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airpods pro for 250 bucks no way

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welcome to crazy uncle riley's apple emporium where i got prices on apple

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products solo i'd have to be crazy to sell them airpods too

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them newfangled earpods three

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all genuine 100 real

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guys just kidding it's me regular riley these are all fake super fake but are

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they real enough that they could trick someone into thinking they're real

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after covering knockoff airpods max we received a package with a letter

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attached dear LTT those old and outdated replicas

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you've tested are like buying a dell pre-built when you want a gaming pc they

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sent us two clones that they claim are as good as the real things airpods pro

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at 55 and airpods 2 at 35

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and something they didn't even mention in the letter airpods 3 clones at 42

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to see if these can pass as genuine we took these boxes to our resident apple

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expert jonathan horst without opening the box

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uh you know what i have to say no because

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i reviewed these and i remembered how fake the real box looked

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oh yeah this is totally real

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yeah yeah that's a dead giveaway

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what's the giveaway probably the csa logo

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because that's canadian and we're in canada and they have to put that on

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there there is a difference in the print quality

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oh yeah yeah yeah yeah it's like this is like inkjet this is like a laser so i'm

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i'm opening these up you can tell the difference uh

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already but just with the way the the light the indicator light is inset

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on the device well i guess it really depends on

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whether or not you've seen a real pair

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if you've seen a real pair yeah you'd be able to tell immediately

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particularly with the way the mesh is if it was just based off product shots then

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yeah you probably you might be like oh yeah that looks pretty convincing but

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that's the thing with these knockoffs is you start questioning yourself and you

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start questioning reality yeah if you wanted if you wanted to just look like

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you're wearing airpods out on the street no one no one would be the wiser but how

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do they sound to test we got a few people from around the office and ran an

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experiment my name is ethan i'm lloyd chase i'm

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sarah i write for Channel Super Fun i've been working on like a lot of like really

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cool t-shirts um i'm supposed to be an event coordinator i am a graphic

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designer go to LTT Store if you're interested in seeing some of the

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projects that i get to work on our subjects will now listen to each pair of

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headphones while blindfolded and we'll choose which pair of airpods they think

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sounded better they'll also tell us how confident they are in their decision

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with a value from one to five with one being a wild guess and five being

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complete certainty

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my instant reaction is just i can't hear the outside world more and

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i do like that for if i'm trying to enjoy music oh i feel

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it feels like my ears are plugged it's like just richer and fuller

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definitely the noise canceling is something you notice as soon as you put them in yeah uh which is cool i don't

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know about these with my pros that i

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have usually when i hear the white noise and put them

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back in it goes away but for some reason i can still like partially hear the

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white noise if i can't tell the difference between any of these then i spent way too much

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money on my headphones i could have just bought the old ones here's your right

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here's your left it's kind of quieter but i don't know if it's just actually

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quieter um i would say the base is definitely

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much more over prominent i couldn't really tell a difference at the moment

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other than they were just a little bit quieter i could even tell you that these ones i don't know if they i would say

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they don't go in your ears easily these sound terrible

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they have like almost a static coming from them

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i'll pick the first one based solely on the sound i like the first pair i

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thought it sounded uh just like a touch better the first one and i'm five i'm

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like on a scale of one to five i'm five

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okay i'm five i would say like a one on that one uh

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two i am yeah one out of five confidence not very confident but there's something

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there wow unsurprisingly everyone chose the real airpods as the better pair but

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none of our subjects were confident in their answers with two of them saying it

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was a coin toss the sole outlier was sarah who was very certain the real ones

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were better but her confidence rating may have been skewed by some errors

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encountered during testing apparently it's disconnected uh-oh do you need them

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back hmm you don't usually have to do this with apple airpods

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they sound the same i don't know if i'm crazy they sound maybe a bit less bassy

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but um they know they're the same i couldn't couldn't tell you uh they're

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very light they're i would say they're comfortable i

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definitely can hear a lot of sound from outside there's a little bit less bass

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on them at the moment i would say that i don't really notice much of a difference

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at this time this is the right earbud this is the left ear bud all right

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i don't know if it's just a problem with my ears but so far the fit is like

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better on the right ear i would enjoy this i would there's a lot

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of bass uh the sound from this is much fuller

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as well made as the first one so far the only difference i really noticed was

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just like a ton of bass i don't mind a ton of bass um but i don't usually have

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it cranked so for me when there's a lot more bass on new headphones it's a

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little jarring sometimes they sound good yeah like yeah i feel like i'm at a

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concert but i can't see anything it's actually better than my airpods i feel

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like my airpod pros i would say i'm very

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certain that i like the second one better the confidence levels are

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terrible i'd say two out of five in confidence i'd be like a two maybe

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five out of five i'd say my confidence is like a 4.5 out of five wow a clear

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winner the 35 knockoffs actually beat the real things

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that's pretty crazy to my ears they have a bit more oomph to the base that the

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real airpods lack but it comes at the cost of precision with kick drums

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sounding more full but less punchy other than that the tuning is virtually

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identical to the real thing now we have one more device to test but

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in the seller's defense they didn't intend for these to be sent along with

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the others and well the results speak for themselves

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they sound pretty average do you want to turn it up like all the

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way it's way too loud these ones

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don't fit as nicely in my ears i'm running out of things to say these are

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just the normal headphones i still enjoy them and

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still don't care oh god

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i would say i notice a difference on these even right away part of it is

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probably the way that it doesn't fit in the ear quite as well as the other ones

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and it sounded a little bit off or different than the other four pairs

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i don't know if you're pausing it but it keeps connecting in and out in and out

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in and out i heard a little static like

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beeping like i don't know how to describe it but

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sounds like these got like sat on personally i liked the first one better

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i would say five 3.5 i'd be like that's

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like a four out of five for sure i 100 i

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would pick the other ones that i like them better because they don't have a weird

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static sound also the left ear played music in the other ones i am five out of

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five confident that i like the other headphones better these suck

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big oof the fake pods three did terribly

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every single test subject agreed with relatively high confidence that the

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replicas were much worse they had some electrical noise

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we couldn't get them to connect to our iphones only to Android devices also we

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couldn't get our case to charge via cable or magsafe so these are already

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dead thanks for producing actual junk

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jenny i hope no one actually wastes 42 bucks

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on these things and don't waste money buying a new controller just because the

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joysticks are drifting we're gonna be fixing a bunch of broken controllers for

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an upcoming video so get subscribed so you don't miss it now those first two

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pairs those are nothing to sneeze at if imitation is the sincerest form of

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flattery then apple should be very very flattered they sound good they look good

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but do they work good first let's look at the feature parody

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magic pairing worked for all the clones battery life was acceptable but worse

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than the real things recharge time was fine wireless charging worked on all the

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cases except for the airpods 3 which wouldn't charge at all but battery of

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reporting was wonky with the replicas they would like just die suddenly while

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reporting 18 battery life

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the case battery life on the fake pros seemed good but on the fake twos the

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case seemed to constantly be draining and we weren't sure why maybe a

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reporting error due to the knockoff chipset the active noise cancelling on

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the fake pods pro when listening to music was pretty good but without music

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there was a slight hiss and a not so slight bass rumbling that was literally

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headache inducing as for the find my network while all the devices can be

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located using gps you can't make the headphones chirp or use any of the other

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find my features spatial audio and magsafe

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nope touch controls on the fake pods too terrible they basically don't work the

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fake pods pro you need to squeeze the stem so firmly you will almost certainly

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pull them out of your ear plus all the fakes tended to suddenly stop connecting

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to iphones and require a soft reset and here's the real fun part if you want to

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update the firmware on either of these you need to have an Android device

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download an app from the play store use that to sideload an apk download the

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firmware open it in the app and then slowly update over bluetooth that's if

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these companies even bother to release updated firmware for these chips it's

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not fun but on the plus side the app has

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an eq and lets you turn on anc on the anc less fake pods too so you can make

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this happen oh it's beautiful even though these

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products may have competitive audio quality and crazy low price tags fake

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pods 2 are a full benjamin cheaper and the fake pods pro save you nearly twice

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that we still aren't going to recommend them or even tell you where to get them

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i mean you can probably figure it out using the info in this video and novice

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googling skills but we don't feel comfortable supporting the reptronix

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industry with its consumer hostility and regulation dodging if large companies

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like apple and samsung struggle to suss out human rights violations in their

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supply chains huh imagine what these nameless faceless companies could be

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doing and look at the fake pods 3 you could just end up with garbage

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literal garbage instead we'd recommend spending that

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cash on some high quality budget true wireless headphones that we will have

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listed for you down below but people don't want that they want

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airpods the question is why do people

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want airpods so bad that entire communities have emerged specifically to

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procure knockoffs well even though audiophiles may not care what their

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headphones look like tech is fashion now

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and like luxury clothing brands apple has gone to great lengths to make their

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products feel like an exclusive club green bubbles versus blue bubbles lock

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in features like airdrop and facetime the entire apple ecosystem serves as a

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purposeful class divide if you aren't wealthy enough to pay the entry price to

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join that club well you're stuck with the Android plebs and their weak ass

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open standards and basic text messaging

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but a pair of knockoffs could be the fake id that tricks others into thinking

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you are part of those chosen elite so

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off today hey thanks for watching guys if you like this video go check out our

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what a saga this has been