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#1053 - Richard Shotton - 11 Psychology Tricks From the World’s Best Brands
2026/02/01
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Richard Shotton is a behavioural scientist, founder of Astroten and an author.
How do billion-dollar brands actually do it? From genius marketing tactics that make them instantly memorable to some of the funniest mistakes you’ve ever seen, there’s a psychology behind why certain brands stick. What are the principles top brands use, and how do they create content that people remember long after they’ve seen it?
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Jimmy Iovine, Interscope Records & Beats by Dre
2026/02/01
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Jimmy Iovine is the co-founder of Interscope Records, Beats by Dre, and the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy. Iovine is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the modern music industry.
Growing up in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, Iovine was raised in an Italian working-class family. He began working as a recording engineer in the early 1970s, and went on to engineer landmark albums including Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run and John Lennon's Rock 'n' Roll and Walls and Bridges, before transitioning into production with Patti Smith's Easter, Tom Petty's Damn the Torpedoes, Stevie Nicks' Bella Donna, and U2's Rattle and Hum.
In 1990, Iovine co-founded Interscope Records with Ted Field. Under his leadership, the label became one of the most dominant forces in popular music, launching or elevating the careers of Dr. Dre, Tupac Shakur, Nine Inch Nails, No Doubt, Eminem, 50 Cent, Lady Gaga, and Kendrick Lamar. He rose to become chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records. In 2006, he and Dr. Dre co-founded Beats by Dre, which Apple acquired in 2014 for $3 billion — the largest acquisition in Apple's history at the time. Iovine subsequently helped launch Apple Music in 2015 before departing Apple in 2018.
His accomplishments include being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022 with the Ahmet Ertegun Award, being honored by the Recording Academy's Producers & Engineers Wing during Grammy Week 2012, co-founding the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy in 2013 with a $70 million donation alongside Dr. Dre, launching the Iovine and Young Center high school program in Los Angeles in 2022 with additional locations in Atlanta and Inglewood, and donating to the city of Compton during the COVID-19 pandemic to fund medical supplies, testing, and meals for residents.
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Chapters
(00:00:00) Introduction: The Corny World of Fame
(00:00:54) The Impact of Social Media on Fame
(00:01:27) Chasing Greatness: Personal Reflections
(00:02:10) Technological Shifts in the Music Industry
(00:03:24) The Streaming Service Dilemma
(00:05:34) The Artist's Perspective on Streaming
(00:06:39) Early Career and Influences
(00:09:40) The Importance of Humility
(00:11:19) Working with the Best: A Career Retrospective
(00:13:07) The Role of Brutal Honesty
(00:15:00) Navigating the Music Industry
(00:33:50) The Birth of Beats by Dre
(00:46:14) The Music Industry's Customer Problem
(00:46:44) Vertically Integrating Culture and Fashion
(00:47:13) Building Beats: From Music Videos to Headphones
(00:48:03) Marketing is Empathy
(00:50:28) The Journey of Beats Music
(00:59:09) The Future of the Music Industry with AI
(01:14:40) The Bend in the Pipe: Harnessing Fear and Obsession
(01:29:12) Comparing Work Approaches with Dr. Dre
(01:30:50) The Tortured Path to Success
(01:32:41) Balancing Happiness and Ambition
(01:35:22) The Importance of Peace and Therapy
(01:49:30) Learning from Legends
(01:55:57) The Influence of Bono and Dre
(02:00:15) California Dreams and Career Milestones
(02:07:20) Final Thoughts and Reflections
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#1050 - Donald Robertson - Practical Tools for a Less Anxious Life
2026/01/25
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Donald Robertson is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, an author and an expert on ancient philosophy.
Why are we so anxious in the safest time in human history? Our brains evolved for real danger, predators, hunger, survival, not notifications and deadlines. So what are the modern tools for calming our primitive nervous system in a modern world? And is the answer something our ancestors already knew?
Expect to learn what Donald wishes more people knew about anxiety, how it works and what causes it, how CBT might be the best therapy to combat chronic anxiety, what the main problem with the major psychoanalytic theorists is, why CBT is just a modern extension of Stoicism, why modern American culture has become extraordinarily passive aggressive, how people can keep their life in alignment with their values and much more…
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Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
2026/01/25
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Morgan Housel breaks down the exact framework he uses to build wealth, minimize financial stress, and buy freedom.
While most financial advice focuses on how to get rich, Morgan explains why the skills needed to stay rich are completely different.
You will learn why "boring" investing beats complex strategies, how to avoid the social traps that destroy wealth, and the specific equation for finding contentment.
Morgan Housel is a partner at Collaborative Fund and the bestselling author of The Psychology of Money.
Enjoy!
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Approximate Timestamps:
(00:00) Trailer/Introduction
(00:58) What Drives You?
(04:50) What Can Money Do For Us?
(07:22) Happiness vs. Satisfaction
(11:45) Becoming Financially Independent
(14:40) Survival and Contrast
(20:16) Ad Break
(21:05) Investing: Can You Beat the Market?
(22:32) When Is The Right Time To Buy a House?
(26:45) Housing Affordability and Equity
(28:39) Step by Step Investing
(35:08) Eras of Life and Spending In Those Eras
(43:50) Raising Kids With Money
(48:46) Social Media: Expectations and Comparison
(55:46) Lessons From the Vanderbilts
(01:01:21) Learning From Others Spending Habits
(01:07:51) Lessons From History: Depressions, Panics, Downturns
(01:11:40) Net Worth in Cash
(01:14:20) Passive Income and Financial Independence
(01:25:58) Massive Success: Doing It All Again
(01:32:27) What Should You Optimize For?
(01:38:24) What Do You Splurge On?
(01:40:38) What Can History Teach Us About Inflation?
(01:47:46) Index Funds Allocation
(01:53:36) What Is Success For You?
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This episode of the Knowledge Project is for informational purposes only. The views and opinions expressed by Shane Parrish or our guests are solely their own. Nothing in this conversation should be considered investment advice, financial guidance, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Always do your own due diligence or consult with a qualified financial advisor before making investment decisions. It's time to listen and learn.
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Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
2026/01/25
My First Million: Read the notes at at podcastnotes.org. Don't forget to subscribe for free to our newsletter, the top 10 ideas of the week, every Monday
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Demis the Menace
(22:05) The only resource you need is resourcefulness
(2457) Move 37
(29:38) The olympics of protein folding
(4639) We are the gorillas
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• Fierce Nerds - https://paulgraham.com/fn.html
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Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse
2026/01/19
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This week, Jonathan Haidt, author of “The Anxious Generation,” returns to the show to discuss new research about how social media is harming teens and what it’s been like to become the face of a global movement against the platforms. Then, we asked what you were building with Claude Code, and you blew us away. We’ll share some of our favorite projects that you sent us. And finally, we’re joined by PJ Vogt, the host of “Search Engine,” to talk about our early adventures in the Forkiverse and what we’ve learned so far about running a social media network.
Guests:
Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and author of “The Anxious Generation"PJ Vogt, host of “Search Engine”
Additional Reading:
Mountains of Evidence Meta’s Internal ResearchAn NYT Event in LA - Trump: The First Year of His Second Term
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Supercharging a New FDA: Marty Makary on Science, Power & Patients
2026/01/19
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(0:00) Friedberg intros FDA Commissioner Marty Makary
(3:21) Inside the 42 major FDA reforms in 10 months
(7:51) The China Race: Winning back biotech leadership
(13:14) Accelerating drug approvals safely, how to cut down on clinical trial timelines
(33:13) Reshaping the failed Food Pyramid
(41:29) GLP-1s and America's Obesity Epidemic
(49:54) Rethinking vaccines from first principles
(59:40) Lowering drug prices, the power of AI for healthcare
(1:18:57) What causes autism?
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The Singular Life of Rick Rubin
2026/01/19
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There's no one like Rick Rubin. He's a legendary music producer known for his minimalist approach and relentless pursuit of greatness. This episode is what I learned from reading Rick Rubin: In The Studio by Jake Brown.
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Some of my favorite quotes from the episode:
Less is more but you have to do more to get less.
Designing a product is keeping 5,000 things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways. (Steve Jobs)
Rubin's most valuable quality is his own confidence.
If we're going to do this, let's aim for greatness. You have to believe what you're doing is the most important thing in the world.
Everybody engaged in complicated work needs colleagues. Just the discipline of having to put your thoughts in order with somebody else is a very useful thing. (Charlie Munger)
The key to it is doing what you believe in, as opposed to what you think is going to work. There were never any plans to make anything happen. I just did what I liked and believed in it, and luckily it all worked out.
These things that we don't understand and cannot explain happen regularly.
The amateur mind possesses a valuable lack of knowledge about rules when matched with passion and gumption gravity ceases to exist and new things take flight.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. (Cicero)
I believe in you so much, I'm going to make you believe in you.
I try to make records that have a timeless quality.
10 contrarian leadership truths every leader needs to hear | Matt MacInnis (Rippling)
2026/01/14
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Matt MacInnis is the chief product officer and former longtime COO at Rippling, a unified workforce management platform valued at over $16 billion.
We discuss:
1. Why “extraordinary results demand extraordinary efforts”
2. Why you should deliberately understaff projects, and how to know when you’ve gone too far
3. Matt’s transition from COO to CPO and what surprised him about leading product
4. The “high alpha, low beta” framework for evaluating people, processes, and products
5. When founders should quit their startups (hint: much earlier than VCs want you to)
6. How to fight entropy in your organization through relentless energy and intensity
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In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) Introduction to Matt MacInnis and Rippling
(04:38) The importance of extraordinary efforts
(08:37) The challenges and rewards of relentless effort
(10:11) Your job as a leader is to preserve intensity
(12:39) You learn far more from success than failure
(16:34) Transitioning to chief product officer
(19:54) Fixing product management at Rippling
(25:27) The “high alpha, low beta” framework
(28:55) The PQL framework
(35:16) Hiring frameworks and team dynamics
(36:52) A helpful interview tactic
(40:00) Leading as a COO vs. a CPO
(42:34) The reality of product-market fit
(46:38) The problem with venture capital
(49:29) When founders should quit their startups
(41:48) The immutable market
(54:13) Lessons from Notion’s success
(57:43) Investment strategies and narrative violations
(01:00:42) The power of compounding, power law, and entropy
(01:07:02) Maintaining intensity and fighting entropy
(01:11:33) The importance of feedback and escalations
(01:14:31) Rippling’s vision and success
(01:17:48) AI’s impact on SaaS and business software
(01:23:42) AI corner
(01:26:23) Final thoughts and lightning round
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• Rippling: https://www.rippling.com
• Sunil Raman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunilraman
• Dan Gill on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangill
• Carvana: https://www.carvana.com
• Brian Chesky’s new playbook: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/brian-cheskys-contrarian-approach
• Parker Conrad on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parkerconrad
• Inkling: https://www.inkling.com
• Akshay Kothari on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akothari
• Notion: https://www.notion.com
• Conway’s law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
• Seeking Alpha: https://seekingalpha.com
• Dennis Rodman’s website: https://dennisrodman.com
• Dancing pickle emoji: https://slackmojis.com/emojis/456-dancing_pickle
• Pickle Rick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickle_Rick
• SPOTAK: The Six Traits I Look for When I’m Hiring: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spotak-six-traits-look-m-181335267.html
• Geoff Lewis on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geofflewis1
• Zenefits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TriNet_Zenefits
• New banking records prove Deel paid thief who stole trade secrets from Rippling: https://www.rippling.com/blog/new-banking-records-prove-deel-paid-thief-who-stole-trade-secrets-from-rippling
• Workday: https://www.workday.com
• Matic robots: https://maticrobots.com
• Wall-E: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970
• Conviction: https://www.conviction.com
• Mike Vernal on X: https://x.com/mvernal
• Sarah Guo on X: https://x.com/saranormous
• No Priors: https://linktr.ee/nopriors
• Gemini: https://gemini.google.com
• ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com
• Claude: https://claude.ai
• Bryan Schreier on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanschreier
• Heated Rivalry on HBO Max: https://www.hbomax.com/shows/heated-rivalry/50cd4e99-04ee-427b-a3b4-da721ed05d9c
• Fellow coffee maker: https://fellowproducts.com/products/aiden-precision-coffee-maker
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Recommended books:
• Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space: https://www.amazon.com/Pale-Blue-Dot-Vision-Future/dp/0345376595
• Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values: https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Business-Build-through-Values/dp/1622032020
• Thinking in Systems: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/1603580557
• The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done: https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Executive-Definitive-Harperbusiness-Essentials/dp/0060833459
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2754: Stress is Making You Fat! Here's how and how to fix it.
2026/01/10
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Mind Pump Fit Tip: Stress is Making You Fat! Here's how and how to fix it. (2:28)
The most effective anti-inflammatory. (26:04)
Hip thrust king! (28:19)
Baby sumo. (31:27)
Kids do the darndest things. (34:13)
The delicate dance of getting your kids to do things they don't want to do. (36:48)
Carnival genetics. (39:24)
Effects of ultra-processed foods on kids. (41:32)
American culture and consumption. (43:18)
The importance of having a healthy microbiome on your skin. (49:42)
#ListenerCoaching call #1 – How to structure the workout when hitting two or more muscle groups in the same workout. (55:38)
#ListenerCoaching call #2 – How do you know when a low HRV score means you actually need to back off training, versus when it's just reflecting daily stress, hormones, or life chaos? (1:04:46)
#ListenerCoaching call #3 – How to balance work/life, while trying to be an inspiring entrepreneur. (1:12:15)
#ListenerCoaching call #4 – How can I continue to incorporate all of the things I love without losing muscle and strength gains, while also seeking optimal overall health outside of aesthetics (I deal with quite a bit of body dysmorphia)? (1:24:26)
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John Mackey, Whole Foods Market
2026/01/08
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John Mackey is the co-founder of Whole Foods Market, where he also served as the company's CEO for 44 years (1980–2022). More recently, Mackey is the co-founder of Love.Life, a wellness company focused on a holistic approach to health. He is an entrepreneur, author and advocate for conscious capitalism who spent over four decades building the natural foods industry.
Under his leadership, Whole Foods grew from a single store in Austin, Texas, in 1980 to the world's largest natural and organic foods retailer, with over 500 stores across North America and the United Kingdom before its acquisition by Amazon in 2017 for $13.7 billion.
After dropping out of the University of Texas at Austin, Mackey opened SaferWay Natural Foods in 1978 with Renee Lawson Hardy. He merged SaferWay with Clarksville Natural Grocery in 1980 to create Whole Foods Market. He became known for pioneering high-quality natural foods retail, championing stakeholder-oriented business philosophy and popularizing the concept of conscious capitalism.
His accomplishments include building Whole Foods into a Fortune 500 company, co-founding the Conscious Capitalism movement with Raj Sisodia, serving as CEO of Whole Foods for 44 years until his retirement in 2022, co-authoring "Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business" in 2013 and "The Whole Foods Diet" in 2017 and launching Love.Life in 2023 to focus on longevity and integrative medicine.
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(00:00:00) Fanatical Entrepreneurs: Why Work Feels Like Play
(00:02:18) The Missionary vs. Mercenary Co-Founder Conflict
(00:06:16) The Shirtless Hitchhiking Hippie and Johnny Rockefeller
(00:08:12) Entrepreneur Confidence: Solving Puzzles and Cracking the Code
(00:10:19) Flying Under the Radar: How Supermarkets Ignored Whole Foods
(00:10:52) Venture Capitalists Are Hitchhikers With Credit Cards
(00:14:03) Builder Entrepreneurs vs. Serial Entrepreneurs
(00:16:31) Time Is the Only Filter I Trust
(00:20:52) How Walmart Accidentally Fueled Whole Foods' Success
(00:24:01) The Jaw-Drop Effect: When Customers First Walked In
(00:27:17) Growth Through Acquisition: Building Geographic Platforms
(00:29:19) Secret Allies: The Natural Foods Network
(00:33:17) Mrs. Gooch's and the Revelation of Scale
(00:34:52) Missionaries Sharing Financial Statements and Building Friendships
(00:38:10) Never Competing Head-On With Friends
(00:41:22) Going Public and Creating Liquidity for the Network
(00:42:00) Continuous Learning: The Michael Dell Principle
(00:44:10) Steve Jobs and Spotting Markets With Second-Rate Products
(00:46:50) The Joy of Watching Team Members Become Millionaires
(00:48:09) Capitalism: The Greatest Thing Humans Ever Invented
(00:55:59) Cult Brands Are Built by Evangelists
(00:58:01) Passion Is Infectious: The Reality Distortion Field
(01:00:08) From Busboy to CEO: The Resume of an Entrepreneur
(01:02:57) Learning From Near-Death Experiences
(01:04:05) Money Means Freedom: Early Work Ethic
(01:05:25) Shoe Dog as the Benchmark: Belief Is Irresistible
(01:09:16) Documenting Time: Why Chronology Matters in Memoirs
(01:11:14) Rockefeller, Bezos, and Musk: The Master Strategists
(01:14:39) Using Doubt as Fuel: The Slow Burn of Proving People Wrong
(01:20:04) Daniel Ek and Having No Ceilings
(01:23:09) How His Father Shaped His Ambition
(01:25:52) Firing His Father From the Board: The Hardest Decision
(01:28:01) His Mother's Deathbed Wish and Lasting Regret
(01:34:47) The Ceremony of Forgiveness
(01:36:17) MDMA Therapy and Breathwork: Accessing Deeper Consciousness
(01:38:54) The Entrepreneurial Journey as a Spiritual Journey
(01:40:45) Conclusion
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The Life of Jesus
2026/01/07
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The Life of Jesus as told in the book Jesus: A Biography of a Believer by Paul Johnson.
This episode was originally published on Christmas Eve 2023.
Top 10 Lessons from 2025
2026/01/07
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In this episode of How to Take Over the World, I do something a little different. Instead of breaking down one life, I share my top 10 leadership lessons drawn from every episode I released in 2025.
00:00 Introduction and Overview
02:19 Communicate Clearly at Scale
06:17 Define Your Myth
10:12 Seize Your Moment
13:28 Be Alone to Think, Collaborate to Build
16:33 Antis Inspiration
18:58 Make Extreme Decisions Quickly
24:31 Decision-Making Frameworks
28:06 Going a Little Too Far
31:20 The Power of Knowing What You Want
34:58 Being Competitively Playful
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8 Lessons For Protagonists in 2026
2026/01/04
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Launch into the new year with the best ideas learned from the stories of 2025. I've gone through 70+ lessons that I took from the stories of the last 12 months and picked the 8 that I think are the most powerful for you to apply in your life.
Listen, and then go forth and conquer the year.
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Jimmy Soni — The Publishing System is Broken (EP. 295)
2026/01/04
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Jimmy Soni, CEO and editor in chief of Infinite Books, is back on Infinite Loops. We discuss what's broken in traditional publishing and how we're fixing it. We also dig into Jimmy's forthcoming book on Kobe Bryant, why the world needs more "problem authors," and why our goal is to make our authors millionaires.
We explore why most industries optimize for prestige instead of outcomes, how digital distribution has reshaped attention, and why authors — and creators more broadly — have more leverage than they realize.
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Books Mentioned:
The Founders by Jimmy Soni
A Mind at Play by Jimmy Soni
The Dao of Kobe by Jimmy Soni (Upcoming)
What Works on Wall Street by Jim O'Shaughnessy
Invest Like the Best by Jim O'Shaughnessy
How to Retire Rich by Jim O'Shaughnessy
The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
The Almanac of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson (transcribed as "Naval Akan")
Dispatches from Grief (Upcoming)
Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant
Slow Horses by Mick Herron
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
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