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Have you Rufists, Alexis?

I guess let's start there.

Have you paid your first visit to Rufus?

Who is Rufus? Like Rufus and Shaka Khan?

No, Rufus is the shopping bot. It's Amazon shopping bot. You are an Amazon shopper, right?

Sometimes, yes. Okay. So you can ask Rufus questions. You haven't done it yet?

I haven't. Have yet? I haven't.

Have you?

I just did it for my first time.

I asked, what does my wife want for Christmas?

And I'm not sure if Rufus knows who my wife is or knows anything about her shopping history.

Maybe not, because he asked me a couple of questions about her interests and her personality and about my budget.

And I said, I don't want to answer any of that stuff. Just give me ideas. And then Rufus had a list of

stuff. And there was skin cream and candles. There was cheap jewelry and expensive pajamas. There were these

aromatherapy shower pods. I'm still not quite clear on how they work.

And there was like a kind of a pillow that does heated Shiazu massage.

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