Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Peculiar Timing… | 8/27/24

Episode Date: August 27, 2024

Curfew in Massachusetts… Kick Kennedy in the news… Tucker claims he hasn’t showered indoors.. RFK sold coke in college?... Elon foreclosing on Gene Wilder House… Bezos has a new jet… Paramount deal over again… Uber fined by EU… Durov arrested if France… [e-mail] Ikea preowned… Grant money for the National Parks… Who Died Today: Sid ‘Vicious’ Eudy 63… Mariah Carey's mother and sister… Mike Lynch and partner both dead now… Stonehenge alter came from further away… Europeans used cocaine… Joke of the Day… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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That's EEEE transmitted by mosquitoes. It's a virus that can cause a febrile illness or neurologic disease, including meningitis and or encephalitis. There are no vaccines to prevent or medicines to treat eastern equine encephalitis. So stay inside. After 6 p.m. for sure there's a curfew. Do not go outside. If we catch you outside,

We may do things you don't want us to do. You'll wish you had E, E, E, if we catch you outside. In the next month. Yeah, that's exactly what's going to happen. They're just going to walk around the neighborhoods. They're all going to have their mosquito suits on, and they're just going to be get back inside immediately. That's what's going to happen.

So if you live in Massachusetts and you do not follow the 6 p.m. a few. Yeah. Sorry about it. We had to end their life. They could have been bitten by a mosquito and they could have gotten Eastern equine encephalitis. And we don't want that.

We don't want that. We don't want to shoot you. We don't want to find yourself in a Massachusetts hospital with... Are they okay? Are they going to make it? Oh no. Oh no. They're not going to make it. We lost them. See?

It was either us. or the eastern equine encephalitis. What are you going to do? So just stay indoors and you'll be happy. Welcome to Massachusetts. And welcome to chewing the fat. So plenty of Kennedys in the news these days. Of course, RFK dropping out of the race and endorsing Trump

and he's been doing interviews all over. He's done an interview with Glenn. and he did an interview with Tucker. And I like some of what he said on Tucker. My favorite thing in the Tucker interview, if you get an opportunity to hear it. One of the things that they talked about was how the earth and being an environmentalist

and caring about the earth brings you closer to your God, whatever God that is. And a lot of this interview was fascinating between Tucker and RFK. However, then RFK says, to Tucker, hey, I would classify you as a radical environmentalist. And Tucker says, yeah. And then he says this.

You know, the weird thing is, I think of you as a radical environmentalist. Well, I definitely am. Yeah, you are. I haven't showered inside in 10 years. Yeah, yeah. No, I feel so strong. Wait, what? I haven't showered inside for 10 years.

Tucker, what's happening? I mean, are you jumping in the lake? Are you standing under a waterfall? Do you have an outdoor shower that counts as not showering indoors? When you go on the road and do your tours, do you get dropped off at a lake? Do you stand under a waterfall or do you just don't shower while you're on the road? I don't know. I just know what Tucker said.

And he said he hasn't showered indoors. for 10 years. And I found that just, well, interesting. I'm not judging. I'm not judging. Is that a problem? Again, I'm not judging. No. No, I'm not judging at all. What you're telling me is because Tucker's on tour. Yeah. And he's coming here to the DFW area with Roseanne Barr. Bring some body spray or something. Are you saying that I need to, is there a smell zone? Yes. I would stay upwind. Upwind. You don't want to be downwind. there's tickets they're pretty good tickets

like 40 something bucks tickets on the like on the balcony I hope the fans are blowing from you to the stage not from the stage out I need to be in this balcony area now the ground floor steering it's possible that that's what needs to happen

was that a misspeak I don't think so I don't think so because they asked him he asked they were talking about environmentalism obviously you know RFK is big on it and he said that

he would he was asking if RFK is dead with the movement and he said yeah pretty much I've been kicked out of the movement and and he said Tucker I would you know consider you a radical environmentalist I mean he lives on this all this property up in Maine of course he is and he's said that before you know I mean he believes in getting back to the earth and you know all things are are divine through the earth but and the statement was I haven't showered right I haven't showered indoors until 10 years. Does that include bathing?

Maybe he's a bather and he has a tub of recycled water. I want to talk to him about it. Could you get Tucker out of the line? Because I'd like to talk to him about it. Oh, yes. Just text on him. Let me text Tucker Carlson. I got phone numbers on my phone.

Tell them I want to talk to him about the showering thing. Okay. Get them on. Let me know when that happens. Anyway, so back to the Kennedys in the news. the daughter of RFK is in the news because she is taking care of a little business with Ben Halfleck and J-Lo is unhappy.

Oh, yeah, hello. J-Lo is done. That divorce papers are in the, I've already been filed. And Ben is taken care of some serious business with Kick Kennedy, the daughter of our... RFK Jr. Is she hot? So, yeah, it's not bad. Yeah, she's not bad. And so, uh, I mean, J-Lo's people have said that, uh, have said that, uh, Ben has a darkness to him that no other person can fix. I see that.

Come on, Duffy. I see that 100%. Oh, this is awesome. So, uh, they're pissed, though, because he spent, uh, J-Lo's birthday with KIC at the polo lounge. Do you serve him with papers on the wedding anniversary? I know. I know. How do you think he's going to slap you back? So as I'm reading about Kick and learning about Kik, she gave an interview back in 2012

to town and country. And she recalled a childhood event with her dad, RFC Jr., of course, who has a thing for animal skulls and skeletons. He took her down to the beach with a chainsaw to retrieve the head of a dead beached whale. They bungee corded the head to the roof of the family minivan for the five-hour hall back home. Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet. Okay, so he does have a history picking a cold kill.

carrying around dead animals. Yeah, he has history. We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger. But it was just a normal day of stuff for us. That is awesome. Who doesn't want a whale skull back at the house is what I really want to know. I'm not going to be able to read anything about kick Kennedy with Ben ever again without thinking of her riding in the minivan.

with the whale skull oozing whale juice inside the car. That is awesome. And if RFK shows up here in this building, I want to know if he still has the whale skull. And I probably should ask him if he actually did sell cocaine in college. I mean, they made a big deal this weekend. The story was trending that RFK Jr. accused a cocaine dealer, a Harvard classmate. somebody bought cocaine from him at Harvard and uh you know first of all so uh you know where were you

years ago and second i think my favorite response to the rfk accused of uh being a cocaine dealer at Harvard one person said they purchased it from him uh one time uh is that the response i saw my favorite response was that there was video released of rfk uh selling cocaine in Harvard and the video is actually Hunter Biden weighing his crack from the laptop and so there you go. I mean, we've had cocaine left at the White House recently. We've had cocaine lost at the Capitol Police building recently, but we care if we were supposed to care that RFK may have sold cocaine to someone once while in college. Oh, scary.

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has to go up and rescue the Boeing NASA Starliner that's stuck at the ISS. We hate him that he is launching and doing spacewalks without the government, although the Polaris Dawn launch was postponed from today until tomorrow it's supposed to launch at tomorrow the Wednesday the 28th the window starts at 3.38 a.m. I think something like that Eastern time. So it'll probably go up. There was a there was a helium leak. I think that they said they had already fixed the issue. They were just being safe. Now, one more thing that we have to hate Elon for. And the headline is kind of misleading. Really? Yeah, it is. The headline, Elon Musk is foreclosing on Gene Wilder's Bel Air home that he sold to Willy Wonka actor's nephew.

Now, he sold it in 2020 to Jordan Walker Perlman. That's Gene Wilder's nephew for a reduced price even. Remember, he was selling all his homes and said he wouldn't own a home. Well, then he had the Gene Wilder home that he purchased, and he wanted to keep it the way it is. and that's when he sold it to Jordan Walker Perlman and his wife Elizabeth Hunter and he originally asked a 9.5 million and when the couple said they couldn't afford it,

he reduced the price to 7 million. He also loaned them 6.7 million to buy the place. So, and now they have fallen behind on their payments and could no longer afford the home. So the couple has got the house up for sale for 12.95 million. He lived in the house as a child, told the journal that Musk's decision to foreclose is not adversarial or mean. He said the actors and writer strikes last year made it difficult for him and his wife, a screenwriter, to make payments. There's no tragedy here.

He said, Elon gave us a magical opportunity. I have no complaints. She did not want to continue morally owning, owing Elon anymore. He said his wife, adding that the property was under her name, we already owe him such a spiritual debt. 2,800 square foothouse

located above the Bel Air Country Club. Wilder sold it in 2007 for $2.725 million. Wow, Gene Wilder's been dead since 2016 now. Very sad. In 2020, when Musk announced he was selling, telling all his physical possessions and would will own no house. He made an exception for the home saying it needed to be preserved,

which is why he sold it to Walker Perlman. So when you see the headline, Musk is foreclosing on the Gene Wilder Bel Air's home. He's doing that because it's a, I know the people can't pay him. And he would like to get some return on his investment. Huh. weird how that happens.

Now really, the guy is one of the richest guys on the planet, if not the richest guy in the planet today. Why doesn't he just gift the house to the Wilders, huh? To the family. And just make them promise they'll never change it. And so it stays just the way it is. Why don't you do that, Elon? You big meany?

Just give it to them. Speaking of rich guys, spending their money and doing what they want with their money. Apparently they can. Jeff Bezos, the guy who, I mean, he is so angry that his company is not the company that's going up to rescue NASA and Boeing. And it's got to be Elon Musk. He just purchased a new Gulfstream G700, which is the latest and most coveted aircraft to hit the private jet market. And the G700 to be one of four planes that Bezos currently owns.

This aircraft first went on the market in March, and two private planes were quickly snatched up by guitar airwaves. Elon is also believed to have ordered a Gulfstream G700. Pretty sweet. The new private jet is worth an estimated $80 million. Bezos also owns two versions of an earlier Gulfstream model. You can't just have one. You just can't. Among the features of the Gulfstream G700 are,

20 panoramic windows and whisper quiet cabin with 100% fresh plasma ionized air replenished every two to three minutes. The aircraft seats are handcrafted and can also convert into ergonomic beds. The plane can accommodate up to 13 guests and sleep up to 8 people. The aircraft's manufacturers also brag that the new jet holds more than 50 world speed wreckers while also featuring cutting age sustainability technology. Oh, man. And despite these claims in less than two months,

Bezos Gulf Stream G-700 emitted 264 tons of carbon dioxide. He doesn't care. He's using it. That's what he wants. It doesn't have anything to do with that. And we just found out about this because of the FAA's privacy, ICAO Aircraft Address PIA program. that allows private jet owners to use a temporary aircraft registration to conceal their flight history.

That's all because of that Jack Sweeney, the college student who founded the private aircraft tracking service jet spy, and he finally revealed that Bezos had a new jet in a post on X. Sweeney had previously drawn it, yeah, Elon doesn't like him either. Neither is Taylor Swift. They all hate him for following him around. Tough. So in the last 39 days, Bezos has already used the PIA on 7. several occasions to prevent people from tracking his golf tree.

Steve, I can't speak. Golf stream. Ah, G700 and ergonomic beds. Man, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. I told you, last week, I keep hearing Skydance as sold. Paramount as sold. And no, no, it has.

It hasn't. Somebody else, this Edgar Bronfman is saying he's got money and he keeps up with money. So we don't know if it's Paramount is sold or not. What's happening with it? Well, today we find out that now this Edgar Bronfman withdrew his bid for Paramount. So now the merge with Skydance is going to go forward as planned. And I say to that, is it going to go out as plan? Because it certainly hasn't. It's just never ending.

Holy cow. I see where Uber was fined at $290 million euros. That's about $347 million by Dutch regulators for transferring driver data from the EU to the U.S. Hugh Bastards. That's one of the biggest fines ever issued under the EU's data privacy law. So the EU and Europe, man, there are good things happening from the EU and Europe. I mean, we've got, they're arresting citizens for memes in the UK. That's not the EU, Jeff. Remember, they broke away. I do remember. France just arrested the founder of Telegram.

So they arrested the founder of Telegram. And I saw where Macron said that, yeah, hey, Whoa, man, this is not a political decision. It's up to the judges to rule on the matter. Yeah, okay. We believe you. We believe you, Mr. President. The arrest, sure, it took place on, you know, French soil, but no, no, no, no, this is not, no way a political decision.

Oh, okay, well, all right, fine, if you say so. Now, he was arrested, Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of the instant messaging and platform telegram, arrested at an airport, one of the private airports outside of Paris, and he was taken into custody. The measure comes in the context of a judicial investigation opened the 8th of July, following a preliminary inquiry initiated by Section J3, Junalco, which is fight against cybercrime for the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office. So the judicial investigation was opened against person unnamed, yeah, on charges of complicity webmastering online platform in order to enable an illegal transaction and organized group. refusal to communicate at the request of competent authorities, information or documents necessary for carrying out and operating interceptions allowed by law. Complicity, possessing pornographic images of minors.

Okay. Complicity, distributing, offering, or making available pornographic images of minors in organized groups. They're saying that he's allowing that on Telegram. Complicity. Complicity. Acquiring, transporting, possessing, offering, or selling narcotic substances. Wow. Complicity offering, selling, and making available without legitimate reason,

equipment, tools, programs, or data designed for or adapted to get access and to damage the operation of an automated data processing system. Complicity, organized fraud. Criminal association with a view to committing a crime or an offense punishable by five. Criminal association with a view to committing a crime or an offense punishable by five or more years of imprisonment. Okay. Is there more? Yes, there is. A laundering of the proceeds derived from organized groups, offenses, and crimes.

Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration, providing a cryptology tool, not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration, importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication, authentic, I can't even speak. Ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration. I mean, they're just finding ways to bring people down.

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Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. IKEA, you know him, you love them, is piloting its own secondhand online marketplace now, as they're trying to go after eBay, I guess, and other resale sites. The first tests are taking place now in Oslo and Madrid. So coming to a country near you soon, IKEA thrift store. And I don't know what they're calling it.

I guess it's just IKEA pre-owned. So, man, that makes you want to go there. Pre-owned, yeah. I mean, it's just a yard sale. It's IKEA. IKEA's having their own yard sale. I'm sorry. pre-owned and man there's nothing more i want than a pre-owned ikea bookshelf huh me too and this is

interesting a kind of good news i guess uh the national park foundation announced that it had received a hundred million dollar grant the largest for the u.s national park system in the country's history the first u.s national park yellowstone was established in 1872 Since then, the system has expanded to over 430 areas covering national parks, memorials, rivers, trails, and of course, more. In all, the National Park Service manages more than 85 million acres of protected lands, which span across every state in the U.S. and are frequented by over 230 million visitors annually. The grant from an endowment created by pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly will fund several priorities, including conservation efforts in Florida and grants to facilitate more visits from young people. The donation was received by the National Park Foundation, which is a nonprofit created in the 1960, to support the National Park System through private donations.

Congress appropriated $3.3 billion to the parks in 2024 fiscal year. So not only do they get that, but they get another $100 million from this endowment created from Eli Lilly. So, I mean, that's kind of cool. I love all I see, really, and I know that I'm not the first to the party on this, although there's plenty of room for everyone. 430 areas covering national parks, memorials, rivers, trails, and of course, more. It'll be fascinating to see what more is. But, man, that just, I mean, that screams murder.

There has to be, there has to be a show with detectives and the whole works so that we, you know, the murders. the murders at memorials, the rivers and trails of the National Park. And you get the National Park Service investigators involved. You don't want none of that. So it needs to be a part of the NPS. And we'll talk to you when we want. That has to happen.

And I think that Kossner was working on a show that is supposed to be, you know, do something similar to that. we got a little bit of that with the latest show Tracker, although because he goes into the parks and finds me, but he tracks that show went other way. But, you know, I got the premise. I wish it was more of going into the parks

and finding people than what it turned out to be, but it was still, you know, it was still interesting to watch. You always have, you know, CSI and those shows, but those aren't going into the park. Sometimes they do. They cross over a little bit. But I think, I don't know if it was Taylor that was working on another national parks mystery or murder story or investigators or whatever, but that needs to happen.

That would be, that would be cool to shoot that and have special NPS investigators. And you know what? I'll just, I'll just have to write it myself, I guess, if I can't get anyone else to do it. 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 rank on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice? Yes, we deliver those.

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See app for details. Who died today? Who died? died today. Well, let's begin with Sid Udi, Sid Vicious Udi, a six-time wrestling champion and world wrestling entertainment icon, according to this story, passed away on at the age of 63, following a lengthy battle with cancer. So among fans, as Sid Justice and Sid Vicious and Psycho Sid rose to fame in the 90s, one of the industry's most imposing and terrifying competitors of his generation, according to WWE. So, very sad, born in 1960 in the state of Arkansas, six-foot-nine figure entered the world of wrestling

when he joined the World Championship Wrestling in 1989, and then went on to WWE. So Sid Vicious Udi, dead at the age of 63. then we have the mother and sister of maria carey both dead it doesn't say their ages in any of the stories so i don't know how old they were but the mother and the sister died on the same day uh she said uh maria carrie posted my heart is broken that i've lost my mother this past weekend sadly in a tragic turn of events my sister lost her life on the same day. Wow. I feel blessed I was able to spend the last week with my mom before she passed. I appreciate everyone's love and support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time.

Now, Mariah and her mom have had some issues over the years. I mean, she's talked about her dealing with her mother and her sister in her memoir, The Meaning of Mariah. One of the stories she told was how her mother was singing in a car in some operatic style or whatever. And she laughed when she was a little girl. And the mother said, what are you laughing at? And then she stared at me until every bit of lightness faded, almost growling. And she said, you should only hope that one day you become half the singer I am. Mariah said my heart dropped.

still to this day what she said haunts me and hurts me so yeah I mean words matter right words matter and she talked about her sister as well

she talked about how the relationship with Allison was quite complex she wrote in her memoir that it was at least at the time emotionally and physically safer for me not to have any contact with her or more

So it's still a rough time for losing your mom and your sister on the same day. So rest in peace to Mariah Carey's mom and sister Allison. Mom Patricia and sister Allison dead. More news coming out about the Mike Lynch debacle. Remember he died along with his daughter and I don't know how many other people were on his ship that was supposedly hit by a tornado and then it sunk and it's being investigated now as maybe more than an accident. And so they were supposed to have been partying because right it was not too long ago that Stephen Chamberlain, his partner and Mike Lynch were acquitted of the charges

related to the alleged fraud. That's what they were in court and for were billions of dollars and everything when they were, you know, they had worked it out. And the thing is, is that Mike Lynch is dead. And the colleague died in a car accident over the weekend. So what's happening? Were they accidents? Okay. If you say so, if you say so, they were accidents.

I mean, on the yacht, they say victims were asleep. But was everyone asleep? We don't know. They say that it got hit by a tornado while everyone was asleep, capsizing the storm off the coast of Italy. And I guess the others weren't asleep at the time. The 15 survivors was the captain who was now under investigation. Yeah, because why didn't you do what you were supposed to do to save everyone on the ship?

We don't know. And so the 56 meter luxury yacht is saying. So then his colleague, and he died with it along with his daughter, his colleague was struck by a car and hospitalized while jogging in England. He later died after being placed on life support. Now, he was hit by a 49-year-old woman driving down the road, and the woman lives in the village, and she stopped to the scene to attempt police with the victim. It was, you know, it was, according to police, particular peculiarity,

timing. Well, there's no evidence of suspicious or on to word. Uh-huh. Okay. Sure, if you say so. No problem. No problem. You didn't, you know, maybe it's just God's way of getting back to you of setting things

straight. Maybe. Perhaps you, you know, when you're fraudulent activities, making billions of dollars, you know, and you thought you won the court case, but did you? And maybe it's just if you wanted to hire someone. someone to kill someone and make it look like an accident, how would you do it? Would you have them get hit by a hit and run person who then stops and treats it like you would?

But really, men, if we check her bank account, she has some cash in the closet. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Is it just peculiar timing? Sure. That's all it is. Just peculiar timing.

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I mean, it's a busy, busy day on chewing the fat for, for Europe. Stonehenge's central altar stone originated from northern Scotland, roughly 450 miles from the ancient England site, and over 300 miles farther than previously believed. Uh, yeah, that was, uh, they claim now that, uh, the Neolithic peoples inhabiting the British Isles over 4,600 years ago, and they now this study claims that the collaboration among these people it was more than what they thought oh so the 14,000 pound 16 foot blue stone lies mostly

underground at the center of the sprawling rock complex at Wiltshire in southwest England for a century now researchers believe the rock was mined from nearby whales but research in October said, oh, yeah, we don't think so. And by using a global rock formation database, and I love the global rock formation database, and I just spent hours going through that, the researchers matched the altar stone to the Arcadian Basin in northeast Scotland. Yeah, I mean, all you got to do is look at the global rock formation database. Duh, I could have told you that a long time ago.

So anyway, if you were thinking that, you know, you were the central altar stone at Stonehenge was, you know, just from over there, you know, 100 miles or so. Nope. That's from Northern Scotland, roughly 450 miles from this site. So I guess that's because there was all this. collaboration between these Neolithic peoples. That still doesn't,

how'd they get it there? They just haul it on the backs of the Neolithic peoples inhabiting the British Isle. Yeah, I guess that's what they did. Okay, all right, fine. No problem. We don't know how, I guess it must have been transported by, put it on a boat,

put it on a log and float it there. We don't know. We don't know. We are just guessing. But, okay, all right, fine. And then I see a story, again, out of Europe, that talks about the source of modern cocaine is the cocoa leaf. Yeah, we know. Well, Europeans, according to this, have used cocoa leaves.

Wait, what? Yeah, they used it as a stimulant as early as the 17th century. Maybe that's how they got the altar stone moved for Stonehenge. They were just doing cocoa leaves. and it was made because they did analysis from remains buried in Melasi crypt. So here we do. Let's see these bodies that we got in the crypt here. Let's go ahead and test them and see what's going on with them.

So they found, I don't know, 200 members of this group. And most of the species contain the central nervous system stimulant, tropane alkaloid known as a cocaine. And because the plant is endemic to South America, indigenous groups throughout the continent chewed the leaves of these plants to reach the high that eventually sparked a lucrative, deadly trugged raid. Yeah, that's what we use it for. I'd be happy with just chewing on some cocoa leaves as well.

It's not really the same thing as snorting it, Jeff. I know, I know, but okay. So since the early. evidence of the drugs can be found in tissue samples in Chilean mummies, dated around 1000 BCE, though the practice is likely even older than that. Well, yeah, we know that, and now we know that even more that it was likely before that, but how did it get there? So I guess Spanish conquistadors first encountered the plant in the late 15th century, and their writings at the time described natives carrying these leaves in their mouths without

eating them, but simply between their teeth, and that it kept them from feeling hungry, and giving them great vigor and strength. Yes, so we did to take these plants home. And they tried to ban the practice in Americas. The plant made its way to Europe in the late 16th century. And now the continent, according to this, wasted little time in using the plant. Yeah, no kidding. So according to a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science,

and boy, do I love that, an analysis. of brain tissue from human remains located at the Cogorondah crypt in Milan shows evidence of active components of the cocoa plant and the crypt was used as a burial's place so and a world-class hospital in the 17th century wow okay so anyway the cocoa leave was a big part of how things got done that's how they worked so much that's how they moved stones it wasn't a U.S. foes. It wasn't some giants walking the land. It was just that they

were busy gnawn on the cocoa plant. All right, let's get out of here. Joke of the day. So the joke was sent to me, Chewing the Fat, at Theblaze.com. So I had to go to the hospital today. I told

the doctor, I've been bitten by a wolf. The doctor asked me, where? And I said, no, just an ordinary one. Because see, and when they asked, the doctor meant,

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