MFM Minisode 416

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And welcome to my favorite murder. This is a mini-sode.

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Speaker 1 The subject line of this one is marshmallow explosion. Great.
And then it just says sort of hometown. And it starts, salutations, etc.

Speaker 1 So this is being written by a spider named Charlotte. Ready?

Speaker 1 Just listened to the recent-ish episode about the Sun Valley Mall disaster, and it jogged a memory of what I guess can be called my non-murder hometown, also from the 80s. I kind of love that idea.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Do you have a story of some crazy shit that happened in your hometown? Yeah, it's like the balloon,

Speaker 2 what's it called, release?

Speaker 1 Like, what is a fucked up thing that they're like, this will be a great idea

Speaker 1 in our small town or whatever.

Speaker 1 You you don't have to have even witnessed it you can just say this is the crazy thing that happened in my hometown yes that's exactly what we want do you have the world's biggest ball of twine you better write in okay

Speaker 1 In May 1988, in Las Vegas, a residentially based chemical plant called the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada exploded multiple times, killing two people and causing $100 million in damages.

Speaker 1 In today's money, you want to guess it? $100 million in the, in when? 1988.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God.

Speaker 17 That's got to be

Speaker 17 800 million?

Speaker 1 $222 million.

Speaker 24 That's a lot still.

Speaker 1 It's so much.

Speaker 1 I went for it.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 There are disagreements over exactly how the fire that led to the explosion started, as well as what exactly caused the explosions themselves, but it seems to have been some combination of a natural gas leak, spark welding, and a highly volatile rocket fuel component stored at the site.

Speaker 1 Let's get that rocket fuel separate

Speaker 1 over in that separate area.

Speaker 1 The explosions also triggered an explosion at the next door marshmallow factory, which, given I was five years old when this took place, is pretty much the only thing I remember.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I texted my mom, Nancy, about the disaster, and since she didn't have a squishy child's brain when we lived in Vegas in 85, she had a bit more to say.

Speaker 1 The rocket factory was in Henderson in a neighborhood. No one knew it was there until it exploded.

Speaker 1 You got to tell people. You got to let them know who their neighbor is.

Speaker 1 Just a real low-key, like it said, David's bridles on the outside, but inside their mattress firm.

Speaker 1 That's unfair.

Speaker 1 And then it says, right next to it was a marshmallow factory.

Speaker 1 We went up and looked at it the day after, and there were puffs of marshmallow all over the cacti and men in white suits looking for radiation.

Speaker 2 God, that smelled so good.

Speaker 1 Smelled so good, but Nancy's pulling her child

Speaker 1 right up to the curb being like, let's get in here and see marshmallows and radiation.

Speaker 25 Smell the radiation.

Speaker 1 When it happened, you were with your father at the post office and the two of you felt the explosion and the post office window waved back and forth. Whoa.
I love this.

Speaker 1 Your mom reminding you of what happened. I was teaching.
The force of the explosion knocked plants off the top of the lockers in my classroom and it felt like I'd I'd been kicked in the back.

Speaker 1 Crazy. I was the one who was responsible for going outside and making sure all the kids got in because we knew something was coming our way, but we didn't know how bad it was going to be.

Speaker 1 As teachers, we were making preparations for keeping the children overnight until we got word that it wasn't anything lethal and the buses would be coming for the children.

Speaker 1 Not only nothing lethal, that what's coming is the children's greatest dream.

Speaker 11 Exploding marshmallow.

Speaker 1 A 10-foot wave of marshmallow fluff.

Speaker 1 So, yeah.

Speaker 1 It's got a little radiation, but don't worry about it. But just a little, it's kind of just a bit of spice.
Yeah, seasoning.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, stay sexy and don't store volatile chemicals next to marshmallow factories, Jen. Yeah.

Speaker 18 If you're going to keep that a secret from the town, then you have to double pinky swear that you won't explode the fucking place.

Speaker 1 It can't be in a neighborhood. No.
Secretly.

Speaker 1 Can't. And then you're like, we had rocket fuel, welding sparks, and we had five-year-olds lighting matches.
That was in one room. Right.
And then over here, it's like, please.

Speaker 2 Well, no one said we couldn't do it because we didn't tell anyone that we were doing it.

Speaker 27 We're innovators.

Speaker 2 It's kind of on you guys.

Speaker 1 We're rocket fuel disruptors.

Speaker 25 Okay.

Speaker 25 This one's called an internet predator story.

Speaker 16 Hey, hey, hey.

Speaker 24 My name is Chloe, and boy, do I have a story for you.

Speaker 4 When I was about 11 years old, AOL Messenger and Yahoo Messenger were very popular.

Speaker 26 My dad very graciously and soon after this story happened, probably regrettably, allowed me to use Yahoo Messenger to talk to my friends.

Speaker 3 There were rules, however, to make sure that I was safe, thank God.

Speaker 12 And she was 11.

Speaker 2 Weekly, my dad would review my friends list to make sure that he knew everyone, and he also limited my time to about an hour a day.

Speaker 4 Most days, if I got a new message from someone, I showed my dad and got approval. But on one fall day, my dad had run out for something and left me alone briefly on Messenger.

Speaker 2 A message of hi popped up from someone I didn't know, and I still remember his screen name, which was my zip code in Wisconsin at the time.

Speaker 15 So it was a name and then a zip code.

Speaker 3 Due to this, I asked the person, hi, do I know you?

Speaker 26 To which he replied, no, I just found your profile on Yahoo Profiles, something or other, and thought to send a message.

Speaker 1 Did you have AIM or like, did you have this service?

Speaker 2 I had AIM, yeah.

Speaker 1 Could they know who you were or how old you were or anything like that? I didn't have any of this. I was like, I was drunk in a gutter at this point in my life.

Speaker 24 Okay, yeah, they could tell because you had like a profile, you know, and it'd be like, and you tell all about yourself and everything.

Speaker 4 And then you'd also be in like chat rooms that kind of gave away your age a little bit and

Speaker 15 that sort of thing.

Speaker 24 So, yeah, it was pretty

Speaker 4 like not a ton of info, but enough info that they knew that you were a child.

Speaker 1 Enough info that I have a stomachache right now. Okay.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 That like this was the Wild West. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then it says, I didn't have a profile anywhere.

Speaker 1 And then I asked, okay, how old are you?

Speaker 8 To which he replied, I'm 26.

Speaker 1 For a reminder, I'm 11.

Speaker 13 I immediately stopped communicating, making a note to let my dad know when he came home and signed off for the night.

Speaker 12 Smart kid.

Speaker 26 A few days later, when my dad did his weekly messenger check, he asked me about the screen name he saw and I told him what had happened.

Speaker 8 I said frantically, I swear I didn't do anything bad and I meant to tell you and I forgot.

Speaker 23 To which he laughed and said, it's okay.

Speaker 4 I did the right thing to stop the conversation.

Speaker 11 But my dad used this as a learning opportunity.

Speaker 13 He sat down and told me men on the internet aren't to be trusted, especially older men, and proceeded to message the guy acting as if he was me.

Speaker 1 Oh shit.

Speaker 2 Fucking dad is ready to fight.

Speaker 1 Dad's like, let's teach some people some lessons here. Yeah.

Speaker 26 Within 15 minutes, the man was asking for photos and then coaching, quote, me, how to sneak out of the house and meet him nearly 15 blocks away at a local Taco Bell at 11 p.m.

Speaker 1 Oh, fuck.

Speaker 11 Even describing his dark blue truck and license plate number.

Speaker 12 My dad immediately called the police who met the man at Taco Bell and arrested him.

Speaker 1 Oh, I mean, Jesus. I know.

Speaker 33 Like, this was a predator.

Speaker 11 This was not a fucking mistake.

Speaker 2 Right. You know?

Speaker 1 The predator had his eyes all the way open. It wasn't like, oh, she catfished me.
I thought she was 25. Right.
Right.

Speaker 6 A few days later, the police came to the house to let us know that the man had been released because sadly, at that time, there weren't laws to protect children being solicited via the internet.

Speaker 12 And he hadn't done anything, quote, legally wrong.

Speaker 3 The cop apologized over and over, but said we did the right thing.

Speaker 15 So I'm sure he's on their radar by now.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 23 By then, at least.

Speaker 26 I'm forever grateful to my dad for teaching me that internet safety lesson because had I been like most of my friends with parents who didn't understand the interwebs, I likely could have been abducted.

Speaker 15 Yeah.

Speaker 4 I hope you enjoyed my story, but I have to get myself back to painting.

Speaker 11 Stay sexy and don't talk to creeps on the internet, Chloe.

Speaker 1 Chloe, I don't know if the word enjoyed would be the one I would use for having heard that story because it was a bit of a nail biter.

Speaker 1 But God bless your dad and your very adult 11-year-old brain that's like, okay, I need to let people know.

Speaker 1 Like, really, a perfect 11-year-old for the early game days. Totally.

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Speaker 1 The subject line of this email is my childhood balloon hobby.

Speaker 1 It says hello to the beautiful team of MFM and exactly right. I love everything you do.
You guys have been a huge part of my weekly routine since I was 16 years old. Aww.

Speaker 1 And then in parentheses, it says, I was the teenager you guys were yelling at for being a younger listener. Hey.
Hi.

Speaker 1 We cater to every demographic. Can you hear me purring loudly under the microphone? No, I can just, but I'm watching her when you stop petting her, slap you with her paw.
Full claws. Full claws out.

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Speaker 24 I want to protect her. She's full claws and she'll bite if I don't do it.

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She's like, we are doing something. I don't care about your podcast.

Speaker 1 Anyways, I was listening to episode 451 and was reminded of my own balloon endeavors as a child and had to write in.

Speaker 1 I have always been the type of person to pick up a random, oh, I guess episode 451 was Lawn Chair Larry, the man who flew in his weather balloons, flew in a lawn chair, definitely.

Speaker 1 And survived and lived to tell the tale. It's a good one.
I've always been the type of person to pick up a random hobby every summer because of an undiagnosed ADHD. Hi, me too.

Speaker 1 And did so like clockwork as a kid. My mom was a teacher.
My dad worked full-time. So picking up a new hobby kept us kids busy during the summer and out of my mom's hair until I was around nine.

Speaker 1 And I decided to pick up the hobby of making balloon animals.

Speaker 1 I love that. Right?

Speaker 26 I didn't even like think of that as a thing you could learn, but yeah.

Speaker 1 I know they were, this is a crafty person that bought this up. They were like, I'm not doing the usual hook rugs or whatever.

Speaker 1 Hook rugs. That's the most 70s thing I've ever said in my life.

Speaker 1 While searching our craft closet, what? Yeah, sign me up for that. Why don't I have that? I mean,

Speaker 1 I'm so furious right now on behalf of my inner nine-year-old.

Speaker 1 While searching our craft closet, I came across our version of a fucking craft closet was like me looking through old photo albums of my parents, just being like, I wonder who these people are.

Speaker 1 Like, just nothing interesting.

Speaker 31 There was nothing.

Speaker 1 There was a couple of board games with tons of missing pieces yeah and dust bunnies and that was it and a big f you

Speaker 1 okay

Speaker 1 so sorry back to the email while searching our craft closet i came across a bag of those skinny balloons a hand pump an instruction book on how to make balloon animals

Speaker 1 i have no idea where the book or supplies came from but i made it my mom's problem all summer long awh imagine trying to enjoy your summer evening and all you hear in the distance is the high-pitched sound of balloons squeaking together for hours on end with the occasional pop.

Speaker 1 Oh my god.

Speaker 1 The hand pump did end up going missing one day and I was unable to find it, thus ending my early beginnings to being a child clown.

Speaker 1 I'm pretty sure my mom hit it, but only after I had already made 40 balloon animals that summer. Holy shit.

Speaker 1 What do you like? Do you like rhinoceroses? Yes.

Speaker 1 Antwerp Snake? Okay.

Speaker 1 Thank you for everything you do and being there when things got tough. You guys have been with me through two graduations, the pandemic and the strike as I was a fresh film grad when it all went down.

Speaker 1 Stay sexy and don't let your kids pick up clown hobbies. Brooksy,

Speaker 1 she then.

Speaker 1 Wow, that's cool.

Speaker 11 Yeah, let us know your weird childhood hobbies.

Speaker 14 But you know what I was thinking?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 30 I wonder if Brooke's mom or parents put just random hobby things in

Speaker 28 their craft closet and was like, I know this kid likes to pick up random shit.

Speaker 3 If I say, you know what, you should try, they're going to tell me to fuck off.

Speaker 14 So here are 10 different options.

Speaker 25 Someday she's going to look through it, go find it.

Speaker 1 Right. Yeah, exactly.
Well, yeah, because I wonder if it's like.

Speaker 1 They're strategizing behind the scenes. Yeah.
That's what you're saying.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like they have something ready, something interesting, but that they can kind of discover.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, God, that would be amazing parenthood. That really would be.

Speaker 3 Oh, that was sweet. Tell us what your weird childhood hobbies were.

Speaker 15 My friend had the largest collection of Snoopy memorabilia.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 1 I got really into collecting Mrs. Grossman's stickers, which were those like heart, teddy bear, bow.

Speaker 1 I really got into them. And then I thought, I tried to sell them at school.
And people were like,

Speaker 1 we don't need this. We already have our own.
Whereas sticky stickers. You can buy, I got like a box for Christmas.
So I was like, you can buy them through me.

Speaker 1 And people were like, we don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 14 See, Karen, you were into merch from a very early age.

Speaker 1 I just didn't know it. Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 2 Hi, Karen, Georgia, and the whole MFM crew.

Speaker 11 I came across your podcast a few months ago at the best time as I had already watched every true crime series, documentary, and movie on all the streaming platforms.

Speaker 4 So naturally, I've been binge listening to your podcast at an alarming rate.

Speaker 12 I love everything you do and all your content.

Speaker 11 Please never stop being your amazing selves.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 24 I was listening to one of the mini-sodes where a woman mentioned she would go door-to-door for surveys, and one man played dead in his car so he didn't have to talk to her.

Speaker 1 You did too. So good.

Speaker 26 It reminded me of the many things my dad has done over the years to get rid of unwanted visitors and callers.

Speaker 25 Aside from the time he cussed out the Jehovah's Witnesses that showed up at our house on Christmas, this story is one of my favorites.

Speaker 24 That's a bad idea.

Speaker 5 It's like you're celebrating Christmas, the most lovely day with your children and all these things.

Speaker 11 And they're like, hey, you know what?

Speaker 2 You shouldn't do anymore.

Speaker 1 I think that's, don't you think they're in there trying to pick off the like lonely people or the people who are having a bad Christmas somehow? There you go. Extra cynical, in my opinion.

Speaker 1 That is good.

Speaker 3 Okay, this is one of my favorites. Back when I was a kid, before the internet was widespread, the best way to look at businesses was the phone book.

Speaker 31 Great resource, unless someone accidentally submits the wrong phone number in their little ad.

Speaker 2 This happened with our home phone number.

Speaker 11 A doctor's office had our number listed as theirs, and we would constantly get calls from patients.

Speaker 24 My dad reached out to the Yellow Pages to report the issue, but only the doctor's office could call to resolve this.

Speaker 32 So my dad located their office and informed them of the mistake.

Speaker 11 They claimed there wasn't an issue and the number was correct. Someone fucking doubled down.

Speaker 1 I was like, no, you're wrong. I love those people.

Speaker 1 You mean factually provable, but you're still going to, you're going to go ahead and deny it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm the front office manager and I refuse to admit that that's not the right number because I did it.

Speaker 1 I'm the front office manager and I had a very difficult childhood with very critical parents. And so at this point, one more mistake would feel like it would break me in two.

Speaker 1 Therefore, that number is correct that you see that is not correct on paper.

Speaker 1 Oh, God.

Speaker 24 Incredible. How frustrating for the dad.

Speaker 4 Like, I promise I'm not just making this up.

Speaker 1 Like, what are you talking about? It's literally the new post-truth world we live in now where people are just like, that didn't happen.

Speaker 1 And you're just like, well, okay, guess, I guess it's whatever you say. Right.
What the fuck? Oh my God.

Speaker 5 So Q several more weeks of back and forth of my dad trying to fix this issue to no avail.

Speaker 23 Finally fed up, he decided to make this a bigger issue for the doctor and started, quote, scheduling patients for next day appointments

Speaker 33 whenever they would call.

Speaker 23 It wasn't long after that that the calls stopped.

Speaker 1 Once your office got full of people insisting that they had appointments next day appointments and getting fucking pissed off that they that they didn't yeah oh looks like i did make a mistake my collarbone is broken and you said i could come in as soon as possible i like to sit and think about the absolute chaos and angry patience my dad unleashed on that doctor's office just to get some peace and quiet for himself stay sexy and don't piss off tire dads allie you're so right allie and your dad was so right yeah it's pretty diabolical and I love it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's a real solve.
Sometimes the solve is not in fighting, but in agreeing. It's like, fine.

Speaker 1 Fine, I work for your doctor's office, and I'm the worst employee of all time.

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Speaker 1 The subject line of this email is: Albert Einstein was my third man.

Speaker 1 Hello, longtime listener, long time emailer, just waiting for my big break. Hey, it's happening.

Speaker 1 You all recently did an episode about third man syndrome, something I'd never heard of, but definitely experienced in my youth. And then it says in parentheses, a long time ago.

Speaker 8 Sigh.

Speaker 1 When I was in high school, I would occasionally get to spend the weekend with my cool older sister at her college a couple hours away.

Speaker 1 She'd let me drink all the Boon's Farm wine my 15-year-old body could handle,

Speaker 1 which was not a lot.

Speaker 1 I felt so cool hanging out with her and her roommates in their ratty college apartment

Speaker 1 despite being a bit of a party animal she was incredibly studious and was one of the few women in her chemistry program my god did you ever take chemistry fuck no dude i fucking attempted

Speaker 1 because I had this idea of myself of like I should be like more of an honor student in junior year.

Speaker 1 I tried to take chemistry and literally it took me like three weeks and I like, I think the first semester I got an F and then I was just like, okay, I'm dropping this class. I don't know.

Speaker 24 I never been qualified to be able to sign up for it.

Speaker 1 So, no.

Speaker 1 I love her bed. She had a huge poster of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out.
You know the one.

Speaker 1 After a long night of underage drinking, I passed out in her bed and had the most vivid dream of my life.

Speaker 1 I was sitting in a classroom as Albert Einstein stood at a chalkboard repeating the phrase, the answer is always neutral, in a thick German accent.

Speaker 1 I attributed the dream to seeing her poster as I fell fell into a deep drunk sleep. Later that day, me, my sister, and her boyfriend began the 90-mile drive back to my hometown.

Speaker 1 She drove, he rode shotgun. I sat quietly in the back, fighting the urge to puke.
About halfway through our drive on a busy highway, my sister's face and body began to contort.

Speaker 1 She was having a grand mall seizure.

Speaker 1 Her boyfriend immediately began to panic, shouting, what do I do?

Speaker 1 In that moment, Einstein's words rang out so clearly in my head, it was as if he was sitting right next to me with zero driving experience or car knowledge I calmly said neutral put it in neutral oh my fucking god

Speaker 1 he frantically grabbed the gear shift and put the car neutral allowing us to gradually slow down and drift to the shoulder before pulling the emergency brake oh

Speaker 24 My fucking God.

Speaker 1 Incredible. I waited a long time to tell her about my dream as this experience was incredibly traumatic for her.

Speaker 32 Yes, yes, it is.

Speaker 1 She struggled with epilepsy for most of her young life, but has now been seizure-free for 10 years. Yay.
She completed her degree and now works as a chemist in the top of her field.

Speaker 1 Yay, women in STEM. I can't help but think that good old Albert was looking out for a fellow scientist like some kind of nerd guardian angel.

Speaker 1 I love it.

Speaker 1 Stay sexy and skip the boons, Emily.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 27 that's like third man/slash matrix glitch.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Ish.
Or like, I don't know, what would you call that? I mean, it feels like all of those, like, what's just an incredible, unbelievable story that happened to you?

Speaker 1 Yeah, like a crazy coincidence. It's like there's a Reddit thread of like, what's something that happened to you that no one would believe?

Speaker 30 Right. Okay.
Send those to my favorite murderer at Gmail, please.

Speaker 24 We want to hear all of them.

Speaker 1 And also post them to Reddit because they started it. Right.
Sorry. And give Reddit all the credit.
Okay.

Speaker 11 My last one's called Elementary School Beanie Baby Ring.

Speaker 26 Hey, it was the 90s and the height of the beanie baby craze.

Speaker 11 Remember?

Speaker 23 I was around 10 and my brother was eight and we were avid collectors of those stupid toys.

Speaker 32 Anyway, my greedy ass needed more money for beanie babies and at 10 didn't have a good way to get money.

Speaker 25 Teachers at my school were also collecting and would mention what beanie babies they wanted.

Speaker 4 And then it says, why was this something they talked about during class?

Speaker 6 And I saw my opportunity. I made an inventory of my brother's beanie babies and took it to school to share with the teachers.

Speaker 30 With enough interest, I started slowly sneaking and stealing his beanie babies to sell to teachers at school.

Speaker 30 Genius entrepreneur.

Speaker 3 One day my brother noticed his favorite, a generic-looking hound dog named Bones, was missing.

Speaker 6 After interrogation by my mom, I finally fessed up.

Speaker 11 I was grounded and forced to buy him replacements, which cost about four times as much as I was selling them for at school.

Speaker 4 I wonder why they didn't go to the teachers and were like, you need to give those back.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 4 please don't buy things from children.

Speaker 1 Don't let children sell you stuff

Speaker 1 as a favor to the administration.

Speaker 24 And it says, I think that dumb bones one cost me like $25 to buy.

Speaker 1 Lesson learned.

Speaker 26 Love, y'all, and the pod.

Speaker 10 When I started listening, I was a stressed-out internal medicine resident and single parent, and now I'm a bona fide physician with the the support of husband and mother to three amazing daughters 16 3 and 1 jesus age

Speaker 1 so amazing i so admire your altruism advocacy and vulnerability we admire you too for your accomplishments your child rearing range and a third thing entrepreneurial spirit there it is stay sexy and don't be a greedy ass motherfucker or an adult who buys contraband from kids H-B-She, her.

Speaker 1 I think that I like that.

Speaker 4 I feel like that's one of the points that you learn on this podcast is it's always the adult's fault.

Speaker 23 If there's an adult child issue, yes.

Speaker 11 Like don't buy shit from children per se.

Speaker 1 Yes. There's a lot of adults writing in to go, hey, when I was a kid, listen to this fucked, fucked up, stupid thing that an adult did where it's like, great, good.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes. The children must know.

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All right.

Speaker 5 Send us your stories, guys.

Speaker 1 Yes. thank you for all your wonderful and delightful stories and stay sexy.
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Speaker 36 All right, good people, what's up? It's Quest Love, and I'm really excited to announce that my podcast is back with new episodes, a new logo, and yes, even a new name.

Speaker 36 So, welcome to QLS 2.0, the Quest Love Show. New conversations are on the way with some incredible guests like journalist term filmmaker Cameron Crowe.

Speaker 37 It's like the Barry Gordy thing, you know, if you send me a letter and it's B-A-R-R-Y, you didn't take the time to know how my name was spelled, and I can't take the time to know what you want from me.

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