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Meta has just announced some major

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new AI integrations into the Ray-Bans.

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And the big thing here is

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that it is now multi-modal. So

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in my opinion, these AI Ray-Ban Meta kind

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of glasses, this is probably where the Oculus

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should have gone. I know different people will

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kind of debate that, but I honestly see

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this having a way higher user base than

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something like an Oculus, which might be fun

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for gaming or whatever, but doesn't seem like

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something you're going to wear while you're walking

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around outside. Whereas these Meta Ray-Bans, if you've

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seen them are actually phenomenal. They literally look

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like a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses. I'm blown

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away. I'm not even sure where they're packing

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the tech into these things. Obviously it's in

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the frames and everything else. So it's amazing and

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it looks very, very natural. Now the cool thing

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here is that these have always kind of had

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the ability to have a camera on them for

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you to like take a picture with them and

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that kind of thing, but it's bringing it to

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a whole new level now that Meta has come

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up with their new LAMA model. LAMA

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3 is going to be integrated into these

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and you're going to be able to have

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this multimodal integrations and feature set. So essentially

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what you're going to be able to do

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is you'll be wearing these glasses, you'll be

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able to look at something and it's able

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to actually see. In my opinion, it's kind

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of like what Siri or Alexa or okay,

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Google's, you know, the Google assistant should have

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or could have been, but they never really

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had the functionality of the camera. Now this

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is built in with this. So they, they

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released a demo and they showed a bunch

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of really cool things you can do, um,

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a few in particular. The first one is

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that Meta's AI assistant, which was previously only for

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audio interactions, right? So it's pretty much like Siri.

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You could just talk to it and be like,

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Hey Siri, what's blah, blah, blah. Or Hey, Meadow,

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you know, what do I do about this? And

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it could give you an answer. It can now

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process the visual data from the glasses and their

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built-in camera and give you insights on

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that. Now we get some sort of similar

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features from chat GPT, where you can upload

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an image to it and you upload a

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picture and they have actually really cool demos

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that they've done for a long time. The

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problem is wait for it. It's

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kind of, I don't know, my opinion, not supernatural

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to like, take the picture, send the picture, type

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out your message. This is so much more seamless

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where you literally say, hey, meta or tap something

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on your glasses. And you're like, hey, meta, you

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know, what, what am I supposed to be fixing

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here? And then it can immediately tell you. So

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that's one thing that's amazing. The second is that

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users can now ask the glasses to translate text.

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So if you're, let's say in a country that

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is not a language you speak, you could be

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looking at the label at the food at the

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grocery store and be like, hey, like, what is

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this? Or what's the price on this? This

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is phenomenal. This is so cool. This is actually

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like very, very useful, different than like what a

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lot of people would say, you know, VR. They're

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like, oh, there's not like that many use cases,

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shirts, phone for video games, but whatever, right? This

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is like incredibly useful to wear it all day,

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every day. I think, I mean, I would be

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curious what people's perspectives are, but you have things

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like the humane AI pin, which is like a

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pin that you wear on your shirt and it's

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got like a camera and it can kind of

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do some of the same things. It's

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interesting though, because with something like the humane pin, this is

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inventing a whole new device that is

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now on you where glasses, tons of people

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just wear glasses all day, every day. So

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it's like, it's something that you might already be doing. You

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kind of tap it in. It's like if you added all

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these functionalities to Apple smartwatch, it'd be like a no brainer

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because people are already wearing their watches. Now,

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the cool thing about this all to me is

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that more than a smartwatch, the camera is right

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where your eyes are. So right where you are

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seeing things, it is seeing things. It's so much

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more seamless and natural. And I think glasses are

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100% the way to go. Now,

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not that, you know, Meta is like the big revolutionary

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in this space. You know, I want to make it

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clear. Obviously, we had Google Glass, which was kind of

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ahead of its time, perhaps, that it was supposed to

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do a lot of these kind of cool things where

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it could see what you're doing and it was gone.

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I think the big thing there was that they looked

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really dorky, so they're not going to be popular. Whereas

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the Meta Ray-Bans, it's like they're partnering with a fashion

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brand. These Ray-Bans are super cool. So this is actually,

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I think, going to go somewhere. The other

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thing I want to bring up is, you know, I've

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also been researching a lot on the Snapchat Spectacles. This

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is a product that was super cool back in the

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day, but it's kind of been forgotten. I never really

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talked about Snapchat spectacles, but it's a real

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thing, right? Snapchat built these glasses with a

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built-in camera. Now, the thing

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that I think Ray-Ban and Meta have

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over them is if you look at

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the Snapchat spectacles, these things are like

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very obviously clunkier than normal glasses. They

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have these huge cameras built in. It

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just, it doesn't look like something that

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you would naturally wear. The

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arms on these things are super fat.

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So it obviously kind of looks like

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this futuristic thing. Meta and Ray-Ban

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have done a phenomenal job. I honestly

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don't know, like you would be hard pressed

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to see where the tech is actually built into this

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thing. Very, very cool. Looks just like

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a regular pair of glasses. So huge hats off

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here. A couple other cool features

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that you can do is if you're wearing these,

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you also can share what you're looking at during

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a video call. So, or, you know, on WhatsApp

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or Messenger or wherever you're doing this kind of

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in the Meta ecosystem. So it integrates with

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the app on your phone, which I think again

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is probably gonna be a huge winning play for

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Meta, right? Because you have people like Humane with

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the Humane pin and they're like, no, we're replacing your

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smartphone. You wear this instead of a smartphone. You

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don't need a phone anymore. Now that you have the

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Humane pin. But like, honestly, we all are used

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to using our phones. It's a screen we kind of

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look at. I know the Humane pin tries to have

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a projector where it can show you some like

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green graphics on your hand. So not as good, right?

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We're used to seeing like, if I'm doing a video

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call, I'm not doing like a hologram video call

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on my hand with a projector, right? I want

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to see like the person's actual face. So

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how cool if you can use your glasses

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as the camera and you're doing

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the video call on your phone, you can

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see them, but also they can see everything

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you're looking at. It's just so much more

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immersive. It's super, super cool. And it doesn't

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feel weird and intrusive like a VR headset.

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And then of course the multimodal AI upgrade

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is gonna be available for users in the

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US and Canada. So huge markets that are

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getting unlocked right now. I think when we're

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talking about, you know, why all of this

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matters, right now I think Meta's multimodal integration

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is a really big step towards smart glasses,

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right? So this is something that obviously it's

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not a hundred percent there yet. They're just

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getting started. But the fact that you can have a

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pair. glasses that looks completely normal and it functions

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in this way. It's got all this AI built

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into it. I think it's impressive. The way that

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you pair this with your phone I think is

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a good play on Meta's part. You could probably

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have a lot of the tech just running on

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your phone but Bluetooth synced to your glasses so

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it kind of makes them a new device but

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it's more like a smart watch where it just

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gives you extra information. I could see people wearing

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a smart watch and these I think that they're

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phenomenal and the ability for you to be able

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to see things and get feedback instantly is going

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to be really hard for anyone to beat. So

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you know whether you're using this for something like

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sharing on a video call, being able to ask

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it questions about everything you're doing. Overall this is

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a fantastic new innovation that I think is fantastic

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out of Meta. Really excited to see the adoption,

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get my hands on a pair of these and

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I'll keep you up to date on how that

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goes when I do that. If you enjoyed the

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