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Hear Everything with the Cleer ARC II Sport Open Ear Earbuds
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May 29, 2025
If you're tired of covering your ears with headphones or have earbuds stuck in your ears so you can listen to your favorite music, podcast, or audiobook while working out, you're going to love the Cleer ARC II Sport Open Ear Earbuds. Tech expert and audio enthusiast Dave Taylor checks out the Cleer ARC II Sport and finds that they're ridiculously comfortable (they sit in front of your ear, not within your ear!) and have far better sound than you would expect from the design. Check them out at: https://cleeraudio.com/earbuds/arc-ii-open-ear-sport-earbuds/ Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ #cleeraudio #openear #audio #earbuds #cleer #sportsearbuds #askdavetaylor
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open ear earbuds that are perfect for
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sports and other activities let's check
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them
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out Dave Taylor here and I'm checking
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out these These are the clear ark2 sport
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open ear earbuds and they're really
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pretty remarkable as you can see they
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sit on top of your ear so they are
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vastly more comfortable than any earbuds
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that you put into your ear and they're
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easy enough to work with you just put
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the big piece behind your ear and then
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the other piece just sits on the top of
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your ear you can sort of see that here
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and I'm going to pause the music because
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it immediately went into pairing and
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paired and immediately started playing
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music which is what I usually want but I
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don't want right now so super easy super
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comfortable and really cool design and
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they feature a 16.2 mm met neodymium
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driver and they support AAC SBC and aptx
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adaptive and here's one thing that's
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really cool is they have six AIS motion
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sensors so you can do things like have
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gestures for next and previous call and
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to answer calls and they also have two
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microphones so on when you're on a phone
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call it actually is using apx voice I'm
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going to demo that in just a second let
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give you a couple more specs so IP px5
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waterproof Bluetooth
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5.3 with multi-point connection support
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and 8 hours of battery life with them
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just like this but then when you put
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them in this fairly decent size travel
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case then you actually get 27 more hours
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for a total of 35 hours of playback and
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here's something really cool when I put
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it in you can't really see but there's a
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blue light that comes on underneath cuz
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it does UV sterilization
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so the part that's sitting on your ear
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that's likely going to get sweaty when
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you're working out or doing any sort of
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activity that actually gets sterilized
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every time you go to charge them I think
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that's a pretty slick addition now from
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a sort of design and comfort perspective
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they're really remarkable cuz as you can
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see again there's nothing in my ear so
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it's incredibly comfortable and what
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there is is if we look really closely on
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the unit
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there's a little cutout that little red
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point or part and that actually is the
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directional speaker outlet so the music
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or audio book or podcast or whatever
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you're listening to is being pushed out
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of that hole and directly into your ear
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so no one near you can hear it and your
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ear is still open to have all the
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environmental sounds around you that you
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need especially if you're out for a run
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or a bike ride or something and you're
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getting surprisingly good audio quality
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too it's quite remarkable and where this
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all works together is with the clear
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Plus app so what I want to do is I want
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to bring up the app so you can see it
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here we go and now I'm going to go ahead
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and put these on and each one has a tiny
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little r or L to tell you which ear they
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go in so there's
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one and then I'll put this on my other
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here and it's that easy they're on
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they're comfortable I'll reconnect in
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the
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app
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and there we go they're paired and so
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now you can see they're pretty darn good
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in their charge status and that it
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actually tracks here's one really fun
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thing is it tracks the total number of
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steps so because of those motion sensors
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while you're wearing them they can
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actually Act like a pedometer too so
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I've been wearing them as I've been
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walking around my office and doing some
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you know various chores and such so you
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can see I've done 328 steps nothing to
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write home about but it's really cool
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that it tracks that there's also
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equalizations you can customize it or
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you can simply have it be one of the six
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presets I just typ typically leave
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things flat and that's most of it you
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can go into settings on the top right
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and then I can change things like the
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app language and that changes the voice
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prompts that you hear when it's like
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it's pairing connected things like that
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um you can change the touchpad controls
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quite importantly you can check that you
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have the latest version of the firmware
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and there's just a bunch of stuff you
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can do here and you know even if you
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never use the app at all it's still
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really easy to work with and it does
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come with a little tiny manual so you
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can see some of the those tap sequences
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but what I want to do is I want to bring
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up
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voice
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and now what you're hearing is my voice
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as picked up by the clear Arc to Sport
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and you can hear it does a pretty solid
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job this is certainly something where
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you could be on a phone call while
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you're on the treadmill or on a bike
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ride or something and the other person
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will be able to hear you just fine so
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let me stop this suffice to say I was
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blown away when I put these on not in on
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my ears and then put some music on you
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it's turned the volume up a fair amount
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but it sounded remarkably good much
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better than I expected with a full range
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of sound and not a huge amount of Sound
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Stage so it still feels like a very
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intimate sort of Music reproduction but
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it really did sound good and it really
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is entirely listenable and if you're
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doing podcasts or audio books or
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something this is going to sound great
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if you're going to use these for audio
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while you're on a call then you can do
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that for an easy 30 minutes or more
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while you're doing other stuff and of
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course the huge safety Factor here is
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that you can still hear everything
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around you this is the opposite logic to
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things like active noise control which
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have circuitry to make it so that you're
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isolated from what's around you those
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are really bad idea if you're going to
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be going for a jog or you're on a bike
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ride on public streets or something cuz
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you want to hear what's around you you
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want to hear that big vehicle coming up
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or those five other bikers saying on
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your left you know if you can't hear any
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of that it's actually quite dangerous
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not just for you importantly for you but
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not just for you but for everyone else
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too so these are really nice and that
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ipx5 means you can wear them even if
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you're jogging in a light snow or in
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rain I know you hardcore athletes out
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there and you know every time you take
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them off and put them in the case then
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it is going to then use that UV
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sterilization to make sure there's no
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bacteria sitting on them that you're
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then going to have to deal with the next
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time you pull them out so I'm very
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impressed with these I think these are
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really really cool and I really like the
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design because sometimes I like to not
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have earbud buds in my ears I like to
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just have like that sort of air
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Equalization and be able to hear what's
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going on around me even as I'm listening
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to my own personal music Source or my
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own personal podcast or audiobook or
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something else so lots to like here lots
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worth checking out and we do need to
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talk about the price before we get there
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ific ations give me a thumbs up if you
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found this of value and of course I hope
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you did great then these are the clear
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ark2 sport open ear earbuds and they are
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$189.99 currently discounted down to
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$169.99 at Clear audio.com
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and the case is really nice it has a
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great hand feel it comes with a USB to U
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A to USBC charging cable there's
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everything you need for you to take your
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music or audio content to the next level
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while you're still being physically
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active and that is a huge win that's all
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I got hope to catch you in my next video
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