The Dale Jr. Download - 68 - Bristol: Crash Course

Episode Date: August 26, 2014

Out of contention from a lap-160 wreck, Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s No. 88 team uses the misfortune to practice quick and efficient car repair amidst the chaos and commotion of a noisy track. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This is Dale Jr. and you're listening to Dirty Moe Radio. Keep coming. High, keep coming. High. Keep coming. High. High. Hi there. All right. Come on down. Come on down right here. Keep coming around here. Nothing's better than watching a bunch of Dale Jr. fans get together at the hospitality tent. Raising some Dale yeah. Having a good time. It's Bristol, baby, on the count of three. Let me hear you say, Dale yeah. One, two, three. Is that good, Amanda? Okay. Bye Amanda. Did the whole, did all of Thunder Valley go to with him to get that recording?

My goodness. That was quasi-dato in full form, working a crowd at the Diet Mountain Dew Tailgate this past Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway. And I'm telling you what, he was doing it. T.J. and myself were up there. and we brought Daddo up halfway through. Sounds like he had more than Diet Mountain Dew. No, he might have had a beer to in him, but man, that's just how he acts. That's him.

He can work a crowd. He was awesome. This is the Dale Jr. Download, presented by a spy, by the way. And Junior Nation time is running out to enter spies win a spin with Dale Jr. sweepstakes. Go to spyoptic.com slash Dale Jr. or Facebook.com slash spy optic.

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That's right. Both times. 24th place in the spring and what do we finish? 39th or something. Gosh, when's the last time we finished 39th and something? Texas, maybe. Texas? Oh, yeah.

All right, Amanda. You're going to be that person. Daddow was actually also there for that and came up to me and put his arm around me at Texas. So I love Daddo. He's hysterical, but if you believe in superstition, Daddow might need to stay home. That's a good point because he was at the first Bristol. Then he was at that Texas, obviously. That's his home track.

He's the mayor of Texas Motor Speedway. Had a sloppy yellow school bus out there in the infield. Yes, he does. And then he came for this. Now, he has been to a couple races this year where we performed well. Has not been to a win this year. But it was honestly just good to see him. You know, he kind of went MIA while he's been at crew chief school for the past month or so.

And so people were kind of being, they were worried about him. Well, let me tell you something. We played a reaction theater call during that hospitality. We played a couple. And we played his reaction theater call from Bristol. Do you remember it, Taylor, from the first Bristol? Where he was like, I'm up here looking for a Paul Menard fan, and I can't find one. They're like leprechauns.

And I'm telling you, that whole place just. fell out. And that was before they even knew he was in the tent. And so when the call ended, I was like, that guy sounds crazy, don't he? Well, he's standing right over there. Come on up, Dad, oh. And so he came up, and that's when he decided he wanted to do a live reaction theater call on stage, and that's what we played for you right there at the beginning

of the show. So he was a lot of fun. Yeah, well, there's no question he was. But, yeah, he's bad luck, is what we're saying. Yeah, the race, though, it's just one of them racing deals, Mike. I mean, I don't really know another way of putting it. I mean, it's stunk to be involved in that. There's nothing, you know, that you could say that Dale Jr. should have done differently, obviously.

No. But I'll tell you this. What concerns me is just how fluky things like that can be. And honestly, Jeff Gordon's having a great year. Kevin Harvick's having a great year. Lugano wins his third race. There's so many guys that are having big years. I mean this.

Through 24 races, I think the most valuable team, the most valuable driver, the most valuable crew chief, and I know I'm biased, is the 88. I think it's Dale Jr. I think it's Steve LaTard. I think it's the crew. The 88, I think it's been the best team through 24 races. And the stats back that up, but what scares me is something like that happening at some point during the chase. At the beginning.

You have no control over it. Yeah, at the beginning of the chase. I mean, somebody said that actually this past weekend. They're like, the thing I don't like about this chase is that something back and happened at the first. And so this whole season will go, you know, for not. It'll be a waste. And I said, yeah, sort of like the playoffs for anything else, you know, one bad game in the NFL. You could have gone undefeated the entire season, but one bad game in the playoffs, yep, you're out.

That's how it works. That's how the playoff system works, and that's what NASCAR is striving for. So, yeah, there's that element to it, and that's something you have to deal with and overcome. Which, by the way, Taylor, I will add, that's specifically why Steve LaTart said they went and worked on that car. That was practiced after they wrecked this past weekend, and I was there. This is one of my races where I went. You know, Junior did not want to get back out there running half speed at Bristol when there was only one line. You could only really run that outside line, that high line, which everybody was doing.

And, you know, he didn't want to go out there, have to stick in that line going 30 miles per hour slower than everybody else. It's dangerous. But Steve came in and he says, hey, listen, this is really good practice for us. This is really good practice for this team to be able to have to fix. a race car under the gun with, you know, chaos all around them and see, let's see how well we can get this car fixed. Let's get it out there, run some more laps once it's fixed. I don't think we're going to be able to be fast enough to finish this race.

Obviously, I think when we went back out there, we were, what, 60 laps down or something like that? 104, I think is more than that. And so it was like, but let's practice. Let's use this moment. And what have we been talking about all year, Taylor? They need crisis moments to work on crisis management, right? and that was an area that Steve LaTart said this team needs work on.

They got a good crisis. They don't rent cars enough to really work on fixing cars. So they did this week just by a foot. They were a foot away from being able to escape Denny Hamlin's car coming up the track. But they didn't. It tore off half, you know, the side of the car. Let's go ahead and fix this thing and get some practice. So hopefully, hopefully they don't have to utilize that type of thing during the chase, but it could happen.

Well, and clearly, as you saw up close and personal, we have the crew chief. want in that situation. It's just amazing his leadership and what he does in a crisis management situation. His leadership when you're winning is tremendous too. We need to mention that, but certainly he is so good when something unexpected happens. You were there to witness all of it up close and personal. Try to give us a sense of what that experience was like because you know, you used to go to all the races. You've been to a handful of them this year. You have a win under your belt at Pocono, but you've seen the other side of it as well. And I'm sure you saw some disappointed people, namely Dale Jr.

Disappointed, but you know what? The car was pretty fast. You know, every time they came into a pit, they came in a couple times, you know, took two right sides, I think of the first stop, took left sides in the second. You know, every time they came into pit, they actually came out better. They slowly came up through the field, whether through strategy, whether through just pit cycling, and the car was fast. And we've said it before.

If the car is fast and they're making progress, it's hard to really have that disappointment set into where it ruins your week. Junior was pleased with the way the car drove. Didn't qualify well again. Junior had some funny things to say about that, but it was like, if the car is drivable, he can live with it. Now, the past Bristol, the one in the spring, remember, we were so good at the start of it, but when it rained, all that rubber washed off the track. We came back out, our tires just disagreed with the car completely, and we lost a lap all on our own.

That's where he's like, you know, what did we do? Clearly, we had something wrong, and so that was harder to live with, and we finished that race. Well, and that's exactly what he tweeted, too. I mean, you heard it there. I mean, he talked about how fast they were and also about how Bristol Motor Speedway is the funnest thing they get to do all year. It's frustrating there as well at BMS, but it's also, he says nothing compares.

And I wanted to ask you that. What was the first year, Mike, you went to Bristol Motor Speedway? 2002 Nationwide Series at the time it was called the Bush Series. I think it was the fourth or fifth race of the year, working for Jimmy Spencer, Jimmy punted Jack Sprague on the final lap. Spray came running down after Jimmy after the race. That was going to be a big ordeal had Kevin Harvick not jumped off his car and started choking Greg Biffle. And that all of a sudden became the big point of emphasis not only for the fans but for us as well.

Jimmy got up on the wall, started waving his towel around, sort of like egging on the fans to cheer for this wrestling match that we were watching between Biffle and Harvick. That was my first experience of Brisbane. So it wasn't memorable at all. No. Yeah. But obviously in terms of the end. energy there in terms of just the sea of humanity, the last great Coliseum that we have here in American sports.

It is unlike anything else. I mean, it is truly one of the greatest spectator sporting events we have in this country. Let me ask you this, because it's a lot of people have been critical, Mike, of Bristol in recent years. It does seem like it's starting to see the other side of that. Yeah. When I started going there, I really, I mean, it was jaw-dropping, everything about it. And still, everything outside the track and before the race has been as just a drop dropping as it once was.

I will say, though, I did see in the last few years the racing start getting better. What's your thought on that? Well, you know, I always look at things through the lens of how our team, you know, were we able to make passes. And I'm not sure we were in that race long enough to really get a true assessment of it. But I will say this, the crowd has recovered. I mean, like, there was a couple races there in a row where Bristol, like there was clearly empty seats and those campgrounds were noticeably empty.

Especially in the spring. Swaths of emptiness there in those campgrounds. Those things were full, man. And I'm going to tell you, the crowd in the infield of Bristol Motor Speedway and in those grandstands, there were a lot of people. And I thought to myself, okay, they're actually back, they're coming back.

I don't know what the final numbers were from a crowd attendant standpoint, but it felt like old Bristol. You know what I mean? It felt like old Bristol. As far as the racing goes, I mean, there was So there was some great racing that went on in that race, especially for the lead. I mean, unfortunately, we were in an airplane coming back by this time, but I was sitting there following it on Twitter and in other ways.

Like Legano, who was it, Lugano, Harvick, and McMurray. And McMurray had a great battle for the lead. Camry led for quite a while. Right. You know, Harvick was really strong at the beginning. Gordon was strong. So there was some good battles for the lead. We were passing cars.

It did kind of stink that there was only one significant. significant groove. And people were clearly like trying to stick to that outside line. So there wasn't really anybody that could work on the bottom that I remember being, you know, that can make that work for some good side-by-side racing for multiple laps in a row. But I just felt like Bristol as a whole, the whole package was sort of on the rebound this past weekend. I agree completely with that. And I'd like to apologize between the years of 2007 and 2013 from my behavior in Red Barn Campground.

But, yeah, no. They remember you. Yeah, no, they probably do, but it did look like it recovered. And I'm glad to hear you say that. So we go to Atlanta and then on to Richmond. And by the way, certainly all of us in Junior Nation want to see the 88 and Victory Lane one of or both of those weekends. All right, as we mentioned at the top of the show, Spy has an exclusive deal for Dirty Mo Radio listeners. Go online to SpyOptic.com slash Dale Jr. or Facebook.com slash SpyOptic and enter for your chance to win a spin with Dale Jr.

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The only good thing about free Hamlin and tank it out the man in the 88 is listening to the radio and hearing Stevie Lattard pump up the crew to take notes for the foot other than that, this race stunk. But I love the teamwork and I love the leadership of Steve Lattart. We're going to come and get them next week. But Jimmy Hamlin. Oh, so by Frickie's stupid, he's talking. Yeah, I think Harvey had Jimmy John's on his floor. I see what he said.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I was just about to tweet. I swear, I almost had it teed up. I was going to tweet because Junior was starting second. Hamlin was first. and I said, hey, just in case that they haven't finished their conversation from last week, this is a perfect opportunity for them to look across and discuss it while they're both on the front row. And I mean, it wasn't a couple laps later that that wreck happened.

Yeah. I'm glad I didn't. Just one of them deals. What do we have next? What a bunch of idiots wrecking each other halfway. But Dale Jr. handles it with class and style. So I'm not going to put myself to their level. I'm going to keep myself up to Junior Nation standards

and say we're going to come back and kick butt before it's over. Way to go, Dale, Jr. Keep it up. That's a good attitude. Very level-headed. I don't know. It might be too level-headed for Reaction Theater, but it's a good attitude. Hey, when all else fails, raise your standards to Junior Nation standards.

That's a good rule of thumb. Who's next? I thought Junior got caught up, and Harvick and Hamlin's bullshit. Four, Jr. looked depressed. Hell, he's done good coming up from 20th bite. I'm only on number three scotch, but Lord knows I'm going to have to hit it hard now. You've done a good job, junior. Hang in there, man.

You've done good. Later. Only on the third one, huh? Yeah. You don't hear very many female scotch drinks. No, what's up with that? I respect the hell out of that. Not that I, yeah, I do too.

That's kind of classy, actually. Yeah. Amanda, you can get into some. Scotch, can't you? Oh, I'm a lightweight. I'm more like a wine spritzer kind of gal. Oh, okay. All right, well, I thought there might be a chance.

Maybe Johnny Walker Blue Label, something like that. All right, who's next? Well, I guess this sucks. This is Danny Webb getting back at Jr. from last week. Oh, and by the way, TJ, you suck. You say, oh, down, down, June, down, down, you... Oh, man. Miss Terry is looking through the window right now.

Terry Berker, she's got a stunned look on her face. She's shopping in there, and even that appalls her. You can't talk to T.J. that way, can we? I guess we can't. I think she did apologize on Twitter to T.J. I think I didn't see that today, which made me laugh even more. To be fair, he was saying go high, go up, up, up, up. And that's the direction Denny Hamlin's car happened to be going sideways, up, up, up.

But really at Bristol, how do you really call, Rick? I mean, you don't. You can't. It's almost like, it's like Stevie said to junior in the hauler. This was right afterwards, and they were talking. He's like, it's just got to go, hey, you see it. You do something, you know, telling the driver, he's like, I don't know what to tell you. So nothing really you can do there.

No, they're written. What's next? Mike Davis. Mike Davis, if she wants to get married in the back of a pickup truck, you let her. If she doesn't want to get married at Bristol, you let her. Man of Troutman, she knows what she's doing. She's tell you what. What can I say about the race?

crappy Dale Jr. gets taken up. So it's good to know that Kip has the phone number. The reaction to you. That's true. I'm glad he does have that toll. He can call toll free. I just wanted a supporter. I was glad I had a supporter.

Everybody seems to be against me on this. So to be clear, are you wanting to get married in the back of a pickup truck? Because I'm all about that. I don't know where that came from. Oh, yeah, right. I mean, all of a sudden, I like this idea. Amanda, have we decided where you're going to get married now? I have no clue. Can I just ask you, how do you feel about the Talladega infield? Oh, no, here we go.

We do go to Talladega. Honeymoon and Anniston. Just might something to think about. All right, who's next? 39's place, guys, tough break. You know, I'm sure Harvick wouldn't erect Hamlin if he knew it would have collected our boy. Anyway, I wanted to say I'm proud of Lartre

for making the boys work on the car and getting it back out there. If we're going to have our bad luck, let's have it now. Great job by the 88th. Hell yeah. No beers. No beers. All right.

Well, he's honest. Yeah, that's true. I like the tweets you've been getting, too, about some of these libations people have had. They've been tweeting you how many beers or cocktails they've had, or in some cases, both. That's right. This guy brings up a point, though. Kevin Harvick, he was actually very apologetic about doing that, even to Denny. Did you notice that?

Is that right? Yeah, he was very apologetic. I mean, he took full accountability of causing that wreck. But, you know, I saw Josh Jones, his business guy. in the media center shortly after, and he said, man, Kevin is, like, not even acting like himself on the radio, and he's so apologetic to Denny and Jr. It's like, he goes, I almost think that he's looking at a picture of Keelan while he's driving the car because he's getting so emotional about it.

And I said, okay, he's like, tell Kevin to rub some dirt on it or something. So he obviously was very upset that he caused that wreck. I've never heard that man called Josh Jones before. I thought his name was his first name was Mother Function. I thought his first name was Mother and his last name was Function. That's right. He's obviously a good friend and somebody that has played great tricks on, or has had tricks played on him before,

and certainly I'm sure has something for Hogue in the future. Who's next? This is the Dale Yos singer. I'm not even going to sing this week. Oh. Harvick, you're such a, that early in the race and taken out two good race cars. So, fuck you. Have a good download, everybody.

He doesn't sound the same when he's talking. No, I know. That's the Dale Yos singer. And we played this. the Deliaz singer at the Diet Mountain Do Tailgate. That was one of the calls that we played. His very first song, we played that for the crowd. That's right, that one.

That was it. And I played three Reaction Theater. I was trying to explain to them what reaction theater is. There was a crowd of about 500, and I wanted them to get a full gist of it. So we played the Delia singing man, Quasidado's Bristol Recap, and I can't remember the other one. Do you, Amanda? I sent you like five of them, so I can't. Oh, yeah.

If there was maybe the 500 win, did you? Honestly, don't remember now. Oh, well. Yeah, I'm sure that they were hilarious, and he is definitely one of the funniest people we have had here on Reaction Theater, but not as happy this week. How about what's happening next? First time calling her, listened since day one, or I should say call her, excuse me. I just were watching the race right now, and I just want to say that Kevin Harvick is the biggest turd on the face of the planet,

and Junior should not let him race for Junior Motorsports anymore. The way he spun out Danny Hamlin and then wrecked Jr., Jr., is, done for the night. And I am on top of this, sick as a dog, sitting here in my man cave, watching a race with my wife, and then I see Junior get spun out. So screw you, Harvick, you piece of crap. I hope you're wreck. Okay. All right. Fired up. And listen, that's just the way what happens with racing on a Saturday night when you get on a short track and high banks of Bristol as you get crazy things that happen. And listen, it doesn't extend just from driver to driver. How about crew chief to driver?

Kyle Bush. Who, yeah. Dave Rogers. Wow. And you know what? I read about that later. I didn't know, obviously, when it was happening, what was going on.

But, man, those two getting into it. Dave Rogers could have, I don't know who the mayor of Bristol, Tennessee is. But his name might as well be Dave Rogers. Because when he said that on Saturday night, if they played that on the loudspeaker at Bristol Motor Speedway, they'd had to shut that thing down. Can you imagine? Oh, yeah. I guess they patch things up, so to speak.

Oh, sure. What that, do you even want that, even if they pass it, do you kind of want that right before the chase? Who, yeah, that's, you know, if you're a fan of that team, is that something you want to be hearing? Because this makes you appreciate LaTartan Jr. even more, right? It really does. It really does. And, yeah, no, I mean, I'm sure that to some degree, you know, cooler heads prevailed and all that. But, yeah, I mean, those are words that are hard to take back, you know, after. And, listen, a lot of people probably agreed with what Roger said. But it's kind of like, I mean, I hate to bring up bad, bad memories, but McGregers.

grew years ago in that same place in the spring race was basically saying, you know, you need to dig harder, Jr. And Jr. said, don't you ever question me digging, basically. Right, right. And, you know, maybe the next day, you know, you calm down, but you don't forget things like that. Well, I thought it was interesting what Joe Gibbs said after the race. He was like, you know, there's just two guys in the heat of the moment. But listen, in the chase, those are 10 big heats of the moment.

You know what I'm saying? There's like heat of the moments only apply to Bristol. No, you've got to be able to handle those situations. and you're going to have many of those in the chase. Well, to your point about LaTard, it's why we have so much an appreciation for the guy. I mean, because he is absolutely what crew chief should be and what a championship level crew chief should be.

Let's play one more. If I didn't need a reason to drink beer tonight, well, damn, and I definitely got a good one now. Good job, 88 team, trying to get the thing piece together, trying to log some laps. Too bad we got involved in somebody else's incident. You're going to keep your head up, buddy. own two more races and then a beast mode.

Dale, yeah. Let's go get it. Dale yeah. Absolutely. Let's do it. You know, Mike, I have all the confidence in the world in Atlanta and in Richmond. You mentioned the speed they had in Bristol, Jr. did as well. Listen, I mean, let's just keep all this in perspective.

It was a tough night. Nobody's going to question that. But nobody has more wins than Dale Earnart Jr. Dale Jr. has more top fives than any driver on the circuit this year, and he has as many top tens as anybody else. Jeff Gordon and Dale Jr. tied for the most top tens, most top fives, and tied before others for the most wins. So just keep that in mind as you get ready for Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Reaction Theater is open 24-7. All you have to do is call toll-free 1-855-740 1902, and leave us your voicemail message. We'll play the best each week right here on Dirty Moe Radio. Remember Wednesday, Fast Lane Family, presented by Charlie Soap. It's Kelly Earnhard Miller's birthday week, and she's got several special guests joining as they share special birthday memories from years past. Friday, check out JRM 360, the podcast.

Get to know the characters at work at J.R. Motorsports a little better. And on Mondays, we recap the full weekend. Amanda has that for you with the Junior Motorsports Nationwide and Late Model teams and Dale's Sprint Cup series run as well on the Monday recap presented by Spy. Let's throw the white flag. Everybody, don't forget to vote Dale Jr., most popular driver. You can do it at Most Populardriver.com. and a reminder, you'll need to vote for Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

It doesn't really do us good if you go vote for somebody else. So vote Dale Jr. Michael McDowell. That's right. Junior is testing at Martinsville today and tomorrow. He even has a little media availability built in today. So check your favorite NASCAR media outlets for some junior wisdom during your lunch. Never know what he's going to say.

This Friday morning, Jr. has an appearance for the National Guard at an Atlanta Area High School. Later that afternoon, he'll practice the number 88 National Guard Chevrolet. and that evening is qualifying, so a lot going on Friday. You'll find practice and qualifying both on Fox Sports 1. Saturday is the nationwide series race at Atlanta. Junior won't be in it, but Kevin Harvick, to the dismay of a couple of those reactions theater callers, Kevin Harvick, Regan Smith, and Jason Elliott will be.

Does he have security? Yeah, I guess he'll need it. You'll find Friday's great clips 300 on ESPN 2 at 7 p.m. Eastern. Sunday's Oral B. USA 500. Is that really what it's called? Wow. The oral B USA 500? Yeah, well, oral B's got a big USA program.

Be patriotic while you brush your teeth, I guess. Well, I got a USA program. You know? Wave a flag every night and then. America. Yeah. That Oral B USA 500 is happening Saturday night at 7.30 p.m. Eastern. You'll find it live on ESPN.

Taylor, did you notice what's new in the Junior Nation store? You got oral B products in there, too? I wish. Cousies. Oh, I did see that. Dale, that. You have Camo Dalyah Cusies? Uh-oh, we're getting looks.

Are they not in there, Terry? That's not them. We got coosies, but there's some Dale you had Dirtymo radio coosies. If you check Junior's Twitter feed this past weekend, he's really excited about him. Trust me on this. He's really excited about these coosies. In fact, he was ready to place an order for a number that I'm not even going to tell you because he wanted to give him away.

We were like, just slow down a little bit on that day. You don't need to go buy them all right now. give away. Just hold tight on that. But yeah, Dirtymoe Radio, Delia Cousies are at the Junior Nation store here. They're going to be at the Junior Nation souvenir hauler moving forward at the racetracks. So keep an eye out for those. I have no idea if they're available online or not. But if you just hold tight, she's holding on.

Ms. Terry's holding them up right now. So they are in this store. That's good to know. Taylor, I'll get you one, man. I need one. Lastly, I just want to thank everybody at the Diet Mountain Dutelgate at Bristol on Saturday. That was a lot of fun, and hopefully we can do that again. I mean, if Amanda's not been married in the back of a pickup truck, I'm still holding out hope that maybe we can do that at a track at a Dirtymoe radio event or something like that coming up.

And Taylor, you're invited if that happens. Well, thank you. I mean, well, listen, I just think the Tal-Tagin-field in October is a beautiful place. That's what we're working on for now. Do you want, like, Dale to marry us in the back of the truck during the parade lap? Is that where we're at? Dale, yeah. He can Dale, yeah, of course.

That's not a bad idea. Datto might need to officiate, though. I wouldn't be against that. Can I just tell you real quick, and I'm done with White Flag, but I want to tell you, Dad, I left me a message last night, and it was this. He received a new school bus that he called Sloppy Second, okay? He received it? He didn't pay anything for it.

So he has a school bus that he's rebuilt. He calls it Sloppy Second, and he wants to keep it out on the East Coast, like possibly my house, so he can have it so he can drive, like he can just fly in and get his bus and then go to the local track with it. That makes sense. Bristol or Talladega or anything like that. So he may actually have an East Coast bus and a West Coast or a Texas bus. Yeah, a Texas bus.

So this guy has started to take this to a whole new level. I have tremendous respect for that. Tremendous respect for that. And by the way, I am wearing my Delia T-shirt. Once again, it is dry now. Good for you. Good bucket challenge, by the way. Thank you very much.

I definitely wore that through that and it's dry once again. But, hey, listen, it's just one of them racing deals. We'll get back on track in Atlanta. fired up for that. We thank Dale Earnardt Jr. as always. We thank Amanda Troutman for Mike Davis. I'm Taylor, Zarser. You've been listening to the Dale Jr. Download presented by Spy.

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