The Charlie Kirk Show - How We Should Think About Pride Month

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00:02:10.000 Okay, so today marks the first day of something.

00:02:13.000 It is the first day of LGBTQ Pride Month.

00:02:17.000 Did I get all the letters?

00:02:18.000 Did I do okay?

00:02:20.000 Good.

00:02:22.000 Now, oh no, no.

00:02:23.000 Connor says I missed some of them.

00:02:25.000 Did I?

00:02:26.000 There's an I. Where is the I?

00:02:30.000 What does the I stand for?

00:02:31.000 So if you're as confused as I am, oh, it's for indigenous.

00:02:35.000 Indigenous is now part of that coalition with LGBTQIA.

00:02:40.000 I stand corrected.

00:02:41.000 No, no, no.

00:02:42.000 It's for intersex, not indigenous. 0.95

00:02:45.000 It's not indigenous. 0.98

00:02:46.000 That's a whole different coalition.

00:02:48.000 Okay, it's intersex. 0.62

00:02:51.000 So it's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual.

00:02:56.000 So this could be best demonstrated by what is called the gender unicorn, which is used in a lot of schools to try to teach children kind of how they feel sexually.

00:03:08.000 And so, look, I'll be very honest.

00:03:10.000 As I grew up in America and as I grew up in the conservative movement, I didn't really think twice about Pride Month or June.

00:03:19.000 I mean, I was never quite a fan, obviously, but I wasn't against it.

00:03:24.000 I was like, whatever, just do you.

00:03:26.000 It's kind of a libertarian mindset, right?

00:03:29.000 Kind of, you do what you need to do, and I'll do what I need to do.

00:03:34.000 And it's not my business.

00:03:37.000 And that was, I think, the consensus amongst a lot of Americans.

00:03:39.000 In fact, I believe that is still the consensus amongst a lot of Americans.

00:03:44.000 But in recent years, it seems as if the liberation movements that we have grown so accustomed, accustomed to, have changed from just kind of live and let live to if you do not subscribe or agree with my viewpoint, if you do not allow me to teach your children, if you do not allow me to run your government in a certain way, then I'm going to punish you, I'm going to mock you, I'm going to ridicule you.

00:04:12.000 You're going to have to get into line.

00:04:15.000 And so today is the first day of Pride Month.

00:04:17.000 This is going to be 30 plus days of this.

00:04:21.000 And it's more than just kind of an expression of gender sexuality, which in and of itself is why you need a whole month dedicated towards your own particular gender sexuality is really kind of a mystery to me, I'll be very honest.

00:04:37.000 But putting that aside, that's not anything I'm going to overly emphasize or criticize.

00:04:43.000 It has now metamorphosized and transitioned from something that is, I'm going to, you know, we want equal respect or we want marriage equality to now it's almost an evangelistic enterprise where the focus to bring forward these ideas into the military, into our schools with children, is unmatched and completely unprecedented.

00:05:08.000 I think a lot of you are probably in the same boat that I'm in, where you grew up with some friends and family members and with co-workers that are gay and they're decent, good people and they love their country and they do a wonderful job as far as their work.

00:05:28.000 And I think a lot of people are in the same position I'm in, where you grew up in a country where you want everyone to be treated with dignity and respect.

00:05:36.000 You don't want anyone to be, you know, kind of talked down to or stereotyped.

00:05:40.000 I don't want to live in that country and you don't either.

00:05:42.000 And so that was kind of an anchor for a lot of us, understandably.

00:05:46.000 But I think that kind of good intention has been completely and totally taken advantage of now.

00:05:52.000 Where that good intention that a lot of us have that anchors us that are not part of that sexual identity community has now turned into we're going to teach your children, we're going to redefine what kind of like regular sexual norms are.

00:06:09.000 And a lot of us that kind of grew up with the mentality of, okay, live and let live, we feel as if we've been taken advantage of.

00:06:17.000 We understand that good intentions don't always lead to good public policy.

00:06:21.000 And quite honestly, we never should have let our guard down.

00:06:25.000 To be very transparent and honest, it's we're at a moment in time where, regardless of kind of the ideal of live and let live, that is not the country we're living in right now.

00:06:37.000 Where the liberation movements of whether it be the kind of gay liberation movement, that we're constantly oppressed and that we need more rights.

00:06:46.000 And okay, it has gone from we want to break free of all the oppression to now having a tendency to almost become this very arrogant mob of revenge that we now need to go into the schools,

00:07:05.000 that we need to go enact some sort of retribution for the society and the civilization and the people that we feel have harmed us so significantly.

00:07:18.000 So I grew up in a country where the number one debate was marriage equality.

00:07:23.000 It was all about trying to allow people the same opportunity to have equal marriage.

00:07:30.000 Now, I've never supported it because I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman.

00:07:36.000 Marriage, I believe, is a sacred institution.

00:07:39.000 However, I'll be honest, I wasn't that fired up about it.

00:07:42.000 I had a laissez-faire attitude at one chapter in my life towards it.

00:07:47.000 I said, all right, whatever.

00:07:49.000 Because I was naive enough, and I think a lot of us are in the same boat.

00:07:53.000 I was naive enough to believe this would end the debate, that this was going to be a moment for us to turn the page so we could talk about more pressing issues, like the national debt or border security or, you know. constitutional liberties and rights being deteriorated or the fourth branch of government.

00:08:16.000 I was never for it, but I was naive enough to think, huh, this will no longer be an issue.

00:08:23.000 This will table the issue.

00:08:24.000 This will make all of a sudden all the activists happy and satisfied.

00:08:28.000 We'll be able to turn the page and we'll never have to talk about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, asexual.

00:08:36.000 I think I did it.

00:08:38.000 Yeah?

00:08:40.000 We'll never have to talk about that again because it just felt so unnecessarily intimate and personal, right?

00:08:47.000 It felt so kind of overly, it was almost an overfixation on these issues.

00:08:55.000 And now we're living through a moment where we realize that, and I'll be the first one to admit, I made a terrible mistake in 2015, 16, and 17, believing for a second that these activists would take the win.

00:09:12.000 That somehow this massive infrastructure of hundreds of millions of dollars supporting gay activism was somehow just going to kind of become defunct because they got marriage equality.

00:09:24.000 In fact, the numbers show that after marriage equality, which overturned state-based rules on this, that the marriage rates barely went up at all in the gay and lesbian communities.

00:09:40.000 We went from marriage equality between adults to now entertaining the idea of chemical castration in children via the trans debate in less than a decade. 0.95

00:09:53.000 That happened very quickly.

00:09:57.000 We went from a movement that was clear that a man is a man and men are attracted to men to there's no such thing as men and there's no such thing as women.

00:10:06.000 And I believe a lot of you are in the same boat that I'm in, is that you're getting a little uneasy and a little bit anxious, not anxious, but you're a little irritated.

00:10:16.000 You're a little upset because you said, look, I was cool with all of this.

00:10:21.000 Not necessarily supportive, but you were neutral.

00:10:25.000 You were laissez-faire.

00:10:26.000 And now you look at it, you say, you didn't stop.

00:10:30.000 Now we're talking about these issues more than ever.

00:10:34.000 You're trying to overemphasize them while our major national pressing issues get ignored.

00:10:39.000 And now you go into our schools, our military, and our State Department.

00:10:43.000 Like, yeah, I'm sorry.

00:10:44.000 I'm not on board for it.

00:10:46.000 Okay.

00:10:46.000 I'm not going to act as if this is normal and good for our civilization because it's not.

00:10:52.000 If you go down to the core of the term liberal, part of what to liberalize a society would be is to free the society or to liberate the society.

00:11:03.000 Those of us that are conservatives, in the root of the word conservative, is to protect or to conserve things that we know that are good or that are true or that are beautiful so they last and they are sustained.

00:11:17.000 Now, some parts of liberalism, such as freedom of speech or some of the fruits of the Enlightenment, scientific inquiry, separation of powers, consent to the governed, are things that we enjoy to this day.

00:11:30.000 I mean, there are elements of the United States Constitution that are small L liberal.

00:11:35.000 However, the Constitution itself is not a liberal document.

00:11:39.000 In fact, this is a false teaching that is done in many law schools and in many legal departments and in many universities where they look at the United States Constitution as merely a liberal document, when in reality, it's probably 10 to 15% a liberal document, small L-liberal document, but it's a vast majority conservative document.

00:12:00.000 In fact, it's the most conservative governmental instrument in the history of the world.

00:12:06.000 And I'll give you one piece of evidence to support that.

00:12:09.000 It's very hard to radically change things with the United States Constitution.

00:12:15.000 If the United States Constitution was simply and solely a liberal instrument, well, then by a simple democratic vote, up or down vote, you would be able to take people's guns away, to be able to shut them up.

00:12:26.000 You should be able to take their property away.

00:12:28.000 The Founding Fathers made it difficult to be able to do bold revolutionary things, to be able to go on bold revolutionary endeavors.

00:12:36.000 So these ideas of an independent judiciary spreading power over space and time made the Constitution a conservative document.

00:12:48.000 And now when I use conservative liberal, I'm using lowercase.

00:12:50.000 I don't mean it politically.

00:12:51.000 I mean it more philosophically.

00:12:55.000 And so throughout the last 40 or 50 years, this is best summarized, by the way, by a brilliant author who I'd love to have on the program at some point by the name of Christopher Caldwell.

00:13:05.000 He wrote a book called Age of Entitlement.

00:13:07.000 And you've heard me talk about this book many times on air, where he talks about really in the 1960s to today, the kind of good intention lobby, that would be us.

00:13:19.000 I used to be part of the good intention world or the lobby or the community.

00:13:22.000 We were largely taken advantage of by people that preyed on our good intentions and were able to subvert our society, our laws, our customs, our institutions, our bureaucracies to be able to not liberalize or liberate America, but actually make it more authoritarian and in some ways, less free.

00:13:45.000 And so this tension between kind of the liberal wing of the philosophical political community and the conservative wing of the philosophical American political community was temporarily kind of managed in the 1970s and 80s on the surface by having kind of this détente, which is, okay, conservatives don't believe in these sort of practices.

00:14:08.000 Liberals do.

00:14:09.000 But if we kind of live and let live and allow you to do what you want to do as long as it doesn't harm somebody else, well, then everything will be fine.

00:14:17.000 And I used to say this nonsense on campuses because it sounds good in an idealistic utopian venture if you do not understand the malevolence or the insidious nature or the kind of commitment the other side has to actually violating this, which I used to go to college campuses and say the following line, well, you should be able to do whatever you want to do as long as it doesn't harm somebody else.

00:14:42.000 That sounds really good.

00:14:43.000 It appeals to a young student like, oh, yeah, the non-aggression principle.

00:14:47.000 But it's also incredibly short-sighted when you realize the side that you're actually brokering that deal with is they have no interest in actually living in a free society where you can do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it as long as it doesn't harm somebody else.

00:15:01.000 Instead, they want to be able to get the instruments of power to force you to do what they want to do so you stop doing what you want to do.

00:15:10.000 And just recently, I think now conservatives are waking up and like, wow, we kind of had brokered this peace deal and it was all a lie.

00:15:20.000 We had this détente that we weren't going to tell people how to live their lives and was kind of under this construct of live and let live, baby, and you do what you and who am I to judge and all of that.

00:15:31.000 And all of that, I still believe in a very idealistic setting.

00:15:35.000 And then all of a sudden I'm seeing the news right now.

00:15:37.000 We have a gay pride flag outside of the Holy See.

00:15:41.000 Now, you heard that right.

00:15:43.000 There's a gay pride flag now outside of the Holy See that our State Department has as an official government-sponsored activity in support of Pride Month.

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00:17:26.000 Boy, we were exploited and we were taken advantage of at multiple levels.

00:17:32.000 I mean, you just look at the issue of China as well.

00:17:35.000 As soon as we allowed China into the World Trade Organization, they took advantage of us. 0.99

00:17:40.000 You look at kind of 30,000 feet here.

00:17:43.000 It's on multiple levels the good intentions of the West that we were taken advantage of.

00:17:50.000 And it was motivated by people that I think wanted to do good.

00:17:54.000 I think immigration is another example of this. 0.99

00:17:57.000 I think mass immigration that was passed in the 1990s, the intentions were good. 0.92

00:18:01.000 We think everybody can become Americans.

00:18:03.000 We think everybody can assimilate.

00:18:06.000 And assimilation is an act of patriotic affection. 0.56

00:18:09.000 We believe in that. 0.99

00:18:11.000 But we were suckers.

00:18:13.000 On every single one of these kinds of neo-liberal issues and policies, the intention was nowhere correlated with the output.

00:18:29.000 And yet we keep on judging policies based on the original intention.

00:18:34.000 A sign of a mature and prudent and strong society is one that can differentiate between the original intent of the nation or the population and actually how that policy has impacted people.

00:18:52.000 And so I'm the first one to say that back in the early 2012, 13, 14, and 15, I had intentions that I believed on immigration, on, as we mentioned, the LGBT issue, on international trade, and even some foreign policy stuff, that all of this will align beautifully with kind of these neoliberal promises.

00:19:23.000 But as I've grown older, I realize that my intentions aside, and intention shouldn't be completely sidelined.

00:19:30.000 I think intentions are good.

00:19:32.000 I think intentions can anchor you towards kind of a moral centeredness to make sure you're not making public policy just from kind of a craven, backwards, dark place.

00:19:45.000 I think good intentions need to be articulated and need to be factored in.

00:19:51.000 But by no means are they the driving force or should they be, especially after the multiple decades of carnage we have around us of where those good intentions lead us.

00:20:06.000 The good intentions of, oh, yeah, we're going to shut down all of our factories and we're going to send all those jobs to China and we're going to get plastic in return. 0.61

00:20:17.000 And at almost no point did anyone say, like, hold on, time out.

00:20:21.000 This actually isn't really working as well as you said it was.

00:20:24.000 Like, we were all on board for it kind of when you mapped it out on the whiteboard.

00:20:28.000 It sounded really good when McKinsey came into Greencastle, Indiana, and they said they were going to shut down all the factories.

00:20:35.000 Like, oh, yeah, you know, we need to try to increase our opportunity cost.

00:20:40.000 And it's kind of the overemphasis on economics, professor, to be perfectly honest, and no factoring of social cost or national security implications or whether or not we have a muscular class or whether or not we're able to have the ability to make critical goods and services if you have a pandemic or a shutdown.

00:20:59.000 None of those things were factored in because we just keep on going back to this incantation, which is, well, if it sounds good, then let's do it.

00:21:10.000 And the lack of adjustment, I think, from our nation's rulers and our elites is one of the reasons why I think we're all kind of sitting on this soon to erupt volcano pressure cooker, which is you're just asking for your leaders to do what many of us are kind of doing, which is adjust, adapt, change course, say, oh, wow, there's a big storm coming up here.

00:21:35.000 This is your pilot speaking.

00:21:37.000 We're going to have to go north 50 miles to make sure we don't keep on going through it because the turbulence really is rather irrational.

00:21:45.000 No, instead, it's this is your pilot speaking.

00:21:47.000 There actually is no turbulence. 1.00

00:21:48.000 You're an idiot and you're not feeling that. 1.00

00:21:51.000 And it creates a massive amount of dissension amongst the body politic where they see the negative implications of them saying, well, if it sounds good, let's do it. 1.00

00:22:02.000 Like, actually, no, it's not doing good.

00:22:04.000 Like, actually, no, the LGBT thing has gone far too far. 1.00

00:22:09.000 It's gone way too far.

00:22:11.000 Where you're now in schools, where you're having drag queen story hours regularly for children.

00:22:18.000 And yet the good intentions that many of us feel, we're now kind of understandably de-emphasizing it.

00:22:31.000 And the kind of lack of remorse or the lack of honest recognition from the people that designed this kind of liberal order is extraordinary.

00:22:44.000 And look, I mean, in some ways, many of us are kind of philosophical moderates, and we've only become more conservative in recent years because there's almost nothing anchoring or slowing down the kind of persistent and sudden kind of revolutionary fervor where we kind of see the tension between the preservation of what is good, true, and beautiful.

00:23:12.000 And then also at times, are there some fruits of the Enlightenment?

00:23:15.000 Is there breakthroughs in science?

00:23:17.000 Are there things that we should consider where we don't want to just be closed-minded for closed-minded sake?

00:23:22.000 It's going to take a very good argument for us to want to change something, but there's been plenty of things over the last couple of decades that have been positive innovations and positive breakthroughs.

00:23:38.000 And so that's kind of that balance and that tension where we say, wow, the kind of proliferation of freedom of speech over the last couple hundred years as a new development for civilization, that's a beautiful thing.

00:23:52.000 That we like that people are allowed to speak and allowed to be able to have their ideas heard.

00:23:57.000 That's a good thing.

00:23:59.000 However, many of us are now, and I'm become incredibly conservative, largely because of the kind of out-of-control nature of where the ship is going.

00:24:12.000 It's without a captain.

00:24:13.000 It's progress for progress' sake.

00:24:15.000 We're going to keep on liberating groups and we're going to then keep on empowering people that then turn to these revenge mobs, like, whoa, whoa, whoa, like time out.

00:24:23.000 What exactly are you progressing towards?

00:24:26.000 Do you not care about the negative externalities or the consequences?

00:24:30.000 Do you not care about children that are being taught these things?

00:24:34.000 Play cut 38.

00:24:35.000 This is just a small clip from Discovery Plus.

00:24:38.000 It is a new documentary called Generation Drag, PlayCut 38.

00:24:44.000 Oh my God, these are so cute.

00:24:47.000 These are problems I never thought I had to prepare for.

00:24:51.000 What I love about drag is the glitz and the glam.

00:24:56.000 My name is Noah, and I'm transgender.

00:25:00.000 Do you think Ama would ever want to watch me do drag? 0.99

00:25:03.000 How do I explain this to my child that she doesn't fully accept novella?

00:25:08.000 Making friends has been a hard thing for me to do when I'm becoming Nemo.

00:25:13.000 Whoa.

00:25:14.000 Become more confident.

00:25:16.000 Let me make sure you are appropriately fluffed.

00:25:20.000 And that is just a short clip from now the new documentary called Generation Drag.

00:25:27.000 But it doesn't stop there.

00:25:28.000 As I mentioned, the Holy See, which is a diplomatic mission, which is the diplomatic mission of the United States to the Holy See, a term referring to the central government and universal reach of the Roman Catholic Church, has a massive gay flag right now outside of the Holy See in Rome.

00:25:51.000 The United States has said, quote, today is the start of Pride Month, the United States and the Holy See.

00:25:57.000 The United States represents and respects and promotes the equality and human dignity of all people, including the LGBTQIA community.

00:26:07.000 It doesn't stop there.

00:26:10.000 The United States Marines.

00:26:12.000 That's right, the few, the proud, the Marines.

00:26:17.000 We have two Marines that work for us and do a great job at Turning Point USA.

00:26:22.000 They tweeted out today: quote, throughout June, the United States Marine Corps takes hashtag pride in recognizing and honoring the contributions of our LGBTQ service members.

00:26:34.000 We remain committed to fostering an environment of free from discrimination and defend the values of treating all equally with dignity and respect.

00:26:43.000 And they have a picture of the Marine helmet with bullets kind of around the helmet, if you will.

00:26:51.000 I'm not describing it well, but basically, how do I best describe this?

00:26:56.000 There's a band around the helmet and there are bullets and all the bullets have the gay pride colors. 0.99

00:27:03.000 The bullets are all kind of different colors.

00:27:06.000 So it's the rainbow bullets, if you will.

00:27:11.000 Do the rainbow bullets kill people better than the regular bullets?

00:27:15.000 Is the mission of the United States military to be kind of a social experiment or is it to defend America against our enemies and kill our enemies quickly?

00:27:24.000 Which one is it?

00:27:26.000 But these activists won't stop.

00:27:28.000 We know that.

00:27:31.000 So we kind of have to have this moment where we kind of take a collective and we breathe like, wow, okay, we were taken advantage of.

00:27:39.000 We were naive.

00:27:41.000 We believed in this kind of false construct of laissez-faire political philosophy.

00:27:46.000 And now we have to do something about it.

00:27:49.000 And that's the second phase, right?

00:27:51.000 Where now it says, okay, enough.

00:27:52.000 Like, we're not going to keep on just playing along with these kind of liberation movements just for the sake of doing the liberation movements.

00:28:00.000 Like liberalism for the sake of liberalism will get you a complete and totally deteriorated society.

00:28:05.000 You must have some things that don't change or people are just going to go mad.

00:28:11.000 You must have an anchor.

00:28:13.000 You must be tied to something that is always true.

00:28:17.000 We call that wisdom.

00:28:18.000 Wisdom is the knowledge of things that are always true.

00:28:22.000 Instead, this kind of cycle and commitment to mass liberalization is making America less safe, less happy, and more in a state of chaos.

00:28:35.000 And I believe it factors into why we have the most suicidal, alcohol-addicted, drug-addicted generation in history.

00:28:42.000 I think this all factors in.

00:28:44.000 If you remove and abolish and obliterate with force and with incredible hubris everything that came before you and tell young people there's nothing worthy of study or appreciation there, what are you going to fill that void with?

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00:31:04.000 So we're in a kind of a set of circumstances here where the question is, well, then what do we do next?

00:31:14.000 Well, I think part of the reason why the activist groups have been so successful, and one of the reasons why they have been so incredibly effective, is many of us want to try and appease.

00:31:32.000 We don't want to be inherently disagreeable.

00:31:36.000 I have a belief that as you go up the kind of competency hierarchy, if you go up the kind of elite hierarchy, if you will, people that are the high levels of political decision-making and corporate decision-making, is when it comes to these kind of controversial issues, is they try to broker some sort of a peace deal.

00:32:02.000 This is something I find especially in high net worth communities.

00:32:05.000 And it's understandable because you're not able to build a business or run a business by just being kind of dogmatically in one position.

00:32:15.000 So it's completely and totally understandable.

00:32:17.000 You're trying to broker a merger and acquisition.

00:32:19.000 You're trying to solve an employee dispute.

00:32:22.000 And so a lot of people at the highest levels of the income distribution in America, they look at this, they say, oh, come on, there's got to be kind of a middle ground.

00:32:31.000 And for a long time, there was a middle ground.

00:32:35.000 There was a middle ground between kind of, well, you know, the kind of radical LGBT stuff and believing in traditional marriage.

00:32:45.000 And what is a difficult thing for some people to recognize and realize, and albeit it's happening at a rapid pace, is that the other side really has no interest in brokering any sort of a peace deal.

00:32:59.000 They want revenge.

00:33:03.000 They want retribution.

00:33:06.000 They're not driven by trying to kind of broker some sort of a mediation.

00:33:13.000 It's evangelistic in nature.

00:33:18.000 It is offensive, not offensive as an offensive, but it's offensive as trying to take terrain.

00:33:25.000 And look, a lot of the kind of middle ground or kind of return to normal kind of people, I think that even a lot of people in the gay community don't like a lot of this kind of trans evangelism.

00:33:41.000 The problem is the, even if it's a minority, I don't know.

00:33:44.000 I don't know if it's a minority of the gay community or not, but it's a very, very vocal part.

00:33:52.000 And so we kind of look at all these issues.

00:33:55.000 And the race issue is another one, by the way, because our intention is no one wants to be called a racist.

00:33:59.000 Like, okay, whatever.

00:34:00.000 What can I do to kind of accommodate you? 0.51

00:34:04.000 Because you're so hyper-aggressive calling me a racist, racist, like with a finger pointed in my chest. 1.00

00:34:11.000 You are a racist. 1.00

00:34:14.000 And you're kind of a... 1.00

00:34:16.000 Like, what can I do to satisfy you?

00:34:19.000 What can I do to kind of just calm down the tensions here?

00:34:23.000 And you realize that actually what you resist there actually ends up persisting.

00:34:31.000 Is that the more you appease them, the more it grows.

00:34:38.000 We're out of time.

00:34:40.000 Naive no more as we enter into this Pride Month.

00:34:44.000 How about an American Pride Month?

00:34:46.000 That'd be so great.

00:34:47.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:48.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:51.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:34:52.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - June 01, 2022

How We Should Think About Pride Month

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