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He was supposed to be the chosen one. But Kevin Durant can't help himself. And he is back on Twitter. Maybe your ex alarms went off. Which is not a sexual thing.
That's not sexual. New porn just dropped by ex alarm went off. That's what that's not like. That's not what I'm talking about. It's not Twitter.
And KD is back on there. And I think you can still have alarms for certain tweets like we used to have with Adrian Worshaurowski. If he puts out a tweet, I need to know. But KD is back. It doesn't look like he's using the burner account.
He got caught red-handed with back in 2017 back when he was defending his reasoning. You know, for leaving the thunder. He defended himself in third person, which is how people figured out that was his burner. Instead of Durant didn't like the organization or playing for Billy Donovan. KD can't win with those cats.
Unquote. Fighting for your own reputation and trying to justify leaving a team that was up 3-1 on the Golden State Warriors just for you to collapse. You shot 40% the last three games in that series. And then you joined the Golden State Warriors. The team that came back on you.
But sure, KD can't win with those cats. Apparently, he can't win with any cats. The Nets, the Suns, the Rockets. Because outside of those championships he won on a team that really didn't need him anyways, KD hasn't won anywhere else. And no matter how many times and how many characters he uses to type out and defend himself.
And that decision on Twitter and on X. He can't escape that next chapter he took going to the team that beat him. If you can't beat him, join him. If you can't hold on to a 3-1 lead, join him. He knows deep down those rings in Golden State, there is hollow as the inside of the band of the ring and you use a slide on your finger.
I think he knows it was a cheat code like move. You bring out the game, Jeannie. The game gets a lot easier. You join a 73-win team. It gets a lot easier.
And Oklahoma City fans, remember what they were calling him at first? They had those cupcakes, those little billboards and poster boards. They called him Cupcake. I think the nickname originated from a Kendrick Perkins in a comment he made and he knows some cupcakes. Hey, come on.
Carry the hell on, big perk. You're tired. Do your thing. But Kevin Durant, you know, when he was coming up, played his college ball in Texas. And for a brief time, he was my favorite player when he got into the NBA, last of the Sonics.
Hopefully they'll be back soon. Sounds like it's not a guarantee anymore. But KD was supposed to be the guy to challenge LeBron. He had this famous quote in 2013 saying he's tired of being second. I thought his attitude was perfect.
I thought he was an uncompromising dog that was going to fight like hell to bring a championship to a small market in Oklahoma City. You were supposed to be the chosen one. You were supposed to restore order to the forced the league. When he tweeted out in 2010 from his account, Kevin Durant used to say this, listen to this tweet in 2010 quote, now everybody want to play for the heat and the Lakers. Let's go back to being competitive and going at these people's.
That was the old KD. The point of me bringing this up is I had no issue with Kevin Durant and admired him as a player and a competitor until he made that fateful move to go and stay. He could have gone to Boston. He could have gone anywhere else. He could have stayed no casey.
Just don't go to the team that you were up 3-1 on and won 73 games. They obviously didn't need you to win a championship. They won one before you. They won one after you. I loved his mindset before.
I loved his MVP speech and calling his mom the real MVP. That's how it did my heartstrings. So what happened? They get too hard to close out a team you had a 3-1 lead on. So you'd rather just bring out that game genie, the game shark.
Take a shortcut to the top of the mountain. John Stockton said recently about LeBron's legacy. You're not climbing the mountain. You're taking a helicopter to the top. KD took one of those Tesla flying cars to the top of the mountain.
When he won those pretty empty rings with the Golden State Warriors. Now he's turning into less of a basketball player and more of an agitator online. Was replying to fans and offending his honor while not just throwing former teammates under the bus like he did in 2017 with his burner account. The guy did it last year with a burner account too. He was able to get off my Dickerson to his current teammates causing awkwardness in the locker room and a team that lost in the first round to the Lakers without Luca Donchich even playing ended up beating him.
KD got hurt too, but I think there were some hurt feelings by his young teammates. Feeling betrayed by the veteran who was brought in to help, help them get over the top and be a championship contender. But you know, don't worry, KD has learned from his mistake and is no longer attacking current teammates. He's back to going after former teams and this time not even using his burner because he's standing on business. He's got time today.
KD is on different time now. I just see a video surface from his former owner, Matt each be of the Phoenix ons who was on CNBC talking about, you know, being a billionaire and all that entails. And also how he changed his philosophy as an owner over the years. They're trying to build a different culture there in Phoenix with players of a certain mindset and no longer just trying to spend their way into the second apron to bring a title to Phoenix. It didn't sound that bad, honestly.
That a pretty innocuous, but KD was mentioned because he talked about, you know, the difference in going out and trying to just bring in a superstar and buy a championship that way and really tried to build a foundation in a culture now to win a championship instead. Do it the organic way. Well, Kevin Durant felt some type of way about it. And for the first time since he got caught insulting Shen goons of Barry Smith Jr. got, he went after Stephen Adams Aquaman.
Like if you got a problem with Stephen Adams, that says more about you. But for the first time since getting caught, even though he's never admitted to it, but I think we all know, first time since flaming his rocket's current teammates, he posted on Twitter again with a response to Matt Isbias and hashtag blame KD. Even though KD stayed on top of his game at 36 and got you back this culture you love so much. Hey, Matthew acts like I got arrested for a DUI or something back to threads. Peace sign out.
Well, where does the DUI side bar come from? He's referring to a current player in Phoenix in Dylan Brooks who got I think pop for a DUI. That was also one of the guys traded for Kevin Durant from Houston to Phoenix. Seems unnecessary for him to get straight there as he was trying to reply to the owner, but instead got mixed up with Dylan Brooks. But you know, that's KD.
He's going to take it there. I would say a disproportionate response to what Matt Isbias said, but some of point out that, well, there's something to this. If you're saying you're trying to build a culture and you got a guy getting in trouble for that and they bring in Miles Bridges. And if you know, you know with his backgrounds, what type of culture is that? But again, I don't think anything he said was pointed towards Kevin Durant.
Katie, you just got sensitive about it for whatever reason. Well, of course, Dylan Brooks, Dylan the villain is going to come out and say something. He went on Instagram and said to his owner, thanks, Matt, he used to be up for cleaning up that stench in the locker room before I came hashtag culture. That's how he fired back at Kevin Durant. I mean, was Matt used to be out even really blaming him?
It sounded like he was doing everything in his power not to get into a back and forth with KD. And instead he took the high road by presenting, you know, moving on from him as just more of a shift in organizational philosophy. Never mind that they sent Kevin Durant to one of his preferred destinations and go into the Houston Rockets. A team he signed a contract extension with immediately just to in his first season, trash his teammates and cause a locker room distraction that likely helped lead to their demise in the first round, which he barely played in. And he's upset with a pretty innocuous statement from his former owner with a sons who, yes, did respond to Durant.
And I thought pretty harmless classy way. Matt is beyond a X said you obviously didn't watch the clip didn't blame you KD, but I'm happy with the culture we are building here in Phoenix. We got the right guys and right focus now and are excited for this season. Good luck this season in Houston was getting around done. Was he satisfied with that?
Nope. KD retweets it and says you should be giving thanks every chance you get. You don't have to pay me an absurd amount of money to play for another team. Just get help himself. There you go.
It's another shot at a former teammate. He's alluding to the $100 million buyout that Matt H.B. and the Phoenix Suns used on Bradley Beale to let him go. Now plays with the Clippers. KD is saying, how can I have been the problem when you at least got to trade me for assets when you're paying money to a player that's not even on your team anymore in Bradley Beale.
Now Bradley Beale with the Clippers. So conflict of interest with me, sure, but I don't think you need to accuse me of being biased here just because I'm choosing to go after Kevin Durant instead. When he's the guy who continues to get involved with every person that has something negative to say about him. He thinks the player don't protest too much. You're so defensive because you know there's truth in what everyone is saying about you.
And I saw this tweet from a random, no disrespect to Point Book, obviously a Phoenix Suns fan, a Devin Booker fan on X. Point Book had tweeted out, most insecure individual in the NBA. Matt H.B. didn't mean you personally you idiot. Always playing the victim card.
Well then Point Book pointed out that Matt H.B. Apparently liked that tweet that he put out calling KD an idiot. I don't know if that's confirmed or double sourced or if we can even do that on X, the Wild Wild West that it is. But that would be something I would just say to KD if I could stop looking for the slides, man. Put the bunny ears and the antenna away.
Get rid of the Andrews, the Ciliano ears and stop listening and paying attention to what everyone else is saying about you except of course me right now because I'm telling the truth. You're heading down a path, Kevin Durant, where we might remember you more for this stuff than your actual basketball genius. I think he's chipping away at his own legacy a little bit here. People shouldn't conflate stuff he does on Twitter with his career, but they will. Shack and Charles Barkley are somewhat caricatures with the way they go about things on TNT.
That was a dumb ass plate with the amount of fun they have and how entertaining they are. But he's gotten to a point where it's like, sometimes you forget how great they were as players. They become such big personalities. Now, granted, they're doing it on a professional level on a broadcast. KV is doing this on Twitter.
Put the Twitter fingers away. Like every time you defend yourself, it leads more people to believe they must have hit close to the mark in order to get that response. They're actually more accurate than even you are on the court and your efficiency is pretty elite. But people don't respect what he's doing off the court, which granted isn't criminal, isn't illegal, who cares. But it just makes him more criminally underrated as a player long term because people they associate with you being an insecure star.
People call Katie a snake all the time on there. The cupcake stuff. They say everything he does reeks of insecurity. We see him looking at his phone after the story broke with a burner with his Houston teammates, and he's looking at his phone at the all star game in the layup line and we're like, Oh my God, he's finding out in real time that his burner got exposed. It's comedy.
It's bad. It looks weak. It looks like a guy who couldn't bench one E five at the NBA combine, but you keep going this way or going. You're going to be known more of the Twitter warrior than a Golden State warrior with two finals MVPs. You're tweeting and you're treating social media like it's the real MVP.
I'm not saying shut up and dribble. I'm saying dribble your phone off the pavement and throw it into Lake Houston. Stop looking at what everyone is saying about you, Kevin Durant. Please, because you're so damn good. And you had such the killer mindset and the warrior stuff can be forgiven, but like you got, you got to move past of yourself.
That's part of the problem here, but you're not letting anyone move fast because you keep responding to randoms and nobody's on Twitter. I consider myself one of them. I don't think I tweeted him in a long time, but he's just not doing himself any favors. And I love Kevin Durant. Then you know what?
You know, everybody can be redeemed here. It's not the end of the world. I would just prefer to not think about this stuff when I'm thinking about Kevin Durant because he is one of the best players to ever touch the basketball. And that's the truth here. But it's easy to get lost in all this other stuff.
Hell, I'm on social media way too much. I'm looking at myself in the mirror as well. I would go with people say, I follow out of May. I just threw it out there. I'm obsessed with it.
I can't help myself. We all do it to an extent where also not all Kevin Durant should be small potatoes for him, I would think. Uh, will you ever move past it? I don't know. Pandora's box is back open.
Kevin Durant is back on Twitter. I'm out of awesome in for Big Ben Mallor. You're on Fox Sports Radio coming up. I got some sound for you. Somebody put their foot in their mouth.
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I recognize this name. Marcel in Brooklyn. Where Brooklyn at? Where is Marcel at? I think he's just one of the Mallor and Marlisha guys.
Marcel, what's up? Hi Adam. Hey Adam. Hi. Go ahead.
I'm thinking to you buddy. No, what do you got? What do you got? Are we going to play guests? What do you ate today?
Ben, Lorena, Coopi Lu, thank you. Mallor, Mallor, Mallor, and Melissa family along with Fox Sports Radio for sending the birthday wishes to me. You know why? Because I'm turning 33. Oh.
Oh. And you believe it? 33 years old Adam? That's your Jesus age. That's great.
Congratulations. Happy birthday. Why? Thank you very much. Next to you, I'm turning 34.
It's dead. Okay. Son of a bitch. What? I hate when that happens.
You can say that again. Marcel's fan, Lorena. You're the best Marcel. My birthday is on the 27th and I'm going to be 34. So I'm beating you.
I'm going to beat you with 34. Just like one week from today there. It is a week from today. Right now you two are the same age. Wow.
Thank you so much Adam. You're the best. Surprise motherfucker. Am I really though? Or am I just here tonight?
Oh, be careful with that language everybody. Marcel, what else you got? Some food picks that will come anyway. So if it was on, it's a due day, so let's get into it. And you're filling in for Ben.
I hope you'll be back soon. Me too. What do you got? Okay. How's this game work again?
I just guessed any food. In a history of food. Yes, guess whatever. Stauffer's lasagna. You got that Garfield to you.
I know you do. It's Shaq that Adam for the first time in your life. The mixed batch of it. Stop it. You're lying.
No. I was right. We'll find out here. I was right. We'll find out.
We'll find out. It is. Lorena, you're a fan of me. Go right ahead. I definitely am.
I think you had a double cheesy cheesy pizza. Oh, double cheesy cheesy pizza. It is. You can choke on the cheese. It's so.
Everybody. That's a pizza. That's not a mixed batch of it. No, why? Never win.
Oh, don't worry about it. You'll be the chance to have a TV pick on update Wednesday for the mixed batch of it. Don't worry. You will be sharing it as well. I hope you will go right ahead for you, buddy.
Marcel, last night I think you started off with some crab cheese rangoons followed by some tom ca guy. And then you finish it off with mango sticky rice. Not a mixed batch it is. No. What does it mean?
Now, well, Adam, what the smile on your face with my bend was the lasagna from Soulburst in it. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty simple. I win. In your life. First time I asked, I think I was right last time you came on.
Yes, it is. This is from the past of this, the last year, but now this year. Okay, that's true. It's a new year, a new day. Oh, actually, it's not before, but still in 2026, the same year.
All right, Marcel. So what do I get from winning, by the way? I want some details here. How the rules work? Well, where's the prize closet at?
What? The prize closet. What do I get? A t-shirt? I got a golden t-shirt.
Yes, it is. Just like that. I'm going to take it. I'm going to go to take it. Do I get a lick of the wallpaper like Grandpa?
Oh, God. Oh, no. Hey. Oh, it's having such a good night. I'll early morning here, but still late night on the West Coast, but it's still morning here on the Eastern.
Sea board in Central as well. I don't know how our walls would taste though. It's not really about, you know, there's a cliff out there that makes you look at a really wildest chocolate factory a very different way. I'm just saying. Anything else, Marcel?
I want to make sure that I'm accommodating to Mallory Millician here and you've got enough time. Well, I'll be back on hop day. I'm going to say for some TV pics and Le Rayna, my fan, you better figure this out. Things things out for see the mix batch on what the TV or streaming show you will definitely watch. I'll be thinking Adam too.
And happy birthday, Marcel. Oh, thank you. Yours as well. One week from today. Yes.
So I will tweet that out. Congratulations. What's your Twitter? I'm going to look for it. It's at M.
Myrick29. Hey, do me a favor, Marcel. Maybe you look at Kevin or Ann's Twitter and set him straight. He's been off his route. Is it a hilarious for him?
I think he wants us to think that he's having fun, that he's having a good time, that it doesn't actually hurt him. But deep down on the inside, I think he's hurting. Oh, wow. He's definitely shocked. I don't know if he's shocked.
I mean, he knows people at the internet go after him all the time and call him cupcake. Oh, I'll just be cringe. I think. I would hope it's not. Is the second turning that direction?
I can't tell. Marcel, thank you for calling in. We appreciate it. Oh, absolutely. And don't forget at MR29 on X. Also, not just on X there, Adam.
Also me on Facebook and Instagram at Mars. Same thing. What's the matter today on Instagram and threads? Also on Blue Sky and LinkedIn. Are you streaming on kick as well?
Are you doing it all? All platforms? My social, my social, the way to keep connected. Okay, cool. Do you post your dinners there so we can actually confirm what you ate?
Because I think that'd be a good bit. I don't think so, but I had to say for that book, pick on the radio to want the best. Oh, eat me. All right. Well, thanks for calling in Marcel and giving me the full Ben Maller experience tonight.
Oh, absolutely. I hope you'll be back soon. I'll try my best. I don't know. I've said some things tonight.
I never recover from. There goes Marcel and Brooklyn. Fantastic. That is, is that on the daily or the nightly? No, it's a three times a week.
Yeah. So I shouldn't feel that honored three times a week. Okay. Pretty good. Pretty good.
I'm going to save my criticism for this broadcaster for the next segment because I really got to lay out for this one. But I do want to mention something pertaining to what we saw tonight with the Dallas Cowboys is we can get back to a little bit of foosball here. You know, if the commanders lose tomorrow night and they're taking on the 49ers, a lot of people see as the best team in the NFL right now as they should. The NFC East would be the first division since the merger with every team playing in back-to-back weeks and none of them winning. Yo, it's like Lorena guessing Marcel's dinner.
Like never happens. Just never wins. It is up to the commanders to protect the walls of the NFC East. This is it. With Dallas losing tonight, that division has not won a game since October 4th.
And I got to be honest, I don't think they're winning tomorrow. I think the San Francisco 49ers are well prepared for them. Jalen Daniels, hopefully his elbow is okay. He's wearing that little robot arm. But this game is in San Francisco, Santa Clara, whatever.
It's at Levi Stadium. The Niners defense. I don't know what, you know, people keep talking about the Chernobyl that's nearby. That's causing all the injuries, whatever the power plant is. That's getting guys hurt all the time.
It's almost like Kyle Shanahan has adapted to not having guys to the point where it's actually made it a strength for this team somehow. All those guys that get hurt injury from players for this ever, Cisco 49ers. So they develop more depth this way with someone you guys out. They're used to it. They're comfortable being uncomfortable.
Different guys stepping up all the time. That's what they look like. A well-owned machine that uses 50 plus players to get victories because they have to because guys inevitably are going to be hurt on the San Francisco 49ers. But it has made them stronger. And that's a problem for the rest of the league.
And Shanahan, offensive wizard, except late in fourth quarters in the Super Bowl, choosing to achieve the kick or kick off, which one did he do? Yeah, don't receive the kick. Don't let my homes know what he needs to do to win the game. That was that was an error. Mistakes have certainly been made by Shanahan.
I've made a huge mistake. He's made a few of them. There was a certain Atlanta Falcon Super Bowl. They should have won them or he was the offensive coordinator. But my God, does he coach guys up and still deserves a ton of credit for that.
And I'm going to give it some. And I'm going to say they're going to win this game tomorrow night against the one three and one. And that one is a doozy, Dan Quinn, that tie in there. That's one not to be forgotten. Yeah, I think the 49ers are going to win that game against this commander's team, which means yes.
We will have gone since October 4th without the NFC East getting a win. And you're going to let one of these teams host a playoff team and a playoff game just because they won the division. The best of the worst. I said this for my panthers last year. They didn't deserve to host the LA Rams with them going eight and nine.
We got to do something about this. I know Mike Florio was tweeting about it earlier. I've been talking about this for years. The divisions. It's antiquated.
It's unnecessary. Okay, you want some rivalries in there, but you should not reward teams with a losing record just because they want a bad division with home field in a playoff game. I mean, that's disgusting. Someone has got to do something. A strongly worded letter may not be enough this time.
I don't think Roger Goodell is taking the phone call over the letter. Speak up teams that get screwed because of this. Please say something or better than that team or better than whoever comes out of the NFC East and we're not going to make the playoffs or we're going to have to at least go on the road because this team gets to host a playoff game. It's pathetic. Then the Cowboys, well, the pinnacle of that embarrassing division.
Listen, that hadn't employee called them embarrassing a week ago just for them to confirm it even more. A stadium employee. Did that guy travel, by the way? Did a if I'm Green Bay, like I'm giving that guy front row seats or something or like he's flipping the coin heads or tails at midfield to get the game started. The Cowboys like Kevin Durant can't help themselves.
They can't help embarrassing themselves. But again, he's an embarrassing yourselves when you're just not that good. The expectations were too high. That's embarrassing if a really good team loses to a bad, really bad team. Dallas just isn't that good of a team.
So maybe embarrassing isn't the right word. But then if you start thinking about 30 years since they've even got to an NFC championship game, yeah, that is pretty embarrassing. That's an embarrassing that's abject failure. You're a huge embarrassing failure. Come on up next.
We'll close things out. A broadcaster failed and called out Jalen Hurts when he shouldn't have. And I have to point these things out because if I make a mistake, I'm taking everybody with me. I kissed. I'm Adam Ozzlin.
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cringe-face look on that was at the table listening to this, like the Lucio Ball, you know, it's unfathomable to me. Oh, yeah, no idea. That would be a bad look and not received well when he's criticized as a guy for retiring for mental health issues. He didn't see what everyone else did there. And then he went on the apology tour to damage control, but the clip is the clip. It sure looked
like he was laughing about someone's mental health issues and laughing empathy because he thought it was such a funny joke to say that people are quitting on the Eagles because they're so bad. He said we misconstrued what he was saying. I think he just realized he stepped in it and was backtracking. When you're Stephen A or Pat McAfee, you can get a lot of leeway and probably don't get checked very often for what you say, bigger in the brand, or you are the brand at this point. So you don't go after people's mental health issues. That's number one here. We just lost
actor RJ MIDI from Breaking Bad who took his own life. Everyone you meet is going through a battle. You'll never know about. So be kind. I think that's the saying. Something else you don't want to do,
and this is more specific to sports. You don't question guys' injuries or their heart or toughness, especially in the game football, I would say. Friday on the NFL Network, analysts and former NFL fullback. I wasn't familiar with this game. Michael Robinson probably should have known better when he accused Jalen Hertz of this. I made a comment that it looked like that they was kind of pinning
this season on Jalen Hertz. Now this is just me looking outside looking and I don't know nothing, guys. But it looked like they were trying to pin the outcome of this season on a Jalen Hertz just so that they can have an excuse later on to move on from Jalen Hertz. And again, I'm not saying I know nothing, guys. But if I'm just thinking that way, if I'm Jalen Hertz or anybody in Jalen Hertz's camp, I'm saying, well, if everybody's heard, I'm hurt too. Guys, I've been cleated before.
And I'm not saying a superficial blood clot isn't serious. I'm not saying that, but I would advise every all of our viewers to go Google, Superficial Blood as opposed to a real blood clot. And again, I'm not a medical guy. But I'm just saying to me, to me, it looked like Jalen is kind of getting himself out of the fray so that this lost season, which indeed you just said it, this is a lost season. He's pulling himself out so that this doesn't look like it's on me. Now again, guys, I don't know
fairness. We have to stay with medical stuff. We do. We do. But I just say, they put in a statement, superficial blood clot. Look it up. What is it? Okay, Chris Rose is trying to save him there.
Throw him a lifeline, a life preserver, not a medical professional, then that's not the next day. We learn Jalen Hertz is now in the IR. He's out indefinitely, because of the blood clots. Not that we need to see him on the IR to know he wasn't faking the injury. Guys who are professional athletes don't do all the work it takes to play on Sunday just to say, no, I'm good. I don't want to
do the fun part now that I've trained for years. The actual game is the release, I think. Don't that be the fun part for them? Guys want to play? Guys take shots, pills, painkillers, or whatever it takes. There may be some rare instances like Carl Pavano in
baseball or some dudes looking for a way out. But there's season going poorly. So he must be faking the injury, faking, faking a blood clot. And Harry Met Sally ain't faking that. Like, what are we doing here? Michael Robinson. And I'm not trying to condemn him to hell or say he should
be fired. No, probably owes jail and hurts an apology here. Probably already put one out. I just used to hear this stuff all the time with Kawhi Leonard and don't get me wrong. A lot of people are Clippers fans upset with Kawhi right now. But I'll always defend to the death that this
is a guy who wanted to go out there and play. And you don't train that hard all the time to then say, no, I don't want to play in the games. That's the fun part for them. So that was just reckless, spaceless, a little bit gross. You may think guys don't love the game NBA players get accused of this all the time. I think it's rare when a guy really would just sit out for reasons like that. And
Jalen hurts is a by the way, a champion guy with a lot of pride holds himself to a high standard, good leader. People love to doubt him as a quarterback where he ranks. That's all fair game this though. Nah. But again, is it the end of the world? No, I've made mistakes like this too. It's a good reminder.
Perhaps all of us here and there you talk enough, but the Jalen hurts stuff. I mean, that was a step too far. Hopefully I didn't take things too far and drive in the car and keep it in between the lines here. Thanks to Ben Mallor for letting me fill in. Thanks to Lorena for Justin for keeping me on the straight and arrow. Thanks to the Mallor militia as well. I'm Adam Ozzland coming up next
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