Super 57 Part Two: Handle It | Chiefs vs. Eagles | Defending the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: Thank you, vantage on the day. All right, will you

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Speaker 1: get off the game? They can play? He don’t do

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Speaker 1: it one touchdown? Kansas City the Chiefs all right in

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Speaker 1: the thick of a baby. Hello everyone, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl fifty seven Edition, Part one of Defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom. From here in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mitch Alters with you,

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Speaker 1: voiced the Chiefs, and with Matt McMullan, senior team reporter.

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Speaker 1: This episode we’ll call handle it is. We’ll get into

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Speaker 1: what the Chiefs have done over the past week and

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Speaker 1: a half to get ready to win Super Bowl fifty

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Speaker 1: seven over the Philadelphia Eagles. A reminder that this podcast

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Speaker 1: is brought to you by the terrific folks at Community America,

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Speaker 1: great partner with the Kansas City Chiefs. Why am I

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Speaker 1: sitting here thinking of the day I beat the drum

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Speaker 1: in the Seattle Seahawk game when it was like minus

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Speaker 1: five win chill at kickoff? This feels much different. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: here we are in Arizona. It’s truthfully the perfect day

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Speaker 1: and people are probably wondering, why are you in a sweatshirt? Well,

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Speaker 1: it was like already degrees this morning, but like the

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Speaker 1: perfect kind of forty degrees and now it’s like seventy

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Speaker 1: we’re in the sun. I mean, it’s just perfect. So

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Speaker 1: in the offseason we talked about, hey, we start in Arizona,

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Speaker 1: we can end in Arizona. The fact that we’re actually

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Speaker 1: here it’s pretty amazing. So we’re enjoying every second of it.

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Speaker 1: Indeed it is. And this episode we’re going to entitle

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Speaker 1: handle it. So you’re saying, oh my gosh, look at that,

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Speaker 1: look at their surroundings, and gosh, great weather. But there’s

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Speaker 1: way more than that in handling the super Bowl two

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Speaker 1: weeks and I’m going to say the two weeks as

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Speaker 1: we’ll get into that. But first of all, one of

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Speaker 1: the great stories. There’s so many storylines to this game

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Speaker 1: against the Eagles and super Bowl fifty seven, but one

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Speaker 1: of those down the line or the Chiefs rookies, and

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Speaker 1: I think of Isaiah Pacheco number ten because that leads

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Speaker 1: us to our trip around the world, and we have

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Speaker 1: ten people from around the world. There were so many

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Speaker 1: people that wrote in this week. We’ll get to you.

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Speaker 1: We’ll have another show later this week and I’ll catch

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Speaker 1: up on the people I miss here today. But we

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Speaker 1: have ten people from around the world listening to DDK.

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Speaker 1: Here today, we have Richard in Columbia, Maryland. John and Lubbock,

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Speaker 1: Texas were forever indebted to Lubbock, Texas. For the folks

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Speaker 1: at Tech. Absolutely, we have Steve in Cleethorpe’s England. Chaz

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Speaker 1: and Mesa, Arizona. We’ve been getting more and more people

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Speaker 1: from Arizona in recent weeks, trying to manifest our trip

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Speaker 1: here and here we are, so Chaz is probably around

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Speaker 1: the corner or something. Um we have Brian and Karney, Nebraska,

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Speaker 1: home of the Bearcats, home of the University of Nebraska.

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Speaker 1: Karney Lopers Yip near where you grew up. Um Obema

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Speaker 1: is in Lagos, Nigeria. Jack is in Madera, Ranchos, California,

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Speaker 1: but originally from Saint Robert, Missouri. We have a listener

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Speaker 1: in Little Elm, Texas. They skipped school for the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl four parade. Now hopefully we’ll get another parade here

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty four parade. Don’t know about that one.

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Speaker 1: Let us know. Let us know you made your way

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Speaker 1: to Kansas City and skipped school or work for the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty four parade. But I know they skipped

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Speaker 1: school for this. The super Bowl four parades’s pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: Ryan is in New Jersey and then Mark is in

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Speaker 1: that wrote in this week. I will get to you later.

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Speaker 1: I promise again, we’ll have another episode later in the

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Speaker 1: week that we will entitle win it. This is handle

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Speaker 1: it And honestly, the Chiefs are in the super Bowl

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Speaker 1: for the third time in four seasons. That’s pretty remarkable.

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Speaker 1: Look about that. It’s crazy. I mean, growing up on

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Speaker 1: I’m Len Dawson in every game. Nowhere did I think

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Speaker 1: that I’d even be a Super Bowl is the voice

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Speaker 1: that Chiefs three times in four years but this one,

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Speaker 1: and it’s been awesome so far. As the Chiefs getting

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Speaker 1: team COVID and Super Bowl fifty five is just weird. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean those zoom calls and we went down playing

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Speaker 1: And I’ve said this, you can’t win the super Bowl

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Speaker 1: of the Chiefs coach is, specifically Andy Reid coaching in

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Speaker 1: his fourth super Bowl, I think is immeasurable here because Matt,

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Speaker 1: that we work with, the details, the logistics can be laborious,

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Speaker 1: where we’re going to focus on this episode, of what

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Speaker 1: and it seems very basic and obvious, but I really

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Speaker 1: don’t think every team attacks the bye week like we

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Speaker 1: in terms of drawing up plays, but he’s also a

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Speaker 1: essentially the entire game plan, as he’s told us, was

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Speaker 1: There was no major distractions going on because, like you said,

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Speaker 1: So the fact that coach Reid found a way to

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Speaker 1: would be frankly overwhelming. Yeah, let’s ship on one of

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Speaker 1: the things you said and digging a little further on it,

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid and running this football team all throughout the year.

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Speaker 1: But your point is a good one. This experience is

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Speaker 1: nothing but a distraction. Let’s talk about the so called

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Speaker 1: bye week, the week off. And you know, for twenty

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Speaker 1: one seasons, I was the voice of the Chiefs, so

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Speaker 1: two weeks for the super Bowl? That seems kind of overkill.

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Speaker 1: Is this just for promotional purposes? Now, you and I

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Speaker 1: know that it’s nothing further from the truth. That week

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Speaker 1: has to be maximized. The week that we just experienced

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Speaker 1: before we came to Scottsdale. And let’s just take what

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Speaker 1: the players encountered. Yes, they have friends, they have family,

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Speaker 1: where the village comes into play here too, on the

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Speaker 1: it cost? All of that for the players can take

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Speaker 1: fifteen things, it’s really don’t. It’s divided attention to the

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Speaker 1: football side of this. Any Reid’s approach and what this

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Speaker 1: organization is handle your business. This is where we’ll handle

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Speaker 1: our business in this timeframe. In this timeframe, you have

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Speaker 1: in our game plan to beat the Philadelphia Eagles. It

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Speaker 1: may not seem like a lot, but truthfully, in the

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Speaker 1: fifty six year history of the Super Bowl, the team

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Speaker 1: that seemingly is able to reduce or eliminate distractions. Is

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Speaker 1: the team that wins this game. Yeah, there’s only so

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Speaker 1: much time in the day, and this week kind of

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Speaker 1: makes you realize that. Coach read at his immedia session

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Speaker 1: earlier today, was asked, Hey, would you kind of like

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Speaker 1: And his answer was no, There’s so much that we

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Speaker 1: planning for the biggest game of the season, that it’s

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Speaker 1: nice having that extra week. It’s so important, and for

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Speaker 1: so many young players on this team, it’s incredibly important now.

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, a lot of these guys have

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Speaker 1: been to multiple super Bowls now, but there’s also a

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Speaker 1: lot of players on this team that have never been

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Speaker 1: George Carlottis about it earlier today. Actually, I said, how

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Speaker 1: It makes it so much easier and he does not

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Speaker 1: feel overwhelmed because of that extra week. So the experience

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Speaker 1: multiple Super Bowls. Now they know how this works and

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Speaker 1: we’re so fortunate here in Kansas City. You can not

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Speaker 1: underrate what that means in the Chiefs preparing to win

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Speaker 1: this game. Another note here, if you’re not coming to

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Speaker 1: we invite you to go to the official Chiefs watch party.

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Speaker 1: It’s that Jay Rieger and Company distillery. Now, this is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: I don’t know if you’ve ever been there before, but

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Speaker 1: There’s going to be ticket giveaways for next year’s home opener.

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Speaker 1: There’s gonna be other prizes. Casey Wolf will be their

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Speaker 1: Soul Rumble and Mark bill Rich will be their former

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Speaker 1: And Coach Reads talked about that as well. Let’s get

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Speaker 1: which is great news. Legarius Sneed has cleared the concussion protocol.

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Speaker 1: so we can hopefully get a bunch of these guys back. Truly,

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Speaker 1: I think this weather actually helps them heal as well.

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Speaker 1: Kazakhstan to play. We’ll go to Neptune and play. Hey,

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Speaker 1: a good spot to be with this sun, that’s honest

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Speaker 1: right now, and the fact that there was a roster move.

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Speaker 1: If we would have to play without a week, it

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Speaker 1: it last night at opening night because to me, and

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Speaker 1: this is nothing, the Eagles fan base is awesome. Right

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Speaker 1: since nineteen thirty, they’ve been around. They got a thirty

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Speaker 1: took it over last night. Yeah, it was so think

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Speaker 1: that that arena. It was like a Sun’s game, and

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Speaker 1: It was incredible. I mean you could feel the energy.

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Speaker 1: It was incredible, and I think Chiefs Kingdom realizes how

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Speaker 1: to finish it, It’s all just incredibly satisfying and let’s

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Speaker 1: I’m with you. But on NFL Network yesterday and they

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Speaker 1: started the clip within you can find it’s it’s you

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Speaker 1: can go on YouTube and search it. But the point

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Speaker 1: game that is different because this team, the Chiefs team

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Speaker 1: and the Kingdom has been doubted since March yep, and

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Speaker 1: here they are. It gets a really good That’ll be

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Speaker 1: the next episode on Thursday, which will entitle win it.

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Speaker 1: But the Chiefs are here and they’ll win this game

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