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Nov 2024
59m 37s

“I WALKED ACROSS JAPAN”

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A caller talks about what inspired him to walk across all of Japan, how he executed it, the people he met on his journey, and what he gained from it overall (besides getting shredded.)

Then a final caller speaks about how his fracturing friend group has ignited some existential dread that he may fix by going to Alaska.

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