RimWorld Frost and Fire - Tunnels // EP 4

hey everybody radoman here thanks for tuning in to frost and fire a little reminder of the community challenge rules that i will be following and of course if you want to join along rodomont.com frost and fire or frost and fire on the steam workshop gets you the mods the scenarios and the save game files picking up where we left off i wanted to say thank you for everybody that pointed out that my battery grid was set incorrectly allowing the southern batteries to be plugged in even when the switch was off and i'll be fixing that shortly there was a lot of feedback about potentially having a second researcher and although i do agree on that sentiment none of the other characters are good researchers and to that end i'm not going to allow it uh one thing i did want to do is to put a steel stockpile indoors just for security sake just one little still stockpile it's not going to make it too too ugly and this is to prevent or to allow my characters to stay indoors if they have to make repairs and the like so that's going to help someone like bash make this cable without having to go outside something that is definitely going to be useful later on now in the winter here i actually had an idea for a little bit of a project that i wanted to get completed it is going to be the start of a mining shaft now the way this is going to work is it's going to be heated so that the miners in the shaft are not going to have to suffer through the terrible terrible hypothermia it's going to be difficult to keep the shaft cool in the summers but this could definitely be a good winter project and i'm going to have a psychic soothe male that could not be any more beneficial i'm going to have uh jd gabe and bash work on that gabe is going to be allowed to go back outside though taking a look at the wildlife there is no wildlife right now that i have to worry about which is very good wildlife could be very dangerous especially if the wildlife uh let me explain a little bit of game mechanics here so animals do not slow down in the darkness whereas your characters do there is a movement speed darkness penalty that happens when it is dark when it is nighttime and then of course there is a movement speed penalty when you are severely hypothermic or or heat stroked so during the winter and summer nights animals are going to be significantly faster than you meaning that they're also significantly more dangerous than they normally would be because you don't have a chance to outrun them so to that end you really do have to be careful about uh sort of the nighttime um animal fighting that you might find yourself in because it could be fatal very very quickly uh okay so now that i have everything plugged in correctly and as you can see the power grid is right we're going to be able to have backup batteries that do not explode when we have a short circuit event now the next thing is to get the start of this mining tunnel constructed yes of course this is an infestation risk and i accept the risk i think it is worth it another suggestion that i heard from a lot of people is hey shouldn't you be stealing insect jelly and you're absolutely right i should be uh so that is another little thing i'm gonna do i'm gonna keep jd inside for a little bit preventing him from being able to leave the base so that i can lose all the hypothermia so that um midday which is literally right now i can make a run for the insect jelly while the spiders are downed and unconscious that's definitely the best time to do it without a doubt i'm going to have bash start to work on the cabling towards the mining tunnel and then once we have that set up uh we will get the mining tunnel set up and our miners are going to be able to mine throughout the winter with you know relative ease compared to suffering the hypothermia that they were previously and i'm just going to helicopter hover over people like gabe because as you can see he is very close to hypothermia i did also have other suggestions about um oh wouldn't it be nice if you know the guys that were closing in on hypothermia like took care of themselves or whatever and yes it would and the base game is designed to do that but the base game is not designed for temperatures this extreme and to that end uh they're just not well suited for this level of hypothermia that we do experience on a regular basis which is why you do have to hover over them you do have to micromanage your characters and that's the whole point of this challenge if it was easy it wouldn't be a challenge now would it all right so to that end just making sure that jd here doesn't get super cold and i do want to measure roughly what the um what the cost of a run like this is if he was fully cold at the time of running to figure out how what is my range sort of a functional range calculation uh unfortunately uh jd is going through a different door incoming than outgoing so this is about the maximum of my range if i'm being honest any further and i would have been uncomfortable i got to the mid to high 20s um as far as as far as uh hypothermia comes and then of course you have to remember that as soon as you become seriously hypothermic your movement speed drops to a crawl um no joke you're it's very very very slow so if you are trying to travel far distances and you're getting very close to your uh to the 35 mark um any any any additional hypothermia over 35 and you could risk um losing fingers and toes or you know just not being able to move fast enough to avoid enemies it's in my opinion very very ideal for you to make sure to try to not push it to the limit in that way it could be a very fatal experience is all i will say all right so jd is going to warm back up so that hypothermia is zero and then go for the other insect jelly i'm not entirely sure that the where are the other insects so there was insects there i i think these insects are not too too far i think these are obtainable as well within his uh running distance at current temperatures so i will try for that as well and this insect jelly is going to be great for um trade or emergency foods eating the jelly is it sounds gross but it's actually a a sort of a recreational thing to do and they are happy to do it i'm going to be leaving the spiders be because and i've mentioned this in the past but it's worth repeating um insect meat is no longer a thing in frost and fire it's something called foul meat and foul meat is gross and sort of terrible and you should avoid eating it at all costs there are ways to offset foul meat but they're not good ways all right bash you're gonna enter the base this way let me micromanage him a little bit because he got seriously hypothermic and we'll put him inside now another joke i heard so at night at night my hypothermia climbed to about 31 because of course uh we move slower at night um and it's a little bit colder at night distance hauling definitely should be done in the day if possible is i guess what i'm trying to say so what other feedback did i receive from you all uh one feedback is that benches like stone cutters or steel butcher tables do present uh sort of a default negative cleanliness one way around this is just to uninstall it i could uninstall this thing and literally just keep it here butchery table because of how infrequently i'm going to even need a butchery table um i don't really even need it installed all the time now having it uninstalled does mean that it can be absconded with by a raider but i think at that point if they're already in my base and taking stuff i probably have worse things to deal with i'd imagine soon the cotton will be harvestable and that's going to allow me to make toques and maybe another parka making sure that gabe does as much of this farming job as possible and then he'll be back up to slagging yep now another purpose of this mining tunnel is it will be a a non-renewable but a fairly i wouldn't use the word infinite but a fairly uh plentiful source of slag as well as we're mining tunnels around to be able to traverse and as you can see there are nodes of steel here here here here there's a lot of steel that i already know and then there's components over here there's a lot of resources that i have already sort of spotted which means um when we do start mining a tunnel we're not mining blindly towards some arbitrary target we actually have ex we you know i already know more or less the path that i can take all right bash i'm going to allow you outside [Music] and gabe you're hypothermic but you're close enough to the base where it's not that much of an issue all right so jd what i want you to do is it is six in the morning um i want you to do a little bit of heater work i don't want him to make a run for um the insect jelly until it's a little bit warmer midday gabe weren't you just hypothermic all right you stay inside because you're gonna freeze your toes off if you don't and then bash you can work on the heater jd you stay inside as well raptors making pretty good progress uh just got machining we are working towards gun turrets because that's going to be a critically useful uh first technology and then as soon as jd ditches the hypothermia i'll probably have him make a run for um how cold are we we are you know we're too cold but you know i can warm up in this uh i can warm up in here so right now it's very very very cold in here but the heater will warm it up it's struggling though uh one of the reasons it's struggling is it's not double walled and it's not uh air locked so i can put in uh double walls and air locks and that will help out a lot just checking to make sure i don't have more overhead mountain all right and then if we check i shouldn't yeah i'm just shivering now because it was indeed warmer in there for then alternatively trying to make a run back to the base all right jd you are ready to go i hope i hope i do not know for sure certain but let's try to make a run for the insect jelly and raptor tend to bash with nomads so now the uh cleanliness of this area that the butchery has been pulled up is only negative one it's only a difference of point one four which is pretty inconsequential okay i dash and grab there's not enough time to mine anything like jade over here it's just simply too cold but we can at least haul and i've learned my lesson not to prop these doors open in anticipation okay and then once jd passes the threshold i'll give him the stay close and as you can see that was just barely outside of our um temperature tolerance he uh he became 34 hypothermic on his way in which is about as much as i'd ever want to go now other research that would be good to have would be uh well we do have cyclic brewing so in these brand new planted um basins i'm going to switch over to cycloid leaves so that we can start to get some tea again tea has two added benefits one when you're really really cold you might have some pain left over from frostbite in this case it was his nose thankfully it's only one percent pain so it's kind of it's rounding down um but additionally uh it's a it's a recreation type and it's also um it's a recreation type and it is a pain reliever so it is a good thing to have done you know as a as a way to mitigate mood and wounds and the like it's going to be very very helpful okay so he's getting too cold he decided to eat a meal outdoors and now i'm sticking to him in that isolated little spot again for the same reason your characters are not very smart so if i hadn't been micromanaging him he would have eaten this whole meal outdoors and probably lost a finger or so and honestly no exaggeration i think that's probably what would have happened uh while jd doesn't have built up hypothermia let's make another run for the the last of the insect jelly and i think that's all the jelly that uh is on this map all right bash you're probably pretty good now to let's haul this meal back so that we eat on a table it's one of the advantages of a nutrient paste machine is when you eat nutrient paste um you don't tend to store it in your inventory which means uh that you eat it at home um which definitely has an added benefit and i'm actually going to go through all these guys and have them drop their package survival meals um not that i'm worried about carry weight but we might as well have that home because if they do collapse let's say uh it is just more cleanup if they have that so as you can see this late day night near nighttime run got a little bit more dangerous for jd but that's okay because he's done for the day my battery power is dropping this colossal building it's far from colossal but protect 37 more days wow that was quite lucky two uh chip chunks dropping just feet from my base i can't i almost feel like honestly i almost feel like that's too lucky uh just to prove that i'm not uh yeah just to prove i'm still on losing this one randy random right so it's just luck it's just luck randy is random and he just chose to drop ship chunks on me because i'm sure there's a lot of you struggling with this challenge and you're probably thinking to yourself oh if only i could have two ship chunks drop on me i would be okay and you know what you'd be right this is kind of ridiculous like it almost makes me want to just go to dev mode and delete them um so now that we're heading into the mid winter we're heading into the some of the coldest temperatures that you're going to expect in frost and fire it's about a negative 105 celsius it can get colder than this because of course i don't have to remind any of the veteran rimworld players but coal snaps our thing uh as our volcanic winners and as our uh climate adjusters from um mech clusters so you could get a climate adjuster to to bring down the temperature another 10 degrees if you got all three of those together oh it would just be unbearable but um yeah this is on average roughly the the temperatures that you'll see is sort of the negative celsius on average or so uh the need warrant close might give you sort of a forecast but as you can see here it kind of is just forecasting um negative 107. and then jokingly enough because the mod the custom climate cycle mod that is being used to manipulate the temperatures here uh it doesn't well adjust to rimworld's own understanding of of seasons it also is telling me it is permanent summer which i think if summer is negative 107 that's one hell of a summer all right so the psychosuit ended surprised i didn't get any inspirations off of like wrapped or anything like that all right sebash your hypothermia is not so bad i'm going to have you break this down takes a little while to break down a ship chunk but it's worth it the components are really necessary one one of the questions that i had from um uh you know suggestions and the like was you know why not make more let's say auto autodoors or etc etc you know there's a lot of other like nice to haves that i could build out uh and one of the reasons why i haven't built a lot of stuff out is components are just such a rare and necessary resource resource early on that it's going to be really really important to min max the amount that you get all right so i'm going to start a bit of a mining tunnel here and i'm going to tell gabe to stay close and i'm also going to tell gabe and jd to prioritize mining higher so this kind of mining here this like shaving of the mountain can wait it can wait until have you been out too long okay you're you're gonna be cold but that kind of shaving of the mountain can wait until it's uh warmer uh this stuff here we'll want to do immediately so i think what i'll do is i'm going to cancel i'm going to manipulate the state closed zone to remove all this slag that's out front and draw instead from the slag out back draw from uh hold on this seal is not being used there we go and here's our last bench so we're starting to get a beautiful beautiful uh cotton and to these the first four things i'm gonna do is four tubes and that will be jd's job as he's our tailor so i'm turning off the lights so that uh it takes me a little bit more time now i misspoke when i talked about meals meals are made in batches and uh don't benefit from a lack of light or anything like that but uh the tailoring still does so uh as he is hypothermic it almost would be worth me getting him even more hypothermic but as he is hypothermic or rather in the cold and in the dark um there's a bit of benefit there now another thing i wanted to do is i'm going to force wear this for them until i have a full set of winter clothing i'm not going to change outfits or anything like that and in fact i might keep 150 steel inside and the goal here is to get four tooks and four parkas raptor is uh less important because he is commonly going to be indoors and therefore not need the weather protection but it wouldn't hurt especially in case of um a solar flare or something like that where we are going to you know be very very cold so this good one i'm gonna force wear on gd jd spends a lot of time outside and then gabe's gonna take one bash is gonna take one actually gabe should take the good quality because he's a minor and he's gonna spend more time outside than bash and then the last one will be for raptor and now um why are we making oh is this a do oh well we're gonna have one spare two i thought i did four but i guess i did five all right bash switch out now that we have the toques i'm going to make parkas i'm gonna make three more parkas i don't have enough ingredients uh for any of them that last two really destroyed that for me but oh well but if you take a look at the temperature tolerance here now we're down to negative 51 which is nowhere near outside temperature that's 100 degrees fahrenheit colder but it will protect us a little bit more uh gabe bash and and raptor all about the same temperatures as well oh no there we go we actually had enough so jd will get a uh a second parka and that will probably go to gabe because they're the uh the miners a meteorite of ancient metal blends perfectly right in like you wouldn't even know it ever got sent so this little tunnel here is going to be also for our our own protection to be able to traverse the map more quickly and also for guests and allies and the like they'll be able to take shortcuts to our base that enemies will not be able to take that's going to be critically important when it comes time to [Music] taking in refugees or anything like that instead of the warming station idea that it kind of shot down because it tends to get destroyed raiders don't tend to break down doors in mining tunnels and the like it's it may happen it may happen but the intention of course is to behind the doors behind the initial doors to set up turrets to dissuade sappers from using them because sappers tend to take the path of least resistance and if you stick a you know if you stick a turret behind it it's no longer a path of least resistance it's going to be a dangerous path all right so now we have this mining tunnel and what i think i'm going to do is once we get deep enough i'm going to fork it so that some of it goes west towards maybe this steel here i don't want to go out to the edge of the map exactly because you can't build once you get within this white line you can't build uh doors anymore but i'd like to get close and that will also allow for multiple um for multiple people to be mining at once all right jd how is your experience in crafting oh you are getting up to level 13 or yep 13 pretty soon being in the dark being in the cold definitely helpful now my inside here is probably our not cold enough or not warm enough cold enough jesus uh not warm enough right now so that's uh another point of focus i'm going to work on i'm going to get some additional heaters because our grow grow rates are going to get tanked if if i don't fix that it's negative 112 celsius for for reference okay i might just put the last heater in now now i was asked about uh removing this door but i want to keep that door in to make it easier to haul things to where they need to be uh even if it does cool down my farm a little bit it's negligible enough that it's not going to kill me because this room here is not crazy in the negatives it's 18 fahrenheit it's negative 164 fahrenheit out so um you know the it's it's not crazy to keep this door here um at all there's a good argument to be made that i might even want another heater in the freezer uh but i'm not really gonna worry about that it's right for right now it's it's acceptable temperatures and and to that end i'm not immediately concerned all right it seems to be a mostly acceptable temperature around the base uh one thing i will do is um maybe just spread out the heaters now heaters i never really mentioned this but they uh propagate their heat instantly and perfectly so the temperature of an entire room will be the same it doesn't matter where you build the heater so if i built all my heaters in the corner here they're heating this corner of the area just the same as they're heating the bottom corner here it doesn't really matter where you build them just that they're in a specific room um okay and now we have a small but growing abundance of food which is a nice cushion to fall back upon if we have lean times or solar flares that wipe out our crops it's going to be very very important if you want to live long term to have backup of everything back up steel back up components back up meds back up clothing back up food because without it you're risking a situation where you could very very easily be killed off and they'll there won't be much to do about it gotta be careful about those situations you know you don't want to run so lean that you die all right i just expanded the stay closed zone to allow them into this mining tunnel this tunnel right now is about i mean as you can see it's very very rapidly fluctuating but it's it's warm enough for them to mine you could also use this heater as a lighting source if you wanted to if you just nudge it a little bit closer to where you're going to be mining which is not a terrible idea if you want to mine a little bit faster but of course after a little bit of time the heat drops off dramatically or the the the light source drops off dramatically and you'll lose whatever benefit you you might have had so this tunnel up here i want to go north and maybe exit here or here or even out here somewhere um really having a network of under underground undermountain tunnels and i know a lot of methods to be able to defeat uh infestations so i'm not worried if you were wondering i am not really worried about uh infestation risk because there are there are compared to the reapers they're really the the least of my worries is i think the way to put it there's the farm bedrooms are on the cold side and we're starting to get slept in the cold uh so i'm going to i don't know if i want to put more heaters in the bedrooms or just some additional heaters oops that should have been a built copy some additional heaters out here in the main area this main area might be a little too voluminous um or rather fancy term four it might be too big uh but eventually i when you factor in fabrication benches machining tables which i could also make right now i could set up a machine table it it uses a whole lot of this steel that i have but i think it's a wise thing to build if i set up machining tables and you know electric smithies and you know all this sort of stuff um you could very easily see this workshop area being um clogged pretty quickly it's actually this machining table i'm going to set uh here sorry again i'm going to pull you away from what you're doing putting the uh smelter next to the slag pile and then the machining table over a bit and i'll keep the butchery on you know uninstalled until it's needed cargo paws uh psyca t well that's not bad and that's not that far from the base i could definitely have jd go for that without much issue so uh that also brings me to a new point we're gonna want shelves for this stuff for beer and tea so i'm gonna get some shelves up i don't have a lot of storage space as you can see i'm i'm actually flatly running out i have uh no space for this stuff another crop that i would like to plant soon is heel root so that i can have a variety of medicine at my disposal i can have the high priority medicine for when i'm very sick or doing surgeries and then i can have heel root for just the cuts and scraps uh scratches of everyday survival [Music] but hitting a compacted oh you were sleeping in here so the reason he's sleeping in here if you're wondering is it is right now negative 189 fahrenheit or negative 123 celsius between where he is in the base and it makes the a.i think that that's just like too far away uh and that's why he fell asleep and and that that's a problem you're gonna have and there's honestly just not a good solution to avoid that that i've found other than to not have gaps in heating but that's just not realistic either so my farm is struggling to keep its temperature [Music] but it's doing okay i think as this main room heats up a little bit the farm will be better off so getting some additional heaters in will serve that purpose as far as um as far as any weapons to make i'm good right now i i mean an argument could be made that raptor could use a bolt-action rifle rather than a revolver but his shooting skill is so dreadfully low that i think it's a drop in the proverbial bucket and i'm not gonna worry about that right now okay so it is very very very cold up here it's negative 44 but that's still within jd's temperature tolerance which means that he won't get he'll actually lose his hypothermia as you can see now as we make this area larger um we it's gonna get colder and colder and colder if you make sure that does not mind too close to the edge of the mountain uh you're not going to make it too too cold though uh double walling leaving like space for two walls or so uh will help to mitigate the onset of cold so i'm gonna i'm gonna power off this uh this machining table because i'm not really using it right now but it will be very handy when i have mechanoids to shred to shred said mix i'm also going to treat this as additional storage area like i said it would so this is going to be a a low priority backup stockpile if i could it somewhat click it low stockpile all right and that gives us some storage space gabe here does run the risk of hypothermia because he isn't as well insulated as jd so i do have to sort of keep an eye on him making sure that he stays alive and upright i'm actually not going to have him eat without a table if i can help it so let's get him back inside one way to fix this is to add more cables add these power conduits to go deeper into my mining areas and then create doors to limit the area the square footage that the heaters have to heat because the heaters no longer really sufficiently heat that area um my farms are fine temperature now um it's no problem at all and we are i would say at this point uh at the height of winter so it's negative 115 celsius or so the seventh or eighth or so mid is midwinter which is where it's coldest or when it's coldest now as you can see gabe's mood is pretty low the fact that he is in an ugly environment and freezing cold is definitely not helping there's not much i could do about the ugly environment the act of smoothing out floors and um yeah the act of smoothing floors and the like are kind of dangerous and i say that because it adds enough colony value oh wow he is okay i need to go inside right now um so smoothing out things like floors and walls uh makes things very very pretty but uh that comes at a bit of a cost because when it becomes pretty it also adds wealth and that can be very very dangerous uh one thing i could do though is right where the light illuminates around the um the heaters is enough light to also plant flowers and i'm gonna have jd stay inside because he's gonna make a run for that psychite tea so i'm gonna make some some basic uh flower beds and plant some flowers in here to hopefully i was hoping that it was going to improve the room's quality now the other problem is um uh the it gets a rather cramped [Music] let's see if i can't if i can't game it to be a little prettier no it also depends on the quality of the potted plants as well so jd you are now idle let's have you go for that tea i'm gonna haul that psychic tea okay okay so these bedrooms are becoming decent now from up from mediocre that should help out a little bit and did you haul both tees you did perfect perfect thank you jd this is going to help for mood so let's put him back on stay close and then if we take a look at the scheduled drugs as you can see psychity will be drank if our moods let's see below 70 percent but we're not going to keep any in our inventory for fear that um oh gabe you are good to go so gabe here is going to be set to winter clothing as well and that means he's going to switch to that parka and that protects him to negative 43 which is better than the around 10 degrees that the duster without the it was offering um and that way he's not going to be so hypothermic when he enters the mining tunnels these mining tunnels will be a little bit a little bit toastier to that end i also want to um lower the hall priorities we still have some more daily at least to plant but these decent bedrooms are also going to help with mood as well and hopefully they aren't sleeping no maybe they're all sleeping in the cold or close to it i did get a lot of tips or suggestions about using the geysers and just personal preference i chose not to to justify that personal preference part of it is because if you do build a um a geothermal generator on it the geothermal generator square footage makes it so that it can't really be used as a safety heating because the geothermal generator is so large that the room in mid-winter is too cold for safety heating because like right now it's negative 187 fahrenheit um and if i had a geothermal generator built here the radius of my uh of my my area around it would be like this or so and that means that it would just not be the steam geyser wouldn't produce enough heat to keep us alive in the case of a really bad solar flare or something like that so that's what's going on there um it's just that it might be useful now but it won't be useful soon and that and and for that reason i uh i'm not using it okay i'm gonna work on these conduits with jd and gabe you are going to get the rest of that compacted machinery because that's critically important for long-term survival all right don't eat that haul it back use the dining room so far i've been pretty careful about the mental breaks and risks that i've been taking what i'm gonna do is temporarily flick the smelter off and just start hauling things as a little bit of a higher priority okay gabe probably needs to be inside bash let me get you constructing out here now part of this reason why we're not constructing out here sooner is um our characters are just they consider going outside to be such a dangerous act that they just aren't traversing to go to these tasks and that that's just a challenge that you're going to have continually so now that we have three we have sort of like three airlocks here it should allow the most inside zone to heat up a little bit and i'm going to put a temporary stay on mining here so that we can uh start to haul and haul this slag in and and get it ready to be smelted down so it looks like soon i'm gonna have tea brewing to do i'm just gonna forever do psychic tea brews um our farms are staying warm enough our bedrooms are decent enough our general workshop is um dropping in quality but that's that's more or less because of the slag that's being stored there as the slag is is particularly ugly um but we can fix that all right so we did just get gun turrets and that's going to significantly raise our ability for long-term survival gun turrets are critically important as any rimworlder can tell you and what's going to be very important is for me to use resources like uranium ore regular steel gun turrets are too fragile and will get destroyed far too often whereas uh uranium ones will be able to stick around a bit and and tank which is is uh very very important in the long run so that means mining that uranium when we're able currently i think it's probably too cold it's probably just simply too deathly cold to make a run for that but uh we're keeping an eye on it so that we might be able to when it warms up a bit will definitely be helpful so yeah the temperatures in here are negative negative 20-ish fahrenheit totally fine totally fine for our miners our two miners to be mining now that they're in parkas that's not really going to be an issue at all i'm also increasingly adding the amount of um cotton that i'm growing because i do i know that my dusters here probably particularly bash's duster yeah at uh 93 they are gonna wear out eventually i'm not gonna be able to rely on them forever and when they do wear out uh if i don't quickly replace them um summers are going to be really rough and then on top of that uh i will need heading into the summer uh cowboy hats as well because cowboy hats act against cold very much the way that tooks act against uh or the cowboy hat second against heat very much the way that twos act against cold i should say so this seems to me like a pretty good stopping place we have gotten over the hump of the worst of the winter where it was negative 175 fahrenheit or so give or take a few degrees if you have any feedback for me let me know in the comments below i'm very much looking forward to getting to the warmer seasons or at least the interim seasons spring and fall where we're going to be able to be a lot more productive on the world map maybe take some quests and get a lot more raids done thank you for watching everybody i will catch you all next episode farewell for now

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Keywords: RimWorld, Let's Play, Frost and Fire, Community Challenge

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Length: 46min 19sec (2779 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 16 2020