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Jul 2022
34m 9s

The Hitchhikers

Ballen Studios
About this episode

Today’s podcast features three separate, unique stories that share a theme: they are stories about hitchhiking. The audio from these stories has been pulled from my YouTube channel, which is just called MrBallen, and has been remastered for today's podcast.

Story names, previews & links to original YouTube videos:

  • Story 1 -- “The Hitchhiker" -- The most unlikely, and unfortunate, sequence of events (Original YouTube link -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rucBo9HjMuU)
  • Story 2 -- "That Didn't Age Well" -- A passenger on a plane sees something on a mountain, as they fly over it (Original YouTube link -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxmNm9vUgik)
  • Story 3 -- "Five Hacks" -- A brutal cautionary tale for anyone thinking about hitchhiking (Original YouTube link -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiUo8biy0Ok)


For 100s more stories like these, check out my YouTube channel just called "MrBallen" -- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallen

If you want to reach out to me, contact me on Instagram, Twitter or any other major social media platform, my username on all of them is @MrBallen

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