Have you already started your 4th of July?

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• What is the significance of the 4th of July?

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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dot Com. Now here's Jimmy Barrett. Hey, Happy Fourth of July. Well,
not quite yet. Tomorrow's the fourth of July. But I'm guessing,
as i'm talking to you right now, a little after
four in the afternoon on Thursday, you are you've already
started your Fourth of July? Right? Is that safe to say?
Everybody started the fourth of July holiday, So we might

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as well talk about that start the day today. I
don't know where fourth of July stands in your list
of important holidays. It's pretty important to me, mainly because
I'm a bit of a history buff and therefore I
understand the significance of the fourth of July. It's a
holiday that those of us who are conservatives really like.

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But I'm guessing if you are liberal, you don't particularly
care for the Fourth of July. At least I'm making
that assumption right, and I think that's a fair assumption
to make. I mean, we're already talked about, you know,
proud to be an American. Polling from Gallup shows that
only thirty six percent of Democrats are proud to be
an American. I'm guessing thirty I think that probably would

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be about right, because I'm guessing at about thirty six
percent of Democrats are still saying the rest of them
are crazy. That's the population of Democrats that there are
still semi sane who still believe that we live in
the best country on planet Earth. Not without its faults, obviously,
but one that is definitely worth protecting and saving and

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building upon. So we'll start of that. I don't know
what you normally do on the fourth of July. We
are not We are not fireworks people at our house.
I have neighbors who are fireworks people. I actually asked
the question this morning on Katie r. H of our listeners.
Didn't get a lot of you checking in on this,
but but I was curious, what, you know, what do

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you plan to do for the fourth of July. Here's
here's a couple of them, one of which is hilarious from.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Ender the Truck Arou'm in Tennessee, heading up north to Kinna.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Kid, I'll be.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Running out with the end and working.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Great day.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
As Daniel from Splendora, our Fourth of July plans this
year going to be to watch the neighbors blow up
their fingers and we'll keep all our fingers.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
I have a good one. I love that I have
a neighbor right around the corner from me, and I've
never been you know, I didn't grow up. I grew
up in a state where the only thing you could
have when we were kids were sparkling. You all remember
sparklers every which which is kind of funny because at

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the time sparkles were considered the least dangerous form of fireworks.
If you will that you could possibly have sparklers, are
you know there were metal rods with whatever that coating
is that would you know, send out the sparkles. And
and here's what, as I recall from a child, my
dad would set up we didn't have a gas grill,

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we had a charcoal grill, right, and he would set
up the grill so that you'd have something to light
the sparklers from other than lighter for example. And he
would set up the grill and then we you know,
we'd each get a couple of boxes of sparklers to
play around with, and of course those things were red
hot and we always burned our fingers on them. But

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nobody tried to ban them. Nobody said you can't have them.
Nobody nobody talked about you know, this is a this
is a terrible burden danger. We need to ban these things.
I don't. There's a lot of communities you can't even
have sparklers. You can't have any form of fireworks. When
I was a kid, neighbors' kids would have like bottled
rockets in cherry bombs and all that kind of stuff.

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Now very few of us have those anymore. We do
have here in Texas, and even though I don't like them,
and even though my dog hates them, I defend to
my death your right to fire off the fireworks, because
I have seen how fireworks have been systematically eliminated from
many different communities, even here in Texas. Some of the
big cities. In Houston, you can't have fireworks. The woodlands,

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you can't have fireworks. We live in an unincorporated part
of Harris County, so we're allowed to have fireworks, and
my neighbors will shoot them off and they'll make a
bunch of noise. It'll make the dog crazy and barking
and scared and all that other stuff. But I respect
the fact that we still have the ability to do that,
that at least our state government hasn't become so onerous

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that they just want to be the complete nannies state
and protect you from things like sparklers for goodness sakes. Yeah,
like you're gonna kill yourself with a sparkler. If you
get a burn, you get a burn, you know, rub
some dirt on it, Nancy, Everything is going to be okay.
But I love what that with the with the what
the callers said about He's just gonna kind of sit

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in his driveway, I guess, and watch watch his neighbors
with the fireworks and you know, let them blow their
fingers off, and see him blowing blowing his fingers up.
I think that's a smart thing to do. I really do.
Let your neighbor do that. We had a neighbor a
couple of years ago. I've told this story before, but
in case you haven't heard, a couple of years ago,
we had a neighbor right around the corner from us

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who did the fireworks. And you know when he got done,
I guess, I mean, I gotta gi him credit. He
was trying to clean up, right, A lot of the
neighbors don't. They wait until the next day, and sometimes
they don't even bother to, you know, clean up the
little shrapnel debris from the from the fireworks, the cardboard
and all that kind of stuff. And and it's good

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evidence if you want to know which of your neighbors
kept you up all night with fireworks. It's pretty easy
to see who was doing the fireworks displays at most
houses because a lot of them they'll bother to clean
up until the next day. But anyway, he cleaned up.
He put all the remnants in a plastic garbage bag,
or not bag, but a plastic garbage can, and then

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put the can right next to the house, on the
side of the house by the air conditioning unit. Well,
as it turned out, some of the remnants were still
hot and it started a fire, and his house had
significant damage and he had to deal with his insurance
company and explaining to them what happened. And then you

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know the rebuild process, which took over nine I think
he was out of that house for over a year.
By the time that was all over and said it
done with and I noticed they have not done any
fireworks since. I think that cured him. You have that
happened to you once, that'll probably cure you from the
desire to have fireworks. I personally, I think fireworks blown
out in rural areas. If you're out there where you

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don't have a bunch of neighbors to disturb, hey, knock
yourself out. In neighborhoods where the houses are close together,
please be careful. That stuff can land on a neighbor's
roof and start a fire. That stuff can land up
people's you know, pickup trucks in the driveway and cause problems.
So that's all I would ask is just be careful
with that stuff. All right, quick little break again. Happy

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Fourth of July weekend coming up. Will be back with
for in a moment Jimmy Barrett Show here on the
A nine to fifty KPRC. All right, we are going

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to have a special session here in Texas July twenty first,
I believe it is. And there are going to be
a couple of things that are going to be done
in that special session. But the primary item or agenda
that's going to come up is THHC, and this has
caused quite an interesting controversy here in the state of Texas. Now,

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I consider myself a conservative, but I'm also a bit
of a libertarian when it comes to things like, you know,
drinking and using drugs and whatever. Which is not to
say that I'm in favor of people using drugs. I
don't think you should do that, but I also don't
think it's up to the government to somehow prevent you
from using drugs, because Lord knows that they had not

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been successful at doing that. But here's the thing. THC
is pretty in my mind, is pretty innocent stuff, but
not in the mind of Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. And
I've been trying to figure this one out. Despite all
the opposition he was getting from veterans groups, PTSD groups
that use THHD therapy in order to help people have

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real trauma their time in the military. Despite things like that,
Dan Patrick has it in his head that THC is
reef for madness and that it has to be banned
in the state of Texas, despite the fact that we
have a lot of businesses here in Texas who either
sell the stuff or a growth of materials for this stuff.

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It's a big business here in Texas, and he's so
vehemently against it that I just kind of have to
wonder if there's a story behind the story. And I'll
tell you what I mean by that. I have found
that politicians have a tendency sometimes to come up with

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laws based upon a single incident that somehow impacted them personally.
So I'm wondering, in the case of Dan Patrick, is
there a family member who has a bad drug story
in his family? Is there somebody who was murdered by

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somebody who is high on drugs in his family, or
his best friend, or somebody really close to his family.
Because he is just so so close minded about the
subject that I just have to wonder how the subject
has impacted him personally. That's generally how I find it
with politicians. If it impacts them personally, then they get

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they really get on that bandwagon. So I wonder about that.
If I ever get a chance to talk to him
on the show again, I'll ask him, you know what
has been Have you had a personal experience with THC
If you had a son or a daughter, or a grandchild,
or a niece or a nephew or a coworker that
has a personal story a bad story about THC. How

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did we end up at this place that you are
more interested in completely banning something than you are adjusting
the laws to make sure that we do a good
job of keeping this stuff away from young kids and
that it goes to the people it's intended to help.
Because I think it's been proven beyond the shadow of

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doubt that there are some therapeutic benefits to THC. There
are there are some therapeutic benefits to THHC. There's no
doubt in my mind about that. So anyway, that's going
to be the star of the special session. Here is
a report on that and on the riff that now
exists because Governor Abbott vetoed that bill that came from

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the Senate, he vetoed dan Patrick's bill. Now, evidently there's
some bad blood between those two. Here's the report from
KO two eleven.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
With a look at, among of the things, the political
fallout behind the scenes.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
You listen, Lieutenant Governor dan Patrick made it clear he
is not happy about the Governor's decision here.

Speaker 7 (11:53):
Yeah, that's right, and he has said that on social media.
In a press conference, and this special session may be
about THHC on pay paper, but politically it's starting to
look like a power struggle between two of the state's
top Republicans, and experts say even though Governor Abbot has
policy reasons for calling this session, the politics are impossible
to ignore. Now. Governor Abbott vetoed Senate Bill III, which

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called for a statewide ban on THHC products like Delta
eight and Delta nine. Instead, he wants lawmakers to focus
on regulating those products, a move that's been welcomed by
veteran groups and small businesses. But Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
wasn't happy, criticizing the veto on social media, then reinforcing
his position at a press conference. Political experts say that

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public pushback exposes a subtle but significant split within the
Texas GOP. Some lawmakers in the House may actually be
relieved the bill was struck down.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
They have these small businesses in their districts. They also
have veterans, So if they're on a veterans type committee,
if they're on a mental health type committee, or if
they're on a commerce committee, this may be a positive
for him.

Speaker 7 (13:01):
But in the Senate it's a different story. Where Patrick
holds more influence. I ask Professor Yahn, who you just
heard from, what that tension means for lawmakers who may
be caught in the middle between their party leaders and
their voters.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Lieutenant Governor Patrick has been so strong on this throughout
the session and now since the veto, and he wields
so much power for those stage senators that if they
don't play ball, then what could happen is they lose
a lot of their influence in the Senate.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Aha. In other words, political payback. And Dan Patrick is
more than willing to do that, just just as the
head of the House is just as willing to do that.
The political payback of not going along with this could
be pretty severe. That's the motivator, you know, for people

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to support this bill. The reason why he got as
much support as he did in the Senate, I think
has everything to do with the fact that they fear
the cotribution of Dan Patrick. And again, I don't understand,
you know, exactly what's going on in Lieutenant Governor's head
about this. To be there's got to be a personal
family background involved here somewhere, at least that's always been
my experience before. At the other story. That local story

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that we've talked about a lot this week, and I'd
like to talk about just a little bit more right now,
is this story of this nine year old girl who
died in Galena Park. The mother, thirty six year old mom,
has not been charged. She left her daughter alone in
the family car in the parking lot where the mom

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works while the mom did her shift starting at six
in the morning. The child was unresponsive when mom came
out in the afternoon. They took her to LBJ. They
couldn't revive her. She's dead. Now you may wonder, well
if they charged with anything? Have they arrested her? And

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know she's not arrested and knows she has not yet
been charged, But it doesn't mean she won't be charged
or arrested. It could very well happen. What we don't
know yet with one hundred percent certainty is the cause
of death. Did she die from heat exhaustion and being
exposed to all that heat in the car, or did

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she die from something else? Is that? Is that a possibility?
And you won't know the answer to that until you
get the autopsy back. Why don't you get the autopsy
then you can answer that question. If she died from
the heat, then I'm sure there's going to be charges pending.
And again the two questions I have, and actually we
were talking about it in the newsroom this morning. You know,

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one of the questions I had about this whole thing is,
she's nine years old. She's not a baby, she's not
helpless unless she's special needs. Why didn't she just let
herself out of the car and get out of there?
And in one of my workers Eric said, he's right,
he's absolutely right about this that you know, getting you know,

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having heat stroke or heat exhaustion to the point where
you're likely to die from it. It's a little bit
like carbon monoxide poisoning, right, you just kind of fall asleep,
or in this case, you kind of pass out. By
the time you might realize, especially as a nine year
old child, by the time you might realize that you've

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got a real problem, it's too late. You're already incapacitated. Now.
The other question I came up with, though, is why
was the nine year old in that car to begin with?
Why did the mom feel the need to put that
child at risk by having her in a car, a

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hot car in a parking lot where the woman worked.
I mean, I can understand if you're saying she couldn't
get out of the shift. She had to do her job,
she didn't get off, she lost the babysitter was not available,
whatever it is. But we're talking We're not talking about
a four year old or a three year old or
even a five year old. We're talking about a nine
year old. I'm pretty sure by the time I was

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nine years old that my parents were willing to leave
me alone at least for a limited period of time,
and we're not that worried about me. Wouldn't you be
better off as a parent, you know, training your child
and what to do and want not to do while
they're alone in the home and have them safely insconced

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in the house with locked doors, in the air conditioning on.
Wouldn't that be a better alternative than to having them
in a car? So you know, I you know this
is a story that it could be going on for
a while, but you know, these are the kinds of
questions that are worth are worth talking about. You know,
these are our parental decisions that some sometimes could be

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deadly if you make the wrong choice. All right back
with Bourn, be right back Jimmy Ver Show here on
AM nine fifty k PRC. All right, before we wrap

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it up here and just start enjoying our fourth of
July holiday weekend, a couple of more little topics to
talk about here. One of them has to do with
the University of Pennsylvania and the Ivy League school, the
school that allowed Leah Thomas, a biological male, to swim
on the women's swimming team. Penn has now apologized for

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doing it. Number one. Well, although it's really not a
very good apology. It's kind of like the long lines. Well,
we just, you know, we're sorry, but we just thought
we were following Title nine. We thought we were doing
what we were supposed to. We thought we were doing
the right thing. But they've gotten enough pressure nowt from
the Trump administration, probably in the form of, you know,
we're going to take away your federal funding that not

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only have they apologized for what they did, they have
also rescinded any medals, trophies, whatever, that Leah Thomas won
while at Penn participating on the women's swim team, and
they have been any further participation from males biological males

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on women's sports teams. So In other words, they finally
have done the right thing. Here is the report.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
We've signed an agreement with them, and we hope that
that agreement is going to be a template for other
universities who acknowledge that there is no room for men
and women's sports. The university is apologizing, it is taking
away the titles that were incorrectly given to men. We've
righted or wrong today.

Speaker 8 (19:55):
One of Leah Thomas's former teammates, Paula Scanlan, claims the
schools of apology didn't go far enough.

Speaker 6 (20:02):
What I did not like about this apology was that
they just simply said, well, we were following the rules.
To my question, title line has always been what it is.
How is it just changing the rules that men can
magically be women for a couple of years and then
went back to reality. I still they've been given no
justification for that. I think again, this is a wonderful start.
I think we've seen the Trump administration has been so
strong on this. I appreciate their leadership in this issue.

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It shows that they really are doers, are.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
Getting things done.

Speaker 6 (20:26):
They're doing exactly what they promised, and I'm so.

Speaker 9 (20:29):
Grateful for that.

Speaker 8 (20:30):
And former NCA swimmer champion and women's sports activists Riley
Gaines joined me on the Faulkner Focus last hour. She
told me she hopes the decision will inspire more female
athletes to speak out.

Speaker 9 (20:43):
I hope we see the likes of Kitlin Clark and
Angel Reeves. Of course, we saw where Simone Biles was
on this issue, which is really sad Venus and Serena Williams.
I mean, I can think of so many athletes, female
athletes with prominent platforms who I would just love to
link arms with in this battle, who would celebrate this
and praise again the actions that we have seen from

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the Trump administration.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yeah, well, they write it or wrong. They were forced
into righting the wrong, but at least they at least
they finally got it right. Although this won't be the
end of it by any stretch of the imagination. There
are plenty of other schools that are not going to
do what Pennsylvania did. They will continue to be defined
and continue to do with what they do. This will

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be a fight that'll be going on for years. All Right,
one more story here because I love it and I
wanted to share it with you here in the Afternoon show,
and that is President Trump's approval numbers. Not among Democrats.
I don't not even his overall approval number. I don't
really care about those things. Most presidents have a forty
forty five percent approval rating. You know, would you take

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both sides and consider it all, because you know this
face of when Obama was president, Democrats loved them, Republicans
hated him, et cetera, et cetera. All you can really
try to do engaging. You know, what kind of support
he's getting is the base. How do Republicans feel about
the job he's doing. Do they feel like he's doing

(22:12):
what he promised to do? And when it comes to that,
I mean, every politician makes promises, and even with President Trump,
there's promises that he has made that will not be
fulfilled by the Big Beautiful Bill, not any fault of
his own, but the fault of Congress for not being
able to enact those things, which we've already talked about

(22:33):
quite a bit. You know. So the Big Beautiful Bill
will not be as big and beautiful as Trump wanted
it to be, but it is is a great step
forward in getting to where it needs to be. Baby
steps anything involving Congress. I guess involves baby steps. But
here's the bottom line. Not only does he have a

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high approval rating around Republicans, he has an historically high
approval rating among Republicans. Even CNN had to report it.
Here's the CNN report follow up from Greg Guttfeld.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Sixty three percent of Republicans strongly approved of the job
that Donald Trump is doing about five months into his presidency.
Republicans love Donald Trump the way that Americans love Disney World.
He is more beloved by this Republican base than any
Republican base loved any GOP president five months and.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
It is history. Make it hisen Yeah, well.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
He promises, makes promises, then surprise, he fulfills him. He
is the most consequential political phenomenon in my lifetime. And
what I'm thirty eight. He reinvented politics. And here's how
he did it. He didn't join the Republican Party so
he could be more like them. He joined the party

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so the party would be more like him. And that's
what made him a true leader and made him It's
a great example of how to live your life. I mean, seriously,
he did more in a week than Biden did in
his fifty years because Biden was never interested in doing
anything except having the job. But it's not just how
good he is, it's how bad the Dems are. By comparison.

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It amplifies the contrast. Look at each party. Trump represents
the Republican party's real estate tycoon, a billionaire, successful TV
show host, what Tom Wolf would call a master of
the universe. What is the Dems most charismatic leader right now?
They're New Obama, a communist running for mayor in New

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York City, the most radical guy, and the party who
wants to control the means of production.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
That's insane. But we were told.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
That the Democrat Party was going to change, that they
were going to realize, No, we've gone way off the
deep end. We're not woke anymore. We're going to come
back to the middle. And that's what they do. It's incredible.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah, they couldn't find the middle with both hands and gps.
They have no clue where the middle is. All right, enough,
enjoy your Fourth of July holiday weekend and your hot
dogs and your hamburgers and your potato chips and your
potato whatever you're having. Have a great weekend. We will
see Monday morning Bright and Early five AM on News
Radio seven forty k t r H. Back Your Monday

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