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Is This Your King?!

Aug 31, 202240 minSeason 1Ep. 84
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Looking forward to the presidential race of 2024, it seems like there are no clear and obvious champions on either side of the aisle, thus invoking the great line from Killmonger after defeating T'challa in Black Panther, "Is THIS your king?!"

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So in the climax of this film, in the very first showdown of the hero and the villain, and this villain is so unique because he's one of those villains that are complicated, sympathetic, like you kind of understand where he comes from. He kind of make a lot of good points in the middle of this all black Marvel movie, the movie we've been waiting for for a long time, got black people changing their avatars and they Twitter and social media handles. In the wat Condon oh Man, we

needed the Black Panther film. And while all praise and honor and to our ancestor who has joined the Ancestors, the great T'Challa Chadwick Boseman has joined the ancestral plane at this point in our life, but right now, in the best shape of his life, he is facing off with the kill Monger, slashed up with scars all over his body from the people he has already murder ordered with a complicated childhood and history from Oakland, California old.

But there's something that has not yet been revealed, something we do not yet know about our anti hero. The war fought on for who is the rightful king of Wakanda, Central sub Saharan Africa and kill Munger has a claim to the throne and he battles in the way that his ancestors have battled for the right to become the Black Panther. And as King, T'Challa drinks the ancestral tea

to remove the Blick Panther powers and they fight. Kill Monger puts a whooping on the Black Panther just whoops that boy, wears him out, looks over at the Queen mother and the other on luckers and shouts of phrase that will reverberate among black twitter and black people for a years to come. He says, is this your king? Let's talk about election hood politics? All right? What up? Though?

I know it's early to be talking about some we have a long way away from that, but we really need to talk about this mug like, yeah, this is this, this this is gold be fun. So, first of all, shout out Michael B. Jordan's um, shout out again, rest in peace to the l G. Chadwick Boseman. I had a special chance to right, believe it or not, some sort of Bible study. Yeah, stay with me to go along with his movie that he was his last film.

He was in uh with Viola day Viola Davis. I say Viola because that's my grandmother's name and it's spelled the same way as Viola David spells hers. My grandma was Viola anyway, so you know, shout out me. But um, yeah, the chance to write about when he did this film about Ma Rainey and that's pretty dump anyway. And you don't know who mar Rainy is. You need to do

your google's man learned something about our culture anyway. So right now it's about the phrase kill Monger gave us, and again shout out Michael B. Jordan's I am a sis gendered heterosexual male and I the brothers undeniable, especially as kill Monger, I was like, damn, Nick, I'm kind of killing him right now, like I ain't gonna hold you because y'all I'm saying, and I almost feel like, listen, if you're in the Chocolate Men, then like the First

Black Panther, like that that movie was for you, you say, and we I am. I am so excited to use this example as a way to talk about what we're gonna talk about because of the Waconda Forever and which is the new the Black panther to coming out, and I was always I was super curious as to like how they would make this work. I don't know if y'all saw the trailer, but in the trailer they got what looks to be aztecs um or indigenous medical Americans

in there. And I'm so excited with you are if you comic book nerds, you're yelling at me, you're like the Atlanteans. I know. The point I'm trying to make is it's like my house, Like again, I got this first gen you know, Southern Mexican Acapulco. You know what I'm saying, Cadeto like family who look and that's what's dope about my wife's family, Like they look more indigenous

than they do. Not yall are saying so Like I was like, yo, me and my wife like said to each other on the couch and watch like the the preview. We were like, oh my god, it's us. It's both our cultures. Anyway, the phrase is this your king? If you don't know what it means? Like you like, we use it all the time. It became a meme for

a while. It's kind of made its way out. You know what I'm saying like, we don't say it much no more, but I feel like in this scenario it really brings it back because essentially, if you don't understand the moment, basically, the bad guy just beat the brakes off the good guy and he's like, Yo, is this your dude? Kind of like that? That's all you got? This?

Your man's like this? Who you this what we're talking about? Look, here's what's crazy as a as a side note, a lot of times, you know what I'm saying, when it comes to the streets, Uh, sometimes the myth is more important than the man himself, you feel me. That's why myth making, that's why storytelling and that's why like hood stories just so important. You know, there was this interview with h I believe it was Beanie. It was with Beanie Seagull, and he was like, you know who was

legendary Philly rapper, but before before he's a rapper. He was like, like, my man, a man sold them drugs. You know what I'm saying. And he was just talking about how like man, sometimes it's like man, you know you're doing stuff and then you meet the plug who's like supplying all the drugs and You're like, man, he the plug, this little funk. You're like, yo, this this

your man's all right? You know what I mean? Or if you ever, like ever actually square up with a bully and you lay that fool out and you like this dude, y'all was all I supposed to scared of this? Dude. I just I'm a wax this food, you know what I'm saying, Like, that's the thing. Well, basically it's like that's this can not possibly be the best you got? Is this your king? Him? Him? Now? Of course this is the middle of the movie, and at the end of of Black Panther, I feel like there's an again

exploration date on spoiler alerts. Uh, the Black Panther returns, even though in that scene you know he dies and he but he doesn't really die because as in the other great scene later on that attitude to sidegeis now saying Black Panther come back. He said, Uh, as you can see, I am eddy much your life. I don't

know what accident that is. Unfortunately, centuries and centuries of white supremacy has done its best to separate the African American black slave descendant from their ancestral ties to African, So our African accents are not very strong. I apologize, but you know, blame colonialization, like I literally just found out like my ancestors were Ethiopian like or Northeast African, uh, like a year ago. Anyway, if I'm shouting if this your king, that means you need to come harder than that.

You need to, you need to you know, you need to bring some stronger energy to the table that you bring it. So the question we're talking about is on both sides, whether we're talking red or blue, Democratic Republican. I'm like, yo, this your king? This will you bring it to the table. What's so interesting? We're so early in to even talk about what's happening right here as far as the elections like we saw are we ain't

even done the Bedsterns yet. But Foods is already talking about like what's gonna go down, like who gonna run for president? And I know every year Foods are like I don't know, I don't like anybody else, so that's two years. But they're not come on, family. There's usually rock stars. There's usually like a clear like oh no, man, this fools gonna be your food and listen, we get it. Everybody problematic. Come on now, fam, your life partner problematic,

the person you murried is problematic. Now I'm talking about the child you gave birth to problematic. Everybody problematic. That's not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is how are you gonna choose your champion? How are you gonna seeing somebody who do you think really gotta contender to be the top dog, to be the big stepper. You know what I'm talking about. Oh, we can get a lot of medium steppers out there, we need a

big stepper. So we're gonna get to it. Let's talk about the Democrats side, and then after that we're gonna talk about the publican side. Let's take this break, all right, Joe. So here's what's so interesting about this year or this particular like election cycle. And some people are saying it's kind of reminiscent of like the Jimmy Carter years, to where it's like, if you'd incumbent, this should be a no brainer. The incumbent, as in Joe Biden is your champion.

I don't understand what the other question is. And usually that fool gotta leg up because you're already in the house, and even if he didn't wracked up a few els here and there, it's usually this the easiest choice the squad post to circle up and support the man's in them that they got out front. This should be easy. But like we said in a How fifty Did Job episode, which is going to get referenced a few times in this because it's exactly this is like on the Republican side,

this is exactly what's going on. It's how fifty did John? And I feel very full of myself in the sense that I I told y'all, yeah, I'm saying but it wasn't like the hardest thing to predict anyway. But we're still on the Democrats side. On on the Democrats side, like you look, dude, like the the the incumbent is supposed to be a no brainer, even if you take a few els. It's like, yo, that's our guy. Though, you know, I mean we all kind of live by this listen. Uh, you know, me and Sophie are like

like we bleed lakers. Do you think we ain't know they've been taking els? I mean it's pretty obvious, but like you can't talk about them. When somebody asked me who winning the championship with Lakers. Okay, I know for a fact they're not fine with the Lakers. You know what I'm saying. And with Sophie here that she's gonna say the same thing. I don't even need to ask her. She's gonna say the same thing. Who gonna win next to the Lakers? We know that's not true. We're hoping

it is. I mean, we do got a new coach. Yeah, I wish you could see the big grain. I got him on face one day, me and self. You're gonna do a whole basketball podcast. Just pull on basketball podcast anyway? Uh, did y'all like the Shakra Kobe one? We did? I don't know why I'm asking a question like you can

answer me. Um So the incumbents our guy. But if you've been watching Poland like everybody else been watching Poland, and I don't know why you would be watching Poland because it's kind of boring unless you ended this stuff. But Yo, Yo spidy senses Yo Antennis is probably telling you the same thing. Who's really don't one another four years of Biden? I mean, democratics, are you like? Doc?

Is this our king? This our dude? This is what we got this, this so this our you know why you know we feel like that because we felt like that last time, Like yo, we settled for Joe, Joe saying like this our dude, where I mean if I gotta it's you know when you was a kid, you always asked the question who would win in a fight? And you say something just silly and you're like, well, I mean if these my only choices, you know, your

mama say stuff like, uh, you can either eat. You can either eat this dinner or nothing for dinner, Like, well, if these are my Now, I don't know how y'all was raised, but it was pretty simple with us. Like my mama was like, I'm not gonna get an a power struggle with a child. If I'm in a power struggle with a child, out of know, already loss because I shouldn't be in a power struggle with a child. Mama would say, I'll be like, yo, is this this we haven't this? This is one we haven't for dinner.

She'd be like, you could you could always have nothing? Joe say so, I'm like, so you're telling me my choice is either eat what you put in front of me or nothing. She would be like I'm not over out here feeding you bugs, and if I was, it wouldn't matter. You eat what I give you. Now. Obviously my mother, she's been on the show. My mother would never feed me bugs. And y'all know how she was behaving in on that episode. You know what I'm saying, a real spit with my dukes. She was being nice.

I told you all she would being nice, But my mom was very sarcastic. She says stuff like I could be feeding you, don't know, I could be chopping up roaches in your food. You eat what I give you. She would never chop up a roach into my food. Okay, because clearly she listens to the show now, which is I don't know if you know, that's why I ain't a cousin like a YouTuber like damgn my mama watching

the show anyway. Uh, you're saying, if these my choices, I mean, if there's no alternatives, then yeah, Jo Biden, you feel me. It seemed like the most safetest. It's like it's like going to a ice cream like a

froyo spot and just getting to vanilla. You're like, well, I mean, I guess you can't go wrong with I'll mean, I look, if that's if I got to choose vanilla or you know what I'm saying, uh fried Bologny ice cream, then I'm like, I mean, I I mean I or a living and breathing pile of vile vomit of you know, a drunk Becky like if I gotta drink frozen frozen becky vomit, or Joe Biden. I guess I'm gonna choose Joe Biden. So anyway, that's pretty rough on Joe Biden.

But I'm just saying, like if we if I'm if, I'm gonna tell you how how Democrats felt as how he felt. Anyway, the problem was they ain't had nobody better. If you could rewind the clock back to the Obama years, it was a no brainer. Ye he's our dude. Now, of course you had the time with Hillary. But you gotta remember Hillary was stained like Obama. He was so like he handled history. No history we could point at, you know, the Clinton name. It just had too much history.

Now you can say what you will about her and about what type of president she should have done it, and what's and and the fact is she was overly qualified. Let's be real. She was absolutely qualified for the job. Do you want her as clearly not? You know what I'm saying. But the Obama thing like yo, if he be Hillary, you like ohis and no brainer gy like this our dude, right, We ain't got none of those no more the party to fracture, the tribe all over

the place. The tribe got tribes. You feel me, So it ain't no clear, ain't no to to chola out this mug hey, nobody you feel me? So when you look at the new pollings that are coming out recently, they say that. Look and then Joe got asked for it. Uh, of registered Democrats want a new guy to run, they're like, yo, if if there's somebody else, we would choose him. But then Joe got defensive, and I don't blame him because Joe was like, man, you ain't got dragged me like that.

Joe was like yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, you're not reading that study right, because it also says of the people would vote for me if I was on the ballot, which is probably true, but it's true because if my choice is between you and that fool, then of course, I mean, I guess that's my option. It's the same

option I give my child. When she asked me about whether she could watch another twenty minutes of television and have a popsicle at nine o'clock at night, she can go to bed, I was like, Yo, you can have a carrot so I want to popstick. I was like, okay, you can have nothing and go to bed now. So she's like, damn, well, I mean, why can't I have a popsicle. I'm like, cause it's nine o'clock and NW you're gonna be anyway. I'm being an old head right now.

The point I'm trying to make is if my choices between this and that, of course I'm gonna choose that. And that's what the Polan says. People clearly are going to choose him. Now, how does he fix that? At the place where he's at, like his lowest approval, you know what I'm saying, Like, how you fix that? What the problem is, what most people got a problem with, he ain't got nothing to do with. Can he help the gas prices? Think about how freakishly american it is

to think that you could change the gas prices. That's a private company and ain't but so much you could do, Oh, he could open up more reserves. You think he really could do that, Kenny. I mean, it don't seem like anybody's gonna let him do stuff like that. And the company set the price. I'm pretty sure he just mad as you are, like dangn that's how much it calls. He can't do nothing about that. Everybody mad about inflation. But he can't help cast prices. He can't help inflation.

But what he can do which would help, like I said before, lay up, uh, legalizing marijuana. But let's put that to the side. But this Inflation Reduction Act, now here's the problem with that. Who got that happening? Who got that Inflation Reduction Act cracking? It might help Joe if he could figure out how to mess with inflation. But the problem is Manchion got that cracking, and he did it without Joe. When I tell you we would

talk about this before, demand that owned the party. And don't care at all whether you like him or not, Joe manching big on me. That's look, that's our miss McConnell. Ours in the Democrats, that's stay miss mccona, like, I don't care what you think about me. I get it done. And for somebody like somebody like a mansion. What seemed like to me, it's the same thing it seemed like with a with a Mitch McConnell. It's I want to be I don't even president. They ain't got no power.

That's too much work. There's too many eyes on your face. You got no, it's too me. No, Like I'm not trying to do I'm trying to actually make real moves. I'm actually moving government. And and to me, that's what Joe doing that man, Joe pamped pamp hand way strong. How many things he didn't torpedo? How many things that the Biden office has been trying to do. The ad ministry has been trying to do that man and torpedo that thing. And it came out like a boss out

of nowhere. Over this climate change and this Inflation Reduction Act, which you could do your googles was basically it's the it's like, you take the Green New Deal and you suck all the revolution out of it. You know what I'm saying. You take the bill back better and you suck all the revolution out of it, and you got this one right. But he was like, I'll do that one, and the waited and let me tell you how Boss moved this fool like listen, man, look, don't hate the player,

hate the game. He was able to be like Joe and even know he got it done. That man hooked up with the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and was like, look, that's what we're gonna do because because the whole time he's been Ya. Gotta understand mansion man holding up the whole works, making Joe Biden looks like a little sucker because he can't get nothing done and White can't get

nothing done. Joe manchon, it's only partially the Republicans. It's really Joe Joe versus Joe, because he out here shutting stuff down and then showed up like a hero. Like, listen, we stayed up all night and we got it done. So we got a little money towards climate change, and we got a little money to help, you know, kind of fight inflation. But this man said got the nerve

to say out loud on a camera. Uh. We didn't include the president be because if it didn't work, I didn't want him wanted to fall on yet, I don't want it to look bad. I just wanted to be But if it does work. Then we could say this is a you know, a success for everybody. You pimping Homie. That's that was hats offt out because I think we all know where what it was. It's like now I'm trying to I want to be the earl. Is this your king? You know it's the it's the rummy of

it all. It's the RUMs Feld of it all. Y'all saying it's the dick Cheney of it all, like big Homie really pulling the levers, you know what I'm saying. But if it ain't Joe running into four who you got send your best, what is it Pete Buda? I mean I guess he and the I mean he in the cabinet, I mean here, I guess he's slightly more likable. He's a little younger. One of the most people's biggest beef with Joe is like me, oh, bro, ain't trying

to be an agent or nothing. I'm trying to be a realist family Like, I don't know what I mean, more years, you got, so, you got you got bootage. You know. He young, kind of likable, you know what I'm saying. He'd be making making points here and there. He seemed like he worked across the aisle like maybe bootyges but he like he rookie lighting the booty, Like don't nobody really know? You know what I'm saying, what he could do? And b you think America ready for

for a gay president? I mean, we had to re shure up your right to be married. You think we really met him for I look, I don't know, I don't know if he could win. And then the next up is like Kamala And the only way for Kamala to work or from bootages to work is like Joe gotta agree to not run because how are you gonna primary? How are you gonna how are you the vice president primary? And the president Jo saying like you look crazy? But like right now, Kamala approval rating like kind of, I mean,

I don't know how much they like her? You feel me? I mean she raising among like old black people, but like, y'all I mean, is what who else you got that could win in an open fight? Yeah, I'm saying again like who winning the fight? Like who gonna? I mean, I don't know. It looks like vanilla it is. Now let's talk about the Republican side after this break yeah, all right, now let's talk about the right. This is gonna be one of the most I mean, I feel

like we lived in a time. Despite the the unbelievably bizarre and horrendous things that have happened in the last few years, these have been very interesting primaries. I like, it's just maybe, I maybe my nursery has a floor to its like limits in the sense that, like, I don't know of any other time where the primaries look the way they looked. Y'all, Demand that is faced two impeachments. Is the front runner from the party, y'all, Like, let

that sink in. Demand that's still saying something that is verifiably untrue about his election. Y'all watching these hearings, maybe you over it, And I understand why because it's like, already you're gonna tell me something I already know. I mean what I need to watch this for now. It's just revenge born, you know what I'm saying, Like, I need to watch it. I know what it is. This

man was totally here for this insurrection. Heat the front runner, y'all, Like, come on, zoom your camera out ten thousand feet and be like, yo, this is real. Now, has he taken some shots towards his um, his popularity. Of course he has my homeboy. I'm not gonna say his name because I ain't trying to get in trouble. He ain't he but he like, look I gotta daddy with like you know, in God, we trust on my arm and you know these colors don't bleed tattoo on his back. He said

he's done with Trump because that's not American. Whatever he doing ain't American. So the dudes, I mean, he taking some shots, but I listen, that boy bounced back game. That boy. You look, you can't count that man out because people still fam still is pushing his election for our joint. So there's another way around it, you know what I'm saying. And could win. I just again, he could win. He could become the president. Just he could.

But the thing about Trump that people can primary on if he do run is the fact that he always talking about the past, and that's actually what they're going for. They're like, look, man, all you're talking about. All you're talking about is the past, and that's a good argument. Who's saying that? Oh man, the no sugar oatmeal bowl himself. Mike Pence that's the most basic man I ever seen in my life. Like that man is a bit a sick okay, uh, but he got a shot. And here's

me saying, however about his basicness. This this man in some of it and he outside that man outside like he putting himself in position to possibly run. Like we told you before in the in the in the uh how fifty did job? Episode? Don't think because you gotta boss. People's ambition somehow went out the window, you know what I'm saying, Like Foo still want to be president. Some people get that there's life after Trump. Pence was like

in the very Pence way. You know, some people are focused on the past, but elections are about the future. I believe that conservatives must focus on the future to win back America. You have to do that tone because you want everybody to clap. That's that's you know, that's that's the game. Right. But here go the problem with with Pence. It's like you're talking to a party that elected Donald Trump. Fan that man almost let you die? Are you still low? Ki? You ain't said nothing about it?

I can't. How can I respect a man like you? Gotta think about that party? How I'm gonna respect the man? Did you you? You ain't said like and to vise Like some of us could be like, well, that's the G code, Like I'm not supposed to say nothing about it. You know what I'm saying? Like you don't know what we're saying behind and say you don't know what we're talked about. Body say so some of y'all can argue what you're talking about. It's the code. But that's if

you understand the G code. If you just regular Joe blow, you might be like, O, dohn't no, man, you're seeing kind of soft to me in the same way, how anyone can respect Ted Cruise After that man made fun of your wife, called your wife ugly and you still backed him. It's like, I can't How can I respect you? Gee? Like I'm saying that the the toxic is of masculinity all the way down to just like, man, have some self respect and man made fun of your wife on

international television. How you could possibly ride for him is beyond me. I can't respect that. How can I respect that? How do you expect me to both for you? Like you don'ta let this man make fun of you like this? So in the same way as kind of the burn with pinchers, Like, man, you're gonna let word you had one day to not be a punk. You want me to pat you on the back because you just did the bare minimum. Let this man bully you this whole time.

You're supposed to be some sort of warrior that you understand that, Like what what man? Was it the g called? Maybe was you playing the game? Maybe? Either way? Man, is this your king? You feel me? Uh? Nikki Haley? She outside trying to get some joints, you know what I'm saying. She only like, hey, you know sometimes it takes a woman, she running on a woman thing to do a man's jobs. She's trying trying to play out one. You know what I'm saying. You got Christy no O?

She outside, she's getting the commercials up. Who Trump gotta worry about, though, is people we told you about theft in the fifty did job. So you gotta worry about the Sanchos. The Sanchos. You gotta worry about the Santis. I keep calling him Santos because I'm like Ron de Santis. Bro, You think I don't know your name is round Santos. Yeah, I don't know anyway, he a young shooter, because I mean he out here and look what he has mastered is owning the lives. And my man was out in

New Hampshire and then Paul out of New Hampshire. They was like, Yo, on the head to head, like he might be he might be Trump, the thing with the thing you gotta worried about what the Santos is like he got all the fashionness of Trump, but he can govern like the Santos know how to do the job. And you could tell Trump smelling it because he was like, I'd vote for him to be a reelected governor. That's that get you out the race. He was like, um,

but he don't want no parts of this though. And here's what's hard about De Santos is like, Yo, Trump got no Trump got no morals. He ain't got no code, yo saying, So like in De Santos, if you're gonna be a Trump two point oh, you kind of gotta have a code. Because that's what people don't like about Trump is he ain't got a code. Some people love it about him, but some people kind of tired of this. So is is the Santos gonna like are you gonna

like crack jokes the way Trump do. Because again, there's there is no denying that Donald Trump is verifiably funny. Like this, I just this, He's funny, like he Evie dragon fools. I'm it's ridiculous. It's racist, don't get me wrong, but he funny. Right, So, like we said before, and De Santos getting where he gotten by just doing the Trump thing minus the part people don't like. So Trump needs to be shooting, need to be shooting guns, borning

shots in the air. So I'm like, but again, like this, y'all, This y'all's best. De Santos, dude, who I thought it was wise to take away Disney's tax exemption because you don't like what they said about your law? You're damn right that was a good move, especially if you're trying to get elected by this Republican party, because all they want you to do is own the lives and listen. I don't know nobody else to get under the skin greg Abbott, greg Abbott, get under the skin of the lives.

But the Santos like homey can govern. So like if you Trump, look, they're gon, y'all kill monger. HOI he might mess around, get in there and mop you. Now, maybe it ends the way that the movie ends. Maybe Trump like, look, I just need to keep saying this. There is a possibility. Did this man come back and win another election? It's just we just needed if you haven't accepted this already, just that is in the realm of possibility. But I'm trying to say, it's like, yo,

these are these are our champions. So how how is your civic duty? What what can I suggest for you to do? Uh? Which you might seem a little far fetched, but just follow me here. You see all these people I'm naming here. I don't know where you're falling. There was the spectrum like go to their website, now, look at their platform, email them foods, ask them questions that these fools like, hey, this is what I'm this is

what I'm looking for. You'd be surprised, Like I've had a chance to be on Capitol Hill and it's like you you have no idea how much actual power you have to change these foods minds because they just want to be liked. And at this stage, of course, there's like obviously the other side of this where it's like, man, you ain't cutting no checks, you know what I mean. But in this early stage, if you trying to get in the game, you know, you kind of gotta care

what people think about. So this is our shot right now, Like, let's let's do it this right now. This this the season. You know what I'm saying? Blood these fools in boxes, I don't no, man, We got a whole bunch of kill mongers out this mug screaming. Is this yo King? And we sell soon see who is killed monger and who is the politics? Y'all? Yeah, that's here. Thing was recorded by ME Propaganda in East Low Spoil Heights, Los Angeles, California.

This mug was mixed, edited, mastered, and scored by Mat Ososki. I can totally say his name, guys, it was it was a stick He's won by Matt now again because he got into some legal situations with the name Headlights. Y'all know, comment used to be called common sense, ya know? Tip t I was Tipped Sometimes to Happen. Executive produced by the one and Only Sophie Electorman for a Cool Zone Media and the theme music by the one and only Gold Tips Gold Tips d J Shawn p. So

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