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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes if if you're quiet and it's silent, sometimes you

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Speaker 2: can hear the ghost of Merrick Watts in this studio.

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Speaker 1: You can hear the laughter, can't you?

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Speaker 3: I heard it something there, There was something there. It's

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Speaker 3: terrifying good. We do adore this man. He is a

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Speaker 3: brand new drink out that we need to ask about

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Speaker 3: as well.

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Speaker 4: But we.

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Speaker 3: Welcome.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's like I'm like a homing pigeon.

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Speaker 5: I just keep coming back in and I just everyone

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Speaker 5: just goes, what that pigeon's mank It's only got one.

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Speaker 3: Foot now, what a terrible pigeon. It's good that we

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Speaker 3: kind of scapes behind its eye. Why is it back

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Speaker 3: in the studios? Hi, I'm here.

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Speaker 1: I can I just say I feel a little spoilt

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Speaker 1: because I saw your better half on Saturday on that juncture.

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Speaker 1: Georgie was there.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, Georgie says she saw it, and she said

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Speaker 5: that you were really weird and awkward.

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Speaker 3: Did she says? Was exactly what she said, Kate, it

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Speaker 3: was really it was awkward. I'm weird and awkward.

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Speaker 1: No, here's the thing I'm standing talking to Peter Overton.

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Speaker 4: This good happens when you hang out of Bondai Junction

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Speaker 4: on Saturday, standing there with Peter Overton and Pete's talking

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Speaker 4: about his hip replacement.

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Speaker 3: And then I see your wife.

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Speaker 1: I've never met her before, but I know her from Instagram,

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Speaker 1: and I have to process Georgie Watsy Peter Overton hip.

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Speaker 1: It was a lot for one, but then I did

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Speaker 1: a short, awkward wave high. But my high was like

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Speaker 1: I want to give it more, but I can't right now.

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Speaker 3: And then she was gone. She's running.

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Speaker 1: Would have been weirder if I chased her.

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Speaker 5: It was all like that part where you go, I

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Speaker 5: know Georgia from Instagram. That doesn't make me feel uncomfortable

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Speaker 5: at all.

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Speaker 1: No, from hours of searching like that back black black

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Speaker 1: black black black black black black.

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Speaker 3: Black, like U.

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Speaker 2: So you've got a drink called Puscar hydrate is pasca?

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Speaker 3: Is it?

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Speaker 2: Is it a historical name or is it? Is it

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Speaker 2: from the text that you used to tag every bus?

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Speaker 3: You good question? What came first?

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Speaker 5: That you can Actually the ancient drink Posca is two

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Speaker 5: and a half thousand years old, so it's been around

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Speaker 5: since since it's always been called posco, and poscar was

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Speaker 5: an ancient Roman drinking work right through the Middle East

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Speaker 5: all the way to the UK. All the Roman soldiers

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Speaker 5: used to drink it. On the daily gladioat Is used

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Speaker 5: to drink it. Roman Empress drank it. Everyone drank it.

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Speaker 5: But it was made a blend of water salts and

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Speaker 5: red wine vinegar, and the used to flavorite with herbs

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Speaker 5: and honey and stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: But the ancient formula was terrible. I was gonna say, how.

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Speaker 4: This makes sense because I think I saw photographs of

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Speaker 4: you on the Gladiator red carpet.

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Speaker 3: Yes, dress as gladiout. Yes, was doing hi jaking an event.

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Speaker 4: What someone needs to go and check on Merrick? What

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Speaker 4: but he's gone to the premiere in address.

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Speaker 3: This is what I've.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I love a Tiga party, but.

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Speaker 3: It was pretty tight. It was pretty Tighter's great.

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Speaker 5: But what I did is I went to the launch

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Speaker 5: of Gladiator to dressed as a gladiout and classic because

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Speaker 5: this is one of the things I learned from commercial radio,

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Speaker 5: was hijacking other people's events, And so I dressed up

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Speaker 5: as a glad ad and went there and they actually

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Speaker 5: managed to let me ride onto the recarpet, which was

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Speaker 5: very excited.

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Speaker 3: You were there.

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Speaker 2: You were there when Kate Ritchie her first introduction into radio.

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Speaker 3: Can you remember that time? Do you remember?

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Speaker 2: Stay well, that was coming out of Home and Away

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Speaker 2: and the first time, So.

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Speaker 3: Did you guys.

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Speaker 4: I've done some great I've done some great work with

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Speaker 4: kmar in the afternoon.

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Speaker 5: Kate was Kate was not a novice at all. She

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Speaker 5: had had some good chops. But what was interesting first

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Speaker 5: day she came to work with us. It was interesting

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Speaker 5: because we couldn't we couldn't get the trailer into.

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Speaker 3: The building of Claws, so we had to park. I

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Speaker 3: think turned off my mind in front of it, and

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Speaker 3: is it Kate? What about?

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Speaker 1: What about the time talk us through whose idea it

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Speaker 1: was to pierce her nipple?

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Speaker 3: Had everything to.

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Speaker 6: Do with it.

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Speaker 4: I remember we were in I went privately in there, and

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Speaker 4: then you came to the.

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Speaker 5: Door, said to me, come in here and take a

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Speaker 5: really close observation to this, and I went, I'm not comfortable.

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Speaker 3: I'm not more comfortable.

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Speaker 4: Oh you know. What I did think was awful was

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Speaker 4: that there must have been bets on when I first started.

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Speaker 4: How many days it would take me to wear a

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Speaker 4: tracksuit in at five o'clock in the morning, and I

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Speaker 4: think it took maybe four shows and they said, yeah, yeah, No,

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Speaker 4: I did love those days. Because I have to say,

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Speaker 4: if you guys hadn't opened the studio to me back

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Speaker 4: in two thousand and eight, I wouldn't be sitting here

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Speaker 4: doing breakfast now.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm sorry your apologize to K. I had no

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Speaker 3: idea about the repercussions.

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Speaker 6: This is an unbelievable story about one of Australia's favorite icons.

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Speaker 3: I had no idea and this story.

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Speaker 1: Has just been revealed. A while ago, there was a

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Speaker 1: promotion for a famous show called Bananas in Pajamas We

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Speaker 1: Want to Be Too I didn't realize that it was

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Speaker 1: Australian You want to Be Too Serious? Really, I just

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Speaker 1: thought maybe it was from somewhere else.

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Speaker 3: The ABC Unique. It's one of the most successful franchises

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Speaker 3: of the ABC has ever had. That's their cash.

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Speaker 6: Can I feel like a full They went to promote

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Speaker 6: B one and B two around the world, suggesting that

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Speaker 6: there might be different districts that could be interested in

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Speaker 6: the program. They dropped into Russia, and as it turns out,

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Speaker 6: Russia was so excited by B one and B two

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Speaker 6: the Russian mafia.

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Speaker 1: Decided to steal B one and B two costumes.

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Speaker 3: You've made this arm.

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Speaker 1: So when it came to leave Russia, they found out

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Speaker 1: who had stolen B one and B two outfits got

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Speaker 1: in contact with them. They explained very clearly, we are

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Speaker 1: Russian mafia and if you want B one and B

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Speaker 1: two back, we need one hundred thousand dollars. Bearing in

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Speaker 1: mind they took twenty thousand dollars to make.

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Speaker 2: That's why the master singer, that's why they had to

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Speaker 2: can the mass singer.

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Speaker 3: Because the costumes expensive to mate. And but it was there,

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Speaker 3: what's it? The giant pool singing and dancing are a

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Speaker 3: hard now for what? But I'm surprised with the with

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Speaker 3: the humans attached to that one.

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Speaker 1: Right, okay, thank god it was just the costumes. Right.

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Speaker 5: Wouldn't you just say to Russia, I'll tell you what,

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Speaker 5: how bad? I give you five thousand dollars and you

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Speaker 5: give him back to us. That's not bad, and then

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Speaker 5: just negotiate from there.

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Speaker 3: How have you been a negotiator for pretty? It's pretty?

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Speaker 2: I watched a movie called The Negotiating all right, Speaking

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Speaker 2: of money, didn't didn't you spend a lot of money

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Speaker 2: on an animal when you were working on breakfast here.

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Speaker 3: I bought Michael Jackson Jim, Yes, that's right, Bubbles.

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Speaker 5: He was for sale and without any authority whatsoever. At

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Speaker 5: ten past six in the morning, I bought Bubbles the

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Speaker 5: Monkey for ten thousand dollars US and then I had

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Speaker 5: a meeting at five past nine with Dan Buchanan.

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Speaker 3: Then did not go well. It did not go well.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't get it.

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Speaker 3: He didn't see the value of the chimp exchallenge. And

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Speaker 3: I was like, right, is this going to make you money?

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Speaker 5: And he goes by, I do not see how this

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Speaker 5: chimpanzee is going to make us money.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to go it's It'll make you one million

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Speaker 3: dollars and he was furious.

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Speaker 2: The minutes from that meeting is in the time capture

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Speaker 2: and there's a word in there that that rhymes with

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Speaker 2: Carmichael Hunt. We move on.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy your Paska drinks.

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Speaker 3: What's Gone by a Chimp?

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