Smith makes his long-awaited return to the online airwaves along with his fellow adventurer David Burns, as the pair chat with Hoge via Skype from Xining in China. This was recorded after the boys had completed the second stage of Silk Roads to Shanghai, which involved a 1000 kilometre run across China.

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