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When Tech Companies Lie to Us... - YouTube
Channel: Marques Brownlee
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hey what's up mkbhd here you know tech
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companies straight up lie to us
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sometimes right like there's now there's
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different types of lies and there's
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definitely different levels to this
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honestly most of it is harmless
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but it is fascinating and i think you
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might be surprised by how much stuff we
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might take for granted that's not
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actually real so i and many other very
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optimistic people have been waiting for
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the new tesla roadster to be the first
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reasonable two-door electric sports car
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ever since it was unveiled five years
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ago in 2017 can you believe it's been
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five years they originally said it would
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come out in 2020
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and then 2020 came and went and it was a
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bit of a weird year so then 2021
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happened
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still nothing now it's 20 22. this car
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is probably not coming out until 2024 at
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least but you know maybe that's not a
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lie you know that's something they were
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actually trying and hoping to achieve
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and then it got delayed a while fine
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but there were a lot of other little
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things elon said on stage that night
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that were
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let's just say
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clever ways of framing certain
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information the new tesla roadster
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will be the fastest
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car
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production part ever made period 0 to 60
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in 1.9 seconds this would be the first
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time that any car has broken two seconds
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at zero to 60. so that
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actually turned out to be untrue because
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plaid model s came out last year and it
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also has a sub two seconds zero to sixty
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but these zero to sixties should have a
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little uh asterisk up in the corner next
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to it because they are with something
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called roll out subtracted so tesla's
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triple motor plaid model s is listed at
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a 1.99 second 0-60 and at least that one
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does have an asterisk on the site with
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the asterisk meaning with rollout
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subtracted so certain performance cars
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list their 0 to 60 time with a one foot
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of subtracted roll out which might sound
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a little weird but this is a metric that
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comes from the drag racing world
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basically when a car lines up to do the
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0-60 test or a drag test it's measuring
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whether or not you've started by whether
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or not your tire has broken the light
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beams across the starting line so
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there's one pre-staging light and one
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staging light seven inches later the
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clock starts when the tires are no
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longer breaking that plane but there is
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a small bit of speed gathered as the car
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launches before it stops blocking that
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first light
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and then the second light
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that is the one foot roll out a fast car
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can reach five to six miles an hour in
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that one foot roll out which cuts the
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reported 0 to 60 time anywhere from 0.2
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to 0.3 seconds that's actually a a
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bigger gap the harder the car launches
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so every real world test of the model s
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of people on the street going from 0 to
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60 or even on drag strip 0 to 60 it's
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always been measured at like 2.15
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to 2.25 seconds which is still
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absolutely ridiculous but by measuring
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with one foot rollout tesla was able to
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achieve 1.99 seconds i assume they
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achieved it at least one time in order
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for them to put it on their website
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because that's a way cooler headline and
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a way more impressive stat
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but that should have that asterisk next
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to it and i assume the tesla roadster's
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time was also measured with one foot
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roll out but it doesn't have the
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asterisk so is that a lie
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well no
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but that number can be a little
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deceiving without the extra context i
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said turn killing our code our battery
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pack 10 000 newton meters of torque if
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you know what that means it's just
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stupid
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so that 10 000 newton meters of torque
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is another one that's a pretty absurd
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number not that people are buying sports
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cars just for the torque number but that
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translates to about 7
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400 pound feet of torque which is just
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ridiculous for context here's how that
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would line up with some cars you may
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recognize some of the most famous
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fastest cars ever made seems a little
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hard to believe they're this far out in
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front right but torque is one of those
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numbers and metrics that's been around
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for a long time and it's a little bit
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different in gas cars versus electric
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cars so as explained so eloquently by
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donut media i'm going to link their
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video about that below the like button
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torque is a measurement of turning force
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and in this case the force being applied
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by the engine is turning the wheels so
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when manufacturers list the horsepower
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and the torque of a car they typically
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list the torque right at the engine
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crankshaft but by the time it gets to
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the wheels with parasitic losses of the
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drivetrain it's a lower number same
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thing with torque which also gets
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multiplied by the gear ratios in the
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drivetrain but electric cars don't have
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all those gears they have what's called
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direct drive and so they make a lot of
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torque through one large gear so after
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multiplication the number is much more
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impressive from the wheels than from the
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crankshaft at the motors so they've
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chosen to report wheel torque so the 10
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000 newton meter number that elon said
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for the roadster is likely
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perfectly legit very real it's not a lie
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it's just this new number is a little
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deceiving without the context that it's
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a different measurement of torque from
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what we've gotten from every other gas
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car for decades just a little extra word
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there wheel torque makes a big
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difference and this isn't just tesla by
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the way this is the same thing happened
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with the hummer ev which got announced
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that it would have 11 500 pound-feet of
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torque but as engineering explained also
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pointed this out when you divide by the
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gear ratios of each of the motors you
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end up at about a thousand pound feet of
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torque at the motors the way it's
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normally reported but let's shift gears
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a bit pun intended because you know at
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least we're talking about real products
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what teslas and hummers are gonna ship
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they're eventually real and that's great
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and on the other side of that spectrum
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is vaporware so vaporware is defined as
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a product that's been advertised but is
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not yet available to buy either because
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it's only a concept or because it's
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still being written or designed or built
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so is vaporware a lie
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i mean there's there's lots of vaporware
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everywhere i mean from sony's concept
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car at ces that i'm telling you is never
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going to ship as is
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to uh bmw's color changing ix from ces
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with the e-ink exterior it looks so sick
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but i think we all know that's not going
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to be a real car that we can buy but
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then there are also some real products
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that companies announce with the
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intention of making them
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and then
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things go a little sideways like do you
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remember samsung's bixby enabled speaker
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called galaxy home that looked like a
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barbecue grill that was announced in
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2018
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then a year went by nothing shipped in
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2019 there are people that started
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poking samsung and they had to come out
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and confirm with a statement that it
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wasn't canceled yet they're still
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working on it but then in 2020 samsung
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quietly removed all the coming soon
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verbiage from their site and wouldn't
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respond with any official statements
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about it so they're probably hoping we
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forgot about that one or how about air
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power apple spent a few minutes on stage
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raving about this new product a charging
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mat that would charge your phone and
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your watch and your airpods all at once
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and it was to be the future of charging
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this is not possible with current
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standards but our team knows how to do
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this yeah
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they didn't they didn't probably the
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biggest red flag was that at the actual
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event they had a single non-working
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dummy unit in the hands-on area and then
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everybody left and went home
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and air power just kind of quietly
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disappeared nobody ever saw or heard
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about airpower again eventually the
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airpower project was officially
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cancelled by apple i explained why that
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disappeared with the video up here that
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you can click or it's linked below if
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you want to watch that but i think the
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strangest tech company lies though
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come from
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industry standards or terms that are
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just straight up
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outdated because that's just the way
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they are they're not even lying on
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purpose
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and most of these come from the photo
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video industry and i don't just mean how
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someone might say oh we're filming
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something when really there's no film
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anymore we're recording or if somebody
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doesn't know
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because they're too young that the save
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button is based on a real physical
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floppy drive it used to be an actual
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thing you could carry it goes deeper
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than that for example the one inch
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sensor might have heard a lot about it
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it's not one inch
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it's not one inch vertically it's not
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one inch horizontally it's not one inch
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diagonally no part of a one inch sensor
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is actually one inch now you might have
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seen that point and shoots like sony's
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rx100 famously use a one-inch sensor or
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that there's even a couple new
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smartphones popping up like the sharp
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aquos or leica smartphone or the sony
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xperia pro i that have huge one-inch
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sensors but despite all the headlines
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and all the articles and titles and
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captions and tweets and anything else
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you might read if you're thinking that a
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one-inch sensor refers to a one-inch
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measurement in any way then you'd be
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wrong just like i was when i first found
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this so it turns out a one-inch sensors
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dimensions
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are about 13.2 millimeters by 8.8
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millimeters now if you're not already
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annoyed by switching between imperial
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and metric you've realized that that's
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less than an inch in both directions but
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what about the diagonal well with a
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little pythagorean theorem that
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calculates out to 15.9 millimeters
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which is also not one inch so how did we
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get here how is this a one inch sensor
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well if you go back to the beginnings of
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video recording these earliest cameras
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were vacuum tube cameras so just like
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old crt tvs use cathode ray tubes the
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earliest tv cameras instead of a digital
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sensor had physical tubes with a lens at
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the front and electronics inside them to
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capture photons to capture light so the
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bigger the tube the more light it could
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capture it would redirect all that light
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to a sensitive piece inside the tube and
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at the time people would refer to the
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size of the tube by the diameter of the
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tube so when we started using one inch
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diameter tubes the sensitive piece
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inside those had gotten to about 13 by 8
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millimeters so fast forward 50 plus
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years here we are today with these
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amazing digital sensors and all this new
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equipment but today still we refer to
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the size of the sensor
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not by the actual
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measurement of the sensor
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but by the measurement of the
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hypothetical tube
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diameter that would be needed
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to fit the sensor of today's current
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size
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wow so today we have one inch sensors
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they're called one inch sensors because
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the diameter of the tube that would fit
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a sensor that's .63 inches diagonally
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would be a one-inch tube but it's a 0.63
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inch sensor so that actually means all
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of the other sensor measurements that
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you have relative to one inch are also
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relative to this hypothetical inch so
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the half inch sensor isn't half an inch
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it's half of the hypothetical one inch
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sensor ah so is it a lie when these
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companies say that their products their
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cameras have a one inch sensor
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yes and no i mean no if you know what
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they're talking about even if it is a
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lie though it is a pretty harmless slide
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because a one-inch sensor is still a
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pretty big sensor yeah but there are all
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kinds of products that have come out
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where the big selling feature is the
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one-inch sensor like you might remember
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the dji air 2s drone when it was
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unveiled the spec sheet on hasselblad's
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site and on dji site and all the
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articles it all says one inch sensor
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like that's a one inch sensor guys or
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maybe take the insta 360 one r you can
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pay extra money for a one inch addition
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which is a 5k capable one inch sensor
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one inch sensor
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one inch sensor like every headline i
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can remember seeing about the sony
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xperia pro i this crazy new smartphone
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mentioned the one-inch sensor and even
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my video guilty talks about how they're
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using a one-inch sensor which at no
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point actually says the real dimensions
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of the sensor now sony makes most of
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these actual sensors we're talking about
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and sony's own website for this phone
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says it has a one-inch sensor but wait
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there's a little asterisk and if you
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scroll
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all the way down
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and read into what that actually stands
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for it turns out it's a one inch
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1.0 type sony image sensor
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ah see it is a pretty big ask to ask the
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entire photography industry to redefine
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sensor sizes but that is probably how we
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should be referring to these sensors as
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1.0 type sensors because they're not
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actually one inch sensors but you know
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sony's own website uses both terms at
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any given point interchangeably to refer
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to the size of the sensor and i think if
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you ask these companies they'd probably
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like to have you believe that they're
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one-inch diagonal sensors if they never
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clarify then
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maybe that's a lie by a mission
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i don't know how do you feel about that
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part of my job as a reviewer i think is
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to sort through
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all these statements from companies that
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get made all the time and one figure out
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how real they are
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and then two if they're not real find
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out how
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harmless or harmful
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is that lie because it's definitely a
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spectrum i remember when there was this
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huge uproar about transparent backed
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phones where you could kind of see
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through the back of the phone and some
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of the components inside and it was this
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really cool nerdy design but it turned
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out this was just a sticker and the
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components that you were looking at
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weren't really the working parts of the
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phone they led you to believe they were
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so is that a lie
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yeah totally but it did feel pretty
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harmless like the whole point of having
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the transparent back look is just to
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look kind of cool and nerdy and it still
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did accomplish that so i felt like that
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wasn't something that was a huge deal
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but on the other side of the spectrum
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companies will actively try to trick you
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and there is harmful versions of lies
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there's stuff like
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vaporware there's stuff like i don't
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know huawei when they started lying
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about photos to claim that they were
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taken with their newest smartphone but
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then they were caught multiple times
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taking it with a dslr or a bigger camera
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that is misleading that that is
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potentially harmful to a customer that
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thinks they're going to get one thing
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but then doesn't
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so i point that out
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and hopefully we can all make more
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informed decisions together that way and
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everybody wins
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thanks for watching catch you guys the
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next one
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peace
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