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I'm Joe, and I have a mate here in the content minds with me, and live in studio in the other

side of the world. What's up? Not a whole lot. How's it going, man? Uh, you know, it's another

lovely day. Weirdly this morning, when I went on to my balcony, despite the fact I live on the

sixth floor, and I have no balconies remotely near me, due to like how Soviet apartments were built.

But I could smell an old man's cologne, somehow wafting six floors up, and I am baffled at the

science that made that possible. It is stuck with me for hours now. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's

the same vein that like when you're in, I remember being at Fort Richardson, Alaska in, you know,

January, February when it was insanely cold. And like when it gets that cold, the sound of the

cannon fire at Morning Reveley is just completely different. Like it just, it doesn't sound like a

boom. It sounds like a like a whip crack moving across the sky, because it's so cold. So maybe you're

having that, like there's like some climactic condition that makes like Caucasian man's perfume,

fucking waft up on some kind of like niche atmospheric condition. I recall the same thing in

Afghanistan, the that cologne smell, the musk cologne smell is just so incredibly strong. And like

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