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Speaker 1: The twenty seven Club is a production of I Heart

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Speaker 1: Radio and Double Elvis Media. Jim Morrison died at the

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Speaker 1: age of and he lived the life of celebrity that

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Speaker 1: skirted surprisingly close to irrelevance. I can give you twenty

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Speaker 1: seven reasons why that statement is true. Three would be

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Speaker 1: the number of bandmates who held down the fort kept

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Speaker 1: front man made unpredictable, sometimes polarizing moves. Another three would

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Speaker 1: be the number of weeks it would take after the

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Speaker 1: Miami concert disaster for tens of thousands of teenagers to

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Speaker 1: organize a public rally to protest Jim Morrison and The

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Speaker 1: Doors and all the indecent things that they stood for.

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Speaker 1: Twelve more would be the number of shows by The

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Speaker 1: Doors that would be canceled in March of nineteen sixty

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Speaker 1: nine alone. The cancelations rolled on into April, and their

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Speaker 1: spring tour wouldn't last more than one show. Another four

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Speaker 1: would be the number of times each month the rumor

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Speaker 1: of his untimely death hit the wires, the papers of

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Speaker 1: the phones. The Door's manager got look good at playing

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Speaker 1: a weekly game of Monday Morning Jim Morrison deadpool. Three

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Speaker 1: more would be the number of federal agents that gave

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Speaker 1: Jim and his friend Tom Baker a personal escort off

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Speaker 1: And two more would be how many years to the

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Speaker 1: day that Jim Morrison had left to live after Brian

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Speaker 1: bottom of a swimming pool. On this our seventh episode

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Speaker 1: of season two, protests, Death Rumors, jail Cells, and Jim

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Speaker 1: Morrison lost in fantasy. I'm Jake Brennan and this is

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Speaker 1: the seven Cloth. The kids started arriving at the Orange

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Speaker 1: Bowl in the morning. They came in pairs, and they

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Speaker 1: and they came in cars. Word had been passed around town.

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Speaker 1: Kids talked to other kids, and they got on the

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Speaker 1: the Orange Bowl was the place to be that day.

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Speaker 1: After an hour or so, the steady trickle of bodies

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Speaker 1: It was a mostly clatty day, but at nearly eighty degrees,

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Speaker 1: the complaints were a few and far between. No one

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Speaker 1: dreaded Florida Man. He had risen from the swamp, grown

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Speaker 1: vowed to never return. The residents of Florida breathed a

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Speaker 1: collective sigh of relief. Maybe Florida Man would go bother

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Speaker 1: distance of his Hollywood perch. The Florida Man calling them

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Speaker 1: hay seats, And then he returned. Florida Man dragged his bloated, bearded,

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Speaker 1: holier than that body back to the place he had forsaken.

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Speaker 1: The prodigal son back again, and the Florida Man looking

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Speaker 1: to haunt them all again, make fools of them, tear

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Speaker 1: them down, ridicule them. He managed to walk on to

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Speaker 1: authority he had granted himself, and he did what the

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Speaker 1: told him they were all stupid, and then he undered

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Speaker 1: March nine. Before too long, there were thirty thousand people

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Speaker 1: and roll show. They weren't there for a loving or

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Speaker 1: Miami welcomed that kind of filth with open arms, well

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Speaker 1: then you got another thing. Comment buster, flower children need

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Speaker 1: Certainly none of that obnoxious doors music, and no Jim

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Speaker 1: Captain Morrison, Jim's dad, the older card, the way it

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Speaker 1: The rally for decency was about as far away as

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Speaker 1: a different era and different ideological mindset. They're big get

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Speaker 1: was Jackie Gleason, a bastion of old school Madmen era

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Speaker 1: as host of the Jackie Gleason show. Gleeson was a

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine alone, he'd released no less than five records,

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Speaker 1: Gleeson represented the older, less weirder America, the one where

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Speaker 1: No long here. It's no weirdos, no freaks, clean family values,

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Speaker 1: the conservative shot across the bow. I believe this kind

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Speaker 1: Gleeson had musical and moral help and the likes of

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Speaker 1: the antiseptic pop trio The Letterman, as well as an

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Speaker 1: To Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma, Bryant was a singer

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Speaker 1: She would later serve as the public figurehead for Save

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Speaker 1: Our Children, the first organized political opposition to gay rights

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Speaker 1: that would successfully lead an effort to overturn a Dade

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Speaker 1: nine was her year. While peace seekers convened in Woodstock,

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Speaker 1: Anita Bryant became the spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Commission,

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Speaker 1: a crusader for fascist heteronormality and oranges. The rally ensured

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Speaker 1: It even impressed Richard Nixon, who wrote the rallies organizers

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Speaker 1: Jim Morrison had died while on vacation in Jamaica. Something

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Speaker 1: he ate. That's what one person heard. Someone else said

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Speaker 1: it was drugs, and someone else said he drowned. Whatever

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Speaker 1: it was, whatever happened to Jim Marrison, the people who

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Speaker 1: God was on their side. That's God punishing him. One

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Speaker 1: of the Decency Train riders told another the sort of

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Speaker 1: that's God punishing you. If God was punishing Jim Marrison,

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Speaker 1: so be it. That was on Jim Morrison. The Decency

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Speaker 1: Train riders weren't going to lose sleepover good riddance. They said,

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Speaker 1: It was inevitable, only a matter of time, and it

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Speaker 1: a wonder that it hadn't happened already. It was a

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Speaker 1: Jim Morrison was dead at five years old. Rumors of

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Speaker 1: the Door's manager, Bill Siddons, came to expect a routine

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Speaker 1: Bill had a funny feeling about this one. The Doors

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Speaker 1: Press agent Leon Bernard and Jim's friend Alan Rone had

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Speaker 1: They told him about dreams. Dreams were a rumor of

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Speaker 1: Jim's death became a reality. They told him about these feelings,

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Speaker 1: Jim and Tom were flying from l A to Phoenix

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Speaker 1: to catch the first show of the Rolling Stones nine

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Speaker 1: US tour, their first American tour in years. In typical

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Speaker 1: the airport bar and continue drinking well into the flight,

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Speaker 1: and they fed off of one another. Jim would drink

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Speaker 1: even more than usual around Tom, and Tom would get

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Speaker 1: the balls to be even more cavalier and shocking around Jim.

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Speaker 1: It was a toxic pairing. Tom raised his hand in

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Speaker 1: bring those legs over here, baby doll. Tom kept going,

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Speaker 1: my friend here is thirsty, and he gets real unruly

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Speaker 1: to a man, something to suck on to wet his lips,

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Speaker 1: and the stewardess purposely didn't turn around to respond. She'd

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Speaker 1: to wait. But Tom wasn't waiting. He fished around in

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Speaker 1: since the stewardess had made her way a little further

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Speaker 1: and then the other one plopped into the cup she

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Speaker 1: and frazzled and tried to keep his voice at a

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Speaker 1: He told him there would be no more alcohol for

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Speaker 1: They prohibited passengers from interfering with crew members. If they

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Speaker 1: wanted to keep it up, they could face a maximum

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Speaker 1: of ten grand and fines in ten years in prison.

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Speaker 1: And no, he was not joking. The pilot went back

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Speaker 1: to flying the plane and the stewardess went back to

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Speaker 1: waiting on passengers. Now Tom was irritated they weren't going

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Speaker 1: to serve them anymore. What the funk was this fucking

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Speaker 1: high school geometry class. He was a goddam of adelity,

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Speaker 1: paid for a seat on this goddamn planet. Well, actually

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Speaker 1: Jim had paid for it, but that wasn't the point,

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Speaker 1: and he wanted another goddamn drink. It was another stewardess

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Speaker 1: that walked by their seats when Tom reached his hand out,

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Speaker 1: Jim in his eyes on this girl's skirt too, and

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Speaker 1: Tom was have been zeroing in on the same area.

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Speaker 1: She was pushing her cart by Tom's aisle seat, and

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Speaker 1: his hand went right for her ass. He navigated it

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Speaker 1: under the skirt and grabbed at her felt her leggings

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Speaker 1: and panties, bunch up in his fists. Come on, sister,

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Speaker 1: help a brother out. Tom Hollard, sounding the wounded animal

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Speaker 1: cry of a really shitty beat movie actor, Jim hobbled

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Speaker 1: like a wolf taunting a full moon. The girls shrieked

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Speaker 1: and slapped Tom's hand away, and the pilot was back.

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Speaker 1: The pilot didn't want to be back. The pilot fully

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Speaker 1: expected that the first time he talked to these jokers

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Speaker 1: would be the last. He was mistaken. He told him

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Speaker 1: that he didn't make emergency landings for assholes. That they

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Speaker 1: would land in Phoenix in about fifteen minutes, and when

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Speaker 1: they did, Jim and Tom would allow everyone to deboard

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Speaker 1: the plane. They would hang tight. They had earned themselves

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Speaker 1: a personal escort off the aircraft, and the drunk duo

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Speaker 1: did as the pilot instructed, And then they sat there

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Speaker 1: aisle seat and window seat, the effervescent buzz of the

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Speaker 1: booze wearing off, and headaches needling their way in, And

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Speaker 1: then their own personal escort stepped onto the plane. Fuck

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Speaker 1: federal agents, goddamn u S. Marshals. Jim went all in,

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Speaker 1: hey man, are you to give us our own personal

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Speaker 1: escort to the Stone show. He could barely finish the

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Speaker 1: sentence before starting to choke on a stifle cough, and

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Speaker 1: there would be no Stone show for Jim and Tom.

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Speaker 1: There would be a cold jail cell floor where they

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Speaker 1: would sober up overnight, feel like shit in the morning,

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Speaker 1: and there would be charges of drunk and disorderly conduct

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Speaker 1: and interfering with a flight. The next day they posted bail.

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Speaker 1: Jim paid for both five thousand dollars total. The money

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Speaker 1: was the easy part. Jim could post bail all day.

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Speaker 1: But now he was over two with the fetes. Now

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Speaker 1: the fantasy would have to work overtime, and the Miami charges,

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Speaker 1: and now the Phoenix charges. Not quite twenty six years old,

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Speaker 1: and Jim Morrison was rich and knowing the world over.

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Speaker 1: He was also at risk of spending the rest of

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Speaker 1: his twenties and thirties looking at the world from behind bars.

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