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see terms apply. Hello

1:18

and welcome to the Abroad in Japan podcast.

1:20

Probably the best way of learning about life

1:22

in Japan without actually being in Japan. I'm

1:24

your host Chris Broderwood joined as always by

1:26

England's top Japan enthusiast, Mr. Pete Dolson himself,

1:28

Pete Halladell. How are you doing?

1:30

Going on? Chris, I've

1:32

been watching a lot of

1:35

men reviewing expensive batteries on the

1:38

internet this week. I'm obsessed by

1:40

turning my house into a big

1:43

battery festival that can be turned. Even

1:45

though I never lose power, the

1:47

power here is pretty good in... Personally,

1:51

I'm a man of great power. Yeah,

1:53

I just said this said first you get

1:56

the power, then you get everything else. But

1:58

I'm big. I'm basically watching

2:00

a lot of the off-griders talk

2:03

about massive mobile battery set-ups

2:05

and I'm just a bit concerned that I don't have

2:07

enough massive batteries in my life. I

2:09

need more batteries. You do. Remember

2:12

with great power comes great responsibility Pete. Use

2:15

that power wisely. Enough of the word.

2:17

Speaking of power, I got 3 million

2:19

subscribers in it on YouTube. Hey. Hey.

2:23

Hello Chris. It means

2:25

nothing really. Cakes in the boss. It's

2:28

good because whenever people used to meet me they always

2:30

go, well how many subscribers have you got? And

2:33

you'd be like, oh, a little bit over 2, almost 3, 2.76. Well

2:38

you can't be like, oh I have a

2:40

2.85 million. You

2:43

have to round it up like that. Yeah. I

2:45

mean the road between 1 and 2 and 2,

2:47

well 0 and 1 massive, 1 and 2 probably

2:49

less, but then

2:52

2 and 3. It

2:55

has to be slow progress because that is a

2:57

kind of a clodly amount of people. I

3:00

must say though, the biggest one is from 0 to 100,000. I

3:04

think once you've got 100,000 it's a lot

3:06

easier to get views and build up, right?

3:09

Right. And then for a million it's

3:11

kind of like, you know. But I think getting 0

3:13

to 100,000 is the hardest bit and I think that

3:15

took me the longest. Although it did

3:17

take a while to get from 2 to 3 million

3:19

and I don't really care about it. I'm

3:21

never like, I need subscribers. I die. I'm

3:24

just, I need, I just want to make the videos

3:26

as good as I can and if you ever get into

3:28

YouTube and if you do this, just focus

3:30

on making the videos good and you'll naturally

3:32

build an audience of people who appreciate the

3:34

things that you make of that is way

3:36

more important. I have lots of... And

3:39

the money. And the money. Well yeah,

3:41

but like you know, the money is

3:43

better if the views are good, no doubt about that and you

3:45

can do bigger things, right? But like,

3:47

you know, there's plenty of channels that are bigger

3:50

than abroad Japan subscriber wise but we

3:52

get the most consistent viewership and we

3:54

have the most amazing audience as far

3:56

as I'm concerned. You don't

3:58

sound convinced Pete. I

4:01

just think that sometimes you could do with taking

4:04

a top off a bit more. Give the people

4:06

what they want. Why do that? Connor.

4:09

Connor can just be an office in a

4:11

bathtub. Yeah, that's right. Give the

4:13

people what they want. Get Connor the top off. And

4:16

speaking of Connor, it's essentially Connor the

4:19

month because not only is there a

4:21

Con-A-Wacky weekend that's out now, not

4:23

only is the Cyclo-Thon 2 video out,

4:26

one year late or one year finally,

4:29

but also I'm doing another Cyclo-Thon which you guys

4:31

might know about. Connor and

4:33

I are cycling probably right now as of

4:35

the launch of this episode, cycling for 14

4:37

days from Yamaguchi all the way to Tokyo

4:39

with an average, I think about 80 to

4:42

100 kilometres per day. And

4:45

I don't know why I said yes. God

4:47

forbid. I don't know why you said yes, especially

4:50

because you've wronged Connor recently with the old

4:52

tent thing. So he's going to be absolutely

4:54

rinsing you for all your work sunshine. You're

4:57

in big trouble. Yeah, I

4:59

really hope he's not got anything. He's like up his sleeve.

5:01

I mean, the cycle is going to be tough. There's no

5:03

doubt about that. Like the end of the last one, I

5:06

don't know publicly how much

5:09

people know, but like the end of the

5:11

last cycle from like we

5:13

were both sort of ruined. And we, I

5:15

think we enjoyed it, but there

5:17

was also a lot of like problems. The weather

5:19

was really bad. The route was pretty bland. The

5:21

mountains were relentless. I did enjoy

5:23

it so much. And I don't think Connor did either.

5:26

And it was all a bit like, we sort of

5:28

finished it and it was a thing. We

5:30

didn't talk about it. Although very proud that we were able to

5:32

raise $500,000 for the Immune Deficiency Foundation,

5:35

the same charity we're fundraising for this time.

5:38

And that was really cool. But it sort of

5:41

broke us a little bit. And I think we

5:43

were naive to go from one cycle of thumb,

5:45

really successfully in Hokkaido, to doing another one in

5:47

quick succession down in Kije so fast. Really, we

5:49

should have waited a bit longer. But regardless, the

5:52

video, I've just finished working on it with Paul,

5:54

who edited it and filmed it. I did a

5:56

great job with it. And I did all

5:58

the voiceover for it. And it's actually not that bad. bad watching back

6:00

over it there was some really nice moments from

6:02

our trip around Kyushu but the

6:05

journey was relentless and when you're cycling in

6:07

the rain you really do just want to

6:09

die it's really thoroughly unplanned.

6:12

It's chilly, it's sweaty,

6:14

it's just all because you're wearing a lot

6:16

of water puss as well and that really

6:19

can keep your water in and out. I

6:21

remember it started raining and my shoes got

6:23

soaked in about six minutes and we had

6:25

like eight nine hours ahead and my feet

6:28

were wet the whole day and wet

6:30

feet. It's something absolutely...

6:33

Sorry about that. When me and you

6:36

did the cycle in Kyoto for

6:38

a very short period of time I was like

6:40

this is alright we can

6:42

yuck it up for the camera but this

6:44

is exhausting. We

6:47

drove around in a circle in Kyoto lost because we

6:49

didn't have a proper map of Oracle. The

6:52

map got wet. It did

6:54

get wet. Paper fucking paper. Paper map

6:56

in the rain my god. I'm looking

6:59

forward to this. We've got some guests joining.

7:02

There's Pete's joining and he's actually cycling. It's

7:04

time for I think two days. Neski's coming.

7:06

We've got Khan, I've got Koshite's fame and

7:08

we've got Pewdiepie of YouTube

7:10

fame. So there's a range of

7:12

interesting guests joining to spice things up a

7:14

bit but you know the last cycle

7:16

at the end of the eight or nine days of

7:19

cycling we were both like fuck

7:21

this or we're done and to think that

7:23

this time we'll get to eight days and

7:25

then we've essentially got to do it all

7:27

over again. It is a little bit worrying

7:30

not gonna lie and just to make things

7:32

worse Connor has like booked out Tokyo Tower.

7:36

Like you do and we're just

7:38

gonna cycle up there in front of a hundred 200

7:40

people at the finish line so it's

7:43

gonna be... No that's cool. It's daunting. It's

7:45

cool but like what if I'm like ruined and

7:47

I'm like whoa whoa I'm

7:50

like peddling in this white crowd of

7:52

people like... I mean

7:54

you'll fucking stink we

7:56

know you'll fucking think because it's starting to heat up

7:58

a little bit in Japan. But

8:00

yeah, I mean you may

8:02

just suck it off completely because you're sad inside and

8:05

go in a taxi and then drive in through it

8:07

with a taxi. And everyone, yes, I've

8:09

been cycling all this way. It's

8:12

going to be a terrifying ending. I

8:14

get a bit nervous of doing

8:16

public events, right, with hundreds of people. As

8:18

he would probably as a normal human

8:20

being. And the idea of

8:23

doing that while destroyed on a bicycle,

8:25

yeah, it's worrying. I'm

8:27

not going to lie, but it promises to be

8:29

the event of the year if all

8:31

goes well. And yeah, it should be, I imagine

8:34

this episode is actually coming out after the cycle's underway. So

8:36

check it out if you haven't already, guys. Over

8:39

on Connor's Twitch, which I've shouted out

8:41

everywhere. And there'll be a video out

8:43

on abroad in Japan of the cycle a few weeks

8:45

after it's done. And this time it is actually coming

8:47

out quickly. It's not like the second one where we

8:49

dragged our heels. This is

8:51

coming out quick, so check it out. And

8:53

now, our story. Our story from Turner

8:55

from Texas who says, Hello, Corpulink Chris

8:58

and Petunia Pete, a long time listener,

9:00

former Japan resident. I recently returned to

9:02

Japan for a two week holiday to

9:04

revisit the onset of Kagoshima and take

9:07

advantage of the strawberry season. Just

9:09

picturing Turner sitting in a hot tub.

9:12

There's a pile of strawberries. Live in

9:15

the drink. On my

9:17

second to last day, I flew into Narita

9:19

Airport and caught the JR Express train to

9:21

Shinagawa. A few minutes into the

9:23

journey, into my horror, I realized that I

9:25

left my US passport, buying the machine when

9:27

I was purchasing a limited express ticket. Oh

9:29

dear, the worst thing you can leave behind.

9:32

What was worse, the express train I

9:34

was about to board made no stops

9:36

until Tokyo Station a whole hour away.

9:39

Thankfully, I was able to call

9:41

into Narita Airport's lost and found on the

9:43

train. And luckily, the staff picked up my

9:45

passport and confirmed that it wasn't being used

9:47

for anything nefarious. I love the

9:49

phrasing on that. Don't

9:51

worry, nobody's taking it. Nobody's using

9:54

it. They're stealing your passport and

9:56

committing fraud. However, on my

9:58

return to the airport, more than two hours later, I

10:00

approached the man at the ticket gate and

10:02

found my Japanese, which is usually more than

10:04

sufficient to get around, bumbling and incoherent. I

10:06

eventually managed to eke out saying my name

10:09

and retrieve my passport so I could finally

10:11

check into my hotel. Have either

10:13

of you been so stressed or flustered by

10:15

a situation in Japan that all your language

10:17

skills just temporarily vanished? It was very odd

10:19

and thought something like that had happened to

10:21

me before. Regards Turner from

10:23

Texas. Pete, tell us about the time

10:25

you got flustered when you left your

10:27

sanity on the bus in

10:30

Nagasaki. In

10:33

Nagasaki when I left my flustered... When

10:35

I was flustered... I'm making this up. Oh

10:38

right, I was gonna say, I thought you were gonna... You don't get

10:40

pingdols from flustered, he flusters you. No,

10:42

I flustered you, I'm the flusterer. Get

10:45

ready to get flustered, cause I'm

10:47

the flusterer and I'm coming at you. Oh,

10:49

good God. I left my, I

10:51

was in Bulgaria over the weekend and I left

10:53

my... Of course you were. Of

10:56

course you were. I left my...

10:58

I'm ticking off Europe, I'm just

11:00

sorting out before, you know, certain

11:03

other countries invade others. I'm having them, I'm having

11:05

them. Fair enough. Soviet,

11:08

Soviet, ex-Soviet ally

11:11

Bulgaria. I

11:13

am very much interested

11:15

in that and yeah, I left my wallets

11:18

in Bulgaria so I'm replacing all my cards

11:20

at the moment. No, you didn't. The

11:23

only issue is, I've got my

11:25

driving license and I am set to

11:27

rent a car in a week's time

11:29

in New York to drive down Philadelphia.

11:31

How did you forget your wallet,

11:33

how did you do it? I don't know where it went,

11:35

I don't know, I don't know if you'll drink, I don't

11:37

know where it went. So

11:40

yeah, I'm a little bit, I'm

11:42

a little bit flustered myself, I've

11:44

flustered myself mate. So

11:46

yeah, I'm hoping against hope that

11:48

the DVL Air, who have so

11:50

far... I fucked me over with

11:52

the old Toyota Century import thing,

11:55

may get off their behinds and

11:57

get me a blummin' driving license.

12:02

Were you safe last year that you forgot your Bulgarian?

12:05

I forgot my Bulgarian. I don't know what the

12:08

Bulgarian is for... It's

12:11

very Russian out that way I suppose isn't it? The

12:13

old Bulgarian. Which is weird because you'd think it would

12:15

be more Turkish because they had all of it for

12:18

a little while didn't they? Anyway,

12:20

so I'm a bit upset. But

12:24

I didn't realise that America did trains.

12:29

I know because you're famous for not doing

12:31

trains Americans, you just don't do them. We're

12:34

never using these for passengers that never

12:36

work. But

12:39

I think the New York to Philadelphia trend might be okay. It's

12:41

only like an hour and a bit. So

12:44

maybe I should just do that until they get a train.

12:46

I don't know. That

12:49

wasn't for me to talk

12:51

about my trip to Bulgaria.

12:53

If you're driving

12:56

in America someone will crash into you with their cyber

12:58

truck and it'll be game over. So

13:00

just stay off those roads man. Chris,

13:04

when you're flustered do you lose your language skills a little bit?

13:08

I did the other day. I can't remember I was out filming

13:11

a video in Hiroshima and I

13:14

met a billionaire guy who I was interviewing. A

13:16

really nice guy who aims like half of Hiroshima.

13:18

Like you do. And

13:21

when my words failed me in the heat of the moment I was

13:23

like why Hiroshima? And

13:26

I just sort of gave up and it was a bit

13:28

annoying and I was a bit disappointed in myself. I

13:31

was sort of saying what are you

13:33

doing in Hiroshima? What

13:38

are you doing? What are you doing

13:40

in Hiroshima mate? You shouldn't

13:42

say that. This

13:45

guy, his name is Matadasan. He's a descendant

13:47

of the Mazda family. And

13:49

he bought a tower overlooking the

13:52

A-bomb Dome in Hiroshima. The

13:54

view is incredible. You've got this

13:56

observation deck looking down literally onto the dome. It's

13:59

right next to it. And it

14:01

feels like you're in the future looking you know

14:03

looking down on the dome it got like

14:05

hit by an atomic bomb And

14:08

you just saw me this like futuristic power It feels like

14:10

you're I felt like I was living in the future because

14:12

all the pictures of the a bomb down you know the

14:14

iconic Hall that got bombed

14:16

in Hiroshima all the photos It's just that and

14:19

then the city leveled and then to suddenly be

14:21

you know looking down on it in the skyscraper It's

14:23

a bit like wow okay. We are in the future

14:27

There's a weird moment. I had But

14:29

I love Hiroshima, and we'll talk about that later on when

14:31

the video comes out But I was a really good trip,

14:33

but I got flustered then and I got

14:36

flustered when I met Ken Watanabe Really

14:38

fucked up big time also. I only slept

14:40

like one hour. I think the night before

14:42

I met Ken Watanabe I

14:45

was excited nervous. I was nervous about

14:47

screwing it up and losing the video

14:50

as opposed to meeting Ken it was more like Meeting

14:53

Ken Watanabe was the biggest deal for

14:55

me at the time And I thought

14:57

if I fuck this up and lose this opportunity I will

15:00

never I will regret it in the rest of my life

15:02

So I was nervous about that right And

15:04

it turned out well, and I aced

15:07

it even if my Japanese was pretty

15:09

bad We got a story this week

15:11

about a bone-breaking record-breaking roller coaster in

15:13

Japan They got shut down

15:15

sadly after breaking all the boats pink

15:18

Tell us about why one of my

15:20

favorite rides at Fuji Q Highland Park

15:22

at the base of Mount Fuji is

15:25

now permanently shutting down Chris

15:28

Fuji Q Highland is a theme park about

15:30

an hour and a half west of downtown

15:32

Tokyo if you like your ride Fuji

15:35

Q has got them in

15:37

spades and there's a there's a roller

15:39

coaster that everybody loves well everybody

15:41

apart from about something right people Called

15:44

the door don't par Don't

15:47

don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't which

15:49

sounds like you're climbing the bit and you know

15:51

I roll across the dumb part of them but

15:54

it's normal. Yeah The

15:56

sound the roller coaster makes like do do do do do

15:58

as it's going. Oh, well, there we go then I mean

16:00

that very childish isn't it? The riders

16:03

notable due to how and how quickly

16:05

it reaches maximum speed of 180km, 111mph

16:07

that is too fast. Instead of having

16:09

the ride pulled

16:13

to a high point and dropped, instead right at the

16:16

very start of the ride a compressed air launch system

16:18

rockets the course of the cars to 180km per hour

16:20

in just two, well one and

16:24

a half seconds basically. Unfortunately between

16:26

December 2020 and August 2021, hang

16:30

on that is right in the middle of Covid, what

16:32

was that? No running. No

16:34

fewer than five Fuji Q visitors

16:37

suffered neck or spine compression

16:39

fractures due to the intense G

16:41

forces riders experienced at the

16:43

rides beginning. The De Dun Pa

16:46

launch sequence is said to subject the body

16:48

to about three, no nearly four Gs that

16:50

a fighter pilot would experience and

16:53

they tried to search for a safety solution.

16:55

After two and a half years of investigation

16:57

they've just decided that you know what maybe

16:59

don't fire people into the sun at that

17:01

speed, probably just slow it down a bit, put

17:03

less air in that compressed air, kind of stuff.

17:06

But it's still got a few other roller coasters

17:08

but this one for now is

17:11

dead to the world and it's a

17:13

real shame for people who love compressed spines.

17:16

I remember that one of the, in Thorpe Park

17:18

in the UK is called Stealth I think and

17:20

he's like magnets to shoot you down. It was

17:22

really fun but I'm not surprised, like if you're

17:24

like in your 40s this is like a recipe

17:26

for bad back, having your back

17:29

in half and that's me right. It's

17:31

like being accelerated at no speed, it's

17:33

like being in the car with Pete

17:35

in his old Fiat 500, Rockton 3,

17:37

North London, terrifying shit, terrifying. Reminds

17:39

me of the Smiler as well, in

17:41

the UK famously a ride literally called

17:44

the Smiler like decapitated some poor girl's

17:46

leg and yeah,

17:48

the irony of the name of the

17:50

incident can't be missed. But

17:53

I was sad that the

17:55

game rid of it, it was a cool

17:57

ride. I loved the sound of da-dum-da-dum-da-dum-da-dum-pa It

18:00

was pretty cool, but the best ride of Fuji-Q is still

18:02

there and it's the The roller

18:04

coaster itself the Fuji coaster is cool the

18:06

one where I took Shala on and she

18:08

had a full-blown panic attack She doesn't like

18:10

roller coasters and for some reason

18:12

she went on because I was like yeah do

18:14

it love go go to Paradise credit and

18:17

she went on it and I think she's a spine She

18:21

she's actually lived to regret it forever

18:23

immortalized swearing at me and calling me

18:25

obscene things on the road But

18:27

Fuji-Q really good part check it out. I

18:29

think it's better than Disney, but maybe not as good

18:32

as I get fast GDA's there We're

18:34

back to the moment guys, the stories comments and questions

18:37

over in the facts machine Wow

18:42

And we're back with the facts machine what do we got this

18:44

week from our listeners mr. Dolls Oh,

18:46

we got a message from Gina from the middle

18:49

of nowhere, Ohio. Hello catastrophe Chris and pandemic Pete

18:51

I'm writing today because my significant other and I

18:53

are taking the big leap and going to Japan

18:56

It's being a life travel abroad. We're gonna take

18:58

our first big a budget of Tokyo Osaka and

19:00

Hakata What I want to ask is what

19:03

your recommendation for finding rear cans on Machia

19:05

without going through Airbnb It would look to

19:07

stay a few nights and something other than

19:09

usual hotel Please suggest some your

19:12

stories have brought so much excitement in it to me

19:14

to tell it for my life for years thanks

19:16

for giving bringing some Japan to the remote reaches

19:18

of the northern US Chris, what is the difference

19:20

between a rear

19:23

cannon and Machia Machia Matias

19:26

is like a wooden townhouse right collect you finding

19:28

Kato colors our so an old-style house I know

19:31

they're my favorite thing when I get a character.

19:33

I always try to stay one They can be

19:35

a little bit pricey, but if you shop around

19:38

you can find you know, you're a

19:40

nice one But they're just so you

19:42

go in all natural materials words and

19:44

slide doors lies just beautiful No,

19:48

no, it's not Okay,

19:51

no, it's not Essex. It's

19:53

great. There's this bit's beautiful. No, it's

19:55

not minimal. I suppose minimal

19:57

guarantee Get

20:00

him a nice best off. Put that on the front of the hotel.

20:03

Stop talking about that best off, I'll kill

20:05

you. And we, I recommend going

20:08

on like, literally I just go on booking.com

20:10

because there's lots of Japanese websites like Rakuten

20:12

which has the best range of places but

20:15

the website is like indecipherable and incomprehensible

20:17

and it's just shit as

20:19

much as I use it. Booking.com's very good,

20:22

hotels.com, they're both pretty decent for getting the

20:24

job done. And while

20:26

like five years ago a lot of places weren't

20:28

on booking.com and hotels.com, now they

20:30

are, now they realise that that's the place

20:32

I like to be and not just Rakuten

20:35

travel. So yeah, that's my recommendation to you

20:37

Gina. Best of luck having an amazing time.

20:39

And I will say book quite far ahead

20:41

from that year because there aren't that many

20:43

right in Kyoto. They're not hotels, they're like

20:46

renovate houses. There's not that many that are

20:48

good so you know, book as far ahead

20:50

as you can. Tom

20:52

from New York says, hello Griswapri, three

20:55

friends and I are travelling to Japan in

20:57

late May and I've been riding solo the

20:59

last few days of the trip. Do you

21:01

have any recommendations or in and around Tokyo,

21:03

sorry, for a solo traveller? I'm thinking about

21:05

spending a day in Yokohama and possibly Kamakura.

21:07

And Ebisu, thank you. Tom from New York.

21:10

Ebisu's a weird choice. Ain't nothing in Ebisu

21:12

except a Shake Shack. Nothing

21:14

in Ebisu, oh they don't

21:17

mind it. Overpriced burgers that admittedly

21:19

taste quite like it. Yokohama, perfect

21:21

day trip. Kamakura, I mean

21:23

I went there for a video last

21:25

November, the 14 days in Japan video. Also

21:28

went there with Shala recently for a

21:30

little stroll. No climbers involved and it was

21:32

really nice. Kamakura, it's

21:35

like the quickest way to get to

21:37

the countryside of Tokyo and it's about

21:39

what, an hour or 40 minutes from

21:42

central Tokyo. You've got the Buddha, you've

21:44

got a lot of temples, you've got

21:46

lots of little houses and streams. Noah's

21:48

best, so far as I know. Yeah,

21:50

Kamakura, stunning man. Any recommendations,

21:53

Pete? I like Kamakura

21:55

but I was only there for like a

21:57

couple of days. It's an old pop chill

21:59

bar that used to be a bank. That's

22:02

what I remember from Kamakura. Oh of

22:04

course he did. No history or culture

22:06

for Pete, just a cocktail bar that

22:08

was once a bank. But it's very

22:11

small and intimate but it's incredibly famous

22:13

and I've just never understood why. The

22:16

amount of pages that have said they've been to this

22:18

bloody bar bank, the bank

22:21

bar, it can't be true

22:23

because it's too small. Too weak.

22:26

There you go Tom. You're going to go to

22:28

the cocktail bank bar. That sounds quite good actually.

22:30

I love a good cocktail bar in a bank.

22:32

And the last question is from Luke who says,

22:34

Ali Chris and Pete, I'll be visiting Japan for

22:37

the second time in October with my lovely wife.

22:39

We plan on taking the ferry from Hiroshima to

22:41

Matsuyama, spending a few days there, renting a car

22:44

to drive the Shimodami Kaido through the islands. I know

22:46

Shimodami Kaido is often talked about as one of the

22:48

greatest bike rides in the world but we're too old

22:51

and out of shape to be able to do that

22:53

cycling. Do you think it would still be worth it

22:55

doing it by car? Regards Luke from

22:57

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22:59

nice sounding village slash town. I

23:03

actually think if you can't cycle it,

23:06

do drive it. It's still a beautiful route right?

23:09

And you can still pull over intermittently

23:11

at different points, roadside stops and enjoy

23:14

the scenery. Take in all the bridges

23:16

and explore the island. I

23:19

do that. Or

23:22

e-bikes, if you're not

23:25

completely unfit, just get an e-bike and you've

23:27

got to pedal a little bit but the

23:29

bike does some of the work for you.

23:31

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23:35

little drag, get yourself a little car and just tootle

23:37

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23:40

you said just get yourself some drugs. Some

23:42

EPR, get your blood thinned. Just get your

23:47

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23:49

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26:43

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26:47

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26:49

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26:55

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27:02

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27:04

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