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Hi there.

Welcome to the show. Still coming to you from this blank void, which I actually

share with the Pixar lamp. It says if I try and leave, it'll crush me like the

letter I, and I can't tell how scared and or horny I should be.

It's been another busy week in the U.S. COVID vaccinations are racing against

new variants of the virus, and in the U.K., Prince Philip died, which is a

tragedy if you don't know a single thing about him. And even if you know a little

bit about him, you might not know this.

Take it back to the beginning for us, Alastair, and tell us how the young

Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark met the then Princess Elizabeth.

Well, they were related.

Yeah, it's true. Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth are cousins who later got

married, also known as a Giuliani meet-cute. Now, meanwhile, the Matt

Gaetz saga continued to unfold this week and not in any ways that looked good for

him. The new report overnight alleges Gates sent close associate and accused

sex trafficker Joel Greenberg $900 in two late-night Venmo transactions in

2018. According to the Daily Beast, Greenberg used the same app to send

three young women, including one who had recently turned 18, varying sums of

money that amounted to $900.

Greenberg made the payments to the three young women with the descriptions

tuition, school, and school.

You fucking idiots!

I can't believe I have to say this, but if you are making suspicious,

potentially criminal transactions, Venmo is not the app to use. Venmo is for one

thing and one thing only, passing judgment on friends' spending habits

while obsessing over wild financial mysteries.

Wait, Brian paid his girlfriend for pizza? Why can't Caitlyn just let him

slide on this? They live together, and it's pizza. Wait, Caitlyn's paying Brian

now? For cake?

Brian liked it? The fuck is going on in this relationship?

And look...

I have to tell you, Matt Gaetz has denied all accusations.

And I'm sure that there'll be a lot more to say about all of this when he goes to

prison. But for now, let's talk about immigration. There's been a lot of

coverage lately about... about what's happening on the border, which is

troubling and complicated.

But I'd actually like to talk about something a lot less complicated that's

also getting a lot less coverage, and that is the U.S. refugee admissions

program. It's for people currently abroad fleeing persecution or violence

who've applied for resettlement. And the U.S. used to be a world leader in how

many refugees we accepted.

But this fucking guy not only slashed the admissions cap down to a historic

annual low of 15,000, he also added discriminatory eligibility categories

that have blocked... many Muslim and African refugees from coming to the U.S.

And to his credit, Biden ran on a platform that included reversing Trump's

policies. And since taking office, he's been about as eloquent as Biden can be

about the moral imperative of doing so. Come with me into Sierra Leone. Come

with me into parts of Lebanon.

Come with me around the world and see people piled up in camps.

Kids dying.

No way out.

Refugees fleeing from persecution.

We, the United States, used to do our part.

We were part of that.

We're, you know, that's, you know, send me your huddled masses, come on.

Right. And underneath that patriotic word salad is a pretty good point, even

though he's making it while managing to sound like a guy in a Statue of Liberty

costume in Times Square.

Send me your huddled masses.

Come on, I'm breathing in green lead paint here, so do you want a picture of

me in Buzz Lightyear or not?

Now, in early February, Biden announced that he'd raise the ceiling on

admissions to over 62,000, eliminate Trump's restrictions, and raise the cap

even higher next year, which sounds great. Unfortunately, that was two

months ago, and he still hasn't signed the presidential determination that

would revise Trump's rules. And it has been hard to get a straight answer from

this administration about why.

The president has said that that's something that should be done

immediately. Why didn't he do it today?

Uh, I think...

We're going to have more, again, soon, in the coming days and weeks, on more

steps and actions that the president is interested in taking, so I'm just not

going to get ahead of that right now. Why hasn't the president signed the

paperwork to lift the—raise the refugee cap? Well, I would refer you to the

State Department.

The president did announce that he intended to raise the refugee cap. That

hasn't seemed to happen yet. Why haven't those flights continued?

He remains committed, but I don't have an update on the timing of the flights.

Does it have anything to do with the fact that resources are going towards

the border at this time?

No, no, it's not related to that, no.

Then what is it related to?

Although, props to Jen Psaki there. Only a few months into the job, and she's

already waving away concerns about stranded refugees with the ease of a

Spirit Airlines gate agent letting you know that your flight's been delayed.

Rest assured, we're committed to getting you to Orlando eventually.

We just can't tell you where your plane is, why it's taking so long, or what

year you might arrive.

And the thing is, there are nearly 115,000 refugees in various stages of

the resettlement process right now.

with more than 35,000 already approved for resettlement here. But until Biden

signs that determination, they are still beholden to Trump's low admission

ceiling and bullshit racist rules.

In March alone, more than 700 refugees who were scheduled to arrive here had

their flights canceled.

And remember, these are vulnerable people who may have surrendered their

belongings or homes in anticipation of leaving the country or who are having to

wait in camps.

Also... Any delay can mean their required health or security checks then

expire, and they have to start the whole process all over again.

One Congolese woman was scheduled to fly here in early March, but had her ticket

canceled, and because she's pregnant, and now in her third trimester, she can

no longer travel at all. And by the way, when her baby is born, that child will

have to undergo a separate screening process that could take months, which is

pretty weird, because I'm relatively sure that you can't have foreign

allegiances before you have object fucking per... There are thousands of

people now stuck in this pointless limbo. It's an infuriating situation,

perhaps best summed up by this woman, who cannot figure out why her friend, a

refugee currently stuck in a camp in Malawi, who has been approved for

resettlement here, can't get on a plane.

This president, Joe Biden, when he came, he said that we just add more refugees

to come to USA.

And I hear in the news that there is a paper, I don't know which is a paper,

something that he's supposed to sign.

Please, please, if he hear my voice, please help our friend who are

struggling in refugee camp. Look.

At least some of the people who voted for Biden, maybe reluctantly, did so on

the understanding that refugees would not have to go on camera to beg for

their already approved loved ones to be allowed to come here, because that is

one of those things that good guys are supposed to change, right next to not

hiring their own kids or not letting Mike Lindell swap out the pillows in the

Lincoln bedroom.

And for Biden, this is actually really simple.

He doesn't need to negotiate with Republicans on this or reckon with Joe

Manchin's boner for the filibuster. He just needs to sign a piece of paper. And

for a guy who clearly wanted to be the person who restored the soul of America,

it is past time for him to look deep into his own, pick up a fucking pen, and

do the right thing. And now this.

And now...

A farewell tribute to the greatest questions ever asked on Yahoo Answers.

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Moving on.

Our main story tonight concerns nursing homes, the absolute last thing you want

Andrew Cuomo to be handling tied comfortably with literally anything

else. Nursing homes and long-term care in general are something that we tend to

try to avoid thinking about, but the truth is, whether due to old age or

disability, many of us do or will require help with daily living. The

number of Americans 65 and older is projected to nearly double... over the

next 40 years. And one study estimated over two-thirds of Americans who reach

65 will need long-term care at some point in their lives. And the good news

is, for the rich, there are plenty of options.

There are multiple upscale retirement communities where residents can

transition, if needed, into full-time nursing care. Like this one, taught in

exquisite fashion by 2 Chainz. All right, so the name of this episode is

called The Most Expensive Retirement, right? And so this is the most

upscale... luxurious retirement homes that i've ever seen and never heard

about the building itself costs 100 million dollars to build the the marble

it's from italy it's a custom carpet yeah i see a lot of art i see the faci

plates okay

Extravagance off that place aside, let's all just agree, that $195 plate sucks

shit. And I'm not normally a plate guy. Your boy's a saucer freak from way back.

I'm a bowl bitch. Plates aren't really my thing. But even I can tell that plate

is a two.

That's a two in Ohio.

If you're gonna spend that kind of money on a plate, it better be really big,

really fun, or really, really hot.

That plate, look at me, put your phone down, and look at me when I'm talking to

you. That plate fucks.

But the fact is, most of us aren't ending up in that place. In fact, the

vast majority of people receive long-term care at home, and around 80%

of that care is provided by unpaid caregivers, often family members, who

want to keep their loved ones out of institutional care, like this wife and

daughter. Cheryl and Kristen are among the 42 million Americans caring for

loved ones at home, and the tasks they perform have become increasingly

complex. When we have to flush his PICC line or clean his PEG tube or take his

blood glucose or his blood pressure, you know, none of us went to school for

that. I mean, we're not educated that way. I don't feel like I had enough

training at all for this. We've kind of learned by trial and error.

That seems really hard.

And there are certain things you kind of expect to do by trial and error. Solving

a puzzle, learning to pronounce the name of Tambourine Saturday, or choosing a

haircut. And for the record, error, error, error, and error.

But providing essential medical care should not be one of those things.

Taking care of someone at home can be an incredibly complicated full-time job

that is almost always unpaid.

In fact, in terms of lost wages, the labor of family caregivers totals about

$67 billion annually.

That's a workforce that, if it were paid, would rival the entire GDP of

Bulgaria.

But for those who cannot afford to eat off unfuckable plates, or whose loved

ones are unable to help them at home, many wind up in long-term care

facilities. There are two million people in them in the United States.

And as we've seen during the COVID crisis, they can be far from ideal.

Residents and staff in them make up less than 1% of the population, but currently

account for around a third of COVID deaths.

The pandemic pushed an already heavily strained system to the absolute brink,

with conditions getting so bad constant local news stories like this one. One

resident here says her calls for help were ignored because there wasn't enough

staff to respond.

I was screaming, get me out of here, get me out of here, get me out of this

thing. I was screaming at them. I was in terrible pain, and they didn't come for

me. Penny Shaw was in pain as she lay helpless in her bed at Braintree Manor

Nursing Home in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

She became so desperate, she even called Braintree police for help.

I can't lay in bed for hours and hours.

you know, in pain like that. Now, I have to tell you, we contacted that facility,

which chose not to address its staffing levels back then in its response to us,

instead insisting that the safety of its residents is of utmost importance.

But that is pretty fucking hard to believe when they're calling the police

for help.

There are only two instances where lying in bed for hours screaming in pain is to

be expected, and that's if you're giving birth or you're digesting a Crunchwrap

Supreme. That is it.

And the truth is...

COVID just exposed what we've basically known for years, that the way the

elderly and disabled are treated in far too many of these facilities is with, at

best, indifference, and at worst, abuse and neglect.

So tonight, let's talk about long-term care, how the industry is structured,

how that structure creates bad incentives, and what we can do going

forward. And we're gonna focus on the two main types of long-term care

facilities, nursing homes and assisted living.

Nursing homes are medical facilities.

are overseen by registered nurses and largely staffed by low-paid nursing

assistants. And there have long been issues with nursing home care.

A GAO report covering a five-year period before the pandemic found that 82% of

homes had been cited for infection prevention and control deficiencies, and

about half had persistent problems that have been cited across multiple years.

And a big reason for that may be because understaffing is a huge problem, with

employees often tasked with taking care of way too many residents. as these

nursing assistants pointed out just last year.

They're not being showered. People falling out of bed.

The men aren't being shaved.

People falling to where they fell out of their wheelchairs.

What if they need changed?

They might get it one time. A day?

A day. We have 22 residents apiece. Most days, that's for one person to

wash, dress, get up, two meals.

and they're being neglected because you can't get to everybody.

I told the administrator, I'm embarrassed of my work, my work process,

because I can't do what I was trained to do on how to take care of these

residents. That is obviously unacceptable.

Do you have any idea how bad things need to get for you to tell your boss you're

embarrassed by your work? I'm not even embarrassed by my work, and just three

minutes ago, I joked about fucking a plate.

Also, that wasn't really a joke.

Call me Wolf Plate.

And nursing assistants aren't just overworked. They are really underpaid.

The median national salary for that job is barely $30,000 a year.

And one reason is that nearly 70% of nursing homes are now for-profit

institutions. And there is a lot of profit for them to make because they

don't pay staff much, but they charge you a lot.

The average per person cost for a private room is $100,000 per year. And

if you're thinking, well, yeah, that is expensive, but doesn't that... Does the

Medicare program that I've paid into all my life cover that? Well, no, it

doesn't. Medicare only fully covers the first 20 days of nursing home care after

an eligible hospital visit, then partially pays for up to 100 days, but

after that, you are on the hook for all costs.

The only other way to access taxpayer help to live in a nursing home is to

almost completely impoverish yourself, to basically spend your way down to the

point you qualify for Medicaid, the government program for the poor, which

crucially reimburses nursing homes at less than half the average daily rate

paid by Medicare.

And while you would like to think that nursing homes would treat all patients

the same, whether they're on Medicare or Medicaid, the truth is, you might get

two very different experiences.

Because if you're on Medicare...

you could wind up getting too much attention.

Just listen to an assistant manager at one nursing home chain describe how

Medicare patients there were treated.

What percentage of the therapy that you were being told to administer do you

think was not necessary?

I would say probably, as time went on, about 40%. 40% of the work that you were

doing... Was not reasonable and not necessary under Medicare guidelines at

another facility the entire rehab staff signed a letter to their boss It reads

we've been encouraged to maximize reimbursement even when clinically

inappropriate That is absurd The DOJ actually filed a lawsuit claiming that

the chain that that woman worked for, Life Care Centers of America, which runs

over 200 nursing homes, was subjecting his patients to therapy even as they

were on their deathbeds. It alleged one 92-year-old who was dying of metastatic

cancer was recorded as having had 48 minutes of physical therapy, 47 minutes

of occupational therapy, and 30 minutes of speech therapy just two days before

his death on a day he was spitting up blood, which is ridiculous.

Residents should be getting... proper nursing care, not shit-tons of expensive

therapeutic treatments that are clinically inappropriate.

Which, by the way, I'm pretty sure was the original slogan of Goop.

Now... Life Care denied wrongdoing, but agreed to pay $145 million to resolve

that lawsuit. And they're hardly alone here. Over the past decade, multiple

other large nursing home chains have been charged with fraudulent Medicare

billing practices and denied wrongdoing while paying tens of millions of dollars

to settle their cases. You know, like you do when you are totally innocent.

So, to recap here, if Medicare is paying... the risk is that you could be

billed for unnecessary treatments. But if Medicaid is paying, which, remember,

reimburses nursing homes at less than half the average daily rate, things

could get much worse. Because if facilities want to open up a bed to a

more lucrative patient, they can take drastic action.

Ronald, who was 51 and homeless, got rehab at the nursing home, where he

lived for more than a year.

Then one night, around 10 p.m., he says an administrator came into his room.

Big smile on their face.

The Avalon Villa Care Center, through its lawyers, told NBC News it strongly

disputes that it has inappropriately discharged any patients.

The homeless shelter where Ronald's living now says it's seen cases like

this before.

Experts even have a term for it, resident dumping.

Oh, come on. That is just fucking evil.

Resident dumping is a completely unacceptable practice.

I don't even like it when residents are dumped on Grey's Anatomy at the altar,

Burke. You dump that resident at the fucking altar?

How could you do that to Christina, you fucking monster?

And you would hope regulators would punish nursing homes for doing things

like that, but the oversight here has some massive gaps.

For instance, the federal government keeps a list of so-called special focus

facilities, homes that have a pattern of serious problems over a long period of

time, and therefore receive extra inspections.

There are 88 nursing homes on that list, but interestingly...

Not because there are only 88 homes that deserve to be, it's because due to

limited resources, the government has capped the list at that exact number,

despite the fact they fully acknowledge an additional 400 facilities qualify for

the program. And look, I'm not saying every list should go on forever.

If a list of cutest otters was capped at 88, that'd be a perfectly fine list. But

if there were 400 other cute otters that were also abusing the elderly, I'd

really like to know who all of them are.

And if you're thinking, well, look, that is good to know. That's good

information. If I need to move a loved one into a nursing home, I'm definitely

going to look online and make sure it's a good one.

Well, be careful, because while the government does have a website where

nursing homes are rated from one to five stars, it has an absolutely massive

loophole. Of the three factors that determine an overall rating, only the

health inspections are conducted independently.

The other statistics, staffing and quality measures, are self-reported by

the nursing home.

These self-reported statistics can boost a three-star rating into a five-star

rating overall.

The problem is, you know, it's garbage in, garbage out. So whatever they're

telling the feds, the feds are not... The federal government isn't going in

and double-checking that their numbers are accurate.

Yeah. Garbage in, garbage out. And that is pathetic.

Something as important as our nursing home rating system should not follow the

same rule as every recipe on Velveeta's website, because there is just no way...

any of those are any good. If you're making a recipe that calls for a puddle

of Lorax jizz, then don't be surprised when the finished product is equally

repulsive. It's garbage in, garbage out.

So given everything that you've seen so far, it's hardly surprising that, for

reasons of cost or conditions, many might want to avoid a nursing home

altogether, which brings us to assisted living facilities, or...

ALFs. Around a third of people in long-term care facilities are in one of

these, and they do cost far less than a nursing home, typically around $50,000 a

year. ALFs started out as an alternative for those who needed help with key

activities like dressing, toileting, taking medicines, and eating, but only

needed limited medical support.

Just as with nursing homes, the vast majority of ALFs are for-profit. But

there are also some key differences.

ALFs are largely paid for out of pocket, and they are far less regulated, making

it easy for basically anyone to start one, and I do mean anyone.

Take Stephanie Costa.

By the age of 30, she owned six small ALFs in Southern California and had made

a lot of money from them, enough to qualify her to appear in an episode of

The Millionaire Matchmaker.

My name is Stephanie, and I'm 30 years old, and I own a chain of elderly care

facilities.

My net worth is three to four million probably I've always had this thing of

taking care of older people like sick people that are dying I've always really

felt for them So I couldn't wait to graduate college and start my own

business doing assisted living facilities like nursing homes Okay Uh,

there are a lot of unfair reasons that I inherently don't trust Stephanie Costa,

from her driving a douchey Ferrari to the fact that she looks like an

uncredited extra from an entourage party scene to that voice, which sounds like a

mouse who wouldn't dress Cinderella because it had better things to do. But

it turns out that gut feeling is actually entirely valid because Costa

treated her employees and residents so terribly that after multiple health and

safety violations, California banned her from the industry for life and ordered

her and her company to pay about 1.6 million... for unpaid wages and

penalties. But if you think that that gave her accountability, you're gonna

want to think again.

She kept this home after filing for bankruptcy and settled with workers for

a fraction of what she owed.

Her six care homes are now owned by a property investment company registered

by her father.

Oh, yeah. Not just that. As recently as last year, she was still listed as that

company's CEO.

So the state of California really taught Stephanie Costa a lesson there.

Specifically the lesson that you can treat your elder care workers like

absolute shit, avoid any real consequences, and just keep living your

life in the single ugliest home in Beverly Hills. Although it's

legitimately hard to tell whether that is actually a home or just an abandoned

white castle.

But it's not just individuals involved here. There are also big corporations

running ALFs who've been working hard to fill up beds. And despite the fact that

ALFs, remember, are supposed to be for people who require less medical

attention, recently, some have been aggressively courting dementia patients

for memory care programs, as seen in this advertisement for Brookdale, the

largest ALF provider in the country.

This is a compassionate place that helps families through very difficult stages

of dementia in a safe and comfortable setting. And I have peace of mind

knowing there's staff fully trained 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I can't

believe how much my mom's quality of life has improved since coming here. I'm

seeing her smiling and laughing again.

We help them maintain their abilities and encourage the use of their current

skills in a warm, engaging environment.

This is a special place, and every day is a new beginning with lots of smiles

and memories.

Okay, I get that a senior living commercial might want to have at least

one staffer with their arms around a resident's shoulders. It's kind of nice,

trustworthy, makes you feel safe. But immediately cutting to another one feels

like a bit much, and then a third starts to make me feel a little nervous. And

when that fourth one hits, as a British person, I've got to say, that is just

too much physical contact.

That said...

Even, I will admit, an ALF that offered all that that commercial claims to, but

with significantly less touching, would really be great.

Unfortunately, a woman who worked at a Brookdale facility in South Carolina

painted a pretty worrying picture of how staffers are trained to work with

dementia patients.

When you first start, they have you sit through a series of, um... in-services

or orientation.

It lasts about a week.

Um, but it's just videos.

But once they put you out on the floor, they don't.

They don't give you any training.

They just stick you out there. Well, that's not really ideal, is it? Because

it's hard to retain important information just by watching a video.

Case in point, this video.

Think about it. What have you really learned from this? Sure, a few random

facts about the long-term care industry that you'll probably immediately forget.

But if you're honest, you've mainly learned that it's possible to want to

fuck a plate. And that's a lesson you will never forget.

And look.

Brookdale insists that it offers ongoing training for its workers, and that its

training program for dementia care workers meets or exceeds state

guidelines, but that is not really saying much, as some states require only

two to 30 hours of specialized training, and South Carolina, where that facility

is located, requires training, but doesn't set a minimum number of hours.

And by the way, if you're wondering about why there were a bunch of shots of

a pond in that story, the answer is completely horrifying.

Because a 90-year-old resident there, who was supposed to be under constant

supervision before being transferred to a memory care unit, died after leaving a

facility unnoticed in the middle of the night.

There are signs out here warning people about alligators. Take a look at this

one. It says, alligators may live here, be gator safe.

In this case, the signs probably would not have made a difference according to

authorities. We are told the victim likely slipped or fell down a steep

embankment and landed in the water, attracting the gator's attention.

Holy fucking shit!

I honestly don't even know where to begin there, but I guess I'd start with,

why would anyone put an assisted living facility next to a fucking alligator

pond? That seems like the sort of detail that really has to be included at the

end of one of Brookdale's heartwarming ads.

This is a special place, and every day is a new beginning with lots of smiles

and memories.

Also, one of our residents was eaten by an alligator.

So, you know, there's that.

Yeah, there is that. And that's important information for people to

know, Brookdale.

And look, obviously... That is an appalling story, but to be fair, it's

hard to talk about long-term care without showing you at least one of

those. Just be grateful I didn't show you the story where a resident jumped

from a fourth-story window of an ALF, or the one about a nursing home resident

who set herself on fire, or the one about a 91-year-old suffering from

Alzheimer's who froze to death on Christmas Day, which, by the way, sounds

like a holiday album written by fucking Bjork.

So, what can we do here? Well, obviously...

increased oversight and enforcement are badly needed.

That facility with the alligators was eventually fined by the state for 11

violations, including not properly performing night checks and letting

staffing drop below required levels. But the penalty issued was just $6,400.

And it feels like if you lost a loved one in such a horrific way, you would

want more accountability than just, don't worry, someone decided their life

was worth the price of a 2013 Chrysler Motown.

And the fact is...

there are lots of ideas on how to force facilities to improve.

Mandating a certain level of money has to go to patient care, for instance, or

that residents have access to a minimum amount of care per day. But the bigger

fix here... might be to try and make it easier for as many people as possible

not to end up in these institutions in the first place, and instead receive

whatever support they need at home.

Nearly 90% of people over 65 apparently want to stay in their home for as long

as possible, which does make sense.

The problem is, right now, many of them can't. Because under Medicaid, nursing

home care is an entitlement, but home-based care is not.

To access long-term services and support through Medicaid in your home, you need

a waiver from your state. And to be fair, some, like Washington, do that

pretty well.

More than 70% of the Medicaid money they spend on long-term care for older people

and adults with disabilities is spent on home and community-based services.

That's things like, uh, skilled nursing visits, home care aides who can help

with daily tasks, and even the ability to pay family caregivers. You know,

people like those two women that you saw earlier.

The problem is, other states have waiting lists that can be many years

long, by which point, seniors trying to access that care... can be dead, because

sadly, that is how time works.

Nationwide, more than 800,000 people are on these kinds of waiting lists. What we

need is reform at a national level.

And there are actually some promising developments here.

A discussion draft of a bill was recently introduced that would make home

and community-based care an entitlement under Medicaid.

And Biden's proposed infrastructure plan actually calls for $400 billion to be

spent on those exact services, and that would be a really big deal. And look,

any aggressive transition... to home-based care is going to need

rigorous guardrails and oversight to make sure that money is not misspent,

just in a different way. The last thing I want is five years from now to be

having to do a show on the evils of new for-profit home care agencies who've

somehow been destroying people's lives in their own homes. And if you're

thinking, wait, hold on, five years from now, you'll still be doing shows in the

void? Oh, no.

We'll be back in the void.

I don't want to get into specifics, but spoiler alert, it's not a pandemic next

time.

It spiders.

But we do need to do something.

And it all starts with showing that we give a shit about what happens to the

elderly and people with disabilities in this country. Because right now,

evidence points to the fact that we absolutely don't, and all the other

problems are stemming from that.

And the longer that we continue to ignore this, the worse it's gonna get.

Because the fact is, right now, this is an industry where the people in its care

are being figuratively and sometimes literally...

Eaten alive.

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