Absurd Truth: City-Run Grocery Failure

A city-funded grocery store trial in Kansas City has already failed after shelves are completely empty with food rotten and theft. Meanwhile, the Internet freaked out over a viral video of a travel influencer tossed his 7 year-old son off a cliff for fun.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida Man.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
All right, So this is a big headline. It's a
lot to put on the plate. It's like when you're
at the buffet and you're getting stuff on your plate.
You're at the cookout and you're getting all the stuff
and you got to get the potatoes, salt, and then
you gotta get I mean, it's a lot on the plate.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
So here it is ready.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Florida Keysman Mark's birthday by doing meth, stealing conk train,
picking up riders, fighting with cops. Yeah, like, it's one
way to celebrate your birthday, guys. They found him at
the southernmost point Buoie. He told officers, Oh wow, he
looks crazy. By the way, the conk train is literally

(00:49):
like a little train. He uh, he stole it. Thet
It's a little train that's like a little scooter, like
glorified golf carts all link together and dressed up like
a train, and it says conk train. It's one of
the very famous little vehicle. He faces three criminal charges.
Jonathan Patrick Winslow He's fifty seven years old, and he
went to the Conk Tour train depot stole it, and

(01:13):
they tracked it because it's not like I can go
that fast. And he was also quote running it with
rock music playing, so the little train that you're watching
on the that wand showing you on the simulcast, he
was blaring music and running around the keys with that.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
So that's what he had.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
So anyway, he picked up passengers like random people while
driving it, like I guess. They had no idea that
the guy driving it had stolen it. And when he
finally was pulled, when they finally detained him, they said
he exhibited rabid speech and appeared excited. Of course I
would be too if I was driving the con train.
And then they said he was going to face charges

(01:49):
because he stole it, and he was like, I just
borrowed it. Ossifer's just merely borrowed it. So then they
found a crack pipe on him. He told him it
was a weed pipe and and or I guess.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
A meth pipe. I don't know, and they're like, you don't,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
If you I don't think you use that to smoke weed,
But okay, anyway, and so he's in jail sixty thousand
dollars pond.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
He has not bonded out. I told you it was
a lot.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
We saw his photo, right, it look like you see his.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Hair, Yeah, his hair, or he went to the magic
house about his hands. Maybe it was the breeze.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
From the conc train that was blowing through his hair.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
I don't know, okay, speaking of uh oh boy visibly
highly intoxicated me and was arrested after he threw a
concrete after he threw concrete pipe and a machete again,
another machete at a victim.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Edwin Watts, seventy one years old.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
There he is right there. He looks like a sad prospector.
Bless him, bless his little hard. I hope he gets
a help he needs. But he got to charge with
all kinds of stuff, he think, and I don't even
know where to start with this. He threw everything, literally
everything but the kitchen, seeing concrete, metal pipes, threw a
whole machete at a dude.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
And this was in Marion County.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
They were called to a home over a physical disturbance
and they said that Edwin Watts was seated on his
red ATV at the entrance to the property. He made
it an appropriate hand gesture, and blah blah blah. Basically,
the guy was drunk as a skunk, noticeably agitated and
acting aggressive. He has no prior battery convictions, but he's
on in the pokey on a slough of charges.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
Let's see.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Let's see the guy who got super drunk and drove
into a sheriff's pond. If we have time, do we
have time? We may drunk Florida man his wrong exit.
He literally drove into a pond behind a sheriff's substation.
It's in Homestea. He's from Homestead and he was apparently

(03:40):
definitely under the influence, and he drove his truck to
a retention pond right behind Martin County Sheriff's Office traffic divisions.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
So the pond arrested.

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Speaker 5 (04:54):
It's clear the sun for ash at thirty. First in
Prospect is struggling.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
This is the first section.

Speaker 5 (04:58):
People see when they come in. There's barely any produce.
A lot of the coolers and shelves around the store
look the same way empty. So shoppers have been asking
us if the store isn't closing, then where's all the food?
A riden smell comes through the door, and anywhere you
turn you'll see products that need to be restocked. No
hot food or deli.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
I'll watch people walk in and walk out.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
The grocery store has received financial assistance from the city,
but has been unable to keep those shelves stocked in
an area that in the past has often been referred
to as a food desert.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Around here, A good thing don't last too long and
impacts a lot of people, a lot of families.

Speaker 5 (05:40):
The city owns the Loomwood Shopping Center. A nonprofit operates
the grocery store.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
What does his shirt say? I need to go back
and have a freeze frame on that Feller shirt. Well,
if you'd be so kind the man's shirt, who's said
from the gutta to the butter?

Speaker 1 (05:58):
What is that?

Speaker 4 (06:00):
What is that? What does that shirt mean?

Speaker 1 (06:08):
You? The bottom?

Speaker 4 (06:11):
You? I don't know what is that?

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Steve was the one that told.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
He was like, you guys need to watch his shirt.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
We ran the clip we always discotched was clipped to
run and I was like, just pay attention to the
Sky's shirt from the gut to the button, from the
gutta to It's like started from the bottom. Now we're
hear you in the gut, and now you got the
button right.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
I kept thinking that there's gonna be something.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
I was like, oh, I think I see butt, and
I just was like, man, this is gonna be one
of them stories where we got it's gonna be something inappropriate.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
I'm just saying, like, that's the shirt.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
I mean, you know, you know they ask you in
advance if you want to be on camera, you know,
when they show up and do this stuff. I mean,
good for him, I mean if he made some of himself.
But you know, I'm just at least if you're gonna
wear a shirt like that, don't cover the bottom with
your hands, because then we're gonna be all doing this,
like wait.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
What is his short? What does that say? Because it almost.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
Looks inappropriate and you're on like you're on TV man
and it's a story that's gonna go national because of
what they're talking about. I really want to know what
the botkine look to see? You find, Not that I care,
I don't need people good It's actually.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Lyrics from old Goodie Mob from nineteen ninety eight, back
in the late nineties. Oh got a butta?

Speaker 4 (07:23):
All right? There you go.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Interesting all right, so welcome back to the show. That's
how and that, by the way, was I mean, of
course you Lorraine found the shirt? Yeah, she did. She
literally found it already a minute ago. She's a robot.
She's like, wait, here's the shirt right here. I got
it for purchase if you want to bring.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
So that's what the shirt says. From the gutta to
the butta, you make the choice.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
The choice good for him. There you go. That's hysterical.
All right. So this was what city? This is in
Kansas City?

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Hold on more to your shirt?

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Are you serious what you're ordering the shirt? Right now?

Speaker 3 (08:03):
This was in Kansas City. All those store shelves were bare.
Can I get a shot of the store shelves real quick?
City funded grocery store. It's a city funded grocery store.
And I have never seen I have never seen that's
a store that's like open.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
I have never seen.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Uh, I have never seen shelves like that. That's crazy.
That's look at that. There's nothing in the middle. There's
nothing in the end caps, there's nothing. There's no fruit,
there's no onions, there's no nothing, there's nothing on them shelves.
And it's a city what is it the sun Fresh
And they're saying it's in decline.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
Well you think it's in decline.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
It's already failed. It wouldn't even open that long, honestly.
So this Sunfresh Market, there's still going there, but I
don't even know what you can.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
I don't even know what's that the bottom.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
This is one of mom Donnie's desires for New York.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
Well, I'm getting there. Oh sorry, I'm getting there.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
They have not stocked vegetables or eggs in two weeks,
empty coolers and they said, everyone said it smells rotten
when you walk in. Oh, and apparently they say it
goes through ups and downs. So like within a thirty
day period, like they'll get stuff in and then it

(09:27):
just they don't have anything anymore. And it's oh, that's
what happens when you have a city run grocery store.
Who would have thought that would have happened. And you
know what's crazy is Kine said, this is literally what
ma'am Danny wants. Socialized grocery store. That's what you get
with it. It's like the DMV of the it's the

(09:49):
post office of the grocery store.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
It's what it is. By the way, our mail it takes.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
If we send something to like Caine, if I send
something from here to Saint lo it takes some months
to get there.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
One of my kids that had our birthday this spring
just got their birthday cart a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Not kidding.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
So this is like the USPS of the grocery stores. Wow,
they said it smells like rotting corpses in there. Oh,
how would you know what that smells like?

Speaker 4 (10:22):
But also eow wow, oh.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
It's so bad. This is what they're gonna have in
New York City. This is what they're gonna have in
New York City. Well, the city runs it. So if
the city runs it, and it's entirely you know, they
don't have to be dependent upon they don't have to
they don't have to ensure good customer service or anything
like that because they don't have to meet a specific standard.
There's no demand for that standard. Totally shocked, it's already failed.

(10:50):
When did they get more food in and I was
trying to find that on social media. It doesn't look
like they're gonna get anything. I mean the food desert
We need food deserts, or maybe you just I don't know,
need to have an environment that grocery stores that already
operate on tiny margins can actually operate in. It's not
the government's fault. I love these people that like it's

(11:12):
in downtown Saint Louis. Let me just talk about downtown
Saint Louis, and I don't want to hear no smack
from nobody. My husband, uh worked and he did a
lot of historic renovation in Saint Louis and built a studio.
He got blacklisted in his industry by a bunch of
jealous drug addicts who ended up They were all Marxists,

(11:34):
but they ended up in Saint Louis. A beautiful city
like Saint Louis is known as brick city. I mean
a beautiful architecture that were German wirecut brick, which is
so valuable, and Saint Louis made tons of it, exported
it around the world. It's incredibly valuable. People wanted they
want to buy it. We lived in downtown Saint Louis

(11:54):
for a number of years because of work. Homeschooled our kids,
and I never understood the disconnect that people had. They
all bitched and moaned about not having like a supermarket
supermarket downtown. You remember this kne Like the closest supermarket
when I lived downtown in Saint Louis was I would
have to go to, like near the Bevo Mill area.

(12:17):
I'd have to go down what I can't remember what
the Schnucks.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, on Ninth Street, that is Schnucks there, and then
the one you're talking about is another Schnucks.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Down but the one but the but it was a
tiny almost like wine and cheese super It wasn't like
a full on supermarket.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
It's where you would go if.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
You were having some wine and cheese. Let's maybe make
some shock cuttery and let's get some odves.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
Let's do that. That's the kind of store it was.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
There was one in Soux Lard that had a lot
of stuff that they've closed, and I used to go
there and get some things. It was a tiny little market.
But people complained, well, you know why, because supermarkets already
operate on such small margins. You Saint Louis had an
earning's tax they had all kinds of taxes, all kinds
of fees, crazy structures that you had to, you know,
weave yourself through in order to even operate a business

(13:03):
in the area. And then you know, the property taxes
everything else. They made it so inhospitable. And I just
couldn't get over the disconnect from the people that would
joyously go and vote for the individuals that put up
all these barriers to creating your wonderful supermarket in the
middle of the city, and then they would bitch about,
we can't believe these people that said they were going
to do all the stupid state of stuff when they

(13:24):
were campaigning and we voted for them are doing all
this stupid state of stuff. It's like I voted for
the leopards eating faces party, and I can't believe that
these leopards broke into my house and they ate my
face and my kitchen, Like they are shocked about this.
It's like, well, what did you think was going to happen? Right,
You voted for this. You created this environment. It's not
a food desert. You are just a moron that votes

(13:44):
for moronic policies and moronic status lawmakers.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
That's what you do. Good night. So that's you know.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
I it just blows the mind with all of this.
They can't stores can't stay open, They're not there just
to no be charitable. It is a business. People work there.
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Speaker 2 (15:06):
Now all of the news you would probably miss. It's
time for Dana's Quick five.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
This is a wild one for me.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
It says gen Z job seekers have their parents write
their resumes and apply for gigs and bring them to interviews.
According to a shocking news study. It is a report
from resume Templates and they said that they were even
shocked that seventy seven percent that they brought a parent
to a job interview when they were job searching.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
What what I am? I don't get this really does?

Speaker 3 (15:41):
Do you know anybody who's kid brought a parent to
a job interview?

Speaker 2 (15:47):
No, I don't personally, But I'm also not surprised to
hear this.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
I am stunned. I'm like, okay, we're bookmarking this. Wow,
I'm I'm actually stunned.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
So the Mount Fuji spotting place, they are a viral
spot that everybody goes to take photos and there's like
a gas station right in front of it, or like
a quick mark. They have barriers now low enough to
allow views, but they prevent dangerous behavior like jaywalking in
the area. They said it's become a huge tourist attraction

(16:22):
because it's like just like the most picturesque spot, one
of the best spots to get it. But there's like
this quick mark. A lot of people like the idea
of the roof of the quick mark in the mountain
over it. But they said they had to put because
people were eating hit. We've been talking about this on
and off for like two years.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
The spot.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
They've been having so many problems. I had a friend
that just went there and they said that it was
so crazy. They were on their way somewhere else and
they were driving by this and they said it was
so crazy. They just bypassed it. And they were there
last month. They just bypassed it and just like went
on through. That's it right there, and then Mount Fuji
is over the.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
Top of it. But yeah, that's just wild. Does wild.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
So they're putting bris and because I don't know, people
want selfies and they want to get these photos and
then they end up getting run over or fall up
cliffs or something. I don't know. A crew in Long
Beach rescued a hiker trapped behind a waterfall for two
days he was treated for dehydration.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
Cain, what was he behind a waterfall?

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (17:24):
Forty six year old Ryan Wardell. He went into the
seventea cups and he was going to repel off the waterfalls.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
In Kern County.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
But then two days he was gone, and they deployed
search and rescue and they found him stuck behind a
waterfall and he was dehydrated. And I'm like, I would
have been drinking the water in the water fall. But okay,
all right, you know, each to their own thing. He's
safe now, I just you know, it's a little dehydrated.
Canadian cities are canceling concerts of right wing musicians and
I don't care because it's I love my conservative Canadian

(17:54):
friends and I like some of your conservative lawmakers.

Speaker 4 (17:57):
But this is so stupid.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
I don't even know who this musician is, but they
cancel this guy because apparently he's a Christian. Heaven forbid,
he he was a They were voked as permit parks
Canada werevoked as permit in Halifax, they said safety concerns.
Quebec City also canceled his concerts because they're a bunch.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
Of sissies because truth hearts people. It slavity slaps inky
and that's what happens.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
This is so mean the truth government forces Air Canada
flight attendants back to working into arbitration. Ooh, Delta and
United Airlines can face the lawsuits over windowless window seats.
Don't be selling people no window seats and there're not
being no window in that window seat. You know, if
people get very sensitive about that coming out. Kristen Whiten
is going to join us to help break down what
does this mean? Article five like adjacency. So there is

(18:43):
this article that I saw and I sent you guys
this earlier. The headline over at New York Post. Travel
influencer faces backlash after he tossed his seven year old
son off a cliff for fun. Oh this sounds horrible right.
The headline sounds so bad, like he was at the
Grand Canyon and just threw his son off a cliff.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Garrett Gee, a former tech founder turned adventure journalist, posted
a video and videos viewers were equally horrified and impressed.
They had four million views his seven year old son.
They were on top. Oh, they were getting ready to
jump into some water. Oh okay, well, it's a good
thing that the headline totally eliminated that as a possibility.
It was at Lake Powell, that's the reservoir between Arizona

(19:25):
and Utah, and they were on a rock ledge and
his son seemed a little apprehensive, but his dad had
a hold of him and threw him into the water,
and the son came up and find and then all
the other kids were jumping in and he said, eventually,
baby eagle needs to leave the nest or be tossed out.
And he had this very, very ridiculously long disclaimer saying
that this is not something I advi as you try.

(19:47):
We don't do this with all of our kids. Every
kid's different, blah blah blah, because people are stupid. And
I'm sorry. That's not a cliff. That is not a cliff.
It's a rock. They're on a boulder jumping into some
water and people are losing their minds, losing their ever

(20:07):
loving minds. No, they would have never made it in
like the eighties, they would have never made it as
like latch key kids. Oh my gosh, you want to
hear something. Okay, imagine it's nineteen eighty nine, you're in
sixth grade. This might be about me, but or not.
It's nineteen eighty nine. You're in sixth grade and you

(20:27):
are leaving Black River in Iron County, Missouri, and you're
riding in the back of your uncle's pick up the
uh little the doors down and you're literally sitting on
the edge of it on Windy Highway. You just shook
your head. Yeah, no, the ledge was down. You know,
we sat on the edge of it on windy highways.
That's how we dried off after we left the river,

(20:49):
and we'd go back to Grandma's house. Right, So we're
at we're at Cambridge, Black River at the all day right, family,
you're at there with your cousins, you know, people are
listening to Skinner, they're grilling, you know, doing whatever. And
then everybody climbs and all the kids get in the truck.
The little ones got to get in the back towards
the window, and then the older kids can set, you know,
on the end. And it took me a while before
I could graduate and sit on that end. Right now,

(21:10):
it was like a big deal. It's like a right
of passage. And then WAT showing you the video. So
it's a rock that's not a cliff Anyway nineteen eighty nine,
righting on the back of the truck on these windy highways,
on these windy country roads going back to Grandma's house.
And that's what we did. This is nothing. He jumped
off a rock into the water. We would go and
jump up. There was one thing I think it was

(21:31):
called Cutter's Point. This guy the last name, family's Cutter
and they had a big not It was like this,
but there was a rope swing on it and you
could swing on the rope and launch yourself out into
the water. We did that all the time. Why are
people freaking out about this? They're losing their minds. These
people that are losing their minds over this, they would
have died at how gen X was parented, they would

(21:54):
have died.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
That's not a cliff.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
These are the people that freak out and they call
the cops if they see somebody's kid talking to block
away from the house to go to the playground down
the street.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yes, Kane, but at the Black River there's actually quote
unquote cliffs you can jump from that are taller than
that one.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
And oh yeah, totally, Oh my gosh. People would jump
off the bridge. They would jump off k Bridge into
the river and it was way taller than that.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Older outrage online is it's more than exactly.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
These people are ruining children. You are destroying childhood and
you're raising children that are terrified of the world. All
they want to do is stay inside and talk to.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
Their little ai wayfood. That's all they want to do.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
They just want to stay inside, They want to talk
to their These people are happy if their kids just
talk to AI companions.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
I guess, right, what did you do today?

Speaker 3 (22:47):
I was talking to my little ai wayfoo that looks
like me so from death.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
Note that's what I was doing.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
That's not a cliff. That is not a cliff. And
this guy, I mean, people were losing their minds over it.
And the kid could swim by the way really well,
and all the other kids later on like started, you know,
jumping off the cliff as well, if the cliff jumping
off the rock as well. I mean it's a rock.
These people have no idea what a cliff is, and

(23:15):
I don't know. I mean it looked like fun, right,
That looked like fun to me. Steve was like the
water's gorgeous. It's like Powell, my dude, it's so fun
out there. It looks so gorgeous. Right, I've always wanted
to go to like Powell ever since I saw what
was this this movie? Oh my gosh, Charlie Sheen was

(23:35):
in it. I'm sorry, guys, bear with me. It was
like ghost Car or something. Hang On, Hang on hand
sheryln Finn was in it. It was an old movie
and I remember seeing it like one night. One of
the Casavettes was in it too. Hang On the Wraith.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
It was the Wraith.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
So the Wraith was set in Arizona and parts of
it like they were in and around like Lake Havasu,
and then there was like some parts of like and
I was like.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
That water is beautiful.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
Where is that gorgeous out there? It's absolutely beautiful. Uh
So that's where that is. To answer Steve's question, how
fun does that look? I would go and do that now, Yeah,
I would too. I mean that's like super fun.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Also, is no one paying attention to the look on
the kid's face after he was tossed in the water.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
No, because everybody's trying to flex.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Because the kid was like, oh, it's this fun and
you could see it on his face.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
It's like Oh my gosh, he got over his fear
and he was like, wow, that was fun discovering new
fund Now. I can I tell you how many times
I've had uncles throw me into the water, uncles cousins
like yeah, and and get over it. Kids do not
need to be coddled. They built Look what's the phrase,
what's the phrase?

Speaker 4 (24:42):
Boats were Uh?

Speaker 3 (24:44):
Boats weren't made for harbor. I mean they could stay
in the harbor. But I'm butchering this phrase. But you
know what I mean, The harbor is safe, but that's
not what boats are meant for. So this these are
the people that freak out if oh my gosh, you
know if a twelve year old has to stay like
for an hour or two by I stayed home like
all afternoon by myself when I was twelve, last key kid.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
That was the legal age you could do in the
state of Missouri at the time. It's just sad.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
This is just I like, it's like they don't want
kids to have any fun at all anymore. And I
and good for that dad, that dad's involved in his
kid's life, that dad is helping his kid build confidence.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
I think that's I thought that was a great video.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
I thought that was there was nothing wrong with that,
and kudos to him for sharing and all the people
that are freaking out over it and need to go
on touch grass. Oh my gosh, their kids are gonna
be the ones that are going to be inside, you know,
planning a mass.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
Murder with their AI wave food. That's what's gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
Good grief, all right, We got more to come, and
I don't say not all tech kids are like that.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
Before the people weep and mash teeth at me, stop it.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
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