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Aug. 28, 2024 - Doug Collins Podcast
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So we're excited to have this, but a lot of politics going on right now in the world.
I think Georgia has become fascinating to me.
I still believe Georgia is a Trump victory.
It's still real tight.
I think Harris brought back in a lot of the Democratic base that was very disenchanted.
And I had an interview yesterday, and I appreciate y'all so much going to the DougCollinsPodcast.com and hitting that email button and sending me your comments.
I appreciate them so much.
But I've said this on Fox.
I've said it on some national headlines, networks on interviews that said that The interesting thing to me, when I talk about Vice President Harris' money bomb, there's been about $500 million, I mean, a half a billion dollars in the last about six weeks, roughly.
It just showed me how much money was sitting on the sidelines that did not want to give anything to Joe Biden.
And I think at the end of the day, that was becoming something that a lot of people were looking at and telling him, you know, why you need to get out of this race.
But I mean, they sat on the sidelines for a long time before they started putting that money in.
So it's going to be interesting here in Georgia.
Georgia is getting spent heavily in.
You know, it's a very much of a pivotal state for both of the campaigns.
I think Trump still has the advantage, especially when they start getting focused here in Georgia a little bit more.
They've been here and I think, you know, President candidate Vance has been in South Georgia.
Of course, Donald Trump's done multiple rallies here.
I think you'll see a few more of those.
Maybe not as big a rally, but you'll see him in and out of the state.
But the media buys, the digital buys, and the ground games, which are very compatible, which is a little bit different than most years.
The Trump team has hired A lot of staffers and beefed up ground operations, but they also have other organizations who come in and who are focused on winning Georgia from the conservative state.
Of course, the Democrats always have that kind of an advantage.
I mean, I've said this before.
You've heard me on this podcast.
I mean, folks, Democrats believe that elections are every year.
Republicans believe they come every two years.
And I think that's a big difference.
And maybe something we'll explore sometime on the podcast.
So anyway, that's a lot going on here in Georgia.
Vice President Harris is in South Georgia starting today.
She's actually doing her first interview, but she can't even do it by herself.
She's got to have her teacher with her Vice presidential candidate, they're going to sit down together and do an interview.
And this is just mind-blowing to me.
If she can't do an interview by herself, what can she do by herself?
I just, I don't know.
She's wanting to be president of the United States.
Anyway, today on a special edition of the podcast, we're going to have a question and answer session.
James, our Wonderful Friday's Finest co-host and producer came up with the idea of just random questions that people out there have wondered.
And I'm going to do it today.
We're going to take some time and I'm just going to answer questions.
And just as if this is an interview on the podcast, but I think it'll be helpful.
And if you have any other questions you'd like to have, go to the DougCollinsPodcast.com, hit that little email button and send them to us.
And we may do this again later in the election cycle.
So for now, we're going to take a quick break and coming back, we'll have questions and answers.
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All right, we're back.
And we're ready to go.
And James, we've got questions that all of America is dying to know about politics and life and everything.
So let's fire away.
Alright, let's talk about this election here.
Alright, so obviously the election's what?
70 some odd days away?
69 now.
Ah, of course.
Okay, so I was close.
So there are some obvious...
Very extreme major issues.
First one I want to talk about is the inflation rates, right?
I mean, that's probably the number one thing on America's mind right now.
Am I wrong?
So this is kind of a two-parter, but I think we both know the answer to this, but is this a possible bipartisan issue that can be solved or are they too far apart on this and this just has to be a House decision, Trump, you know, or vice versa with Kamala Harris.
That's a great question.
Can the issue itself be solved bipartisanly?
Yes.
Will it?
No.
Not in an election year.
And I think that's the interesting part here.
Because really, I need to break something out.
And you made a great point about inflation being a number one issue for voters, except there's just one I think caveat, we have to add to that.
45% of both sides are about settled in and they don't really care.
They know their side will, quote, solve it, even though the Democrats actually caused it.
I mean, this is the most amazing thing in the world.
You know, the Democrats, Biden and Harris, went out and dug the hole in the middle of the night and then come out and asking us to help pay for filling up the hole.
I mean, that's really what has happened here.
But their base doesn't see it that way.
Their base wants the money spent out of Washington.
And so, look, you're not going to get a change there.
Of course, on the Republican side, you know, the Republican side has pointed to the hole that you dug last night and said, look, you can't fool us into thinking that we should actually have to, you know, pay for this.
We want to get out of this, you know, increased energy production, lower costs, you know, provide more jobs, get the interest rates down, those kind of things.
So, in the election year, these things are not going to get solved.
And the longer, you know, what I'll say more...
Yes, it could be a bipartisan issue of working on the economy and getting our debt down, getting our spending in control in Washington.
It can happen.
And we actually did that for a while.
And if you go back as far back as 25 years ago, they actually did a balanced budget.
I think that's fantasy land right now.
In many ways, what you see of people wanting to do that because Democrats are not voting for it and Republicans can't come together to get a solution.
But where it affects, James, and I think this is a great question for most Americans who are just sort of what I call the drive-by media.
They look at it when they can.
They read the paper or they'll see something on post.
Is it going to affect them in these last 60 plus days to say, look, I'm tired of paying $350, $365 for diesel.
I'm tired of paying $225, $250 for gas.
I'm tired of paying more for eggs.
And remember, Biden and Harris will tell you that it's, oh, well, we were only up 2% inflation or 2.9% inflation, but it's already up 20%.
That's year over year.
That's not going down.
So there's been no deflation in this process as well.
So that'll be a key.
That'll be a great question for us to come back and talk about in, say, what October 1 timeframe and to see if the polls are moving at all at that point.
Well, first of all, you were saying $2.50 for gas.
I'm in Washington, for the record.
$4.00.
$4.00, yeah.
For regular.
Regular, Doug.
Yep.
And again, the West Coast is...
It's a little different, yes.
I had a friend of mine, I was at an event in California about three years ago, and we were out, of course, California's coastline is beautiful.
I mean, it's a scenic state that has just went to basically pot in the last little bit, and the old saying goes in the south, because of taxes and everything else.
And these guys who were in business out there, they were doing it, and they were laughing, and sort of sadly laughed, but they were laughing and saying, look, we've just come to a realization now that this is like going to a resort and paying a resort fee.
That living in California, you're having to pay these higher taxes and they call it a resort fee.
It's crazy prices.
It's just how they've been now programmed to not know this isn't normal.
Yeah, if you leave, like obviously I've lived in Texas for a few years, you leave Texas and you're like, oh.
This is what the rest of the world is paying.
Yeah, here we go.
Even Butte, Montana.
I mean, gas was cheap.
Anyway, I'm not going to get into all that.
But, yeah.
And I think the other part of this is that the pandemic prices went so skyrocketed that anything coming down from that felt like some sort of relief.
But that really wasn't the relief because 2019, 2018, 2017 wasn't that bad.
Exactly.
All right.
So here's probably the second biggest question on Americans' minds has to do with the border.
I know that this is a big issue for you as well.
Obviously, the legal process of getting into America is not easy, and I don't think it should be easy for anybody to get in anywhere, in any country.
That's kind of the point.
You've got to earn it.
However, because of that, people are just flying on over here, and it is obviously a little bit out of hand.
I don't think this is a, if you're Democrat or Republican, you don't How do I put it?
You can see that there is an actual crisis at the border.
This isn't an issue of right and wrong.
You can just see there is a crisis at the border.
Both these candidates are going to have to address this issue right off the bat in whatever debate they have.
How do you think they're both going to handle this?
Because this is a very touchy subject for all Americans.
Well, it shouldn't be.
I think that's the part that is...
The highlight of the immigration debate actually happened about two or three years ago when you started having Governor Abbott, in particular, out of Texas, and then you had DeSantis joining us, sending busloads to places that normally, quote, wasn't getting the migrants, okay?
Send them to New York City, sending them to Chicago, sending them to, you know, DeSantis did, sending them to Martha's Vineyard.
It was hilarious.
I've never still seen more...
Happy face than the lady patting the guy on the back saying, y'all take care now, sending them in with a sandwich onto a bus to get them out of Martha's Vineyard.
That's the liberal epitome of bless your heart, get on that bus and get out of my life.
And so it's become real.
And here's my problem with the Democrats on this.
We disagree firmly, okay?
And I'm not even giving an inch on the fact that you've got to have a border policy that allows legal immigration but not illegal immigration.
You've got to deal with that.
They've just opened it up.
But what they're not being honest about is the reality of where these people are going and the reality of the fact that they're the ones that have now allowed the cartels to let the federal government finish their contracts.
All the while, they've been bringing them up through Mexico and Central America.
And raping the girls and the women and putting submission, you know, into the, you know, slavery, basically, into the young boys and men.
And then just threatening them with, you know, all kinds of stuff.
And look, it's even flowed down into legal immigration.
I was talking to some folks the other day.
H2 workers, you know, which you see in agricultural workers, H2A, H2B workers.
They're now getting...
Threatening texts or emails from cartels that if they don't send part of their money back, that they're going to take it out on their families.
Now, this is legal immigration that we're talking about here.
So the cartels have got their hooks into everything.
And just the literal The nonchalant attitude of this administration to that is just mind-blowing to me.
Well, that's what I wanted to ask you, Doug, because they're going to have to address this, and it's been their administration that we've seen a lot of Yeah.
The most activity I've seen in my lifetime, arguably, maybe Bush era.
I was a kid.
But yeah, so that's why I was curious how they're like, how does because because for Trump, this is an easy answer for him, right?
He's like, we have to just make stricter border rules.
That's it.
Right.
Whereas like Kamala Harris has to find a way to appeal to her base.
But I still think some of her base is like, hey, is there like an actual solution to this?
Yeah, her hardcore left base doesn't care.
And here's an interesting thing.
Just in the last 48 hours, Harris has actually said that they would be...
And again, I'm really getting concerned about the Harris campaign in the American public because they're saying stuff they have no intention of ever doing, and they're just flat out bullcrapping.
Okay, I'll be nice here on the podcast.
I mean, this idea of lowering taxes on the middle class, she's already said she's let the Trump tax cuts go away, which means that everybody is basically going to get a tax increase.
She's already said she wanted to raise the corporate tax.
And again, everybody hears about corporate tax.
And the problem is, most of our small businesses are corporate entities that are either pass-through entities, which means that they pay an individual rate, Or they pay a corporate rate.
And that affects every small business that we come in contact with.
And we're not talking small businesses of mom and pops and the three kids working at the pizza joint.
We're talking 20 and 30 and 40. I mean, a small business is, you know, 100, 200, 300 people is considered small businesses by the chamber around here.
So these are all affecting, you know, this stuff.
So then now she came out with the latest was that she wanted to build the wall.
You know, spend hundreds of millions to build walls.
And it's like, wait, you took no tax on tips.
You now appropriated that to your campaign.
You've now appropriated building a wall.
I mean, her far left base either has to be going completely bonkers or they're sitting back laughing, saying there'll be some people who actually believe she'll do that.
And we're going to get the most liberal, one of the most liberal presidents we've ever had into office.
Right.
You're going to do a darn thing about anything she said.
So that's your problem is people don't understand the brutality of the border.
And, you know, I've had Tom Holman's on here.
I've had on this podcast multiple times.
We've had others who talk about the just brutality of what's happening to these folks.
And who see it firsthand.
Yeah.
And we've also lied about who's coming across the border.
These are not men and women who are poor farmers from Guatemala or Mexico coming in, you know, to make a better life.
One of the largest increases that we have seen recently in coming across the border, in addition to Venezuela, Cuba, and others, is China.
Think about that.
China is one of the largest partakers of visas into the United States for student visas and others, and now they found a way to send thousands across the border?
Again, you've got to understand what's actually happening.
All right.
So here's something.
This one's a little personal to me in a way.
And it's mainly the generation behind me.
But there's obviously a lot of new voters, as there always is every election.
And they are probably receiving most of their information via TikTok and Instagram and X, right?
And they're getting it in short, quite possibly edited clips.
Oh, yeah, definitely.
Right?
And I think that is an advantage for both parties.
But how do we help younger voters combat just like seeing two presidents for about 30, 10 seconds say something that might appeal to them instead of seeing the whole issue?
Well, you've had a deeper issue that we've actually touched on in the podcast before, James, and that's the educational system that we're currently in.
And we don't...
I'm not, you know, you hear it all the time.
You're just reading, writing, and arithmetic.
That's what we need to go back to.
Well, no, we actually, there's a deeper meaning there that goes back to, we're not encouraging critical thinking.
And I think that's the part that bothers me is, I mean, The gullibility of so many online today is just amazing, and it can happen to anybody.
I would venture to say there's not anybody that is actively online that has unfortunately not failed for a scam online.
Now, nobody wants to admit it that they did, but I've got family members who are very computer literate who have failed for stupid.
I mean, and they ended up losing some money on it.
Fortunately, most of them have never lost a lot of money, but some have.
Yeah.
But that shows you that we're willing, the absolute willingness to believe.
I made this comment on the podcast probably two years ago now.
It's hard to believe it's been that long, but I was in New York City dealing with a, when I was in Congress, and we were talking to a very large credit card company, and it was a banking institution.
And they were talking about, and one of their, the selling features was, is predictive buying.
In a sense, like if they realize you haven't bought Toilet paper in a month, you know, whatever.
There was this idea that you could go online and you could schedule purchases.
This, you know, and it was a bill.
It was one of their stand-up boards that they used like at conventions or stuff.
And it said, we help think for you.
We have all your information, something to that effect.
It wasn't that blunt, but it was, it was that.
Yeah.
And I looked at that.
I looked at that with a group that I was with and I was horrified.
I'm like, I don't want you knowing that much about me.
And yet everybody around me was like, And you've said this before.
I remember that they know everything about me anyway.
I don't care.
We're a generation away from not understanding personal privacy.
We're a generation away.
I don't even know if we're a generation away, Doug.
I think we're very close.
I don't even know if it's a generation.
That's how close it is.
But you got to understand what that means.
And I think, you know, look, I get it in purchasing and I get it.
You like to go to amazon.com and it gives you four rep preferences or you go to Google and it gives you, hey, have you tried this?
But what that means is that data is now become the gold Of the gold rush of California in the 1800s, okay?
That data, and this is why people say, well, what was so bad about a weather balloon from China going over the U.S.? Or what's so bad about having Chinese surveillance companies actually own the cameras at ports up in New Jersey and everywhere else?
What's so bad about, you know, China owning 20,000 acres of land a half a mile from an Air Force base?
I'll tell you what it is.
It's the data.
And the data, you know, think about this, that weather balloon flying all across the country, and by the way, it happened to just fly across our missile silos and everything else, you know, main basis.
They're picking up weather information.
They're picking up wind information.
They're picking up topographical information.
They're also looking at, you know, patterns.
I mean, think about this.
You know, they have, China, others have sleeper cells in this country who are literally watching The movements of traffic flow.
They're watching this kind of stuff.
Now, I'm not also stupid enough not to believe that we're not doing the similar things to some of our hands.
Let's just be frank.
This is not naive Doug here, okay?
But we also got to admit it.
But most companies, most countries don't want to see you come in.
So I think it to me is the naivety of Believing what you see on the internet, but also not having the civics background or the understanding of what isms are.
I mean, you go to the average 20 year old right now, they couldn't tell you what liberalism, communism, fascism, or conservatism is.
Right.
But yet we throw those terms around like they do.
They probably have a lot of different answers to those because they're hearing it from different people online, right?
You hear socialism.
Socialism is obviously one that comes up a lot.
And I don't think people actually know what it is.
Whether you believe in it or not is whatever.
The point is that you might not actually know because...
You're getting it from four different people that have a different answer for what it actually is.
Well, it's hip.
It's sort of the...
And I say this with, you know, not to be condescending or love.
I want to say this with love.
It's the best way I want to say it.
It's the hippie, yippie generation of the 60s without the internet.
Okay, think about it for a minute.
Yes, 100%.
You know, oh, can't we all just get on?
What we need is love.
It's not realistic.
Yeah, but they didn't have the internet reinforcing that.
You know, they didn't have mainstream media.
They didn't reach as many people.
Exactly.
Well, they have mainstream media telling them, here's what people died for communism.
Nobody just willingly gives up everything they have to everybody else and everybody just happened.
You know, they don't tell you what happened in Venezuela.
Again, Venezuela is a case study of what can happen with low information voters, okay?
Late 1990s, Venezuela was one of the richest countries in the world.
It was a place people were going to.
It was burgeoning capitalism.
I mean everything.
They had oil.
They were wealthy.
They had all this going on.
And then basically the communists came in and said that they convinced them little by little In about two or three year period, to where now they are an absolute, you know, just disastrous train wreck.
Dumpster fire there right now.
And so, but nobody tells you that's the reason, unless you're from Venezuela and you've heard the stories.
Our new sugarcoats, because we have this idea, and it started out of the Obama administration.
And I know this sounds bad.
You're blaming Obama for everything.
No, I don't blame Obama for everything.
He's got a lot of bad things.
But he made this statement up that we're not above anybody else in the world.
We're just part of the world.
And the minute you take American exceptionalism out of the equation, and to where we're no better than anybody else, and I'm going to say this, and bear with me here.
I believe America has a great responsibility to the world, but you cannot convince me a small country in Europe or Africa or Asia has the same value status, the same influence status as America.
They just don't.
They don't with China.
They don't with Russia.
They don't with the Great Britain.
They don't with Australia.
We all have to work together, and what keeps them safe as a country is that we, as bigger countries, don't absolve them.
We don't take them out.
So again, this idea, this sort of yellow daisies and fun music situation of the world that we all just get along is just crazy.
Right.
All right.
I have two more questions, and they're not too far apart from each other.
I'll ask this, I guess.
Okay, this one's sort of attached to what we just talked about, but because of these clips, you're seeing a lot of the clips that are surfacing on the internet are basically just either Trump attacking Kamala Harris or Kamala Harris attacking Trump instead of discussing the actual issues.
Yep.
And that, again, as a voter, like, maybe I don't want to vote if that's all I'm seeing.
So I guess that's something, like, how do we combat that as well?
Like, where do we go to see, oh, this is what he's actually talking about.
This is what she's actually talking about.
Well, I think you actually have to go to, and I was talking to this with a group the other night, that You know, just 200 plus people, all mainly Republicans, conservative Republicans.
And I made this statement, and I made this to others as well, that the problem we've gotten into is we, and it's not a, it's a habit, not a problem, okay?
We're going to go to wherever, you know, I had old farmers say one time, everybody's going to go where they get their salt licked, okay?
It's just where it feels good.
All right, so you're going to go to where you like the news, okay?
If you tend to agree with them, you're going to go to it.
I have talked to people on my side and the conservative side a lot saying, look, if you've never read the Democratic Party platform, you're not prepared.
If you've never read Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky, you're not prepared.
If you've not read the New Yorker magazine, if you've not read or listened to MSNBC for at least a little bit, if you've not read some of the progressive stuff out there, then you're not prepared.
Think about this.
James, we're all happy and giddy.
And by the way, we've got Michelle Tafoya going to be on with us on Friday.
Can't wait to have Michelle on.
We're going to talk football, life, politics, everything else.
But we're all excited about football.
But can you imagine Kirby Smart, who plays Clemson this weekend, you know, saying, you know, I'm just not going to worry about Clemson.
We're just going to work on our own self.
And, you know, hey, I don't know what Clemson's running this year.
I don't know if they got a wing.
I don't know if they're going to run pro.
I don't know what this, you know, Kavitz, Cole, Kubrick, whatever his name is, the quarterback.
You know, is he even playing this year?
Can you imagine...
Us, our favorite football teams are going into a week in which you would let your coach not know who they were playing.
Right.
What are you up against?
But yeah, we in the political realm do it all the time because we don't value learning.
And I think that's something we've got to come up with better.
All right.
Last big question here, because this We talked about the major issues of immigration and the inflation in the economy.
What is an issue that nobody is talking about right now that you believe, and if I'm putting you on the spot here, feel free to decline, but is there an issue right now that you believe strongly needs to be discussed more?
In the next 60 days this actually may come up and it's going to come back to something that is discussed on the fringes but not discussed enough and that is foreign affairs.
And now you've heard me say this and we've talked about this on the podcast and we've had McLaughlin, we've had polls, everybody on top, Chip talks about it.
Foreign affairs typically doesn't influence a major presidential race.
But we just came off of a week in which you have never, the White House, and this is Harris and Biden, have never acknowledged 13 dead Americans in Abbey Gate in Afghanistan.
They just ignore it.
And Afghanistan has now become a Taliban stronghold again.
The women are being subjected to cruelty and everything else.
You see what's going on in Hamas and Israel, and you're seeing the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party is pushing Harris to make promises for them, and that's affecting the quote, vote in Michigan.
So look, if there's an October surprise outside of just the absolute chicanery and stupidity of Jack Smith continuing to reindict Donald Trump and that kind of stuff going on, I think you'll find it in that foreign affair realm.
Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah, I think that's where you would see, quote, a October surprise.
Nobody's talking about it right now, and will it affect some?
I've got one that I'm anxious to see how it plays out.
And I don't know why, and I'm going to pose this, I don't know why the stolen valor argument of Waltz is not playing more.
If you remember John Kerry's race in 2004, his, quote, stolen valor issue, swift boating, that kind of thing, destroyed his campaign.
Just absolutely destroyed his campaign.
Now, that could have been that we were in Iraq and Afghanistan and we were seeing, unfortunately, folks coming home in body bags and we were seeing that.
And that could have affected it.
And now we're not.
Now we're in a, quote, time of peace.
But...
Look, I don't view it as, and a lot of people say this is stolen valor.
I view it as an integrity issue.
And I think that's a character issue that sometimes we don't engage in.
It's character wrong to say you did something, especially in dealing with the military, that you just didn't do.
And when it can be proved wrong so easily, but yet we still double and triple down on it, And the media continues to allow it to happen.
I want to say in some states like Georgia, Yeah, Pennsylvania to an extent, maybe some others.
Is that an issue that could hit those 3 or 4% niche voters that may not like Trump, but they're conservative, they don't like Harris, but they're saying, okay, I'm trying to figure this out.
What do I do?
Could that be?
Yeah, that could be an issue.
But I think my bet is going to be on the foreign affairs because in economy, they're already getting help.
You're going to see possibly a 50 basis points cut from the Fed who are supposed to be nonpolitical.
In September.
Now think about that.
That's a half a point cut in the Fed money rate.
And they're actually thinking they may do another half a point in as early as October, November.
If that be true, that's playing in the election.
Some people say, hey, all of a sudden my interest rate is coming down.
If you have a variable rate loan, all of a sudden you might get a quarter point off your loan.
Those are the kind of things that I see as playing out there that are not talked about as much now, but will be in the next 60 plus days.
All right.
Well, that's it for my questions.
Is there anything you want to wrap up with?
No, I think we'll wrap up.
Look, I want to give some kind of...
In the next couple of weeks, we're going to do...
It's now under...
We've got Labor Day coming up on Monday.
That's the traditional start of the political season as we go forward.
I'm going to give an update in the next few episodes.
You'll start seeing them maybe next week on House races, Senate races.
We'll talk about the presidential race after the election.
We've got, again, Michelle Tafoya coming up with us on Friday.
We were hoping to have Chan Gailey, but unfortunately, one of the coaches, by the way, we may talk about this on Friday, and one of the offensive titles I believe was line coaches up in the Giants passed away, and Chan is there with the family, which you would expect Chan Gailey to be.
Of course.
And so we're excited, but we're excited to have Michelle and Chip.
We'll have Chan down the road, for sure.
Oh yeah, Chan will be back.
So a lot going on.
I also want to shout out Hunter Nation.
We had Mike and them on the podcast here about a couple weeks ago talking about getting out to vote, getting Hunter out to vote.
Great episode, by the way, if you want to check it out.
Go back and look at it.
It's great.
We'll probably have some more on from Hunter Nation.
As we go, as we get into the fall season here.
And so look, everything's going well.
It's now, I can sense it in the air.
I've started doing some political stuff.
You know, of course, I always speak to groups, but I can sense a little bit of it in the air now.
You're getting it, you know, the people who are now starting to kick in.
So, look, stay tuned to the Doug Collins Podcast.
You're going to want to see what's going on.
We'll keep you informed, as we always do, in the future hits coming ahead on what's going on.
We'll tell you where, the whys, and we're not going to sugarcoat it.
We're going to let you know both sides of what they're thinking as we go forward.
But for now, James, thanks for the questions.
For the rest of you, we'll see you.
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