dealers · 2026-11-09 · 44m29s
HP · Auto Cartel photo workflow + content collab (Nov 9)
Harris Porsche · Auto Cartel · Nov 9
- HP inventory photos messy; 3 BH stores = 3 photo methods; Porsche sort-order picky.
- Austin (ops, Auto Cartel): 2 local BR shooters; HomeNet path; Porsche experience (Park Place Dallas). M/W/F or 3–5x week; can combo BMW lot.
- Lance just hired Audi stills guy (said yes day before Auto Cartel reached out) — still owes login.
- Side: raw cinematic shorts → Lance AI post pipeline; Liza 360 partner on their side; Lance will email overview for Zoom with decision-makers.
- After call: Own Your Web refresh / Prospector scope / AI shopping assistant (dict only). Rest of file = watches + disc golf noise.
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HP photo mess
Three methods across BH stores; Porsche picky.
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Auto Cartel
2 BR shooters · HomeNet · 3–5 days/week possible.
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Email follow-up
Lance to email overview for content+AI collab Zoom.
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I'm doing well, man. How are you?
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I'm doing well.
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Glad to catch you. Good time. Yeah, sure. I got a minute. What's up?
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Hey, I know we were kind of playing catch up, so just wanted to reach back out see if you guys had any questions about actually upgrading this one.
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Um, so that Porsche store has been a mess for me for the inventory photos. I do. I'm basically the marketing agency for the store, and I'm marketing agency for all three of our stores at Brian Harris.
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And they literally all, all three use a different method for their inventory photos.
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Um, and right now, so basically, when I took on that, you know, I've known I've known these guys literally since like '04. So when I took over at Audi, I mean at Porsche for for Adam,
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I said, yeah, sure, I'll manage the inventory photos for you because his previous guy was shooting his inventory photos in house.
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Porsche is very, very, very particular about their photos.
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I don't know. I mean, y'all do what y'all do, so I'm sure y'all are used to that kind of thing. But do y'all have any Porsche stores right now?
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Yes. Okay. The first one on top of my head is Park Place Porsche in Dallas. Yeah. That's one of our stores, and that was really the first one that we kind of dealt with. So Porsche ended up sending us the whole little photography package,
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Stuff, packet. So definitely familiar with it. All right. So.
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I guess where it gets funny or a little just goofy right now is the day before Adam sent me y'all's information.
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I had hired a guy who shoots the Porsche the photos for for Audi.
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I had hired him to do the Porsche ones,
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And he's a dude that we've known for years. You know, he shoots with a good camera. He does he does a good job. He's an older guy. He's basically retired and kind of came back to do Audi for us.
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So I'm kind of I'm kind of like stuck in between. I'm like I had just hired him. He hadn't even he hadn't even gotten like started yet. I'm still getting him one of the logins.
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But I'm also I'm also prone to like going okay. Well, what might be my best solution long long run? And if you guys have,
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You know, a few questions, I guess I would have is you have multiple people shooting, and if so, like how is the consistency kind of ensured? And then,
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You know, what days they all come shoot and how often and that kind of thing.
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Yeah, so the nice thing about going with a company like Auto Cartel is that in Baton Rouge itself, I already have two photographers, and so like I kind of told Adam, you know, we're in that expansion phase. We're going around trying to find more work because my guys are champing at the bit for more. Yeah.
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So we have two local people as of right now, and as we continue to expand, we're just going to keep adding photographers there.
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So, as having multiple photographers, it actually kind of works out because if somebody's on sick or vacation. And that's what I think about when I think about you guys.
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I'm like, well, shit, that helps me out.
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It especially helps me out because, like, right now, I even wrote an app to help manage the damn inventory photos because I had I had like a few random kids shooting them for me. The other pickle you run into is we're in a situation where we can't have anybody under 21.
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Fisher. You know, so it's like, man, just because at one point you could have somebody under 21, but insurances are so strict now that it's it's tough to do.
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Um. Trust me, I'm well aware. We work with so many different dealerships, and we have our own insurance in that. Yeah. Yeah.
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Well, look, my my the way I, you know, if I've so I, I do also social media crap too. So I have to do,
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If I've got somebody that needs to come get a car, they just sign a,
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They sign a test drive form. It's it's covered by their own insurance the way it would be if they were on a test drive. So I've got kind of multiple ways of being covered, but,
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Um. You know, I guess all that bullshit just to say it's kind of not a no. Let me talk to this guy.
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I still owe him one more. I'm waiting on an IT to give him one more login. The other, I guess, couple of questions is, are you guys going to be? I guess just log into whatever we give y'all to log in to upload the photos.
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Yes. Is that kind of how it works? How do y'all?
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Well, so Porsche's official partner is HomeNet, and we have Home we have HomeNet for the photos syndication.
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Or it's yeah, or it's Porsche's actual own backend, which is just called Porsche Car Sales Online.
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When I was doing it myself, because I still have to go out there and do it myself, which is not good, not ideal, because I've kind of stopped whatever I'm doing and go like switch modes.
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Is I actually like logging in the Porsche site because I can. It's more visual. They give you three sections because they're very like we said picky. So they've got like. Exterior, interior, and highlights, and so I'll drag my whole album onto the middle, drop it, and then I'll start sorting because they want like a precise sort order, you know. So it's kind of I can give you guys the option, is what I'm saying.
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But if you're already in HomeNet,
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You know, maybe you just yeah. Essentially, what we would do is is essentially log into HomeNet, get a feed set up, and then.
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Photo guys can just kind of go in there, take the photos, put them in the correct order, and then feeds out to you guys. Yeah.
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But both would work.
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So y'all have it set where your shooters aren't having to upload.
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Correct. Yeah. They do in a sense. So we.
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They stick them into a app and all that kind of stuff.
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Yeah. Yep. So it makes it real easy for them.
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Stick them in, and then somebody else can sort them and fuck with them and stuff.
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Exactly.
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Do y'all do any other? Stuff. Do y'all do actual content creation? Have y'all considered shooting RAWS for reels and photos for social media?
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Yep, we are working on that right now.
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Our primary focal point is obviously like photos and even 4K videos and that kind of stuff.
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Because let me tell you where that sits, man. This is like I'm deep in AI, man. I've been playing with it for like eight months now. I started out building my own Her agent. If you're into, if you know at all what that is.
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So I got deep into it, and now I'm actually morphed in. I've got a few different systems, but I've got complete systems that essentially I could give you a Google Drive,
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A Google folder, and you just drop photos on it.
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That if they're named correctly, my system just takes over and does everything for me. And then the same goes for literal raw footage. So if you shoot, you know, it's like you walk to car and shot me like five or six assorted interiors and exteriors of a car, like like cinematic. Little shorts,
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You could drop them in the same kind of folder, and my system would grab them,
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Caption them, cut them to music,
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And upload them into my system, and then deploy them into one of my websites.
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So, kind of like, I'm at a phase where I'm I'm ready to grow like exponentially because I've got so many different little things built, but I need to finish finding like the right pieces of the puzzle. So,
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Put that in y'all's mind. If y'all, it's it's the kind of thing where.
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It's worth more money than inventory photos,
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And if you've got, and here's the pickle. Here, just the,
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Here's the thing,
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It's not that's not worth the two or three thousand dollars that somebody's knuckleheads think it's worth.
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So, like, if you go talk to, you know,
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Just your random social media content creators,
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Um, they're crazy expensive.
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And what's happened is their work they're doing is kind of becoming commoditized just because the way AI is working, but you still need good raw footage to produce stuff out of. So kind of yeah, I mean if you guys are already kind of headed down that road, man, I would love to have the conversation with you. Developing the software part is actually not hard,
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But but uh,
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I've been in car business since '04, so I kind of like know it inside and out.
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So, yeah, if you're in a point where you guys are maybe gonna have a few people,'cause look, fuck, if you got the right couple of guides, they can shoot both kinds of content, you know. And while you're here, you just you shoot it all, and then you're done. Yeah. Okay.
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Yeah.
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And so, like, what my photographers do is they go out there and they shoot the inventory photos themselves, but then we're also partnered with. Company called Liza. Yeah, and what that does is it's like an exterior 360 walkaround video, a couple of interior videos, and that kind of stuff that just kind of do the same thing,
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Where they cut it to music. You know, there's a lady that kind of talks about the car, goes over website. Yeah, and that's definitely of that mindset.
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Yeah, so that piece is very much. I mean, that's a modern take on what they've been doing for what. Inventory photographers and video, you know, been doing for probably twenty years.
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And what I'm talking about is shit that actually plays well on reels and stories and and hits on social media. So,
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Yeah.
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But anyway, so what's your name?
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Austin. Austin, are you in? Are you in the company deep? Are you in sales? What's your role there?
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Well, I'm actually operations manager.
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Okay. Cool.
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Company for a little over eight years now. My primary focal point is just kind of running Louisiana and Houston. Is actually where I'm based out of, so I handle more of like the day-to-day operations. But while I was in Baton Rouge last week,
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Just decided to pop around and check in with a couple of people, see what they got going on. Do you have a dedicated sales person? Yeah.
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Yeah, he's all over the place.
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Did you talk to any of the other stores that I did? Did you talk to BMW or Porsche? I mean, or Audi?
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I did not go to Audi because I saw that our sales guy Walter had gone over there a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. I went by BMW to see if I could talk to Brett,
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But he had like just left the office.
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So, and all I'm going to talk to Brett is to talk to me.
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That's fantastic.
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That's my job. That's like I've been running interference for him for a while.
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So yeah,
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You know I'm gonna keep you in mind for the BMW store. I'll talk to Adam and I'll talk to my guy and kind of see where he stands. You know, for him, I don't know how worth it it is.
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You know, so I don't know. We'll see.
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Yeah. But I've got your number, man. Is this just your cell? I'm just gonna save it.
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This is my direct cell.
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All right. Cool. All right. Awesome. I appreciate you, man. And I'll I'll reach back out. We may end up just needing you guys to tackle it.
10:58
What? Do you all are kind of just open about what days you would come? How does how do y'all work that? Y'all set a schedule or what?
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Yeah, we'll set a schedule. So typically it'll depend on how much inventory we have every single day. Yeah.
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But usually, what I kind of told Adam, I was just like, honestly, for Porsche with how finicky they can be, yeah. We'd probably be looking at you know maybe a Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule. We wanted to do kind of like a combo between maybe Porsche and BMW since they're right there. I could probably have somebody out there three. To five times a week, making sure that everything gets handled. Yeah. And look, you know, I'm not trying to sit here and steal anybody's job, especially you know, just got put into that role.
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Yeah. No. It's well. Look, it's like I said, he's retired. He does Audi. He put me off a week and a half whether he said yes or no for the Porsche store,
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And then he had just said yes the day before you guys reached out. So let's see how that plays out, man. And I'll probably be giving you guys a call.
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And then look, you know, if there if there is, I'm already kind of way down this road with this, with basically building in like a workflow for for people shooting,
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And then having it translate into real posts.
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Is there's if if there's somebody in your company that's like actually genuinely,
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You know, super interested and is kind of like one of the top decision makers, whether it be you and or one or two other people,
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Maybe we should schedule a Zoom call.
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Because what this does is, man, if you if you guys are serious about shooting, and the content looks good,
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And then my backbone of this shit, my backbone of the things that I'm already doing,
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It's it might work well together, you know.
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Yeah, I would love to have a conversation about that.
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Like, look, for example, All Star, as far as I know, they don't do a lot with their social media,
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And so something like this would dovetail perfectly with what you guys are already doing.
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So,
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Really? Yeah. I mean, you got my email. You got my cell phone number.
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Yep. I'm gonna shoot you an email.
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I'll shoot you an email that has like some kind of gives you like a rough idea of what I do and how it might plug in, and then you forward it to whoever needs to be forwarded to.
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All right. Sweet. Thank you, man. You have a good one. Bye bye.
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Hey, we just recently set up Prospector.
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As far as I know, we haven't had a Prospector before.
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Should that Prospector be just for that AI site service type of bullshit that we're doing, or should we just set that Prospector up for all of our business? I don't know. Just wanted to hear what you thought because I would like Prospector to be doing some other things as well,
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Not just on the AI service and the AI site stuff.
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All right. The other thing we need is so this is companies with no website,
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But there's also going to be even more companies that have a website, but it's not modern, and I mean all the way modern. So it doesn't have AIO. It doesn't have good lead gen funnel practices, etc.
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This brings up another topic. Let's talk to Site Builder about.
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Fully updating what he knows about building good funnels,
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We can actually probably go find some Alex Hormozi lessons about that.
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That looks good. We have to also talk about another thing. So right now, if we go to thecoopbrla. com, we have own your web. I don't know how much traffic that's gotten, but I think that that's just a failed experiment. Own your web. I don't mind as a domain for using for something, but that particular book, leave Squarespace, keep everything. I don't know what I'm thinking is own your web.
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That needs to be on the part of our site where we discuss what we're doing with this newest venture, where we're talking about building sites, optimizing sites,
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Modernizing sites, building lead gen sites. So basically, it needs to be a really good SEO AIO system and page,
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Telling people about all the things we're building,
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The stuff that I'm building with Landry.
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And market that stuff through some really good content, and then also discuss what Guidepost does and talk about that as part of our suite of products that we add to our websites. Makes sense. We can also talk about what we could use GoHighLevel for for some of these websites. So, for example, should we use GoHighLevel for like this site we're building for whoever?
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Or should we just use our own system with our own call system and our own lead gen system, that kind of thing?
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Alright, that's awesome. I'm excited to see what this AI shopping assistant page does. I'm excited to see a use of our guidepost branding.
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Basically, as footer logos, maybe I don't know. We need to consider this AI shopping assistant page.
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Is it ever going to be landed upon or seen by humans?
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If so, does it need some consideration for that? So it kind of explains what it is and why it's so awesome,
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Because that could help us garner more business.
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Data of chronographs: the high-contrast combination of black subdials over a light primary dial surface has come to be known as the panda,
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Or in the opposite formation as the reverse panda. Over the years, these design styles have become some of the most beloved by watch.
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So in this video, we're looking at a long list of some of the best panda and reverse panda dials on the market. So we're going to be looking at a wide variety of price points, quartz as well as mechanical options. Given that we are talking about chronographs,
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Where the affordable end of things might end and start might be very different compared to other genres of watches.
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A mechanical chronograph typically starts with the flip going around $2,000. So just kind of keep all of that in mind when talking about this subject. We will look at some of the picks at the beginning, and then gradually build our way up from there. One other thing I'll mention is panda. I will try to be somewhat strict about is it a true panda or not. There are some exceptions, and I'll give reasons for why maybe you want it included on this list, maybe without fitting it perfectly as a panda. Dial is kind of a weird distinction of what we think about as a perfect panda configuration versus not. So,
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Who would have thought I'd ever be talking about is that a true panda or not a panda?
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So to kick us off here, we're looking at a Panda style chronograph for under three hundred dollars, actually under two hundred and fifty dollars. This the Orient Neo series. This a watch that has become kind of an enthusiast favorite for this genre of watch. These kind of watches become Price of the watch is given its price, and as you look, it does look the part for being a watch under $300.
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Case diameter is 42 millimeters, thickness of 11.8 millimeters. It's a pretty reasonable lug to lug given the case size.
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Water resistance of 100 meters.
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Solar powered movement on the inside, so quartz accuracy. Solar power on the inside, so that fills the battery. And then in addition, you have a mineral glass on top. This was initially released in 2016. Getting these watches can be difficult at times because they're not.
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Everywhere you can't get these from conventional authorized places. Sometimes you have to find it on like an Amazon or something of that sort.
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The different parts of the world,
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You know, look for the different channels and where you can find them. They are a little bit trickier to navigate compared to some of the other watches on this list. But if you're just looking for bang for your buck, this is one.
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Next up, another affordable chronograph. I think we have the Timex Q chronograph.
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The Q was a model that I would put along with.
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Marlin as helping to resurge Timex to become more appreciated amongst collectors and enthusiasts.
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Are they going to blow you away with their specification? What they're bringing to the table? No, but for the price, they're a lot of fun and the designs are on point. This is another example of a watch that looks pretty cool for its price point. If you're only going around two hundred dollars, I'm saying that's not a lot of money. But considering we're talking about chronographs here, that's a whole different story. Forty millimeter case, thirteen point five millimeters in thickness, and that's With that dome, the acrylic crystal on top, quartz movement on the inside, water resistance of 50 meters. Very clean, vintage-inspired aesthetics,
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But a watch that again,$200, pretty tough to argue with.
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Now we're getting into a couple watches that I would say are some of the best buys for chronograph in general under $1,000. Here we have the Seiko Speedtimer. This is the SSC813.
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This follows the panda configuration more than really any other speedtimer out there. You're looking at.
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39 millimeter case. It does have a lug to lug of 35.5 millimeters, but this is a pretty small watch because we put this one on the wrist.
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13.4 millimeters for its thickness. Under the inside is hidden the solar powered quartz movement.
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Now we're getting into a couple watches that I would say are some of the best buys for chronograph in general under a thousand dollars. Here we have the Seiko.
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This follows the panda configuration more than really any other speedtimer out there.
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We're looking at a 39 millimeter case. It does have a lug to lug of 45.5 millimeters, but this is a pretty small watch. We'll just put this one on the wrist.13.4 millimeters for its thickness. On the inside, you're getting a solar power quartz movement that is V192.100 meters of water resistant, sapphire crystal, and a price point typically under $700 in most cases. Sometimes we find it for cheaper than that. When these were released a couple of years ago, these got a ton of love just because of how they were able to represent old-school kind of DNA, while also infusing some really nice tonneau looks in the process.
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It looks awesome. I also love how they're able to take these solar cells, making them hidden within the sub registers.
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You're getting the look of a panda, so you're not getting anybody upset, but you're also getting that feasibility of being able to have an absence of light through that dial in a clean way. So next up, we have the Bulova Lunar Pilots. This is the 43 edition. Specifically, the white dial version with the blue subdials.
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Some of you might be saying that I don't know any panda in the wild that is blue and white, but you're going to have to let this one slide. Long diamonds, most in and a great, just pick for under a thousand dollars for chronographs in general. Under nine hundred dollars, case diameter forty-three and a half millimeters. It's still on the larger end of things. It is smaller than the previous forty-five millimeter option, but is not going to be something that I'm saying smaller than this out there than the white, but.
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Medium to larger wrist range. You know we love how this one rides on the wrist. Thickness is reasonable, and also a high-frequency quartz movement on the inside with really solid accuracy to go along with it. This is going to outperform many other quartz movements under a thousand dollars, and getting a cool speed in the process, and getting quartz accuracy, high quartz accuracy, speed that really mimics that kind of a walk.
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Baltik knocked it out of the park with these heritage-inspired designs. This one, especially, this is a high compound.
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Baltik has played around with different chronographs in the past since their initial launch in 2017.
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One of the first watches that I remember from them was that initial chronograph that they released, early after they became a brand and started to really take the scene by storm. This now moves up into a different price tier, so you're getting closer to that 1,700 to 1,800 dollar range, depending on where you're at in the world.39.5 millimeter case.13.1 millimeters in thickness, with that SW510 on the inside of the manual wound caliber,50 meters of water resistance,47 millimeter lug to lug, sapphire crystal. This watch just looks so clean. The design is clearly inspired by a lot of mid 20th century design.
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You see some more of the Daytona in here, but it looks great. And for the price, hard to beat.
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Baltik's rise is probably one of the most notable of any smaller upstart brand in the last five to 10 years, and I think for good reason, just given that they've been Able to have this pull on everything we're building as much as looking at the timelessness of many of these designs and doing it in a way that doesn't look cheap. Also, that I've grown to hold, I always feel like it's done with an element of taste and class, and really hard to beat for money. Also, doing some things like the Parmigiani Micro rotor movement, they were one of the first brands to truly dive into the world of seagull calibers.
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They know when to take a risk, but they also know when to not take a risk, and just like the.
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Lead for and give people ultimately what they want—an attainable-looking vintage-inspired chronograph that works. Made another watch that's a long-standing point of value for chronographs in this price range: the Hamilton Intra-Matic chronograph. This is a watch that I would argue really helps in kind of setting the standard of where you can get into the door for a Swiss-made chronograph while having some history in the process. Hamilton was very much involved in the development of the first automatic chronograph with those Intra-Matics. And looking at the early 1970s that really brought forth the design that we're looking at here.
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So this is paying a lot of reference to that initial design,
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Hamilton during those periods in the late 1970s. The watch across the board looks phenomenal too. We have 40 millimeter case,14.4 millimeters in thickness,49 millimeter lug to lug, water resistance of 100 meters, automatic balance caliber on the inside, sapphire crystal. I love the subdial design that we have. It is following a traditional balance configuration, but it works really well.
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When you get something this versatile, the alligator case and the strap configuration that you go for—love this watch.
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It's one that I have always been following under consideration for you,
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Baltik. Baltik knocked it out of the park with the heritage-inspired design. This one, especially, this is very high compact.
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Baltik has played around with different chronographs in the past since their initial launch in 2017.
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One of the first watches I remember from them was that initial chronograph they released early after they became a brand and started to really flip the scene by storm. This now moves up into a different price tier to get closer to that one thousand seven hundred to one thousand eight hundred dollar range, depending on where you're in the world. Thirty nine and a half millimeter case, thirteen point one millimeters of thickness with that SW510 on the inside for number one caliber. Fifty meters of water resistance, forty seven millimeter lug to lug sapphire crystal. This watch just looks so clean.
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Clearly inspired by a lot of mid twentieth century design, you see some raw concrete, tonal in here, but it looks great. And for the price, hard to beat.
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Baltic's rise is probably one of the most notable in smaller upstart brands in the last five to ten years, and I think for good reason. Just given that they've been able to tap this pulse on where things are going, as much as really that timelessness and many of these designs and doing in a way that doesn't feel cheap. Like every single Baltic that I manage to hold,
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I always feel like it's done with an element of. In class and really hard to beat for the money across the board. They're also doing some cool things like their Micro rotor Micro rotor movement. They were one of the first brands to truly dive into the world of Seiko calibers. They don't want to take a risk, but they also know when to not take a risk and just let design lead forward and give people ultimately what they want—an attainable-looking vintage-inspired chronograph that looks amazing.
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Another watch that's a long-standing point of value for chronographs in this price range is the Hamilton Intramatic.
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This a watch that I would argue really helped kind of setting the standard of where you can get into the door for a Swiss mechanical chronograph while having some history in the process. Hamilton was very much involved in the development of the first automatic chronograph with those Chronomatics, and looking at the early 1970s that really brought forth the design that you're looking at here. So this paying a lot of reverence to that initial design of Hamilton during those periods in the late 60s.
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The watch across the board looks phenomenal too. We have 40 millimeter case,14.4 millimeters in thickness,49 millimeter lug to lug, water resistance of 100 meters, automatic Valjoux caliber on the inside, sapphire crystal. I love the sub-regulator layout. It is following a traditional Valjoux configuration, but it works really well. Feels balanced, sporty with some dress versatility. I would argue, depending on the strap configuration that you go for, love this watch. It's one that I have always been a fan of, and probably still even to this day one of the.
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I don't know if it'll be out by the time of releasing this video, but I have something amazing,
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Amazing piece of art history underrepresented in terms of typically being mentioned when.
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Welcome back to channel's another rounder. I am holding in my hand for the first time what some call a malformation.
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Truly, how did you get that?
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One of my homies did.
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So apparently this is a mistake that ended up as a real mold that this guy had just sitting around. I believe the story is when they were trying to do the caliper,
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Which is like they tried to do a Luna Zone, which ended up being a fantastic disc. They accidentally had one, and when I look at it, it looks like they accidentally put two zone bottoms on top of each other. And then they put a ridge here.
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This is the slide.
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He took it and aimed it.
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Could be thought about the accident.
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It could be an accident.
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The people haven't thought about that. Well, some not many.
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They just came. This is the slowest and most overstable disc in the discraft line. Again,
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Waiting on PG approval.
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It's going to happen at some point. But really,
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Slowest, most overstable disc they've made. I think what before that it was like a a Raft. Yeah, for overstable. This is a slow risotto less. It's very fun.
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Here's the deal,
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And Nathan, you can insert this in the beginning of the video or not. We're gonna stand here until one of us aces with either the Slime or the Son of Flaw,
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Which is some version of the Rat. Or I guess there's no better way to start than to just start. Do you want to throw the first? I will.
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Okay, I'll throw it because nobody has aces with the Slime yet. They again just got released.
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That'll be true for the next 30 seconds.
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I think they gave the flight number. It was a 2 1 1 4.
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So it's it's a two speed Tilt. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. I got a little bit more fun to throw this than than that.
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Oh boy.
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This whole plane's like 480,
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I think. Yeah, effortless.
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I mean 180.
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Are we doing one? Yeah, go ahead. Okay.
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Yeah, that wants to not go that way. It wants to go that way.
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Like step and Clay at the three-point line. We're just going to alternate.
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But I feel like I understand.
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Yes. Do that fly. I know. Fly straight.
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All right, here we go.
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I am.
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Yes. Did that? Didn't answer that.
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Dang it!
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That is that is way more flight characteristics than Zano's Ortegel.
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Oh, oh, baby.
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We're hey we're.
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It can't come up through.
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You're not good. We're on it though.
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He did not just ace.
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Nice shot, I used to.
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And good form.
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I see that. Very nice.
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That's gonna go that way.
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That wants to go that way.
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You have one blob.
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I have two. I have one.
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Oh, it's beautiful.
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No, no. Okay, all right.
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We got it. You know I throw everything power grip, which does not help me.
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Oh God.
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Oh no.
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Okay. I feel like I'm getting it though.
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We're we're we're there.
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Trying two v two Avalanche.
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Oh, done deal.
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Done deal. I love the Avalanche. Two v two.
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That's too much. Go ahead.
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Go ahead, you take a second.
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That was a little too much.
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No, he spit out.
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Shame on him.
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I tried to take a little bit off.
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You let the passes by down.
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I really did.
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I thought. I mean, it. It was my fault for not letting it get in the bottom of the basket.
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You really have to crawl these out this hole. If they're really soft, them.
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Unless you're a weenie, in which case you just go for power.
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I ain't no weenie.
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Round two. After round one, my first impression is it has the initial part of the Solo S play, like where it goes, oh, I don't want to be flying, but instead of going,
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It actually keeps pushing, which is interesting.
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And it doesn't have actually a lot of like left to right finish. It just has the initial stability and then the kind of,
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You know what I mean?
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I think it flies great. I do too. My question though.
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If it is in fact two zone bottoms slapped on top of each other, does it cancel one out or does it stack? I don't know.
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I need to throw it more. I want to throw forehands, but I just I think the backhand line fits better for me.
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No, he didn't. No, it's just it's just perfect. Yeah,
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I like that better.
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In fact, this purple one.
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The purple one is a couple overstable.
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My first impression is about the same. It's hilariously overstable right out of your hand.
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It starts to fade out immediately.
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But since it's so slow,
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It's just going just like that.
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Can you? Can you?