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Ohio State Football Adds A New Quarterback In The Transfer Portal · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday May twenty first,
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  Speaker 1: Tony Gerdaman at Buckeyhuddle dot com. Tony, there is transfer
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  Speaker 1: portal news for the Buckeyes Ryan Day. It's felt like
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to add another scholarship quarterback to this year's
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  Speaker 1: Ohio state team. He always talks about four as sort
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  Speaker 1: of being the magic number for him in his program,
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  Speaker 1: and they have done it. I will admit this was
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  Speaker 1: not a name that I had right at the top
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  Speaker 1: of my board, but they have in fact added a
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarterback for this year.
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  Speaker 2: Tom, you did not have Houston Christians Eli brick Handler
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  Speaker 2: on your quarterback hop board of transfers. That's that's a
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  Speaker 2: pretty big mess by you not to have Eli brick
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  Speaker 2: Handler there. Yeah, that was surprise for everybody. But they
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  Speaker 2: got their fourth quarterback and he is a rising red
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  Speaker 2: shirt junior, so he'll have two years of eligibild. He
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  Speaker 2: left kind of a backup, part time starter last year.
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  Speaker 2: I believe we started a couple of games, including a
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  Speaker 2: win over ranked McNee State twenty four twenty fourth rank
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  Speaker 2: McNee State where he completed seven of twenty passes for
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  Speaker 2: a season high one hundred and fifty nine yards tom
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  Speaker 2: and also twenty two carries for season high one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and thirty eight yards rushing in the win. There. So
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  Speaker 2: a guy who has been basically a career fifty percent
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  Speaker 2: passer wherever he's been, and they started out at well
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  Speaker 2: last year he was at Houston Christians, but the first
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  Speaker 2: two years at North Carolina A and T and now
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  Speaker 2: has been has made the sensible jump up to Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State football.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what a traditional career path from North Carolina A
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  Speaker 1: and T to Houston Christian which, if you're wondering, I
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  Speaker 1: haven't heard of that. It used to be Houston Baptist.
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  Speaker 1: That's the one where their stadium is located right next
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  Speaker 1: to a CVS pharmacy where you can, like from the
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  Speaker 1: stadium CACVS Pharmacy outside. That's also the school where they
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  Speaker 1: had like a mass transfer of their offensive coordinator and
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  Speaker 1: like essentially their whole offense from Houston Baptist to Western
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky probably four or five years ago at this point.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a school you've probably heard of, but Houston
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  Speaker 1: Christian has not been its name for very long. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think, first of all, let's set what
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  Speaker 1: this means. Is he going to be competing for the
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  Speaker 1: starting job this year. No, he probably will not be
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  Speaker 1: competing for the starting job, but he is going to
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  Speaker 1: be on scholarship. This is very much to me about
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  Speaker 1: filling out the roster. They have three scholarships quarterbacks before him, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Julian Say and Lincoln Keenhols, Tavian Saint Clair. They also
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  Speaker 1: have Mason Maggs on the roster. He is His position
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  Speaker 1: is currently listed as undefined on the official Ohio state
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  Speaker 1: roster because he started as a quarterback and then he
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  Speaker 1: played one snap as a running back last year, sort
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  Speaker 1: of helping fill out the running back room. Have a
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  Speaker 1: pretty deep running back room this year, so I would
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  Speaker 1: assume he's back with the quarterbacks. This to me feels
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  Speaker 1: like a move that's going to have a lot more
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  Speaker 1: impact on practice days rather than on game days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the key where you're looking for the
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  Speaker 2: guy that can be that scout quarterback, a Scout team
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  Speaker 2: quarterback who has the ability to be both a passer
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  Speaker 2: and a runner. So it gives you some appliability in
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  Speaker 2: terms of, well, this week we're facing a guy who
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  Speaker 2: runs more, Well, we've got that guy that can do that.
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  Speaker 2: This week we're facing out who can throw more, and
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  Speaker 2: we've got that. And they also have that in Tavi
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  Speaker 2: in Saint Clair as well, a true freshman should he
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  Speaker 2: be part of that mix as well. But here you've
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  Speaker 2: got an experienced guy who can do a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of both and is not looking to be the starting
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  Speaker 2: quarterback at Ohio State. And when we've talked about Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State adding a fourth quarterback, it's always with that in mind.
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  Speaker 2: It's like they want somebody who is experienced, an upperclassman
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  Speaker 2: and Elis and his fort going into his fourth year,
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  Speaker 2: somebody with starting and he's played quite a bit and
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  Speaker 2: he's got i think a couple of starts, and somebody
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  Speaker 2: who has like not really a desire to start at
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State, and it's it's it's not a wide group
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  Speaker 2: of a wide population of quarterbacks to choose from. And
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  Speaker 2: that's why in the past they've Gunner Hoak and Tristan
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  Speaker 2: Jebby and and Chris chuggan Off, where they kind of
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  Speaker 2: understood their role knowing that they could still play and
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  Speaker 2: they did. Here this is a little bit different because
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  Speaker 2: this is somebody who has not really ever been the guy.
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  Speaker 2: So I think, you know, as I'm looking at it
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  Speaker 2: and I'm i'm you know, scrolling his social media and
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure out who this guy is, you start
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  Speaker 2: to get to the ideas, I wonder if he wants
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  Speaker 2: to get into coaching, because this would be a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good path to do.
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  Speaker 1: So. Yeah, and you got to remember that was what
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  Speaker 1: Kristin Jebbie's path through Ohio State was. He came to
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State from Oregon State. And you know this, in
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  Speaker 1: this case, he really fits elike Brickhander. It really fits
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  Speaker 1: kind of the model of the Christian Jeba or of
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  Speaker 1: the the the now I'm blanket on that you just said.
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  Speaker 1: His name from West Virginia, the one, the one from
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  Speaker 1: us backup, Chris Chuganov, thank you very much. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: he had a really funny, funny nickname and it was
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  Speaker 1: involving drinking and I can't remember, and it wasn't drinks,
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  Speaker 1: it was Chugs. There we go. Okay, Chris choganoff where
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  Speaker 1: Chugganov had started a few games at West Virginia, Christian
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  Speaker 1: Jebbia had started a few games at Oregon State. And
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  Speaker 1: now you've got Eli brick Handler who started, you know,
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  Speaker 1: started a game last year against McNee state, but also
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  Speaker 1: played you know, twelve for eighteen for one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seven yards and a touchdown against Indiana State last year,
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  Speaker 1: and and you know through you know, had had games
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  Speaker 1: where he got some extended run. That Indiana State game
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  Speaker 1: much the same twelve carries seventy yards and a touchdown
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. So you know, this is this is
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  Speaker 1: someone who he's not. He's going to bring a veteran presence.
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  Speaker 1: He's probably been on the scout team before, He's probably
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  Speaker 1: you know, played played a role in practice before. That's
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  Speaker 1: what they really need here is just another guy, because
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  Speaker 1: you need your starter and your backup, which is going
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  Speaker 1: to be Julian Saying and Lincoln Keenhols in some order.
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  Speaker 1: You need those guys to be able to focus on
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  Speaker 1: getting ready for the game, being being ready to play
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  Speaker 1: or being one snap away from playing. And Tavan Saint Clair,
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  Speaker 1: you don't. We don't want Tavan Saint Clair running the
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  Speaker 1: scout team this year. You want Tavan Saint Clair focused
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  Speaker 1: on getting tav And Saint Clair as ready as he
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  Speaker 1: can be to play this year because we have you know,
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  Speaker 1: normally you're probably looking at it for freshman and going,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see you next year if you're the third guy.
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  Speaker 1: We have seen seasons where Ohio State has needed that
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  Speaker 1: third guy, So you've got to have that third guy
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  Speaker 1: ready just in case.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, And it's Tavian s claiir being the guy that
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  Speaker 2: has tons of potential and you know as the season
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  Speaker 2: goes on, he's only going to get better and better.
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  Speaker 2: So the quarterback that he is now is not the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback that he's going to be should you know, later
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  Speaker 2: in the season, should something happen. But I think this
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  Speaker 2: is just a rounds things out and you get somebody
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  Speaker 2: it's terrible to say, like with no aspirations, Like he's
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  Speaker 2: playing quarter he's a quarterback at Ohio State. He's got aspirations.
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  Speaker 2: But he understands his role, and I think that is
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  Speaker 2: that is the biggest thing here. You get somebody that
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  Speaker 2: understands his role, and also you get somebody that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: bother anybody else. You know, they're not bringing in somebody
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  Speaker 2: to be a starter. And you've got Julian saying and
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  Speaker 2: Lincoln Keinold's looking like, what's Carson Beck doing here? Like
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  Speaker 2: that's not what this is. So it gives them the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to continue to just build the room and keep
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  Speaker 2: it basically the way it has been for years now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is this is another one you can
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  Speaker 1: kind of cross off the shopping list for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: They brought in bo Atkinson, the defensive end transfer from
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina following the spring. This is another one that
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  Speaker 1: they sort of had on their shopping list, and so
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  Speaker 1: you can cross that off. Well, see if this is
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  Speaker 1: the last portal edition or not. Portal is closed, but
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  Speaker 1: there are still plenty of players in there that you
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  Speaker 1: could potentially add. And with the roster limit this year
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  Speaker 1: being mumbo mumble voice trails off because they don't act
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