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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Chris Harry with you on a new episode

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Speaker 1: of Chargers Weekly. Coming Up. Defensive tackle Brandon Mebane joins

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Speaker 1: me from the team's second annual golf invitational. We discussed

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Speaker 1: the start of his fourteenth NFL season and his role

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Speaker 1: as leader and captain of the defense. But first we're

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Speaker 1: gonna check in with the La Times As Jeff Miller

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Speaker 1: to talk OTAs and his recent piece on Chargers All

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Speaker 1: pro cornerback Desmond King. All right, on the line, my guy,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Miller from the La Times and Jeff offseason starting

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Speaker 1: to pick up. Man. I saw you twice this week,

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Speaker 1: Monday for OTA's Day one and then Tuesday at the

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Speaker 1: Chargers Golf Invitational. How are you, budd, I'm doing very good.

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Speaker 1: How are you doing? I'm good, man. I think we

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Speaker 1: should start with OTAs. I want to get into your

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Speaker 1: Desmond King piece that he did a fantastic job on

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Speaker 1: last week. We'll re up that, but let's start with OTAs.

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Speaker 1: Just your your takeaways from the first day. We heard

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Speaker 1: coach Lynn speak, we heard Gus speak, Austin and I

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Speaker 1: believe Joey Bosa. So a lot of action on Monday. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was good. To good to see Joey back out

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Speaker 1: this first time we've seen him this off season. Um,

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Speaker 1: and he predictably looked good. I think everybody it's pretty

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Speaker 1: familiar with Joey's got a regiment. He goes through with

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Speaker 1: a trainer in Florida and I'm sure him and his

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Speaker 1: looked great, he sounded good. I think he's uh, he's

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Speaker 1: fired up, like most of the Chargers are right now,

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Speaker 1: and they things, uh, you know, off season. But things

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Speaker 1: seem to be going according to plan so far. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, Coach Lynn brought us something interesting on Monday

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Speaker 1: about how he gives the veterans a lot of ownership

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Speaker 1: on this team to coach some of the younger guys.

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Speaker 1: And this is the first time these guys are putting

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Speaker 1: on helmets. They're you know, almost ninety guys on the

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Speaker 1: field at the same time. This is the time when

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Speaker 1: Vets are really going to prove their worth in the

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Speaker 1: offseason helping these younger guys along. There's no doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: And I think you you heard Anthony the other day

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Speaker 1: he mentioned the fact that, Hey, these guys speak the

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Speaker 1: same language, you know, to some of these players. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, Anthony's more twice as old as some of

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Speaker 1: kind of jokingly calling himself like an old guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you're a young guy coming in the league and

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Speaker 1: twelve years, or even if Derwin James, if you're you know,

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Speaker 1: one of these draft picks coming in, or you're an

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Speaker 1: unsigned guy coming in and there's Derwin James, who everyone

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Speaker 1: knows what he did last year, you're gonna you're much

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Speaker 1: You're gonna listen to that guy, right. I mean, these

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Speaker 1: guys are gonna listen to their coaches certainly, but these

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Speaker 1: players speak the same language, and these players who these

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Speaker 1: veterans are at where these new guys want to get to,

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Speaker 1: so they would be crazy not to listen to them.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's it's smart. And I think the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: like we know, have some you know, this little roster

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Speaker 1: they've got some good young talent and They've got some

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Speaker 1: veteran players who are very well spoken, who are leaders

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Speaker 1: which is great. And so I think right now this

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Speaker 1: Celesko the GM has done a good job putting this

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Speaker 1: doing a smart thing. I mean, they're letting these players

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Speaker 1: a great resource. You mentioned a guy like Darwin James.

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Speaker 1: you know, talking to coach Milas this week. He's a

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Speaker 1: player they're expecting to take that next step in terms

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Speaker 1: of leadership. But also Brandon Mebane, you're thirteen. Who's going

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Speaker 1: to be on the podcast here a bit later, Thomas Davis,

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Speaker 1: you know, first force is about winning, and this team

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Speaker 1: won last year. And when the team is winning, and

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Speaker 1: the feeling is that they're on the rise, which I

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Speaker 1: there's no question around them. That's the feeling around this team.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody associated with this team, anybody who

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Speaker 1: than a contender in the conference. I mean, they everybody's

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Speaker 1: the conference, and that certainly helps that culture and that

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Speaker 1: it's like anything, Chris, if you if we're really successful

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Speaker 1: no one wants to listen to that, so it certainly helps.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the culture, the environment is there right now

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Speaker 1: I think if they can stay healthy and keep this

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Speaker 1: spot and you have all those those veterom guys you

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Speaker 1: mentioned Mebane is a great example. We saw him last

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Speaker 1: inquisitive guy. I think we've already learned that quickly about him,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure he's had long conversations with some of

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Speaker 1: Desmond King is somebody that coach Milas said last week

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Speaker 1: play the nickel position. So you know, just two years

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Speaker 1: He's now a first team All Pro. And you wrote

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Speaker 1: an awesome piece on Desmond, and if you guys haven't

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Speaker 1: up Jeff's piece on Desmond. First thing I have to

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Speaker 1: ask you the Polaris sling shot. Do you have images

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Speaker 1: of you in a helmet in the Polaris sling shot? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't have pictures of me. Thankful I

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen first team All Pro. What was it like

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Speaker 1: to spend some time with Dez as he enters year three. Well,

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Speaker 1: the one thing I will say, Chris is to understand

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Speaker 1: I think we all know who anybody who's spent any

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Speaker 1: So I wrote that story. The next day, I get

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Speaker 1: through the biggest moments. And he was directly involved in

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Speaker 1: some of the wins I had last year. There's no

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Speaker 1: up rooting for these guys because they're just easy to

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Speaker 1: you're right on the defense to just some part knowledge

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Speaker 1: What it's like, you always can learn. I'm still learning

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Speaker 1: probably not. It was a good day, and it was

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Speaker 1: I thought I should have been a first rounder or

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Speaker 1: when I got drafted, it was first, second, and third

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Speaker 1: I I was like, you know, nine, am, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're going to the first round party. Let's go. So man,

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Speaker 1: just I went to a couple of places and phone

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Speaker 1: still in the ring, and finally Seattle called. And I

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Speaker 1: didn't think. I didn't think Seattle like me because when

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Speaker 1: I did the meeting at the combine, they told me

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Speaker 1: everything that I didn't do that they didn't like I did.

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Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, check that off from draft process. Man,

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Speaker 1: you just never know. Yeah, so um yeah, I didn't

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Speaker 1: worked out real well, yeah, I'd say so. And you know,

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Speaker 1: said to him is that like, once you come in here,

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter if your seventh round pick, no matter of

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Speaker 1: your third round pick. You played football. You played football,

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Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't matter what your forty times is

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Speaker 1: don't matter how much a bench, because you know, I

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Speaker 1: weight room, and I told him, I said, you really,

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Speaker 1: I really don't know. I couldn't tell you, and I

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Speaker 1: don't remember what I did in college, so I couldn't

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Speaker 1: tell them. You know. Seventh round though, just look at

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Speaker 1: the history of the last two years, right Justin Jackson

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Speaker 1: prime time. Isaac Rochelle steps in for Joey Bosa. Seventh

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Speaker 1: round picks the last two years, so it's like you

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Speaker 1: make an impact. Yeah, that definitely gives a credit to

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Speaker 1: the to the staff man, to the organization that they're

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Speaker 1: very precise about who they draft and how they draft

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Speaker 1: and when they draft. So that's that's pretty much the

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Speaker 1: thumbs up. And on their part that they got valued

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Speaker 1: on in the seventh round. You know, they got good

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Speaker 1: players there, and so that's that's that's real good on

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Speaker 1: their part. Absolutely, final think for your brand is just

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Speaker 1: going into twenty nineteen knowing it's it's your thirteen for you.

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Speaker 1: Um the talent on this defense, the talent on this offense,

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Speaker 1: building off the last year, the expectations have to be

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Speaker 1: as high as they've ever been for you in your career. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think they're always high, no matter what what year

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Speaker 1: it is. Um. I think the expectations is very high

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Speaker 1: because even though we went twelve and four last year,

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Speaker 1: we still feel like we could have won some of

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Speaker 1: them games that we lost, and we was right there

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Speaker 1: in those games that we lost, so we felt like

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Speaker 1: we could have that first Denver game. I think back too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so you know when you lose as a team, you

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Speaker 1: went as a team, and we uh ready to build

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Speaker 1: on all that, all right, we are. We're trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out if you're playing golf. Are you playing golf?

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Speaker 1: It doesn't look like all the golf carts have left.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't look like it. But at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, it's all good. You got your shoes just

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Speaker 1: in case if you're ready though, yep, I'm ready, ye Brandon.

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Speaker 1: Always appreciate your time, man, It's it's a joy to

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Speaker 1: talk to you and wish you the best of off

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Speaker 1: season and beyond. All right, appreciate it, Thank you, all right, guys,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it. My thanks to Brandon Mebane and

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Speaker 1: Jeff Miller for joining me, and of course thanks to

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Speaker 1: you all for listening. If you like what you hear

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Speaker 1: this offseason, we love it. If you left us a

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Speaker 1: rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Police help spread the word.

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Speaker 1: Have a great weekend, and until next time, I'm Chris

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