Pete McMurray Show
The Pete McMurray Show is a talk show featuring Pete McMurray and Lisa Kotara. The two address issues like politics, entertainment, health & wellness, sports, fitness, relationships and just about everything else. The show can be heard in three states and growing!
🎙️ Show Open 07.11.26 🇵🇹 Pete took his wife Sara to Portugal and said, “How about a romantic ER?” 🏛️ Senate Boomers refuse to find the exit 🎸 The Rolling Stones are touring in 2027 because apparently time gave up
🎙️ Show Open 07.11.26
🇵🇹 Pete took his wife Sara to Portugal and said, “How about a romantic ER?”
🏛️ Boomers in the Senate refuse to find the exit
🎸 The Rolling Stones are touring in 2027 because apparently time gave up
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🍿 Is The Godfather Still the GOAT? David Thomson on Hollywood's Greatest Movies, Biggest Stars, and Why Today's Celebrities Aren't What They Used to Be 🎥
🍿 Is The Godfather Still the GOAT?
David Thomson joined us to talk on Hollywood's Greatest Movies 🎥
-The Godfather
-Citizen Kane
-Biggest Hollywood stars today
His book "A Sudden Flicker of Light"
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😂 Free booze didn't even make the list! ✈️ ✈️ Priority boarding, more legroom, seat upgrade? 😂 The travel perk people want most isn't what you'd expect... 💼💺🦵
😂 Free booze didn't even make the list! ✈️ ✈️ Forget first class!
😂 The travel perks people want most ... 💼💺🦵
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🤝 "We met for 35 days face to face to get to a get a balanced budget." 💰🇺🇸 Newt Gingrich explains how he and President Clinton worked across the aisle to make history.
Newt Gingrich served as Speaker of the House and was the last Speaker to balance the federal budget.
Today, he's the host of the Newt's World podcast and is helping tell America's story … through his new America 250 series.
Newt talks:
-How he got into politics
-His favorite era in US history
-American inventions
-Comparing the late 1960's to NOW
-Newt Gingrich was the last Speaker to balance the budget and met with President Clinton to get it done "we met for 35 days face-to-face to get to a to get a balanced budge...
🌍 Mike Tobin Live From Israel 🇮🇱 The Ceasefire Is Over, Tensions Are Rising, and One Big Question Remains... Can Iran Be Trusted? 🚨
Mike Tobin from Fox News Channel is Live From Israel 🇮🇱
-The Ceasefire Is Over, Tensions Are Rising
-Can Iran Be Trusted
-What information are Israeli officials releasing
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🎙️ For Pete's Sake... 🎤 BTS is bigger than the Rolling Stones. Somewhere Keith Richards just rolled his eyes. 🍋 Kids in Michigan can finally get rich selling lemonade. 🇫🇷 Ottawa proved spellcheck isn't bilingual
🎙️ For Pete's Sake... - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week
🎤 BTS is bigger than the Rolling Stones. Somewhere Keith Richards just rolled his eyes.
🍋 Kids in Michigan can finally get rich selling lemonade.
🇫🇷 Ottawa proved spellcheck isn't bilingual
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🎙️ Lou Diamond Phillips is back! 🎥 We dive into Gangland, Tribal Police, Young Guns, Kiefer Sutherland, Broadway loincloths 😂 and why he had no idea what Mahal kita (mah HAHL kee TAH) means! ❤️
Lou Diamond Phillips joined us to talk:
-Mahal kita - Pronounced: mah HAHL kee TAH - Lou has no idea what that means
-His new movie "Gangland"
-In the movie he is working for a Tribal Police Dept - which is very different
-"It's basically Denzel Washington's Training Day. I play a tribal cop ... it's griddy, it's tense, there's a lot of intensity throughout"
-The complicated nature of his character
-Wearing a LOINCLOTH on stage for The King and I
-Kiefer and Young Guns
Watch Gangland Trailer Here<...
💪 Which generation of men is the healthiest? 🤔 Think Boomers are healthiest? Or Millennials? 💪 The answer may surprise you... and wait until you hear which generation finished LAST! 🍔🍺
💪 Which generation of men is the healthiest? 🤔 Think Boomers are healthiest? Or Millennials? Or Gen X (no chance)
💪 The answer may surprise you... and wait until you hear which generation finished LAST! 🍔🍺
Listen for the results ...
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🎙️ For Pete's Sake... 🎤 BTS is bigger than the Rolling Stones. Somewhere Keith Richards just rolled his eyes. 🍋 Kids in Michigan can finally get rich selling lemonade. 🇫🇷 Ottawa proved spellcheck isn't bilingual
🎙️ For Pete's Sake... - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week
🎤 BTS is bigger than the Rolling Stones. Somewhere Keith Richards just rolled his eyes.
🍋 Kids in Michigan can finally get rich selling lemonade.
🇫🇷 Ottawa proved spellcheck isn't bilingual
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🦶💰 Would you sell pictures of your feet to complete strangers for cash? 😳 What's the strangest way you've ever made money? From plasma donations 💉 to mystery shopping 🕵️, the stories get WEIRD 😂🔥
🦶💰 Would you sell pictures of your feet to complete strangers for cash? 😳
What's the strangest way you've ever made money?
From plasma donations 💉 to mystery shopping 🕵️ to everything in between
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🎙️For Pete's Sake 06.13.26 🎬 Nicolas Cage changed his name to Nicholas Cage 🤱 A Florida woman stole a coworker's Stanley Cup to store breast milk 😂 🏆 An Indian man collected 858 paper cups from 31 countries...what? 🤣🌎
For Pete's Sake - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week
🎙️😂 For Pete's Sake
🎬 Nicolas Cage changed his name because apparently "Copella" wasn't Hollywood enough
🥤🤱 A Florida woman stole a coworker's Stanley Cup to store breast milk
😂 🏆☕ An Indian man collected 858 paper cups from 31 countries... proving every hobby has a champion
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🚲😂 Gen X childhood was basically "good luck out there!" Be home by dark 💡, make your own dinner 🍞 and sign your own school forms 📝. Child services would've had a field day 🤣🔥
🚲😂 Gen X childhood was basically "good luck out there!"
Be home by dark 💡,
Make your own dinner 🍞
Sign your own school forms 📝
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🐶❤️ If your dog or cat could answer ONE question honestly, what would you ask? 🤔🐾 The answers pet owners want most may surprise you... and yes, "Which Family Member is Your Favorite?" is on the list 😂🐕😹
🐶❤️ If your dog or cat could answer ONE question honestly, what would you ask? 🤔
🐾 Here are the questions pet owners want answers to 😂🐕😹
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🎙️📖 Richard Pryor changed comedy forever 😂🔥 But what was he like as a father? His daughter shares an intimate look at the man behind the legend in Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me. lizabeth Pryor Joined Us ❤️🎤
🎙️😂 The world knew Richard Pryor as a comedy genius. She knew him as Dad. ❤️
Elizabeth Pryor joins us to share stories, memories and the man behind one of the most influential comedians of all time 🔥🎤
The Book 📖 Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me
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🎸🦅 Former Eagle Don Felder, who co wrote Hotel California, admits: "It's the one spot in the show where I cannot make a single one note mistake!"
Former Eagle Don Felder joined us to talk:
-Hotel California (he co-wrote) "It's the one spot in the show where I cannot make a single one-note mistake!"
-He had someone in Malibu play the demo of Hotel California over the phone so they could replicate it in Miami
-What was the secret to making the Eagles chemistry work
-Who wrote the lyrics "On a dark desert highway...Cool wind in my hair"
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🎙️😲 Billy Bush talks about his brother's run for Governor of Maine 🗳️ sets the record straight on those Taylor Swift wedding rumors 💍🚫 and can't hold back his disgust when discussing Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds 🔥👀
The always entertaining Billy Bush aka The Bushy joined us to talk:
-His brother running for Governor of Maine
-Played a George W Bush voicemail for us
-Attorney Alan Jackson and the Reiner Family
-Billy is not a Blake Lively fan
YouTube: Hot Mics 🎙️ with Billy Bush
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🎙️ Show Open 06.13.26 ⚽😳 The World Cup is coming and yes, we're giving you the cliff notes 💍🎰 You can now bet on Taylor Swift's wedding 🍫 Congrats to M&M's new flavor, proving democracy still works... at least in the candy aisle 🏆
🎙️ Show Open 06.13.26
⚽😳 The World Cup is coming and yes, we're going to explain why the rest of the planet loses its mind over it
💍🎰 You can now bet on Taylor Swift's wedding because apparently we've run out of normal things to gamble on
🍫🏆 Congrats to M&M's new flavor, proving democracy still works... at least in the candy aisle
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🎤😂 Jeremy Piven is back! We talk stand up comedy, why audiences have finally relaxed a little 😅 and what it's like throwing out the first pitch at Wrigley Field ⚾🤞 (and not embarrassing yourself in front of 40,000 people) 😂🔥
⚾😂 Jeremy Piven joins us to talk live comedy 🎤, calmer crowds 😌 and the pressure of throwing out the first pitch at Wrigley Field. One bad throw and you're trending for all the wrong reasons 🤣🔥
Jeremy talks:
-Live comedy
-Audiences are more relaxed now
-Throwing out the first pitch at Wrigley
Follow Jeremy on Instagram
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🎙️🏛️ NBC's Ryan Nobles joined us to talk Congress back in session 🇺🇸 Is redistricting becoming the new normal? 🗺️ And why are some Republicans getting uneasy about the war with Iran? 🇮🇷🔥
Ryan Nobles is the Chief Capitol Hill Correspondent for NBC News - Congress is back in session
Ryan joined us to talk
-Is it surreal working on the Today Show
-Locking the Supreme at Nine Justices
-Is Redistricting the new norm
-The War in Iran and Republicans growing uncomfortable with the progress of the war
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🎙️Show Open 🥤🇺🇸 Diet Dew is now "American Dew" - apparently soda is patriotic 🎸👴 Enough with farewell tours that last longer than most marriages 😂 🛏️😴 Gen Z is taking mental health days for "bed rotting"... what the ... 🤣🔥
🎙️Show Open 😂
🥤🇺🇸 Diet Dew is now "American Dew" because apparently soda is patriotic
🎸👴 Enough with farewell tours that last longer than most marriages 😂
🛏️😴 Gen Z is taking mental health days for "bed rotting"... which our generation called Saturday 🤣🔥
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🎙️😂 America’s greatest inventions started with, “Well... THAT didn’t work.” 🤦♂️ From Play Doh as wallpaper cleaner 🎨 to Post It Notes made from bad glue 📝😆 Michael McBride, host of "Mistakes That Made America," joined us! 🇺🇸📺🔥
Michael McBride, host of "Mistakes That Made America," joined us! 🇺🇸📺 to talk:
-Play Doh was wallpaper cleaner
-Post-it Notes started because of a bad glue
-The twinkie was invented by mistake in Chicago during WWII
-The slinky and potato chips
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🎙️😂 For Pete's Sake 💪 40+ pushups for guys today could mean a healthier heart tomorrow ❤️ 🎤🕺 Despite what social media says, Barry Gibb is still stayin’ alive 😂 🚗😌 4 in 10 drivers say their car is their happy place...may need to get out more 🤣
🎙️ For Pete's Sake 😂 Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week
💪 40+ pushups for guys today could mean a healthier heart tomorrow ❤️🔥 Apparently your cardiologist wants you to drop and give him 40 😂
🎤🕺 Despite what social media says, Barry Gibb is still stayin’ alive 😂
🚗😌 4 in 10 drivers say their car is their happy place... they may need to get out more 🤣
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🥊😂 Want to get fit, lose weight and kick ass at life? Santino DeFranco is a former MMA fighter and elite coach, he shares how to stop making excuses, start moving and maybe survive leg day 😵🔥🎙️
🥊😂 Want to get fit, lose weight and kick ass at life? Santino DeFranco is a former MMA fighter and elite coach, he shares how to stop making excuses and start moving
-Is caffeine good for you
-Calories in / Calories out
-Life doesn't have to be all or nothing
-Why pick a profession where you get hit in the face at your job
His book
Fight Ready: How to Get Fit, Lose Weight, and Kick Ass in Everything You Do
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🎙️😂 One in Six singles hasn't gone on a date with someone they met in real life in TWO YEARS 😳📱 And 60% say they're too nervous to start a conversation. At this rate, Cupid needs a WiFi connection and a charging cable ❤️🔌🤣
🎙️😂 One in 6 singles hasn't gone on a date with someone they met in real life in TWO YEARS 😳📱 And 60% say they're too nervous to start a conversation
Whaaaaa???
-Top reason to not making a move - the fear of rejection
-Almost 40% talked themselves out of it because they were overthinking the situation.
-33% haven't made a move because they didn't know how to start a conversation.
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⛳🏆 Tiger or Jack? The debate that's divided golf fans for decades! Who is the true GOAT of golf? 🐅👑 Bob Harig takes on the ultimate showdown in his new book Tiger vs. Jack: Golf's Great Debate... 🎙️🔥
🐅⛳ Who had the greater career: Tiger Woods or Jack Nicklaus? The argument may never end 😳🏆 A legendary golf writer takes a deep dive into golf's biggest debate in his new book Tiger vs. Jack... Bob Harig 🎙️📖🔥
-As sports fans, we love to argue the past and present
-What matters more: Dominance or Impact of the Game
-Tiger has had 7 back procedures, not to mention everything else
-Jack came in second place 19 times in Major Tournaments
Tiger vs Jack: Golf's Great Debate
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Do you consider yourself cool? Americans were asked a simple question: How cool do you think you are? Only 16% said they're very cool
Do you consider yourself cool? Americans were asked a simple question: How cool do you think you are?
16% say they're very cool,
39% say they're somewhat cool,
24% say they're not very cool,
and 12% say they're not at all cool.
Overall, 56% of Americans say they're at least somewhat cool
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👑📖 Royal insider Christopher Andersen joins us 😳☕ to talk about his new book “Kate”! What’s Kate’s relationship REALLY like with King Charles? 👑 Where do Kate & William stand with Harry & Meghan? 👀🇬🇧 All the palace drama and inside scoop! 🔥
Christopher Andersen has written bestselling books on Princess Diana, the Kennedys, and the Royal Family
… and now turns his focus to the future Queen
His new book
Kate: The Courage, Grace, and Power of the Woman Who Will Be Queen
-Who is Kate and what do we really know about her
-Kate and William have a great love story
-What is William like behind the scenes
-What is Kate and William's relationship with Harry and Meghan
-Kate and William's three children
The book:
Kate: The Courage, Grace, and P...
🎙️ Show Open ⛽ Gas & groceries are so expensive we’re financing eggs now 🧦 College boys smell like feet & their laundry is worse 💊 Pete’s PSA: Don’t take 2 Valium and expect to solve problems 😂
🎙️ Show Open 😂
⛽ Gas & groceries are so expensive we’re financing eggs now
🧦 College boys smell like feet & their laundry is worse
💊 Pete’s PSA: Don’t take 2 Valium and expect to solve problems 😂
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🎙️ For Pete’s Sake 05.30.26 🍽️😡 80% of couples fight over a messy kitchen 🤖✈️ Southwest Airlines banning robots because of a 3.5 foot robot named Stewie 💊😵 Kim Kardashian takes 35 supplements a day - breakfast IS a CVS receipt 😂
-🎙️ For Pete’s Sake 05.30.26 - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week
🍽️😡 80% of couples fight over the kitchen mess
🤖✈️ Southwest Airlines is banning robots following an incident with a 3.5 foot robot named Stewie
💊😵 Kim Kardashian takes 35 supplements a day. At that point, breakfast IS a CVS receipt 😂
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💔💍 One in three adults admits they “settled” for their romantic partner… somewhere out there a couple is listening to this in total silence right now 😬🎙️
One in three adults admits they “settled” for their romantic partner
Yikes!
28% believe their partner settled for them!
And to make matters worse, women were more likely than men to believe they settled, 35% of women versus 31% of men
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💼😩 Tough day at work? Therapist Amy Morin joins us to talk about her new book “The Mental Strength Playbook” 📖🧠 Little psychological tricks to help you stay strong at work… even when you’re totally over everybody 😂🔥
💼😩 Tough day at work? Therapist Amy Morin joins us to talk about her new book “The Mental Strength Playbook” 📖🧠 Little psychological tricks to help you stay strong at work… even when you’re totally over everybody 😂🔥
-How do you "fake" confidence at that meeting aka "Let's Act as If ..."
-Imposter syndrom
-Amy's "plays" to help guide you through the difficult moments
-How should you start your day
Amy is so good...
Check out her website HERE
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😴🥱 The most BORING things in life have officially been revealed… and honestly, this list may put you to sleep before the podcast ends 😂💤
🥱📋 The most boring things in life are out! Waiting on hold ☎️, small talk 😬 and meetings that should’ve been emails 💼😂
Listen for the list ...
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🎬🍔 Harold & Kumar star Kal Penn talks about his new podcast, working at the Obama White House 🇺🇸 working with Kiefer and the VERY random way he helped put Neil Patrick Harris ON THE MAP 😂🔥
Kal Penn is a good dude.
Kal joined us to talk:
-Neil Patrick Harris
-His podcast "Earsay" - it's an audio book club
-What he "stole" from the White House
-Working with Kiefer Sutherland
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🎙️ Show Open 05.23.26 🍔🔥 Lisa’s hosting a BBQ this week… huge mistake because nobody ever leaves 😅 Off last week… Lisa went to Paris 🇫🇷 Pete went to Vegas 🎰 which tells you EVERYTHING about this show 😂 Plus: Electric Cars vs Gas ⚡️⛽️
Show Open 05.23.26
🍔🔥 Lisa’s hosting a BBQ this week… huge mistake because nobody ever leaves
😅 Off last week… Lisa went to Paris 🇫🇷 Pete went to Vegas 🎰 which tells you EVERYTHING about this show
😂 Plus: Electric Cars vs Gas ⚡️⛽️
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Americans are Obsessed with Obsession 🤯🥦 Air Frying, Zero Sugar Drinks, and “Proteinmaxxing” 💪🍗… We’ve Officially Turned Everything Into an Obsessive Full Time Job 😂
Americans are Obsessed with Obsession 🤯🥦 Air Frying, Zero Sugar Drinks, and “Proteinmaxxing” 💪🍗… We’ve Officially Turned Everything Into an Obsessive Full Time Job 😂
Food
Working out
Proteinmaxxing (enough)
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For Pete’s Sake 🧟 Thriller is back at #1… apparently zombies never left the charts 🦌 French cops warning about drunk deer on fermented fruit… Bambi’s had a DAY 🎤 An Ozzy and Sharon love story biopic is coming… bats everywhere are nervous
For Pete’s Sake - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week
🧟 Thriller is back at #1… apparently zombies never left the charts
🦌 French cops warning about drunk deer on fermented fruit… Bambi’s had a DAY
🎤 An Ozzy and Sharon love story biopic is coming… bats everywhere are nervous
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He’s one half of the Farrelly Brothers 🎬😂 Bobby Farrelly joined us to talk working with legends like Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, and even Bret Fav-ruh 🏈 (There’s Something About Mary!) … the stories are absolutely fantastic 😆🍿
He’s one half of the Farrelly Brothers 🎬😂 Bobby Farrelly joined us
Bobby talks:
-New movie with the kid from White Lotus
-Working with legends like Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, and even Bret Fav-ruh 🏈 (There’s Something About Mary!)
-The stories are absolutely fantastic 😆🍿
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Gen Z Overthinking Life 🤯🥇 70% Admit They Spiral… Replaying Cringe Moments and Rewriting Comebacks They Never Said 😅🌀 How Did the Other Generations Fare? 📱😂
Gen Z Overthinking LIFE 🤯🥇 70% Admit They Spiral… Replaying Cringe Moments and Rewriting Comebacks They Never Said
😅🌀 How Did the Other Generations Fare? 📱😂
-Millennials follow close behind, with 63% often overthinking things
-This drops to just 38% for Boomers.
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Cong Darin LaHood on Gas Prices ⛽️💸 “Energy prices affect everything: From food, groceries, to going out to dinner, to buying a 12 pack of beer. All of it is affected by it...we have to redouble our efforts to bring down affordability” 🍔🍺
Congressman Darin LaHood
-Diplomatic talks with Iran to end the War
-Inspectors have access to every corner of Iran is the most important
-Are our allies pushing away from us
-"Affordability is still a big issue. As we head into the summer, people are feeling that pinch"
-"Energy prices affect everything: From food, groceries, to going out to dinner, to buying a 12 pack of beer. All of it is affected by it...we have to bring down affordibility"
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The Nancy Guthrie Mystery Special 🔍😳 An 84 Year Old Woman Vanishes From Her Arizona Home… and the Questions Still Haven’t Been Answered 🌵🚨 Host Brian Entin Breaks it All Down 🎙️
The Nancy Guthrie Mystery 🔍😳 An 84 Year Old Woman Vanishes From Her Arizona Home… and the Questions Still Haven’t Been Answered 🌵
🚨 Host Brian Entin Breaks it All Down 🎙️
-ALL the information came at us at once
-We thought it was solved
-Were the Ransom Notes Real
-Have all the family members been cleared
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