Video ✅ I’m always on the hunt for the next WEIRD tuner car of the world. While up in Michigan filming with ZZPerformance, I learned of a big turbocharged Pontiac Vibe in town and I HAD to see it. With its shared Toyota Matrix platform and 2ZZ engine I was curious how this was all going to pan out- let me tell you it was actually surprising. It has 8600RPM character that is unlike anything I’ve driven in the past ten years. For only about 300HP – it feels VERY fast in a tiny car like this. So what’s a turbo Pontiac Vibe like? Let’s talk about it! ✅ BIG TURBO Pontiac Vibe is the Ultimate Tuner Troll
⏩ Video content: BIG TURBO Pontiac Vibe is the Ultimate Tuner Troll
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could you imagine waking up as a car
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Enthusiast and saying yeah
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I drive a single turbo Pontiac Vibe said
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no one ever this here is a Pontiac Vibe
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also a Toyota Matrix so basically
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Pontiac and Toyota made a deal to share
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a car together and this one uses
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Toyota’s 2zz engine which you can also
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find in some lotuses in other cars so as
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a platform actually surprised more
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people didn’t mess with this but today
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could be more excited the Pontiac Vibe
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was made for actually a pretty long time
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and I just remember one of my neighbors
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in college had a Pontiac Vibe and I
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remember him driving away one time and I
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said oh it’s one of those Pontiac
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hatchbacks I was like that’s kind of
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cool you just got a used car for cheap
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or whatever I was wrong it was a 2010
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model a year I literally thought that
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this car had aged quite a bit by 2010.
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when you see it like this I don’t know
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how to feel they took this and put a
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single turbo on it and this makes about
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250 wheel horsepower it’s on mostly a
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Dyno tune so it’s kind of in this weird
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spot where it loves all Throttle or no
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throttle it’s on an AM piggyback system
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to make this work I had no idea that the
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Pontiac Vibe was like an actual platform
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you could mess with but here I am so
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let’s talk about what’s on this car it
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actually has BC racing coilovers that
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used a whole bunch of different parts to
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make this happen so in order to make the
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suspension happen it used parts from a
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whole bunch of different Toyotas you
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combine those parts and then you can
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make it work on the Pontiac 5. along
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with that we have a nice Royal
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steering wheel there’s actually less
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than I think 20 something of these
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steering wheels it’s the grid life
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Edition grip oil steering wheel because
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Grid live is you know one of the coolest
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car events freaking ever so it’s kind of
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neat to see their steering wheel in here
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there’s actually won an award at
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gridlifer being one of the raddest
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builds there and I think that’s also
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really cool that they were able to kind
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of Branch out their opinions find this
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and go you did what with a Pontiac Vibe
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so this actually uses a turbo kit from
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turbokits.com
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it uses a Garrett single turbocharger
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and it runs eight pounds of boost now
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believe it or not the 2zz engine can rev
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to 8600 RPM
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um
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8600 so in this little hatchback you can
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rev all the way to there with a single
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turbo and the owner of this car
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basically said you know I wasn’t trying
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to make this thing super fast I just
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wanted it to sound cool and be a show
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car this car actually started its life
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as his first car he’s had this car for
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14 years and he’s changed a whole bunch
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of things to it over the years the first
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thing he did was actually make this an
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audio car so yo big subwoofers in the
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back there’s actually kind of some
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evidence of that there’s insulation in
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the trunk and a whole bunch of other
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stuff so you can see kind of signs of
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its previous life it’s also got a GSP
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carbon fiber hood the Garrett turbo is a
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gt2860 RS it’s got the GM OEM ground
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effects body kit which is super rare and
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you might notice it’s actually color
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matched as well a lot of times the vibe
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used kind of like this weird hard
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plastic exterior that didn’t look very
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nice said this cleans it up a lot I like
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the ground effects kit it’s also got Mr
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Billet grills f1r wheels that are 18 by
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tens and also a custom made Wing so it
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has this nice ducktail on the top
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really nice it’s also got a pie cut
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custom exhaust so that’s why you hear
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that thing roaring in the background
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that’s amazing
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also got an MWR short throw shifter
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because this is a six-speed manual
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transmission I knew quite a few people
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about 10 years ago who had Toyota
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matrixes and they swore by them they
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loved them and I can never figure out
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why now that I learned that it could rev
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the 8600 RPM that’s starting to make way
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more sense this is the 2003 Vibe GT but
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by the end of the vibe’s Life pontiac’s
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Light was added in as well Pontiac was
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going down the tube same with Saturn at
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the same exact time
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[Music]
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thank you
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[Music]
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what yes
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yes please wow
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that is so rowdy I really like your vibe
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foreign
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comes up to you and they’re like I like
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really like your Vibe Good Vibes only
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this thing is so much faster so earlier
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when I did my first pulls the boater I
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guess hadn’t really kicked in yet hadn’t
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really warmed up yet
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what it is so much faster now than it
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was earlier the way this motor kicks in
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with its vbt like it is so wild because
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you know Honda’s Honda tech we all know
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it the moment you hit that variable
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valve timing boost just ramps in
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like you could probably see in my face
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like I don’t even know what to think as
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soon as it gets into power it just comes
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alive
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so so violently
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like I am so blown away of how different
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this feels to any four-cylinder I’ve
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ever driven boosted or not boosted and
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what’s really cool about it is that it
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sounds mean it doesn’t sound like some
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Screaming beehive you know what I mean
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[Music]
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foreign
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[Music]
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I thought it was gonna be like yeah
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eight pounds of boots it’s just gonna
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sound cool thank you I think Fox feels
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really good too it’s one of those things
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where I thought it’d be this super
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floaty gross gearbox no gearbox feels
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great even without a limited slip
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differential his Wheel and Tire set up
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in the way the suspension is it’s
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controllable I can control it the whole
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time I’ve driven some really fast
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front-wheel drive cars with limited
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slips and they have way more torques
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here than this does and
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foreign
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never in my life was
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that I’ve never driven like this this
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motor feels like it has two separate
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personalities it feels like it’s a nice
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Cruiser under 5000 RPM and then it turns
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into an entirely different car past 6000
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RPM it I said this already but I cannot
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express the personality change once it
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gets up top in the RPM I can’t I cannot
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describe it it throws you back in the
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seat out of
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out of this is by far up there with some
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of the fastest 250 horsepower wheeled
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cars it just the way it ramps in the way
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it comes in the shift feels great I
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never missed a shift a single time even
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when I was surprised by the motor if
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you’re the short shifter helps with that
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even with the torque steer it was
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manageable it wasn’t like something
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crazy like a big turbo Mazda Speed 3 or
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something it just goes and that’s all
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you can ask for really if you had to
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build one of them a Toyota Matrix or a
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Pontiac Vibe which one would you build
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along with that it would be a massive
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help if you click that like button it
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really helps me in the YouTube algorithm
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and at the same time thank you so much
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for watching such a weird car and me
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driving it I really appreciate your time
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I really appreciate you enjoying this
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video hopefully and on that note guys
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Pontiac Vibe single turbo
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what a riot what an absolute riot and on
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that note I upload on Tuesdays Thursdays
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and Sundays and I will see you guys next
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time take it easy have a wonderful day
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goodbye
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