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The Clinton E-Mail Scandal [TEASER]
14 september 2023 · 28 min
But her e-mails! Michael explains the non-scandal that captivated the mainstream media in 2016 while Peter attempts to sow the podcast with anti-Hillary sentiment. Lees meer
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God And Man At Yale
7 september 2023 · 1 uur 11 min
Oops all grievance. Lees meer
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Sources:
No Ivory Tower : Mccarthyism And The Universities
The Fire Is Upon Us
The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945
The Passion of William F. Buckley: Academic Freedom, Conspiratorial Conservatism, and the Rise of the Postwar Right
Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?
Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945-1955
Debunking a Longstanding Myth About William F. Buckley
How William F. Buckley Jr.’s Right-Wing College Crusade Paved the Way for Ron DeSantis
The Right v. Higher Education: Change and Continuity
The Buckleys: A Family Examined
The Academic Elite Goes to Washington, and to War
What About “God and Man”?
The Attack on Yale
The academy on the firing line: William F. Buckley, Jr.'s God and Man at Yale and the modern conservative critique of higher education
Conservatives charge that universities are hotbeds of liberalism. They’re wrong.
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'On Bullsh*t' and the Pundit Industrial Complex [TEASER]
10 augustus 2023 · 16 min
For this month's bonus episode we dissected Harry Frankfurt's gloriously brief bestseller and applied the concept to our favorite op-ed page. Lees meer
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Liberal Fascism
27 juli 2023 · 1 uur 5 min
Who poses the greatest threat to democracy? Is it the movement that openly identifies with the symbols, goals and policies of fascist governments? Or is it the median bureaucrat at the Department of Health and Human Services? Lees meer
In 2008, a National Review nepo-baby attempted to answer this vexing question.
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Sources:
History News Network: A Symposium on Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism
The Nature of Fascism
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
The Anatomy of Fascism
Mussolini and Fascism: The View From America
The Return of Old-Fashioned Racism to White Americans’ Partisan Preferences in the Early Obama Era
Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America
What Hillary Rodham Clinton Really Said About Children’s Rights and Child Policy
The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930
A campus takeover that symbolized an era of change
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Are The Straights OK [TEASER]
13 juli 2023 · 24 min
In our "Rules" and "Game" episodes we didn't get a chance to dissect the phenomenon of online dating (i.e. describe our worst dates and read cringe profiles out loud to each other), so that is what we are doing on today's bonus episode. Lees meer
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BONUS: Conservatives vs. Pride Month
6 juli 2023 · 1 uur 5 min
Lots of subscribers asked us to release last month's bonus episode in full so here it is! Share it with the conservatives, the boomers and the Satanists in your life. Lees meer
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The Rules
29 juni 2023 · 1 uur 9 min
In 1995 a bestselling book proposed a simple dating strategy for women: Lose weight, wear bright colors and become a completely different person for the rest of your life. Lees meer
Thanks to Moira Donegan for helping us with this episode!
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Sources:
From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America
Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s essay, “Stuff Your ‘Rules’”
The More Things Change: The Rules And Late Eighteenth‐Century Conduct Books For Women
Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts: Shyness and Heterosexuality from the Roles of the Fifties to "The Rules" of the Nineties
From Mountain Peak to Total Woman: An Evolutionary History of Pre-feminist Dating Advice
The Mating Game: How Gender Still Shapes How We Date by Ellen Lamont
So Many Rules, So Little Time
Abiding by The Rules: Instructing Women in Relationships
What leads to romantic attraction: similarity, reciprocity, security, or beauty? Evidence from a speed-dating study
"Playing Hard To Get": Understanding An Elusive Phenomenon
Egalitarian Daters, Traditionalist Dates
Aspirational pursuit of mates in online dating markets
Disintermediating your friends: How online dating in the United States displaces other ways of meeting
Playing Hard To Get
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Atomic Habits
15 juni 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
This week we're discussing "Atomic Habits," a book about how to use science (and also some stuff that’s definitely not science) to train yourself to be a more functional person. Lees meer
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Sources:
How 1% Performance Improvements Led to Olympic Gold
From paupers to kings: The lottery-funded revolution
Habit Formation
Implementation Intentions to Reduce Smoking: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Effectiveness of the use of implementation intentions on reduction of substance use: A meta-analysis
When Intentions Go Public
Effect of Intensive Handwashing Promotion on Childhood Diarrhea in High-Risk Communities in Pakistan
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The World is Flat
1 juni 2023 · 1 uur 8 min
Much has been said about globalization, but perhaps no one has said it worse than Thomas Friedman. Lees meer
Content Note: Discussions of xenophobic and racist content, especially toward the end of the episode.
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Sources:
Why The World Isn't Flat
The World Is Still Not Flat
DHL Global Connectedness Index 2022
The Fallacies of Flatness
The Sociopathy of Thomas Friedman: A Compendium
Thomas Friedman sums up the Iraq War (YouTube)
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"Nudge" Part 2: Mr. Nudge Goes to Washington
19 mei 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
The Nudgening. Lees meer
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Sources:
David Gal's "Behavioral Winter"
The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray
Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular?
Applying Behavioral Insights To Intimate Partner Violence
What Counts as a Nudge?
The Power of Nudges, for Good and Bad
Allowing Patients to Waive the Right to Sue for Medical Malpractice: A Response to Thaler and Sunstein
Obama’s Obama
Behavioural Insights Applied to Policy - Country Overviews 2016
The opioid crisis and nudge theory
On the Supposed Evidence for Libertarian Paternalism
The effect of charter schools on charter students and public schools
Re-election Strategy Is Tied to a Shift on Smog
Is the White House delaying too many health and safety rules?
Down the Regulatory Rabbit Hole
Why regulations are good — again
Cass Sunstein: The Obama Administration's Ambivalent Regulator
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The Meme Stock Cult [TEASER]
15 mei 2023 · 20 min
In 2021, scrappy young investors from across the world joined forces to buy GameStop stock, aiming to take down greedy hedge funds. What came next was tragedy, injustice, and a conspiratorial internet cult so stupid we had to do an episode about it. Lees meer
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"Nudge" Part 1: A Simple Solution For Littering, Organ Donations and Climate Change
4 mei 2023 · 1 uur 11 min
In 2008, an economist and a law professor proposed a radical new approach to politics: Telling people not to do bad stuff. Lees meer
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Mike's Maintenance Phase episode on the godfather of the "cafeteria nudge"
Nudge: Concept, Effectiveness, and Ethics
From mechanism to virtue: Evaluating Nudge theory
The effectiveness of nudging: A meta-analysis of choice architecture interventions across behavioral domains
Why the Most Important Idea in Behavioral Decision-Making Is a Fallacy
Behavioral Winter
Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular?
The Origins of Anti-Litter Campaigns
Do Normative Appeals Affect Tax Compliance? Evidence from a Controlled Experiment in Minnesota
Opt-out legislations: the mysterious viability of the false
Opt-out policies capacity to increase organ donors is limited
Assessing Global Organ Donation Policies: Opt-In vs Opt-Out
What Counts as a Nudge?
Preventing Secondary Pregnancy In Adolescents: A Model Program
The Effect of Monetary Incentives and Peer Support Groups on Repeat Adolescent Pregnancies A Randomized Trial of the Dollar-a-Day Program
The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray
Can behavioural economics make us healthier?
On the Supposed Evidence for Libertarian Paternalism
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The 5 Love Languages
20 april 2023 · 55 min
What’s your love language? Is it gifts? Words of affirmation? Or is it podcasts about books with extremely weird, reactionary gender dynamics? Lees meer
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Sources:
Can Gary Chapman Save Your Marriage?
The Sixth Love Language Does Not Exist
How ‘The Five Love Languages’ Gets Misinterpreted
The 5 Love Languages Don’t Matter as Much as You Think
The Creator Of The 5 Love Languages Is A Homophobe And This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Famed Author Gary Chapman Talks Love, Marriage, Sex
Evangelicals Incorporated
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Ben Shapiro's Plan To End Poverty [TEASER]
13 april 2023 · 12 min
Is it bootstraps? It's bootstraps. Lees meer
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Rich Dad Poor Dad
6 april 2023 · 1 uur 14 min
In 1997, Robert Kiyosaki revealed the secret to lifelong success: Deliver grifty seminars and hire child slaves. Lees meer
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Sources:
Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
‘Rich Dad Poor Dad' Robert Kiyosaki Exposed
Stupid Investment of the Week
Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Education on Real Estate Investing Review
The Ticket to Easy Street? The Financial Consequences of Winning the Lottery
Why the Myth of the Miserable Lottery Winner Just Won’t Die
Work Centrality and Post-Award Work Behavior of Lottery Winners
"The best way to get even with A-grade students was to make them employees of mine"
Ohio real estate investor’s warning statement on Robert Kiyosaki and Bill Gatten’s complex PACtrust for real estate investing
Academic Discipline and Personal Finance Instruction in High School
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The Dumbest Campus Controversies Of The Last Decade [TEASER]
30 maart 2023 · 20 min
Get in loser, we're going to Oberlin. Lees meer
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Hillbilly Elegy
23 maart 2023 · 48 min
In 2016, J.D. Vance informally launched his political career with "Hillbilly Elegy," a memoir that blames the relative poverty of Appalachian and Rust Belt populations on their own culture. Despite its reactionary premise, mainstream and liberal press outlets were so enamored by the book that they accidentally made Vance a senator. Lees meer
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Sources:
Appalachian Reckoning
America’s Divided Recovery
What Did Hillbilly Elegy Get Wrong?
J.D. Vance, the False Prophet of Blue America
Hillbilly Elitism
Welfare Queens and White Trash
Consumer Expenditures in 2016
Household Expenditures and Income
CFPB Data Point: Payday Lending
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The Coddling Of The American Mind
9 maart 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
TRIGGER WARNING: if you're a SNOWFLAKE college professor afraid of how your students are expressing themselves, you might need a SAFE SPACE, because Michael and Peter are discussing "The Coddling of The American Mind," a book about campus culture that's light on facts and heavy on cherry-picked anecdotes. Lees meer
CORRECTION: The Socrates quote mentioned at the end of this episode is apocryphal. We thank the listeners who pointed this out for refusing to coddle our American minds.
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Sources:
The Miseducation of Free Speech (https://www.virginialawreview.org/articles/miseducation-free-speech/)
College and the “Culture War”: Assessing Higher Education’s Influence on Moral Attitudes (
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00031224211041094)
The Myth of the Campus Coddle Crisis (https://academeblog.org/2018/12/28/the-myth-of-the-campus-coddle-crisis-the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/)
What ‘Safe Spaces’ Really Look Like on College Campuses (https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-safe-spaces-really-look-like-on-college-campuses/?bc_nonce=peduocnzcslb08jxmt1dlb&cid=reg_wall_signup)
Are College Campuses Really in the Thrall of Leftist Censors? (https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/03/hypersensitive-campus-progressives-judith-shulevitz-is-half-right-but-takes-her-criticisms-too-far.html)
Speaking Freely: What Students Think about Expression at American Colleges (https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/student-attitudes-free-speech-survey)
‘Not all cultures are created equal’ says Penn Law professor in op-ed (https://www.thedp.com/article/2017/08/amy-wax-penn-law-cultural-values)
How Right Wing Media Has Tried to Stifle Student Speech at Evergreen State College (https://psmag.com/education/the-real-free-speech-story-at-evergreen-college)
I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me (https://www.vo…
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The New York Times's War On Trans Kids [TEASER]
28 februari 2023 · 28 min
The nation's most prestigious newspaper insists on asking a very stupid question. So for this month's bonus episode, we decided to answer it. Lees meer
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Parker Molloy (readtpa.com)
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Evan Urquhart (assignedmedia.org)
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The Clash of Civilizations
23 februari 2023 · 58 min
"If your thesis doesn't hold up to obvious criticisms, there's a chance that your thesis sucks." Lees meer
Thanks to Paul Musgrave and Alex Cruikshanks for helping us fact-check this episode!
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Huntington’s 1993 article
Statistics on deaths in state-based conflicts
The Clash of Civilizations: An Islamicist’s Critique
Paul Musgrave’s Roundtable on Clash of Civilizations
“The Hispanic Challenge”
The “Arab Street”? Public Opinion In The Arab World
The Clash of Ignorance
Can Civilizations Clash?
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The End of History
9 februari 2023 · 47 min
Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History and the Last Man" changed political discourse forever. Peter and Michael peel back his muddled history and fluffy rhetoric, revealing several more layers of muddled history and fluffy rhetoric. Lees meer
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Sources:
Reflections on the End of History, Five Years Later (https://www.jstor.org/stable/2505433)
More Proof That This Really Is the End of History (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/francis-fukuyama-still-end-history/671761/)
Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/francis-fukuyama-postpones-the-end-of-history)
Endism: why 1989 was not the 'end of history' (https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/endism/)
The End of the End of History (https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/maximillian-alvarez-end-end-history/)
It's Still Not the End of History (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/its-still-not-the-end-of-history-francis-fukuyama/379394/)
Bring back ideology: Fukuyama's 'end of history' 25 years on (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/21/bring-back-ideology-fukuyama-end-history-25-years-on)
Francis Fukuyama's Shrinking Idea (https://newrepublic.com/article/152668/francis-fukuyama-identity-review-collapse-theory-liberal-democracy)
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The Lab Leak [TEASER]
31 januari 2023 · 15 min
In December 2019, the coronavirus pandemic began in Wuhan, China. In May 2021, America experienced one of the most cursed weeks of punditry we've ever seen. Lees meer
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Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
26 januari 2023 · 1 uur 9 min
In 1992 a yoga instructor with a distance-learning PhD had the courage to ask: "Are women not getting help around the house because they're using the wrong modal verb?" Lees meer
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The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?
A critical response to John Gray's Mars and Venus portrayals of men and women
The Gender Similarities Hypothesis
The Rebuttal from Uranus
Coming home upset: Gender, marital satisfaction and the daily spillover of workday experience into couple interactions
FDA warning letter
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: An Analysis of a Potential Meme
Women, Men and Language
Women, Men, and Gender: Ongoing Debates
Women and Men Talking: Are They World’s Apart?
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The Secret
12 januari 2023 · 43 min
Rhonda Byrne's "The Secret" sold millions of copies based on a simple premise: All of science is fake and the only reason anything ever happens is because people manifest it by communicating with the universe. Lees meer
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Power Lines
Oprah's Ugly Secret
The Staggering Bullshit of The Secret
Death by “alternative” medicine: Who’s to blame?
For Some Seeking Rebirth, Sweat Lodge Was End
A Little Secret About The Secret
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The Population Bomb
15 december 2022 · 49 min
How a Stanford lepidopterist convinced the world to fear the breeding habits of the poor. Again. Lees meer
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Sonia Shah’s “The Next Great Migration”
Barbarian Hordes: The overpopulation scapegoat in international development discourse
Optimism and Overpopulation
The Population Bomb Revisited
The Strange History of Birth Control
Birth Control for Others
How the World Survived the Population Bomb: Lessons From 50 Years of Extraordinary Demographic History
Why the Population Bomb is a Rockefeller Baby
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A Bari Special Bonus Episode [TEASER]
8 december 2022 · 10 min
Our first premium episode is a deep dive into the blog of the infamously (and dubiously) "canceled" Bari Weiss. Lees meer
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The Game
1 december 2022 · 56 min
Neil Strauss's "The Game" aimed to teach any man how to hook up with beautiful women. All he needed was a little bit of sociopathy, a lot of misogyny and a fanny pack full of props. Lees meer
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He's Simply Resistable
Pickup Artists Are Still A Thing. And They Want You To Know They’ve Evolved.
Misogynist Incels and Male Supremacism
Would the Pickup Artist Stand a Chance in the #MeToo Era?
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David Brooks's "Bobos in Paradise"
17 november 2022 · 1 uur
David Brooks became liberals' famous conservative by telling them what they wanted to hear. But ... why did they want to hear something that was lazy and wrong? Lees meer
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A Reasonable Man
David Brooks: Boo-Boos in Paradise
A Cartoon Elite
David Brooks’s Conversion Story
David Brooks and the Endless Grift of the Conservative Commentariat
How The Bobos Broke America
Death Of A Yuppie Dream: The Rise And Fall Of The Professional-Managerial Class
Stuff the Professional-Managerial Class Likes: "Distinction" for an Egalitarian Elite
David Brooks’s Search for Meaning
The facts vs. David Brooks: Startling inaccuracies raise questions about his latest book
David Brooks Is Not Buying Your Excuses, Poor People
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Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers"
10 november 2022 · 50 min
In "Outliers," Malcolm Gladwell posited that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert in something. Mike and Peter prove him wrong by mastering his dumb book over the span of about 50 minutes. Lees meer
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Malcolm Gladwell talks about responding to critics, and the perils of ‘Talking to Strangers’
Gladwell for Dummies
Malcolm Gladwell interview
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance
The Dangers of Delegating Education To Journalists
Good intuition takes years of practice
Blinkered
How Malcolm Gladwell Tricks You Into Believing
Complexity and the Ten-Thousand-Hour Rule
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study
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Freakonomics
2 november 2022 · 1 uur 13 min
In 2005, two men named Steven and Stephen published the quintessential airport book. In 2022, two men named Mike and Peter started a whole podcast just to make fun of it. Lees meer
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The 2003 NYT article
Freakonomics: What Went Wrong?
A Review of Freakonomics
Dismal Science
Freak-Freakonomics
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime: Comment
The Abortion–Crime Link: Evidence from England and Wales
The Impact of an Abortion Ban on Socioeconomic Outcomes of Children: Evidence from Romania
Did Legalized Abortion Lower Crime?
On the Choice of Control Variables in the Crime Equation
Steven Levitt on Abortion and Crime: Old Economics in New Bottles
The Impact Of Legalized Abortion On Crime
The Great American Mystery Story: Why Did Crime Decline?
Is There an iCrime Wave?
The Great Crime Decline
The Crime Drop in America
10 (Not Entirely Crazy) Theories Explaining the Great Crime Decline
What Caused the Crime Decline?
Freaks and Geeks: How Freakonomics is ruining the dismal science.
Interesting Questions in Freakonomics
Incentives And The Economic Point Of View: The Case Of Popular Economics
Abortion and Crime in Australia
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