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Speaker 2: last week end before Christmas. Here twenty twenty four. Let's
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Speaker 2: talk to Rick. Hey, Rick, welcome home. Hey, good morning,
Speaker 2: good morning, sir.
Speaker 3: How many Well, I've gone a home in the Seattle
Speaker 3: area that we just bought, and it's built in the
Speaker 3: mid eighties and over time it's it's acquired a lot
Speaker 3: of cables running around the house, you know, satellite dishes,
Speaker 3: phone lines and that kind of thing, and it's a
Speaker 3: little insightly, but it goes all the way around, and
Speaker 3: I'd like to remove them, but I kind of don't
Speaker 3: know what I'm doing as far as removing them and
Speaker 3: how to test them, and I want to know how
Speaker 3: you can help me out.
Speaker 2: Okay, good question, good question. So what's your current what
Speaker 2: are your current needs? So you're saying phone lines and cable,
Speaker 2: I mean that's the that's the kind of stuff that
Speaker 2: finds itself attaching to the outside of most homes over
Speaker 2: the decades. But the big question is how are you
Speaker 2: handling that? Like, I mean a perfect example with Tina
Speaker 2: and I, we haven't had a hard line since I
Speaker 2: don't know when, right, it's been.
Speaker 3: Like twenty five years we've actually either.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So if there's phone lines attached to
Speaker 2: the house, then then you don't need those. You just
Speaker 2: you don't need them. They are not voltage lines. I
Speaker 2: am going to show you how you make sure you're
Speaker 2: not getting into the wrong thing, but you just don't
Speaker 2: need them, and so you can just pull them off.
Speaker 2: And then the the other question is cable. What's going
Speaker 2: on with cable? Where's your table running, where's your active
Speaker 2: cable system? Running and so on.
Speaker 3: Right, So there's a satellite dish that's attached to the
Speaker 3: house and we don't use that. So there's tables that
Speaker 3: run in from from that, and then each room seems
Speaker 3: to have a port that comes in from the outside.
Speaker 4: Also what we.
Speaker 3: Have internet and that comes in on an Internet line.
Speaker 3: But as far as I know, if there's only one
Speaker 3: that comes in, but I don't know exactly where it is,
Speaker 3: and and I kind there's like I said, there's tables
Speaker 3: all around, and I want to know how I can
Speaker 3: if I can test them to see if there's you know,
Speaker 3: if they're active.
Speaker 2: Right, right, Okay, So the easiest way to do this, honestly,
Speaker 2: the easiest way to do this is to call your
Speaker 2: cable provider and and ask them to you know, I
Speaker 2: identify and and maybe they have a service person just
Speaker 2: drop by and identify where uh the the internet is
Speaker 2: coming into the house. Okay.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: If it's just one location, as is the case with
Speaker 2: most people these days, then you've got one line running
Speaker 2: to a router somewhere inside the house, and then that
Speaker 2: router is handling the rest of it, the Wi Fi
Speaker 2: for the rest of the house, and you know, importing
Speaker 2: whatever is going on. As far as television and screen
Speaker 2: is concerned, Unfortunately, there's you know, without cutting, crimping and feeding,
Speaker 2: there's it's not easy to test because these are very
Speaker 2: minute RF signals running through these cables. If there's ever
Speaker 2: a concern that there's voltage, that one of those things
Speaker 2: on the outside of the house has voltage, you can
Speaker 2: solve that by just running down to the hardware store
Speaker 2: or big box or home depot and get a non
Speaker 2: contact voltage tester or current detector that's like twenty bucks
Speaker 2: and it looks like a big fat yellow pen and
Speaker 2: literally you just put the tip of it on a
Speaker 2: cable and if it lights up and it tells you, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's high voltage electric current running through this, or you
Speaker 2: get nothing. And obviously if there's voltage running through it,
Speaker 2: you don't cut that. But as far as everything else
Speaker 2: is concerned, the way we normally do it is just
Speaker 2: literally figuring out, all right, we're going to trace the
Speaker 2: line that is leading from the internet box on the
Speaker 2: outside of the house. We're going to trace that line
Speaker 2: to the router and honestly, just the rest of it
Speaker 2: can go. All of those feeds into the bedrooms. It's
Speaker 2: just old school stuff. It's vestigial organs from an era
Speaker 2: gone by, and and you should be free and clear
Speaker 2: to cap those. You know, you put blanks on those.
Speaker 2: You can just leave it in the wall, blank those
Speaker 2: inside the room so that you don't have to have
Speaker 2: the little cable things sticking out of the hookup and
Speaker 2: on the outside. Uh again, you just all you're after
Speaker 2: is where is the one feed into the router for
Speaker 2: my system? And everything else can just be pulled off?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 3: And can I just cut it or can it be
Speaker 3: pulled out?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 2: Well yeah, I mean you're you're, you're. I would just
Speaker 2: cut them. I would just cut them and shove them
Speaker 2: into the wall and patch the little hole in the wall,
Speaker 2: because no, you're not gonna have a you're you're very
Speaker 2: unlikely to be successful pulling it all out. And you know, so,
Speaker 2: so there's you know, a useless wire in the wall
Speaker 2: or useless coaxle cable in the wall, No big deal,
Speaker 2: it's not hurting anything and uh and it's not going
Speaker 2: to get anybody's way, So just clear out and clean
Speaker 2: off the excess stuff on the outside of your house,
Speaker 2: just to get it all cleaned up and to patch
Speaker 2: it up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very good. Okay, well thanks very much.
Speaker 2: All right, Rick, good luck, Happy holidays to you. Great
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Speaker 2: weekend we are doing here on the program today and tomorrow,
Speaker 2: nothing but your calls. You get to set the agenda.
Speaker 2: And yes, got some feedback from a couple of electrical
Speaker 2: engineer electronic engineer types from my comments to our last
Speaker 2: caller about finding tracing coaxle cable lines around the house
Speaker 2: and old phone lines and so on, saying there are
Speaker 2: ways to test it. Yeah, I know there are ways
Speaker 2: to test. I'm with you. I'm with you, guys. I
Speaker 2: just didn't recommend that that he invests in the thirty
Speaker 2: forty fifty dollars worth of gear in order to test that,
Speaker 2: because it's not as simple as the high voltage testing,
Speaker 2: which you just come up with a simple pen tester,
Speaker 2: touch it to the line and you know whether there's
Speaker 2: voltage running through it. As you know, those of you
Speaker 2: who are commenting on that, this requires a signal sender
Speaker 2: and a receiver and you're going to be cutting those
Speaker 2: lines and or sending a signal from a coaxle outlet
Speaker 2: out anyway. It's it's just a messy process. It's so
Speaker 2: much easier just to find out from your internet provider,
Speaker 2: Please tell me the wire that's going into the house
Speaker 2: that is yours, and then after that all the others
Speaker 2: are meaningless at that point, And that's the easiest way
Speaker 2: to go about it, because otherwise you're going to be cutting, splicing,
Speaker 2: putting ends on on, putting cable ends on, just for
Speaker 2: the sake of testing a line that you are ninety
Speaker 2: nine percent sure is dead anyway, So there you go. Anyway,
Speaker 2: just saying just saying, all right, let's get at least
Speaker 2: get another question started here. We ran a little late
Speaker 2: last segment. I want to talk to Bob. Hey, Bob,
Speaker 2: welcome home. Hello, Hey Bob, you're with me?
Speaker 4: I'm here? Are you here?
Speaker 2: I am here? I am here. How can I help you, sir?
Speaker 4: Hi, I'm calling from Ohio to confusion and I have
Speaker 4: a question. I have a home about fifteen years old.
Speaker 4: We never had this problem until just this year. But
Speaker 4: the front door, which is a metal, big heavy metal door,
Speaker 4: and in a screen door or storm door also there.
Speaker 4: They will not close unless I put my entire weight
Speaker 4: behind it to put in Okay, And I don't know.
Speaker 4: I was hoping it was an insulation problem, but I
Speaker 4: don't know whether it's getting too much moisture or not.
Speaker 4: Love moisture.
Speaker 2: So it's a metal it's a it's a metal security door, yes, okay.
Speaker 2: So it's the door itself or is it security door
Speaker 2: on the outside. I just got to clarify.
Speaker 4: It's the front door of the house.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's the front door of the house. And it's
Speaker 2: a metal door. Yes, okay, front door of the house.
Speaker 2: It's a metal door. And it's just started.
Speaker 4: Happening just in the last thirty days or so.
Speaker 2: The last thirty days or so, any big changes weather
Speaker 2: wise for you? I mean things have been Where are
Speaker 2: you at in Ohio?
Speaker 4: By the way, I'm just north of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Okay, north of Cincinnati. I just I say that my
Speaker 2: daughter in law is from Fremont, out of Toledo, and
Speaker 2: so that's why you know, I'm always interested in Ohio.
Speaker 2: So things have been pretty consistently cold for you guys,
Speaker 2: uh for a while now, right, I mean, so it's
Speaker 2: not like there's been a huge temperature change, has there.
Speaker 4: No, it's been consistently, you know, within ten or between agree,
Speaker 4: don't wear or another. Okay, yeah. The only thing I
Speaker 4: have noticed that there's a lot of We've had a
Speaker 4: lot of rain.
Speaker 2: Okay, a lot of rain.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean a metal door, a metal door and rain.
Speaker 2: I mean even if it would even if it had
Speaker 2: breached and water had gotten inside, I'm not seeing that
Speaker 2: changing the door. It is more likely the culprit is
Speaker 2: the jam uh, any settlement on the house or anything
Speaker 2: like that happening.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm aware of.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, Bob, here's the thing. I'm up against.
Speaker 2: A break. So I'm gonna pop you on hold and
Speaker 2: uh and we're gonna get through the break. And when
Speaker 2: we come back, you and I are we're gonna address
Speaker 2: this a little more intensely. Can you hang on for me?
Speaker 4: Yes? Sure? Perfect?
Speaker 2: All right, my friend, you hang tight and we'll figure
Speaker 2: it out. We'll figure out what's going on with Bob's
Speaker 2: front door.
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Speaker 2: before Christmas. Christmas coming this Wednesday. Hope you're already. It's
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Speaker 2: reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean A three
Speaker 2: three the numeral two. Ask Dean. You're setting the agenda
Speaker 2: today with your calls today and tomorrow. Now, before the break,
Speaker 2: we were talking to Bob. Bob is in Ohio and
Speaker 2: he's having a strange issue with his front door. Bob,
Speaker 2: you're still with me, yes, sure, okay. So Bob has
Speaker 2: a steel front door, a metal door, and it is
Speaker 2: now virtually impossible to open and or close except with
Speaker 2: you know, putting all his weight against it. So what
Speaker 2: is going on with that thing? It's a little bit
Speaker 2: of a head scratcher, clearly, because you know, okay, so
Speaker 2: steel doors can expand they do expand, technically, they expand.
Speaker 2: Steel doors, of all doors, are the most stable of doors.
Speaker 2: And the expansion of a steel door is is typically
Speaker 2: so minimal that it's easily you know, it expands and
Speaker 2: contracts within the clearances around the door, the gap between
Speaker 2: the door and the jam. So you know, not a
Speaker 2: problem have I heard in the past of moisture intrusion
Speaker 2: inside a steel door, because the steel door is usually
Speaker 2: filled with fiberglass insulation, and that affecting the fibers on
Speaker 2: the inside and causing expand. I mean, I personally have
Speaker 2: not seen one of these actually happen. I hear it
Speaker 2: can happen. But again, the expansion, even in a failed seal,
Speaker 2: should really be minimal. And the expansion that we expect,
Speaker 2: by the way, would be during a hot, humid summer
Speaker 2: where we've got moisture and heat working on the surfaces
Speaker 2: of that door, not in the dead of winter where
Speaker 2: when you know we've got thirty degree and twenty degree
Speaker 2: temperatures outside. That is not when you expect a steel
Speaker 2: door to expand. So I was thinking about it during
Speaker 2: the break, Bob, and I'm thinking, okay, tell me more
Speaker 2: about what you see. How where is the door rubbing?
Speaker 2: Is it the just the top? Is it catching now
Speaker 2: at the top of the jam? Is it Is it
Speaker 2: hitting and rubbing down the entire side of the of
Speaker 2: the latch side, the vertical portion of the jam. Where
Speaker 2: is it making contact now?
Speaker 4: I would say mostly around the what the doorknob is
Speaker 4: on that side of the door, and also across the top.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, And second question, it's a steel door.
Speaker 2: Is the jam steel as well? Or is it a
Speaker 2: wood jam?
Speaker 4: I believe it's a wood jam.
Speaker 2: It's a wood jam. Okay, Well, I'm not one hundred
Speaker 2: percent sure of exactly what the issue is.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: You said you've had you know, in you know, some
Speaker 2: extra moisture of late. I think, my friend, I think
Speaker 2: that the issue may be with moisture intrusion in the
Speaker 2: wood jam. It's far more likely that the jam has
Speaker 2: swollen some or expanded, not the door itself. So in
Speaker 2: one sense that's good news because if the door was
Speaker 2: somehow just failing you, now you're looking at a new door,
Speaker 2: and nobody wants to be with that but the jam.
Speaker 2: And I know, and I don't know how how old
Speaker 2: is the door?
Speaker 4: About for two years?
Speaker 2: Okay, so not an old old door, but not brand new.
Speaker 2: And I wasn't there to see the tolerances of how
Speaker 2: the door was originally hung, in other words, the tolerances
Speaker 2: between the door and the jam, the gap in between
Speaker 2: a lot of finished carpenters, well, I should say some
Speaker 2: finished carpenters get a little nervous about leaving too much
Speaker 2: of a gap, as especially in a cold weather climate,
Speaker 2: and so they leave those tolerances fairly tight. That's never
Speaker 2: actually a really good idea. The best thing to do
Speaker 2: is to stay with industry standard tolerances so that a
Speaker 2: door can expand and contract without sealing itself in the opening.
Speaker 2: In your case, I'm wondering, though, if there's been some
Speaker 2: moisture intrusion, if it's actually not effecting, and I don't
Speaker 2: mean that the wall is leaking, I mean that somehow
Speaker 2: some of this extra moisture has gotten into the wood
Speaker 2: jam and it, now, with a very tight tolerance set,
Speaker 2: is now pressing against the door. I would probably put
Speaker 2: good money that it's something like that. And the good
Speaker 2: news is that the right finished carpenter or a door
Speaker 2: service person should be able to surgically reset the door
Speaker 2: for you deal with the jam. And basically, like if
Speaker 2: I was coming over to your place to deal with it,
Speaker 2: I would take the door off of its hinge, set
Speaker 2: it aside, and address the latch leg of the jam
Speaker 2: and the head piece of the jam, and I'd probably
Speaker 2: pull them out and re shim them with larger clearances,
Speaker 2: or just replace those two pieces of the jam, might
Speaker 2: replace the whole thing, but the key would be to
Speaker 2: set to reset larger tolerances so that that door is
Speaker 2: swinging clear, and then we let the weather stripping, a
Speaker 2: good set of weather stripping make up for the gap.
Speaker 2: As far as keeping the cold and the wet outside
Speaker 2: and the warm and the dry inside, that's the one
Speaker 2: downside with a steel door. You gotta make sure those
Speaker 2: tolerances are set with room for expansion seasonally. Because if
Speaker 2: it was a wood door, we could just take the
Speaker 2: door off, plane the edge down and take you know,
Speaker 2: you know, an eighth of an inch off the door,
Speaker 2: reset it, and you know you're back in business. But
Speaker 2: obviously we can't do that with a steel door. I'm
Speaker 2: assuming the door is not failing, that's the thing, but
Speaker 2: I would get some professional eyes on, get a finished
Speaker 2: carpenter who specializes in door setting to take a look
Speaker 2: at it and make sure. But my guess is that
Speaker 2: the expansion or the swelling is actually happening on the
Speaker 2: jam side of things, and that the tolerances were probably
Speaker 2: not set wide enough on when the door was originally installed,
Speaker 2: and you just haven't experienced this kind of water intrusion
Speaker 2: up until now.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, you did mention that your daughter lives in Ohio,
Speaker 4: and what you could do is you could come down
Speaker 4: to my house take care of that door for me,
Speaker 4: and then you swing up and see her in tiledo.
Speaker 2: All right, that's a good idea. How about I do that? Well, actually,
Speaker 2: the problem is she it's my dog, her in law,
Speaker 2: and she lives out here. She lives like ninety seconds
Speaker 2: away from my house. But she was born and raised
Speaker 2: in Fremont in Toledo County up there, so and we
Speaker 2: get there a lot we do. Uh so you know,
Speaker 2: maybe if you have oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So so
Speaker 2: I'm afraid to break it to you. I won't be
Speaker 2: coming out to you see your door anytime.
Speaker 4: So okay, well, thank you for I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks, thanks for your question, Bob, and thanks
Speaker 2: for listening to us from Ohio. That's awesome. All right, y'all,
Speaker 2: we still have more to go. You hang tight. It's
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Speaker 2: I love them. I love them. We do them every
Speaker 2: few weeks because I never get a chance to take
Speaker 2: enough calls. We've got so many great things to talk
Speaker 2: to you about all the time, and so I love
Speaker 2: just sitting back and letting you set the agenda for
Speaker 2: the show. So let's finish her off with another call
Speaker 2: this morning. Let's talk to Jeff. Hey, Jeff, welcome home, Hidine.
Speaker 5: Yes, I had a question for you.
Speaker 2: Hello, sir, Yeah, I'm here. How can I help?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got this crack that's going across in my
Speaker 5: slab at that part concrete slab on my house foundation
Speaker 5: in it in the hallway, it goes a little bit
Speaker 5: into the bedroom, so it's just like a crack, and
Speaker 5: I've been wanting to lay some flooring there. I had
Speaker 5: a flying person in there checking it out, and they
Speaker 5: said they couldn't do it because he had the one
Speaker 5: the kind of flooring that sticks to this lab. So
Speaker 5: I just wonder, is that something I need to get
Speaker 5: sixed before I can lay some flooring? Like being in
Speaker 5: the floating laminate flooring.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you're going to be using floating flooring laminate
Speaker 2: or a luxury vinyl plank, something that floats, something that
Speaker 2: doesn't stick down.
Speaker 5: I'd like to use something you know, across there or
Speaker 5: even get it repaired.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, yeah, yeah, A couple of questions now
Speaker 2: about the crack. Uh you say it runs down the
Speaker 2: hallway and then into a bedroom. How wide is the crack?
Speaker 2: Is it what we call spider crack, just a nice long,
Speaker 2: ugly crack?
Speaker 4: Or uh?
Speaker 2: Has it spread open? And is their uplift meaning is
Speaker 2: one side now taller than the other? Or has it
Speaker 2: just opened up? You know, that's what we need to
Speaker 2: know about this crack, because not all cracks are created equal,
Speaker 2: and not all cracks are actually a concern on it
Speaker 2: from a structural perspective, and the way that we approach
Speaker 2: filling them up or ignoring them has everything to do
Speaker 2: with the nature of the concrete crack itself. So describe
Speaker 2: it to me a little bit more detailed.
Speaker 5: I think carbon covered with some cheap carpets for the
Speaker 5: last couple of years. When I last looked at it,
Speaker 5: I would have to say it was just a bit uneven,
Speaker 5: you know, not open to anything. Just their crack across
Speaker 5: the floor and it's just a tiny bit uneven on
Speaker 5: each side, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Okay, So so it hasn't actually opened up. It's just
Speaker 2: a it's it's just a crack that's running. And uh,
Speaker 2: you know, the cracks can typically be a little uneven
Speaker 2: with each other. I mean, you know, once once a
Speaker 2: crack occurs. But when I'm talking about uplift, is one
Speaker 2: side like an eighth of an inch or a quarter
Speaker 2: inch or worse higher than the other or uh is
Speaker 2: it just you know, uneven concrete? Uh, you know on
Speaker 2: each side of the crack.
Speaker 5: I haven't measured it. I'd say not even an eighth
Speaker 5: sent of a nance recorder of an inch right in
Speaker 5: that area.
Speaker 2: Okay, it sounds to me like this is not an
Speaker 2: issue of of of any significant concern. Uh. People are
Speaker 2: always shocked when they find cracks in their concrete slab
Speaker 2: and and people quite often get really concerned that, oh, no, okay,
Speaker 2: my foundation is failing.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing that we say in the industry,
Speaker 2: there are there are only two kinds of concrete in
Speaker 2: the world. Concrete with cracks and concrete that hasn't cracked yet.
Speaker 2: It's just the nature of concrete for it to experience
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. Probably everybody listening to us right
Speaker 2: now who has a concrete slab in their house has
Speaker 2: got a crack somewhere, if not more than one place.
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean the house is failing. So what we
Speaker 2: look for when we get word of a crack that
Speaker 2: has to be repaired, we want to hear if the
Speaker 2: crack has opened up. I mean like if there's a
Speaker 2: gap now from one side to the other, that's something
Speaker 2: that has to be looked at. Or if one side
Speaker 2: of the concrete has raised up above the other side
Speaker 2: of the concrete what we call uplift, uh, then that's
Speaker 2: something to be concerned about. That that at least has
Speaker 2: to be looked at. Even those, by the way, does
Speaker 2: not mean that it's a failure and that can't be fixed.
Speaker 2: When there's when there is a spreading of a crack
Speaker 2: an opening of a gap, but there's no uplift and
Speaker 2: the and the spreading of the crack is minimal, but
Speaker 2: there is a gap there, then we can come in
Speaker 2: with with high pressure concrete epoxy and simply fill that
Speaker 2: crack over and you end up making that crack actually
Speaker 2: stronger than the concrete around it once it gets filled.
Speaker 2: If this though, is not opened up, if there's no
Speaker 2: gap and there's barely any disturbance or uplift at all,
Speaker 2: then it's what we would call a spider crack. And
Speaker 2: if you're concerned at all about like an uneven level there,
Speaker 2: then a little bit of flooring level can be applied
Speaker 2: to the concrete just to hit the edge that's a
Speaker 2: little disrupted, and then feathered out over a foot or
Speaker 2: so to nothing, so that any flooring that you want,
Speaker 2: be a tile or hardwood or something that glues down,
Speaker 2: will have a smooth surface to work on. But if
Speaker 2: you're planning on putting in a floating floor, carpet was
Speaker 2: a floating floor. It lays there, floats over the surface
Speaker 2: of the of the concrete and only connects on the edges.
Speaker 2: A luxury vinyl plank floor is a floating floor basically
Speaker 2: lays there like a carpet, So is a laminate floor.
Speaker 2: If that's the plan, and this is a minimal, minimal,
Speaker 2: minimal disturbance edge, then the fact of the matter is
Speaker 2: you probably don't have to do anything at all or
Speaker 2: worry about it in any way, shape or form, because
Speaker 2: the floor is just going to float over it, cover
Speaker 2: it over and it shouldn't be an issue. So don't
Speaker 2: be alarmed just because there's a crack. Only be alarmed
Speaker 2: if we have a crack in which the concrete is
Speaker 2: gaping open or one side is uplifting from the other,
Speaker 2: because that becomes an indication that there may be some
Speaker 2: deeper concerns that have to be looked at by a professional,
Speaker 2: but not just typical spider cracking, especially on an older slab,
Speaker 2: because it's gonna happen, my friend, it's going to happen,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much. I appreciate all that information.
Speaker 2: You are so welcome. Jeff, thank you for the call,
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Speaker 2: Jeff was with us like from near the beginning of
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