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Hi and welcome back to Tell Me What Happened

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The podcast that features folks from all walks of life telling us of one childhood experience

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and how that event has impacted who they are today.

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I'm your host Jay Rehack and like you I've had my share of childhood experiences that

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have impacted who I am today.

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But I'd like to think that everything that happened, good or bad, has made me a better

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person.

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That may not be true but that's what I'd like to think.

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Today I have as my guest John Lee Dumas or JLD as Millions of his followers call him.

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JLD has turned entrepreneurs on fire into a media empire that generates over a million

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But more importantly, more specifically to me, JLD is a mentor of mine.

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I've never met the man until today but he has been an inspiration to me and my students

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when I was a teacher.

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That's because I used to listen to entrepreneurs on fire at my school with my students as I

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try to teach my students the value of energy and enthusiasm in everything you do.

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Welcome to the show, my mentor, the great John Lee Dumas.

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JLD, are you ready to tell your story?

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I am ready to drop some value bombs on a childhood story.

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Thank you.

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I'm going to get out of the way and then at the end I'm going to ask you just one question

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JLD and that is how do you think it's impacted who you are today.

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So take it away JLD.

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So the story that I want to share today starts with me at eight years old.

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I was a skier growing up.

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We lived in southern Maine in about three hours from a ski mountain called Sugilove where

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we would go a lot of weekends during the winter.

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So I became pretty good at skiing on this Maine mountain.

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But my dad was quite the expert skier and he would always push me and get me on the

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black diamonds and you know, it's kind of nerve wracking for an eight year old but I

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would ski them.

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And then I remember he was talking one winter about going out west to ski and I had never

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been outside of the northeast and he said, you know what, I'm going to take you with

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me and it was a trip that he would take with all of his cronies.

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So they were all, you know, men in their 40s and 50s, which at the time I thought was the

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oldest in the world.

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Of course now I'm in my 40s and you know, I realize it's not that old.

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But at the time I'm like, oh my God, it's going to be me, this eight year old kid going

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out to ski out west, which out west, I didn't even know what that meant.

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But I'm going to go ski out west with all these unbelievable old skiers that are just

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so good and how am I going to keep up and all this stuff.

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But it was such a cool experience.

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Like we, you know, got in the plane in Boston.

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I remember we flew and it was such a fun experience to be like in this big plane flying out west.

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And then I can remember we landed just about dusk and like you could see as we were flying

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as we were touching down into Denver, Colorado, you could see the Rocky Mountains in the distance.

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And you just knew that it was a different world as far as skiing went.

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Like these mountains were on a different level than the main mountains that I was used to

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by a long shot.

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So we got in a rental car.

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Like everything to me was just so cool.

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And everybody's laughing and they're all drinking beers, driving, you know, not the driver,

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of course, but everybody else in the car.

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And they're driving out to the Rocky Mountains and, you know, we get to the resorts and it's

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this huge, beautiful resort and there's hot tubs everywhere and there's pools and there's

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outdoor restaurants and roof deck restaurants and all these things.

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I was like, man, this is a different world.

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I remember I was nervous.

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I'm like, okay, this is where I'm really going to get tested.

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It snowed a little bit last the night before.

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So everybody wanted to get going early and they're just like, hey, John, you know, make

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sure you keep up.

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We don't want to leave you behind.

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to ski the powder.

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So they didn't want to wait, you know, wait up for an eight year old.

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No, he was like, you better keep up.

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mountain, getting dropped off and being like, I can't even breathe up here.

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to stick with these men.

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I'm going to stick with these expert skiers.

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I'm not going to let them down.

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I'm not going to let my father down.

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I'm going to stay with them.

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I'm not going to slow them down.

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His skis goes this way.

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because it has started snowing the night before and just hadn't stopped.

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even able to hike back up because it was so impossible on this trail with the snow being

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so deep and the trail being so steep.

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And I remember skiing a little ways down because I kind of been watching what he was doing

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and I just put my pole in the ground, chink, and I found his first ski and I picked it

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up and I threw it down the mountain to him.

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I took a couple more turns off to the right of little ways, put my pole down, chink, and

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I got the next ski too.

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He was so grateful and so thankful.

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So now like for the rest of the trip, you know, I had this person on my side and he was always

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like making sure that I was keeping up and like not letting other people kind of bully

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me too much.

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I felt like I was one of the guys and I felt like I had a great time.

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And from that point forward, my dad took me out west every single year from that age eight

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all the way up to like 18 years old.

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He would always take one skietrip out west.

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It probably would have been a few more years until it took me again.

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So I would have missed some pretty epic ski trips.

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You know, now that my dad's, you know, 71 years old, there's only so much more time

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that we have to spend together like on something like a ski trip.

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So it was a pretty special memories, pretty fun memories.

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And I really, you know, think of that story when I think back to my childhood.

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Love it.

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JLD, you've been helping old guys for a long time.

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That's great.

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So listen out very quickly because I know you're a very busy man.

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Can you tell me how you think that particular event has impacted who you are today?

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I know because I was listening to your podcast this morning that you're 42 years old right

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now.

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You know, that's 30, 40 years ago.

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So how do you think you can connect that to this?

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I'm going to again, mute myself and just listen.

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Yeah, it actually in three days, I'll be 43 years old.

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So coming up on my next birthday for sure.

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And I can say, you know, it definitely impacted me to this day because it really makes me

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realize that, hey, if you can find a way to be of value, you're going to be accepted by

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any group, by your listeners of your podcast, by the customers of your product, by the neighbors

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that you have, if you're providing value to them, they're not going to forget it.

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And I was able to find a way to provide real value to this individual.

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And it made me realize that I always need to look for a way to provide value to help,

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to guide, to support.

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And that's really been my MO, my modus operandi from that day forward.

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I've been listening to your podcast for a while, even teaching me like crazy.

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I've been learning tremendous enough for you.

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And I know that sort of your mantra is that idea of, you know, trying to produce value

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bombs as you would say, but just to help people really, I mean, it's really is about

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helping other people.

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Yeah, I always like to say, you can be the number one solution to a real problem in this

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world.

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You're going to win.

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I like it.

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Well, thank you so much.

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I'm so honored to have you on the show.

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I'm kind of overwhelmed as you could tell from my enthusiasm, but I will say I wanted

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to tell you this from the start that I used to be a school teacher.

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I retired a year and a half ago, but I taught for many years.

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We would listen to your podcast.

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And I would say the most important thing I would always tell students is the word enthusiasm,

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because enthusiasm actually means with God or with the power of God.

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And I'm not talking about religious.

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I'm just saying that spirit, that power.

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And one of the things that I've just tried to emulate and I'll stop talking again is

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that your enthusiasm on your show just reads right through.

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And I just like, I just want to, I want to be myself, but I want to be a podcaster with

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that type of enthusiasm.

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Well, I appreciate that.

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And I want to speak to that for one second, because one thing I will be honest with you

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is that I'm not always going to be able to deliver an amazing podcast.

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I'm going to try every time, but it's not always going to be amazing.

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And so I can't guarantee that every show is going to be amazing.

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But one thing I can guarantee is in myself to bring the energy, the passion, just the

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devotion to delivering that enthusiasm via my voice to my listeners.

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And some of them have said that very thing like, John, I was feeling a little down and

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I popped on your podcast.

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And honestly, like it was a good show.

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I love the topic per se or whatever it might be.

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It wasn't just for me, but just your enthusiasm is what I needed to surround myself with that

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And I love hearing that stuff.

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So that's very aware of you to bring that up.

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And I received that.

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I'm glad you did because basically JLD, you kicked the skis down, threw the skis down

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for me today.

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And I really, really, really appreciate it.

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And thanks for sticking with me because, you know, I'm an amateur and you're the professional,

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but I really appreciate you taking the time.

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It's an honor to actually meet you.

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Again, I've been listening to you for a couple of years now and learning from you all the

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I'm a big fan of learning every day.

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And that's one of the things that I admire about your show is that I, if I listen, I

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learned something.

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Your guests, you always have these dynamic guests.

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I don't always do what they tell me to do, but I always listen to them and they give

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me good, solid counsel.

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So thank you for that.

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I appreciate it, brother.

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It was great spending time with you today.

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Thank you for listening and for putting out your voice to the world.

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And I'll catch you on the flip side.

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Thank you, JLD.

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Thank you.

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Well, that's our show.

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I'd like to thank my guest, JLD, the great John Lee Dumas for all of his value bombs

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