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Trump's Endorsement Has a Good Day · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start
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  Speaker 1: your day. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, twentieth day of May. I'm Wes, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining me. It's the day after the election day yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Few things of noteworth talking about this morning, as it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of been a strange thing that has happened since
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  Speaker 2: the Trump phenomenon took hold. And if you go back
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  Speaker 2: to twenty sixteen or twenty fifteen, I guess the famous,
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  Speaker 2: infamous now famous both I don't know, in famous escalator
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  Speaker 2: ride in this candidacy that I think most people just
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  Speaker 2: took it as is, there's no way to take this
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  Speaker 2: thing seriously. There's no way this is somebody who actually
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  Speaker 2: wants this. We had all seen that then Democrat Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump and beloved by Democrats and beloved by so many
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  Speaker 2: on the left. You know, the guy who hung out
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  Speaker 2: with Jesse Jackson and Oprah Winfrey and all these people.
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  Speaker 3: Don King is somebody.
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  Speaker 2: Who was, you know, known and loved in the black community.
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  Speaker 2: When when this guy had been like on Oprah and
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  Speaker 2: he talked about she was asked, would you run for president?
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, yeah, you know, I don't know that
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  Speaker 2: I will, but I think i'd be a great president,
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  Speaker 2: and if I ran, i'd win. And suddenly, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he went through that phase of hosting The Apprentice and
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  Speaker 2: all these things, and it just seemed like that's that's
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  Speaker 2: not going to happen. This is this isn't serious, is it?
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  Speaker 2: And to just be somebody who was outside of the swamp,
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  Speaker 2: outside of the insiders and all those things. And I
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  Speaker 2: guess that's the definition of outside, isn't it that you're
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  Speaker 2: not inside? But my point is, I think from that
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  Speaker 2: very beginning, there were some who thought, Yeah, this guy's
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  Speaker 2: gonna win. He can win, and he wins when he
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  Speaker 2: when he competes, that's what he does. And then there
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  Speaker 2: were some that, I think thought this is the biggest
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  Speaker 2: joke in history. There's no chance he'll ever win. I
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  Speaker 2: think that was a pretty large number. There were folks that,
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  Speaker 2: like me, had an eyebrow up and thought what's going
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  Speaker 2: on here, but didn't really think it was that serious.
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  Speaker 2: I remember there was a point I was telling friends
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  Speaker 2: that when it was clear that he was going to
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  Speaker 2: be the nominee, I just thought, I don't know that
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  Speaker 2: he even wants to win. I mean, I just he'd
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  Speaker 2: been friends with the Clintons. Something just didn't seem right there,
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  Speaker 2: and I was, you know, dead wrong. I had no
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  Speaker 2: clue what I was talking about in that, but I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't the only one. Once he became the nominee, of course,
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  Speaker 2: I hoped that he would win. I certainly didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to president Hillary Clinton. And what a giants not even
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  Speaker 2: steps backwards, giant leaps backwards that would have been for
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  Speaker 2: women in America, And I just thought, no, this is
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  Speaker 2: this is going to have to be the guy.
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  Speaker 3: And I just don't know.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, the Hilary Clinton campaign famously, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there were movements all around the state to not the
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  Speaker 2: state states, to get Donald Trump the Republican nomination, and
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  Speaker 2: then he got it, and he dared to win, and
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  Speaker 2: everybody thought, what is happening here?
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  Speaker 3: He just won? How did this happen?
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  Speaker 2: I remember, I remember waking Jill had gone to bed,
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  Speaker 2: and I remember waking her up and telling her Trump won,
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  Speaker 2: He's going to be the president. And we were just like,
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  Speaker 2: what is what is happening? How did this even come
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  Speaker 2: to be? And I say all of this and we
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  Speaker 2: revisit this one because it's kind of fun because you know,
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  Speaker 2: he ended up being a very good president in a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ways. In that first term, he was dragged.
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  Speaker 2: He famously has said that he was kind of dragged
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  Speaker 2: into some of the old habits that he just he
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  Speaker 2: didn't know what to expect when he got in there,
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  Speaker 2: and he was told, well, this is how.
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  Speaker 3: We do things.
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  Speaker 2: And he made some bad calls as far as who
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  Speaker 2: to trust around him and those sorts of things, and
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  Speaker 2: then you know, ultimately we had a great run on things.
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  Speaker 2: The economy was doing well. We weren't wasting money in
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  Speaker 2: certain areas or just saving money in a lot of areas.
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  Speaker 2: I realized some of the money that was cut back
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  Speaker 2: then wasn't necessarily complete waste, but it was about understanding
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  Speaker 2: that there's things we have to cut, there are things
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  Speaker 2: that we have to move money around to, and we
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  Speaker 2: have to focus on certain things. Economy was humming.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I talk to people around the world that would tell me, hey, economically,
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  Speaker 2: we're doing great, and we're doing great because America is
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  Speaker 2: doing great. And you know that's why we are big
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  Speaker 2: fans of Trump. And we hear all the bad stuff,
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  Speaker 2: we hear all the terrible things, but we don't. It's
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  Speaker 2: just about our economy. Then, of course COVID happened, and
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  Speaker 2: COVID was the way that they were going to get
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  Speaker 2: rid of him, and they've some Democrats famously took to Twitter,
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  Speaker 2: which was then you know, now it's called x but
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  Speaker 2: to them it was their sacred holy land where they
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  Speaker 2: could say all the bad things that they wanted to
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  Speaker 2: say and have zero kickback for it, and free speech
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  Speaker 2: was dead and they could go on there and say,
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  Speaker 2: this is how we're going to get Trump. And ultimately
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  Speaker 2: it is how they got Trump. It's a big part
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  Speaker 2: of how they got Trump. And then of course, famously
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  Speaker 2: he says, I'm going to run again. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: reset this, we're going to correct the course, and that's
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  Speaker 2: ultimately what happened.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, the Iran War right now.
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  Speaker 2: Is the thing that has kept us from having the
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  Speaker 2: huge bounce back that we've been waiting for as far
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  Speaker 2: as you know, inflation and things. But that aside, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's not what the show is about today. What the
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  Speaker 2: show's about today is about how over the course of
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  Speaker 2: all of those years that we're talking about, four years
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  Speaker 2: of presidency, four years of non presidency, and then four
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  Speaker 2: years of presidency. Again, that's in progress. We're not haven't
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  Speaker 2: had the second four years full yet, but we're working
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  Speaker 2: our way through them. And over that period of time,
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  Speaker 2: there have been different values set on what his endorsements
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  Speaker 2: mean in campaigns, and that's really what we're kind of
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  Speaker 2: seeing today as we are waking up or went to
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  Speaker 2: bed last night and seeing that some of these endorsements
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  Speaker 2: from President Trump this time apparently meant a lot, and
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  Speaker 2: we were seeing it in a few races here in
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  Speaker 2: the Southeast. Obviously, the big one that you're gonna hear
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  Speaker 2: a lot of conversation about is going to be this
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  Speaker 2: ousting of Thomas Massey. He has been serving there in
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  Speaker 2: Kentucky for a while and this brings about the end
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  Speaker 2: of his time in the House of Representatives Kentucky's fourth district.
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  Speaker 2: He will not be the candidate. Instead, it will be
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  Speaker 2: at gall Rhin. I've heard at Gallrin and gall Ryan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going with Brian until I'm told differently, but a
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  Speaker 2: fifty four to forty five percentage win for him and Massey,
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  Speaker 2: someone that Donald Trump has been to say critical as
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  Speaker 2: an understatement, he has been. He's attacked him in a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ways, especially down the stretch, calling him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one of the worst or the worst Congressman in the
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  Speaker 2: history of the House of Representatives, those kinds of things.
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  Speaker 2: Massey has been someone who at times really seemed like
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  Speaker 2: the voice of reason. He's been one of those opposition
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  Speaker 2: guys that was not afraid to stand up and say, listen,
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  Speaker 2: this is not what I was elected to represent when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to some issues, and he would stand up.
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  Speaker 2: He would be the voice that would say, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to vote a different way. I have said for a
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  Speaker 2: while now. One of the things that I and this
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  Speaker 2: is kind of a catch when it comes to catch
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  Speaker 2: twenty two. When it comes to the two parties, Democrats
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  Speaker 2: for a very long time were extremely loyal and dedicated
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  Speaker 2: to that one single cause. You say this is what
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  Speaker 2: we're going to vote for, this is what we're going
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  Speaker 2: to support. They all fall in line and they do
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  Speaker 2: it even when it's against the best interest of the candidates.
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  Speaker 2: They're not quite as lockstep in that as they used
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  Speaker 2: to be. But it was something that could be used
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  Speaker 2: to be a very effective tool, right, could be a
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  Speaker 2: very effective thing when you can get a large gathering
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  Speaker 2: of people on the same page. It's one of the
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  Speaker 2: big issues that a lot of people have with unions
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  Speaker 2: in this country. When people say if a union, if
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  Speaker 2: a workers' union is really solely about getting people together
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  Speaker 2: to vote the same way, then you know you'd be
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  Speaker 2: against it because you're basically at the mercy of whoever's
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  Speaker 2: telling them who to vote for. We see it happen
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  Speaker 2: in teachers' unions. We see it even when there's no union,
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  Speaker 2: even in some situations. I know some people who voted
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  Speaker 2: against their own best interests here in my hometown of Columbus,
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  Speaker 2: Georgia because they were being told by people that they
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  Speaker 2: worked for that they were supposed to vote a certain
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  Speaker 2: way in order to keep people that they're coworkers from
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  Speaker 2: getting fired. I know people that have lived that experience.
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  Speaker 2: So when you have someone on the Republican side that
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  Speaker 2: and there have been many over the years that were
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  Speaker 2: not afraid to stand up and say, this is not
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  Speaker 2: what I was elected to represent. Ultimately, that's what every
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  Speaker 2: single member of Congress in both houses. That's what you're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to do. You've been elected to represent the people
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  Speaker 2: of your state. You're not elected to go in and
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  Speaker 2: show vote and do just whatever you want to do.
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  Speaker 2: I can remember during the Obamacare push, there were representatives that,
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  Speaker 2: especially in Georgia, that we're saying, look, I realize that
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  Speaker 2: this state does not really want this, but I think
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  Speaker 2: it's the best thing. This is what I'm going to do.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just the nature of politics sometimes. And Massey
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  Speaker 2: was certainly one of those figures who was not afraid
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  Speaker 2: to stand up at times to the detriment of the
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  Speaker 2: party at least the overall message or the ability to
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  Speaker 2: get something passed sometimes. And someone who has stood up
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  Speaker 2: to Donald Trump many times. So it's not a shock
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  Speaker 2: that Trump went against him so hard. It's kind of
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  Speaker 2: interesting the way this election decided to shake out. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Gallrean gall Ryan will be running against Melissa Strange, who
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  Speaker 2: was the fourth district winner for Kentucky on the Democrat side,
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  Speaker 2: So there's that. Now, bringing this a little closer to
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  Speaker 2: home is the fact that some of the polling was
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  Speaker 2: telling us here in Georgia that this race for the
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  Speaker 2: Republican nomination for governor was leaning in the direction of
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  Speaker 2: Rick Jackson, who is the you know, the billionaire that
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  Speaker 2: was you know, paying for a lot of ads and
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  Speaker 2: purportedly out of his own pocket or these things and
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  Speaker 2: then running he was running against. It was a pretty
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  Speaker 2: heavy field. The fact that it's a runoff is not
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  Speaker 2: a big surprise. I think most people thought that's where
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  Speaker 2: this race was going. But the Trump endorsed Bert Jones,
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  Speaker 2: the lieutenant governor, someone who I think from the moment
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  Speaker 2: he declared he was going to run, seemed like the
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  Speaker 2: likely ultimately Republican candidate, likely winner of the governor's race
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  Speaker 2: in Georgia. And that's what these primaries are really about,
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  Speaker 2: is about picking the best candidate that can go and win.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just about winning this particular race. It's about
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  Speaker 2: knowing that you're able to win at the next level.
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  Speaker 2: That's what's important. But Jones has certainly worn the Trump
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  Speaker 2: endor as a badge for quite some time, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: not afraid to bring it up a lot. Jackson has
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  Speaker 2: said that he thinks that if Trump had not endorsed
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  Speaker 2: Jones so early on, he might have endorsed him. So
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  Speaker 2: they've kind of been fighting over that endorsement there, saying no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: it would have been me.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, it would have been me. Either way.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to go to the runoff and we're going
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  Speaker 2: to find out which of those two will be running
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  Speaker 2: against Keisha Lance Bottoms. I told you that this was
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  Speaker 2: not a serious campaign on the Democrat side. It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: even really close. And Kisha Lance Bottoms, of course, the
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  Speaker 2: former mayor of Atlanta. They just don't put their candidates
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  Speaker 2: through a serious gambit that they're going to come out
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  Speaker 2: of it and be battle tested and be ready we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: You know a lot of people say, well, that just
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  Speaker 2: means they're going to have more of a war chest
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  Speaker 2: when it's all done, and Jones and Jackson are going
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  Speaker 2: to have to spend more of their money in this
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  Speaker 2: race what's been a very ugly race of throwing mud.
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  Speaker 2: I would just like to take a moment and I
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  Speaker 2: can tell you I have met of the top four finishers,
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  Speaker 2: I guess for this race on the Republican side. I
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  Speaker 2: have met all four of them, know them all to
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  Speaker 2: some degree, spoken with them, interviewed them, you know whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll just say this. In the midst of all
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  Speaker 2: of the mud slinging that took place, Chris Carr, I
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  Speaker 2: thought did a great job of kind of saying, look,
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  Speaker 2: if you're tired of watching the mud slinging and all
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  Speaker 2: of the nasty politics of all this. Just just give
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  Speaker 2: me a look. Consider me, Brad Raffinsburg. I think I
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  Speaker 2: saw one one campaign ad from him. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that I saw a sign anywhere, but those two that
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  Speaker 2: didn't make the cutoff just for not getting into the
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  Speaker 2: mud slinging, and not that Raffensberger was never going to
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  Speaker 2: get the Trump endorsement. That was never even on the table.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously they famously had at a feud against one another.
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  Speaker 2: The other one is worth mentioning too. On the the
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  Speaker 2: Alabama side of things is you know, Tommy Tubberville with
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  Speaker 2: a huge blowout win for the Republican governor primary there
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  Speaker 2: and Doug Jones will be the candidate for Democrats, So
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  Speaker 2: we'll see how those two shake up. No runoff needed
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  Speaker 2: on that side of things. But again, this this Trump thing,
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  Speaker 2: big wins for for Trump Yesterday good signs, I guess
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  Speaker 2: going into the actual mid terms. I don't know that
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  Speaker 2: anybody knew where all of this was going to go
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  Speaker 2: concerning the Trump endorsements, but it certainly was a good day.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like some positivity to come out of this
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  Speaker 2: for Trump concerning the mid terms.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, it.
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  Speaker 2: Feels like it's it's got that potential to fluctuate, to
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  Speaker 2: go up and down. That's kind of what we've experienced
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  Speaker 2: in this long period of time of the Trump era.
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  Speaker 2: But a big, big day yesterday for the Trump endorsed
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  Speaker 2: candidates and potentially leading into.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe maybe a big.
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  Speaker 2: Cycle when it comes to the actual midterms come November.
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  Speaker 2: tea with a cup of grapefruit juice, you might actually
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: get more out of the caffeine. And apparently this has
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: been going on for a while, but it's kind of
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: catching on, I guess, in popularity. But scientific research finds
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: grapefruit contains compounds that can interfere with enzymes in your
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: body that break down substances, including caffeine. So the theory
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: there is that it could slow down caffeine's metabolism and
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: keep it in your system longer. The catch, however, though,
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: is that experts say that the actual effect is unclear
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: and it's likely small. Some studies find little to no
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: meaningful change in how caffeine behaves in the body. While
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: pairing grapefruit juice with espresso might sound like a natural
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: energy hack, there's no strong evidence that it will noticeably
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: boost the effects of the caffeine. Although if it's working
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: for some, as even a placebo, then potentially it may
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: be worth your time, you know, just because you may say, well,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: science doesn't agree with it. If it's effective for some,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: it could be effective for you, even if it's.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Just in your head. That's the way I look at it.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: So why not take advantage of it if it might
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: work for you, assuming there's no negative side effects from it,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: and this study doesn't mention any of those, at least
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: not in the condensed news version of it. How about
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: that on the subject of foods, Well, that's a beverage.
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  Speaker 2: But on to foods, there's a thing now that's growing,
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  Speaker 2: and it's the concept of a food divorce, and it
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  Speaker 2: basically it typically relates to moms, but it's whoever in
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: the household is the person that's responsible for making dinner,
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  Speaker 2: and if that person decides that they're done being the
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  Speaker 2: default cook every night, that's what it means to have
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: a food divorce. While the idea of food divorce sounds funny,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: the feeling behind it not necessarily, because the pressure to
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: always be responsible for what's for dinner can be exhausting.
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  Speaker 3: I do a lot of cooking in our home.
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  Speaker 2: We split it, but I do a lot of it
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: because I do work from home, and I'm here when
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: some of the meal prep may need to take place
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: in things or some of the and I do our
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: shopping primarily. So there is a lot of this responsibility
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: that falls on me. But when you have that sort
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: of responsibility, it can wear you out and also lead
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  Speaker 2: to some resentment. A recent Ugov poll found that sixteen
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: percent of respondent said that they often feel resentful about
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: how cooking duties are divided in the home, and eleven
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: percent said they have even refused to cook just to
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: make a point for the record. No resentment on my
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: share of the responsibilities.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: It's not what I was saying, not at all all.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Right back to the story.
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  Speaker 2: By loosening those expectations, families finding it to be less stressful,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: they can spend less time in the kitchen sometimes even
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: connect more because dinner stops being about perfection starts being
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: about what actually works for everyone.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Maybe that's the key for me.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: To keeping it light is that I don't strive for perfection.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: There are a few things that I cook really well.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I don't typically make those things very often, right, especially
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: the ones that involve things that have had a significant
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: price hike in the past, you know, like since COVID,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: if it's got that kind of a price hike, I'm
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: not cooking it very often. But those are the things
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: that I've been able to do well that and I
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: can I do really well on birthday cakes. Apparently that's
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: that's some that's something to hang your hat on. I
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: guess you're familiar with the idea of parallel play, so
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: apparently this is not typically This is kind of something
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: that's associated maybe with in some cases it might be
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: you know, neurodiverse friends. Maybe if it's kids that one
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: of them is possibly on the spectrum or maybe has ADHD.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: You get them.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Together and they just are kind of playing but they're
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: not necessarily playing together. They're just you know, in the
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: same room and playing well. This also works in friendships
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: with this concept of parallel play, and it's basically just
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: about kind of hanging out with your friends, but you
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: don't have the pressure to constantly be switched on. This
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: is where some of the neurodiverse things come into place.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: So if you're someone who kind of feels like they
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: have to have a switch turned on, or maybe they're
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: masking and hiding kind of how they are. So the
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: idea of this, it comes from childhood kids can play
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: side by side, do their own thing, and adult friendships
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: starting to kind of embrace some of this from time
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: to time. So instead of having a planned, big, high
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: energy hangout with lots of people, some people just kind
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: of get together, maybe doing separate activities, whether they're reading, working,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: maybe they are on their phones or on a screen
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: of some kind, maybe they're doing chores in a similar space.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: The point isn't about the constant conversation, it's about just
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: kind of being together, especially appealing right now because lots
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: of people feel socially drained and it's a low effort connection.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: It satisfies the need for being around someone. There is
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: some sort of stimulation to that and a reminder that
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: friendship doesn't always have to be loud or exciting, just
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: about some maybe quiet, easy company sometimes and it is
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: a growing thing. It's been a thing for a while,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: but it's starting to become a little.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Bit more of a thing.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Uh. That'll do it for this Wednesday edition of the show.
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