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iPhone X Wallet Phone Case Comparison and Review
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May 29, 2025
Got a shiny new Apple iPhone X? Then you're shopping for a new iPhone X case to go with it, I'm sure. Ya can't use one from a previous generation - unfortunately - but that means it's a chance to reconsider how you keep your smartphone safe. One popular style are wallet cases that allow you to protect your phone and have space for ID and a credit card or two. In this video, tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out four different iPhone X wallet cases from Melkco and Speck to decide which is the best so you don't have to get the wrong one! Learn more: https://phonecases.melkco.com/ http://www.SPECKproducts.com/
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wallet cases for your iphone 10 let's
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check out some options Dave Taylor here
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and I want to look at iPhone 10 cases
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again now if you've been paying
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attention to my channel which hopefully
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you have you know we've already looked
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at slim cases at some detail and I also
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have looked at a bunch of rugged cases
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for the iPhone 10 but what about the
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wallet style case so I saved those up
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and we got four different styles of
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wallet cases that we can look at and we
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have our test American Express credit
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card that we will try putting in because
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if it's a wallet case it should actually
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let me actually put in ID and a credit
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card at least so we're gonna use that as
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a test and three of these four cases are
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actually from a company called Mel Co
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and they're pretty nice so let's start
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with this one this is perhaps the
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simplest of all of them this is just a
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simple actual leather case this is
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called the card slot back and if we put
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it in the case then we can see that it
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fits very nicely it's a very snug case
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it does not however have any bevel above
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the surface this particular one so that
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might be something you'd need to know
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about but how about that credit card
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let's see if it will slip in the back
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and the answer is it fits in nice and
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neatly in fact it's pretty snug so it's
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not like it's gonna shake out or
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anything I'm not sure the phone likes
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that sort of gesture but whatever so
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works with the credit card there's very
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little space in here it's pretty slim so
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maybe a credit card an ID but that's
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about all you're gonna get out of this
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the only other thing to know about this
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actual genuine premium leather case is
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that the entire bottom is left
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unprotected but I mean it still has the
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edge on it but everything's wide open so
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it's good for your music for the
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speakers and everything this is the Mel
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ko card slot back in red and if you go
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to Mel cocom it's 35 bucks if you go to
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amazon.com it's 18 dollars and 49 cents
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so I don't need to tell you which one
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you should check out if you want to pick
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up this case so that's one now let's
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look at another one this is the melk oh
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let's see
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what is this one this is the cocktail
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slim flip and this is kind of a neat
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case so you can see here it opens up
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like a little portfolio and it has a
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hard plastic case here so the phone
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obviously fits into it and I'm not gonna
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put it in properly because I know from
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experience it's really hard to get the
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phone out of this which is probably a
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good thing but from a design perspective
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you close it up there's nothing to keep
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it closed there's no strap or anything
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so that's something you might want to
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consider but once you have your phone in
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there then obviously there's space nice
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easy space there's two pockets so
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there's space for a couple of different
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options there and this also is a premium
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leather case and it has a nice detail on
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the front and one thing I like is
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there's actually a little hole on the
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edge here at the bottom so I should hold
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it this way
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and so I think you could put a little
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lanyard through it if you wanted to have
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it as something you could carry that way
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so nice option this is the Mel Koh
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cocktail slim flip and it's forty five
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bucks at Mel cocom or 29.99 at Amazon
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plus shipping so some of these don't
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have shipping charges this one does so
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that's number two now I'm gonna skip the
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third Mel ko case because we're gonna
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jump to the spec presidio wallet and
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spec makes all sorts of really cool
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cases in fact the spec presidio inked is
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my favorite case right now but this one
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not so much of a fan of it it is sort of
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a softer rubber on the inside and a hard
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exterior so it's tough and you can see
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here that it will fit your credit card
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and then you just push it out when
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you're ready so that's nice
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and let's see pretty sure it actually
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has a bevel which i think is pretty
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important it's another one of these
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where it's not so easy someday I'm going
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to be doing this I'm going to hear this
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snap
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and I'm gonna have a phone in half and
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that would be really bad so so far so
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good and Siri chill out
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so this one does have a bevel it's
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certainly not a huge amount of bevel but
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enough that if I drop my phone facedown
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that it'll actually be protected so
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that's good but all in all not a huge
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fan of this one as you can see it ends
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up being almost like a little handle
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sticking out of the back and since I
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really like streamlined
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I find this to be less than my favorite
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case so this is the speck Presidio
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wallet might be something you would like
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and it's 4495 at spec comm so the only
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thing left to look at is the one that is
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my winner for this particular iPhone 10k
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shootout and that's this guy this is the
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Mel ko fo PU leather I don't know what
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PU stands for but it's not actually
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leather which is nice for my vegetarian
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and vegan friends and it's called the
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Alford watch and this particular case
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obviously is in blue but you ready aha
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so it's really kind of like two cases in
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one so you have this part which you put
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your phone in and there is no bevel but
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it's not really designed to work solo
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like this they actually have some
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magnets going on which is cool so you
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drop it and it will stay up but what's
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nice is you can also take it out and you
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can use this as a bit of a stand so you
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can have your phone like this for
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example if you want to read or you can
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certainly do it sideways and as you can
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see here works just fine sideways and in
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fact you can go from here like that and
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so you don't even have to really change
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the configuration and then finally will
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the credit card fit let's find out the
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answer is yes and this one has three
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pockets so there's a lot I really like
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about this case I think that it's a
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really cool design being two separate
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parts so if you are in a situation where
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you want something a little slimmer
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and more modest then you have this and
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it's nice you know again there's no
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bevel above the surface so it's not
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going to protect your screen but it's
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still nice and simple and elegant and
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then when you want the whole deal then
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you have this sort of little tiny wallet
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and not only that but there's a clasp on
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the side that's held together by magnets
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so this one's really cool and what I
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also like about it is it's not actual
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leather so for people that aren't a big
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fan of having animals killed so they can
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have pretty stuff then the Alphard
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wallet is definitely a win and this
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particular one the question then becomes
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alright how much for this one and so
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this one from Mel cocom is $40 or if you
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pick it up at Amazon it's $35 but their
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shipping included so I think it's
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cheaper to actually get this
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particularly one at Mel Koh now before
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we go any further do me a favor and
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stay in touch and you can find out about
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all the other iPhone 10 cases we're
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reviewing we have some cool ones coming
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up so stay around thank you
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now all these different choices and the
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question would be which one's best for
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you you know I've looked at about 25
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different iPhone 10 cases by this point
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and I can tell you that each of them has
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its audience so if you look at these and
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you think ooh that would be really nice
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that works very well with my lifestyle
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then one of these could be great for you
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and for me like I said of the wallet
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style then this Mel Co Alphard wallet is
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definitely my choice so Steve Taylor and
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I'll catch you in my next video
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