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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: That'd be ah Man in the Gardener's roode climb past

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Speaker 2: and he's here with us this morning, Kilda.

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Speaker 3: Jack. Is everything all right there?

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Speaker 2: Everything is very well, thank you. The garden is absolutely thriving.

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Speaker 2: It is that time of year, of course, when it's

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Speaker 2: hot and wind, which is kind of what you want.

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Speaker 2: What you want.

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Speaker 3: It's so dry here, it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: It's well, that's true, Yes, that's true. You're depending on

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Speaker 2: what part of the country you're in right now, there

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Speaker 2: are some very very dry parts. You hate to think

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Speaker 2: what parts of Kenny going to be like and parts

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Speaker 2: of North and they're going to be like six or

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Speaker 2: eight weeks from now.

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Speaker 3: Ay, but that's right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Julie was out on my back when I was using

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Speaker 4: the changeaw to cut some wood and she says, I

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Speaker 4: wouldn't do that with this heat and this dryness.

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Speaker 3: It's a good point, quite right. Yeah. Absolutely. And we've

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Speaker 3: had a few fires around here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you certainly have. You've had one just up

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Speaker 2: the road from you, right, yeah, and on the.

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Speaker 3: Road yeah, yeah, we could smell it. Sea Invictor was

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Speaker 3: good health.

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Speaker 2: It is really scary. I mean one of the things

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Speaker 2: I suppose, well, on your side of the porthills there's

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Speaker 2: a bit more vegetation as as you here further east,

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Speaker 2: there's not a whole lot for it to burn. That's

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Speaker 2: sort of just the grass. But yeah, anyway, you're right.

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Speaker 2: So what is no mow November?

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Speaker 4: It's it's actually a saying that says, why do we

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Speaker 4: always have to mow the lawns? And when you can

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Speaker 4: do really cool things about it? And I'll give you

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Speaker 4: an example of what you and I talked about. I

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Speaker 4: would say, why not get rid of all your grass,

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Speaker 4: your lawn and.

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Speaker 3: Plants, wild flowering, and you don't have to mold. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it means you don't have this problem you got.

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Speaker 4: You're starting to get there now, you see, and and

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Speaker 4: and so that's the idea, that was the original idea.

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Speaker 4: So so no mo November. But that usually October November

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Speaker 4: when you start the mod the lawns here and I

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Speaker 4: always think, oh gosh, another week, weekly thing to do,

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Speaker 4: blah blah blah weekly. Anyway, Well, yeah, yeah, you got

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Speaker 4: good when you get We've had really warm weather and

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Speaker 4: we had some really wet, wet springs.

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Speaker 3: So it went quickly.

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Speaker 2: You got to get the number two on it. You

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Speaker 2: got a buzz cut there, rode low and then your son.

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Speaker 3: Like my hairdresser.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, anyway, so no, no November. So a couple of

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Speaker 4: weeks ago I went to Takapo Primary School where I

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Speaker 4: was going to do a little project with them, and

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Speaker 4: it was they loved it because of course always bugs

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Speaker 4: with me and things like that. But we were going

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Speaker 4: to talk about bumblebees, and so I told these kids,

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Speaker 4: this is actually a lovely story, by the way, Jack.

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Speaker 4: I told the kids that there were four different species

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Speaker 4: of bumble bees in New Zealand, all imported from the UK,

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Speaker 4: by the way, and they all have different tongue lengths.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 4: And the reason of course is that, yeah, yeah, thats

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Speaker 4: some flowers have got very deep flowers if you like

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Speaker 4: other shallow flowers, and that means you need different tongue

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Speaker 4: lengths to pollinate them. See that's just the original thing.

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Speaker 4: Makes sense, Yeah, makes sense. Three of those pieces are

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Speaker 4: quite common in New Zealand. The fourth one is not

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Speaker 4: so common, and that's the one that lives near that's

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Speaker 4: called the short haired bumblebee by the way. That is

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Speaker 4: the one that lives in the mcghenzie country near Techapole.

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Speaker 4: And I told them that thing is actually not that

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Speaker 4: common at the moment. So what we should do is

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Speaker 4: take a bit of the school grounds off, get.

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Speaker 3: Rid of it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, get rid of that stuff, and then we

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Speaker 4: plant the right plants for this particular bumblebee. And they said, oh,

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Speaker 4: that's a great idea. I said, I've got something else

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Speaker 4: to tell you. This thing came from the UK, where

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Speaker 4: it is now extinct.

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Speaker 2: Wow is that right?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 4: So what do you think if we can grow a

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Speaker 4: heck of a lot of these long wald bumble bee. Yes,

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Speaker 4: we can then send fertile queens back to the UK,

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Speaker 4: which which failed in the past that copparently, but I

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Speaker 4: wasn't there, it didn't matter, and then we can help

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Speaker 4: the UK the English people from getting their own bubble

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Speaker 4: bee back.

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Speaker 3: They thought it was amazing. So they started this what

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Speaker 3: do we need? What plants do we need?

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Speaker 4: Can we raise the population density in the techable area?

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Speaker 4: Can we then ship them? Can we do all the

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Speaker 4: Of course we can. So we started that stuff off.

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Speaker 4: So I ranked some of my mates from King Seeds

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Speaker 4: and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and Jeff and lift this

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Speaker 4: brunsom from the wildflower world, that sort of stuff, and

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Speaker 4: said what can we do here? And suddenly it all happened.

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Speaker 4: These kids were planting stuff everywhere. Zomba which is a

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Speaker 4: very famous company that actually let you get some beehives

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Speaker 4: if you like in your in your area. For instance,

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Speaker 4: in my tunnel house, they wanted to send them a beehive,

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Speaker 4: and all that stuff happened. So they learned how to

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Speaker 4: get rid of weeds, fertilized the soil, They know how

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Speaker 4: to sow the seeds, they know what to do, and

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Speaker 4: basically they are on their way. But the coolest thing

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Speaker 4: is they even signed up during the school holidays to

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Speaker 4: have a roster for watering in the school ground, so

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Speaker 4: Simon and Maria and everybody else basically on holiday. They're

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Speaker 4: so tough that the kids are doing it.

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Speaker 2: So just for people who haven't seen the short head ones,

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Speaker 2: how different do they look compared to the bubbles you

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Speaker 2: see in other parts of the country.

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Speaker 4: Well, we've got three different species, so we've got these

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Speaker 4: and so yeah, three or four four?

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Speaker 3: Now, yeah, this is the fourth one.

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Speaker 4: It is quite dark in color and it is smaller

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Speaker 4: than the others basically, but they are still there basically

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Speaker 4: on all these flowers that they like. That they like

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Speaker 4: all these flowers in the mcginsey country. That's where they are.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the beautiful, aren't they. I think bumble bees are

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Speaker 2: underrated somehow. They're just absolutely gorgeous. I reckon they are.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, if you ever, if you ever grow to Manthdows,

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Speaker 4: you need that big bumblebee by the way, Jack, because

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Speaker 4: it vibrates when it lands, and that takes the spores.

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Speaker 4: And they're sorry that the pollen from one flower to

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Speaker 4: the next.

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Speaker 3: That's how that very good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, my tomatoes are looking very good already. I

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Speaker 2: mean it's an early day. Yeah, I know they're looking good.

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Speaker 2: And so too of my walking onions. So thank you

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Speaker 2: very much for those. Very much enjoying those. They've been

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Speaker 2: smashed over the last couple of weeks in my place.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, we very much appreciate that little drop off

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Speaker 2: from you. Here's a cheeky line just to close you

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Speaker 2: out for the morning, Rude Jack. Isn't planting wildflowers a

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Speaker 2: contradiction in terms? If they're planted, technically they're not wild, Yes.

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Speaker 3: And that's why they called wild flowers. I love it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure you've heard that one before. Hey, thank

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Speaker 2: you so much. You have a wonderful weekend and we

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Speaker 2: will catch again very soon.

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Speaker 3: Okay, absolutely, I'll be there.

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Speaker 2: Rude climb past our man in the garden there After

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Speaker 2: eleven o'clock on news Talk z'd B, we are continuing

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Speaker 2: the theme of huge name iconic musicians reflecting on their

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Speaker 2: life and achievements this morning. So before ten o'clock we

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Speaker 2: were telling you about the new film based on Robbie

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Speaker 2: Williams's life, that's the one with the chimpanzee. After after

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Speaker 2: ten and that screen time segment this morning, we recommended

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Speaker 2: the new show with Elton John on Disney Plus him

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Speaker 2: reflecting on his life. And then after eleven this morning,

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Speaker 2: our book reviewer is in and she wants to tell

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Speaker 2: us about a book in which Shaer reflects on her life.

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Speaker 2: It's a two part memoir, so we'd give you all

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Speaker 2: the details on share the memoir very shortly, as well

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Speaker 2: as that, a few street treats in Dunedin and new

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Speaker 2: music from this amazing Australian musician Becka Amani who blends

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Speaker 2: all sorts of different styles together. It is just coming

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Speaker 2: up to eleven o'clock. It is a Saturday Morning of Jack Tame.

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