I Finished the Steel Ball Run Race in Real Life... and it changed my life.

Over the summer of 2025, I decided to travel almost 5,000 miles across the United States, from coast to coast, in an attempt to recreate a fictional race from a Japanese manga. This is a documentary chronicling my bizarre adventures and the experiences I had along the way. Thank you to everyone who...

127 min - Adventure & Extreme - TREY the Explainer

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