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Welcome back, everybody.
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Now today I'm taking a look
at a product
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called the ID Police
which is an As Seen on TV product
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that supposedly allows you
to securely protect
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your documents before
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throwing them in the trash.
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Does it really work?
Let's find out in today's video.
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(introduction music)
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If you've been watching
my channel for a while,
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you know I start it off
just doing As Seen on TV products.
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I still do them
whenever I get a chance.
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So I ran across this one,
had a few request for it.
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It's been out for a little while.
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But finally getting around to it.
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Also, in 2021, I'm trying
to do more one-off smaller videos
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on Wednesdays.
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So that's what it's going
to be this week,
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the ID Police.
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So let's crack this open
and see what's inside.
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So here it is.
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Of course, it comes
in this horrible packaging.
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Fortunately, a few months ago,
I did a complete video
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of multiple products
to do this kind of packaging.
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I'm going to start off
with the Slitit.
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It should work, no problem.
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I had good luck
with the Slitit on packages
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like this. Let's see.
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BulbHead should really
sell something like this
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to get through all their packaging.
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Let me peruse these instructions
for a moment here.
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It's very, it's, it's...
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I don't know what I expected,
but it's very light.
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It seems like kind of,
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you know, dollar store plastic.
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Doesn't mean it won't work though.
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According to the instructions,
it says twist the cap
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to open.
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And there it is.
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It says use firm pressure
slowly rolling the product
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over any information
you want to cover.
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If uneven pressure is applied,
it may not work properly.
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They do suggest putting
the cap on tightly
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to make sure it doesn't dry out.
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Let me see what they say.
Can't be used
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with some rough surfaces,
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paper that absorbs ink excessively,
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some types of coated papers,
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text with raised print,
text printed in color,
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and text with large fonts.
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Let's take a closer look
at the ID Police.
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I actually bought two pack
of them so I have another one.
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I paid $20 for it.
I think a single pack
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you can get for $10.
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It is on Amazon.
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It currently has a 4.5 star rating.
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Their claims are that
it's good for bank statements,
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credit card statements,
offers, pill bottles,
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shipping labels.
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No messy stamps.
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No need for expensive
paper shredders.
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Just roll it. No assembly required.
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They say it's portable.
Can be taking anywhere.
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For those who have tried it
and leave positive comments,
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they say it works as advertised.
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Saves having to shred a document,
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and it's even fun to use.
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The cons however
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say it doesn't conceal
the info well.
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The ink becomes transparent
as it dries
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and someone said
it leaked everywhere.
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Let me just do a very quick test
of it right now.
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They say just move slowly
and evenly. Let's see.
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Oh.
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Well, that is kind of fun.
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And you get their brand
marked on over everything.
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ID Police.
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Can't go fast.
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I can see why.
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It goes through the paper
just a little bit,
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so you might want
to have something down
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if you have something important
underneath it.
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So one thing I'm going
to do for the ID Police
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is actually mark up
all the different papers
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I have set aside.
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But what I've heard is
that the ink can actually
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change over time
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so I'm going to let it sit
for a day, and then
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go through them
more detailed tomorrow.
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I'll kind of show you
quickly today how it looks.
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But tomorrow is going
to be the real test
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to see how the ink holds up.
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All right. I should point out
before I get started.
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This is the As Seen on TV version.
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There's version on QVC,
on Amazon. Lots of them out there.
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I really just wanted to see
if this one actually works.
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I'm going to do my pros
and cons at the end,
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but one con I can already tell you
is this is a one-time use.
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There's no refills.
I'm not really a big fan of that,
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but that's what
we're stuck with here.
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I got a whole stack
of things I want to try this on.
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And what I'm also going to do
is let them sit overnight
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and see if I can wipe
some of the ink off
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and see how good
the security really is.
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So let's get started.
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How about some
old election instructions?
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Let's see how we can get with that.
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I was also going to pull out
a Sharpie and see
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if I can just kind of Sharpie
out some of this stuff
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and see how that compares.
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Let's see.
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I'm just going to try,
I'm going to try a line
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of this with just a Sharpie.
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Now, ID Police.
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Very quick.
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Very quick actually.
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Let me see.
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Get really close here.
Can you see the information on there?
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Can you read it?
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Compare the Sharpie.
Well, you can kind of...
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I think you can figure that out.
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Now so much on the ID Police.
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Here's some instructions.
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This is a little bit
glossier paper.
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Let's see if I can,
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what I can do about that.
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ID Police.
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I think I just like
saying ID Police.
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It just rolls off
the tongue I guess.
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This is a glossy paper.
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So let me see what that does.
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I guess... What is this from?
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I guess I bought
some baseball cards.
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Let's see here.
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I guess I can read a word
or two here in there.
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But I can't read all of it.
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What happens if I don't let it dry?
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Oh, jeez!
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That's, that's not good.
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Let me see how this looks tomorrow.
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I'm going to set that aside also.
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How about a cardboard?
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This is for the Coop Pillow
which I picked
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as my favorite pillow
in that comparison.
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The Coop Pillow is a good pillow.
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Let me see how...
I'm going to, I'm going
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to ruin my instructions
just for the ID Police.
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I'm just going to ID Police
out all this,
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because I don't really need
that as much, much,
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so let's see.
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Wow.
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As the instructions said,
the larger type's
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a little bit harder to hide.
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You can kind of make out
some large letters,
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but still pretty good.
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Look at how quick that was.
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Now here's a really good on here.
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Something was sent
to my, my PO box.
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I get a lot of products
into my PO box.
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A lot of them I don't
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do much with, but say
you have something in the mail
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you want to get rid of.
You don't want
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that to be in the trash. Let's see.
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Very quick.
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I mean I'm kind of liking this.
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But you know what though?
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I can, I can make out...
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I don't know if you can.
I can see my name in there.
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I can see it.
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The PO box is a little bit harder
to see, but
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I can see my name.
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What if I go over it a second time?
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Let's see.
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Oh. I definitely can't see
my name anymore.
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Here's another piece of paper.
This is a unsolicited mail.
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Hiyah!
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I may have just got on the table.
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(chuckles)
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Oh well. It's all,
it's all for the take one
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for the team, right?
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So far so good.
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More junk mail.
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Boom!
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I wanted to try white letters
on a dark surface.
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They didn't really address that
in the instructions.
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Let's see.
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That's one pass through.
I could definitely see it.
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Let me try a couple passes.
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I can still read that.
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So I'm going to say
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depending on, on the paper
and everything,
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I think that's, that may not
work too well.
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All right. Here I got a fake bill.
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This actually was
a Pennsylvania sample bill
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from their election company.
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It's funny I was looking
for a fake electric bill to
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use for this example.
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Turns out fake electric bills
are a thing.
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People fake electric bills
all the time out there.
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I had no idea.
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But let me see here.
This has like some fake
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information on it.
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All right. Here's what we got.
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123 Main St. Anytown, Pennsylvania.
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Can you still read that?
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Not really.
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It would be tough.
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Let me try another one.
The account number
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with a bunch of zeros on it.
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Can you see all those zeros?
I can't see them.
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You know, it is,
there is something oddly satisfying
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about this.
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Let' try a receipt,
because the receipts
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are kind of slick.
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There's a different type
of texture to them.
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Seem to go on there pretty well.
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Not bad really.
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All right. Finally, I want
to try one more.
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This is another one
that's to my PO box.
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Let me just try this.
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I am noticing something here.
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Let me show you a little closer.
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I can kind of see
my PO box when I look at it
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just at the right angle.
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So, yeah. If it's very sensitive,
you might have
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to go over twice. I'm not sure.
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One more thing I want to try.
I really can't show you
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close up, because it has
sensitive information,
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but this is a pill bottle.
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They do say you can use it
on pill bottles. Let's see.
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I'll be back here where
you can't see, see what it says.
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That's kind of a little bit awkward
going around
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that corner there.
And the ink seems like it kind of
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is not even.
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And I can, I can still read
some stuff on there.
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I can still read
everything on there.
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So I don't know.
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Let me go up and down.
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Oh, I'm just smearing it.
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Actually, the second pass
made it easier to read
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than the first pass,
so I'm not, I'm not going
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to show that.
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No. I don't know about that.
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That's a kind of a slick surface,
so maybe that has
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something to do with it?
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But I'm going to let these sit
for 24 hours
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and then I'm going to see
if I can wipe the ink
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off any of them and see what,
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what results we have that.
So come back 24 hours
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and finish this up.
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All right. So it is Day 2.
I just looked over all
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the, the things I tried yesterday.
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I'm not as impressed
on the second day.
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It looks like the ink
kind of faded in some cases.
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I scanned everything in,
so when I'm looking
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at them, I'll show them
on the screen a higher quality
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than what I can show you
from the camera.
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So let's get started.
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Let's pull another one off.
How about the,
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the package? Let's see
what we got here.
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Oh, yeah. I can see it.
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PO box 530572.
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Oh, yeah. I can read everything.
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This seems like it's faded
a little bit since yesterday.
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The text wasn't as obvious
to read yesterday.
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Let's keep going.
Let's keep going.
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Another package here.
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This one I have two swipes on.
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And I, I can't read that.
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Nope. Can't read it.
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Oh, wait. You know what?
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If I put it up the light,
I can kind of read it.
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But not everything.
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I'm going to say this is
kind of a moderate pass.
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The cardboard really absorbed
a lot of the ink, so,
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so I don't really need a...
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I, I can ready every word
of the cardboard.
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Cardboard was not impressive at all.
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How about the fake bill?
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This is the kind of material
that you'd find on checks,
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on regular papers.
Let's see what we got here.
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Well, that's kind of hard...
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Well, I do see 123 Main St.
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I can read that.
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Let me go to the account number
at the bottom.
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I can kind of see all the zeros
on there. Not as easy.
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I mean it's kind of iffy.
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I do... I see automatic bill pay.
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I can kind of... I can read
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probably 75% of it.
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The next one is interesting.
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The baseball card pamphlet.
This set overnight.
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Look what happened
to the ink. It just kind of,
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it kind of spread out.
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Almost like it was smeared.
You can see where I smeared
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right there.
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But let me see if that means
I can read it any easier.
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Like on the left side
where it's lighter,
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I can actually read all
the words there,
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but as it gets darker,
I actually can't.
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So it's kind of a,
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kind of hit and miss.
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I didn't put this on water
or anything.
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I just left it out.
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And that's what happened to it.
Very strange.
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How about the,
the election document?
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Although I can read that.
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This is a little bit larger type.
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Las Vegas City Clerk.
I can read that.
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City.
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City hall second floor.
I can, I can read it.
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Now with the, the Sharpie,
I can read that too.
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Oh well.
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Let's try the, the envelope
and see how that looks.
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PO box.
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19807?
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Las Vegas Nevada 891312.
I can read it.
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I can read it.
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I'm disappointed I can read that,
because this is
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a very common type of paper.
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How about the advertisement?
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With my address on it.
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I can definitely read that.
Po Box 530572.
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Disappointing.
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Now, the pill bottle
that I'm not going to show you.
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Wow, it faded really badly.
I can read everything.
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I don't even need
a magnifying glass.
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It's, it's...
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Kind of like the cardboard,
it was just, everything faded
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on that one.
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How about the receipt?
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You know what?
The receipt, I really can't...
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It seems like the text might
be the most difficult to read
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of all them on the receipt.
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I thought this was
going to smear, but it didn't smear.
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But look at that.
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I think the receipt
is a resounding success.
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Everything else is kind
of hit or miss.
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The only one I didn't scan
was the black glossy one,
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because it looked bad
in the first place. But,
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it didn't really change overnight,
but you can still
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pretty much read it.
Nothing really changed,
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so I didn't bother scanning it.
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What I want to do now
is actually see
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if I can wipe into that off,
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especially on the slicker surfaces.
Let's try that out.
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I've just got kind
of a damp paper towel here.
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Let me see
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what happens to the ink.
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Not very secure now, is it?
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Didn't really expect it
to be that easy.
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Let's try this one.
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Oh wow. Look at that.
Oh my goodness.
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Wiped right off.
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And this is after 24 hours.
This isn't just fresh.
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It's been sitting there
for a whole day.
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Now this is just regular paper.
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I can't imagine wiping off
this one. Let's see.
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Oh, see. That's that,
that's on the regular paper.
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Not so bad.
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It's actually making it
harder to read.
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Okay. So, coast is clear
on, on this matte paper.
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Let me try the receipt here.
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On the receipt, wiped right off.
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Well, I'm going to say
if it's on regular matte paper,
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you have a good chance
of a stain, but on,
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on anything that has
any kind of a gloss to it,
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not so good.
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These have pretty good reviews.
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I'm not discounting those,
but I'm not as impressed
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as a lot of the other people
who have used these.
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Maybe this is just the ID Police?
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But the ratings of the ID Police
seems about the same
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as all the other ones.
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I'm not sure I would trust
some sensitive documents
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to this with one pass.
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Maybe a couple passes
and let it sit and see
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how it looks the next day?
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But as the ink dries,
it seems like it becomes
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less impressive
than we first use it. So...
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If you use it, it looks great
and throw in the trash can,
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it might not look that way
the next day.
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But if you've tried the ID Police
or something like it,
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tell me what you think
in the comments below.
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I appreciate you watching
and I'll see you next time.
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I'll be doing my pros and cons
at the end, but one con
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I can already tell you
is this is a one...
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That's going to be a blooper reel.
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