Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woka F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the bunker where
Speaker 1: I will be for the next six weeks. Because your
Speaker 1: favorite podcaster broke her toe over the holiday weekend. How
Speaker 1: did I do that? I tripped up my stairs and
Speaker 1: now for the next six weeks, I am immobile, awesome
Speaker 1: beginning to summer. I hope that all of you had
Speaker 1: a much better beginning of summer and Memorial Day weekend
Speaker 1: than I did. Um I will say, let me, let
Speaker 1: me stop. I have a lot of gratitude for my friends,
Speaker 1: for my family and loved ones who have been checking
Speaker 1: in on me, who helped me do shopping, who have
Speaker 1: been really just lovely and wonderful. I'm just, you know,
Speaker 1: annoyed with myself. But folks, I did not stay away
Speaker 1: from the news over the holiday weekend because I did
Speaker 1: TV on Saturday and Sunday. And what I will say today,
Speaker 1: which is the week, it's been a week since the
Speaker 1: shooting in Uvalde, Texas. It's been a week since we
Speaker 1: have learned about really just atrocious, disgusting, unbelievable, outrageous details
Speaker 1: how nineteen police officers who were armed, stood outside for
Speaker 1: an hour while children were screaming inside being massacred, while
Speaker 1: two teachers were doing the jobs that police officers, who
Speaker 1: whose budgets are forty of the entire community and town
Speaker 1: and city of Uvaldi, did nothing, as reports come out
Speaker 1: that some of those officers went in and rescued their
Speaker 1: own children and left other children to the slaughter of
Speaker 1: an eighteen year old arm with a weapon of war.
Speaker 1: The New York Times over the holiday weekend had a
Speaker 1: visual that said authorities say the gunmen accessed purchased the
Speaker 1: gun legally, and it was literally fifteen of the last
Speaker 1: mass shootings where the gunmen all got their guns legally.
Speaker 1: Because we live in a country where at the age
Speaker 1: of eighteen, you can't buy sudafed, but you can absolutely
Speaker 1: buy an AAR fifteen. We live in a country where
Speaker 1: we do not trust people with uteruses to make decisions
Speaker 1: about their own bodies, because that's considered murder. But we
Speaker 1: totally applaud as many did, thousands did at the NRA's
Speaker 1: conference in Houston, where, by the way, guns were not
Speaker 1: permitted because you know, safety measures. Applaud this. No rule,
Speaker 1: no red flags, no background checks, no nothing, because they
Speaker 1: believe it's a slippery slope. We're beyond slippery slopes. We
Speaker 1: live in a country where parents, I don't even know
Speaker 1: how you all are making the decisions these days. I mean,
Speaker 1: my only prayer and saving grace is that it is
Speaker 1: June and God willing in a couple of weeks, school
Speaker 1: will be out for summer, so we can all collectively
Speaker 1: hold our breaths for the next school shooting that will happen,
Speaker 1: probably in September. And in the meantime there'll be just
Speaker 1: other mass shootings that happen over the summer. It was
Speaker 1: reported by the Washington Post that over the weekend there
Speaker 1: were eleven mass shootings. Because now I had been saying
Speaker 1: and again these stats change that a mass shooting is
Speaker 1: four or more people that have been killed by a
Speaker 1: gun at one time. Evidently it is seven in some
Speaker 1: places considered. I mean, here's my thing, it's a mass
Speaker 1: shooting if more than one person is killed, right, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't need to, you know, to slash hairs over
Speaker 1: this issue. The fact is that our children are not
Speaker 1: safe in this country. We would rather ban books and
Speaker 1: blame critical race theories and as Ted Cruz stupid ass
Speaker 1: did blame doors and say that there should be one
Speaker 1: door in and one door out of schools. And I
Speaker 1: said in a TikTok that I did, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: if you're not following me on TikTok, you totally should
Speaker 1: because I am loose there. Let's just say that I
Speaker 1: have no holds barred and it's Danielle Moody underscore FYI,
Speaker 1: if you are so inclined, but I said, Ted Cruz
Speaker 1: may want to check with a fucking fire marshal about
Speaker 1: one door in and one door out of a school,
Speaker 1: because are we turning our schools into prisons? Because society
Speaker 1: is so unsafe, We're arming teachers, We're doing everything except
Speaker 1: even trying to try. As Shannon Watts, who is the
Speaker 1: president of Mothers Against Gun Violence has said, we don't
Speaker 1: even we haven't even tried trying. Right. It's not as
Speaker 1: if we say, okay, well, let's check off all the
Speaker 1: list of things that we have done to predict to
Speaker 1: prevent mass shootings in this country, We've done none of them.
Speaker 1: Background checks, red flag laws, minimum, you know, seven day
Speaker 1: waiting period while you are evaluated. I looked at a
Speaker 1: form a checklist that Canadians have to do in order
Speaker 1: to get a gun, and I thought, my god, this
Speaker 1: seems extensive and exhaustive. Right, so you can feel comfortable
Speaker 1: knowing that the person that obtains a gun in Canada,
Speaker 1: right has been thoroughly checked out. But in America, Nah,
Speaker 1: you blow out eighteen candles on your birthday cake and
Speaker 1: then you get to blow away as many as your
Speaker 1: little heart desires. I don't know how else to say it.
Speaker 1: We just don't care. You have Donald Trump, you know,
Speaker 1: at the NRA, blaming everything, single parent, households, churches, lack
Speaker 1: of church attendance, all of these things, wokeness, video games,
Speaker 1: everything except for the assault rifle that has been used
Speaker 1: in every single mass shooting that we've seen that have
Speaker 1: made it to the headlines. It's been ten years since
Speaker 1: kidna gartners and first graders who were mowed down in
Speaker 1: their classroom in Newtown. It's been twenty three years since
Speaker 1: two high school students at Columbine entered their school shot
Speaker 1: and killed twelve people and then themselves. We've done nothing.
Speaker 1: We've done nothing except make it easier, as Governor Abbott
Speaker 1: did in Texas to lower ages in order to get
Speaker 1: a weapon of war, to do away with any type
Speaker 1: of laws that would make it safe for people to
Speaker 1: you exist free. Oh, you can carry a gun anywhere
Speaker 1: you want. I think that America is done. I think
Speaker 1: that the America that you and I adults have grown
Speaker 1: up in and understood is done. I believe that we
Speaker 1: are already in an authoritarian environment where the majority of
Speaker 1: this country is now held hostage by the NRA and
Speaker 1: a handful of senators who are bought and sold like
Speaker 1: hookers from the NRA, who could care less about anything
Speaker 1: other than their own power and money. And it's disgraceful.
Speaker 1: And I can say all of the things that I've
Speaker 1: been saying for years. We had the Vice President Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris say, after she attended the funeral of the eighty
Speaker 1: six year old black grandmother who was killed at Tops
Speaker 1: grocery in Buffalo, we need a band on assault rifles
Speaker 1: in this country, plain and simple. Joe Biden would then
Speaker 1: echo her sentiments, and I say, where is the fucking
Speaker 1: executive order? You have access to the smartest people in
Speaker 1: the country, probably on the planet. Why is there no
Speaker 1: war room that has been put together to figure out
Speaker 1: how to maneuver around the gun Loophole's Why are there
Speaker 1: not constitutional scholars that are in this war room for
Speaker 1: the administration to put together the plans to keep Americans is,
Speaker 1: particularly our children safe. Why do Democrats keep giving Republicans
Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt as if they haven't continually
Speaker 1: showed you they don't give a fuck about your constitution,
Speaker 1: They don't give a fuck about the lives of children,
Speaker 1: They don't care about the rules and morals that have
Speaker 1: governed this country, as imperfect as it is. I just
Speaker 1: don't know what else you need to see and order
Speaker 1: to just do what needs to be done, and damn
Speaker 1: the fucking consequences. How about putting everything in place, leaving
Speaker 1: everything on the fucking field, instead of just acquiescing to
Speaker 1: this neo authoritarian state that we're living in. I don't
Speaker 1: get it. And you know, frankly, when I was on
Speaker 1: Aim and Mohadeen's show on Sunday, I you know, was
Speaker 1: not on there to talk about guns. I was on
Speaker 1: to talk about the midterm elections and to talk about
Speaker 1: the information that keeps being quote unquote discovered by journalists
Speaker 1: as they get access to more documents and more subpoenas
Speaker 1: around the insurrection. And we all know now right that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was sitting watching TV gleefully as his followers
Speaker 1: were violently attempting to overthrow the government. We know that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump said that Mike Pence should be hanged. We
Speaker 1: know that Mark Meadows was burning papers in his office.
Speaker 1: All of these people are still walking around free, and
Speaker 1: they'll continue to There'll be no accountability, There'll be no responsibility.
Speaker 1: If America makes it another handful of years, and by
Speaker 1: a handful, I mean like literally to the presidential election
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, I will be surprised. And when
Speaker 1: I say America, I mean that this false idea that
Speaker 1: we have of this country. There are people who still believe,
Speaker 1: who are still under some type of spell and believe
Speaker 1: that America is not going to fall, that our democracy
Speaker 1: will maintain. When everything is showing you things to the contrary,
Speaker 1: I don't get it. And you know, I tell you all,
Speaker 1: I am ye of little faith. I have little faith
Speaker 1: in our institutions. I have less faith in the people
Speaker 1: that are running them. I have no faith in this
Speaker 1: administration to get anything done that will safeguard US ten
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. They're saying, maybe to cancel student loan debt
Speaker 1: for millions of Americans that are billions of dollars in debt,
Speaker 1: mostly to the government. I broke my toe and you know,
Speaker 1: was talking to the doctor about health insurance and care
Speaker 1: in this country, and everything here is horrific. Our healthcare
Speaker 1: is shit, our government is shit. And I'm sorry, folks
Speaker 1: like I genuinely, I gotta tell you it pains me
Speaker 1: and I have been, as you all know, struggling. I
Speaker 1: watched a really good segment that Aim and Mohaddeen did
Speaker 1: on Sunday ahead of my hit with a mental health provider,
Speaker 1: and I forget her name, is a black woman who
Speaker 1: was talking about what can now be referred to as
Speaker 1: our compounded trauma. It is when multiple events, multiple crises,
Speaker 1: are just stacked one after the other, and that America
Speaker 1: is also suffering, on top of everything else, a mental
Speaker 1: health crisis. More people are now dealing with depression now
Speaker 1: than in twenty nineteen before the pandemic. There have been
Speaker 1: higher rates of attempted suicide. I've watched so many specials
Speaker 1: with the young kids who are you know, six ten
Speaker 1: teenagers about how they're suffering. I want you to think
Speaker 1: about what it could possibly be like to be a
Speaker 1: little kid. I don't care. Elementary school, middle school, high school.
Speaker 1: They're all children to me going to school these days,
Speaker 1: and I mean these days as in like the last
Speaker 1: several decades, I don't know how you could possibly concentrate
Speaker 1: on learning. Every door slam, every bell ring would send
Speaker 1: me through the roof with fear, with anxiety, crippling fear
Speaker 1: and anxiety. I sit on the couch and I just
Speaker 1: listen to these interviews, one after the other of these
Speaker 1: young kids from rob Elementary School in Uivaldi, and I
Speaker 1: burst into tears, and I am hundreds of miles away,
Speaker 1: cloistered in my apartment where I don't really want to
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Speaker 1: mine you know have recently said who live in the city,
Speaker 1: or like, I don't want to take the subway anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't think that I'm going to be taking the
Speaker 1: subway anymore. So if I can't get to where I'm
Speaker 1: going walking or just paying the exorbitant fucking uber and
Speaker 1: Lift prices, like I'm not going because the idea of
Speaker 1: sitting on a subway when we've had two subway shootings
Speaker 1: in the month of May, it's too much. So it's like,
Speaker 1: if we are adults and literally have the emotional capacity
Speaker 1: to work through our emotions and we are struggling. What
Speaker 1: the fuck do you think that little kids are doing?
Speaker 1: How do you think that they are coping. This little
Speaker 1: boy six years old and rob elementary school, and he
Speaker 1: was standing with his mom as his being interviewed on MSNBC,
Speaker 1: and his mother is tearfully telling the reporters that he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to go back to school, and she's like,
Speaker 1: I really pray that he will eventually, like the school
Speaker 1: year is now done. But when the reporters said, why
Speaker 1: don't you want to go back to school, he said,
Speaker 1: because I'm scared. I don't want to die. I don't
Speaker 1: want to die. He's six. Compounded trauma, a global health
Speaker 1: pandemic that is not gone, will probably never be gone,
Speaker 1: Escalated racism and hate crimes, escalated mass shootings, and we
Speaker 1: have election in less than six months that posters are
Speaker 1: telling us Republicans will regain control of the House, which
Speaker 1: is essentially handing over the House of Representatives to the Taliban.
Speaker 1: Like that's the thing that I'm like, why are we
Speaker 1: mincing words? Why do we have such strong words and
Speaker 1: conviction when it comes to naming the violence that those
Speaker 1: outside of the United States do against their own people.
Speaker 1: We have no problem referring to other black and brown
Speaker 1: leaders in dictator as what they are, dictators, murderers, right,
Speaker 1: authoritarian is fascists. But when it comes to naming and
Speaker 1: describing the people who are causing the most violence, rise
Speaker 1: and hate in this country, it seems that our leaders
Speaker 1: struggle like a cat's got their tongue. Handing over the
Speaker 1: keys to the House of Representatives to the white supremacist
Speaker 1: Council is akin to handing it over to isis to
Speaker 1: the Taliban, to a guerrilla militia, and thinking that, well,
Speaker 1: I hope that they do the right thing. What like,
Speaker 1: these people are known terrorists, they're known killers. Oh, but
Speaker 1: they're telling you that they're gonna do right. So you're
Speaker 1: going to give them the benefit of the doubt and
Speaker 1: not trust past behavior and not trust the patterns that
Speaker 1: you that they have established. We're just going to take
Speaker 1: their word for it. If I were a billionaire, unlike
Speaker 1: fucking Elon Musk and the rest of these wealthy white
Speaker 1: ciss fucking hetero like egomaniacs, I would be pouring billions
Speaker 1: of dollars into blanketed ads across this country, particularly in
Speaker 1: Red states, particularly in battleground areas from now until fucking December,
Speaker 1: when the elections will probably actually be decided. Every single
Speaker 1: other ad would be about mass shootings, gun fires perpetrated
Speaker 1: at the hands of white supremacists, and next to it
Speaker 1: all of the Republicans and Democrats who take money from
Speaker 1: the NRA. It would be the faces of young children,
Speaker 1: one after the other, casually going about their day, and
Speaker 1: then darkness hits running for their lives, covering themselves in
Speaker 1: their friend's blood to pretend to be dead. It would
Speaker 1: run non stop. You wouldn't be able to turn on
Speaker 1: a podcast, turn on a screen without hearing or seeing it.
Speaker 1: That's what I would do. I would pour money into
Speaker 1: every single Democratic candidate for every single level of office
Speaker 1: that the Democratic establishment decides to ignore because they don't
Speaker 1: think that they're viable. If I were a multi billionaire,
Speaker 1: I would be working round the clock to try and
Speaker 1: save our democracy and putting pressure where pressure needed to be.
Speaker 1: But you see, the white male Cis hetero billionaires in
Speaker 1: this country, much as it with the poor white Cis
Speaker 1: fucking hetero men, and this could only give a fuck
Speaker 1: about themselves. It is that individualistic mentality, this raw selfishness,
Speaker 1: the Gordon Gecko from Wall Street that is taken over
Speaker 1: not only our culture, but our politics. It's a reason
Speaker 1: why we are here. Things don't just atrophy overnight. It
Speaker 1: takes time. And that is what has happened to our democracy.
Speaker 1: It is completely atrophied because money in politics has literally
Speaker 1: suffocated the people's ability to have a voice in power.
Speaker 1: And so without that reflexive muscle being, what is actually
Speaker 1: supposed to guide our representatives at the state, local, and
Speaker 1: federal level that take an oath to do right by
Speaker 1: the Constitution has died. And this is once again coming
Speaker 1: at the hands of the Supreme Court, Citizens United, the
Speaker 1: case that turned corporations into company, corporations into people can
Speaker 1: give as much as they want money. Capitalism, greed is
Speaker 1: why the gun lobby succeeds. It's why racism prevails. Think
Speaker 1: about it. If you were to rid money from politics,
Speaker 1: if you didn't need billions of dollars to run for president,
Speaker 1: if you didn't need hundreds of millions of dollars to
Speaker 1: run for Congress, if you take away the power of
Speaker 1: the donor class and actually give it back to the people,
Speaker 1: you think we would be in this position where the
Speaker 1: last six elections the popular vote Democrats won, but they
Speaker 1: only won the last two presidential elections. Don't you think
Speaker 1: that over this time we would have changed how things
Speaker 1: were actually done. But it is money and politics and
Speaker 1: greed that disallows the people to be heard. I am
Speaker 1: so worried about this summer because I know that with
Speaker 1: summer comes a lot of violence, and with this compounded trauma,
Speaker 1: swirling depression, easy access to guns, high inflation. I mean,
Speaker 1: I went to go and buy some flowers the other
Speaker 1: day for my patio, and I'm like, God, these are expensive.
Speaker 1: And then I asked my mother and she goes, oh, well,
Speaker 1: if you watch like the local news, they were telling
Speaker 1: us that the cost of flowers has gone up ten
Speaker 1: to thirty Why because they're being shipped in from god
Speaker 1: knows where, driven in from God knows where. And guess
Speaker 1: what that is diesel? Guess what the cost of diesel is?
Speaker 1: Will you all know? You pass gas stations and guess
Speaker 1: who is offsetting who the companies are offsetting that cost
Speaker 1: to the consumer. So you can't even buy a bundle
Speaker 1: of flowers a fucking package of ground meat. I mean,
Speaker 1: so you just take all of these issues and I'm worried.
Speaker 1: A friend of mine said recently, you know, the air
Speaker 1: is really thick with anxiety. Be really mindful about like
Speaker 1: your spidy senses as you are moving about. If you
Speaker 1: feel on edge, if you're looking around and you're not
Speaker 1: quite feeling right, leave, don't talk yourself out of it,
Speaker 1: because I think that we are all going to kind
Speaker 1: of go back to our hunter kind of feelings, Like
Speaker 1: there are senses that we haven't needed, right, because we're
Speaker 1: supposed to be in a civilized society. We are not.
Speaker 1: We ignore a lot of those feelings, those gut feelings, right,
Speaker 1: because we tell ourselves our mind is making it up.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying to you now, I'm not ignoring mine anymore.
Speaker 1: Fine on a subway, which I can't be because I
Speaker 1: have a broken toe and I can't really move around.
Speaker 1: I have a giant boot on my foot. But if
Speaker 1: you find yourself on public transportation, in a store, theater
Speaker 1: and you feel uneasy, listen to that feeling. It may
Speaker 1: be what is going to save you. But it's this
Speaker 1: feeling of just unease. Remember how I would talk about disease, right,
Speaker 1: and the fact that worry, fear, anxiety, all of these
Speaker 1: things create disease in our body, which makes it more
Speaker 1: susceptible to illness. But there is this really deep feeling
Speaker 1: of unease, don't feel safe anywhere, and I'm just like, so,
Speaker 1: what does that do? It then creates this even deeper
Speaker 1: sense of tribalism where we become untrusting of those around
Speaker 1: us because our senses are up, our walls go up.
Speaker 1: The ripple effects of what is happening, what has happened
Speaker 1: so quickly if you think about this guy's twenty fifteen
Speaker 1: to me, and probably earlier the beginning of the tea party,
Speaker 1: so maybe that's around twenty ten, twenty eleven. This has
Speaker 1: all been bubbling up for the last twelve years because
Speaker 1: no one has been paying attention. Just politics as usual.
Speaker 1: It's not Republicans are violent white supremacists who will do anything,
Speaker 1: saying anything in order to assume power. They're doing nothing.
Speaker 1: They don't care about the violence that's ensuing because it's
Speaker 1: not going to affect them right now. It will eventually,
Speaker 1: trust and believe, but right now, they're in their seventies
Speaker 1: and eighties. If they have kids, it's really their grandkids now,
Speaker 1: and they're at private schools or boarding schools where incidents
Speaker 1: of violence like this so far are not happening, so
Speaker 1: they don't care. When was the last time that any
Speaker 1: member of Congress who has been in Congress for decades,
Speaker 1: not the new Cohort, have been inside of a grocery store?
Speaker 1: When was the last time they did anything that wasn't
Speaker 1: seriously vetted? So they're going to be protected. The wealthy
Speaker 1: the why the powerful, they're good. It is everybody else
Speaker 1: who is basically playing Russian Roulette every time that we
Speaker 1: leave our homes. I've been thinking a lot about what
Speaker 1: to do and what I can say right now. For me,
Speaker 1: at the very least is I'm just going to continue
Speaker 1: telling the truth until it becomes increasingly dangerous for me
Speaker 1: to do so, because I believe that we will get
Speaker 1: to that place where it is going to be actually
Speaker 1: physically dangerous for people like myself to continue to be
Speaker 1: out and vocal about what is going on in this country.
Speaker 1: I will continue to encourage people to gather their community,
Speaker 1: run at all levels, give money if you can, volunteer
Speaker 1: if you can do so safely. But honestly, I don't
Speaker 1: know how to get rid of this nagging sense of unease.
Speaker 1: I'm doubling down on my meditation. I've picked up of
Speaker 1: a book that I put down to kind of detach
Speaker 1: myself a bit from my phone, from the news so
Speaker 1: that I can just be. So whatever momentary solace you
Speaker 1: can provide for yourself, walking as clearly on hold until July,
Speaker 1: so I won't be doing that. And because of that,
Speaker 1: I've started to have this sense of nervousness today around well,
Speaker 1: what am I going to do to stay mentally well?
Speaker 1: Because if I can't do physical activity in any real way,
Speaker 1: I have to figure out ways to give my mind
Speaker 1: and my heart rest. And I think all of us
Speaker 1: do whatever it is that we have been doing. You know,
Speaker 1: we may have fallen off, as I admitted to and
Speaker 1: have admitted too, but the recognition of falling into old
Speaker 1: patterns is even as Young Pueblo, a writer, poet, an
Speaker 1: author has said, is part of your progress because when
Speaker 1: you initially were in old patterns, you weren't even recognizing
Speaker 1: them as patterns. So even if we have fallen off
Speaker 1: of what has been keeping us mentally and physically, well,
Speaker 1: let's use this time as we enter into summer officially
Speaker 1: as a reenergizer to redouble our efforts to try some
Speaker 1: things that are new to collectively ground us. Because, friends,
Speaker 1: what we are up against, what we are headed, this
Speaker 1: headwind that we are headed towards is a dangerous one,
Speaker 1: and I believe that if we are not emotionally, spiritually, physically,
Speaker 1: and mentally prepared for it, we will not survive. So
Speaker 1: think about what it is that you have been doing
Speaker 1: that has offered you moments, hours, you know, times of solace,
Speaker 1: and figure out how you double those efforts. For me,
Speaker 1: I've decided I'm going to finish one of the books
Speaker 1: that I'm reading. I have three more. I'm doing fiction
Speaker 1: because I've had enough nonfiction right now. I'm doing particularly
Speaker 1: African futurism, which is like my go to. It's really wonderful.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to read. I'm going to detach. I'm
Speaker 1: going to go into other worlds and other spaces to
Speaker 1: re energize my spirit and my imagination. Because I find
Speaker 1: that when I detach from news, I give my mind
Speaker 1: an opportunity to dream, to envision, to imagine. I start
Speaker 1: to think differently, and that allows me to have different
Speaker 1: perspectives and associations and understanding with our reality. So think
Speaker 1: for yourself. What does that look like for you? And
Speaker 1: then double those efforts and will continue being in conversation
Speaker 1: about it. Share in the comments section about things that
Speaker 1: you were trying and doing and what has worked for you.
Speaker 1: If you have fallen off and you find yourself back
Speaker 1: in this twenty four hour recycle of news and anxiety
Speaker 1: and stress and depression, be easy with yourself. It's so
Speaker 1: difficult not to fall back into these things, particularly when
Speaker 1: these tragedies happen so frequently. So as we head into
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Speaker 1: think about what is one thing that you are going
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