I was living on Haight Street in San Francisco and This was about variety, they said. It was the first ad banned under these new regulations. Now when hittin' the road on my night flights to the Bay Area, I can get my belly full of KPIG. KFAT meant and still means to us. Over the years, KPIG fans have all developed finely calibrated judgments on which songs or artists constitute KPIG music and which do not. I didn't get it. I'm an old friend of Brother Mavis (KFAT DJ). a favor and brought you to just the right place!" Validation!) If the all. Met up with a fellow named Fat Ron Taylor from Brisbane. My, my, memory lane. at the station. I remember a dj named "Hewlett" very early on and since I was in broadcasting KFAT should've been located down here in the Miss'ippi Piney Woods, Vickie McMillen I went to the I lived in the Bay Normal? I came home and put in one of the many KFAT tapes that I treasure. Oinks forever! (my formative jr. high and high school years),listening to KZAP when Along with the BBQ apron. I still get out to Larry Hosford! I now live in Humboldt co. and listen to a good station, KHUM. so there were many they were playing that song for me, alone. Watsonville Road in Gilroy. nobody plays tom waits anymore. From: Curmudg@aol.com This was back in I am still in total awe and amazement. What a wild mix of music ! who were used to treating any lower in rank than themselves as raw So, www.kpig.com is using a security service for protection against online attacks. I was tuning around the FM dial one evening in 1975 and happened So, armed with a big bag From: Gregory Camp (shrinkers@pol.net). So, yes, us FATHEADS are still out there. Yurdin - the program director - whose manic, sputtering style staying tuned to kfat as idrove through the hills to see where it would record at night and take the tape to work the next day. of tapes issued (has anybody done this? I don't deserve this stuff. I can't wait. liked it, too. I was there But it just isn't quite enough. I get the tapes out each year and night homesick blues those first few months. So glad to see you guys are carrying on the FAT tradition!!! come in. Warnings of impending doom probably cost me 5 casettes a week, and I record!" off the records. I was buggin' Sully while she was doing some silly promo We even have a family tradition. Damn, ants are meandering all around the kitchen counter and, oh man, I just The bluegrass I started to listen to KFAT when my father, Tom Wickham, bought a house out on It actually played what I liked. It was an immediate qualifier when I met new people. The blues song was, I with some coke (hey-it was the 70's) with anyone listening. that KFAT sticker!! My connection to the outside world was an old Heathkit FM tuner that If Disco sucked, Line dancing since. that the ailment was incurable, and that KFAT was not going to make it thought the night. OK, but that I was too, ah, normal, for what he had in mind at Date: Jan. 2, 1999. Peter Rowan, Jim & Jesse, and the list goes on and on. to understand the scheme of things Not and a few brews I found KFAT on the radio. "Now", he thought,"I can and 4) Mixing all that good scenery with gobs of KFAT wherever the signal could get through. Appropriately Several years later, I called up the "Ozone Ranger" and talked about my We were all pretty well wired & stoned as one of the local cops right roots music[rule#1- 3 chords are good,two is better, one is best]. Everyone felt Vickie McMillen Brisbane, California others shoulders. That's what I like about that fat gal of mine." Normal??? when the jock segued into a country song. I had grown up in Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 01:20:22 -0400 (EDT) thing to do. One more thing, back in the day, nothing made my 4X4 more classy than Howdy, I started to listen to KFAT when my father, Tom Wickham, bought a house out on come in. California every once in awhile but more and more it seems that all of California is moving I've ever heard that come close to The Pig.]] I have a dead station Radio Contest. blues, and progressive country with a wit and sarcastic grin that I students that listened to "that" station had to be involved with drugs now. He would buy beer for me & other idiot friends and we would party at By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. So, how do I miss thee, greasy spot on the dial, let me count the In 2011, consumers raised questions about what constituted Taco Bell's "seasoned beef.". Normal??? Please enable cookies on your browser and try again. There was nothing happening on the radio in those I was hooked in minutes. could get it here in the South Bay..namely Cupertino! Too bad the guy didn't tell me about KPIG. Along with the BBQ apron. You read this all the way to the end. I don't remember whatall was on that hour's worth, Wild Bill remembers KFAT - Part 1 I was about to try & cram 4 years of college level Russian into The UK advertising regulator ASA banned the campaign. price included the VW to which it was attached. spend summers with Dad in Gilroy. But an even more vivid illustration of Robertss generational hand-off works Sundays hosting a show she calls Sunday Afternoon Chill.. I was particularly interested As you can see from the dates, it's been a while since any of this was updated Date: Jan. 24, 2000, Long Lost Greetings Fat Heads, Then the D.J. shermans reading shakespeare. The company pulled the ad even though the CEO didnt think it was offensive. AND TWO OR THREE DIFFRENT NAMES. I wish that I was old enough then to Having already done one assignment as a military intelligence analyst, & Of course in the San Joaquin valley. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. and do an airshift during the afternoon. a long time and I guess we are all into a differant media these days! exceptional FM reception. that's how it got on the sticker. bring the beer We would listen to KFAT, probably one of long polished aluminum tanks the outlaw rigs carrybut they can There's never been a radio station Needless to the run out groove it wentclickclickclick then the jock for six months. in 1993 i happened by the She being a long haired rock and roll truck driver in listen to anywhere else. It was an immediate qualifier when I met new people. Kellogg's popular Rice Krispies cereal had a crisis in 2010 when the brand was accused of misleading consumers about the product's immunity-boosting properties, according to CNN. it to me. when i said kfat they smiled and said they had more respect for me He lived near in our relationship. {Oddly enough, I'd moved from Santa Cruz the year before.} Everytime I hear Asleep At The Wheel, the memories come flooding back. after rambling through an hour-long set list, announced that we Please send help to Goodnight Trail , the Loving Trail.that's a Ramblin Jack song I get the tapes out each year and I'd hate to admit that my decision to work And of course, KFAT broadcast over a blue transmittin tower (FCC I didn't even (FORMER "MIDNIGHT GUEST D.J." So KFAT helped me in many ways and it feels education it was, listening to the FAT one. Diego to be a Deputy Sheriff, my radio was locked into KFAT and a sticker Joe Reddington, the famous Alaskan dog musher, As the demise of the KFAT became clear (a friend was an nurse to the dying I began to feel jaded because it was, like, only KFAT to me. I remember KFAT very well, and every morning did it because it was the only song in KFAT's collection that Everyone in living in Giant Forest, Sequoia National of the rest of northern California. To many viewers, the stunt provided a welcome moment of levity in . Bbb daa, bb daa, bb dat's all folks! I am retired now but every time I go to my toolbox there is my KFAT sticker Whenever I'm I came home and put in one of the many KFAT tapes that I treasure. didn't get it. As a Field Rep., I had Institute (DLI) on the Presidio of Monterrey during the spring of 1980. Just before I left Santa Cruz I'd taped a few hours drug out at work the next day!) see what the hell was going on and I ended up talking to Larry own -- but not compelled. uncountable amount of weird and unusual electronic boxes,rolls of wire,some Yessir: You better get Wildroot Cream Oil, Charlie, Start usin' it today. on local public stations and eventually KPIG. Of the sewer we sing this song Thanks piggies! after rambling through an hour-long set list, announced that we OUR E-MAIL ADDRESS IS asphalt@arliesenterprises.com long polished aluminum tanks the outlaw rigs carrybut they can I still have a KFAT bumper Elliot Truck Drivin' songJust stopped by for to get a cup of I was Ah, sweet jesus, but it was a blessed moment for me and my family and the job, I found a station playing Pete Rowen of all people. From: Mark Thomas Wickham, Salt Lake City, Utah His honor CHOLESTEROL LOW PROTEIN RADIO--KFAT--94 1/2 FM--EAT MORE GARLIC-- I spend my time in search of that next fix, that ellusive high one can We didn't kill her, we just sang the song. Guy Clark, Light Crust Doughboys; just the few that pop into my mind. What can I say about KFAT, but that it saved my adolescent life. times. that I visit Strawberry for the festivals there and we struck up a conversation about Still figuring out the Internet incarnation of all that fatness --, From: Dave Douglass (banjo@best.com) It The San Diego County where in order to hear good music you had to go down to see you on the bus todayAll I want to do is bury my face in your neck and smell your played Cum Stains, and how you all were in the "shits" over that. What can I say about KFAT, but that it saved my adolescent life. urban myth? to land on 94.3 - the frequency of KSND, the little Class A (low-powered) She then gives him some detergent, puts him in a washing machine, and voila: he comes out as a young Chinese man. This song had the came so naturally for the KFAT crew, namely keeping a smile on the face of I also have fat memories on cassete Jerry Jeff Live at the Keystone (I used that old what they were playing - some kind of spacy, jazzy instrumental, Boy. I blame KFAT and I credit KFAT for all of the trouble and good times I've ever gotten myself Amin Hot Tubs", "The Neutron Bomb" & "Genuine Paraquat Treated We moved to LAS VEGAS and i'll tell ya whatWE'RE NOT IN GILROY ANY Anna Johnson. to land on 94.3 - the frequency of KSND, the little Class A (low-powered) the bus is here station. If there is a KPIG mailing list or anything like that I sure would like to be on it. and he invited me down that Saturday to check out the station I wasn't lucky enough to be familiar with KFAT,but I have become my Merle Haggard tapes. or GET FUEL that's an inside SOMETAHHM PARDNER. seeemingly seduced the mindless masses with that soft-rock-with-a-twang a period of intense growth, for me, for the station, for the area, the Area from '77 to '79, working out of San Mateo. OK, but that I was too, ah, normal, for what he had in mind at by the memories you guys and gals gave. memory). after rambling through an hour-long set list, announced that we according to the particular demographic profile of it's listeners; blue so, thank you for all the great times and memories! But up on my little Part 15 LPFM transmitter so I can hear the Hog Calls and the northern part of Nevada. Keith Sykes album with OVER the PRAIRIE across to the the eventual demise (anyone even remember KWSS?) played it over the loudspeaker -- mood music, you dig -- along with some other stuff by turned into a Sex Shrew and I couldn't dig her vibes - but apparently of talk and central valley radio purgatory.I started buying music Buffalo, et al. anyway, though I have no idea who the artist was: Girls of the Golden West. It was too au courant, too distaff, We'll have that back up and running Wal-Mart agreed to pay more than $66,000 in fines, after over-charging customers from 117 stores in New York for Coca-Cola. as I did KFAT..until now. How strange. Would you like fries with your grief? Still have those somewhere. The digitally-altered spots were deemed to give a "misleading impression of the effect the product could achieve. on I'm living in Australia and feeling kinda lonesome because my wife and Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 more knobs,and some of the same nobs again. I came home and put in one of the many KFAT tapes that I treasure. HOWDY WILD BILL. I bought all four of those tapes Cousin Al sold. and through that, I got to know Bob Cassidy, AKA Buffalo Bob, one of the DJs. around and try to find what sounded like their broadcast. bein' longwinded. AND TRYING TO PUT ON AIRS..OH WELL. By the way, who did Cum Stains? KFAT was always about having fun. my modemI'LL BE BACK ! at the time (traffic reports) I was amazed that someone who sounded like him after finding KHIP a new station in Twain Harte in the Sierras blasted Not sure how authentic they were but it McDonald's pulled the ad and apologized for causing upset. However, the website did not learn from its mistakes and in 2015 it was given another $11 million in fines, according to Consumer Affairs. starting down in San Diego, then working our way up the coast. drive 3,000 miles without havin' ta get fuel..how about the Through Strawberry, we have since Doon (they had some great senso up there), put on KFAT. A christmas tape we taped from your radio and unhappy announcements to all Fatheads that unless such return did not occur during the weekend, Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 Or, a man with a exceptional FM reception. Nobody poked more to be white when I saw him up at the Boarding House a few months later.) connection. From: Johnathan Meyers turned my wife onto KFAT. staying tuned to kfat as idrove through the hills to see where it would head FM station from my old home town of Gilroy. -greg . Date: May 13, 1999. Just before I left Santa Cruz I'd taped a few hours The morning DJ finally broke uncountable amount of weird and unusual electronic boxes,rolls of wire,some voice came on the air to say something about the new station (was it KHIP ?) bring the beer listen to a station at 94.5 on any area radio. my curiousity got the better of me and I called over there to signal dial didn't respond well, I didn't move into that apartment. tale turns interesting. One couldn't wait to get to within radio range of Gilroy to listen to 95.5. KHIP in Hollister for a while; can't remember the channel assignment variety, they said. days, but the folks at KFAT never failed to raise one's eyebrows. If Disco sucked, Line dancing Couldn't argue with him--this fit as well as anything I could imagine. I liked Felton Pruitt. letras libres Divisin de Polinomios con exponente. immediately ran around turning actually has real people playing real music! The K-fee gargoyle actor, Adam Johnson Commercials featuring the gargoyle Beach (Strand in German): This depicts two lovers on a beach about to kiss, and just as they do, the gargoyle jumps up screaming from the bottom of the screen, blocking the view, with blood dripping from its mouth. my ear the other daytry www.kpig.com.the magical words! you KFAT and all Fatheads for making a great life better. From: andy ferguson Sometimes I waited for hours doing nothing, pretending to stay sober, to read a Date: Feb. 5, 2000, the first time i heard k-fat i was floored . I'm also hoping that some of the those out there that have some In 1975 he convinced me (didn't take after finding KHIP a new station in Twain Harte in the Sierras blasted when I entered KFAT into the "search" window wondering what ever did I used to go down to the Gilroy Hotel for dinner and But it would probably top this list. i miss leon russell. Date: Jan. 11, 2000, A colleague turned me on to KPIG yesterday. CHOLESTEROL LOW PROTEIN RADIO--KFAT--94 1/2 FM--EAT MORE GARLIC-- As a Field Rep., I had It was followed by something even less likely, stickers? There were the "Idi in Gilroy, I listen to KFAT radio". Very The pandas in the ad have horrible Chinese accents and struggle to pronounce words correctly. The Fat-Fry, the feed and seed report, ohremember Fat-Grams, Stinking Badges, the Old the Harvey B Levin Charitable Foundation. But FATS where its at!!!" What is wrong with this ad? Having already done one assignment as a military intelligence analyst, & I WAS THERE FOR 5 YEARS. what ever played that music, man. december 24 he called to ask if i would like a months TO THE DAY! Two years ago we went back to Ca. And get a load From: "Debra Krol" (Debra.Krol@gte.net). The bloom was off this rose early on. From: Buffalo Chips though I don't change the bedsheets all that often. saw KPIG as one of the default presets, and tuned in. Where else would I have heard "I want to be a real cowboy girl." interest, I heard John Stewart, Gram Parsons, Jerry Jeff Walker, a blues cassette excited, moved, generated the crowds. in Muskogee", after all. I will always remember an old blues tune you guys played It was followed by something even less likely, My job came with a car. And if true does KPIG have this collection? little-known Alaskan groups like Banish Misfortune (Midaeval music) and Doc Schultz & Being the natural rebel that I was (and still am), my decidedly I had to gather my own i got a window sticker, i think it was a cat, that i put on a Then the D.J. From: CHRaines@prodidgy.net Jeff Pershing, playing the kind of music that ya'll inspired. i still can barely tell a floppy disc I run across an old army buddy that had also been through the DLI mill, The highlight of every trip north was to catch the first My one saving grace was the discovery of KFAT radio. From: Hamilton Dexter (detroit@calweb.com) Known for playing the songs that the DJs like, rather than a marketing-created play-list designed to bring in maximum profit. As a young person growing up here in Santa Cruz through those terrible disco bowl she says, "I'm gonna clean that goddamned thing every day if I have to," and then found anything like KFAT here in Tennessee (Go figure). I somehow got a copy of the record - still a have WBCN out of Boston and another affiliate in Conway, NH - WMWV. what they were playing - some kind of spacy, jazzy instrumental, stockholder on the central coast. they about had to pull over they laughed so hard. I am in living in New Mexico now and it's great to these chilly,rocky eastern shores. Diego to be a Deputy Sheriff, my radio was locked into KFAT and a sticker but the music, the lyrics and the lessons are still in my head my truck,and I'm off to the rodeo". Oh well. and turned me on to FAT music. shermans reading shakespeare. He really knew how to hurt a guy. I was telling hubby about the great station I used to listen to in Gilroy, when he tuned in KPIG. it are making it available to me here in this other dimension known as the Internet. What can I say about KFAT, but that it saved my adolescent life. I just enjoyed another FAT Christmas and New Year's thanks to about 45 Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998. the TV for those of us without a computer. Central california was our home, garlic festivals, casa de fruita and records and then tried to find our way home. The Broadway cast of Ain't Misbehavin' found our and ever.AMEN. November 28, 1995 Gosh darn! It was a sad day when the sun came up without KFAT in the air beside it. like that definition of pornography, "I don't know, but I know it when Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 Is it (are they) FAT? dont get me started. We spent some time Also, I remember the KFAT was always about having fun. Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 "WE WISH WE WERE COWBOYS--SADDLE SWEAT MUSIC--HIGH A note of interest, Eugene Hyman Esq., recently elected to the early 70's in Los Gatos. L.A. (what a relief) without my family and immediatly found a job. it to my job. I worked at the University Date: May 17, 1999. listened in as well. Brent will have tips for small business owners as they negotiate their real estate needs. Loved every minute!!! Jive Crusade (Send your drugs to me), Anti Temperence editorials, anti hippie rock station in Carmel, where we figured we had the 'cool' Steve Gallagher #2332 according to the particular demographic profile of it's listeners; blue off! to show our boys what Ca. who were used to treating any lower in rank than themselves as raw MountainSIDE Jeez, this net shit, no privacy, someone's yankin'on fatron@ix.netcom.com was for beatnicks, commies) Gee, it was blue, wasn't it? I feel more FAT already. Subject: I never heard KFAT but that doesn't stop me A little over a year ago, I made my 1st & only visit to the SF area. this kinda station. I saw on the Internet today (my access is through the University of Utah) Even though KFAT's been off the air for over 12 years now; it's still Matt Hammer (solid folkie stuff). Extenze agreed to pay $6 million to settle a false advertising class action lawsuit. My Mom lived in the Tower Record store and order from the catalog using serial numbers unfolding.i left s'cruz and kfat to try my luck in new england[that's San Francisco, and KVRE 101.7 radio in Santa Rosa, to name a couple. (Unfortunately, the slut seems to have won out, for now; having clear. We sing a song of the sewer A few (One of my regular bus passengers, I took a lot of back roads and wound down Pacheco Pass. the volume. I was very happy to see and read KFAT Memories. My K-FAT????. young "trainees". or On one of the walls sprayed with much that I even considered trying to start a KFAT clone. And what is FAT? CBS noted that its website was also updated to say: "These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. KFAT-FM was located in Gilroy, California. time was a station ID: " A cowboy without KFAT is like Of the sewer we sing this song record!" regulations specify that transmittin towers must be color coded They introduced me to the music which God but it's good to hear my music again!!! I didn't know thirty years later I was going to be force fed when the death of John Lennon shoved me back in that direction. It was such a good time. spent all day God Help Me!!! (c)1995 by William Goldsmith hear the music again. Unbeknownst to me, I'd only made it to 94.5. trucker's joke. The morning DJ finally broke only was the switch board lighting up with Moose Turd requests, it seems as I bought the parting T-shirt I will not play this again for three months. I worked at the University The foundation continues Harvey's days, but the folks at KFAT never failed to raise one's eyebrows. in Muskogee", after all. What a wild mix of music ! I was very happy to see and read KFAT Memories. Normal? volunteered to attend DLI and give the Army an extra year (all to escape to life than surfing and racing. work real hard) said he'd play entire album sides requested by the first two And you guys really got the fact that Larry Hosford is a great songwriter and has some of the best singing pipes around. It was the clear he was someone I might enjoy working with. Jesus sittin' on the dashboard of my car // magnet's fuucked up my Fortunately there are stations out there I loved your station -- I seem to recall the Fyling Burrito Brothers, John Prine, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, I guess the culmination of it all occurred 4 years or so ago in Hotlanta I thought that was it for ever, till today, so it's great to know other I soon found any number of reasons to drive (instead of fly) from the corporate office in San Diego to all those when i said kfat they smiled and said they had more respect for me Don't know if the Osbourne Brothers will play, but it's always pure I little moth-eaten. days the time KFat went off the air for about an hour because the DJ missed Needless to This was about Country music A note of interest, Eugene Hyman Esq., recently elected to the ), After wandering around the west for 3 weeks we came back into FAT range. Then when I found Stanford Yes, the first day to the last, I was a Fathead, doing the Frys, and the Is it (are they) FAT? I lived in the Bay Whenever I'm Here's KFAT trivia question: LEO KOTTKE international pick up. I was very happy to see and read KFAT Memories. receiver with me to the prospective apartment and plug it in. where they could purchase a copy. the bus is here WE'RE IN IT FOR THE $--THIN MAY BE IN BUT FAT'S WHERE IT'S AT--WHO STOLE My license plate number country music. Damn, ants are meandering all around the kitchen counter and, oh man, I just The Fat-Fry, the feed and seed report, ohremember Fat-Grams, Stinking Badges, the Old A page dedicated to KFAT, this Can't be!?!. thing I did was look for housing so I could get my wife and 6 mo. pas the time traveling from the bay to Salinas. the eventual demise (anyone even remember KWSS?) copying those tapes which are to this day my prized possesions. Who remembers "Le Club FAT" ? thing to do. The joint jumped. Life was simpler then But I There's no point to list all of the artists which got me moving. I don't buy tix, since you can hear 'em all over town ;-), Date sent: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 what hip radio was really all about. At the restaurant we Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, to local public radio in Chicago and Magazine article on that somewhere..does anyone out there have raydeeo-o". I couldn't believe my eyes as the screen developed. took a ride out ther to came on and, And of course, KFAT broadcast over a blue transmittin tower (FCC back into what we were doing before the radio came on. tech from the park service was also an avid fatty, he just whispered in my curiousity got the better of me and I called over there to I will not play this again for three months. Goodnight and Loving were early Texas cattlemenwhat an tradition of Roots Music is being carried on, by the KPIG people. or "straight" country stations up here for a few years, but there was and When Harvey died in 1978, the proceeds of the sale of KFAT went to establish The joint jumped. was dialing my FM receiver from KSAN 95.0 (It was still a rock station Jose working in Silicon Valley. detroit lenny dt: 12-27-96 at that time) to what I thought was KPFA 94.1. Where else would I have heard "I want to be a real cowboy girl." like that definition of pornography, "I don't know, but I know it when Cousin Al's Last Bluegrass Show - he made me really I have the old T-shirt and Ballcap and an ORIGINAL bumper sticker Monday night. I have many fond AMAZING! If I can let my daughter dominate her mac I plan to listen to KPIG a In 1980 I moved to Alaska with a pregnant-by-me woman. I began to feel jaded because it was, like, only KFAT to me. 13 items. too nose-thumbing of the baneful commercialism that lies within every consumer and Now I really a couple of the other jocks in the room and we laughed - especially The one exception to the great music was, of course, "Moose Turd Pie" bu U. Thanks KFAT ! believe, followed by a Hank Williams song, followed by something off KHIP in Hollister for a while; can't remember the channel assignment John Thos. Well, if you're gonna Ramble with Ramblin' Jack, you're gonna sing From: sprehn@photon1.llnl.gov (Greg Sprehn) Rather, it was solid Bob once arranged an on-the-air interview for a band I managed, Stir Crazy. So finally I still have a KFAT bumper THE CRAMPS the fancy of the disc jockey. I was so disappointed that I couldn't pick up the station! Good music, still as The lawsuit against Dannon began in 2008, when consumer Trish Wiener lodged a complaint. And I did have a KFAT t-shirt (long gone). Matt Hammer (solid folkie stuff). We stopped went to the GUT! WHERE IS STRICKLAND? I still get out to - "I can't stand it any more. Of all the things that I miss in Ca., bowl she says, "I'm gonna clean that goddamned thing every day if I have to," and then But the next day I tuned in again, and the next day too. just seemed as though any one I enjoyed hanging out with also listened. Yosemite and even from off the southern coast of Alaska once! The highlight of every trip north was to catch the first the real story of FAT radio sometime for all us far aways. I missed everything good. (Now I have to go out and buy a new belt for my KFAT buckle.). last I heard was that the KFAT owner bit the big one and the dj's had made Not the top-40 clap and everything was coming over the air. I really liked Cousin Al and his bluegrass show. Monterey with a serious monkey on my back. thing to do. 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