Unexplainable sightings, strange encounters, ear piercing screams, mysteries that are out of this world. Listen along as I tell the stories of many people that have had experiences such as these.
With one of our favorite guests, Kristi Yamaguccimane. Footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_fTwRx3ZmUCCyVkhXgvgj1n75uuupAV2FYQ4Y8dT0_A/edit?usp=sharing Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
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Today I'm presenting a trio of tiny terrors, and at the end, one humongous horror with Robert Brockway and, Seanbaby! And I'll let you decide if all the miniature monsters formed a team, could they defeat the largest bear the world's ever seen? Footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pNcfxtDGElm10cTKSAc6KIgY-IrBRpZnJe_VVTXmcac/edit?usp=sharing Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
From discovering the origins of butts, to finding the mystery glitter-pooper at zoos, it turns out that poop can teach us a lot about animals. And later, I'll be joined by the real-life Batman of Mexico Dr. Rodrigo Medellin, to talk about glowing poop and long-nosed bats! Footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UkCm9D4Wc818HkwurBKIYkzIfjlzrimgClDLV7LsQZs/edit?usp=sharing Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
We're taking on scary urban legends about animals, and showing you that there's nothing to fear! Well… okay, maybe there is, but it's not what you think! Join us with special guest Maggie Mae Fish. Footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zPY_hNdmrgUy8GgrctKEBmwielWQNYfv080KVAxzjDo/edit?usp=sharing Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
I'm answering listener questions again, from what makes ticks tick, to platypus egg cuisine, to attack of the clones! Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question, how delicious is your sweat? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
This week, these squirrels are NUTS! with Adam Ganser! Giant flying squirrels, rainbow squirrels, and goth squirrels! Dissquirrelver this and more as we answer the age-old question: is that dried squirrel pee you're using as an aphrodisiac, or are you just happy to see me? Footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kh0Q0Wi_dyvRwnbJN7Nlr1urhJr9G6lSMxEVjz767jk/edit?usp=sharing Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
MEERKATS! What are they? Why do we love them? What are the horrifying, salacious details of meerkat murders? And where's the love for their kinder cousins, the banded mongoose? Discover this and more as we answer the age old question: war… HUH, what is it good for? Absolutely mating! Footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12ONuZIv1NQKBFQeaTMMMPzjDssHDdDN61RB74j-TAMY/edit?usp=sharing Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
What the crab are crabs up to? Are crabs building a crab-ciety? What kinds of crabstructions are the crabs crabbing up crab? Discrabber this and more as we answer the age old crustacean, uh I mean question, should we all be crabs? Footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15fGxThb_XQJ3DJBlfJM5HWL8TqTn6-xZ36jcx2I1lrA/edit?usp=sharing Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
All the animal news that’s fit to paw-print, and a dose of extra science just for you with guest Shereen Lani Younes! Whales caught hugging on camera, Angelina Jolie covered in BEES, and a new glowing toadlet just dropped! Discover this and more as we answer the age old question: can you get sued by a bee for copyright infringement? Footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zS50O8TnvmSwQLDnB-bhv7Ahwd18YNscCy6E3RbXFpg/edit?usp=sharing Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
I'm reading your emails and questions about how bugs taste, graveyard dogs, juvenile delinquent birds, and existential ponderings about evolution. Discover this and more as we answer the TRULY age old question: zebras, black with white stripes or white with black stripes? Footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nUQgscnJ7qOZSadnOGZZRhqjMtpMSLVutKXfXIyPvRw/edit?usp=sharing Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
We are getting to the bottom of some viral animal stories! Are these real animals? Real behaviors? Or hogwash? From deep sea War of the Worlds aliens, to long ducks, to kissing carp, we’re taking on internet rumors and separating fact from fishion with Robert Brockway and Seanbaby. Footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h9K21PgnglD8PvDZBsoh5e2df6eAxOAGzHAy58MsOVg/edit?usp=sharing Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Planet’s haunted guys! From ghostly worms, to eight-armed specters, to ghost bats far scarier than any vampire, we’ve got a passion for possession when it comes to these cute hauntings! Discover this and more as we answer the age old question: what are ghost dogs with Bridget Greenberg. Footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ikmVakjOrOSpD-9Ge4oRw9s11rIQS6cYOv35SquEXt8/edit?usp=sharing Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
We’re talkin' about the world’s most spectacular fliers, from the tiny and nimble hummingbird, to the bird with a wingspan longer than any basketball player. We’ll cover mammalian gliders and murmurating starlings with Anna Hossnieh! Footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DBtY8v-AzSXBY7KZdGCIU__QavLFCvXLub1IEputujQ/edit?usp=sharing Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
We're going on a deep dive on three listener questions with Kristi Yamaguccimane! From killer kangaroos to pesky parasites, to evolutionary copycats! Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question: Why is Australia? Footnotes: Google doc with all the images for this episode https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I5PQ9z3QffxZAjwudtmSh1ENv7L9W8sl_u9LKBcGiys/edit?usp=sharing Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
BROOD X has been waiting 17 years to emerge from the ground. What is Brood X? Should we panic? Discover this and more as we answer the age old question: How is it fair that swarms of baby turtles are considered cute, but swarms of bugs are considered “horrifying,” with Mara Wilson. Footnotes: Cicada Cicada tymbal Cicada sounds Holes left by mass cicada emergence (warning for trypophobia) Lots of cicadas! Mass sea turtle hatching! Giant river turtle! Mass river turtle hatching! Soft coral Stony coral Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
We’re talking all things lagomorphs, from hares to rabbits to domesticated bunnies! We’ll learn that rabbits don’t lay colorful eggs, but they DO eat their own poop! Discover this and more as we answer the age old question: could a rabbit fly on those ears with enough thrust? Find out with our special guest Joelle Monique! Footnotes: Pika (but no pikachu)! A black-tailed jackrabbit Another jackrabbit Newborn HARES come out HAIRY Newborn rabbits come out NUDE The rare amani rabbit FLEMISH GIANT RABBIT Pygmy rabbit (juveniles) Netherland dwarf rabbit (haunted version) Netherland dwarf rabbit (with more fluff) English lop Fluffiest angora rabbit Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
We’ve got round-trip tickets to crustacean station, and I’m answering all your shrimpy questions. What is shrimp? How big they get? What’s up with that poop vein? Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question: are shrimp just tiny lobsters? Join us with guest Danl Goodman on this journey under the sea. Footnotes: Deep sea shrimp?! EYELESS deep sea shrimp?!?! A pistol shrimp's big meaty claw Brine shrimps is aliens Beautiful peacock mantis shrimp GIANT MANTIS SHRIMP THERE'S A DUCK IN YOUR FROG metal cover Check out more of Andrew's music! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
We're talking about animals who can rebuild themselves like some kind of T-1000 with Dave Schilling! Self-decapitation, magical dolphin healing, and the incredible regeneration that’s happening inside our very own bodies! Footnotes: Self-decapitating sea slug! Salamander limb regeneration! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
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From mathematical bee sex, to baby animals who are cute little calculators, to the way math can produce some of the most beautiful living works of art in the natural kingdom, these word problems are no problem at all! Join us as we explore mathanimals with Daniel Whiteson! Footnotes: Bee sex diagram (with the help of pokemon) Zebrafish! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Pallavi Gunalan and I are going to check out some animals that you typically would think of as being small, but sometimes get super large and very hunky chunky! From moths to snails to frogs and pollywogs, these animals will give you a HUGE surprise! Footnotes: Hercules moth! Hercules moth caterpillar Atlas moth with snake head wingtips Giant African land snail Black Sea Hare Goliath frog Dart the bullfrog pollywog Dart, a banana, and some beer Sawfish rostrum sword! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
We’re getting to know some of the most fascinating noses in the animal kingdom with Hana Michels and Dave Bell! From a fantastical cryptid, to the real-life incredible noses that you couldn’t make up! Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question: why are bats? Footnotes: Nosewalker cryptid! A very "convincing" taxidermy Another interesting "rhinograde" Not quite factual taxidermy! Unicornfish! How handsome Homer J. Simpson fish Sawfish! Cutie vampire bat Horseshoe bat Swordnose bat! Hammerhead bat! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
We’re talking about the biggest daredevils with Alex Schmidt. When it comes to derrieres, the pop stars of posteriors, the analysts of… well, you know. How do you survive a trip through a frog? What are some unconventional uses for a sea cucumber? And do you really need a butt? Footnotes: Water scavenger beetles The daring Houdini act of the water scavenger beetle The pearlfish at home sweet home Your close and personal friend, demodex folliculorum! Gold speckled flatworm A comb jelly! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
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Today on the show we’re gonna take a BITE out of TROGLOBITES! What happens deep in the cold, dark depths of caves? How does anything stay alive down there? What happens when you don’t need eyes? Find out with guest, Michael Swaim. Footnotes: Mexican blind cavefish! Cave wolf spider! Texas blind salamander! THE OLM! Aka "Human fish..." Cave leeches, oh dear... White cave velvet worm :3 All Yesterdays book! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
From the shiny and splendiferous scale worms of the deep, to scuba diving lizards, these animals all have one thing in common: they are 100% glam. Join us as we explore these extravagant trend setters with special guest Danl Goodman. Footnotes: Elvis worm! Elvis worms fighting, oh no! Scale worm jaws, extra oh no! Living beetle jewelry Shiny diving lizards, oh my! Shiny diving lizards caught on video! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
We’re talking all things Jurassic, as we fact check Jurassic Park! Was John Hammond in over his head? Could life uuuuuuuuh find a way? And are T-Rexes eyesight REALLY based on movement? We’re digging up dinos and the truth with Kay B! Footnotes: Baby T-Rex was a cutie pie! Yutyrannus was a monstrous chicken More art of yutyrannus Deinocheirus: world's most terrifying muppet? Deinocheirus, like Big Bird and snuffleupagus had a baby Why is this feathery monstrosity not in movies??? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
These animals seem like hoaxes! Living tampons that walk the earth, purple blobs who walk UNDER the earth, a new animal superhero, and the weird sex-capades of horny bees! Discover this and more with guest Vanessa Guerrero, as we answer the age-old question, is that a snorkel coming out of your butt or are you just happy to see me? Footnotes: (Warning, icky) rat-tailed maggots look like crawling tampons Purple frog (blob) Such a little blob Backwards butt lookin guys Purple frogs in love :) Purple frog tadpole Alligators can regrow tails! Blister beetle larvae tricking horny bees Pile of larvae pretending to be a sexy female bee Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
A quokka for your patience :) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
This is the BEE MOVIE CANCELLATION SPECIAL!!! That’s right, we are TAKING ON BEE MOVIE, to HOLD IT ACCOUNTABLE for all its inaccuracies with Jamie Loftus and Caitlin Durante!! Footnotes: Bee orchid Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
On this holiday special, we will explore three holiday classics, Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer, Die Hard, and The Santa Clause, and recast the leading roles as even more incredible real-life animals with Joelle Monique! Footnotes: Rudolph the Glowing Tasmanian Devil? Glowing platypus Glowing wombats Glowing bilby ears Bioluminescent sea unicorns? GIANT pyrosome: Flashing pyrosome Blizzard of glowing pyrosomes Die Hard planarian Planarian looking silly Oh come on Yeti crabs (aka hoff crabs) Rock ptarmigan summer fashion Rock ptarmigan winter fashion Rock ptarmigan peekin’ out of a snow cave Queen bee body vs. Worker bee Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
The Creature Feature holiday special episode will air next week! In the meantime, please enjoy this soothing Q&A where I answer your questions about animals! And though we talk about alien parasites and the horrifying truth behind guinea pigs, let the soothing tones of my voice and ambient music bring you some tranquility. Footnotes: Parasitic salminicola Sun bear epic tongue Plough snails absolutely booking it Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Today on the show, we’re talking about those tubular dudes, those little wiggle pipes, those cylindrical squamates, SNAAAAAKES! From the goofiest, to the cutest, to the most dazzling snakes, we’re going to find out how truly odd snakes can be with our guest, Maggie Mae Fish! Footnotes: Arabian sand boa! Madagascar leaf-nosed snake Male and female leaf-nosed snakes Tentacled snake Elephant trunk snake Hognose snake Blunthead tree snake Big-eye green whip snake Sunbeam snakes Brazilian Rainbow boa Formosan odd-scaled snake Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
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This year I know a lot of your responsible folks are modifying your normal holiday season to be safer. But we don’t have to isolate from turkeys, so I’m gonna invite a whole flock of turkeys into your home! We’re gonna talk turkey facts, turkey romance, turkey history, and alternative turkeys with our guest Alison Stevenson! Show Notes: A turkey snood that's... um... Turkey sounds! Ocellated turkey! Ocellated turkey sounds! Australian brush turkey! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
The past few weeks have been pretty hectic when it comes to news, so here are some animal news stories that you may have missed with our guest Alex Schmidt! Footnotes: Anti-bear robot wolves! Dystopian bear facial recognition! Bear raids convenience stores! Wolves got voted in! Giant murder hornet nest found! Two new species of greater glider discovered, found to be TOTALLY CUTE! Somebody let the devils back into Australia! GLOWING. PLATYPUS. Half male, half female bird, split right down the middle! Wrinkles faced bats think mask-wearing is sexy! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
I don’t know about you guys, but my brain is completely melted after this election week! So I thought I’d take it easy today and answer some fascinating listener questions! Footnotes: Baby pygmy hippo ;) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Today we’re discussing some horror tropes you can find right in nature! Evil deadly lakes, fungus that isn’t fun, terrifying ANT-ics, and things that go bump in the night! Stay tuned for an audio guessing game with David Bell & Tom Reimann ! Footnotes: Lake Natron Dead animal statues of Lake Natron Alien fungus Uh oh more alien fungus Jumping spider ant mimic Predatory female spider ant mimic Predatory male spider ant mimic Ant algorithim Extinct vampire ant trapped in amber Mystery caller #1 Mystery caller #2 Mystery caller #3 Mystery caller #4 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Today we’re visiting the spookiest, smartest, most spectacular family in the animal kingdom: the corvids! Crows, ravens, rooks and more! Are crows the smartest being on earth? Do they mourn their dead? Featuring crow expert Dr. Kaeli Swift! Footnotes! Dr. Swift's spooky crow study! DO NOT BE ALARMED! CROW RESEARCH! Genius New Caledonian crows Crow gifts? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
On this first episode of our two-episode spooktacular, Bridgett Greenberg and Abe Epperson help us flee from a chitinous terror, a ten-legged devilish decapod, a creepy crustacean crawling closer and closer! ATTACK! OF THE KILLER CRAAAAABS! Footnotes: King "crab" Porcelain "crab" Hairy stone "crab" Inspirational tweet Flower crab spider Another crab spider Happy face spider Clown face on a green crab spider! Pubic lice, aka, "crabs" Halloween crab, spooooky! Christmas island crabs! Coconut crab! Yeti Crabs! Japanese spider crab! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
From slimy love unicorns to sexy eight-legged twerking, we’re looking at all the beautiful and bizarre mating habits of all sorts of creatures, gastropods, arthropods, birds, and mammals with our guests Carolina Barlow & Devin Leary. Footnotes: Snail love dart, aw yeah... Black widow males twerk for love! Cosmophasis umbratica rave! Twelve-wired bird of paradise video Wilson’s bird of paradise video Six-plumed bird of paradise video Naked mole rat mutant sperm Mouse sperm swim teams You know what they say about mice who eat yogurt... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Today on the show we’re scouring the animal kingdom to look for a new species of animal to cast as the replacement Garfield! Will it be the pygmy bluetongue skink? The gulper eel? Reticulated python? Or another candidate? Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question: is Garfield measured more by his laziness, his hatred for Mondays, or his ability to eat an entire tray of lasagna in one bite? Find out with our guests Hana Michels and Joey Clift. Footnotes: Pygmy bluetongue skink pokin' out of its burrow! Starfish everting its stomach! Gulper eel caught on camera Tasmanian devil Garfield colored pythons? Golden pheasant Tiger moth caterpillar Carrion beetle Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
I got my brother, Aaron Goldin, to come on the podcast to talk about siblings in the animal kingdom! From siblicide to unstoppable armies of siblings! Footnotes: Baby sand tiger sharks eat each other in the womb! Tiger salamander cannibal morph! Baby bald eagles A giant caterpillar? Millipede baby buddy ball! Black lace weaver spiders at a uh, family dinner... Copidosoma floridanum wasp caterpillar thunderdome (warning: NSFE, not safe for eating) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
While us humans are all trying to figure out our favorite hobbies to occupy our time, animals are already running, crocheting, and baking circles around us! We’re talking bee bakers, web-spinners, carpenters, fake astronomers, and dolphin shenanigans with our guest, Teresa Lee! Footnotes: Bee bread! Bee sorbet! Webspinner! Carpenter ants handiwork! Honeypot ants! Carnivorous stars! Dolphin vape tricks! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Reproduction is the key to evolution, which means that mother nature can get a little strange when it comes to sex. We’re talking about strange equipment, bizarre courtship, and fatal attraction with Arden Myrin! Footnotes: Crane Fly! Echidna! Echidna penis (NSFW) Bull penis cane? Whiptail lizards Hanging flies hanging out North American Porcupine! Old world porcupine Brown widows (yes that little guy is a male) Anaconda breeding ball Dawson's burrowing bees (NSFW: BEE SEX) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Today on the show, we’re talking about INTERSPECIES BUDDIES! We’ll talk about the difference between mutualism and commensalism, why every birdy loves a capybara, how the beaches of the Galapagos are a great place for friendship, and the only time you want to be inside the mouth of a giant moray. Footnotes: Marine iguana! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Amblyrhynchus_cristatus_%283838137696%29.jpg Marine iguana and lava lizard! https://i.pinimg.com/originals/28/f5/aa/28f5aab7039f29b4f33bb950a12c1395.jpg Marine iguana with a bad case of crabs! https://dhtt.smugmug.com/Other/Galapagos-789/i-NbXhP5D/0/L/P1030305-L.jpg Capybaras with a bad case of birds! https://www.researchgate.net/figure/FIGuReS-21-26-Capybaras-as-clients-of-cleaner-birds-21-A-disturbed-capybara_fig5_277776494 Ducks walking all over a capybara! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D6lrkc81Js&app=desktop Moray eel and cleaner wrasse! https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/giant-moray-eel-and-cleaner-wrasse-mathieu-meur.jpg Meat ant eating butt syrup! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Common_jassid_nymph_and_ant02.jpg/1024px-Common_jassid_nymph_and_ant02.jpg Dolphins and birds coming together to screw over fish! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE49xEU_z7g Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Today on the show we’re talking about ridiculous species names, and learning all about the animals behind them. Can you really judge a pigbutt worm by its name? Or a screaming hairy armadillo? Or a lumpsucker fish? Footnotes: Pigbutt worm: Pigbutt worm face: Lumpsuckers! Lil lumpsucker sucking on a finger Lumpsuckers on balloons Lumpsuckers sucking on lumpsuckers Tassled wobbegong Hellbender salamander Screaming hairy armadillo Screaming hairy armadillo, well, screaming Cinereous mourner Cinereous mourner acting Fried egg jellyfish Red-lipped batfish https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/p/proboscis-monkey/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Animal pranks aren’t always just for fun, they can be crucial for survival. We’re going to fall down a web of lies, deceit, and outright mockery. Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question: you can pick your nose, you can pick your friend’s nose, but can you pick a monkey’s nose? Footnotes: Portia spider Iranian spider-tailed viper Fork-tailed drongo Capuchins pranking eachother Chimps pranking visitors Octopuses pranking everyone Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Why are some animals nocturnal? What evolutionary adaptations do you have to make to be awake during the GRAVEYARD SHIFT with horror expert with Sabina Graves? And what lurks in the ocean… at night? Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question, why is owls? I mean, why… why is owls? Footnotes: The cathemeral fossa Barking gecko mating call Australian greater glider THE TAILS The tarsier Incredible zooplankton Spiny tiger shrimp Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
We’re talking animals that are unusually musical, from up in the skies to deep under the ocean. We have a special guest Dajae Williams, an Engineer at NASA, who uses music to educate and inspire, as answer the age-old question: do all birds like Taylor Swift, or just the swifts? Footnotes: Dajae Williams' website SongHive Musician wren Wood thrush Humpback whale song Blue whale song Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
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