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OtterBox Alpha Glass Screen Protector for iPhone X -- INSTALLED!
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May 30, 2025
Got a gorgeous new Apple iPhone X - or have one on order - and are excited about the vivid new OLED screen? It's pretty nice. And pretty ridiculously expensive if you crack it: $249 to replace through Apple.com. That's why tech expert and iPhone X owner Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ decided to put a tempered glass screen protector - the Alpha Glass - from OtterBox on his iPhone. In this video he explains why it's a great choice, why he decided to add the screen protector and shows you, step by step, exactly how to apply it to your own iPhone X. Learn more at: https://www.otterbox.com/
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is this the best investment you'll make
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in your iPhone 10 let's find out Dave
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Taylor here with my iPhone 10 and you
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know what it's a beautiful device but
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boy it was expensive to buy and it's
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gonna be expensive to fix
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if this screen gets a cracked or damaged
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Apple's gonna charge 249 bucks to
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replace it that's a lot more than
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previous generations of iPhone now it is
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a more complex screen with the notch and
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all the secret stuff that's there but
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249 bucks so I thought there's got to be
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a solution that's gonna make this a
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little less dangerous and that's this so
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OtterBox is one of the first out of the
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gate with a really nice alpha glass or
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screen glass protector for the iPhone 10
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I thought wouldn't it be fun for us to
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go ahead and put it on the phone live on
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camera so that's what I'm gonna do
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before I do let me tell you just a
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little bit so OtterBox you know them
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because they make really rugged cases
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and their cases are really great they
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actually have a lot that aren't super
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big and bulky you should check them out
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but they also make this stuff called
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alpha glass which is a 9h hardness with
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oleophobic coating
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what's oleophobic coating I hear you ask
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it's to make sure that when you have
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fingerprints they don't actually end up
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on the screen you have fingerprints so
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the oils in your fingers it actually
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resists them if you don't have that sort
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of treatment you will find very quickly
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that your screen is covered in
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fingerprints and super annoying so good
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that they have that it's anti scratch
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and anti shatter obviously that's the
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goal of having it and more importantly
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autre insists it's easy to install so I
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say let's find out so we open it up
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slide out the packaging so there we go
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see this was the OtterBox alpha glass
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unboxing cunningly can actually tucked
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into the middle of this video how easy
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is that now see comes with all of these
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seem to have the same sort of setup
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the screen protector itself is in it'll
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come out you do it send a little little
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like plastic envelope so put that aside
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comes with a cleaning wipe and it comes
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with a little anti lint cloth and
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instructions now before I did any of
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this I did the probably most important
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thing which was washed my hands
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thoroughly with soap yeah you're still
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gonna have oils on your fingers but you
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want to try to get everything as clean
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and pristine as possible from experience
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if you have dirt or lint or hair and
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then you put your screen protector down
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you can be looking at that hair for the
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rest of time super annoying you don't
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want to do that so shall we read the
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instructions I know this is a little
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atypical but let's see assemble as per
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manufacturer's instructions really okay
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so step two clean the screen with
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alcohol wipe and dry with microfiber
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cloth all right removes excess dirt I'm
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pretty sure my iPhone tends pretty darn
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clean right now it's really pretty new
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but we will use their wet wipe I don't
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know I feel like I just had dinner at a
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BBQ joint because I think they're
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similar maybe not exactly the same
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ingredients but we're a little bit of
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effort how hard can this be to unfold it
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and so now we have our alcohol wipe and
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all I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna wipe
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the surface clean and I also tend to
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wipe around the edges too just to make
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sure there's nothing lurking there
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that's going to jump back onto the
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screen just as we put that down
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so that looks nice and clean and we'll
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put it aside we will now open the
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lint-free cloth and some sorry the
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microfiber cloth feels kind of like
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something you'd get with a wetsuit
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that's interesting so we will use it and
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everything's beautiful or you can't
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really see from there but the screen is
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gorgeous and there's
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a speck of dust on it which is great
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because the next step is the important
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one so now let's see we need to get the
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case out of its little handy protective
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envelope all right here we go has a
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little handle there it is and you can
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see hopefully there's a notch cut out on
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the top which makes it super easy to
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know which parts the top because there's
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no hole in the bottom for your home
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button because it's an iPhone 10 that
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doesn't have a home button it makes
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sense so now peel adhesive backing
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Center and a line earpiece cut out handy
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tip two otter there is no earpiece so
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there's no earpiece cutout oh no I'm
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sorry
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I guess they're sort of it's not seeing
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it'll just double-check we almost did it
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upside down so we want to basically just
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put this directly over and squared and
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centered and now the fun part because
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you can't really see it but the adhesive
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actually spreads all by itself so it's
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basically no work and it's 99% done and
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then I got it all aligned I used the
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microfiber cloth just to wipe the edges
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and make sure it gets a full adhesion
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and in my experience takes a few minutes
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to get that final little bit adhered but
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there's the way they use the adhesives
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nowadays that works great and let's see
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it's not exactly centered but you could
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probably you can't see it all but it's
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not exactly centered so I think I'm
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gonna actually pop it off and actually
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move it just a tiny bit to the left
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which you can do you just have to have a
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little patience because the adhesive
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will actually let you do this once or
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twice but you do have to move slowly and
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gently and I think having the screen
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display will make it easier to Center it
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on the knotch so let's see it looks
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better see hmm I think I might have put
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it in exactly the same place but the
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important thing is whether it's exactly
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perfect or not one of the nice things
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about the iPhone 10 is it doesn't
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actually matter as much right there's
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not all these holes and cutouts and
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everything you have to line up as long
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as the notch is free and as long as you
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have it pretty centered then you're good
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to go and in my opinion even if it's not
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a perfect screen protector which this
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frankly is then it's still gonna be a
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benefit because now for the cost of this
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glass screen protector I have something
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that's gonna save me hopefully two
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hundred and fifty dollars in a repair
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bill if I ever had this shatter or crack
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so mission accomplished success looks
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good I'm putting it back in a case
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afterwards and these are designed to
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also work with cases so you don't get
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that weird sort of case trying to lift
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the edge of the cover up and that's all
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there is to it so with all the mess put
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aside this is the OtterBox alpha glass
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for the iPhone 10 now before I tell you
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the price let me tell you one more thing
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and that is if I can get the words out
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that is that is that I'm inviting you to
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subscribe to my channel so do so before
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I run out of even more words good lord
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and if you found this interesting
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entertaining useful go ahead and give me
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a thumbs up super appreciate it and
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that's it so all this left is OtterBox
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awful glass for the iPhone 10 could you
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spend two hundred and forty nine dollars
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getting yours fixed yeah but that'd be
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crazy because this is $39.99 you can
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pick it up at OtterBox calm this is Dave
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Taylor and my phone's looking really
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good I can barely see it when the
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screens off and when the screens on it's
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invisible you have no idea that it's
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there but I know that it's protecting me
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and that's a good thing so Steve Taylor
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and I'll catch you in my next video
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