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Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, the

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Speaker 1: house Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app. And here

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Speaker 1: we are. Good morning, my friend, and welcome home. I

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Speaker 1: am Dean Sharp, aka the house Whisper, custom home Builder,

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Speaker 1: a custom home designer, and every week your guide to

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Speaker 1: better understanding that place where you live. Hey, whether home

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Speaker 1: for you is a castle or a cottage, I say

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Speaker 1: it every week doesn't matter to me. You know why,

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Speaker 1: because luxury is not the definition of a great home.

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Speaker 1: It is design that matters most, and good design makes

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Speaker 1: all the difference. Every house deserves it, especially your house.

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Speaker 1: Your house should enjoy it because once it's at work

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Speaker 1: in your home, good design at work, every house has

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Speaker 1: a path forward toward becoming a great home, a truly

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Speaker 1: great home. And so I am here with you every

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Speaker 1: week to help you atchieve exactly that goal, to get

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Speaker 1: your house straightened out, fixed up, most importantly retuned, so

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Speaker 1: that it is the greatest home that it can possibly

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Speaker 1: be for you and your family and your life and

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Speaker 1: all the all things you. That's what it's all about.

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Speaker 1: A great home should be magnifying the very very best

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Speaker 1: aspects of your best life and of course, Saturday mornings

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Speaker 1: mean all calls. That means that you, my friend, get

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Speaker 1: to set the agenda for what we're talking about today,

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Speaker 1: and me I sit here and yack and I talk

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Speaker 1: to Sam a little bit, and we do what we

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Speaker 1: do until the calls starts showing up on the board.

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Speaker 1: And so here's my official call for calls. The number

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Speaker 1: to reach me eight three three. Oh, excuse me, the

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Speaker 1: coffee's going down wrong, eight three three. Let's try that again.

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Speaker 1: A three three two. Ask Dean, A three three the

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Speaker 1: numeral two, and then you just spell out, ask Dean

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Speaker 1: eight three three two. Ask Dean, whatever has got you

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Speaker 1: scratch in your head about your home? As I always say, design, construction, DIY,

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Speaker 1: inside stuff, outside stuff, landscape decor. It doesn't matter if

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Speaker 1: it has anything to do with your property or your home.

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Speaker 1: I got you. We will put our heads together and

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Speaker 1: we will get it figured out. The phone lines are

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Speaker 1: open now and we will simply await your calls. Calls

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Speaker 1: early on a Saturday morning seems like not a good idea.

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Speaker 1: And every Saturday, I, for just like thirty seconds, I think,

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Speaker 1: are we doing this? Is this even sane to ask

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Speaker 1: people to call in on Saturday mornings. But I know

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Speaker 1: you're up and I'm glad you're with me. And if

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Speaker 1: you've got questions about your home, give me a call.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk to my buddy Sam. Good morning, Dean.

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Speaker 1: You know it's about It's about time that audience recognized,

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Speaker 1: is you. Yeah, you know, I just I queue it up.

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Speaker 1: I said, let's talk to Sam, And even without being prompted,

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Speaker 1: they start applauding. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I feel like that's a good intro. I feel it

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Speaker 2: charges up my day. I'm appreciative of our canned audience.

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, I'm just the I'm the warm up guy.

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Speaker 1: That's it. I'm just getting them ready for you to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well you were talking about it being early and

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Speaker 2: being crazy and everything. Sanity is highly overrated, by the way,

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Speaker 2: and I'm a mental health professional.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well there you go. So you're feeling good today,

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Speaker 1: Everything good. I'm good.

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Speaker 2: I've got some good energy today. I have my son

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Speaker 2: here with me today. It's always nice having that executive,

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Speaker 1: See that was a freudiant, that executive producer. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: the one that tells me what to do. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's slave labor. Sam brings his son in so that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been here long enough, and he grew up

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Speaker 3: Just like me.

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Speaker 1: He grew up in that studio right there, yeah there

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Speaker 1: in your control booth. Yeah no, he was a little.

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Speaker 2: Baby sleeping right there next to me while I was

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Speaker 2: doing this exact job.

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Speaker 1: He lives and breathes it. Yes, all right, well it's

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Speaker 1: be a special show. They're all special, but tomorrow we're

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Speaker 1: going to be talking about the birds and the bees. No,

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Speaker 1: So no metaphors, just the real stuff. I do this

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Speaker 1: show every year and right at the beginning of spring because, honestly,

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Speaker 1: And the fact of the matter is sterility just doesn't

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Speaker 1: So the idea of like, no, no, no, I don't

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Speaker 1: people over that. Okay, Now, I don't want a grizzly

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Speaker 1: I don't want you overrun with rats or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: But there is a way to design the landscape, the

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Speaker 1: the very best of what nature has to offer us

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Speaker 1: and also helps us as well. Okay, now I don't

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Speaker 1: you don't have to become a bee keeper in order

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Speaker 1: and wherever you may be. So they're an important litmus test.

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Speaker 1: And on top of that, the presence of wild birds,

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Speaker 1: wild birds, songbirds in our yards. They're just such such

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Speaker 1: an important factor. And I love saying this. You've probably

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Speaker 1: that is design that works with nature, not against it.

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Speaker 1: And that's this silence, which you know a lot of

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Speaker 1: most relaxed human state, especially when you go outside. Silence

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Speaker 1: I mean quiet, that usually means something's up. Okay, science

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Speaker 1: because it's literally the Canarian the coal mine kind of situation.

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Speaker 1: When birds in the morning are tweeting and chirping and

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Speaker 1: But when the birds go silent, there's a fire nearby,

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Speaker 1: there's a threat nearby, there are predators, there's reasons for

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Speaker 1: means danger. Danger, Will Robinson. So We've got a lot

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Speaker 1: be talking about these early swarms and why those bees

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Speaker 1: that showed up in your yard are you know, don't

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Speaker 1: in your house. We're going to talk to bird experts tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a great spring show. But today

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Speaker 1: today it's your calls. Hey, we got a call or

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Speaker 1: take a break and when we come back, your calls

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Speaker 1: your home. Dean Sharp, the house whisper, Dean Sharp, the

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Speaker 1: house whisperer here to help you take your home to

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Speaker 1: the next level. Thanks for joining us on the program.

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Speaker 1: So glad to have you with us this morning. It

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Speaker 1: is an all calls Saturday morning, like we do every Saturday.

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Speaker 1: The number to reach me eight three three to ask Dean.

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Speaker 1: It's just that simple. To ask Dean eight three to three,

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Speaker 1: the numeral two and then you just spell out ask

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Speaker 1: Dean eight three three two ask Dean. We've got plenty

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Speaker 1: without any further ado. I want to talk to Justin. Hey, Justin,

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Speaker 1: Welcome home.

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Speaker 3: So I'm in the process of getting permits for a

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Speaker 3: five hundred square foot expansion on our home and the

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Speaker 3: city is requiring them to come out to put a

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Speaker 3: built in the nineteen sixties and if it's not good

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Speaker 3: redo the whole main line. Is what are they looking for?

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Speaker 3: Do you have a ballpark devoted costs if we have

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Speaker 3: to redo the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so a ballpark, No, not really, because there are

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Speaker 1: when it comes to that, what they're looking for to

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Speaker 1: primarily primary things number one. Uh, and you know what,

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Speaker 1: it's it's interesting. What city do you live in? By

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Speaker 3: Yes, I believe, so we got it. We got to

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Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha. So whit do your being an older town? Uh?

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Speaker 1: I personally I wasn't familiar that this was something they

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Speaker 1: about the main sewer lines, right they are concerned of

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Speaker 1: one in order to handle that. But their biggest concern

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Speaker 1: sewer lines are damaged or whether they're all gunked up okay,

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Speaker 1: and gunked up doesn't mean that they're blocked. And you're

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Speaker 1: you know, you may be thinking, well, I mean, we've

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Speaker 1: lived here all these years and we've never had to

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Speaker 1: a clogged drain or anything like that. But if you're

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Speaker 1: adding square footage to the house and there's additional bathrooms

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that happening, there's the concern that over

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Speaker 1: the worst case scenario, but there are a bunch of

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Speaker 1: different approaches to this. If it's just build up that

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Speaker 1: If they find that there's clay sewer lines running out,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it goes directly in front of our house,

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Speaker 1: No trenching. That's called trenchless sewer replacement. That's another option.

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Speaker 1: So first things first, don't panic. Let the city take

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Speaker 1: of you. Justin Thanks for the call, but I wish

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Speaker 5: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from

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Speaker 5: KFI AM six forty.

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Speaker 1: Dean Sharp the house Whisper here to help you transform

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Speaker 1: your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. Thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. Okay, I'm I'm usually not the

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Speaker 1: The number to reach me eight three three two. Ask

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Speaker 1: Let's talk to Jimmy. Hey, Jimmy, welcome home.

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Speaker 5: Good morning, mister Sharp, thank you for taking my call.

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Speaker 5: I I have a place that a cabin and we

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Speaker 5: to put in power assisted power flush toilets. What is

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Speaker 5: the feasibility of that?

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Speaker 1: Uh? Well, uh, talk to me about your cabin. You've

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Speaker 1: got power running to the haben you say off grid?

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Speaker 1: You are you using solar battery? What's your situation?

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Speaker 5: We have We have solar panels and solar batteries and

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Speaker 5: a diesel generator, a twenty five kW diesel generator.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so you got power, not a problem.

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Speaker 1: H What is the sewer situation for you? I assume

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Speaker 5: It's a tank?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you got a septic tank? And last, but

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Speaker 1: not least, do we have any uh any elevation issues

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, uh, you know here's the thing. Uh, And

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: So hey, you don't need any special equipment to have

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: It's just the way that it's built, and it's internal

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Speaker 1: but as far as flush efficiency, they're great. They're louder,

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Speaker 1: we're downhill from where the where the sewage. No, but

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Speaker 1: I tell you what, Jimmy, I tell you what. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's a solve for all of it. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: But we've got some folks who've gone completely off grid.

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Speaker 5: Okay, thank you. One more question if I can sure?

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Speaker 5: Did you design homes right?

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Speaker 6: Yes, sir, okay, I have love design of a five

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Speaker 5: Got pictures from different magazines over years, and I want

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Speaker 5: And it's so how much? Uh?

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Speaker 1: That is our website, house Whisper dot Design. There's a

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Speaker 5: Swhispered dot dot com.

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Speaker 1: Dot design dot dot com dot dot com. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a wacky guy. There's a wacky guy in England

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Speaker 5: Okay, thank you very much for your time and information.

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Speaker 5: I really appreciate it. And I'll talk to your firm soon.

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Speaker 1: All right, Jimmy, thank you, buddy. Thanks for the call.

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Speaker 1: A lot of us sewer calls this morning. Uh, it's

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Speaker 1: all good. You know what hey whatever whatever, like I say,

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Speaker 1: with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. Dean Sharp aka the

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Speaker 1: house Whisper, here to remind you every home deserves great design,

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Speaker 1: especially yours, because that's where you live, my friend. That's right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm buttering you up. What can I say? I appreciate

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Speaker 1: You're in charge today. You didn't know that. You woke

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Speaker 4: Yes, good morning, Dean, Mark callings from Connecticut. Longtime listener.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you from Connecticut. How is the weather in

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Speaker 1: Connecticut today?

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Speaker 4: What time is it?

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Speaker 1: I was thinking for you. It's nine fifty one.

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Speaker 4: It's cold. No, it's cold today. It will be warmer tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: It varies.

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Speaker 4: We're occasional, by the way, residents of California too, and

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Speaker 4: so we greatly appreciate it when we're out there for

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Speaker 4: months at a time.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now what hang on? Hang on? What is cold?

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Speaker 1: What is cold today? What does that mean?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 4: Cold is thirties? You know it's not.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, that's yeah, that's that's that's you know,

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Speaker 1: that's not that's not you know, unlivable. That's you know,

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Speaker 1: by the way, it's going to be it's going to

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Speaker 1: be eighty one today here eighty one?

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Speaker 4: Oh gosh. Well, you know our daughter lives in Minnesota. Uh.

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Speaker 4: And she called us a few years ago and said, hey,

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Speaker 4: Mom and dad, you know it's warmed up to minus four.

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Speaker 4: Do you think my car will start?

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Speaker 1: No, warmed up to minus four? Break out the flip

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Speaker 1: flops and the bathing suits exactly. All right, Can I

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Speaker 1: help you my friends?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yesterday, we live in a older colonial. We have

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Speaker 4: a fully functional two car garage with an older door.

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Speaker 4: But it works great and it's got a garage door

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Speaker 4: opener and everything. And yesterday I put one of our

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Speaker 4: vehicles in there, closed the door, and as it was

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Speaker 4: reaching the bottom, I heard a huge snapping noise. I

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Speaker 4: thought perhaps something had fallen in the garage. I couldn't

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Speaker 4: find anything when I went through the side door. So

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Speaker 4: you know, this morning I went to open the garage

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Speaker 4: door and it only came halfway up. On inspection, one

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Speaker 4: of the two very large springs which apparently coil when

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Speaker 4: it goes down to help bring it back up, one

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Speaker 4: of those had snapped.

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Speaker 5: Right in the middle.

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Speaker 4: They're on a rod. My question, very simply, and I

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Speaker 4: don't know whether you've had any experience with this, is

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Speaker 4: you know, is that a even conceivable DIY project or

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Speaker 4: is dangerous?

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Speaker 1: Okay? So sectional garage door so rolls up on a

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Speaker 1: track that's not a single piece.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, it's a single piece.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So you've you've got the so you got the

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Speaker 1: big springs on both sides on those hinges very big.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're probably four feet or so, uh, each of

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Speaker 4: them on each side. And is that, you know, is

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Speaker 4: that even something I should conceivably think of trying to

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Speaker 4: get a spring and do myself. I'm pretty you know,

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Speaker 4: I do a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Right, Okay, Well, here's the thing, Mark, I am not

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Speaker 1: going to say yes on that one. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: say no. And uh and I'll tell you why. Number one,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be sued when you lose a

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Speaker 1: limb area.

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Speaker 4: And I'm a lawyer. I'm a lawyer, so.

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Speaker 1: Oh see, okay, definitely not counselor no.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 1: Uh now here's the thing, handyman lawyer. Yeah, I I'll

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Speaker 1: just put it this way, Okay, I would I would

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Speaker 1: like to consider myself amongst you know, about the handiest

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Speaker 1: there are out there. I mean, I build houses, have

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Speaker 1: built houses from the ground up myself, so I don't

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Speaker 1: mess with garage door springs. They are high, high tension items.

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Speaker 1: They require specialized tools, and I nearly have a heart

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Speaker 1: attack once. One of my neighbors was He's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm replacing my garage door spring. Two things that I saw.

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Speaker 1: One he had the door all propped up kind of

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Speaker 1: funky and weird, and he was trying to put this

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Speaker 1: other spring on, and I'm like, hey, what about the

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Speaker 1: other spring on the other side. He's like, oh, that's fine.

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Speaker 1: I said, have you relieved the tension on it? He's like,

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Speaker 1: how do you do that? And then and then he

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Speaker 1: had a and then you know, there's a winder bar

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Speaker 1: at the top of each of the springs, and he

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Speaker 1: was using a like an oversized screwdriver. I'm like, why

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Speaker 1: don't you have Okay, so it requires a specialized bar

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Speaker 1: of a specific size each of the springs. And understand

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Speaker 1: the garage door springs are rated for cycles. In other words,

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Speaker 1: the cycle is one opening and one closing. So if

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Speaker 1: if the one spring has snapped, okay, you don't just

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Speaker 1: replace that when you replace the pair, because the other

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Speaker 1: one is not far behind. Okay, yeah, so both have

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Speaker 1: to go. You got to have that door propped up

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Speaker 1: exactly and counterbalanced properly. You've got to put those on

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Speaker 1: and and tune them just right. There are specialized tools.

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Speaker 1: And having a spring cut loose unexpectedly, literally people lose

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Speaker 1: their lives, they lose limbs. It is no joke. I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't do it myself, and I've seen other people, you know,

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Speaker 1: not to say there aren't no, And now I'm going

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Speaker 1: to get seven calls from people are like, I replace

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Speaker 1: my garage door spring, no problem?

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Speaker 3: Deep?

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, I just know. So you asked me if

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Speaker 1: I recommend doing it? No, I don't. Can it be done?

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Speaker 1: Of course, anything can be done. But do I recommend

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Speaker 1: a homeowner doing it.

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 1: I don't even recommend a professional contractor doing it. What

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Speaker 1: I recommend is a professional, trained, warranted garage door service

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Speaker 1: technician replacing those springs.

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Speaker 4: Got it? Got it? Thank you?

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 4: I contemplated that answer, but I wanted to be sure.

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Speaker 4: And by the way, before we sign off here, I

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Speaker 4: just want to say I greatly respect and appreciate both

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Speaker 4: the breath and the depth of your knowledge. It's amazing.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's very it's amazing. It's very practical, and

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Speaker 4: you know, I've gotten some great advice listening too, So

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Speaker 4: I appreciate it, and thank you, Oh.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 5: Mark.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, on that basis, go ahead, just replace

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Speaker 1: the springs.

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Speaker 5: Just do them.

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Speaker 1: You're saying, no, no, no, no, no, you know what

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Speaker 1: it's it's awesome. That to get feedback like that, Mark,

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Speaker 1: I really really appreciate it, and keep listening, and I

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Speaker 1: will continue to thank you. I will continue to attempt

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Speaker 1: to earn your trust.

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Speaker 4: And I guess I have a spring. I have a

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Speaker 4: spring project, not mine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly exactly, Mark, thanks for the call, Bud. All right,

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Speaker 1: that was great. All right, more of your calls when

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