Absurd Truth: Full Election Day Preview

Dana breaks down what to watch for and how the surge in early voting could help Republicans. Meanwhile, Dana explains the “Blue Wall” and how crucial it is to securing a victory.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dana Lashes of surd Truth podcast sponsored by Celtech. It's
his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for
Florida Man. This guy a Florida me. A Florida man
threatened a state trooper with a gun and a bomb
place he had to send out traffic alerts for residents

(00:22):
to stay away from the area. Thirty nine year old
man threatened a state trooper at a local wah Wah, saying, quote,
he better back up because I got a gun and
a bomb. Did he have either? Though the Port Saint
Lucy police arrived, the guy tried to drive to the
wah Wah off a tradition parkway. He crashed into two
officers and troopers attempted to block him in. They did

(00:43):
immobilize him and they did take him into custody. He
did not have a bomb. He led a gun and
a bomb like everything I can think of, just to
stop getting arrested. A Florida man slimmed into a telephone
pole Bary running from deputies who busted him for drugs
during a traffic stop. Spring Hill Man. He smacked into

(01:05):
a telephone pole. We're all running away from a car
filled with drugs. So they pulled him over. His name
is Scott Schweerian and Heidi Reynolds were pulled over by
deputies and they saw a rolled cigar containing most pot.
Then they found a pillbox literally with the word Xanax

(01:25):
written on it that had I don't even know what
this pill is. I don't even how alpha alfrazzlamb Oh
Black Betty alfrazzlamb the lamb. I don't even know what
it is. Two separate baggies with fentanyl residue inside. So
they were trying to detain them and there was a scuffle,
and then they found syringes filled with meth and all

(01:47):
kinds of stuff, and the guy tried to run away. Yeah,
he did not literally run into with a with a car.
He ran into it with his person with his legs.
He ran right into a telephone pole and it knocked
him down and they were able to detain him. Makes
it funnier, doesn't it, Because it went in a car.
He ran right into a telephone pole. How do you

(02:08):
run like physically into a telephone pole? Like was he?
I don't know. He got charged with more things than
I'm going to read. And the bond is like a
thirty thousand dollars. Yeah, there you go. Uh let's see here.
Oh man, let's see when that's heavy. Let's do uh,
I know, we got the guy who's been by a shark. Oh,

(02:29):
we can talk about the woman who stole seven thousand
dollars in returns from the Dollar General that she used
to work out. How do you seven thousand? Isn't that
like a whole Dollar General store is seven thousand dollars?
So that's what this. She looks like one too, Lee
County Sheriff's Office. Her name is Dominique McCurdy kine. How

(02:50):
do you spell dominique? Do o am i in rown kine,
Dominique McCarty. Here, her name is do o m y
in k in kuwie oh dom ya Niki McCarthy. She
used fake refunds and applied them to her debit cards
over the course of I am going to make fun

(03:11):
of that spelling of that name. Absolutely, I am, I
mean good night. She said she needed the money for
an upcoming move and was finance and the future costs
associated with it, and so they said that she would scan.
They have a fifty dollars toy at the Dollar General.
A toy called Squeaky Dino multiple times to make the returns.

(03:34):
She was charged with larceny and defrauding to obtain property
valued at less than twenty thousand dollars. That's crazy. Yeah,
her name, I mean, I wouldn't guess that she was
gonna be a criminal with the spelling to her name.
But you know, good heavens this. Let's see, a Florida
man threatens to kill everybody, like literally everyone, but then

(03:56):
he decided to break them up into you know, more
organized demographics. Nathaniel James Holmes, fifty one. He threatened to
kill the children of one victim and all of their
Jewish friends and all of their African American friends online.
Good night, Jacksonville, Florida. This fifty one year old Nathaniel Holmes,
he got charged with four kinds of transmitting interstate threats

(04:18):
to injure people and he could face twenty years in prison.
So apparently he got I guess he got into a
fight with somebody online and he, you know, very or
in an organized fashion, threatened to everybody. So he was
this was like that Clint East would like, I'm gonna,
you know, if anybody starts being up any more of
these wars. I'm gonna come after you, and what is it?

(04:39):
Kill your family and your dog too. So he was like,
I'm gonna go after your children and all your Jewish
friends and also your African American friends. So you say
something that's like racist and anti semitic, but then you
used African America. You're very careful about your language, Like
people are confusing. This dude is confusing to me. Anyway,
he could go to jail for a long time because
you can't make death threats digitally and Florida has a

(05:03):
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(06:30):
First and foremost so election day and early voting has
been good for Republicans, the states and the battleground states.
And we're going to talk a lot about these battleground states,
which include the Blue Wall, and you guys know these
battleground states. We've talked about it quite a bit, Pennsylvania
is chief amongst them. I mean, you've got Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona.

(06:57):
And it has been all about turnout, getting these Republican
voters out, because Republican turnout has always been the issue. Now,
I want to pause here for a moment because I
touched on this yesterday, and I will caution people about
comparing the turnout, especially when you look at states like

(07:20):
Pennsylvania and some of these battlegrounds. I will caution you
in comparing turnout today to turnout of twenty twenty. And
there is a major reason why, actually two major reasons.
First and foremost, it was COVID. Secondly, Republicans were hell
bent against early voting in twenty twenty, to the point

(07:43):
that it actually depressed the overall vote on election Day.
I spent about two hours deep diving through all my
notes at the time. This is a particular sore spot
for me because I traveled in twenty twenty to a
few of these battleground states and it was insane and
the good sweet people, many of them listen to the show,

(08:05):
and I love them, but they were hell bent against
early voting. They were not going to go do it,
and I was trying to caution people, look in the
areas where you can do it. If Democrats are going
to allow you the chance to run to score, then
go by all means do it. I understand the principle. Look,
I like voting on election day. My mother will fight

(08:27):
you to the death to vote on election day. Only
there are certain people like this. I have dear friends
of mine who are my age, and some of them
a couple of years younger, who are like, no, we
are only voting on election day. I get it, believe me,
but I want it. But in twenty twenty it was
a different scenario. Republicans were just dominated by Democrats with

(08:48):
early voting, and they didn't, especially in twenty twenty with
COVID and the concern over mail in ballots and everything
else there was, and Trump spoke against it. So it's
very you don't want to measure early voting now to
twenty twenty because I feel like we're restoring behavioral norms,

(09:08):
and as a result of restoring behavioral norms, it's difficult
for me to say that that's a major gain when
we're going back to how it was normally right now,
I will say, if you're comparing them against two Democrats,
Republicans have been doing really well holding their own against
Democrats in with regard to early voting, and we're going
to dive into that. Now, what are the other things?

(09:31):
The state to watch is going to be Pennsylvania. I've
heard a lot about early voting specifically in Pennsylvania, and
like I said, I think that's, you know, again, not
entirely representative of the whole story when you're restoring normal behavior.
But looking back, Trump won this state in twenty sixteen
by forty two hundred and ninety two votes. Biden won
the state by eighty five hundred and eighty two votes

(09:53):
in twenty twenty, So there's not a lot of room
by these margins. Now, as you know, Pennsylvania to go
with Wisconsin and Michigan, they formed that Blue Wall. That's
the wall that that Democrats love to hide behind, and
it's protected countless nominees except in twenty sixteenth Hillary Clinton
and with doo Caucus it held in twenty twenty. Now

(10:15):
the race is neck and neck. Any polster who tells
you what's going to happen is lying to you. If
they tell you, they know they're aligned to you. It
is so incredibly close. I don't trust the theories about
the shy voter. I don't trust the theories about the
hidden voter or any of that, because none of that
stuff panned out in twenty twenty. And I was looking

(10:35):
at a lot of surveys, a lot of pulling down
it in twenty twenty, and what I was hearing wasn't
adding up with the numbers that I was seeing. So
I'm super cautious going into this to the point of
a supercynic. Not to be a fatalist, but I want
to be realistic because I don't think that it helps
aside to bolster an argument or say that you don't
need help when really you do. And maybe that could

(10:56):
be the difference between winning or losing. Now in Pennsylvania
a couple of things, because I hear people say there's
troubling signs that emerge, but there's also some really good things.
So I don't want people to focus on like a
lot of this early vote. One of the things you
can tell with early voting is you know how many
registered Democrats, how many registered Republicans, men, women, et cetera,
et cetera. The ages, but you don't know where those

(11:17):
votes are going to because they're not going to be counted.
It's not going to start until today. So in Pennsylvania,
voters over the age of sixty five have already cast
half of the early ballots. Registered Democrats were fifty eight
percent of those votes cast by seniors compared to thirty
five percent for Republicans. And that's despite both parties having
roughly equal numbers of registered voters aged sixty five and older.

(11:38):
More women than men have early voted, with women tending
to skew Democrat. And I hope that the campaign because
we started seeing this trend to merge a couple of
weeks ago, and so I hope the campaign and I
feel like it did maneuvered on the ground to combat
that a little bit, to realize, oh, here's where we
got a leak, let's fix it, or this is where
we have a leak, let's fix it. And I feel
like at that point there was enough movement on the

(12:00):
ground where they targeted those issues. But one of the
problems with these trends is that a lot of the
trends about voting and these discernible patterns, they don't emerge
until the votes start being counted, and a lot of
the stuff that you hear about previous elections, these are
patterns that were only able to be seen after the

(12:21):
votes came in, if that makes sense, So that I don't.
This is one of those things that underscores the need
to completely swamp the vote. And again, I think you
also have to consider a lot of Republicans still, especially
in some of these states, they like to go on
the day of, but not all signs indicate trouble. There's

(12:42):
a lot of encouraging things too. Republicans are leading early
voting for the first time ever in North Carolina. This
has never happened before. I think it has to do
with North Carolina is absolutely abysmal response to everything that's
happened in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, and the GOP
has been reversing the party's long held position against early voting.
Now here's another thing. We're going to talk about a

(13:03):
lot of these Senate races, but let me just give
you a thirty thousand foot view to start the show.
Bernie moreno I said this yesterday, pulled point four ahead
of Sharrod Brown and Ohio Right McCormick and Casey are
tied in Pennsylvania. The better measure of Harris versus Trump,
if you want a more accurate representation than what you're
getting from these national surveys, is to watch what happens

(13:24):
in those races. Watch what happens in these battleground races
between these from state lawmakers that are just tied. This
is significant. Now. Trump is also pulling incredibly well in Ohio,
so that's part of it. But in Pennsylvania, he and
Harris are tied, and so McCormick and Casey. Casey has

(13:45):
been reversing a lot of his positions. He's been trying
to run to the center. He's invoked Trump's name and ads,
which we've talked about last week. I think this is
a better measure of the health of the Senate. I
said to you last night, if you subscribe to my
newsletter in chapter and verse, I believe I feel like
at least Republicans will take the Senate with fifty one seats.
That is my estimation. Now that could actually go significantly higher.

(14:09):
You could go up to fifty five seats because you
have a number of these other races which we're gonna
talk about here coming up, races to watch and we're
going to dive into the house here coming up. Dicksville
Notch is the first town. This is in New Hampshire.
They vote at midnight. What do they have like a
whole six people? A whole six people? Can I just say,
how are you your own town with six people? That's

(14:32):
like me saying I'm going to form a micro nation
here in my backyard, right. I don't like what anyway?
So in twenty sixteen, I can't remember what it was,
was it forty two Trump and then it ended up
being tied or no, not tied. I think Biden edged
him out with like five hund or something like that.

(14:52):
In twenty twenty, bottom line is it was three to three.
They literally are tied in Dixville Notch. First town to
vote three for Harris Thory for Trump. And the funny
thing is is all these people Democrats and Republicans, it's
a tiny six people. They use it as a narrative
for the rest of the day, like at least until
what cain like eleven or twelve o'clock. That's the narrative.

(15:14):
And then you know they were pulling their hair out
when they saw those come in, I thought that was hysterical.
Last night, I gotta say I thought it was pretty funny.
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it goes sideways, That's what I'm gonna do. If not,
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reinvent the wheels. Weird. I like it the uh weird headline.

(17:54):
Hunt is on for the scum who stole Britain's largest
inflatable planetarium. It's large. They're investigating. It's the largest mobile
inflatable planetarium. It's been a regular feature at schools. It
looks like a weird It looks like a Gothic glue.
I'm not gonna lie like if Vikings made igglues. This
is what it looked like. And it has some Drackler

(18:15):
curtains in there. There. Well, I'm showing you got them
Drackler curtains in there. Local police issued the alert after
the inflatable was stolen, and the couple thinks that they
all intended to take the trailer restored in rather than
the dome itself, so they're on the lookout and okay,
a South Carolina hunter fatally shoots a woman that he

(18:35):
thought was a deer. Christopher MacDonald was apparently illegally hunting
at night. He fired off three rounds from a shotgun
and struck a couple, killing the woman. And he was
hunting at night. It was eight fifteen pm. I guess
the couple were out walking in the woods. I don't know.

(18:56):
I just were they quiet? Like do you not know
what a deer sounds like? I just like, if you
hear people walking and like human noises, it's probably not
a deer. He turned himself in and he confessed to
illegally hunting. But man, that's wild. What a crazy story.
He's back in court in December. Stick with us. Whould
you vote for you today? I voted for Kamala Harris.
Why is that? I have three daughters, four children overall,

(19:19):
and women's rights is pretty important to them and my daughters.
Sorry a little emotional about that. I was going to
do that, but on top of their bodies, their choice
type of mentality. You know, I want them to grow
up in a world that's welcoming to everybody. So yeah,
that's why. Why does he sound like he's gonna ball?

(19:41):
Oh my gosh. If I was his wife, I'd feel ashamed.
I think I'd start divorce proceedings. That's horrible. I'm not joking.
I'm not joking. I'm not trying to be funny. That's
I find that. Just so he's this dude is talking
about protecting his daughter's right to abort his grandchildren. Can

(20:02):
I just talk about how messed up it is that
that's your first thought is about you sexualize the vote. Well,
it needs to be about I want to make sure
that women if they end up engaging in recreational sex,
as if there's any other kind, and when they engage
in this, because we all know sidebar that rape and insists,
the counts for less than one percent, and that's from

(20:22):
Planned parenthoods and statistics, which is made public on the
internet by an institute called the Gootmacher Institute. So you know,
let's move on. I just want to make sure that
you know, they can you know, get rid of the
baby after they have the sex and they conceive. That's
my only you. I just find that a perverted view
of your vote. Why does everything have to go back

(20:46):
to sex and babygilling? It's weird like that. You're a
grown man and your response is to sexualize the vote
in the context of protecting it for your daughters. Does
any am I over reacting to that? I find that
really weird? Do you guys find it weird? And he's like,

(21:07):
I'm sir, I'm just I'm just getting emotional. It's like,
it's not even your vagina, dude, Like, what in the
world You're getting emotional because you're talking about aborting your
future grandchildren, or you're emotional because you're just realize how
sick it sounds to be sexualizing the vote through the
perspective of your daughter's an abortion. See, we are not

(21:28):
the same, y'all. We are not the same. Welcome back
to the program. Daniel Lash here with you top of
the second hour. It's election day and we've been going
through everything and I want to take you through these
electoral pathways right now. If you're watching on this simul
clas channel forty forty seven Direct TV or listening on
a station around the country. We get the chat over
at Rumble as well. So what could happen we were

(21:51):
going through the Senate I'm projecting, you know, the couple
of the races to watch. I mean, really, the Republicans
only have to flip two seats, and if we take
the White House, it only has to be one. But
I think it actually could go beyond that. But the
other thing is two quick things. The Atlas until survey
looks like it's going to be a long night for

(22:11):
Kamala Harris, and it just doesn't look I mean, they're
just they're tied, but she is also struggling with Hispanic voters,
she's struggling with men, and she's also struggling with i
mean black men voters. I mean, it's just this is

(22:32):
just it's kind of wild. Uh, the pathways forward And
I'm pulling up all my notes on this, and I
talked a little bit about this in the newsletter that
I sent out last night. So you know that you
have to get in the electoral College, you have to
get to the magical two seventy, right, magical two seventy

(22:55):
where it stands right now. So if I'm just looking
for instance, let me just look at rcp's ratings. RCP
has it right now, and this is just not going
by votes tabulated, obviously, it's going by polling in certain
states that you know we're going to be blue, in
certain states that you know we're going to be read.
They have it two eleven to two nineteen in favor
of Trump fans, both one hundred and eight toss ups.

(23:17):
So you have Nevada, Arizona, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia.
A lot of question marks over those. Now here's some
pathways forward. And I was again, I've been talking about
this in the newsletter, and we've you know, we've discussed
at least a couple of ways maybe before. So the

(23:37):
first one is the famed blue wall, right, it's the flame,
the famous blue wall. This is honestly her most likely path.
There's a caveat though. Imagine you have a big, big
blue wall and the bricks of this wall are Wisconsin

(24:02):
and Michigan and Pennsylvania. And then you have like a
congressional district in Omaha, because Nebraska does a mix of
statewide votes and congressional districts. It's I think Maine is
also one of the states that does this, so it's
a little weird. So Omaha is like its own thing.
And you have these these blue wall states, she doesn't

(24:25):
have to You have blue wall, you have sun Belt,
you have rust Belt, right, you know, the sun Belt,
the southern states where it's supposedly sunny. Your blue wall
is these states that have always been Democrat except in
twenty sixteen when they weren't because that's when Trump rushed
through like the kool aid man, and then with Ducaucus,

(24:46):
and then that's it. It's been Democrat the entire time.
If she keeps the blue wall, she doesn't have to
worry about any of the sun Belt states. Remember I
told you before Harris was substituted, one of the Biden
strategies was to make a play for Georgia, the sun Belts, right,
make a play for Georgia. That was going to be

(25:08):
a backup in the event that one of the bricks
of the blue wall fell, you could replace it with Georgia.
And Harris seems to have kind of abandoned that strategy.
It seems that theirs is just blue wall. She spent
an inordinate amount of time in Pennsylvania and in Michigan
and in Wisconsin. So she could keep the blue Wall

(25:32):
and not have to win any of the Sun Belt
states if she keeps the blue Wall, and this is
one of the things to watch. If she keeps the
blue Wall, she will get to two seventy. Now I
may look at the map on this, So if you
have I mean, even if you just take out everything else,
Let's just make Michigan lean DEM. Let's make Wisconsin leaning DEM.

(25:55):
Let's make Pennsylvania lean DEM. Without Minnesota, without North Carolina,
without Georgia, Arizona or Nevada. She's at two fifty five
to two nineteen right there, right there. Minnesota you know
is going to be leaned down. That takes her to
two sixty five. Now you see why Pennsylvania is so
important to the Trump camp. They gotta win it. Uh.

(26:18):
I think Georgia will likely lean Republican. That puts it
giving Georgia to them, That puts it two thirty five
to two sixty five electoral vote wise. So without even
factoring in Nevada Arizona, although I think New Hampshire. New
Hampshire I think is gonna lean DON even though she's struggling.
That puts her to two sixty nine to two thirty five.
Even without North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, she's at two sixty nine.

(26:41):
There at two thirty five. That is the significance of
Pennsylvania's nineteen electoral votes. They had twenty, but after the
twenty twenty census they lost one, so it was twenty.
Now it's nineteen. So if she takes Pennsylvania, I mean
you have to have Trump has to absolutely take Here's

(27:07):
where it gets very interesting. He could take North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada,
and that puts it at two sixty nine to two
sixty eight. And then of course you have that Nebraska.
Remember what I told you, the Omaha Guess who's favored
to win there, Harris, And then that puts her at
two seventy. That's the pathway that they're trying to make happen.

(27:33):
That is the pathway. So this is it's called Nebraska
District too, is what they call it. So it looks
like any two that's the Omaha thing where you get
one vote there, she's favored to win that. So she
this is her strategy. So that's the first pathway. And
this is her very clearly. This is her what they're
trying to make happen. So even if you have if

(27:55):
she takes Pennsylvania, that didn't leave Trump with a lot
of options. Pennsylvania, they need to take it, they have
to take it. Georgia has sixteen electoral votes, Pennsylvania has nineteen.
And then even if he were to take Arizona and Nevada,
I mean, I mean, you're going up against the amount

(28:15):
of votes that Pennsylvania has. So that makes it that's
a possibility, That is a possibility. Now, let's say that
he wins Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia. So let's look
at the map on this and I'm actually filling this
in myself on my desktop. So he takes Pennsylvania, and
we're going to start, by the way, we're going to

(28:36):
start with the baseline where everything is now, which is
two eleven to two nineteen. With the states that we know,
we're going to be inarguably Democrat and Republican. So you
would have if he takes Pennsylvania, you make that lean republican.
You make North Carolina and I say lean republican light
red because it's close. You give him on top of
that baseline Pennsylvania, North Carolina, that puts him at two

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fifty four to two eleven. Right, let's say, let's say
that she takes Nevada. She can take Nevada. That puts
her at two seventeen still to two fifty four, without
even allocating in Arizona and the other blue wall, Like
you can give her the blue wall, We'll go ahead
and give her. We'll go ahead and give her the
blue wall because I think some of those a couple
of the states may hold. At least that puts her
two forty two to two fifty four. So and then

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I think Georgia will go. He takes Georgia on top
of it, and that puts him at two seventy and
you would still have twenty six toss ups even if
she were to take I think she's gonna do this
and may hit this. This is gonna be New Hampshire,
is gonna be probably the Democrat give her a New Hampshire.
That puts her up. Put in Minnesota, it's two fifty
six still to two seventy. Toss ups are twelve. I mean,

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it's still even still even with Arizona, She's still not there,
still not there. So if he were to take Pennsylvania
and then he because I think Georgia's gonna go his way,
and North Carolina, then he's got it. And then he
will be at two. He'll be at two seventy, and
she'll be at two sixty eight. Now, remember what I

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told you about replacing that brick. If you look at
the blue Wall and you factor in even if she
were to lose Pennsylvania, she could replace it with Georgia.
If she loses Wisconsin or Michigan, she could replace it
at Georgia. She could take North Carolina too. So that's
a lot harder because you're talking about nineteen electoral votes.

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That's a lot harder. She would have to win Georgia
or North Carolina, and she would have to take either.
She would have to take Arizona, Nevada. You have to
make those numbers up. Now, if she loses, if she
doesn't take the blue Wall at all, let's say she
doesn't take Wisconsin or Michigan or whatever, she would have
to win all the Sun Belt states, which is not
going to happen. There's a lot of discussion about the

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red Wall. In twenty sixteen, Trump won Wisconsin Michigan and Pennsylvania.
He did not in twenty twenty. If he takes Michigan
and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, he can lose North Carolina, he
can lose Nevada, and he can lose Georgia. He would

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just need Arizona has eleven electoral votes. He would just
need Arizona and he would win. So she has a
couple of more pathways, but hers are so hard. The
alternative pathways she has besides the two most obvious, are

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pretty much it's just pretty much inconceivable. I offer them
up because it, I mean, it is a pathway. But
I just don't think that she's I'm sorry, She's not
gonna win all the sun Belt states. That's stupid, especially
when she's underperforming in some of these battleground states what
Clinton and Biden have done. Now, I will caution you,
a lot of these exit polls are trash. Don't pay

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attention to any of them, because please remember the exit
poles were so wrong in twenty twenty, and they were
so wrong, oh my gosh, in twenty sixteen. Thanks for
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