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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The news, opinions, commentary and interviews you need to start
your day. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Thursday morning, twenty third day of October. I'm Wes, thanks
for joining me. I have a seventeen year old son.
It's happened today. Officially, he was born already, so he's
seventeen officially, you know, past the birth minute. The kid
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who made me a dad is seventeen. So if you
happen to see my oldest son Jake today, my older son,
I guess eldest is the correct when it's two of them, right,
tell him happy birthday. By all means, I don't know
that you'll bump into him. Maybe you'll bump into him
at some point later in the week. But sorry, I
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got a little rasp.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
In the voice.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I hope that's not a sign of things to come.
So yeah, I've got a seventeen.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Year old in the house. I want to quickly remind you.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Coming up a week from Saturday, November the first It
Happens Made of Stars Podcast Live.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
We'll be doing the show.
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At the Coca Cola Space Science Center and we're excited
at the opportunity to do the show live in front
of an audience. We've told you it's we don't have
tickets for the show. It's free. You just show up
and enjoy the event. First time we'll have done the
podcast live in front of an audience. Closest we have
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come to doing this, and I say first time live.
We were did one I guess at the Space Science Center,
but we were just kind of set up at a
table there and that was really, you know, wasn't really
an audience. There are a few people around, but not
really an audience. So we'll see how the turnout is
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for this, and we hope if it's enough, we'll make
this a regular thing. We're excited at the chance to
do it. I've done other podcasts and shows and things
in front of people, but this will be the first
time really for Native Stars, and we just hope that
you will come by and join us.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It's free immediate.
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It happens at six o'clock November first, and it's inside
the Planetereum.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
They'll guide you in.
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You come to the Spaceline Center on Front Avenue in
Columbus and they'll guide you in and there you go.
Immediately following we started six immediately after it's over scheduled
to start at seven will be Astronomy Night, also a
free event. Doctor Rosa Williams and staff will talk to
you about what's going on in the night sky and
point the telescopes up and assuming there's no cloud cover,
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you'll get a chance to see some incredible dazzling sights
in the sky. And Rosa will take good care of
you and staff and you'll be able to see some
fantastic stuff. So it's a double freebie. Back to back,
check out the podcast live. Sean and I look forward
to you know, we'll do basically what we do anyway.
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We're just going to record a show and they'll just
be an audience there. So we're looking forward to that
and we hope you'll join us for it. It's free
and it happens November for six pm at the Coca
Cola Space Science Center Front Avenue in Columbus. Also, quickly,
just get your tickets for the Nutcracker Ballet. It happens
at the River Center in Columbus. Rivercenter dot org, river
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Center box Office, the Columbus Ballet dot org, any of
those places you get your tickets. Now. That one's not free,
but it's a very economical price, and it's a fantastic experience.
It's one of the great traditions that happens cities all
around the world. I don't know if it's an overly mail.
I mean, I'm sure other countries do it, but especially
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this time of year. As we get into the Christmas season.
Say this time of year, we're almost there. We've got
to get out of the Halloween season and we get
into the Thanksgiving Christmas season. I know, people get mad,
they say, why do they roll them into one holiday?
It's not one holiday, but it's just too big family
holidays that happened close together. But it's a great tradition
that happens, I assume around the world. But there won't
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be a show like this show that we're doing here
in Columbus because I'm not in those other shows. My
seventh time is Mother Ginger on the stilts inside the
big dress, the biggest star of the show literally and
my Paula Chanell's and I are looking forward to dancing
for you. We want you in the audience for that.
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So get your tickets from and I say economical tickets.
Don't get the ones online that are marked up. You
don't want to mess with that. Get your tickets now
Rivercenter dot org, Thecolumbus Ballet dot org or the River
Center box office, any of those. You're going to pay
the correct price for the tickets. And there's tickets available now,
so get your hands on those all right.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Quickly.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
We've gone through this whole week of no King's a
lot of talk about that, a lot of discussion about that.
The latest installment of the no King thing is the
construction that's going on at the White House the Trump
administration taking down on the East Wing. It's an outdoor
like walking area. They've ripped it down, they're adding something,
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adding to the ballroom, adding some things, paying for it
out of his pocket, and some donors are paying for
the construction. So taxpayers aren't even paying for this. They
didn't even have to get the Doge department involved. No
one there had to come in and say, hey, is
this you know, economical, And it's made people just go nuts.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
This is the latest in the well.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
This is a guy who never plans to leave. This
is his castle. He is just adding to his castle.
He has no plans to leave. He thinks he's the king,
and in reality it's what many presidents have done in
the past. You know, you go back to at least
one case of hey, it was set on fire and
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they had to do construction. But there have been other
constructions that have been done, whether it's swimming pools or
just an add on here and add on there.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Moving something.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And in this case, I believe at least what this
administration has said is they'd like to leave something behind.
They'd like to leave something lasting. And let's be honest,
at some point we're going to get this nice ballroom
or whatever it's going to be in the White House,
and people are going to want to be there. It's
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a great move for it's there's an old adage where
if you like when you're dating, and if it's somebody
that you really like and you think, well, this has
some potential, you can give someone a gift. It doesn't
even really I mean, it works for dating, but it
doesn't have to be for dating. Give a person a gift.
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Take the dating aspect of it out. It works for dating,
but give someone a gift, and if you give them
something that they're going to wear or use every day,
then in some small way, they'll think about you often, right,
You give someone a nice watch. Every time they wear
the watch and they look at the watch, there's at
least a possibility they're going to think about you because
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you gave it to them, or someone's gonna ask, hey,
where'd you get that watch? Oh, Ted gave it to me.
Oh great, Ted's a good guy. Whatever. Oh Tabitha gave
it to me, She's great, that's a nice watch. I
mean it certainly would if you give someone a ring.
You give them someone something that they'll think about you often.
It's just a it's a nice thing to do that
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has puts you on their mind, right, Just a little
subtle thing. It's a nonverbal thing, but it's a nice
little thing that you can do. And I'm giving you
that one for free. That's that's free with just listening
to the podcast. The other one that I tell you
all the time, know your spout, your wife, know their
favorite flower, because you know on anniversaries, it's nice to
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get the flower, the stargazer lily. It's a big one
here in the Carrol House because I know that's my
bride's favorite flower. It's another freebie on their birthday. Whatever
you want to get them. Some flowers you get them
the flower from the wedding, and that's their favorite flower.
Typically that's the one from the wedding. And then you
do that, and then they're gonna always you know, they're
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gonna be.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Like, wow, you remembered.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It's another freebe I'm giving you anyway. So this is
a good move. Every time someone uses this new ballroom,
every time someone's there, even the people who hated his guts,
they're gonna be in there and they're going to be like, Wow,
this is a great ballroom, or Wow, I'm excited to
be at this event with all these dignitaries and world
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leaders or whatever. And that's where they're gonna be. They're
gonna be, you know, in this at an event going
on in this room, and deep down inside, they're gonna
know this is a room that Donald Trump put there.
So it's a great move on his part, and it's
kind of a subtle little thing, but it's also really
nice to be able to make those kind of improvements.
So I think it's a nice move. But it's driving
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people crazy. Yep, he's tearing down the people's house. All
these kinds of comments, and you know.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
The absurdity of that is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I mean, it is absolutely ridiculous that it's like he's
just leveled the whole building and he's rebuilding it gold.
That's what they're kind of suggesting, and people are losing
their minds. But anyway, so that's just the latest installment
in the he thinks he's a king legacy. Let's move
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on to another topic. I want to talk about this
Graham Platiner. He is oyster farmer who is from Maine,
and he is a Democrat trying to challenge Susan Collins
for the Republican who's the Republican senator there in Maine,
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and Bernie Sanders one of the people that has endorsed him,
and I guess there's another person who's running for that
nomination there as well. It's the governor there in Maine,
Janet Mills. And probably probably not a good thing for
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someone who is not very well known, that is, you know,
running for the position. But anyway, so here's here's where
some things have come to light here lately, and a
few things that have come out about Platiner, and it's
just it's a weird place that we're in, uh with Platiner.
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So he has had some verbal diarrhea.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
If you wear, if you will.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
He has been a p opponent publicly of political violence.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
He has.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Sorry, this is one of those grown up words, but
it's not one of those really bad grown up words.
But he's referred to police as bastards. I guess he's
an oyster guy. So he's called the lobstermen there pieces
of poop used a different word. That's a word I'm
not going to say necessarily unless I get really really
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worked up. Apparently, and then he's made comments also about
how black people don't tip. I don't know. That's all
not typically something that you go for. You would say,
if you're running for an office as a Democrat. Maybe
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you get away with it in Maine. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Maybe you get away with that in Maine.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Apparently he's kind of skated on that for a little while.
But anyway, so now there's some other stuff that's come out,
and I guess he's been actively on Reddit. There was
a time when he identified it himself as a communist.
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He said that people in the military were worried about
being We're worried about being raptured by kevlar underwear. He's
had a number of things that he has said that
have come out, but this communist thing is something that
he needs to be concerned about. And he's got people
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that have endorsed him, and now that some more things
are coming out, they're still sticking with him. So I
guess there was a time when he I don't know
where he was. I don't know what this photo was taken,
but it's a There was video of him lip syncing
a Miley Cyrus song and he had his shirt off
and there was a Nazi tattoo on his chest that
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he still has, by the way, And this comes out
after he's apologized for some of the comments that he's made.
But yeah, he's got this German death's head skull that
was used, you know by the elite guard in Germany.
It's no big deal, right, So that's nothing. But these
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are the people that you know, you know, killed like
six million people, right. This is we're not just talking
about like this is a symbol.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
For one of the little groups that went.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Happy about this. They're gonna kill me if I don't
do it. No, no, no, these are the people like
doing the work for the Nazis. The horrific work for
the Nazis, right, these are the people that guarded the
concentration camps. That's the tattoo this guy has on his chest.
The political director of his campaign resigned last week and
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he said she said, Genevieve is her name. McDonald said
on social media, Graham has an anti Semitic tattoo on
his chest. He's not an idiot. He's a military history buff.
Maybe he didn't know it when he got it, but
he got it years ago and he should have covered
it up because he knows damn well what it means.
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So and Genevieve McDonald, the former political director of the campaign,
who by the way, didn't resign over this, resigned over
the other idiotic things, basically has said that the campaign
released footage of him lip syncing with his shirt off
to try to get.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Ahead of it.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And that's where that's where things currently are. So there's
a number of people that are saying that they will
continue to support and Bernie Sanders continues his support for Platine,
basically saying that he thinks Platner got the tattoo when
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he was inebriated and that he's not the only one
in America who's gone through a dark period.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Platner's comment on all this, I think you pretty much
find out where I stand on Nazism and anti Semitism
and racism in general. That he's not a secret Nazi.
This was something that he said on a podcast. He's
not a secret Nazi, and he's shown support for Antifa,
by the way. So Sanders, also referring to that dark period,
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said people go through that. He apologized for the stupid remarks,
for remarks that he made, and I'm confident he's going
to run a great campaign and he's going to win.
Here's another good one. Martin Heinrich, Democrat senator from New Mexico,
says the Democrat Party needs to be big enough to
accept people who have hard lives, who have made mistakes
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and actually owned up to the mistakes. And that's what
he's done.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Heinrich says that he likes Platner because what he's campaigning
on in the way he's connecting to working class voters.
These are the same people who accused Elon Musk of
throwing a Hyle Hitler sign when he hid hisself on
the chest and said, you know, my heart goes out
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to all of you. I just want to point out
the fact Elon Musk did an like an unfortunate sort
of gesture. I didn't see it and immediately think, ah,
he's a Nazi.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
This guy literally has a symbol.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
For not just Nazis in general, but the people guarding
the camps and executing people on his chest and has
had it for years. And he is a self proclaimed
history buff. How does he not know what that means?
Let me just remind you also that we have gone
through folks on the left saying that if you throw
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up an ok sign with your hand, that means white power.
That if you have a don't tread on me a
T shirt or sticker or flag anywhere, that because there
have been some white supremacy groups that have embraced that flag,
that then makes you want even though the flag has
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nothing to do with white supremacy, nothing to do with it,
the okay white power symbol has nothing to do with
white supremacy. They just grabbed it and said we're gonna
throw it out because it looks like your three fingers
are ABU and then your index finger and thumb and wrist.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I guess make a Peece. So that's white power.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
These are the same people who went after soldiers who
did this at a football game, the Army Navy game,
when someone threw up an OK sign and it wasn't
even that they were doing it as an OK sign.
It had something to do with some group or a
fraternity or something. We saw black people throwing up the
OK sign as part of their fraternity, and people accused
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them of being white supremacists because they were in the
military under Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Just want to remind you.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
While we're running around forgiving people for going through hard
times and forgiving people for having this symbol tattooed on
their body forever while singing, and we're not even getting
into the fact that the guy was singing Miley Cyrus songs.
Is that even forgivable? I don't know, all right, I've
sung to my race. But my point is I don't
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hate the Miley ray Cyrus. I really don't. My biggest
issue with Miley Ray Cyrus is that for years called
her Miley ray Cyrus on the radio, not knowing that
her middle name was actually Ray. And I said it
for years because I thought it was just a funny
thing to call her. Because of her dad and then
you find out, oh, no, her name is Miley Ray
Cyrus and I thought, well, it just kills.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
My whole joke.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Or maybe it endeared me to the Miley's Race Cyrus fans.
Either way, Nazi tattoo making a video of yourself singing
Miley Ray Ciris songs at the very least, that combination
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after the break, What do you remember when it seemed
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like the cruising industry was done? Go back to COVID
a few years ago, and you know, people on cruise
ships were dying, people were getting sick. It was just,
you know, we had ships that couldn't dock. It was
just all these horrible scenarios plan out. There were even
points not even COVID related. Remember when they had outbreaks
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of you know, all sorts of things on cruise ships
unrelated to COVID, and it seemed like, oh, are they
ever going to be able to get it together again? Well,
a new report from Tripleas projecting that a record twenty
one point seven million Americans will sail the High Seas
on a cruise ship in twenty twenty six, representing a
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four point five percent increase from this year. During the pandemic,
nearly two million Americans took cruises, and it was believed
the industry would never bounce back, but it did obviously
in a big way. Industry experts say the surge is
fueled by pent up demand new ships over with over
the top amenities, growing appetite for all inclusive floating vacations.
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The majority of passengers, according to TRIPAA, fifty five and
older and seventy two percent of cruisers will choose Caribbean itineraries.
So that's not a big shock because that's.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You know, it's an easy one. It's an easy one.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
For people kind of all on like the eastern half
of the country, right, I mean, there's other options, but
that's an easy one. So when you think about what
scares us, we're in the Halloween season, so scary stuff.
But typically this time of year especially, people think about
all the Halloween type stuff that scares you, but the
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things that are actually keeping Americans up at night, according
to a new pole, Researchers at Chapman University in California
have released their annual survey of amer fears, and for
the eleventh year in a row, government corruption tops the list.
Sixty nine percent saying that they're afraid of it. Next
on the list people becoming seriously ill that you love,
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and financial collapse. Other things that made the list cyber terrorism,
the US becoming involved in another world war, pollution of
drinking water, Russian nuclear weapons, pollution in the oceans, lakes
and rivers, I guess all bodies of waters, and government
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tracking private data. Some of the least frightening things on
the list flying strangers, sharks, and needles. Kind of surprised
at some of those, but I mean strangers scare me,
and I'm an adult, so all right. There's a man
in Turkey who was ordered to pay compensation to his
ex wife after she discovered that he had saved her
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name as Chubby in his phone contact list. The nickname
came to light during divorce proceedings, and the woman argued
it was insulting and had a negative impact on their marriage.
The court agreed and ordered the man to pay his
ex wife financial compensation for putting it in his phone.
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This is in Turkey, though, but obviously this story went
viral and a lot of people saying, wait a minute,
could have been a good nickname. It wasn't I'm sure,
but the idea of having to pay a financial penalty
is pretty ridiculous, though, isn't it? All right? Remember shreking
the idea of you date down in the hopes that
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a person who is you deemed to be less attractive
than you might actually treat you better. Well, there's a
new trend making its way through social media, and it's
called throning. And that's where you try to date up
and get with somebody who will.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Boost your social status.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
It's about clout more than anything else.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
It's not really about love.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
The idea of marrying up old digging certainly isn't new,
but throning isn't just dating someone for money. It's about
gaining followers, fame, or influence. Sounds like the plot of
just about every teen angst movie, right, most of all
of them. But there was a period where that.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Was kind of all of them.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Maybe the nineties that was most of them.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
All right, Uh, there was a word I'm gonna say
it was a heigi. Is that how you say it?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Danish word that meant all things comfy, cozy and relaxing.
Sorry if you're Danish and I screwed it up. Well,
there's a new Scandinavian custom that is out there that's
catching on, and it is.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Called free luft slive.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
That's not what it looks like, but apparently that's how
you pronounce it, and it means open air life health
psychologist Carry Leebowitz from Amsterdam, explaining that it's about connecting
with nature and the outdoors as part of your everyday
life hiking, biking, gardening, ski rucking. That means walking with
weight on your back and more in any kind of weather.
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Even sitting outside on the porch swing wrapped up in
a blanket with a cup of tea constitutes freeloof slove.
You gotta remember to dress for the weather, though, and
go release some stress. It's not a race. It's about connection.
So I can get down with that one. I like that.
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I like the I like to sometimes just sit out
on my deck when it's cold in a blanket.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
We had our snow.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Last year, and you know, I would sit out there
and watch movies, especially movies that had snow in them. Yeah,
it was a fun way to the gray Liam Neeson,
you know, fighting wolves.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
I did that.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
That was a good time. That kind of I think
that should count as freeloof slove. That'll do it for
this Thursday edition of the show. Thanks to our sponsors
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