50s you had to do a lot of stuff yourself.
When you have been around that long, you have experienced so many different things. How did you become such a jack of all trades?ĭJ: I will be 70 this year. Don, it seemed like you had experience with everything from bricklaying to mining to gutting fish even. Aside from TK’s little blunder in India, really all the groups did a good job getting the best flights leg to leg, and it wasn’t too much of an advantage. That was pretty much all there was to it. The first person to the airport, the first person to make reservations, got the best flight. My grandfather thought it would be an advantage as well. I thought it might be an advantage and we got a lot of questions before we went on the race like “how are you going to use this to your advantage?”, but I really didn’t know. As far as the show, traveling was always an interest of mine that kinda related to why I wanted to become a pilot. I pursued that in college and once I got out of college I got an airline job. NF: Well since I was a kid I always wanted to fly. How did you get into that and was that an advantage for you on the race? Nick, a lot of people may not remember that you are actually a pilot. My little brothers don’t call him Don, though. But I called my dad by his first name growing up and my other set of grandparents, I call them by their first names as well. I guess we have more of a friendly relationship. Nick, on the show you always called your grandfather “Don” instead of grandfather or some other name. You had to be 21, so I just kinda put it in the back of my mind and when I was 21, I was thinking “who would I want to be on with?” and he passed through my mind, and immediately I thought it would be a great idea. It was the first season of the show and I was only 17. NF: I saw the show and I didn’t think of him right away. Was there any reason why you wanted to team with your grandfather? I saw about 10 minutes of the show and it was the only reality show that I had seen that I thought would be a great thing to go on and would be an amazing experience. JC: But it was your idea to go on the show?
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But he is a big reality TV fan and he watched the show quite a bit. NF: Yeah, my grandfather was a fan, but I was actually the one who had the idea of doing the show because I saw it in passing and thought it would be a really fun time. First off, were you both fans of The Amazing Race before you got on the show? I had the chance to talk to them both about their experiences on the show including whether or not older people can win this race or not? Here is what they had to say… Still at almost 70 years old, Donald Jerousek, became the oldest person to make it this far in the race. But they came up a little short in the end and finished in third place. Grandfather and grandson, Donald Jerousek and Nicolas Fulks, made it all the way to the finale of The Amazing Race 12.
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