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Aug 2022
38 m

The Car's the Tsar

TONY
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World Leaders as cars; that’s the premise of this edition of The Car-Chum Podcast.  Important questions will be answered: what car would Joe Biden be…if he were a car, what comes after A6 and is there such a thing as a Mini Clubvan?  

The Car-Chum podcast is back with a bang after it’s summer holidays.  

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