Remove all adjacent duplicates in string recursive solution | LeetCode Easy Problem 1047

Haven't done a LeetCode video in a few months so I'm probably a little rusty but at least we've improved the video quality!

Showing and explaining my thought process for working through a LeetCode problem and run

Timestamps:
00:00 Reading out the problem
01:00 Stating assumptions and thought process for solving the problem
06:30 Starting coding the two pointer recursive approach
11:10 Maximum Recursion depth exceeded from no base case
12:45 Still getting the wrong output for some reason
14:30 Printing Foo to check our recursive call count for debugging
15:45 Hacking together appending the last character of the string
18:00 Answer Accepted! Or is it?
19:00 Finding a new failure case our algorithm didn't check for
20:00 Appending a skipped character to the end of our string
21:33 SUCCESS! Poor runtime which we assumed but less than 81.80% memory usage

In the problem I use a two pointer approach to remove duplicate letters from a string and then call our function recursively to check the new string that gets formed after doing the removals.

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