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the one and only Christopher Bedford, Executive editor over at the Common Sense Society.
Chris, I want to start by asking you about your Thanksgiving, as
you are the consummate chef. How to go? It was awesome? Yeah,
maybe the best turkey I've yet cooked. Why do you think that was?
I got it in a great Brian. My wife made me consider what
I was doing, stop and think about it for a second, which I'm
not used to things giving as a married couple. Yeah, first things giving
is a married couple. And she said, hey, why don't you try
to blend the spices I'm going to be using in the gravy with the spices
using on the brine and the rub and wow, whoa, whoa. I
just usually do my thing and it was great. And also I was reading,
uh, food blogs, and they suggested that drop the turkey in at
a lower temperature than usual. Two. You know you want to cook fry
at high temperature, but drop it in at around two fifty and you won't.
It won't blacken the way that fried turkeys often do, because usually a
fried turkeys is not as pretty as a big turkey. And it made a
big difference. It made it much prettier. And I also put the rosemary
and thyme and salt and brown sugar and hot sauce rub in the butter and
mixture that I injected after you just give away your briner recipe. That's not
a secret. I steal it with my other people. I'm not a scientist.
I don't know what brining is. I just know what's delicious. Chris
Bedford not a scientist. I'm a tech executive, but not a scientist.
Yes, and Sarah's monk was over for this one, so I got to
get the definitive this is the best turk you've ever had. Pushed back against
Sarah's idea that she knows this secret way that's different and better that I'll never
let her try. Actually I can see it that I will someday one Thanksgiving.
Let her cook the turkey, but she's in charge of all the sides,
all the decoration. Did a wonderful job. Table Scape never heard of
a tablescape phenomenal. You've never heard of a tablescape. I'm telling you,
you guys have to watch Below Deck. You would love Below Deck. It's
a little bit, a little bit for women for the men. Yes,
it's un Bravo and I don't think I've revealed on this podcast that I've spent
There are like fourteen seasons from all of the different franchises, and it's really
the one rabbit It's the one Bravo rabbit hole I never went down, but
it's about the crew of Magga Yachts. And I went around last January.
I had finished The Americans and desperately needed to stay in the binge ritual because
it had become such a soothing part of my night. And we went with
Below Deck. I was so skeptical because I love all of the other Bravo
fair too much. I'm very loyal. You didn't want to get hurt.
Didn't want to get hurt, and man, I am I have the hours.
I don't know that I could count I've actually tried to add up how
many hours in the last year I've spent watching Below Deck. It's incredible.
I've seen every single episode. But it's the person, dear listener that Emily
spends a lot of time watching television. It doesn't I hope it doesn't.
You know, I'm not a big wine person, but I will say it
has a little for men and a little for women. It's the perfect couple
show because the men get to watch the like actually kind of fascinating machinations of
running a mega yacht, so that side of the brain is absolutely satisfied.
The women you get to deal with the emotional aspects of the crew trying to
get along. So it's the perfect again, perfect couple show. I don't
watch TV unless i'm forced too, but table scaping is a big part of
it. She's got the middle runners down and matching tablecloths and napkins and Thanksgiving
h cloth rings and my only request to her, and all of this was
by American. I don't need a table runner from China that says, thankful
all of the table runners. Well, it turns out there's this old woman
in DC who makes them oh wow, like knits them and stitches out and
they're it's I think a side gig out on top of our social security And
it's like one hundred dollars or choice as much as a Chinese one. But
it's a handmade one by an American in DC that doesn't feel weird, and
it says thankful ten times. A cigarette on it's like not going to catch
on fire, like it's you know, it's those weird plastic cigarette on it.
You don't smoke it Thanksgiving? No, but I have to say,
you're you're product built America. You were a great wife. Thanks good.
How was yours? It was good? I think. Also one of the
best turkeys. My dad does the turkey. It was fantastic. My mom
does the sides, great sides. I made sweet potatoes, which I usually
do. Nobody else likes them except for Yeah, I'm a big sweet potato
person. But anyway, when did you start drinking on Thanksgiving? Yeah?
Later? Later? Yeah. I went out with a friend of the night
before to a lovely establishment in Nashota, Wisconsin. That sounds fun. See.
I texted two friends at like ten thirty eleven thirty in the morning and
said, if it's socially acceptable to have a bloody Mary right now, why
not a cape cotter And one of them responded already down one, Oh,
of course. So I decided, you know what if Josh is drinking,
and I'll start drinking. And I actually I just kind of steadily drank throughout
the day and didn't binge or anything. But the next day I did feel
like, over the course of fifteen hours, I smoked two cigars and drank
a leader of vodka, and I think that was true. So, speaking
of people who are absolutely obstinate, you wanted to talk about American hero Tommy
Tuberville today will not bow down in the face of pressure, which is amazing
for an Alabama Republican center. I know we've talked about Taberville's stand, which
is actually coming in on a year. He started this first in March,
where he was blocking military appointments, essentially much to the horror of the pen
Gun. Yes, because the Pentagon, after the Dobbs decision came down,
said we are going to pay for the travel of our employees Defense Department employees
or is it just is a military overall, Yeah, military overall to travel.
We'll pay the travel expenses for them to go get abortion. I'll pay
for tickets, hotels, car rentals, and they'll put I think, I
think illegally taxpair of dollars to fund the obtaining abortion. And Tommy Taperville said,
if you don't revoke this, I'm going to block every appointment. It's
a facilitation of abortion, is what the Catholic Church would call it on its
list of sins. So it's shocking again. Tommy Tuberville's fairly new here and
thought he was just going to be a celebrity Republican. I thought he was
un should not expect him to be the hardest man Washan. I totally expected
of Luther Strange type, business friendly. Yeah, big Luther Trump, but
he's an Alabama Republican. There's a you know, Katie Britt, for example,
not exactly a staunch or I don't expect think so she worked for Richard
Shelby in California and Massachusetts and another safe blue states to send us the craziest
psychopaths you had, like the bluest lunatics you've ever met, and safe Republicans
sends you oftentimes like a guy who probably would have registered as a Democrat if
he lived in a blue state, but wanted to win in politics or became
a Republican. That does not Tommy Tubberville, not in all the phase of
all of the criticism that he's gotten from Republicans. Mister McConnell is furious about
this. It has spilled into public a couple of times, many times actually
by now it immediately spilled into public, by the way, which is such
a perfect distillation of the dynamics in the Republican Party, which is to say,
this is the fault of the Pentagon, and you were taking your anger
out on tom Tommy Tuberville, who is standing with your base, your voters,
and with the morally correct side of this radical He just said, don't
change this. The Department of Fence does not should not be providing abortions.
They can change it at any time. They could. They can walk back
this policy at any time. If they think that the military is actually under
threaten, then they would seede through civilian control on this issue and a lot
of these, and he would allow those promotions to go through. So what's
the new update here? He's been stabbing in the back four ways, two
from the front and two from the back. He too, Mitch over the
last couple of weeks he's come under just blistering, constant attack from very unimpressive
colleagues like Joni Ernst and Okay, well, we disagree with Joaniornes. Actually
shouldn't be attacking extremely unimpressive person. And Lindsay Graham from South Carolina, who
just loves the ball on uniform, has been pretty hard on him. They've
the Republicans attacking him as opposed to the administration, as opposed to the Pentagon,
over and over on this. And then you have the National Defense Authorization
Act Authorization Act that comes up, and according to folks I've talked to,
Pweville had the votes in the Senate, Republican votes to strip the funding for
this. Out of that, the House of Representatives, the slim Republican majority,
passed an NBA which which had that provision in it that no more funds
could be allowed for this. The Senate ignored that, and at that point
they go to conference where they decide to try to tweak out the differences between
the House bill and the Senate bill, and then they pass it and send
it to the President. Schumer said, I don't want to have a vote
on this NDA. We're just going to have a conference. There's going to
be no voting. I know that we're senators in congressman, we don't actually
vote here in DC. McConnell agreed, much to my disappoint it seems that
Johnson agreed. New Speaker of the House, supposedly our social conservative, someone
who I kind of thought would be able to would be the kind of guy
most likely to back up Reville if any Speaker of the House in recent history
actually worked for Alliance defending Freedom. Yeah, absolutely great, religiously sometime in
the trenches and is completely a well in this fight. I'm really starting to
get bad vibes, Like the first time John Bahner spoke and I was I
was still young and impressionable, so I was. I was excited that Republicans
were in charge and the bomb of years, like everything's gonna be better.
And I see this this dude just weeping, and I'm like, oh man,
that was like my first taste of no, nothing's getting better. Absolutely
nothing's getting better. And I'm starting to get that feeling from Johnson. I'd
love to be surprised, but right now is in the interest of not rocking
the boat he has portrayed it looks like he said to portray Tellraville on this.
So they're going to blast through it and then what they're not going to
strip it in the NBA. So it's basically Tumberville at this point is looking
at defeat because the Senate, including at least nine Republicans politicals report that includes
ten, is going to vote to change the rules of the Senate so that
the Senate becomes the House representatives, but just on this one issue, and
just for a limited period of time, and they no longer need sixty votes
to promote all of these military guys, by the way, some of which
russ Votes Group has discovered are extremely committed to woke ideologies and critical race theory
and all this garbage. But they just want to rush them through, and
Tumberville does not want to see that happen. He doesn't want the Senate to
change the rules. He's staring at defeat. He knows that Republicans' commitment to
the Pentagon is sacrosanct, and little babies getting aboarted on taxpayer dollars, it
can just take a back seat. So I suspect that in the next couple
of days he's been dropping this and hinting this that he's going to come up.
He would rather surrender, which is against every bone in his body and
his personality, would rather surrender on this than break the Senate in his first
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is against the backdrop of something important, which is because of the Kevin McCarthy
conflict and now the Mike Johnson's Mike Johnson's Young Speakership, they have to now
pass so much legislation by the end of the year. Johnson wants to do
that tiered formula, right, Chris, that laddered formula where you pass one
round. But Republicans also don't want to do omnibuses. They want to do
single subject approchiate appropriation bills. Which was part of their original anymore. Yeah,
it's crazy. The congressman are how many members of Congress were around last
time there was a regular process, which is twenty years ago, I think.
And the other thing to keep in mind and congressman, Yeah, and
part of all of this is that Mike Johnson now has to negotiate between the
rock and hard place of you know, the hard place being that the Republican
base is tired of blank checks. To borrow a McCarthy phrase to Ukraine,
there needs to be money going to Israel again. The base wants to see
military support for Israel, financial support for Israel. The wants to see immigration
reform that's serious and not reform in the Washington sense, which Democrats will try
to come to the table on sending more money to the border, sending more
money to border patrol, stuff like that, instead of actually reforming asylum laws
like HR two would do. That's a build the Republicans in the House pass,
and they have that on the table right now. It's going to be
a non starter with Democrats, as Democrats have already said. So all of
this is happening as there's a rush to pass a flurry of bills, And
this is one thing that Republicans are so exhausted with and fed up with Tommy
Tarberville. They are if they're fed up with anything, it's Tommy Tarberville.
And Lindsey Graham sort of gets some cred from the conservative movement and the pro
life movement because it's sort of an expectations versus reality thing. He's been surprisingly
good, as people see it on life over the years. That man was
righteously indignant about what happened about at Kavanaugh. He was the Tommy Tuberville of
the Kavanaugh hearings, of the Kavanaugh confirmation. Graham, Yeah, Lindsay Graham
was Graham two point oh or Graham three point oh. Remember Graham was running
for re election at that time. Great point. He also he was out
every single week raising money with Sean Hannity. He just wants to get some
money for his friends in the war. You should do your South Carolina accident
in front of the South Carolina friend we're about to have lunch with, because
I think you're going to get tossed out. I don't know. South Carolina
has a thing with its senators, one of them, one of them supposedly
as a girlfriend. Okay, Chris, what were you going to say?
Ran for president? Just long enough for that? Oh my gosh, go
ahead, that's all I've got. That's not all you got. You were
typing away in your little iPad. Oh. I was looking up an event
that I wanted to talk about later that happened last night, because you reminded
me. With Ukraine, a friend of mine invited me. He's a good
friend. He's down from New York to go to a National Review party for
a new book called The Sun Will Rise, not The Sun Also Rises.
It's about a different war. It's a fiction account about the Ukraine War.
An Australian correspondent about like the courageous victory in Ukraine. Lots of Australians on
below deck, and I just thought, is this below deck? Danenda?
I thought it was just so perfect. I did. I could not attend.
Unfortunately, that are so perfect. We didn't have this point in twenty
twenty three, with like the House representatives no longer wanting to fund this Ukraine
War, the Republicans in the Senate so need to come around to it.
All these people who called me and Molly handing Away and other people like Russia
supporters for saying this is a dumb war. I wasn't going to go well,
are starting to change their minds, and it's gotten to a point so
dire. The National Review is literally hosting fan fiction Ukraine war parties. What
else is that like? Yeah, no, I mean it's what it sounds
like in real time. It's Uh, it's a lot of coping. I
see a lot of coping going on in DC Moscow. Molly, I'll never
missed an opportunity to call her that she was out there. I got into
some arguments, probably one of the only times I've ever argued with Kim strassel
Chernobyl Chris. Yeah, right, was uh trying to do all this is
done more that wasn't necessarily in America's just interests. But uh, that was
it. That was what That was what I was talking about. Okay,
you wanted to use the phrase fan fiction. All the things I learned about
this event two days ago, it happened last night, and I just giggle
every time it comes up. I think, really though, this is from
Mike. So pretend you're Mike Johnson right now. You're juggling Ukraine. You're
juggering juggling Israel. You're juggling the bud He's got a lot of balls in
the air, but you're also juggling Matt Gates. And I'm not I'm not
saying this in a way I agree. I think there's been some in the
hero Santas. Yeah, well there's that too. I think there have been
some seriously troubling signs so far. But also this is Republicans. I mean,
I don't want to blame Republicans here, but in some sense, I'm
not saying a very un impressive lot. I don't care about the Kevin McCarthy's
of I think it was tactically stupid. I think they would be in a
much better position right now if Kevin McCarthy was negotiating this. But I also
don't really care that some people had real, you know, not just Matt
Gate's personal gripes, but there were real gripes about what happened in May with
the debt ceiling deal. So I understand all of that. But the fact
that what Republicans are so eager to dispense with is a popular with their base
stand against Pentagon idiocy in the face of Chris as you said, as you
said the Pentagon. If they thought they have set all of their surrogates into
the media over the course of the last six months, call him a trader
and say that this is harming the national security of the United States. So
if you are at the Pentagon and you are faced with something, let's take
them at their word that is genuinely harming the national security of the United States.
And you can either get rid of abortion travel, which is probably used
by maybe a dozen people a year. You can either get rid of that
or they refused to provide any date on it. Exactly. Yeah, they
won't provide data. They say they save military readiness military Okay, prove it.
So they people are even using this, they can get rid of that
and immediately solve their problem. Have all of their nominees just fast tracked through
the Austin's an idea logue and so is the president on this? You think
Lloyd okay, I don't know. I don't mean this as a leading question.
You think Lloyd Austin is an idea log because he's very much so.
I don't know that he's a pro abortion ideaologue so much as he's a pro
institution ideologue, which is how dare you take a stand against my institute.
I got to look up the footage we talked about this the other day of
him reviewing troops in the Philippines wearing a face mask and advisor. Now,
to have to have a Secretary of Defense stressed up like a mentally ill liberal
woman is so embarrassing, and like that's that we all knew. We all
lived through COVID. The people who are face masks were crazy people and audilogs.
You come here every Thursday just to air your grievances on a weekly basis,
which that'll be coming up later this month. I can't wait. I
forgot about it. Yeah, but it's just a sign. It's a sign
of serious mental illness to be doing that, and just extreme devotion to the
cause. When was it long after I stopped wearing a mask? Well,
that doesn't tell me much. I can google it. Why don't you filibuster
from it a film buster? Wll you google Lloyd Austin? I don't know.
I think a lot of stupid mask See if that pulls up. I
think a lot of it really is though that there's this idea, because again
the Pentagon could get rid of this. It probably affects a dozen people a
year, and in a way, by the way, that is arguably illegal.
July twenty twenty one. Not great, Not great. Did the Philippines
have a rule? I don't know. We're not going to get to the
bottom of it. It looks like, oh, okay, you're talking about
a visor. Lloyd Austin is wearing a full face Vibe advisor and a mask.
He looks I mean, he looks like a visor mask with a mask
prequels villain in Star Wars. I thought you meant he just had a mask
on and was wearing like an army visor or something. No, he actually
is wearing one of the face mask visors. He looks like a translucent Darth
Vader, and then he's a mask like a bad guy in Spaceballs. That's
exactly what he looks like. Yes, okay, so get this in and
he's sort of walking very legally, but he has this ridiculous Darth Vader translucent
face mask, and you know, this is actually I think it might be
one of the things that started the shift in kind of Republican opinion about the
Pentagon, because Tucker went after this. Tucker had been going after Lloyd Austin
for being ietey log for a while, and that was like insane. I
mean, you're supposed to genuflect before the military if you're a Republican. And
Tucker started to knowes, hey, these guys are yes, these guys are
going nuts. But this is the one he got in a lot of trouble
for because because he's like, he went on this rant about like, well,
if Floyd Austin's actually so concerned about COVID, there's one thing that we
do know that there's links to morbidity, and that's obesity. And he said,
not only is he stupid, but he's a pig, not any pig,
but he's stupid, and just laughed and people went bonkers. But then
twenty four hours later, after all the pundits start of saying like, how
dare he? How dare he? The dust settled, and most Republicans are
like, yeah, I actually right, I actually think that's what this is
about. Though, for like the Lindsay Grahams and the Lloyd Austin's, is
that like, how dare you not genuflect? How dare you? We are
not giving in to the crazies, the sort of maga crazies on this abortion
travel issue, but not even abortion travel. We're not giving into them on
Tuberville specifically, we're not giving into giving into them because if we do that,
then by golly, Ukraine will fall. But they're genuinely afraid of the
sort of Tucker esque sentiment that has taken hold in the Republican base, and
they don't want to cave one inch because they are staunch institutionalists. The Pentagon
is their thing, you know. It's like when the pentagons. They think
that Pentagon's got a little magic bubble around it that protects it from the woke
rot that's just destroying institutions across the world. It's like when you have a
nickname for your brother and someone else uses it and you're like, oh,
no, no, no, no, I'm the only one that's allowed too,
just the thing between you and your brother. No, I don't actually
have any nicknames for him, but it's ever I don't think so. But
it's like four Slugger, like those nicknames that neglectful fathers give the kids that
they wose names they can't kiss, right. I think they called them Bud
when he was little. He's four years younger than me. Try that men.
Try that in a fight with your wife someday, like use those like,
all right, easy slugger, I hang on their pal it's champ.
Take a breather, it's wild. Let's take a knee. It's wild.
It's like there's an instant chemical reaction in the female brain if you do that
to them. But I think that is what the institutionalists see this as.
It's like, you know what, this is not yours to criticize, This
is ours to run. Let us keep the keys, You keep your grabby
little pause off what we're doing over here, because we know what's best.
And you are poisoned by the radicals, the Maga radicals who think maybe so
much blood shouldn't be spilled over the dawn boss, maybe maybe not, Like
well, it looks like that was going to be wrapping down. I mean
Porzolenski, right, what happens to him? No, not poor Zolensky.
I mean, he's all along. I have understood. I just think he's
going to have a furtive final couple of years. All along, I've I've
understood Zelensky so much more than I've understood Lindsey Graham groveling at the feet of
Zelensky or not just Graham, you know, Susan Collins, any of the
Schumer because Zelensky is doing what you would expect the president if you are a
Ukrainian. Actually I didn't expect that, so krudos to him. I thought
he was going to flay you with a couple of million bucks. No,
but he stayed not yet. Well, I mean eventually he's going to have
to because Putin doesn't like shake and make up, hugging makeup, and it
doesn't I mean, are you not a Putin fan? Me? No,
I don't. I don't have any kind of searing hatred for him like other
people do. You probably should. Why what do you mean why he's not
nice? He instigated a completely bloodthirsty invasion that has led to tens of thousands.
That sounds like a problem of reason for someone from Ukraine to hate Putin?
Okay, Well, I just I mean there's a lot of bad dudes
out there also, I feel a little. I mean, there's just so
much mindless, seething hatred of him in Washington, DC. Well, No,
I get it that he's he's the avatar for all things bad. Yeah,
I think that's stupid. Yeah, I don't see any worst world leaders
than out there than putin people justin Trudeau for example, the scourge of the
truckers. Yeah, but this is I mean, so they had a sure
of British Columbia. You were thinking so hard. I was trying to come
up with something, but curse of Calgary. You're really you're expecting next week
some of this to flare up next what like we're talking early next week's Yeah,
yeah with this Basically, it stinks. It's sad. He made a
brave stand. It's over that started to fall when the Republicans went out and
just blasted him on TV every night, you know, every single day.
I missed Tucker Carlson being on Fox News. I think the Republican primary would
have been dramatically different. The Republican primary would have dramatic, dramatically different.
You wouldn't have you would Yeah, jd Vance would have passed this train bill
like easily blasted people like Ted Cruz for getting in the way. Uh,
the populous loss of really strong ally Tumberville would be If not him, then
sarrogate's for him. Because I hated interviewing politicians because they're not very good review
subjects would be on there, Lindsey Graham and Joni Earnstein Company would be getting
slammed from the top slot. And so I miss him on that. He
drove the narrative in a really important way on some of these issues, Like
he's still driving the narrative on X, but still we're not at the point
where that fully replaces the potency of a prime time looking forward his new product,
which is supposed to be launching fairly soon. Yeah, well, but
I'm missing him on that, and it's over. I mean at this point,
now that they're going to conference, we can point out that it's insane
that Republicans are taking the Department of Defense his position on abortion over their own
base. Where you can think it's insane that senators and congressmen decided not to
vote on something and just to do it shadily. We can think it's a
letdown. I know, we've got a lot of balls in there that Johnson
didn't come in and do something about it. And we'll see. I mean,
there's still time to see. He could he could go in a really
bad direction. He still has time to potential scurb in a really good direction
too. Yeah, I get that he didn't take over our burning ship with
an American public, including Republican voters, and I think this did play in
the lost election, who are fed up with just ridiculous Republican in fighting.
It looks sat I think tarm Revel will probably this week or next and avoid
the breaking of the Senate to let I think the latest news is a he'll
let he floated, letting nominations through except for four star generals. By the
way, we don't need more four star generals. Are we finding World War
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is just absolutely pathetic that we cannot the Republican Party can't stand up for its
base for a second, to the point where there's a you can't do any
of this without threatening institutional changes to parliamentary procedure. I mean just completely,
which is not you know, as set and stoness and people act like it
is. But it is still just we cannot do anything anymore. We cannot
do anything. The media can't tell the truth about this, which is not
entirely unsurprising because most of their sources are people in the Pentagon and the intelligence
community on these issues, so of course they're taking the framing. But the
framing on this for an average American that would be most helpful, I'm not
even talking about for a Republican voter. For your average American, that would
be most helpful and would be most neutral and honest, is that there's a
completely radical policy the failing Pentagon implemented, one Republican senator standing up against it,
and the Pentagon is instead crying national security emergency. Well, I'm glad
we get to talk about it here, and I'm glad we get to write
you get to write about it. The federalist im Glad Molly's been able to
do so much because when Jim DeMint was making stands like this back in the
day, by himself a disliked man and amongst his colleagues, but now probably
the most popular Senator in South Carolina, partially because he's retired. Politicians always
get more popular when helps but he's a great man. Uh, there was
no one really backing Jesse Helms when he would pick just random appointees and say,
this person doesn't get their job until I get this thing. So it's
it's good that there's someone to stand up for. There's some people to talk
about this, but it it's just just like the mask picture laid bare exactly
like what kind of person Lloyd Austin is this lays bare? What kind of
people? A lot of these Republican senators and congressmen are what they care about
in Congress with their part strip it so it's on the it's on the Senate,
and the Senate everyone always knows. See, Tumerville is new to d
C, so he didn't know that the most sacred thing in d C,
aside from abortion for Democrats is the kind of gun budget for Republicans. Yeah.
Christopher Bedford, executive editor over at the Common Sense Society, I learned
something today over Thanksgiving. Man, we had an iHeart Media executive over and
she said, hey, by the way, tell your listeners to go in
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And I always feel bad like plugging it because I just appreciate it. I
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But thank you Chrisopher a reminder, Yeah, it does help us a
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