Machine, machine and mensch, mensch?
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Machine and mensch.
Machine and mensch.
Machine and mensch.
It's a robot, just a German robot.
Machine and mensch.
Hello and welcome to We Can't Rewind, We've Gone Too Far,
a podcast where a Scotsman, an Irishman and a Bulgarian
review the most terrible, silliest and weirdest as fuck music videos.
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It does look fairly legit, but...
I'm sure it is, but also...
The obviously automated email put me off.
Hello, podcaster.
They know me so well.
In this episode, we'll be discussing the big questions.
What is the meaning of life?
How can we find our other halves?
And where do we draw the line in the name of love?
We hope to find the answers to these and many other questions in Hathaway's 1993 hit single,
Life.
No, not the other one, this one.
Time is getting cold
What is going on
What is on your mind
Are your feelings gone
Need to see it clear
Where do we go
Why are you doing great
So there isn't much to the history of this video
As it's usually the case with Eurodance tracks, this video exists purely as a marketing material.
Life is the second single of other debut album, The Album.
The first single being, of course, the immortal What is Love.
The song was a major hit in Europe, as well as Israel, Canada and Zimbabwe, apparently.
Regarding the video itself, it is by far the most mysterious one we've ever had to date.
No information on director or production whatsoever.
Paying homage to the German expressionist classic Metropolis,
Hadaway takes on the role of a mad scientist and inventor
who creates a machine and mensch as a dancing female robot.
Did I get that?
Yeah, I was fine.
They dance, they kiss, they look hot in tight pants.
There is cheesy dance music.
It is a quintessential dance music video.
I mean, it's a pretty straightforward music video.
There's not much to it, which is great.
It definitely is riffing on Metropolis.
It's quite funny seeing a kind of daft Eurodance version of it.
Yeah, I mean, Metropolis is kind of the quintessential first year art school student movie, isn't it?
I genuinely remember the lecture that we were introduced to German Expressionism and they were like, yeah, Metropolis.
But also watch other movies like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, because no one ever told you about this as well, or Gollum or whatever.
I'm going to complain.
I actually haven't seen Metropolis, but I'm fully aware of it.
I had this thing back when I first started watching a lot of films.
I was strongly against black and white films.
I don't know why.
It's really stupid in hindsight.
I think it's something on my list to watch because, like I said, I'm fully aware of it.
I know the story, but I just haven't seen it.
So I can't really compare the sort of similarities that they try to do in this.
They literally create the creation of the woman robot.
Right.
It's literally what happens in Metropolis.
And I think it does quite a good job at kind of emulating the shots and stuff like that.
From what I remember, the shitty VHS copy that I had, it did look quite similar to this.
Albeit with a lot more cheesy lights and sparks and shit in this version.
Yeah.
And Hadaway doing Hadaway stuff, which is also good.
Looking seductively at the camera.
The main sort of thing I got out of this video was, apart from just enjoying the ridiculousness of it,
it was just a mild existential crisis.
It seems like he's trying to create himself a robot girlfriend.
I just started thinking about all the sort of philosophical sort of implications of that.
Has any of you seen the movie Virtual Sexuality, I think it's called?
Where a woman couldn't find a boyfriend or whatever,
and she accidentally creates like literally a copy of herself,
but male, through virtual reality, and he comes to life.
I can't actually remember Habas anymore, but it's like late 90s kind of cheesy teen comedy-esque.
This is what I was thinking about when you're being like, oh, he's creating the female version of himself or like cloning himself.
There's a shot towards the end where he puts the helmet on himself and there's some sort of beam of energy going from his head to the robot's head.
I just love in that scene and presumably in all the scenes where he's playing the doctor, he's still wearing his leather trousers.
I know, this is great, I love it.
And leather jacket at the beginning as well.
Like, what kind of a dingy lab are you, like, what do you mean?
Jesus fuck.
He takes the leather jacket off when shit's about to get real.
It's like, okay, I'm not trying hard enough, I need to put the fucking strainer thing on
my head and shoot my thoughts over to this robot.
Yeah, but before that, he takes off his shirt as well, and it's like, okay, where is that
going to now?
He was getting himself ready for the dance-off with the robot.
Honestly.
Yeah, great.
If I ever brought a robot to leave, I think that's what I would do.
I would dance off with it.
Yeah, so what do we think of the set?
As the resident set designer, I kind of like really love the fact that they're using very
obvious like random shit they found at like Home Depot or whatever the German version of
that is.
Like lying around, like at some point when he goes to press a button to start the process
of transforming the robot into a woman.
He literally goes to a dangling extension cable
and presses a random button.
It's like a very, very obvious extension cable as well.
He probably wouldn't have gotten funding for his lab
due to the aforementioned moral implications.
So he was just kind of building up
from bits that he found lying around.
I bet he used all the funding to his leather jackets.
Not cheap.
Yeah, leather ain't cheap.
Well, they're very well fitted,
so they're definitely not cheap.
The very first shot, as the song starts,
it looks like there's two fans sitting next to each other
and every time I see it, it looks like a set of fans from a GPU
have just been taken off.
Yeah, from a graphics card.
It's ahead of its time there, isn't it?
Yeah.
But I don't know if they would have looked like that at that point,
so maybe not.
I can tell you now that they didn't
because they didn't generate enough heat to need fans.
It looks like a modern one, so maybe you got that from the future.
It could be from something else.
It could be from VHR or something.
It's probably just a couple of fans.
VCR? Sorry, V8's VCR.
Oh, yeah, I just saw the clip of the X-Ledger, right?
Yeah, it's literally X-Ledger.
If you were theoretically going to build a set for this video,
would you have done anything different,
or would you basically just do the same thing?
I'll probably use a bit more light.
I'm not sure that the lack of light was them trying to be atmospheric.
The makeup of the Lady Robot after they removed the helmet
kind of makes me think that they were aiming for German expressionism,
but that doesn't really work when everything is in full colour.
Yeah.
And also it doesn't work when you don't have light
because the idea is not just lack of light
but the conversation between lightness and shadows
and the video is just dark.
And it has like a full light moment but not really.
I do remember vaguely from when I watched Metropolis
I do remember there being some shots
where you could see the characters clearly
but you couldn't really see what's behind them.
So maybe they were trying to emulate that.
And probably would that work because like you know
metropolis was shot like 100 years ago no that's true although i do quite like the it kind of looks
like there's a bunch of big monoliths behind them when he's singing into the camera and they're kind
of glowing and they look like they're kind of smoking and on fire and stuff at points they
definitely had a smoke machine and used the shit out of it yeah oh they got their budget done on that
and his little jackets we killed three smoke machines in this picture one thing i liked about
the set was it was all shot against one sort of uh one sort of backdrop they never really turned
around so it was all straight on so i think there wasn't really a big budget to allow them to move
around too much so everything is from the one sort of angle even the crazy lab to the to the dancing
with the smoke to the uh you know that when the robot sort of comes to life so i don't know if that
was based on budget constraints or just the style but i kind of like that idea that they made it work
against one fixed sort of angle compared to a lot of videos which we've seen where they have
obviously a big budget but yeah they still can't do shit with it well that's the thing like i'm
very disappointed that there's absolutely no no information anywhere who's director or the
production company or anything about this video it's not an amazing video it's definitely cheaply
made but there is like james little like little james here and there uh as you said the fact that
they went on like probably non-existent budget
to create something that had an idea.
It's a pretty tight execution overall.
They had very clear vision of what they were doing.
And I just, I'm very disappointed.
I would like to see what else this director,
if anything, had done.
If anyone has any information about the director
or whatever of this, email,
go into a forecast at gmail.com.
Probably not though,
because it literally like fucking
commed over the internet
and there's absolutely no information anywhere.
Maybe someone knows how to do we.
I'm grass mistrows here
you might be listening into this episode
you never know
personally if I'd worked on this video I'd be quite proud of it
yeah absolutely
so they should let the world know that this is their
glorious creation
they kind of made it work
I mean it's a fucking Eurodan song
what else would you expect from them
you won't really expect the budget that
fucking Guns N' Roses have
there was so many Eurodan songs
coming out at that point
I imagine maybe there probably wasn't enough budget
to go around them all. That's why a lot of them are very
cheaply made. The reason this podcast
exists is because me and Neil were
watching a reason with a dancer
in a pub in
central London. I did not know
that. Yeah. This is where I had
the idea. I don't know if Neil remembers.
To tell you the truth, Neil is
the die.
Fuck off, Neil.
You were there. Yeah, but how drunk was he?
I'm the least drunk
Irish person who will probably meet.
I'll have a comfortable three pints and I'll be happy to go to bed.
That's the magic number for pints.
Once you get over three pints, you either go home or the night goes out of control.
In my experience.
The point of no return.
Anyway, Haraway.
Haraway.
I don't know.
I think I went through all my talking points, guys.
Take over here.
Why is he topless though, really?
Why the fuck is he topless?
Like, I'm not saying he's not hot, but why?
I think it's done in a tasteful way.
It's not over the top.
No, it is literally the top, Neil.
I think he knows
he's already planned this moment out in his head
he's like that motherfucking robot's
gonna come to life and the moment
it comes to life I'm gonna dance
like a motherfucker. I said motherfucker too many times
He can dance like a motherfucker with clothes on
Yeah but it might be really hot in the studio
Maybe he takes off his
fucking little pants won't be that hot
There's lots of steam so it's
clearly hot
They're not coming off let's be honest
Maybe we should investigate
the health and safety aspects of this lab
because it does seem to be a little bit on fire
most of the time. Maybe that's
why the director doesn't want to admit
who they are because they just
completely fucking stamped over any health and
safety. Germans are very
strict about that probably.
If they find out he'll never
work in this town again. When he's
trying to activate the robot there's a gauge
that literally says life level on it.
I never go on that to be honest.
It's like the first time you see it you can't really
read it because of YouTube resolution but the second time you see it it definitely does say
life level. I thought it said love level.
I thought the staging and the lighting was really good fun. It did have that sort of trancey
90s Euro
sort of vibe to it, which I think it just plays
right into the whole genre. The thing is about
this style of music
and this period of time, it didn't
feel to me now, looking back at it
really hard or really violent
or really angry.
It almost feels like it's
really easy listening now compared to
modern day stuff. And I think it sort of has a
charm to it, which I don't think you
probably recreate nowadays.
When I was on the Wikipedia page of the software the song
the critical reception because i forgot to put this in the notes is fucking hilarious
all music editor i'm not gonna tell their name because i don't think that they want to be like
recognized here complimented hadway's passionate urgent delivery on the song and there was added
pleasure coming from hadway's assured voice pleasure really wow there's some weird things
going on here also kingston informer which is some local like media that doesn't exist anymore
called the song Brilliant.
This is the level of music we're talking to
in Kingston Informer.
I think I'm on the whole agree with those reviews.
I'm just trying to listen to the lyrics.
I'm trying to figure out what the song is
if it is actually about anything.
It kind of sounds like
not a breakup song, but like
time after a breakup song.
Because life will never be the same.
Life is changing.
Which kind of follows, you know,
what is love, baby, don't hurt me.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Was it the same album as?
Yeah, yeah.
This is the second ever song, single,
and What Is Love was the first one.
Maybe that's why he's making a robot girlfriend
because Hadaway has just broken up with his real one.
So he made a sad album and then made a robot girlfriend
and now he's started.
You've cracked the code.
To be fair, Eurodance is kind of like relatively known
for dumb lyrics that are trying to say stuff
like Rhythm is a dancer
and I'm looking at the lyrics for What Is Love.
It's great.
That's for another time.
No, no, now. We're doing it now.
No, I don't know why you're not fair.
I give you my love, but you don't care.
So what is wrong?
No, sorry, what is right and what is wrong?
Give me a sign.
Oh, man.
Live sounds basically like what is love version 2.0.
It has a very similar beat.
It kind of sounds the same, to be honest.
But it's a 1993 song.
We have reviewed a lot of songs from 1993 in this podcast already.
Is this 1993 again?
It's 1993S.
What the hell?
We have done it, guys.
Well, that was not intentional.
A year for music.
I think another thing we haven't talked about is the robot lady,
when she comes to life, she turns from being literally made out of metal
into obviously just a woman in some sort of tracksuit with a helmet on.
But it looks like they're projecting light onto her,
so she has these kind of Hacker Man computer visuals going all over
while she's dancing.
I got the Tron vibe from that.
Yeah, it looks pretty cool.
At first I was like, is that a green screen thing or something?
But I'm pretty sure it's just a projector.
I think it's someone with an overhead projector, maybe.
Dragging pages through.
Now, it looks like a projector.
But then again, it's not on him when he's in front of her.
Might be a very tiny projector.
Might be like a human-shaped projector.
I don't know, green screen.
No, it's not a green screen.
I'm fairly certain it's a projector.
Yeah, it looks too good to be a green screen shirt.
To be fair, there's like a fair amount of distance between the two of them.
They can work out.
They can do some German engineering.
Yeah, I'm sure they'll.
Again, if we actually knew the director, we could have asked.
Maybe Haraway was the director.
Can you imagine if he'd done everything?
He might have.
Well, let's just take the assumption that he did.
Then that means that he's not bad at a lot of things.
Definitely good at dancing.
Pretty fucking solid dancer.
Until we hear otherwise, I'm going to go with that theory.
That's why he looks like a mad scientist,
because he actually is a mad scientist of light.
I think we need to discuss the most important question.
Is a robot capable of love?
That is an important question.
It is.
If it's running enough code to trick a human
into thinking that it's conscious,
does that mean that it's actually thinking,
or is it just running a program so well that you can't tell?
I'm very certain there is a few episodes of Star Trek
that's the new generation to talk about that.
I'm pretty sure there's a test for this.
Oh, yeah.
It's a Turing test.
Ex Machina is about this.
It's about, oh yeah, that's such a good film, Ex Machina.
It is great.
Assuming the robot can feel emotions,
assuming he's a good enough mad scientist
to have created sentient life,
and he has obviously made this robot
to be his bird or whatever,
just judging by the fact that he kisses her at the end.
But morally, what does that mean?
Yeah, as he basically made a sex slave,
that's what I'm asking.
Yes, but guys, what is love?
Baby, don't hurt me.
Wait, wait, wait. Is this song from the point of view of the robot?
Is she asking him to not hurt her?
Oh my god.
Because he is like created a sex slave and suddenly she realises
that she's being used by this weird German guy who dances a lot and wears leather jackets.
Again, I think we've uncovered a front.
Right at the end where the robot goes, well, he goes to kiss a robot.
Oh, she looks a bit miffed.
Which could either be because she's a robot and has no emotions or the other option.
Sort of like you're standing on a tree next to someone, you just lean in for a kiss.
It's the same sort of idea.
Probably even worse.
Well, both implications are kind of horrific.
Because in one case, she's like, I don't want to get kissed by this guy.
And the other option is, holy shit, I just realized that I've been created by this guy to get loved.
I guess.
Don't hurt me.
Both horrific.
Did we just like completely destroy the video for everyone watching from now on?
But okay, so if you say theoretically, say she can't feel any emotions because she's a robot,
then is he in the clear or is it still morally weird?
Well, that's like kind of ask the question is, are sex robots the ones that currently exist?
Where do they stand?
Like, where do we draw the line?
Like, if they're able to dance, does that make them more human than they already are?
Yes, but I mean, Toyota have made dancing robots for years, but I don't see people queuing up to shag them.
Not that you know of.
Believe someone.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
I've seen videos.
Okay.
They're next to the cowboy videos.
I haven't seen videos, I promise.
I have not seen videos.
I've seen a lot of videos with Bonnie Tyler, but that's all.
Yeah.
We're going to like deep philosophical questions here.
Because like...
Are we overthinking this 90s Euro Trans video?
No, I say no.
No, no, no, no, no.
We're doing it.
We're doing it.
It's your fault.
Well, either of you, whoever wrote that line there.
Yeah, that was me.
So like going back to Star Trek TNG, which is probably my going to like kind of my reference
when it comes to like androids and humanoid robots and where do they stand in the whole
scheme of are they human or not?
Yeah.
If someone remembers one of the first episodes of season one,
where they all turn into horny cons.
I apologize.
Horny bastards.
And Data, who is obviously the android,
he has sex with one of the female characters there.
And I'm pretty sure that there's a reference somewhere
that he's fully functional.
Yeah, so it's kind of like, yes, he's technically not a human.
Like he's an android, but he can consent and he can withdraw consent.
Like there's a question mark whether he can love,
but he can definitely stick his android penis into someone's vagina.
I've always presumed that Data was sentient,
but maybe I just haven't seen enough episodes to...
No, I mean, he's sentient, but...
And he's absolutely sentient, but is he...
Like the question is whether he can love,
because love is a very specific feeling, I guess.
Hold on.
Let's ask Scott from Star Trek Corner.
Scott?
Scott from Star Trek Corner.
Come here for a second.
Yeah, what?
Is it all right if Data fucks someone?
Yeah.
So, what is your opinion on Data?
Sorry, Data from TNG.
Yeah.
Feeling love.
Yes.
Being capable to feel love.
And also...
Fucking...
Right.
Okay.
Data doesn't have emotions unless he puts them in.
emotion chip in his brain.
He can't feel love.
He can have friendships, though.
So, and he's perfectly,
he's completely functioned in all ways.
And he's well-versed in manners and pleasure,
as evidenced by his swing with Tasha Yar.
And he does miss her when she's gone,
but he doesn't really feel love.
But damn, he can fuck.
So he does have emotion chips for other emotions.
Sorry, he got nice to hear you guys.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
Here we go.
Hello.
You can actually hear you now.
I can't, though.
I was just asking, does Data have emotion chips for other emotions,
or is it just one?
He has an emotion chip.
So at some point, they develop an emotion chip,
or they find one.
I can't remember what it is.
I think they find one that his creator made,
and they're like, oh, look, it's an emotion chip for Data.
And they put it in, and he goes completely wild and crazy,
and Ken will handle it.
They eventually slowly figure it out.
It's that whole thing with Geordie and Data,
where they're figuring out his emotions.
And yeah, Data could feel love and can feel love and has the ability to with the emotionship.
But his brother Law is kind of the what if Data had emotions and was evil.
And so Data generally doesn't put the emotionship in.
But he has like affection.
I think you need to explain here for people who don't actually watch Star Trek ever about his brother and the fact that he has like a twin brother.
He has twin brother Law who is evil.
Who is also an android.
Also an android but has a working emotionship.
And he's a cunt.
Because I was saying in early, I always presumed,
because I've seen a bunch of episodes of The Next Generation,
but I've not seen all of them,
so I always presumed that Data was capable of emotions,
but apparently he's not.
He did not know that.
This thing is, by the end of the series,
he can just turn it on and off.
He's like, I'm going to have emotions today.
And he's like, ha ha ha ha ha, and turns it off again.
I wish I could do that.
But I think it's the third episode of season one
where Data bonks very quickly.
They're like, yeah, Data can fuck.
Data can fuck, and he will fuck.
if you ask him
so in that
in that situation
this is relating
to the video
somehow
but I would just
it probably would be
morally alright
as long as
the robot
and the human
consented with each other
I guess
well that's the thing
is like data is like
data consent
say it's like
yeah alright
he's well up for it
but it's kind of like
why people don't really
like people don't
take advantage of him
they don't go like
yo data
like let's go
like because no one else
like has asked
because he doesn't have
any emotions
so they don't feel
any kind of like
attraction
it only happens
when the entire shit
gets horny at once because of space because of space anomalies making everyone horny and then
someone turns up it's like yo dale let's go and he's like sure and then afterwards he's like when
like that character dies and he's like the one the one character i had like a quote-unquote
relationship with having the erection for yes in the case of this video the robot seems to be made
specifically to be hadaway's girlfriend yeah that this is where the moral quandary's coming in i mean
the more quantities come in in star trek like star trek the card when it turns out they
they accidentally turned data into a race of slave robots and then the question comes does
someone have a data sexually and the answer to that is probably yes no it didn't do somewhere
yeah anyway anyway and the headphones back i think it's got from star trek corner what corner will
you have next week tune in to find out anyway yeah so does that answer any questions or raise more
yeah uh well conclusion i've come to my head is it's all right to fuck a robot as long as the
robot is fine with it and you're fine with it but in this case it would it definitely looks like he's
made the robot just to fuck the robot so and we don't see in the video whether the robot's all right
with it i think uh i'd be on some shaky ground here well the video cut off very early on so you
can't really tell either way maybe the robot just fucks off and gets a job in it should we go into
final point with anything else we're talking about i think we're good i think that's uh cool
you never quite know what you're going to get
with we can't rewind we've gone too far
and honestly we've just gone way too far
this time we can't rewind
and we will go too far and you can't
stop us unless you
unless you press pause in your podcast
so
this video didn't really need to exist and it doesn't really add anything to the pantheon
of music videos. But it's funny and it's silly and it's very much of its time. And
it's honestly a true mystery why wouldn't the director make themselves known, as there's
definitely some mastery I guess shown in the making of the video and I think it was pretty
tight. It's a zany 90s dance version of Metropolis and it's not hiding it. There's cool light
shows there's cheesy mad scientist shenanigans some pretty badass dancing there's a cool
projection yeah i like it so i'm a fan of these narrative driven music videos and i think life
pretty much ticked all the boxes that i wanted that was a good story it was entertaining it was
fun good dance moves and all that my only assumption is that i don't really get why nester needed a
clone but maybe it's some sort of metaphor could it be a metaphor for something for life i don't know
that'll do that'll do yeah so favorite parts was the uh was nestled throwing shapes um i'm convinced
that throwing shapes like that could make a comeback in 2021 2020 is still currently a
write-off i'm feeling in favor of this maybe next year folks least favorite uh the quality of the
video wasn't that great but i don't think that was anything to do with the video itself it was just
whatever got uploaded to youtube i don't get why like videos like this don't have like decent copies
or they can be remastered or whatnot but i guess there's so many videos out there um it'd be
to sort of have the best quality for them all.
I'm a little disappointed by that
because I think it probably would have held up a bit more.
I don't know about you guys,
but I find it quite hard to focus on
because my eyes were trying to correct for the blurriness,
which doesn't exist.
It was fine, got the idea.
Best moment for me is when Hadaway's shown as the scientist
and he's wearing a full leather outfit
and it made me snort and actually made me pause the video,
go back to the Wikipedia page,
confirm that he's supposed to be a scientist
and go and rewatch it again.
And the worst moment for me,
it's kind of a tiny pet peeve,
is the makeup of the robot lady
when her helmet gets removed.
I get what they're going for.
Like, I get that they wanted to get her
to have a kind of a harsh German expressionism style makeup,
but that really wasn't working very well
if the video is in full color.
And you kind of get those weird blue eye shadows
that just kind of look weird.
And honestly, they truly just kept it to completely grey
and white and black and it would be fine.
That's just me.
Probably had more of the oldie vibes.
It would have been more sort of paying an homage
to like Nosferatu, you were saying earlier.
Probably Metropolis, come to think about it.
Yeah, I mean, in that case, that makeup just like,
instead of German expressionism,
it reminded me more of the video of A Flock of Seagulls' I Run, honestly.
That's the second time you brought this up.
that video up in the podcast really is it worth what could i i cut out of one of the recent episodes
oh it's a dumb video we should watch it maybe not review but just watch it right i've never seen it
so i'm gonna have to watch it and see all the fusses about it's a really dumb video it's great
my favorite part is the dancing after the robot comes online uh because this is clearly some form
of calibration sequence and you don't want an uncalibrated robot girlfriend so it's good that
they've done that and the worst part is the general
overall existential crisis
slash moral quandary that this video
has caused me
we're doing eyes and nose
eyes and nose
it's very much an eye from me
it's an eye from me
see it was a no from me but after having this conversation
with you guys I'm kind of on the fence
I think it's a very soft eye
because it's fun
I don't like it but it's fun
Just pick a random song and then
let's just see
Like random number
Throw a dart and we will hit 1993
Honestly probably
18
Bonnie Tyler total eclipse of the heart
Is it too soon?
Too soon yes
- Sumonives, give a number then.
- 27.
- 27 is Aqua Dr. Jones, that actually might be good.
- Dr. Jones, Dr. Jones, go.
- Tell me Dr. Jones.
I don't know if both of you know the video.
- It's kind of a, well, Indiana Jones is straight out of this.
- Oh yeah, I do remember this, yeah.
Yeah, I see them kind of looking like they're on a safari.
There's lots of random shenanigans happening.
Yeah, I'm up for that.
- It's nice to see that the quality is as good
as the last video.
It's 360p.
That's lower definition than the tube TV of the day.
Oh, God, it's really bad.
I think we need to officially start a campaign
to get decent quality videos uploaded to YouTube
for the sake of our podcast.
Join us next time when we'll be listening
and discussing Aqua's video for Dr. Jones.
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