Longtime best friends Mike Cole and Jeff Little have travelled the world together doing some pretty amazing things and they hope their next adventure will be as contestants on the CTV adventure reality show – The Amazing Race Canada.
Cole, 41, lives in 100 Mile House and Little, 43, calls Yarmouth, Nova Scotia home and both work in sales in the auto industry.
Considering the distance between them, the pair gets together fairly regularly but it's always at some exotic location elsewhere on the globe.
They've used their travels, friendship and engaging personalities as the basis for an audition video they sent in to the show and also posted on YouTube, which Cole hopes will impress the show's producers.
After slightly more than three weeks, it's had more than 2,200 views on YouTube which Cole hopes will impress the show's producers.
It was Little's idea to audition and he wrote the script for the video and also did the editing. It goes back and forth between the two as they promote themselves with humour and ease. In the background of Cole's segments, there is a panoramic view of 100 Mile House.
The Amazing Race Canada show will have several teams of two racing between different locations throughout Canada, performing physical and mental challenges that involve surprises and twists of plot.
After the adventures they've already been through together, Cole says he thinks they can handle it.
"We've done an elephant ride and river-boating in Thailand and zip-lining in Costa Rica."
He anticipates the show will receive many applications and their chances of being accepted may be slim, however, it doesn't spoil the fun he's had giving it a try.
"The town is pretty keen on it and it's neat to talk about. If you don't make the first step, it will never happen."
Cole's wife Angela notes that if selected, they will be an absolutely hilarious pair to watch.
"They're so funny together and they've had some pretty crazy adventures. They're always trying to outdo each other."
This will be the inaugural season for The Amazing Race Canada and the show will be accepting applications until April 1 online at www.o.canada.com/2012/12/20/the-amazing-race-canada.
View the pair's audition video on the Internet at www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kcbiDmf7fyY.
