Stevie, Pappy, Brett, Josh and Mikey spoil The Counselor reqeusted by Mike on Patreon!

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A Bentley-driving Texas lawyer (Michael Fassbender) appears to have it all, including a beautiful fiancee named Laura (Penélope Cruz) -- but his financial needs force him to become involved in an ill-advised drug deal. His partners in the venture include middleman Westray (Brad Pitt), shady nightclub owner Reiner (Javier Bardem) and Malkina (Cameron Diaz), Reiner's sociopathic lover. Unsurprisingly, the counselor's deal spirals out of control, placing both him and Laura in mortal danger.

Release date: October 25, 2013 (USA)

The Counselor (2013) - Patreon Requested Movie Review! #356

Catch you on the flip side of our The Boondock Saints review!
Where you going? Nowhere.


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Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Murphy (Norman Reedus) are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes in the community. But Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe), an eccentric FBI agent, is fast closing in on their blood-soaked trail.
Release date: January 22, 1999 (USA)
Director: Troy Duffy
Music by: Jeff Danna
Box office: $30,471
Budget: $6 million
Produced by: Elie Samaha; Lloyd Segan; Robert N. Fried; Chris Brinker

The Boondock Saints - Movie Review! (1999) #394

Brett, Josh, $ Mikey, Korey"Kylo-Ren-Memes" and Pappy take a trip to BaSIN City and review the 2005 Robert Rodriguez classic: Sin City!

In this quartet of neo-noir tales, a mysterious salesman (Josh Hartnett) narrates a tragic story of co-dependency, while a musclebound vigilante (Mickey Rourke) tears his way through the criminal underworld in search of his lost love (Jaime King). In another part of the city, a grizzled cop (Bruce Willis) foils the ambitions of a child-killer (Nick Stahl), and an ex-prostitute (Brittany Murphy) evades her ex-pimp (Benicio del Toro) with the help of her new boyfriend, Dwight (Clive Owen).

Release date: April 1, 2005 (USA)
Directors: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Story by: Frank Miller
Box office: 158.7 million USD
Distributed by: Miramax, Dimension Films, SPI International
Adapted from: Sin City, That Yellow Bastard, The Hard Goodbye

Movie Review

Sin City (2005) - Movie Review! #455

Never go full spoilers.


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While shooting a war film, the director attempts to liven up proceedings by dropping the principle actors into the middle of a real jungle, claiming he is going to capture their performance with hidden cameras. The hapless group including drug-addled comedy star Jeff Portnoy and po-faced method man Kirk Lazarus are completely unaware when a series of unfortunate events leads them into the middle of a real war zone.
Release date: August 13, 2008 (USA)
Director: Ben Stiller
Screenplay: Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux, Etan Cohen
Nominations: Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, MORE
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures
Box office: $195.7 million

Tropic Thunder (2008) - Patreon Requested! #472

Vamanos children! VAMANOS!
Spooky M. Night / Mel Gibson / Joaquin Spoilers! is here to please!

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Everything that farmer Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) assumed about the world is changed when he discovers a message - an intricate pattern of circles and lines - carved into his crops. As he investigates the unfolding mystery, what he finds will forever alter the lives of his brother (Joaquin Phoenix) and children (Rory Culkin), (Abigail Breslin). A unique story that explores the mysterious real-life phenomena of crop signs and the effects they have on one man and his family.
Release date: August 2, 2002 (USA)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Distributed by: Touchstone Pictures, MORE
Budget: $72 million
Cinematography: Tak Fujimoto
Music by: James Newton Howard

Signs (2002) - Spoilers! #476

The boys are back together in Michigan! This time they are discussing the environmentally friendly classic Birdemic, a movie almost as chaotic as this podcast.  Thank you again to the Patreons who made this possible! 

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A sexy lingerie model and a successful software salesman go on a weekend getaway to a quaint northern California town.
Release date: February 27, 2010 (USA)
Director: James Nguyen
Budget: 10,000 USD (2009)
Editor: Kim Chow
Distributed by: Severin Films
Music by: Andrew Seger

Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010) - Spoilers! #481

Dirty boys Josh & Brett discuss The One with the Dirty Girl (who is actually Rebecca Romijn) and continue their ode to Matthew Perry.

(We would take pen-clocks for bday or xmas gifts, btw.)

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Phoebe and Monica decide to go into business together after they cater a funeral where the widow tries not to pay, and Ross's date with the beautiful Cheryl goes awry when he kills a rat in her filthy apartment.
Show: Friends
Air date: November 6, 1997

Friends S4E6  "The One With the Dirty Girl" (1997) - Chandler Spoilers! #482

Happy Thanksgiving from Spoilers! to all our friends!


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The friends have a Thanksgiving meal together, Monica is reminded of Richard when she tries to kiss his son, and Joey frees Chandler from the box that he's being kept in to stop Kathy leaving him.
Show: Friends
Air date: November 20, 1997

Friends S4E8 "The One with Chandler in a Box" (1997) - Chandler Spoilers! #484

Stevie pays his punishment and reviews M. Night Shyamalan & Mark Wahlberg classic: The Happening! Pappy produces with Josh in the room and Mikey remote.  

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An apocalyptic threat to humanity arrives out of the clear blue sky with a series of violent, inexplicable deaths spreading across the country. The cause of the terrifying phenomenon remains unknown, prompting science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg), his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel) and his colleague Julian (John Leguizamo) to try to elude the invisible killer in Pennsylvania's farmland. Soon it becomes clear that no one is safe.

Release date: June 10, 2008 (USA)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Screenplay: M. Night Shyamalan
Box office: 163.4 million USD
Distributed by: 20th Century Studios

The Happening (2008) -  Spoilers! #485

The boys are back with an American / German / Australian classic: The Patriot! 

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A widowed farmer, with a brave but brutal military past, decides not to join up when the British arrive in 1776. However, when his son enlists and is later captured by the enemy, the former soldier must abandon his new-found pacifist principles in order to rescue his oldest child, and forms a regiment of Carolina patriots, whose guerrilla tactics prove pivotal to the US war effort.

Release date: June 27, 2000 (USA)
Director: Roland Emmerich
Box office: 215.3 million USD
Screenplay: Robert Rodat
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing
Setting: Berkeley County, South Carolina

The Patriot (2000) - Patreon Requested Movie Review! #486

(Seinfeld: Season 9, Episode 24)
More television Spoilers! for your health!
Josh hosts Pappy, Stevie, Mikey, Brett and Kylo.

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After NBC picks up Jerry and George's sitcom, Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer are arrested for their callous indifference to a carjacking victim.
Show: Seinfeld

Seinfeld "The Finale" - Spoilers! #487

Brett, Mikey, Pappy, and Josh review A24 punk classic: Green Room!

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A punk rock band becomes trapped in a secluded venue after finding a scene of violence. For what they saw, the band themselves become targets of violence from a gang of white-power skinheads, who want to eliminate all evidence of the crime.

Release date: April 15, 2016 (USA)
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Screenplay: Jeremy Saulnier
Box office: 3.8 million USD
Distributed by: A24
Budget: $5 million

Green Room (2015) - Movie Review! #488

Who's to blame? Adam Driver, Matt Damon or one of the Spoilermen? Find out the answer to this question and more on this very special Patreon request episode of Spoilers!

Thanks "Swole!"

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Jean de Carrouges is a respected knight known for his bravery and skill on the battlefield. Jacques Le Gris is a squire whose intelligence and eloquence makes him one of the most admired nobles in court. When Le Gris viciously assaults Carrouges' wife, she steps forward to accuse her attacker, an act of bravery and defiance that puts her life in jeopardy. The ensuing trial by combat, a grueling duel to the death, places the fate of all three in God's hands.
Release date: October 15, 2021 (USA)
Director: Ridley Scott
Screenplay: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Nicole Holofcener
Budget: 100 million USD
Adapted from: The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
Producers: Ridley Scott, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Nicole Holofcener, Kevin J. Walsh, Jennifer Fox, James Flynn

The Last Duel (2021) - Patreon Review! #489

Pappy, Stevie, Korey, Mikey, Josh and special guest Film Dylan reveiw Coen Brothers / Nicolas Cage classic: Rasing Arizona!

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Fast-paced farce about an unlikely pair who go to extreme lengths to have a child. When an incompetent robber marries a policewoman, they discover that they are infertile. In order to appease his wife's longings for a child, the man steals one of a set of quintuplets, but mayhem ensues when the child's rich father sends a rabbit-shooting bounty hunter after the kidnapper.

Release date: March 13, 1987 (USA)
Director: Ethan Coen
Budget: 6 million USD, 5.5 million USD
Screenplay: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Distributed by: 20th Century Studios

Raising Arizona (1987) - Patreon Requested Movie Review! #490

Josh hosts this 1988 Richard Pryor CLASSIC that nobody has seen with Pappy, Stevie, Brett & Mikey.


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After civil engineer Arlo Pear (Richard Pryor) loses his job following a corporate merger, he must sell his house and move with his wife, Monica (Beverly Todd), and daughter, Casey (Stacey Dash), 2,000 miles from small-town New Jersey to Boise, Idaho. Unfortunately, the moving company -- led by slippery, fast-talking Perry (Robert LaSardo) -- has other ideas. When the movers go AWOL with the Pear family's belongings in the midst of the journey, Pear decides to take matters into his own hands.
Initial release: March 4, 1988
Director: Alan Metter
Box office: $10,815,378
Distributed by: Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures
Production company: Brooksfilms

Moving (1988) - Movie Review! #491

Daniel Day-Lewis is running and shooting guns as the boys spoil the last of the Brother Bryan Patreon trilogy: Michael Mann classic The Last of the Mohicans!

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The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans -- Uncas (Eric Schweig), his father Chingachgook (Russell Means), and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) -- live in peace alongside British colonists. But when the daughters (Madeleine Stowe, Jodhi May) of a British colonel are kidnapped by a traitorous scout, Hawkeye and Uncas must rescue them in the crossfire of a gruesome military conflict of which they wanted no part: the French and Indian War.

Release date: September 25, 1992 (USA)
Director: Michael Mann
Story by: James Fenimore Cooper, Philip Dunne
Music composed by: Trevor Jones, Randy Edelman, Dougie MacLean, Ciaran Brennan
Distributed by: 20th Century Studios, Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures, Morgan Creek Entertainment
Adapted from: The Last of the Mohicans

The Last Of The Mohicans (1992) - Patreon Requested Movie Review! #492

ORIGINALLY RECORDED IN 2018 AND NEVER RELEASED ON SPOILERS! 

Opening the “Spoilers! Vault™” for the 2nd time and releasing an episode Stevie and Pappy did for a spinoff pod that never was.  This provides some context for the upcoming 101 Dalmatians episode.

BONUS SPOILERS - Disney's Nine Old Men! #493

Stevie, Josh, and Pappy review Disney classic 101 Dalmatians!

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In a Disney animation classic, Dalmatian Pongo is tired of his bachelor-dog life. He spies lovely Perdita and maneuvers his master, Roger, into meeting Perdita's owner, Anita. The owners fall in love and marry, keeping Pongo and Perdita together too. After Perdita gives birth to a litter of 15 puppies, Anita's old school friend Cruella De Vil wants to buy them all. Roger declines her offer, so Cruella hires the criminal Badun brothers to steal them -- so she can have a fur coat.
Release date: January 25, 1961 (USA)

Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske
Film series: One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Story by: Dodie Smith, Bill Peet
Box office: 303 million USD
Budget: 4 million USD

One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) - Movie Review! #494

Gandalf is coming to party and Josh, Brett and Pappy are ready!
Join us, as we continue covering a mid-series run on the classic TV series, Friends... (and as we stall for time as our upcoming Godfather series gets knitted together in the background.....)

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Monica upsets Phoebe by stopping the catering business before it has started, after she gets the head chef job at a restaurant where the staff all hate her. Rachel's boss is killed in a car accident before she can make Rachel a junior buyer.
Show: Friends
Air date: December 11, 1997
Season number: 4
Episode number: 9

Friends S4E9 "The One Where They're Going to Party!" (1997) - Chandler Spoilers! #495

Pappy, Josh, special guest Allie and Stevie review the rom-com classic: He’s Just Not That Into You!

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Baltimore-based friends and lovers, all in their 20s and 30s, try to navigate their way through the complexities of modern relationships. Beth (Jennifer Aniston) wants commitment from Neil (Ben Affleck), who sees nothing wrong with the status quo. Gigi (Ginnifer Goodwin) is tired of waiting by the phone, while Mary (Drew Barrymore) has a slew of supportive male friends, none of whom are straight. Meanwhile, Janine has trust issues with her husband, who can't trust himself around Anna.

Release date: February 6, 2009 (USA)
Director: Ken Kwapis
Distributed by: New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures
Adapted from: He's Just Not That Into You
Box office: $178.9 million
Music by: Cliff Eidelman

He's Just Not That Into You (2009) - Movie Review! #496

Pappy, Stevie and Josh cover David Spade as a llama. Plus Puddy from Seinfeld's in it.

This is actually part 1 of a quick 2-part series feature the feature film, then the behind the scenes film!!

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Arrogant young Emperor Kuzco is transformed into a llama by his power-hungry advisor -- the devious diva Yzma. Stranded in the jungle, Kuzco's only chance to get back home and reclaim the high life rests with a good-hearted peasant named Pacha. Together, they must return Kuzco to the throne before Yzma tracks them down and finishes him off.
Release date: December 10, 2000 (USA)
Director: Mark Dindal
Sequel: Kronk's New Groove
Distributed by: Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Based on: Original story; by Roger Allers; Matthew Jacobs

Emperor's New Groove (2000) - Spoilers! #497

Pappy, Stevie and Josh relish in the behind-the-scenes making of The Emperor's New Groove. Sting's in it.

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Documentarian Trudie Styler takes animation fans behind the scenes of Disney's whimsical feature "The Emperor's New Groove." With her husband, renowned rock star Sting, serving as chief songwriter for the musical buddy comedy, Styler gains unparalleled access to the inner workings of Disney's legendary animation studios. With it, she reveals the winding road that takes a script called "Kingdom of the Sun" and transforms it into a critically acclaimed addition to the Disney collection.
Initial release: 2002
Directors: John-Paul Davidson, Trudie Styler
Distributed by: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Music by: David Hartley
Production companies: Walt Disney Pictures; Xingu Films

The Sweatbox (2002) - Spoilers! #498

Stevie hosts Pappy, $ Mike and Brett in reviewing their last movie of spooky spoilers 2018: Poltergeist! 

Strange and creepy happenings beset an average California family, the Freelings -- Steve (Craig T. Nelson), Diane (JoBeth Williams), teenaged Dana (Dominique Dunne), eight-year-old Robbie (Oliver Robins), and five-year-old Carol Ann (Heather O'Rourke) -- when ghosts commune with them through the television set. Initially friendly and playful, the spirits turn unexpectedly menacing, and, when Carol Ann goes missing, Steve and Diane turn to a parapsychologist and eventually an exorcist for help.

Release date: June 4, 1982 (USA)
Director: Tobe Hooper
Story by: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay: Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais, Mark Victor
Producers: Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall

Poltergeist (1982)- Movie Review! #186

Welcome to glorious Episode 69. We discuss Ser Brienne, lustful Arya and all the conversations that keep getting interrupted.

Seriously, can someone just let Dany finish a freaking conversation?



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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" is the second episode of the eighth season of Game of Thrones. It is the sixty-ninth episode of the series overall. It premiered on April 21, 2019. It was written by Bryan Cogman and directed by David Nutter.

The battle at Winterfell is approaching. Jaime is confronted with the consequences of the past. A tense interaction between Sansa and Daenerys follows.

Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 2 69/A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms #216

Josh kicks off our 6 part Fellowship of the Ring Coverage!

-In the Second Age of Middle-earth, the lords of Elves, Dwarves, and Men are given Rings of Power. Unbeknownst to them, the Dark Lord Sauron forges the One Ring in Mount Doom, infusing into it a great part of his power to dominate, through it and at a distance, the other Rings, so he might conquer Middle-earth.

-A final alliance of men and elves battles Sauron's forces in Mordor, where Prince Isildur of Gondor severs Sauron's finger, and the Ring with it, thereby destroying his physical form. With Sauron's first defeat, the Third Age of Middle-earth begins.

-Unfortunately, the Ring's influence corrupts Isildur, and, rather than destroy the Ring, Isildur takes it for himself. Isildur is later killed by Orcs, and the Ring is lost for 2,500 years, until it is found by Gollum, who owns it for five centuries. The Ring is then found by a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins, who turns invisible when he puts it on, but is unaware of its history.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Chapter l  - Spoilers! #262

Stevie continues Spoilers LOTR content with chapter 2 - A WIZARD IS NEVER LATE! (Party in The Shire)

Sixty years later, Bilbo celebrates his 111th birthday in the Shire, reuniting with his old friend, Gandalf the Grey. Bilbo reveals that he intends to leave the Shire for one last adventure, and he leaves his inheritance, including the Ring, to his nephew, Frodo. Although Bilbo has begun to become corrupted by the Ring and tries to keep it for himself, Gandalf intervenes. Gandalf, suspicious of the Ring, tells Frodo to keep it secret and to keep it safe. Gandalf then investigates the Ring, discovers its true nature, and returns to warn Frodo. Gandalf also learns that Gollum was tortured by Orcs, and that Gollum uttered two words during his torture: "Shire" and "Baggins."

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Chapter lI - Spoilers! #263

Mikey takes us out of the Shire and halfway through our 6 chapter Fellowship of the Ring series  THEY COME IN PINTS? (Frodo’s Journey Begins)

Gandalf instructs Frodo to leave the Shire, accompanied by his friend Samwise Gamgee. Gandalf rides to Isengard to meet with fellow wizard Saruman the White, but learns that he has joined forces with Sauron, who has dispatched his nine undead Nazgûl servants to find Frodo. After a brief battle, Saruman imprisons Gandalf.
Frodo and Sam are joined by fellow hobbits Merry and Pippin, and they evade the Nazgûl, arriving in Bree, where they are meant to meet Gandalf. However, Gandalf never arrives, and they are instead aided by a ranger named Strider, a friend of Gandalf's, who promises to escort them to Rivendell. The hobbits are ambushed by the Nazgûl on Weathertop, and their leader, the Witch-King, stabs Frodo with a cursed Morgul blade.

Other topics: Camera tricks, practical effects
Record Date: 12/12/19
Timestamps: 41:00 - 1:15:13

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Chapter lII - Spoilers! #264

Korey (Kylo) assembles the spoilers council to discuss Chapter 4  YOU CANNOT WIELD IT (Elrond’s Council) of Lord of the Rings!

Arwen, an elf and Strider's betrothed, comes to Frodo's aid, rescuing him and incapacitating the Nazgûl. “Come and claim him!” She takes him to Rivendell, where he is healed. Frodo meets Gandalf, who escaped Isengard with help from Gwaihir, a giant eagle. Arwen's father, Lord Elrond, holds a council that decides the Ring must be destroyed in Mount Doom. While the members argue, Frodo volunteers to take the Ring, accompanied by Gandalf, Sam, Merry, Pippin, elf Legolas, dwarf Gimli, Boromir of Gondor, and Strider, who is revealed to be Aragorn, Isildur's heir and the rightful King of Gondor. Bilbo gives Frodo his sword, Sting. The Fellowship of the Ring sets off.

The Fellowship first, tries a snowy mountainous path - but it proves fruitless. Saruman's magic forces them to consider a different path.
Other topics: Council memes, famous/favorite/best “assemble the crew” scenes

Record Date: 12/12/19
Timestamps: 1:15:13 - 1:57:42

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Chapter lV - Spoilers! #265

Pappy wraps up our 6 episode Fellowship of the Ring review PLUS a Lord of the Lord of the Rings is named (and a Gollum)!

Chapter 6: I WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED YOU (The Fellowship Splinters Apart)

The Fellowship leaves Lothlórien by river to Parth Galen. Frodo wanders off and is confronted by Boromir, who tries to take the Ring in desperation. Afraid of the Ring corrupting his friends, Frodo decides to travel to Mordor alone. The Fellowship is then ambushed by the Uruk-hai. Merry and Pippin are taken captive, and Boromir is mortally wounded by the Uruk chieftain, Lurtz. Aragorn arrives and slays Lurtz, and watches Boromir die peacefully. Sam follows Frodo, accompanying him to keep his promise to Gandalf to protect Frodo, while Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli go to rescue Merry and Pippin.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Chapter VI - Spoilers! #267

Josh, Pappy, Korey (Kylo), and Brett review WandaVison Episodes 7 & 8 ahead of the big finale! 

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Living idealized suburban lives, super-powered beings Wanda and Vision begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
First episode date: January 15, 2021
Final episode date: March 5, 2021
Director: Matt Shakman
Network: Disney+

WandaVision (2021) | Episodes 7 & 8 - Spoilers! #352

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