Apple's new $80 "smart" RBG water bottle
Apr 30, 2024
Apple's is selling a new "smart" water bottle that tracks your gulps and syncs with the Health app. Watch full episodes of the CultCast at http://watch.thecultcast.com and catch the live show Thursdays around 11:45am PST. Search "The CultCast" in your favorite podcast player for full audio episodes.
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So now you can get smart water bottles
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The Hydrate Spark Pro Steel smart water bottle, and it's a vacuum-insulated 32-ounce water bottle
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This is what I like. It's got two different kind of lids, one for chugging and one for straw
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Oh, I miss that. If you want to use a straw, an LED puck in the base that lights up
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and customize what colors and patterns to remind you to drink water throughout the day
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And it, It sends your atoms exasperated. It censions your water consumption and transmits data via Bluetooth to your phone and the Apple Health app
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So it's health kit enabled. To be honest, I started thinking about this
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Maybe not the absolute worst idea because I have had, I woke up one day last week
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That's such a headache. And it wasn't the COVID. It was like, I realized I did not drink any water
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It was actually, it was kind of the COVID. because I wasn't going outside of this, my room, right
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Yeah, absolutely isolating. But I realized, like, I had a freaking headache
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like I had, you know, drunk a bottle of whiskey the night before or something. It's just because I didn't drink any water
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And also, I've also, I've noticed every now and then, I just realize I'm not drinking enough water
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And not too long after that, you know what happened? Kidney Stone. So drinking water is a great thing to do
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and I don't think it's the worst idea to have something that reminds you, hey, quit typing and get something to drink
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Now, do you need to pay $80 for a Bluetooth connected? I don't know. It is a little nuts
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But after that, after that dry morning, I started going, geez, maybe I need one of these
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Okay, you took this in a completely different direction than I thought. I thought we were all going to sit here and make fun of this damn thing
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I mean, I just, it's just such a commentary on where we are as a cold
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that we need a bottle with RGB lighting at the bottom that's HomeKit connected
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that reminds you to take a sip of water. It's like where are we, what's happened to us as a culture
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This is something that we actually need now. It's like everything has to be smart
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smart this, Bluetooth connected. Remember the Bluetooth fork that was at CES
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that would like buzz if your bites are too big? I mean, I'm like
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Oh, give me a break. Exactly. How much more superfluous can it get
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And that was what I thought when I saw this. I was like, are we really so inept as a culture that we can't even remember when to drink water now
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And we need a bottle with RGB lighting. Now, look, no one's a bigger fan of RGB lighting than me
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And that's actually one of the reasons why I would probably want to get something like this. And then it connects to HomeKit and it will monitor your..
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It's not HomeKit. It's HomeKit, yeah. Come on. The Smart means, yeah, it's probably connected to your smart
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Come on. It's HomeKit. Yeah, it's HomeKit. Or I guess Health Kit. Have you had me water today, Lewis
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Are you seeing parts to lose? If it worked with HomeKit, it could blink the lights in your house
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Well, it may be it can. Maybe it does. Now you've made me want to, like, figure it out
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I can't believe that it's home kit. Yeah, I'm sorry. Well, yeah, it's probably Health Kit, and it connects with the Apple Health app, is what I was trying to say
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And so it monitors, like, how many swigs that you've, you know, had throughout the day
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And to me it just seems kind of super powerful It like can we not remember to take a sip of water throughout the day I like you know I have my pond my pond water here that you guys often see me drinking This is my homemade probiotic water Adam
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Jeez, you need to put some LED lights underneath that. So it lights up a different color over than that
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You guys, you see the floating around in there. Algae green. Oh my God. Minerals
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It's minerals, exactly. I mean, I do have thoughts on this, though. Okay
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Like, I'm sure you is health conscious. I have thoughts on this. Well, for one thing
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I've had apps, for instance, you know, that monitor water, make sure to drink water and stuff like that
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You know, because I have an Apple Watch and I want something fun to do with it, right? So, and what I found, what I discovered is that there's actually a little bit of a risk in these apps, and it's actually not a joke, funny enough
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A lot of these products or apps that promote drinking water aren't taking into account your personal health
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I mean, you just went loose. You were just saying you went through kidney stones. That's not a joke, right
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No, yeah. But, kicky stones. Oh, no, no, no, no. No, that's not a joke at all
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It's a horrible pain. You basically experienced childbirth. So congratulations on your, on your new little one in your family
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I'm like so paranoid. I'm going to get one of those. And every time I hear you got, I hear you talk about it
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It just gives me PTSD. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Well, there's a lot more to, well, for instance, number one is over drinking water is something that these apps do
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And it was telling me it'd have to have like a, you know, five liters of water day. That's dangerous
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That's like a... You're depleting, you're rinsing yourself out too much. So you're depleting
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You can get very quickly get what's called hypovitamosis. You're actually draining out all the minerals and vitamins from your body
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Your body doesn't have a chance to absorb it. So that's too much water. So anybody who's big in the health is going to tell you drink when you're thirsty, but do drink
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But don't have that six liters a day. That's preposterous. That's unhealthy drinking, right
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So no, it's not good for your body to do that at all, to drink too much. But it is important to drink
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The other thing, too, is, you know, a kidney stone might be really
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it might be because maybe you're getting too much vitamin D. That causes your body to absorb too much calcium
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If you're drinking too much, if you're getting kidney stones, try to avoid too much dairy and cheese because that's where it's usually a calcium
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Oh, there you go. I'm not willing to make any life choices to avoid them
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I mean, they're just, yeah. And if you're going to drink water, put some lemon in your water
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You know, maybe, maybe our fun has a point there with his, with this pond water because, you know
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you put a little bit of lemon water that dissolves kidney stones. Really? Right? Yeah, you know, that's funny you mentioned that because after my first bout with one
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I became very aware of how much water I was drinking, and I started putting lemon juice, you know, squeezing a little bit of lemon there
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And I've stopped that recently. You know, that's the thing. Like, every time I realize, you know, I haven't been drinking that much water
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It's like everything else. You know, oh, geez, stop paying attention, and then the next thing you know, you pay a price
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Mother Nature is a very good teacher, isn't it? Relentless. Yeah, no, for sure, no
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But yeah, if it's monitoring, if it's taking into account your body weight, your age, your current health, and it's monitoring it based off that, yeah, okay, maybe we've got something going
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Maybe it'll help to regulate a good water intake. But if it's just telling you drink every five minutes, I don't agree with that
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I think that's sloppy technology, right? Well, I don't know how these particular water bottles work
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I mean, they certainly are expensive. I mean this one is And I don know the I don know how it informs you of your of your water intake like what it basing that off of
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I mean, the fact that it has a chug top, maybe, uh, maybe indicative of science behind
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the bottle. He comes on and goes, do it. Do it. Yeah, chug, chug, chug
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Come on, you whim. What are you waiting for? Come on. It wants you to drink like eight bottles a day
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But, um, yeah. He says it's clinically proven accuracy within 3% of manual readings to the Mayo Clinic trial
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Wow. Okay. That's crazy. That's crazy. I'm going to try and get a hold of one of these things
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Yeah, I'm coming full circle on this too. But then what science is used to? The Mayo Clinic with a grain of salt sometimes
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It's not always the best advice. Sometimes it's a little bit outdated, yeah. Yeah, I mean, prescribe a lot more mayonnaise than you should eat
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Yes. Yes. And I love mayonnaise, too. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't get that
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Get that up either. Yeah. Yeah. And we got dipsy-doo in the chat saying
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pretty sure it's supposed to be half your body weight is how many ounces you should drink
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Well, see, that's the thing. It's like there's all these like rules out there
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And you're like, I don't know if this is true. You know. 90 pounds of water a day
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Good God. Oh, well, it'd be 90 ounces of water a day, right
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So that would be, yeah, it's an ounce. It's half your body weight and ounces every day
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In ounces. Okay. Yeah. You know, there's, I don't know if you guys ever used
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I know I've talked about this on the show for it. There's an app called Lose It, and you use it to check how much
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how much, it has a water tracking capability in it, which I bet you you can plug this thing into it
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and that'll just get automatically filled so you don't have to like, I never keep track of how much water I drink because, you know, I don't know
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you don't have an $8 water model, right? Exactly. It is kind of fun sometimes to use these things to get a, you know, what we're always talking about with Apple Watch is that it doesn't necessarily, you know, it's not a medical device, but what it does is it says, hey, you perhaps ought to do this
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You know, this particular lifestyle change might make you a little healthier
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I mean, I mentioned I've had the COVID for a couple weeks, right
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So I wasn't exercising. I stand in a house more than usual
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I got a little notification the other day. It says, hey, we've noticed a trend
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You're not walking as much as normal. That kind of stuff is pretty powerful
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And it made me immediately go, yeah, that's absolutely right. I got to, like, if I'm not exercising, I need to at least, you know, walk up to the corner store rather than driving once
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And so I don't know. And infect everyone? And infect your whole neighborhood
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Well, okay, maybe not the story. I'm clear now. clear. I don't know
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I'm doing this for my health. My Applewives told me I need to come in here and walk
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Yeah. I'll tell you what you're saying about the Lusit app. I mean, I was somebody who's always into fitness and I ate healthy
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in quotes. I never ever counted a calorie in my life. Yeah. And then at a certain point
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one of my friends Tyler, a fellow artist, he'd said, no, I'm using this app and he was in super good shape
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I was like, what the hell happened to you? He's like, ripped, right? So what the hell did you do? And he goes, oh, I just started using this calorie app
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And I went okay And what cool about these apps and what could potentially be interesting about this LED this Corsair IQ one bottle
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Mystic light support, yeah. It's making you conscious. You're aware of what you do because when you're not paying attention
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you'll have, you know, you'll have a sandwich with six tablespoons of mayonnaise
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You're not realizing you just consume 9,000 calories. Yeah. Because mayonnaise is high in calorie
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So I went, oh my God, I put mayonnaise in everything. I'm sitting, why am I getting so plumpy
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And I'm sitting there, you know, scooping nanny down my throat. So you kind of become, you become more aware of your actions
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My girlfriend's laughing. Exactly. You become more aware of your actions. You become more conscious of your water consumption and not going to
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I feel like, oh, geez, I'm not even close to how much I really ought to be drinking every day
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Yeah. Or, geez, what I always found with Luzit, it's such just like what you're saying
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It's very educational kind of thing. And you, like, realize, wow, you know, just having, like, one extra piece of bread with my dinner is like, oh, you know, that you would have to work out for two hours to burn that off
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Oh, yeah. And you're like, wow, that's interesting. And, I mean, I lost a lot of weight with that thing
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Yeah. It does work. Absolutely. It trains you to make better choices
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Yeah. Is what it does. I even stopped using it at a certain point
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but I kept being aware of the calorie content of what I was eating
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Exactly. So it educated me on what I was actually, what actual calories I was putting in my body at that point
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And I mean, I've gone on and off and on and off of it, depending on how much I start to kind of slip at a certain point
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Yeah, no, I think it's a smart move for sure, yeah. Yeah, the Apple Watch has become an integral part of my life
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And one of the things I love about it is the fact that it knows how many calories that I've burned during my workouts, right
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And it does really make you aware. Like when you just spent an hour working out and it was a tough workout and you're like
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I only burned like 400 calories. And then you look at the food that you're eating
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I mean, you can make up 400 calories in 15 minutes. I mean, 10 minutes
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You're done. One Joe Louie. Exactly. I mean, if you eat mayonnaise at the jar like Adam does, that's like three or four minutes of calorie intake
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I baited. I'm like a fish. I consume it through my gills and I excrete it at the back
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Yeah. I just use that to control myself through the ocean of mayonnaise. You are a mannays fan that's the most extreme mannays fan of I've heard of, to be honest with you
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I'd be dead if I did that. It's also very expensive. I mean, to fill your whole bathtub with mayonnaise
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I heard the Rolling Stones used to do that for their parties and they spent thousands of dollars on that anyway
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Oh, yeah, they don't mess around. All right, let's wrap up with our water bottle talk
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I was expecting us to clown on this and now you guys have convinced me that maybe I should be purchasing one of these
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Yeah. And it tells you, within. 3% of, you know, of how much
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your water you're actually intaking. Look at that. It has an Apple Watch app as well
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You know, the crazy thing is this dang water bottle was like one of the most popular stories on Reddit
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this week and last week. Oh yeah? And I was like, this is crazy. Like, do people
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actually get excited about a bottle like this? Because it just seems completely unnecessary
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Anyway, I digress. We're going on and on. The story's over. I'm kicking it
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