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Hi and welcome back to Joel & Lia this week we've got ten questions that
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Brits have for Americans or America in general so let's kick it off with the
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first question cheese this is a big thing because in
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the UK cheese is massive we love cheese and so do Americans but Americans seem
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to have what we would call fake cheese orange plasticy stuff in a can, cheese in
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a can, cheese in plastic wrappers that you just like put on a burger and
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hope that it melts somehow but when we look at cheese it's like an actual block
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of cheese and you get your knife into it and it's cheese or you get
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a slice and you like slice the cheese up into bits, oh I love that! So nice we love
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cheese but I'm just like why don't you have it because you would like it more
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than that plastic fake stuff you would! yeah it's only really fake cheese you ever
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see in America yeah contactless contactless is huge over here everywhere
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you go just use your debit card and it's like *beep beep beep* and you've paid for stuff and it's
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like a thirty pound limit on what you can purchase yeah contactless everywhere
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Why haven't you got that? it's crazy when I last went to America you only
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just had chip and pin isn't that insane when you put your card into the Machine
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and type in your PIN number you were still having to sign for things that's
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us like ten years ago and then when chip and pin came it's
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like okay this is a little bit more convenient but still irritating like you
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have to put your card in, you have to wait yeah and you got to put your number in
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then you have to wait, whereas now it's just it's amazing and Apple pay on
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your phone so America must have it because Apple is an American brand yeah
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but now I've registered my card with my phone so I could just hold my phone over
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the like, card machine, and it gets my fingerprint and goes you paid like keep up with the
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times America you invented lots of this technology anyway so... yeah so why don't you
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implement it I find it so bizarre I was doing some shopping
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yesterday and a girl was paying at like a self-service checkout next to me and
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she like swiped her card and I was like what on earth and then the
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shop assistant was like oh no is that an American card she was like yeah and
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there's a massive queue and everyone was just like eye rolling like you're just
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wasting everyones time, bloody hell! So yeah contactless life change life-changing so this is a
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hard one guns come on guys we still don't understand why guns are a thing
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like why is it so easy to buy a gun in America? It is ridiculous we have a law
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against guns in the UK and we have a lot less gun crime
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well they've worked out proportionally so it's not even like oh you're a
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smaller country than us that's why you have no gun crime because they've done
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it as in proportionally to our population yeah we just have virtually
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no gun crime whatsoever. this gun control works in the UK it works in
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Australia it works in loads of other countries so you can see that it works
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so why wouldn't you do it well I know it's to do with like
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laws and constitutions and all these things but I'm just like come on people's
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lives are more important yeah we love America but that's just one thing
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that's just like...that would be one thing that would be the reason
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why I couldn't live there yeah not that I'm allowed in if I was to move there
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for any reason I wouldn't, that would really like I'd live in fear
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yeah oh it's scary! It's insane. that's mental it's so hard to get hold of a gun
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in England yeah I've not tried I just know that it's hard but I think you can but
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yeah you have to have a licence and it has to be for like farming purposes and
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it has to be like locked away in a cabinet in your house you cannot, you
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absolutely cannot carry it with you no way ridiculous
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yeah so the next one is to do with exercise and particularly walking so we
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love walking over here everyone walks you know I remember we used to walk to
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school and then yeah okay we've got a smaller country but there's always paths
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paths everywhere or sidewalks sounds weird in our accent 'sidewalk' why why doesn't...
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why don't people walk that much in America I think gas is really cheap over there for
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them so in terms of expense you're like "well why wouldn't I? petrols really cheap" yeah
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but again that's not taking into account the effects on the environment but
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again that probably more applies to slightly more rural areas I'm sure if we
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went to a big city there'd be more people walking yeah okay this one
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is something you've experienced yeah it's the toilets in America public toilets or
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public bathrooms or restrooms why is there such big gaps in between the doors
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and above and below the door as a short woman this sort of
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makes me uneasy but the gap oh I wouldn't be able to go to the loo. Well i couldn't, like, pfft. *lost for words*
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well I have no words because there's no privacy in public toilets you literally
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all you want to do is just take a peaceful poo and you can't because you're panicked because someone's waiting for the
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toilet and they can see you through the gap and you're sat there like oh my god
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when are they gonna leave oh my gosh, surely that's like really embarrassing has anyone had any
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embarrassing moments where they're just on the loo and they're just making eye
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contact with someone who's waiting yeah let us know in the comments because I
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know I've seen a video from an American being like ah your public toilets like
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private rooms and I'm like yeah because you're doing something private in there
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yeah let us know if that's a thing that you've noticed or you know if you're
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just used to it. If you're used to pooing infront of people
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if you're used to the performance of it! another heavy one is health care as
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you may or may not know in England in the UK we have the NHS and that means
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free health care for everyone who is a taxpayer here which is basically
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everyone if you need medical attention you'll get it yes you might have to wait
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a little bit of a while unless your case is urgent but you'll get seen to and
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you'll be looked after for free because it's included in the tax we pay to our
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government in America if you get ill if you're seriously ill that could cost you
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and your family your house, all your savings, thousands and thousands of dollars, I was about to say pounds, obviously dollars!
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and that is just devastating yeah well we made a video about it so if you're
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really interested click the card in the top right corner or in the description
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below, we'll link it down there as well lots of the comments from Americans there were
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actually really sad like people were saying how much money it's cost them
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like if their child's been ill, that they've got insurance but they still have to pay
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like three thousand dollars up front before they can get treatment or claim
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any money back and it's like it's just really sad so if you are interested in
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hearing a bit more about the health care system we have over here just click the
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NHS video there. so the next one is vegetarianism why aren't many of you
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guys vegetarians? so veganism and vegetarianism is really taking off in
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England particularly in London and I think one thing that prompted this was
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Netflix documentaries such as What The Health, Cowspiracy all of those kind
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of things and these documentaries have really sort of opened everybody's eyes
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over here certainly to the dangers of meat and not just what it's doing to the
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planet but what it's doing to your body yeah and the dairy industry that
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agricultural industries what these companies are doing and how they're
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working with the government to sort of fund their like to fund their ideas
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and make us think that we need these products well our government do it as
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well like telling us that we need meat we need dairy yeah and all of this is
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actually false and fair enough if you want to eat meat got
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nothing against that we have meat occasionally yeah but I do think that
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everyone should be cutting down on the amount of meat that they have yeah you
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don't have to give it up but just everyone should be aware of the impact
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it's having if everyone ate less meat we would definitely live in a healthier
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world and it would be saving so many people's lives I don't know maybe maybe
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we're not seeing something let us know in the comments. the next one is why is
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your legal age for drinking alcohol 21 come on! Is it 21 for buying it as
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well oh yeah think so yeah so here you can drink alcohol with parental
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supervision from age five so funny I mean obviously I didn't get sort of
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drunk until I was say 17, 18 yeah but honestly all it meant was that I wasn't
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sort of gonna break any rules or try and go out or do anything silly to feel
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those things just like in a controlled environment a couple of drinks and some
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food coz I think it makes it a thing if your parents are like no you can't have
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alcohol yeah cuz my parents we'd have... I'd have like Shandy like beer with some
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lemonade from like 12, 13 it just made it not a thing! Like yeah you can have some alcohol if you want...
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but yeah I think my my dad caught me sort of drinking sambuca when I was like 11 and
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he's like you used to like dip your finger in and just get the sambuca
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so funny! obviously I wanted the booze, yeah, sambuca's great! Oh it's lovely! But anyway, give
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eighteen-year-olds a bit of fun lower the drinking age yeah that was nice it was
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lovely and it just meant that like you know we can sort of handle our alcohol a
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bit more yeah I mean we can't, I mean yeah after like 2 drinks we're like 'wasted'! We're a different breed,
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we're a different breed, we're a joke but the majority of Brits... the other day you had like 3 drinks and you woke up the next
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morning and you were like "I'm hungover" I was like you've had three drinks. Oh gosh, that was bad, I was
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mixing yeah I feel like when I've been to America the people that greet you as
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when you walk into a shop oh yeah I feel like they're a bit over animated and a
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little bit fake, oh the like "hey how's your day how's it going?" and
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sometimes you just don't want to be spoken to like it makes me feel like I
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should leave their shop it doesn't make me want to go into their shop and look
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around if someone's like "hey how's your day?" I'm like oh my god leave me alone, like just
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pretend I'm invisible don't look at me I don't want to be looked at I don't wanna be
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spoken to if I need your help I'll come and find you and I'll say can you
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help me with this. yeah, part of me doesn't know if it's because they want to deter
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shoplifters so they're like "I see you like as soon as you walk in I know you're in
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here" or if it's just like they think that we want to be spoken to to me it
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feels like autopilot like "Hi I'm getting paid to say this" yeah
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sorry if that's your job if you've been told to
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do that then you know you've gotta rock that but maybe try and be a bit more
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sincere "darling darling darling come on in oh you've got some stripes you
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love stripes, got the perfect thing for you" I know Americans don't like that about us cuz they're used to
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that other way around and they think we're a bit rude, yeah the service is quite rude in the UK
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but that's just because we like a bit of space and
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the final one is passports apparently something like 14% of Americans have
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passports so the rest of the country doesn't own passports yeah so what are
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the rest of you... I mean what the rest of you.... what are the rest of you doing?! I think it's because and I'm gonna
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answer this question anyway okay I feel like it's because America is such a big
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country that lots of people go on stay vacations, what's it called? Staycation what's a staycation?
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when you stay in the country. Aww sometimes that's nice but if I was forced to do
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all my holidays in the UK I'd just be like oh what a peasant life what a
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peasant life. Oh no that's so bad! But the UK is small and the weather is kind of the same
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anywhere you go but in America if you're from Arizona where it's really hot if
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you go on holiday to Minnesota it might be snowing and you feel like you're in a
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different country and vice versa maybe that's why! let us know in the comments I
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know we've answered a lot of our own questions here but we'd love to hear
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from legit Americans exactly we only know how much you guys tell us so do let
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us know the answers to your questions we're not trying to be you know
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judgmental or arrogant we're just saying these are literally questions that we
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think most Brits have for America and if you like our videos guys and you want to see
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