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Never in the dark with the iRonsnow CONDOR 1 Emergency Crank Radio
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May 29, 2025
Weather emergencies can arise without warning regardless of where you live. Are you prepared to lose power and Internet? With the iRonsnow Condor 1 Emergency Crank Radio you will be! Featuring a big 20,000 mAh battery and both solar and hand crank power options, it'll ensure you're not left in the dark. Need to know the latest updates? It includes NOAA Weather Radio compatibility (all 7 bands), along with AM/FM so you can keep track of what's going on. Tech expert Dave Taylor checks out the iRonsnow Condor 1 Emergency Crank Radio and finds a lot to recommend it for a place in your emergency kit. Get one, charge it, remember where you stored it, and you'll be ready. Check it out at: https://amzn.to/42qBsH5 Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ #emergencyradio #emergencypreparedness #noaa #weather #weatherradio #askdavetaylor
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when an emergency hits you need to stay
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in touch and you need power that's what
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this device is all about let's check it
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out dave Taylor here and in Colorado we
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get our share of weather catastrophes
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where we lose power i was home once
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where I lost power and gas and it was
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like 5° out so it was a really
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challenging situation and we didn't get
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power for gosh I think 24 hours we ended
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up having to move to somewhere else
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because it was so cold in the house and
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nothing was heating it up because it
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didn't have any power what gets worse is
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that if your phone dies or you otherwise
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don't know how to get information
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there's no internet because of course
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there's no power enter this this is an
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emergency crank radio this is the Iron
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Snow Condor 1 emergency crank radio and
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it's pretty slick so right off the bat
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the top has a solar sensor so you can
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just put it outside and if in case of a
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long running power outage it can
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actually charge itself not very quickly
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but it can actually charge itself a
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little bit off of solar but of course
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you also have the option of actually
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cranking it to try to generate some
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power and this is a slow way to do it
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this is not the most efficient mechanism
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in the world but in a crisis having this
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option means that you went from I've
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completely run out of power on
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everything to I think I might have
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enough to be able to turn on the weather
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radio and hear what's going on and so it
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is solar powered it is hand cranked and
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most notably it is a 20,000 milliamp
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hour battery so if you keep it charged
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up when power is available then when you
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lose power this has plenty enough to
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charge your phone a halfozen times
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charge multiple phones you know whatever
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you need and it also there's a button on
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the top here where gives you three
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different flashlight modes so here's the
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least bright then there's a brighter
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version and then there's one with all
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three of those lights and then if I push
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and hold it's going to be annoying
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ready so it gives you that
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siren but I'm going to turn it off
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because that's super annoying although
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if you were in a crisis if say there was
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a horrible earthquake and you were
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trapped in a room something like that
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could be a genuine lifesaver this is
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something that can be really really
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helpful so on the back there is a flap
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that you open and that gives you access
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to USBA and USBC you can charge the
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device with either plug but you can also
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plug in and charge your phone or other
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external device from this battery too
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super flexible the small hole is a 3.5
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mm headphone jack i suppose if the
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baby's asleep you could use that to
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listen to the latest news updates and on
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the front it has AMFM and weather and so
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I'm going to push up the antenna has a
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built-in antenna and then let's see if
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we can get some National Oceanic and
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Atmospheric Administration that's what
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NOAH stands for information on the
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weather let's see a little tuning there
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let's
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see so I am in my studio which doesn't
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give me great
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reception
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but let's see
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see
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rain showers likely%
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so you can hear it's you know not
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fantastic because I'm in my studio but
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if I was outside or if I actually let go
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of
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it gives me better reception so this is
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you know just like so many radios where
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you have to sort of fiddle with it but I
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can also go to FM or AM and so we'll go
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to AM
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and see if I can find an AM
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station yeah I'm in a real dead zone in
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my studio but it gives you AM and FM and
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Noah weather and that Noah broadcasts on
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seven different frequencies so that you
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can always receive that information if
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you get those frequencies which is what
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this does so I'm going to turn that part
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off and so it works pretty darn well
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outside i tested it outside i will tell
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you the reception was significantly
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better than what I just showed you here
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sorry about that but one of the other
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cool things is it also has what they
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call a reading light so if you're in a
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situation where you need to like read
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the user manual for this you can use
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this light and they say that this light
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or the flashlight will last 100 plus
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hours if the 20,000 milliamp hour
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battery is fully charged and you can see
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this is a pretty bright little
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nightlight so really well done and it's
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IPX3 water resistant it has the handle
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the handle's kind of a weird design so a
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lot of the reviews people have of this
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product they actually don't put the
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handle on or they take it off the one I
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got already had the handle installed
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apparently there's a trick to it but
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it's already there so I like that and
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then there's a compass on here there's
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actually four things on here there's a
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compass a cutter and a whistle and a
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fire starter so the little instructions
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will explain how all that works and you
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could of course use that little reading
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light to make sure that you can actually
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read and learn how to do that but even
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without any of that the fact that this
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is a battery that you can charge with
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solar or crank and that you can use it
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to charge your phone cuz honestly in
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modern emergencies most people use their
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phone to stay in touch and that's
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probably a good strategy but this gives
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you all these other options and gives
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you lighting it gives you the ability to
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tune in weather channel or AM radio
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which is typically going to give you
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more news and contemporary information
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in an emergency than FM would but it
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gives you all those options and USBC
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USBA 3.5 millimeter on the end here as
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long as you close that properly it is
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waterresistant and there's a lot to like
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here it's a little bit heavier than you
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might expect at 1.8 8 lb but that's cuz
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there's so much battery in here and
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that's what that battery is giving you
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is little weight but a whole lot of
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power so my approach with devices like
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this is just set yourself a reminder
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every 6 months pull it out of the closet
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and charge it up and then put it back
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and then when there's an emergency you
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know just you know use a flashlight to
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get to that closet to open it up to pull
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this out and now you've got a way to
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stay in touch to charge your phone to
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have lighting at night if you know you
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really are in a pickle obviously this is
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great if you're out camping or in the
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wilderness and dimensions wise I'll tell
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you that it is 6.8 in by 3 in x 4 in so
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it's a nice compact size again if you're
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so inclined you can pop the handle off
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which I think makes it a little more
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streamlined um but that's up to you
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certainly easy to do and it does come
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with a USBA to USBC charging cable along
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with like I said a little tiny manual
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and that's pretty much everything i
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think you really should have a device
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like this because we live in somewhat
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erratic and unpredictable times terms of
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the weather so when something happens
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when you lose power when you lose
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heating whatever when you're in the
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wilderness or driving in the middle of
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nowhere and it's late at night and your
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car just dies well what are you going to
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do you're going to pull this out and
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you're going to be okay so definitely
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one to check out i am going to invite
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this of value great this is the Iron
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Snow Condor 1 emergency crank radio and
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it comes in this cool green or cool red
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and it is $59.99 at amazon.com and keep
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your eye open because often has it on
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sale and I know at this moment in time
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it's actually dropped $20 in price which
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makes this a really wicked good deal but
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even at 60 bucks this is something you
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buy now to have insurance so that you
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can do better the next time you have a
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catastrophe whether or otherwise it's
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everything I got sorry that the AMFM
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didn't work so great down here in my
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studio but you know that's how it goes
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most importantly this has all the
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features you'll need when you're in your
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next potential disaster or potential
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weather emergency so that's what I got
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hope to catch you in my next video
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