Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Groom of the Stool… | 5/24/23

Episode Date: May 24, 2023

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have reported eating at Papa Murphy's. So the outbreak, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, California, Missouri. There's been six in Washington, four in Oregon, four in Idaho, two in Utah, one in California, and one in Missouri.

So if you have cookie dough from Papa Murphy's who owns 1100 stores across the U.S., you may get sick. So they want you to throw it away. I would say I'll return it at the place of purchase. It's your money back anyway. And if you've already eaten it and you're not sick,

eh, you're fine. Don't worry about it. You don't want any of that salmonella anyway. It infects more than 1.3 million people every year, leading to 26,500 hospitalizations and 420 deaths. There are 2,000 strains of salmonella. Sure, it only primarily impacts the intestinal tract, occasionally the blood, causing a little diarrhea,

fever, chills, abdominal discomfort, and vomiting. So if you or someone you love has, some Papa Murphy's cookie dough, I would say don't eat it. And that from me is saying a lot. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Congratulations to the United States of America. United States continues to be home to the world's top supercomputer for the second consecutive year. Yeah, we're number one. The Okra. Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier Facility, ranking number one in the semi-annual list of the world's 500 most powerful systems. Japan's Fugaku system, which held the top spot in the past, remains at number two.

Beyond leading the list, the frontier system powered by Intel rival Chipmaker AMD, continues to qualify as the first and only true exascale computing computing. platform capable of performing a billion billion operations per second. Performing a billion billion operations per second. That seems to be pretty fast. The computing power of the system is also believed to be comparable to that of the human brain. The frontier system has improved by 17% in performance since first entering the list.

Now reaching 1.194 Exifl. up from 1.02 exaflops, a measure of performance for supercomputers. AMD currently powers four of the top ten supercomputers, while Intel and IBM power two apiece. So, man, do you want those exoflops? And good news, the Oak Ridge National Laboratories Frontier facility is full of exoplops. And we are ranking number one here in the United States. States of America. Now, that doesn't change the fact that we are on the Hank's

2022 Misery Index, the latest misery index list. I know, it's 2023. Don't think it doesn't Hank know that, but I guess not. So we have 157 countries and which ones are the most miserable. Now, the United States out of the 157, ranks 134th. Great Britain ranks 129th. All right, well, congratulations to them. You know, to us and to them.

Now, the top 10 most miserable countries, we'll start at number 10. Turkey. Congratulations to Turkey. Number nine, Cuba. Oh, man, I was just going to get a, It's just going to get a summer place there. Number eight, Ukraine. I'm sure that's going up the list now that we've got the war going on.

We've got Yemen at number seven. Argentina, number six. Sudan, number five. Lebanon, number four. Wow. Syria, number three. What do those countries all have in common? Huh.

Yemen, Sudan, Lebanon, Lebanon, Syria what they have in common I don't know number two Venezuela and coming in at number one the most miserable country on the planet

Zimbabwe yes congratulations to Zimbabwe now I know if you're in Guam right now you are probably feeling pretty miserable now I know Guam is part of Indonesia so

Indonesia on this list is on 108 but I'm sure it's moved up after today because Typhoon Mawar has hit the island territory of Guam with the force of a category 4 hurricane. Most powerful

storm to strike the U.S. Pacific territory in over two decades. So it's a U.S. Pacific territory. I thought it was part of Indonesia. Anyway, Guam. And so it may actually cab size. The system is expected to bring a storm surge 6 to 10 feet. Some of the footage coming out of there will not be pretty. I mean, you're getting a cat four hurricane typhoon.

And so 140 mile an hour winds, a lot of rain. Oh boy. So according to this, the population is 150,000 people. And that's, I guess that probably counts the, we have military bases. there, which is where we get the concerned about it capsizing. All residents were told to evacuate and get to

concrete structures and higher ground. And of course, Joe Biden also approved an emergency declaration ordering federal assistance, of course, in response to the typhoon. Now, Mawar is the strongest storm to impact Guam since, and I

don't remember this, super typhoon Pang Sana in 2002. That caused more than $700 million in damage at the time. So there's going to be some damage. There's going to be some damage in the old Guam. Might actually impact some of the money we were going to send to Ukraine. I don't know that, though.

I mean, heaven forbid that were to happen. So we just may end up printing some more. But let's hope everyone in Guam is safe and can stay alive. But we know that if you were to ask them tomorrow, Would they be higher on the list of than 108 on the misery index? You bet. And I don't know how much the typhoon will affect travel out there in the Pacific, but we've got, you know, the eruption of Mexico's Papo Catapetti volcano.

I think that's how you say it. Popatapetal. Yeah. That's what I said. Mexico's... Popatatapetal. Popatapel. volcano.

A led to cancellations of flights from Mexico cities, two largest airports over the weekend. I think some of the volcanic ash is still causing some problems. Yeah, I mean, the ash is an impediment to visibility. And apparently when you're flying an airplane, you need that visibility. I know. I'm not a pilot. I'm just saying that's what they say. So if you're out there still having issues,

flying around, you know, the southwestern United States and Mexico City and Mexico. It's probably because of... Popa Caterpetal. Yeah, that eruption. So, and of course we're having issues with the smoke from wildfires. The Canadian countryside is on fire that's threatening air quality across the northwestern states. smoke is wafting down from from Alberta leading to health

advisories for individuals in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah. So you're breathing that and then you're breathing ash air from Popa Catapedal. So let's be careful out there. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately.

You know, I've been kind of thinking about giving up soda. I'm kind of tired of it. I know. It's just me. I was thinking out loud as since we're in the break room, and I was getting something cold to drink, which was water and a soda. But I'm kind of, I'm almost, I'm over sodas,

I think, I think I'm going to give them up. I'm really tired of them. Tired to spending the money on them. Tired of the, keep hearing, you know, I don't know, I'm just, I'm thinking, I'm thinking about it. I'm not doing it yet. I'm not telling you to.

I would never tell you to, but I'm just, I'm thinking about. I'm just thinking about it. I want to let you know that I'm thinking about it. Now, you can email me chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Let you know what, let me know what you're what you think about that. Obviously,

you can email the show about anything chewing the fat at the blaze.com. It's fine. But specifically, you can talk about giving up soda. I'm thinking about it. I am. It's on the table. It's on the table

of my mental negotiation of what to drink. That's all. And you can follow me on Twitter at Jeffrey JFR. Speaking of Twitter, I see where Ron DeSantis is going to do the official announcement that he's running for president

on Twitter. And weird that they're doing Twitter spaces. It's just that Twitter, you know, has video up and running now and they've Elon's really been promoting that. But we're going to do spaces. Now Elon's not interviewing. I know originally it was, oh, Elon is going to

interview, Ron DeSantis. No. It's going to be hosted by David Sacks, a technology executive, who is close to Musk, and a DeSantis supporter, obviously. But he's going to announce on Twitter, Twitter Spaces. And if you're listening today,

today is May 24th, 2023. So if you're listening live, this is going to happen today at 6 p.m. Eastern on Twitter. And so we'll see. It's interesting. And then he's going to go on TV and do it on Fox. And then he's going to do some big

some big Memorial Day weekend push around the country talking about his presidency. So we'll see how that goes. I'm a fan of Ronda Santos. He, and he's done great things in Florida, that's for sure.

Despite what some other Republican nominees have said, he's done a heck of a job in Florida and has been doing a heck of a job in Florida. So he's going to be tough to beat. It's interesting that he's doing it spaces. Anyway, you can follow me on Twitter

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like a good hooker does. All right. Oh hey, good news for those of you that have a Netflix account and share it with other family members. Netflix is now coming down for you.

They're coming after you. We've talked about it multiple times that they started at doing it in other countries and they just kind of gave everybody a heads up. up here in the U.S., well, it's official. They are now coming after you.

And they, you can, your primary account holders can add outside users for $7.99 a month. That's nice of them. That's nice of them. That's just silly, but that's what they're doing. I don't think, if they're hurting for subscribers here in the U.S., I don't think that's going to save you.

Maybe you need to take a look at your content. That seems to be happening to, other companies around the world, uh, well, especially here in the U.S., that, uh,

perhaps, uh, your woke plan really isn't holding water here in the United States. That's just me. Thinking off the top of my head, there's been some, there's been some companies,

uh, Bud Light, Target comes to mind. Disney comes to mind. Uh, their new film, uh, The Little Mermaid with Haley Bailey as the main character Ariel, uh,

who is African American and I switched the race on Ariel. Like here in America, I don't think it will matter. But in China, ooh, not doing good. Uh, the film is like the worst performing Chinese

release of the year. It's only earned $13,000 in pre-sales. Wow. So, not too crazy about it. Plus, uh, the difference in posters in

China, and it doesn't allow them to see that Ariel is African American. And really strange. Really strange. So perhaps maybe Netflix can take a look on the inside and maybe try to make a difference that way. But what do I know? I mean, some companies are going to continue on.

I saw the story where Uber has suspended their diversity chief over don't call me Karen events. So they're not, I mean, there's nothing learned there. Bo Young Lee faced criticism for Zoom sessions that focused on white women's experience of Karen stereotype of entitlement. Yeah. No, we're not having any of that. That cannot be, that cannot happen.

They suspended. What's her name again? Oh yeah, Bo Young Lee. She's the head. of diversity, equity, and inclusion, after black and Hispanic employees, this is Uber now, complained about the workplace event, she moderated, that explored the don't call me, Karen. Bo Young Lee has been there for five years. Wow. And the company said, yeah, you know, you need to just go ahead and take a leave of absence. We're going to work out the next steps.

Wow. Okay. It's amazing. One of the employees, as they talk about this story that happened, one staffer, an African-American staffer, argued that diversity sessions should not include tone-deaf, offensive, and triggering conversations. Wait, isn't that what it's supposed to be? Lee is reported, and the answer to that is no.

Lee is reported to have replied, sometimes being pushed out of your own strategic ignorance is the right thing to do. I agree with that 100%. However, the company and its employees do not. So she's out. Have a nice day. And don't be coming around here with your idea that sometimes we need to be pushed out of our own strategic ignorance as being the right thing to do, because it is not the right thing

to do. I mean, it is, but it isn't. I mean, you know what I'm saying. So have you ever typed anything on one of your social media accounts and said, oh, I shouldn't have hit send. I wish I could edit the messages. Well, WhatsApp now has granted users one of its most awaited features. Yes, you can edit your messages on WhatsApp up to 15 minutes after hitting send. That's kind of cool. I kind of like that idea. However, And I like this even better because I would say, well, if you are able to edit like that, it should say that you edited it. And yes, the message will carry the label edited without showing edit history. So, I mean, I get that, I guess, although it would be nice to see the edited the version before you edited it.

But, you know, okay, that's nice. That's fine. I know that other apps still allow users to edit messages, and Twitter had rolled out some select users, of which I was not one, the ability to edit tweets. But you should be able to edit instead of having to delete and go back and change.

And then if you delete and somebody screenshots it's like, what an idiot, you changed it, you just deleted it. Well, yeah, because I didn't want it to say what it said. so I like the idea of being able to edit and then you know if it has to show that it's been edited fine it's been edited but I changed it to what I wanted to really say okay all right let's leave me alone on that so good for what's that you know we talked about uh Kurt Cobain a little bit I talked a little bit about this on my chewing the fat segment today on Pat Gray unleashed I uh I'm a part of that show uh Wednesdays and Fridays and I do a specific chewing the fat segment on Wednesdays.

And I talked about how the Kurt Cobain smashed Stratocaster sold at auction. And it smashed, he smashed it when they were making their Nevermind album in the 90s. Now, it's reassembled, but unplayable. It's got signatures from all the members of Nirvana. along with an inscription by Cobain addressed to the late Screaming Trees lead singer Mark Lanigan, who doesn't love the screaming trees. And according to the auction house, Cobain gave the guitar to Lanigan during Nirvana's Nevermind tour in 1992.

Hey, you know what? You guys are so great. Here, have a broken guitar of mine. But, he got it. So it was expected to sell. for $60,000 to $80,000. Okay? It sold for $595,900.

A guitar that can't be played. It's got plenty of inscriptions by Kurt and, you know, got it. He gave it away the gaps. It's got a great story for $595,900. That's an awful lot of money. They also auctioned off the handwritten set list. from the band's Smells Like Teen Spirit debut performance in 1991.

That sold for $50,000. I'm sorry, $50,800. The Smells Like Teen Spirit debut performance set list. That's handwritten, though. So it's well worth the almost $51,000. And I remember a couple of years ago, I'd forgotten about this, a couple years ago, the acoustic guitar played by Cobain, or his guitar that he played during the MTV Unplugged event in 1993, and that was just five months

before his death. He sold, that was sold two years, I'm sorry, I started thinking about a Kurt Cobain joke. So I'll tell you, I'll tell you what that sold for, but then I got to tell you the Kirk Cobain joke, and you're just going to have to live with it. So the guitar that he played for the MTV unplugged version in 1993, that was five months before his death, that sold two years ago for $6 million. Six million bucks for that guitar. Holy cow. And what I was thinking, sorry, I was just thinking about a really bad Kurt Cobain. joke. Okay. So I'm going to tell you this joke and just know that it's a joke and it's just a joke. Okay. So what color was Kurt Cobain's eyes? They were blue. It went blue that way and the other blue that way.

All right. Just stop. Oh, just, no. Stop. So it's 3 o'clock in the morning, and I'm, well, not now, but it was at the time that I was reading this story. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. It's 3 o'clock of the morning.

I'm drinking my coffee, and I'm just looking at stories. I'm getting ready to go in to do Pat Grand Leashed, as I talked about earlier. And I see this story about vintage hygiene tips that are no longer acceptable. Okay, you got me. I'm going to go ahead and click on it. I'm going to go ahead and read. I want to know what some of the vintage hygiene tips that people used in the past that are just no longer acceptable. So entire families

reused the same bathwater. Now, I think that still happens with kids, right? I mean, you wash here, if you have multiple young kids, of course you give them a bath in the same bathwater. According to this in the Middle Ages, bathing was emphasized by Christianity as a way to show off your cleanliness. The upper class could afford to heat a bathtub of water every night. the lower class could not. So families would instead end up sharing the same bathwater.

And they often bathe from the oldest to the youngest. So if you were the baby, you ended up with, you know, the nastiness of the end. That's awesome. The king, the king had his own butt wiper. All right, so who doesn't want that? So it was called the groom of the stool. It was a position in the English court whose job was to wipe the king's butt. And while it sounds, even in this story, it says, while it sounds disgusting,

hey, it came with its privileges. Yeah, you were the king's butt wiper, man. You were the groom of the stool. That's a good gig. So, I mean, according to this, you know, the groom of the stool would become the most intimate and trusted hands of the English king. Well, yeah, I mean, hello. He was often the confidant of the king and knew some of the most scandalous royal secrets. Yeah, like, ooh, king, you need to get somebody to take a look at that.

That thing, that should not be like that. That should not look like that. Everybody, you know, the funny thing is when everybody talks about reincarnation and what they used to be before they came back to now, nobody ever remembers being the groom of the stool. I remember being the king, but nobody who ever remembers, yeah, I used to be the groom of the stool. Nobody recalls that. Anyway, so Egyptian women used crocodile. dung as a contraceptive. Huh.

So women have tried a lot of things over the years to prevent unwonted pregnancies, but ancient Egyptians used to use crocodile dung. So the scrolls that date back to 1850 BC show that women were taking crocodile

dung, turning it into small pellets, and inserting it into their woman part. And according to today's world, That may have been not a bad thing. Crocodile poop has a similar makeup as alkaline and other modern-day spermicides. Huh.

So they were under something. They were under something. Noble women painted their faces with lead. Here we go. I'm telling you this hygiene stuff just, I'm three o'clock in the morning. What am I going to do? I'm reading. Could I read other news stories?

Absolutely. Could I finish my coffee and just continue reading hygiene of the past? You bet. While having sun-kissed skin is all the rage today. Of course, everybody wants to be tent. New. Before it was being pale was much more fashionable. So noble women and men would paint their faces white to look even fairer.

But that's an issue because the white paint was made of pure lead. And that was poisonous. And would eat away at the wearer's skin. Then they'd have to wear more makeup and the vicious cycle continues. you. So that was the beginning of three cuts to cloud face. I've got to keep putting more paint on my face because it's eating my skin away. Fashion in the 19th century wasn't about looking good. It was about being practical and saving money. Only the upper class had a different outfit for every day. The rest of society had to make

do with one outfit for an entire season. And yes, the same rule of plus. to undergarments. So you're wearing the same thing for a whole season. Clothes might not get washed once every few weeks, maybe. And you might get a, you know, you might get a different outfit

if you had to go somewhere formal. Right. But other than that, you're wearing the same thing. Wow. In the early 20th century, most shoe polishes that were made with an ingredient called nitrogen

Benzine. It had the incredible ability to make shoes extra shiny and slick. But it also would make you faint if you inhaled the toxins because it was poison. So, hey, aren't my shoes? Oh, hey, hello?

Hello? Yeah, I'm not sure that everyone was smelling their shoes, but you definitely smelled it when you opened up the package mixing the old nitro benzene with alcohol. So wait a minute. and frequent feigning wasn't dangerous enough mixing nitrobenzine with alcohol was practically a death sentence even modern shoe polish could be deadly if it's ingested in high quantities okay i'm gonna go on record and this is just me throwing it out there i have never eaten shoe polish uh have i eaten some glue maybe

yeah maybe when i was younger used to be a girl in my kindergarten class that would eat glue so maybe i was eating glue with her a little bit but i've never eaten glue shoe polish. I'm not sure why you would want to mix alcohol with shoe polish, but those, I mean, maybe one would say, you know what, it's kind of the thinning of the herd. If you're going to mix shoe

polish with alcohol, you know, maybe we don't need you around. The Chinese were the first to use paper. Just stop, but don't look at me like that. I'm just saying, I don't want people to die. But if they were doing that,

so be it the Chinese were the first to use paper for sanitary purposes so widespread use of toilet paper didn't even occur until 1857 before that people were using leaves rags a wet cloth on a stick

or even their hands I don't know that makes me a little nervous being the groom of the stool I don't know what the groom of the stool was using to wipe the king's butt

there could have been any number of things including the old groom of the stool's hand, which would not would make the job a little bit worse than it already is. Now this is about the time that I'm thinking, how long is this

high cheat list? But we continue. Hair care was awful to achieve trendy hairsty hairstyles in the 20s. Women destroyed their hair health. Ladies began experimenting by making their own curling iron, using round iron shafts with wood handles heated over coals.

There was no temperature control and women's hair would be burned. They used to use a petroleum jelly to design their curls, which smelled like glue. So that sure was great. Urine was a popular face wash. Lysol was originally a feminine hygiene problem. product. Before wooden carved teeth became the standard indentures, anyone looking for a new set of teeth had to find someone who didn't need theirs anymore. So, hey, Joe had some pretty good teeth.

Is he dead yet? I'm going to go ahead and pull his teeth out because I want him for me. Balding men would rub chicken poop on their head. That does not sound like a good thing to do. Snail slime was a sore throat solution. That still may work. I don't know. I know we're supposed to have a hot tea and all that kind of thing,

but you get yourself some snail slime. Man, your throat's going to be a lot better. Dying people turned their body into edible medicine. No, thank you. The process of a melification was an old airfew. Arabic process that consisted of a dying person turning their body into a mummified candy bar for the living to eat. It began when the person was still alive, all good. They would decide to donate their body and begin an all honey diet.

After their death, the body is placed in a stone coffin filled with honey for up to a century. Interesting. Eventually, the malefied man was on earth and consumed by the living. as a treatment for several ailments. The process was so popular that people in the 16th century China also began doing it. Oh, that's interesting. I'm surprised that doesn't still happen today. So you decide you're going to do it.

You go on an all-honey diet. That kills you. Then you're placed into a coffin with honey for up to a century, up to a hundred years. And then we pull you out and eat you. Okay. And that's supposed to be a treatment for several ailments. Okay, all right. You got me.

You got me. There's toothpaste using urine as a mouthwash. No, thank you. People didn't wash their clothes during winter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got all that. Body hair. I don't care about that.

Radium was used to battle gray hair. Beaver parts were considered birth control. I mean, that's what they were using the Gator Dung for, right? Or the crocodile. dung and so now we're using gator parts for birth control as well yeah I don't

you know no thank you I don't want to do any of that smells like beaver could be though where we get the term beaver from does that say that in here if you thought of using reptile dung was gross and you definitely won't enjoy this

in the 16th century male beavers special parts were taken and turned into a birth control potion women then drank this potion and were supposedly protected from getting pregnant. We're going to go ahead and guess that this didn't work since it's not something still used today. And let's be thankful for that. It doesn't say that that's where the term beaver came from. But I bet it is.

I know there's plenty of times when we think we're reverting back to caveman days, but we really aren't, although there's plenty of people that want us to. we haven't yet. And we're not using an alligator or dung for birth control. We're not using beaver parts for birth control. And we're not eating shoe polish. At least I don't think we are. And as far as I know, King Chuck doesn't have a groom of the stool,

but it wouldn't surprise me. It would not surprise me. I mean, you could maybe make the case. that Queen Camilla is today's version of the groom of the stool. I don't know that, though. I'm just, just guessing. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So, no, you can't get a nice rink on Uber Eats.

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by region. See app for details. So who died today? Who died today? The man that had the world's longest nose has died suddenly at the age of 75, although they do tell us

at least some of what killed my man. He's from Turkey, and his name is Mamet Ozurak. I think that's how you pronounce it, right? Mehmet Ozurek. Yeah, that's what I said. Mehmet Ozurek. Thank you.

He's 75. He had a special feature as a record longest nose. Guinness World Book of Record, actually, longest nose. He also claimed that his sense of smell was different to others. According to media reports, the record breaker

fell ill last week and suffered a heart attack before he was due to undergo brain surgery. So he was struggling. So he had the world's longest nose. It was 3.46 inches from the bridge to the tip. And he was measured. multiple times and he was untouchable in the Guinness World Book of Records. So rest in peace. Never tells you wreck. Dead at the age of 75. Now it doesn't say in this obituary, who takes over the new title of the world's longest

knows, but I'm sure we'll find out soon enough. Okay, so we can talk about some sports. I mean, we could talk about the NBA, you know, the Boston Celtics beat Miami. So they're down three to one still. Miami game, you know, they're looking to get the game five at the NBA Eastern Conference Finals. Denver has already eliminated L.A. in a sweep. O'Bron shut down hard. We can talk about hockey, the Vegas Golden Knights, cruise past the Dallas Stars.

They lead three. No, oh, in the NHL Western Conference Finals. You've got the Panthers leading the hurricanes in the East. And then we have Tom Brady, who's purchasing an ownership stake in the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders. Wow. So Tom is going to own part of the Raiders. He also owns part of the Las Vegas WNBA team. He's invested in pickleball.

so Tom is doing some purchasing some purchasing of some professional sports league so good luck to Mr. Brady and his ownership stake of the Las Vegas Raiders. I think he's still the international ambassador for the NFL and he's supposed to start announcing. I bet that doesn't happen. I'm just saying I'm guessing that his NFL broadcasting career probably doesn't happen. He probably says, no, you know what? I can't do that. I own part of the Raiders now. What I will do is the ambassadorship to Europe and will continue to grow the NFL in Europe. And I've got all these other businesses that I'm doing. I don't need the broadcasting deal. Sorry. And I'm sure that there are other announcers out there that will be

very happy to hear that. We can talk all about that, but all I want to think about really is, the groom of the stool position, the king's butt wiper. I mean, it does give a whole new outlook. If you watch the Game of Thrones, the right-hand man of the king, so to speak, was the hand of the king. So are we to believe that the hand of the king

in Game of Thrones was actually the groom of the stool? I don't know. I don't know, but I can't stop thinking about the groom of the stool. And I don't know that I want one, but I feel like, well, we'll just leave it there. There's a number of things that has to happen in my life before I reach a point of legitimately thinking about, you know, I think I need to put an ad out. Maybe on Craigslist, I need a groom of the stool. You know you're going to get a reply.

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