This is the longest Talks Machina transcript I’ve put together (it’s 14 pages), and it’s only half the good stuff: Beau’s answers were also excellent. This is the absolute best of what Talks can be: Travis spilled absolutely everything about the subtext of Fjord and what’s been going on in his mind as he panics. All the things we’ve been speculating about are laid bare. This is the subtext to everything going on in Ep61 and Ep62.
Scenes run:
1. How stressed was Fjord losing his powers? 0:26:34 to 0:13:07
2. Fjord is scared of losing both his friends and connection to Vandran 0:16:56 to 0:20:10
3. Maybe we’ve misjudged Uk’otoa 0:23:29 to 0:24:41
4. Fjord didn’t want to see Wursh, it was an excuse for a crisis walkabout 0:24:41 to 0:26:59
5. Fjords powers are defining who he is 0:33:40 to 0:34:23
6. Everyone needs to pull their weight or they’re out 0:35:16 to 0:38:52
7. Fjord’s fallen in love with this version of himself 0:42:31 to 0:44:42
8. Uk’otoa is a connection to Vandran and now 0:46:55
9. Fjord doesn’t care about Avantika 0:52:09 to 0:52:55
10. Home is a big-ass maybe 0:54:30 to 0:58:10
1. How stressed was Fjord losing his powers?
0:10:06 Brian: “Travis, Vega_The_Fool wants to know, ‘On a scale of one to being dumped in a room alone with a blue dragon, how stressful was it for Fjord to wake up and find he’s been depowered? On the same scale, how stressful was it for Travis Willingham to realize Fjord had been depowered?'”
0:10:25 Travis, passionately: “Yeah, look, they’re one in the same, bitches! Okay? It was a ten! A fucking ten! A ten! It was terrible. It was awful. In the moment I was looking at Matt like, ‘What are you…?’ I just- I thought maybe I was just getting, like, I don’t know, nerfed or something, but to conjure nothing… I’m a guy with a sword. I’m a guy with a sword…”
Marisha: “I’m convinced there’s a 20-minute time period after that happened to you that you didn’t hear a word said at the table.”
Brian: “Yeah, you might have to watch that back.”
Travis, shaking his head: “Nope. Nope.”
Marisha: “I could tell just…” she mimics stressfully changing positions.
Brian: “That blankness, yeah.”
Travis: “Uh-huh. I’m pretty sure I was movie breathing, too.”
Marisha: “Yeah.”
Travis: “Like,” he breathes loudly and heavily. “During the endgame Laura tapped me and she was like, ‘Stop fucking breaking so loud.'”
Brian: “Yeah yeah yeah.”
Travis: “Something I do. Big ass no.”
Brian: “I almost broke Ashley’s hand. I was holding her hand and five minutes into the movie I was squeezing it so hard she, like, peeled her fingers off and was like, ‘Can you chill for a sec?’ And I realized it was because she had a Milk Dud stuck in there that I really wanted. Were you going to say, Travis?”
0:11:29 Travis: “I was gonna say, blue dragon was like, ‘Oh god, I might die. thank god people are coming.’ But the… Not having any powers and Travis having a character that has no powers, yeah, not good! It’s no good.”
Brian: “I have been in haunted house situations with you before, I’ve been in scary situations with you before, and I know when you sound terrified. And I was sitting there on my laptop watching the show, and when you ran out in the street and were like, ‘Oh fuck, oh fuck,’ I was like, ‘Oh no, oh no, oh no!’ It’s cool. It’s cool. I like it. I like it when you’re going off a little bit.”
0:12:03 Travis: “It’s okay. I’m sure because, because, thanks to CritRoleStats, it’s only been 35 days since, you know, since the last eye was placed that I have another 35 days before my next warning.”
Brian: “No, you don’t know that’s the case.”
Travis: “Yes. That is exactly what they said.”
Dani: “Really it’s been like 5 days since your last warning.”
Marisha: “It’s like a 90-day default period.”
Travis: “There’s a verbal warning, and then there’s a shot across the bow, okay? That was a shot. That was a physical…”
Dani: “So do you think they’re just going to escalate, or do you think he’s going to go back to verbal warnings?”
Travis: “Look, I’m sure there’s like, there’s gonna be a flier that comes in the mailbox that’ll be like, ‘You have 90 days to reply to this. Your interest is…'”
Brian: “Yes. It’s going to be so gentle.”
Travis: “You’ll be sent to collections if you don’t reply.”
Brian: “It’s going to have a big thing on the front that says,” Uk’otoa voice, “‘Reply.'”
Travis, laughing: “Open it up and it’s just one word.”
Dani, quietly under Travis: “Uk’otoa I feel is actually the IRS.”
Brian: “Say it one more time, Dani.”
Dani: “Uk’otoa is exactly the IRS. Never trust a phone call. They only send letters.”
Travis: “That’s why they sealed him away.”
Brian: “More like the IRIS.”
Marisha, after a pause: “Oh, iris, I get it. With it. Hip.”
Dani: “Oh no.”
Brian: “Okay, because it’s an eye and an eye has a-“
0:13:07
2. Fjord is scared of losing both his friends and connection to Vandran
0:16:56 Brian: “Travis, CalicoJill, ‘Fjord’s fear of losing his powers is palpable, where does that fear lie? Is he worried he couldn’t travel with his friends if he couldn’t hold his own or that he’d lose his last tangible connection to Vandran?'”
Travis: “God, these fans and their fucking good questions.”
Marisha: “I know, man.”
0:17:21Travis: “Yes. Both. I mean, yeah, he is temporarily satiated by the fact that Vandran seemed to be okay in Caduceus’ vision, or that he is well and trying to atone for past mistakes. I’d still really like to see the guy that, you know, treated him decent for the first time in his fucking life. Just say, ‘Hey, what the hell happened? Glad you’re okay. I’m okay if you were wondering?”
Dani, mournfully: “Oh-hoho.”
0:17:52 Travis: “Well yeah, you know. And then two, yeah, y’all- we’re some fucking dragon killing, like, badass 9th level motherfuckers. I’m not if I don’t have my shit! Right? If I just have a sword, I’m a half-orc with a strength of 11. I’m like a +1 with a sharp thing. It sucks! Yeah, nuh-uh.”
Brian: “Do you regret picking your class?”
0:18:21 Travis, animated: “I regret all of it! It’s all regerts all day every day! I just want out! Trade with me! Do it right now, shake on it. Let’s [exercise this demon]. Do it!”
Brian: “I just want out! Trade with me!”
Marisha: “No! I’d rather be a basic bitch than deal with some sort of demon.”
Travis, pleading: “Please. Look, look I could do it, watch!” He double punches the air. “Pap pap!
Dani: “Trade that!?”
Marisha: “No!
Travis, double punching the air again: “See: pap pap! Flurry of blows!”
Marisha: “Yeah, isn’t that great.
Dani: “Did you say, ‘Pap pap?'”
Travis, undercutting the air twice: “Stunning strike! Ba bap!”
Marisha: “You see that has nothing beholden to my fists.”
Travis, quietly stress and defeated: “Shit.”
Brian: “Nah dude.”
0:18:49 Marisha: “I felt really bad because as soon as the cameras went off, and I could see Travis’s like freaking out and I’m like the worst friend ’cause my first response was, ‘This is why I’ve never fucked with warlocks.”
Dani: “Yeah.”
Travis, laughing: “That happened!”
Brian: “Wow. Wow.”
Marisha: “And I was like,” she looks at him. “And he was just like,” she braces herself with both hands on the coffee table and slowly looks back at him in disbelief.
Travis, slapping his leg laughing: “That was what you said! I looked over at Taliesin for some guidance, like, bro, like, I mean, we kicked Orthax out of your body and then killed it. I got no Orthax, I got nothing to kill, I got no nothing.”
Brian: “I have no fire.”
Laughter.
Travis: “Yeah. Hey Korben my man.”
Laughter.
Travis: “Yeah, yeah no it’s panic around here.”
Brian: “I love that that was your reaction. Like, yeah.”
Travis: “Yes, yeah.”
Marisha: “Your choice, eh.” She throws up her hands.
0:19:32 Travis: “He cannot hang. He cannot hang. He would die real quick. If middle of the day, not like after a rest, I don’t know if the wisdom check the night before had anything to do with it. If it’s just like we’re getting ready to ambush some people and all of a sudden, like, my sword just falls out of the air at my feet right as we’re getting ready to go? I’m’a sit my ass right where we are and wish everyone good fortune.”
Dani: “Good fjortune?”
Travis: “Good fjortune? Oh, good- oh fjork you, Dani.”
Dani cackles.
Brian: “Oh boy. Oh boy.”
Travis: “Need my powers, man.”
0:20:10
3. Maybe we’ve misjudged Uk’otoa
0:23:29 Travis: “Listen, maybe we’re being too judgmental of poor, misunderstood Uk’otoa, right?”
Brian: “Okay, that line of thinking is bound to get you in a world of shit.”
Travis: “Maybe we just go, and we drop that third sphere, we let the little, the little snake guy out of his cage he just…” He makes a slithering motion.
Brian: “No. You’ve seen Prometheus.”
Travis: “No. Nobody saw that.”
Dani: “I was about to say, I was like, ‘Did you?'”
Brian: “Steve, you saw Prometheus?”
Steve: “Yeah, yeah.”
Brian: “You yeah, yeah?”
Marisha: “If you, like, suck another eyeball inside of you, and we kill him, though, do you get to keep his powers?”
0:24:01 Travis, stress laughing: “I don’t know! I didn’t read the contract! There wasn’t one!”
Dani: “I have a question.”
Travis: “Yeah?”
Dani: “Was there a contract? Or did you just wake up and you suddenly fucking had powers.”
Brian: “I think there was some nasty shit in this.”
0:24:13 Travis: “It was the latter as far as I know.”
Brian: “You woke up?”
Dani: “So you just don’t- so you also- so it’s like what y’all were talking about with those memory loss- memory-“
0:24:22 Travis: “Yeah, I was drowning. and it hurt like a motherfucker, and the next thing I knew I was awake on a shore and there’s a sword just washing up in the waves.”
Brian: “Should have had gills, man. Should have had gills like that Sea Quest character. You would be fine. This one’s for Travis.”
Marisha and Travis, laughing: “Sea Quest?”
Brian: “Here comes Lockey to remind us.”
4. Fjord didn’t want to see Wursh, it was an excuse for a crisis walkabout
0:24:41 Brian: Micawindow, Fjord seemed anxious to leave the herbalist’s and talk to Wursh. If he hadn’t learned his powers returned when he created a minor illusion, would the conversation with Wursh have gone differently?”
0:24:59 Travis: “Uh yeah. I only went to talk to Wursh ’cause fucking Yasha wouldn’t leave me alone.”
Brian: “It’s true. Yeah.”
Travis: “I was trying to fucking-
Marisha: “Wait, what, really?”
0:25:09 Travis: “Yeah! I don’t give a fuck about Wursh! I was trying to amscray!”
Brian: “You forgot about Wursh. Forgot about Wursh.”
0:25:14 Travis: “No, I was gonna ask- Yasha was like, ‘I’m gonna follow Fjord.’ And I’m like, ‘Fuck!’ ‘I’m going to talk to Wursh right now. That is my only intention.'”
Marisha, laughing: “You were trying to have a crisis walkabout and…”
0:25:28 Travis: “Yeah! That’s why I was getting so impatient! Shit is going down, alright!? The clock is ticking! I don’t need to share it with you guys! I can resolve it, but I need to do it on my own time, my own terms!”
Dani: “Ooo. That is not a healthy way of thinking, Fjord.”
Travis: “Did you, are you saying that to Fjord, right? Travis is a very responsible person and a good friend.”
Marisha: “I was about to…”
Brian: “What?”
Marisha: “Nothing”
[They gently browbeat Marisha into talking.]
Marisha: “Just didn’t know if we were talking to Travis of Fjord.”
Brian: “I know, he’s got more accents than Liam’s character has names.”
0:26:26 Travis: “Well, and listen, half of it was I was asking about what was in the town because as we walk through, we’ve just kind of been moving to one place and the other, not really taking inventory of what’s around. I don’t know if there were temples or other things that maybe I could pop in and go like, ‘Hey, do you guys know anything about a giant snake dude called Uk’otoa?'”
Marisha: “Can I get a B12 shot?”
Travis, laughing: “Yeah, seriously!”
Marisha: “Just real quick.”
Brian: “Is this the tent where they’re doing the B12?”
Travis: “Do you ever reckon that wellness shot? Can we get some…”
Marisha: “Universal healthcare, right?”
Travis: “Yep.”
0:26:59
5. Fjords powers are defining who he is
0:33:40 Travis: “I mean, okay, I can say that Fjord’s not an open- like, just a straight-up open book. He’s… yeah. All these powers, when he has them, are defining who he is, right. It was really not anything close to that before. So yeah, he keeps it super close to the chest. Plus, people look to him in a… looked to him in a leadership role for a while. That’s new to him, too. So, he thinks that, probably from his experiences with Vandran, that, like, stoic, quiet, calm leaders that don’t show, you know, that don’t blush in the face of adversity are how it’s supposed to be. Not knowing that you can do it however the fuck you want to. there’s no right way to lead.”
0:34:23
6. Everyone needs to pull their weight or they’re out
0:35:16 Brian: “Travis, Dikemon asks, I’m going to skip some of this, ‘How much of his abilities does Fjord tie into his identity? Is he scares that the Nein might think less of him if he becomes powerless?'”
[Full question: Travis: We’ve seen Fjord grow more confident as his powers grew. 61 episodes in and those powers are threatened to be taken away. ‘How much of his abilities does Fjord tie into his identity? Is he scares that the Nein might think less of him if he becomes powerless?]
0:35:26 Travis: “The guy shouts ‘Eldritch Blast’ when he doesn’t have to. Yeah, it’s, uh, yes. I see the bottom half of the question. Yeah, they’ll think less of him. Who wouldn’t, right? Everybody needs to be able to- No, Dani, they would! You’ve gotta pull your own weight in this group. If you are the weak link, they’re gonna hold auditions for The Mighty Eight.”
Brian: “The Might Eight?”
Travis: “Yeah. That’s what’s happening.”
Marisha, looking confused and concerned: “No, we wouldn’t, though. You know that.”
Travis: “No. Nope.”
Marisha: “You know that, but Fjord doesn’t know that.”
Brian: “I don’t know. No, Fjord doesn’t know that.”
Travis: “Don’t know. Caleb is… I mean, listen, I think Caleb evaluates all the group members, and because they can each contribute something to keeping each other safe, then it’s a zero-sum game that everybody can, you know, they can take care of each other. If one person is going, ‘I’ve got a sword over here if any of you need it,’ like a fucking ball boy,” he slightly shakes his head.
Marisha: “Well, look, you could have been our Caddy Shack for a few episodes, and we would have gone and got your powers back. We just quest for powers.”
0:36:37 Travis: “How do you do that? How do you do that? How do you think you do that?”
Marisha: “We…”
Travis: “Where is Uk’otoa to you?”
Marisha: “We toss you in some salt water.”
Travis: “Uh-huh.” His body language says, “I don’t know.”
Marisha: “Let you get a little…”
Travis: “Briny?”
Marisha: “Uh-huh.”
Travis: “Uh-huh.”
Marisha: “See what happens, go from there.”
Travis: “How long do we wait while I’m in the ocean before you realize it’s not doing shit?”
Marisha: “Mm, you know…”
Travis: “A fortnight?”
Marisha: “Not beyond the threshold of a Revivify.”
Laughter.
Travis: “Oh god!”
Brian: “Oh wow.”
Travis: “You’re trying to reset the hard drive? Like, you’re just going to- okay. Okay cool.”
Brian: “You’re thinking just like… You’re thinking reformat disk. Reformat disk.”
Dani: “Turn him off and tuning him back on!”
Travis: “Yeah, you’re turning the computer off and holding the power button down factory settings.”
Marisha: “Fuck you guys. He’s blue screened.”
Brian: “Disk utility. Yikes.”
Dani: “Aw, think how much Beau loves Fjord that she would be willing to factory reset him.”
Travis: “Wow.”
Dani: “Aw, I think it’s sweet.”
Travis: “Wow, that is some…”
Dani: “We’re just going to throw you in the water, buddy.”
Brian: “I can’t wait.”
Marisha: “Look, this was a 60-second plan. This has had no R&D. Okay? I’m not saying we go with our first draft. We think about it. I was just tossing it out.”
Brian: “Campaign 2: now with more Eternal Sunshine on a Spotless Mind.”
0:37:51 Travis: “Yeah. this is what I was doing in the game in the moments where my head was exploding. Like, none of us in the group have any idea how to approach or solve that problem. Nobody.”
Brian: “Yeah. Nobody.”
Marisha: “I mean, we’re going to have to figure it out though.”
Dani: “Only if he tells y’all! Fjord.”
Travis: “I’ll take care of it. It’ll be fine. I’ll take care of it.”
Marisha: “You know when your- you know when your check engine light goes on?”
Brian: “Ew. I don’t think that one bit.”
Dani: “That’s weird.”
Marisha: “Start counting down the days. My check engine light has been on for nine days, you guy.”
Travis: “Yeah, I’ll get it, it’s fine. And then you take it into the shop they’re like, ‘How long’s this been on?”
Marisha: “Uh… a few days.”
Travis: “November?”
Marisha: “Pop the hood, I don’t smell burning, we’re good. We’re good.”
Travis: “Right.”
Dani: “The freakiest days are the ones where the check engine light turns off. And then you’re like, ‘Eh, that’s weird. That’s worse.'”
Marisha: “Yeah. Those are the days I say someone’s looking out for you.”
Brian: “It gave up. The check engine light gives up, that car’s going to explode.”
Travis: “Yep.”
Brian: “Speaking from experience.”
0:38:52
7. Fjord’s fallen in love with this version of himself
0:42:31 Brian: “The only person that could save us now is Skidrule316. ‘Travis, what is Fjord’s apprehension about telling his friends about his dreams and the consequences of ignoring his patron?'”
0:42:46 Travis: “I mean… I think Fjord has fallen in love a little bit with the idea of who this new version of himself is. And being vulnerable and telling people what your biggest fear is and admitting all the ways that you suck, in addition to all the new reasons that you really suck, it’s like one step too far. Plus, I mean, he gave it a day, right? He didn’t just up and fucking run out in the middle of the night, although I was on the razor’s edge of just tearing off into the darkness. I don’t know. I didn’t know what the fuck was going to happen. So, conjuring that bird was a real good sign. But he’s motivated to fix it. What was the back half of that question, the back part?”
Brian: “It was about, ‘Fjord’s apprehension about telling his friends about his dreams and the consequences of ignoring his patron.’
Travis: “Oh, the patron, yeah. I mean, that I have no- I don’t have any idea about. I was looking for a temple. I don’t know if anyone would have any idea of what Uk’otoa is, or if they know how to break whatever agreement this thing is, if it is an agreement. I don’t even remember it happening, so I don’t know if he is…”
Brian: “What happens if the agreement is broken though, dude?”
Travis: “I don’t know. I mean…”
Brian: “We don’t know that that’s good.”
Travis: “No, we don’t.”
Brian: “But we don’t know that you’re good, but now I’m thinking you might turn good because this one’s evil.”
Travis: “No, yeah. I mean, from the day that happened until now, everything has been different and awesome because I can shoot shit out of my hands, and jump between planes, and change the way I look, and all of that. If you told me I’m just going back to being who I was before…”
Marisha: “Normal?”
Travis: “Yeah. That’s not awesome. It’s not great.”
Marisha: “Yeah. Yeah, that would suck.”
Travis: “Yeah. He still has work to do, too.”
Brian: “Normal sucks. Right, Max?”
Max: “Yep.”
Laughter
0:44:42
8. Uk’otoa is a connection to Vandran and now
0:46:55 Brian: “Let’s see, Travis, let’s see if you- let’s see what you can answer of this question from GracelessKnight. ‘Fjord’s accent dropped during his nervous breakdown outside. Is there a significant attachment of his accent with his pact with Uk’otoa? Is it heightened knowing that Vandran was also a chosen? If so, how’s he coping with those connection momentarily lost?'”
Travis: “I don’t know anything about an accent drop.”
Dani: “I fucking knew that’s what you were gonna fucking say! Goddamn it!”
Brian: “I told you. I told you he was gonna say it. I told you, but we decided to leave this question in anyway.”
0:47:30 Travis: “Yeah, I mean, it’s definitely heightened with Vandran also being a chosen. I mean, we think. We think, right? I mean, from everything that Avantika said about Vandran, it sounded like he brought her into it. I don’t know if he was a chosen or if he was brought into it the same way he brought her in; I don’t know. But yeah, that’s a huge connection to his past life and now. I mean how the hell is he even supposed to address finding him if he doesn’t have the abilities or the thing that is the link to the last moment that he saw him in? I mean, we’re on the other side of the fucking map. We’re not even on the map, anymore.”
Dani: “That’s true.”
Travis: “We are upper north east adjacent. We are out of bounds. For the moment.”
Brian: “Yeah, out of bounds. Return to gameplay please.”
Travis: “Yeah, he is far from home, yeah.”
Brian: “Return to the combat zone, please.”
Marisha: “Yeah. Sixty seconds.”
Dani: “Aw, just like Spider-Man. He’s far from home.”
Travis: “Yeah, that’s right.”
Brian: “Oh, Dani, oh…”
Travis: “Spoilers.”
Dani: “That’s the name of the movie!”
Travis: “I’m not sure.”
Brian: “Yeah, but some of us…”
0:48:34
9. Fjord doesn’t care about Avantika
0:52:09 Brian: “Yettinim wants to know, ‘How does Fjord feel about Beau wearing one of Avantika’s coats?'”
Travis, singing: ♪ Get it girl. Get it get it girl. Get it girl. Get it get it girl. ♪
Marisha, dancing: “I’m fly.”
Travis: “I mean, sorry. He doesn’t care. Nah.”
Brian: “Doesn’t care.”
Travis, shrugging: “Nah.”
Dani: “Hit it and quit it, man.”
Brain: ‘Yeah, it wasn’t the coat.”
Marisha: “It’s mine now, bitch!”
Travis: “Keep your enemies close.”
Brian: “Yeah.”
Marisha: “It looks good, too.”
Brian: “It wasn’t the coat he had a wonderful evening with.”
Travis: “That’s right, yeah.”
Dani: “I mean it might have been. What?”
Marisha: “It’s fur lined now, fits real nice, shows off my figure.”
0:52:45 Travis: “Yeah, both Fjord and Travis don’t put a lot of stock in new clothes.”
Brian: “Yeah, we can tell there.”
Dani: “He’s probably like, ‘Oh, is that Avantika’s coat?'”
Travis: “I bought this in 2004, so…”
Brian: “You did?
Travis: “Yeah.”
Brian: “Yeah yeah yeah.”
0:52:55
10. Home is a big-ass maybe
0:54:30 Brian: “Lalalyssh wants to know, ‘Fjord grew up an orphan and Beau was ostracized from her family. How do these characters feel now that they have been offered a home to share with their found family?’ So, you guys have this home now. You know, it’s not a house, as you said earlier. You corrected me.”
Travis: “A dwelling? A homestead?”
Brian: “You have a dwelling.”
0:54:49 Travis: “I don’t know. I- He- I feel… I feel good about it. As long as things stay the way they are he’s pretty comfortable with this new life and family. But shit changes sometimes.” He stares at Marisha helplessly.
Marisha, growing more concerned: “Yeah. Yeah. Yeah?”
Travis: “Not in a bad way, I mean, I’m just speaking in a reference to my warlock abilities.”
Brian: “Yeah.”
Brian: “How does Beau feel- Wait, you seem so suspicious all the sudden.”
Marisha: “Uhh…” She nudges her head at Travis.
0:55:24 Brian: “A lot’s going on up there, isn’t it?”
[…]
0:57:08 Travis: “Yeah. I mean, genuinely Fjord is all about moving in solidifying things, embracing this new life. There is a big-ass maybe just floating out there though, now. Like, all of a sudden one morning nothing was like it was the night before, so I don’t know what that means.”
Marisha: “Well, and it feels like you also had your found family before with Vandran.”
0:57:31 Travis: “Yeah, and that shit ripped away.”
Marisha: “And that shit got ripped away.”
0:57:34 Travis: “Yeah, totally. This is the third version of himself.”
Marisha: “So, right. I can understand that through line of, well, you have this by blood, and theoretically they’re not supposed to be able to be like ‘nah’ to you. Theoretically.”
Dani: “Theoretically.”
Brian: “Theoretically. Yeah.”
Marisha: “I don’t know.”
Travis, wincing: “Yeah. Yeah. Oh god.”
Dani: “There’s just so much good character work.”
Travis: “I’m sure Mercer will take it away. It’ll be fine.”
Brian: “There’s a lot of deep character work going on. I like it. I want more.”
Travis: “I’ll be fine.”
Dani: “It’s all so tasty. Omnomnom.”
0:58:10
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