Mongol Rally Team Faces Unexpected Border Denial in Moldova Adventure

Mongol Rally Team Faces Unexpected Border Denial in Moldova Adventure

In episode two of the Mongol Rally, a team driving a retired school bus named Big Bertha faces denied entry at the Moldova border. The rally challenges teams to drive 5,000 miles from Europe to Asia in tiny cars, but this team opted for a larger vehicle. After shipping the bus from the US to Germany and starting in Prague, they encounter an unexpected border issue in Moldova.

Denied Entry at The Moldova Border (Mongol Rally Ep. 2). | Transcript:

Welcome to episode two of our biggest adventure ever. Every year around a 100 teams set off to drive over 5,000 miles from Europe to Asia in tiny cars that were never designed to make it that far. But we needed something a little bigger for our team of nine. Meet Big Bertha. We bought this retired school bus off a government auction website in Colorado. We're just bus owners now. Road tripped it all the way across the US. Shipped it across the Atlantic to Germany. then finally drove it to the start line in Prague. Then the real adventure began.

I cannot believe this moment is finally here. It might not turn on again. But so there's no official route for the Mongol Rally and it's not a race. I don't know where we're going. I don't know when we're going to get there. I don't know what country we're going to today. Just a massive challenge to make it to the finish line party in 6 weeks and have as much fun as possible along the way. But it's completely unsupported, which means once you leave the start line, you're on your own to navigate unpredictable border crossings. I cannot believe. So, where do how do we get to Kazakhstan?

Fix anything that breaks and whatever else that will definitely go wrong along the way. One of our goals on this trip was to visit as many countries as possible. And now I'm questioning if that's the right goal. The crazy people who decided to join us on this adventure are Nate's brother Dusty and his wife Sarah. the whole Notch family who we've done some of our craziest adventures with, including riding this ridiculous three-seater bike all the way across the US a couple years ago, and our best friend Charlie from Australia, who we've already traveled to 14 countries with.

Okay, so wait, I'm driving on the right hand side of the road. So far, the first four days of the rally have been awesome. Oh my god, the traffic. And in this episode, we drive the road Top Gear called the best driving road in the world. This is the best road We were lucky enough to see not one but eight Romanian brown bears. Oh shoot. And then the first real drama of the trip begins when we attempt to cross the border between Romania and Malddova.

They took me and ran. I don't know. This isn't going well. I think our chances of getting into Malddova have gone down to 1%. Good morning. I can't believe it's day four. Kind of feels like I've been doing this my whole life. I was not expecting this campground to be such a local experience. The owner is amazing. He built this barn and he was just so friendly. He loved talking to everyone and he shared his homemade liquor with everyone. But my favorite part is it's kind of like a farmers market. There are two different

baskets where local farmers have brought their homemade jam, their homemade pickles. There were handpicked berries and you can buy whatever you want. So this morning we got some farm fresh eggs and I think it's blueberry jam. I love Romania. So today has the chance to be one of the biggest highlights of the Mongol Rally. We are currently parked at the bottom of the Transfar Garrison Road, which if you Google best road in Europe, this is it. There was a whole Top Gear episode about it. That's the most amazing road I've ever seen. It's supposed to be incredibly beautiful, like the super windy road that goes up through the mountains. And Romania is home to the largest brown bear population in all of Europe. And

this is the place to see the bears. So, if we're lucky, we're going to drive an iconic mountain road, see bears, and camp at Dracula's Castle tonight. We should probably get on the road. We washed some clothes last night. It was very moist here. Rained yesterday, so nothing dried. This is our solution. Be hung us a little line. I don't think we're going to be able to see any of the views on the mountain road. Now, it looks like nine people have been living in a bus together, but it smells good.

I don't see anything. This is the only real servicing we've done. I think this is the oil. Have we ever taken this out before? No, this is the first time we've checked the oil. But we are about to go up into the mountains of Romania where apparently there's wild bears everywhere. Be a bad place to break down the vehicle. I can't believe how long that is. Is the engine in the back of the bus? What's that? Let's see. It's all the way at full. That's good. We're not losing oil.

Running great. Yeah. Almost to the road. Woo. Okay, we're officially on the bear road. It is windy and steep and bumpy. Really feels like an adventure. Come on, bears. Bear. Where is it? It's straight ahead. Oh, it just ducked back in. Oh no. Can you see? He's moving. He's like follow this way. He's moving. Do we know how good their hearing is? Cuz I love that we're always I actually don't think it's that good, but their smell is really good.

Ah, yeah. He can smell our laundry. Oh, look at his little ears. Wow. He's got such awesome shoulders. It's tiny. That's a baby. Wow. I hope he comes on the hood. He's coming. Wow. Oh, look at those claws. Oh, she just sat down. Oh my gosh. Oh, look at his yawn. He doesn't seem bothered. [screaming] He's having a nap right now. Like you could go pet him. Don't you just want to go like scratch? I want to lay on his back.

Yeah. Love it. If it wasn't so hot, this would be it. So, we just drove by this cute little gravel road that's having a market. I feel like my fruit and veg intake the last four days has been not so great. And I just know that like someone right down the road picked these fresh off the farm. The blueberries growing vines off the bush. It's not the most stable. We just started a hike in the area of Romania with the second most amount of bears, which feels kind of weird, especially because we just saw it on the side of the road, turned around, and drove about 5 seconds. Now we're outside

in the wilderness, but everyone's doing it. I think we'll be okay. They're not very aggressive. That's what I'm telling myself. Nate's in his natural habitat. He can't help but trail run. Woo! Does feel good to move the legs after 7 hours in the car yesterday. And uh we're definitely not eating the healthiest on this trip. So the more calories we can burn, the better. Totally worth the hike. This is the largest stepped waterfall in all of Romania, and it's just under 600 ft tall from top to bottom. So we're only seeing like the first little section. It keeps going a long way from here.

DID IT COLD? WHAT DO YOU THINK? AFTERWARDS, I leaned against the waterfall. So, I was just like in it and I couldn't breathe. Like, I was like I've never experienced that before. It was awesome. Thank you. This is lunch. We've hiked a really long way. We're back from our hike. Absolutely starving. And we walked by this little shop that's selling bees. Plus, it feels like Romanian quesadilla. There is a Romanian woman in there making them from scratch. She's making the dough, weighing the dough, rolling them up. And this is super hot and fresh.

Oh my god. It's mashed potatoes inside of the most delicious bread I've ever had. That's the salted cheese. Oh my gosh, it's so hot. Super hot. I can baby murder you if you want. Oh my gosh. Cheese is the move. Uh Evie, Eve, try a bite of this. This bear. No, this is actually You got to try it. It's bear. What? See, he just pointed to it. I think we're about to have a nibble of bear meat. Oh, you're tast like a lot.

Cheers. Be honest. Tastes quite similar to like probably any other salami I've ever had. But I feel way more manly than you. Just little snack for the road. It's so big. Foot long chimney cake. Wow. Like I'm back at the Christmas mark. Keep grab one bite. No, it's going to keep going. I'll have the whole thing ripped out by then. That's exactly what I wanted this video. That's amazing.

This is my favorite country of the rally so far. Okay, we're officially on the road that I don't know how to pronounce. Oh, and it is curvy. Yeah, BUT IT'S AWESOME. OH MY GOD. We've just made it up above tree line and we are about to start the most iconic section of the road. Yay. rallyers. Someone from the rally is on this road, too. It required 6,520 tons of dynamite. Its highest point is 6,000 ft and it features 90 hair pin turns. All of which Dusty has driven completely alone. Nice work, Dusty.

Thank you. All right, we made it to the top and now we head back down the other side. Look at the waterfall. That's where we popped out the other side and then we've just snaked all the way down. I still cannot believe how well the bus has handled everything we've thrown at it. Whoa. Wow. He just sat down, right? That's incredible. [screaming] Oh, shoot. Oh my god. It's crazy. What's happening? This is the coolest moment of my life. Okay. I do feel like I want to put this window up a little bit. He's very close.

Wow. It's got such great Oh, they gonna pounce. Do they pounce? They're so cute. Oh my gosh. Smile, Charlie. They're so cute. We're basically in a safari vehicle. Like there is no better way to drive this road than in a school bus apparently. Oh, baby. it's touching the bus. We can pet it. I can reach out and pet it right now. Look at this one. It's very obvious that people are feeding them out of their cars, which is a little sad, but normally when you see a bear, it wants to run away from you.

And so to be able to get this close has been so cool. Um, I'm sorry. Can you confirm the price again? None of that made a ton of s. I mean, I the father who can't speak English is going to be the one that meets us there, but he can use Google Translate in person, so I think we can at least figure that out a little bit. So, we uh didn't end up camping at Dracula's castle. Turns out we got some bad information on that. Not only was there no camping, but it was also closed by the time we got there, but we could see it sitting up on the hill. And it does have a pretty interesting story. Dracula is a fictional character, but it was based off a real guy known as Vlad the Impaler because he would put

people on spikes. And that was actually his castle. And I slept ever since we left there. So now we've made it about an hour past the castle to a small town called Pessie. Rick and I spent basically the entire time on the phone calling every place on Booking.com trying to find somewhere that we could park the bus. And we think we found a place. Bertha can be a little difficult. She's worth it. She's beautiful. She's sturdy so far. How was your nap? It was so good. Oh, he's here. Lucas, my son, Lucas, your little speaking English. We're in a funny situation. We called the guy to try to book the place and he blocked us so that we couldn't book it on Booking.com at the price that was

online because he wanted us to pay in person in cash at a price that was a bit more than Bookie.com. So, there was some negotiating that just went on and now Nate just rode off in a Mercedes with the owner. Hopefully not getting kidnapped. I'm not quite sure. I think they're going to get cash. Like I know that. Hey, she doesn't like that. He drives fast. We almost killed three people. We've got uh five rooms. We got the keys. We can start moving in. I hope you are satisfied with the rooms and the price I offered you. If you have anything to tell me, let me know.

He Google translated that in the morning at 10:00 a.m. he won't be coming back from the camels. So, but he trusts us. Yes. And we're good people. And we're going to put the camels back in the door. Exactly like we found them. Yes. I think camels translated to keys. Are you sure though? Cuz if they're camels then we should be a bit more careful about them. I just learned alone. Thank you. And he was leaving and I got him mixed up and I was like Santa, which is hello. He's getting in the car.

All right. Home sweet home. It was a lot of effort, but I think it was worth it. This is nice. It's really simple, plain kind of decor. Look at this. I've never wanted to do a cover or a blanket myself either. Full thin sheet to cover yourself in. I'm not being difficult about it. I think it's good value. It's getting late. It's almost 9:00. None of us have eaten. It took way longer than we thought to get into the hotel. Real quick, I want to say a huge thank you to the sponsor of today's video, AG1. For years, Cara has been telling you about how much she loves this product and how we use it every day. But unfortunately, they don't recommend it

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checkout. Good morning, Longo Rally Day 5. Uh, since we last parked the bus, small construction project started. Good morning. Smell a little funny in here. Does it? Yes. Does it actually stinks? It smells really bad. It smells like a wet dog for a party. We closed all the windows to the bus last night so nobody could break in. And we've realized that after 5 days, turns out we don't smell very good.

I'll just wait until day 40. It's going to be bad. Morning. Good morning. How'd you sleep? Great. Morning. So, we're keeping up with some stats on this trip so it doesn't all run together. First, we have a list of where we've slept. So far, we've slept in three different countries. My personal favorite stats are over here. This is how many times we've hit our head on the disco ball. 30 times so far in four days. Over five times a day. And every time somebody hits it, we're like, add a mark to the list. And this is how many times we've filled up with gas. Here we go. And we're off. It is 9:45 in the morning, which is a big deal for this group because uh this is the earliest we've started driving yet. We have a massive drive day because

we're trying to get all the way to the capital of Malddova tonight. Well, we made it a grand total of 5 minutes down the road before we stop for coffee. We have to be one of the least efficient teams on the rally, but I can't imagine anybody's having more fun than us. I see like noisy little lines. This is from the baby bear yesterday. A little bit of mud on the side of the van. A few small scratches here. Oh, I don't want it to come off. Oh, yeah. All right. To Malddova we go. According to Google Maps, it is 7 hours and 10 minutes. ETA 5:30. I'm guessing much closer to 8.

Woo. I've been doing a little research about our bear experience yesterday and learned some pretty disturbing facts. According to the internet, there's an average of roughly 28 brown bear attacks per year in Romania. 30 people have been killed over the last 20 years. Obviously, because people are feeding them, there's trash everywhere. They've been desensitized to humans and that's why they come up to the cars, which is very sad. Also, they think there are about 8,000 to 12,000 bears in the area. But they estimate the country's natural habitats can only sustainably support about 4,000. So, I believe that's why they were serving us their salon yesterday cuz there is a surplus and I

guess they're not protected. So, yeah, that makes yesterday feel a little more scary. Still can't believe we got out and went on A HIKE. THAT was good. She tricked me. Randy, how many magic tricks do you know total? I think I know 10. And how did you learn them all? [clears throat] I don't think the amount of attention that we draw is ever going to get old. Especially in Romania, everyone is so joyful when they see us. Everyone's smiling, honking, taking pictures. Big Bertha is just spreading joy one day at a time.

Hey, look. Corn. Hey, look at THAT CORN. SAME JOKE, SAME CREW, plus Charlie. I feel like for nine people in one car, we've done really well on potty breaks. Like, I thought we were going to have to stop every hour. Yeah, we're nailing it. We really are. We are um dehydrating ourselves in fear that we're going to have to be the one that has to pee. Motoina. Okay, this says that Motorrena Euro 5 is diesel. About every 100 kilometers, the names for the stuff just different.

This is like the annoying and fun part of this trip. Like the further we get into it, things are going to become less and less easy and slightly annoying, but also very interesting. Like if we put gasoline in the bus and it stops working for some reason, that's an example of slightly annoying thing that could happen. Oh, you're that confident. You're going for it. Oh, that said I Googled it. If you don't trust the internet, I mean, I think confirmed by a local. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Close halfway. Somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Eastern Romania. Is there like lunch food in this gas station or

no? I mean, if you like pretzels, Oh dear. Ah, let's go. Yeah. So, hurry. This has been dramatic. We just started to pull away without one of our team members, Eevee, still in the bathroom. And I just got locked in the bathroom and was going to be kidnapped. How many hours? 4 hours and 31 minutes. That's the third horse and carriage that we've seen in Romania today. And it's not like a tourist thing. They feel like farmers, maybe. Just one more reason to love it here. Yeah. So, I made the mistake of just uh looking up the border crossing that we're about to go over. And like anything these days, there's uh a bunch of reviews. I probably shouldn't have read them, but uh as you can expect a border crossing, there's a lot of

negative reviews. So, I've read uh worst border crossing in all of Europe. I read about a guy who intentionally like closes his lane down until you kind of pay him some money and he opens it back up again. I know he's bald, so if we see that guy, we'll probably try to avoid him. And there was a pregnant lady that was quite pregnant and they were more than happy to let her sit there for extra time to do the X-ray scan. I can't imagine any border crossing gets great reviews, but it'll be very interesting to see what happens with our first border crossing into Maldova. A lot of people have the doors open. It doesn't look like anybody's moving anywhere. So far, all the border crossings that

we've done have been within the EU, which is basically just like driving between states in the US. Like there's no checkpoints or anything like that. And now we are leaving the EU and going into Malddova. And we read online that this could be a 1 2 3h hour process. Think the border crossings are only going to get more challenging from here. So this will be good practice. Okay, while we're waiting at the border, I thought I'd whip up some snacks for lunch. We've just snacked all day. So, we've got various forms of vessels like waffles, bread, and tortillas. And we've got Nutella, jelly, and peanut butter.

What a healthy spread. We're actually not sure if we're going into Malddova right now or if we're leaving Romania, but there's a border guard who's going around collecting people's passports and then looking in their car. And if he decides to search this whole van, we might be here for a while. pre- rally. I was not nervous about border crossings at all, but now that we're here, yeah, they could prevent us from going in. They could take the car. We decided to border crossings, Rick and Charlie are going to alternate driving because I think either one of them could talk their way into any country without a passport.

True. Actually, I take all of that back. Can we cut back to when we tried to cross the border in Bosnia when we were with Charlie 10 years ago? It all got a little bit heated with our passport. And then I went to leave and I said, "Thank you for your help." and just started to walk out and then he grabbed me by the arm and the neck and like pulled me back in and slammed the door shut. Did you see that? I saw that. Yeah. And then it was all on and then he's like yelling in Croatian at me. Yeah. I've got really bad PTSD about I don't say a wording right now eating, you know. I'm an anxious eater.

I'm an anxious eater. I can't tell if this dog actually. So, how many of these will we have all up? Seven or eight, probably. Huh? A lot. We did not factor this into our drive. Just uh you don't have any European documents like visas or residence permit? No. The registration documents on your phone. Come here at the window. Okay. They took Nate and Rick. So, I'm pretty sure we're good. The registration on the phone, he would have definitely liked to see a paper copy and I think it would have been a lot

quicker. And now everyone's just getting their photo taken one by one. Just remember when you came into the EU and where you came into. I don't know when or where. Well done driver. Good job, guys. We did it. Where is your I mean, I think we did half of it. An hour and a half later, we have made it out of Romania. The bus search wasn't bad. It just took a long time with uh checking passports, getting photo biometrics. I mean, all told, they were actually very friendly. They came off very serious and stern at the beginning, and by the end, they were loving the bus, taking photos of it. One of our goals on this trip was to visit

as many countries as possible. And now I'm questioning if that's the right goal. Uh we did meet a local Romanian who was waiting behind us. He mentioned that um in order for this next border crossing to go smoothly, we might need to uh have a ride. Are you serious? I like how they put the checkpoint around a blind turn. We're at the Malddovven border. Okay, see how the next step goes. Hello. No, there was a hose a loose like a hose with a hole in it. Yeah, we would like to purchase some. We got We understand we can buy here.

Normally, you should frequently with this uh certificate of title. That one. Is it a registration? I have a registration for the vehicle. And do you have a document or only that certificate of title? We have a document. Yeah, but not on the phone. the cover. It's got the VIN and the license plate and everything on there. Yeah, I know. But it's not according to agreements. Is it possible to print one here? The problem is usually the registration certificates, they have some security elements.

No, in the US it's just a piece of paper. It is just a paper in the US. This is the problem. But even if we had the official one, it's just this. That's all it is. And it doesn't have any stamp at all stamp, you know, just Captain Martin or something. This isn't going well. You will have to go uh to reverse and to punch it somewhere. Then wait to see because they have to check. Yeah. Thank you for your help. Wow. Yeah. Is there anybody back there? He wants me against that back kind of left wall. We might be here a while, guys. He leaves in 15 minutes and he's the only one that speaks English. Who would have thought a printer paper?

I know. Don't they have a printer in there? I think they Oh, he's like, "No, it would have an official stamp or something." I'm like, "There's no official stamps in the US. It's literally a sheet of paper. It's a sheet of paper." Yeah. But I don't know if this is just the game they play. I was going to say, is this something 20 USD can fix? Yeah, exactly. Well, then the other thing that we haven't even talked about is the insurance. That kind of felt like the first hurdle until a bigger hurdle came. So, there's insurance that we were told we could buy here and he said, "No,

normally when you come to the border, you already have insurance." He kind of seemed surprised we didn't have insurance and that seemed like that was going to be a sticking point and then all of a sudden this came up and now he seems to be focusing on this. I would say at this point it's 50/50 whether or not we get into Moldova. He made it seem like less than 50/50 but I'm an optimist so I think 50/50. The good news is if we don't get into Malddova we can still do the rally. Like there are a few countries during the rally where if we don't get in it's just over cuz that's the only way we can go through. Yeah. We just have a lot of exciting stuff planned in Malddova. So, it'll be a massive bummer if we don't

get in, but it won't end the trip. Still waiting. It's a video. Unfortunately, this is not going well. We waited a really long time and then the guys came back out and said, "You're officially denied entrance into the country." Like, you don't have the right documents. There's no way. Look sad. hungry. Yeah. Uh I think our chances of getting into Malddova have gone down to 1%. Oh yeah. Oh no. So the longer version of the story is when we shipped the bus across, we left all of our documents with the shipping company and then they mailed it back to us. At some point in all of that, the physical registration got lost, but we

didn't realize that until we showed up in Germany to pick up the bus. Colorado has an official registration on your phone like in the Colorado app and so we thought that would be fine. Um, and that may be the reason that we don't get into Maldo. They want a physical sheet of paper. That's a bummer. Americans would love to visit this country, but I guess there's not a way for us to drive over. You can go. I mean, without the car, you can travel. This is not my decision. It's their decision. very sure you know to give you this bad news but honestly I don't know even in Romania I think we showed them that phone they had no problem

she has an idea they overlay somewhere here closer to the border print out that tomorrow in a nice shop you know with some nice printer and maybe we'll try again tomorrow during daytime you understand I'm sorry about this yeah it's not your fault no I appreciate trying to help was we have officially been denied. The Optimus and me did not see that coming. We got denied because we didn't have the proper registration. But I think even had we have had the piece of paper that they give you in the US for registration. I'm not sure that they would have accepted it. We asked if an American vehicle had ever crossed and not that the guy knew of. So from here, we have a couple options. either we just give up on Maldova or we uh go get it

printed and try a different border and hope that they accept a printed copy even though it doesn't have some big official seal on it because apparently that's what they were looking for. Um yeah, right now we're not in either country and there's uh there's no guarantee they're going to let us back in because apparently they shouldn't have let us come past there the first time. So now we're in between countries in one of these like border zones. We got enough to talk our way back into Romania. We're struggling to find a room tonight now that we've been denied crossing into Mold over. Turns out nobody wants us, but we've got five WhatsApp conversations. And the last one, somebody asked me for a new and I sent it and we haven't heard back.

3 hours and 15 minutes later, we're back in Romania, which honestly wasn't a guarantee. We're heading to a small town called Husi. That's the closest place we can find somewhere to sleep. In the morning, we wake up, get it printed, get it laminated to make it look more official if possible, and then we try it all again tomorrow. I feel like our first real hiccup, not being until day five is pretty good. Their tagline is if you're not lost, you're not trying hard enough. And I feel like if you're not getting denied at borders, you're taking too easy of a route. I think everyone uh has kept a really good attitude through all of

this. However, it's hot. We skipped lunch so that we could make it to Moldova tonight and uh it's almost 9:00 p.m. So, everybody's hot, hungry, and tired. One of the fish finally did on the hook, and we've caught somewhere to stay, which is nearby, but they want cash. So, now we're trying to get the cash out. It doesn't give me the amount that I want. Everything is hard right now. It's so hard. What does that mean? Does that mean I'm locked out? Why are you like this? And by you, I mean me. This looks promising.

You get it. You need the money. Good job, Charlie. It's hot out here. Well, I You've done well today, mate. Thank you. Feel like we've come to a bit of money, too. Yeah. Is this the hotel? Yeah. Okay. We think we're at our hotel for the night. Charlie's gone inside to check out the rooms. There were no photos online, but honestly, I would pitch a tent in that field right now. Like, I would prefer that actually. If you look past the fact that it's being actively constructed, it's perfect for us.

Um, everything from like the live wires to like kitchenet being constructed. It's just our scene cuz we're not cooks. Don't need a key cuz there's no lock. That's why there are no photos online cuz it's not done yet. Owner of the hotel is facetiming his family and showing him the bus. He's Italian and I love him. It's got a really new smell. Yeah. New home smell. Oh, it's almost finished. Just don't grab the cables cuz they're live. So, just be careful when you get into It's very nice. We got marble floors.

It is very nice. How is this available to book when it looks like that? So, this is the conversation that we've had, which has been a bit of a giggle on WhatsApp. That's his profile photo. And I was like, "Oh, that's interesting." I think it's mechanics oil place. The rooms are pretty much finished, I think. So, the bathroom's actually immaculate. Oh, we've got a whole another floor. So, this is the kitchenet almost done. little bit more put together. This is the yellow room. And he didn't show us the last bedroom, but I presumed it was another double room. It's through here. Oh, this is the one he didn't show.

It's like small prison room. I can't breathe. It's so warm. So hot in here. This is it. This is There was no other rooms available for an hour and a half radius. It is What is it called? Hu. I was just going to see. Yeah. Convert 800 Romanian lei to American dollars. $174. I mean, it's a three bed apartment if you include the kitchen as bedroom and the walk-in wardrobe as a bedroom. This is one of those nights that's just gotten so ridiculous that everything's turned funny.

rise between rooms. It's been a very big two days. So, I think we're going to end this video here and uh you'll have to tune in next week to see if we make it into Muldova. [snorts] I 50/50 chance at this point. Just also want to point out that there's no Duna or duvet. Well, we don't need because of the heat. Nothing to cover yourself with. Nothing. I don't think I can sleep without something on top of it. It's actually quite an expensive room considering there's no towels and there's no way to cover your body.

What do you all think of it, guys? We're going to play rock paper scissors for who lives in the dungeon. Oh, there's no airflow. The worst possible room. I've not thought through this at all. It's hot. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. Oh my god. Think about the baby. Here goes nothing or everything from Moldova. Who knows what is about to happen. It's uh it's not looking good. It's actually looking really bad.

Are they protecting us again? Five. Four. I still get shocked every time that's my car. I don't understand. How does it still work? I don't know. It's magic. It surprises me too. And I'm the one who's doing it. I have the camera. I don't know why I have this. I think this is Karan's. This place is nice, but it's kind of a hazard for people. So quiet. They're going to find this later, and they're going [clears throat] to laugh. Hello. There's a lot of mirrors. What's in here? I think it's a [clears throat] dead body. It stinks, too.

I think it's a dead body. Zoom in. Look at this. actually messed up. And there's a big guy. Oh, they're flying at least. But it's at least super cheap, right? No, not cheap.

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