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And I say Having spent the last forty six years of my life in Switzerland, good qualification, I can add my two santine Ironically, despite being the land of the cheese fondue, Meat fondue, both Chinas with broth and bourguignon with oil, are Christmas and New Year's staples Okay, they beat the cheese to it Many families, he says, take a break from the far suuperior cheese fondue consume these meaty monstrosities And that's Christmas food all over isn't it, we've many times before. It's not about what's best. It's deliberately things you only eat once a year, isn't it? Yes, or even no times a year, You would miss it if you didn't have to dislike it Yeah, exactly. Oh, it's gott to be part of Christmas. Oh, Mint bileies, Yes, thanks, no, thank you, disgusting. But Christmas. Yeah sure. yeah, I mean, it's just, you know what is it?'s's like brushing your teeth and having a bileiess at the same time, it's the taste of multitasking really Anway, back to Fondu. Chris says I remember my dad used to keep a boullillant after a fondue in the fridge and keep eating it as a lovely soup broth. And then he puts in brackets ', but I mean, that's just stock. C on. That's normal. It's a stock that's had lots of ingredients making extra flavour in it. Why waste it? Your dad was onto something. Hard agree. I mean, you can use that as a base for all sorts of things, can't you Risotto, pasta sauce, gravy More meat fond do Indeed. As for the kissing, he says, because we did talk about this idea of s of people forfeiting if they lose what's on their fork. And apparently that's a kiss in some practice in Switzerland. Yeah, I'd heard of that. Don't be so incredulous. That's a well known fondoo penalty. He says this has been around forever, both with meat and cheese fondues I'm unsure how widely practiced this still is post COVID, interesteresting. I don't know, peoplee are acting like COVID never happened, Chris. Gobbing in each other's mouth. Licking window panes. Funnily enough, he says During COVID, the authorities made an official declaration saying eating fondu was no risk. Yeah, it was like the British Chancellor paying people to go to restaurants even though you couldn't go to a hospital and be with a dying loved one Sure. I mean, I suppose at least in the summer you could eat outside, whereas this is a sharing dish and they're saying, goo ahead and share. I think we can all say that the molten meat is not so hot it kills all bacteria If anything, it's the perfect breeding ground, surely One of our most fun lockdown activities, I think it was maybe about a year and a half into COVID, but still there were still quite a lot of restrictions on how you could be with people. We were living in the same block of flats as our friends And we put our hotpot set on a table outside and we ran an electrical cable from the garden into the ground floor kitchen. so that we could power the hotpot. Yes then had all the, you know, vegetables and fish bits in the hotpot outside. Oh right, so you were doing this very sin of sharing the bacteria infested hotpot. Well it wasn't a cheese hotpot, it was a hotpot hot pot. Anyway, Swiss Christ does conclude his email with something that didn't surprise me. He says, someome of us in Switzerland will dunk their bread in cherry snapps midway through a cheese fondu I've known people to break an egg near the end of a cheese fondoo for a silky finish. Oh yeah, you know, when you're all full of liquid cheese, what you need to refresh yourself is an egg And when finished, never forget to eat the amazing crust at the bottom of the pot, he says. what we call L religiieers or none in English as in N UN. Yes. I' dread to think he says what the etymology of this term is It's one of those terms that is a bit disputed. I'd heard of the food stuff laa Rigures before but that was like a two tiered choux pastry thing basically because they're like, it looks like a nun's body. It's like a little head on a round body. I see. It also looks like a snowman. No, fine. I thought it might be something disparaging. Like I thought like, you know, nuns are famously sexless. I wondered whether this crusty bit at the bott of the pot and the shape of the pastry might play into that archetype Oh I see. Well I don't think the pastry and the crust are related. The cheese crust is apparently only called that in French speaking, Switzerland and the Savoir region of France So one of the explanations that I think is bullshit is supposed toly that monks would eat all the cheese and then be like, lookook, we've left you the cross parishioners Lucky you. I mean, that sounds like a lie because that's kind of the opposite of the other explanation that is pretty common, which is that nuns would go around visiting people in the community and then ask for a scrap of food as a reward, and then people would give the nuns their cheese rinds they're like, well, this is what I can spare for you. Yes. And then the other thing is they're like, well this crust, you lift it out and it kind of drapes like a nun's wimple. I actually do think the first explanation makes the most sense in that obviously nuns eat communally, don't they? So fondu seems likely And I do think a thing a nun would do when they get to the end is go and give it to someone But the way you made it sound was like that was kind of sardonically, Ohat my eat my grums, you peasant. But actually That was attributed to monks, not nuns. So I call it a nun, not a monk. Monk, nun, in the popular imagination, the same, I think Anyway, I think it's nice that Swiss Chris has so much to say about his national dish I think at a push, I could sort of talk to an American about how to choose a good fish and chip shop, for example, but I couldn't really write five paragraphs about it, you what I mean? I think you could write very extensively about where to go for afternoon teas in London and surrounding areas. I think one could, I'm not sure I could. I think you could. You've given me a lot of useful tips in the past such as it's all you can eat or askk more sandwiches. I mean, I did used to have a word count in my columns and I did somehow manage to spin one hundred fifty words when I only had seventy five to say, so I suppose you're right, I could. I'm underestimating my own talent. Maybe just went very florid with adjectives. Maybe. Julia in Dublin has also written in about fondu good She said a year ago I was visiting Switzerland with my family. On one of our last nights there, we went out for a fondu dinner as you do. It was also my mum's birthday celebration The restaurants serve various inverted comma's traditional Swiss meals, including cheese fonduse, and a type of cheese shihuaha thing where you scraed melty cheese off a kebab. Oh You dream for Olllyman? I love a novelty Kbab. I sent you that bit. I saw a jellied fruit kebab in Dubai and I was so excited that I sent Helen the photo from the Ramadan buffet Yeah and I was like, you know, it's obvious. Why wouldn't you kebab more things? This sounds like Ret, but in kebab form. Yeah, yeah exactly. yeah. I mean, who's not there for that I suppose people are allergic to cheese. Yes, yeah, yeah. Julia says, the restaurant staff brought all these things out on little rolling trolleys. The restaurant was quite crowded, and everyone had their ski jackets on the back of their chairs. Surprisingly, it was not antics from my young children, but bad trolley driving by staff that caused The incident. Fondu Fame came too. close to my mum's jacket and it caught fire. It was made of some kind of synthetic fabric. It didn't burst into flames, but sort of melted into a puddle almost instantly. Yes, I wonder if they don't really bother sort of fireproofing ski jackets because kind of by definition, you're not going to be near a flame if you're in one, and you're going be near snow to put it out. Hey, well, the Aro ski though. Yeah, well, we're seeing the short sightedness of that thinking play out before our eyes The restaurant staff were horrified and very apologetic. And my mom now has a new swiss jacket and a story to remember that birthday. that's nice. I think when you buy things on holiday because the thing you've brought wasn't sufficient or it got stolen or it's run out or you didn't bring it. It's melted. Yeah, O in this case, it's been caught on fire by a rog. your birthday On your birthday by a fonde Waiter. I think that's always something that then when you wear that thing, you remember the holiday. I have quite a few things items like that where I'm like, well, I wouldn't have chosen that. But now I think o Oh yeah, that's the fleece I bought for three quid in Backpool Market because I was completely illquipped for the fact that Blackpool is colder than London Oh So it's more of a testament to your inability to think ahead Essentially, yes, ye. You know, we were talking about how Fondy was popularise because the Cheese Marketing Board of Switzerland was like, we needed to eat more cheese. so we're going lace this with national pride. Yeah. Have we ever talked about this before? I felt like it was new to me, but maybe nothing is new to me at this stage of answering me this. Another cheese marketing board meal was the ploughman's. Yes, I think you have talked about that. Right. although the concept of a plowman's is much older than the ploughman's. In the nineteen fifties, the Cheese Bureau of Britain Marketing body began promoting it in pubs so that they could sell more cheese after it came out of rationing And very successful it's been too and actually something that I could definitely write a hundred and fifty words about. I love a plowman In fact, in the answer me this hiatus, I went to a holiday resort in the south of England that listeners may know called Sandy Balls. I don't know Sandy Balls. What an epic name. It's named after. Locals for a while, according to mythology have said that giants carved the cliffs with their feet or something. sure they did. But anyway, it's just a sort of stupid name that makes people giggle obviously. They knew what they were doing. They knew what they were doing. It's a bady medieval joke that's still with us now. And anyway, in Sandy Bowls, it just so happened that like the week before, I'd seen a sort of BC two Ta timee documentary one of these Great British menu type, let's tour the UK and find the best, whatever And they'd done a program all about Powman's Lunch. and apparently an award winning pub selling Plowman's Lunch was like five miles away from where we was Daying Sandalsles tantaling. So in the family WhatsApp, I was like Can we do lunch on the Sunday and can we not have a roast? Can we go to this place and have the best plowmans in the UK, please? And everyone agreed. And we all went and we all ordered the plowms and it was really good, although because it had been on Tally the week before, there was a quue and that ruined it a bit But my father in law for some reason was like, I'll have the vegetarian soup. And we' were like, John don't do that. This is This is the world's best plowman's pub. haveave the plowmananss I just fancy the vegetarian soup. I don' know where that came from, what possessed him? It was a hot day. Oh, okay. And anyway, the heart wants what the heart wants Ollie. Suffice to say Everyone who had the plowmans had a nice time John went home the next day with thingsings coming out of both ends No, from a vegetable soup. Yeah, but it just like If you'd seen it, Helen, you'd be like, this has been in this it was served out of a food truck on a very hot day. Oh. you're just like, no, no It have been festering. Have the plowmans Oh, John. Yeah The last time he won't have a plowmans.ess It's the power of the marketing board, isn't it? Exactly Sup marketing Board didn't invest in the same way. Yeah, well I've just done that soup market Board a great diservice obviously, it's take even longer for a goveror Actually vegetable soup and plowm's do go together in my mind because at my vegetarian school we used to get vegetable soup with the plowmananss that was called ploughmanss on Ploughman's Day Clow's Day It was a thing. Every Wednesday. Yeah Wednesday was the highlight Ellen, because it was Plowman's lunch Uh with ice cream, I think, after which is obviously the best pudding And then I think that evening was egg and chips, which A vegetarian school is the equivalent of fish and chips or bacon and chips so it's a good day That is a good day. Why'd they do it on Wednesdays just to get you through the hump? Just I think that was to be this This is a follow up from AMT four hundred eight from july twenty twenty five We you might recall, advised a man who asked to be called Rael. I mean he was anonym, but he said callall me Rael. who runs an art gallery with his wife in the US and one of his regular collectors had written to them to say that he wanted to come and help them by working there at the weekend And Rahael was basically like, no, that's when I make commission. Also don't underestimate my skills and experience at my job. How do I tell him to go fuck himself? Yeah. And I was like just tell him to go fuck himself. Yeah, you were like, spepell it out FUCK. And he was like, yeah, but he's a good client. and you know, anyway, Rahael has followed up, Helen and you'll be pleased to know that he's takingen your advice to the letter, so it's all on you. It's ruined his life He says, I really respected all your advice and ideas. Thank you. I mean, I can't remember at this stage what I said, but that's great. I particularly felt heard, he says, when Helen said that my customer's email was coercive. Oh yeah, remember this guy seeming rather entitled. This helped me justify my antipathy towards him. Well done, Helen. That's what I live to do. I did take Helen's advice to be direct And so I emailed him, stating clearly that we wouldn't be requiring his help in the gallery, which he accepted Okay, good. Sounds good. so far, doesn't it There's got to be a twist. a twist of told us. Yeah. He was in town a few days later and after a quick chat, he mentioned he had a lot of ideas for our business and markets we should focus on He said he had analysis and PowerPoints to show us. Oh, PowerPoints the actual fuck, I thought. No one asked for this, and we don't need him My wife is a great business person and that's all we need This customer had essentially invited himself to be part of a team at this point. Again, I told him, We were grateful for his input, but we just didn't need it. He didn't listen, and his parting words before he left the gallery were Just get me in front of X. X being the name of an artist. Oh, do you think he's just doing this because he wants to hold knob with artists? Just using your contacts through the art gallery, yeah to celeb fuck. I mean, you can just like give artists money for art and then they at least probably have to have a conversation with you while they take it out of your grabby little fist. I think that's right. Yeah, you'd be better off going to the artist with a fist fful of money, yeah, and saying I'd like to help you because they probably don't have any business sense they're probably quite happy to save the money. Whereas when you're going to the gallery and saying I can run your business better so I can be an artist. Anyway, Rapfhael said, That told me everything I needed to know. He was coercive. He would be bossing us around, the next day, channeling Helen's directness again. I sent him a very blunt email. You get. Helen, I'm worried that you'll be responsible for. This sounds like the beginning of a Netflix documentary I sent him a very blunt email, saying that I respected him as a businessman, associate and family man, and the last thing I wanted to do was offend him or offend his love of the art But Any reservations I had? We're falling on deaf ears. And I really, It Alex, needed him to hear me We had a lot going on, also know Alex idn't need his help B thing he could do for us right now to keep spreading the good word and supporting us that way. Okay, that sounds sensible. You've done your best. It sounds final Rapfael finishes his email by saying, I haven't heard back Now, he's usually very responsive, but he's not on this occasion That's all right with me. Mhm Anym more attempts to join our team and I'm gonna tell him to get fucked, Commission be damned It sounds like his custom would have waned anyway if you know, his eyes were on a different prize at some point, he would have stopped buying art from you in any case. C could be that he's not responded because he's just devastated by this blunt email. but you know, we just didn't get the first two. He's died crying. It's not your fault, but also you know, there is a possibility Let's not pretend that's not a possibility here. He's obviously emotionally involved with you and you've killed his dream I don't think Rafael's responsible for that because Raphael had already tried to divest in as polite a way as he could. I just literally said that. I said you're not responsible, but that doesn't change the fact it's possible' responsible you've killed this man's dreams Yeah. Yeah, ye. Well, I do think that. I mean I think sometimes there's no right way to be responsible. Sometimes people who think very differently to everyone else, it's quite hard to let them down in a way that doesn't upset them, isnt it? That's the thing He says, Anyway, thank you for all your advice and for letting me put this in words to help me process it. It was very therapeutic for me to type this out. and process what is turning into a quite traumatic relationship. No Well, I'm glad we could provide that service of you just at least releasing some feelings I do feel like I'm simply not qualified for the job that we have created for ourselves by advising anyone to do anything so I don't know anything about anything. Oh, I don't know about that, Rafael. If you really valued Helen's input, perhaps you'd like to let us into your business. That would be a way to remward us Thankk you Having grown up with a sculptor, the one business that I will never choose to go into would the visual arts. Fair M Bonjour, Comadre, it's theot How do I negotiate so many great travel deals? My greatest gadgget. The priceline app. It's got hotel deals, flight deals, rental car deals, all of those deals in a bundle, deals, game day deals, concert trip deals. No one deals more deals than priceline. 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The Statute of limitations has definitely passed All six kidnapped women, the alternative title for the film claim the crying baby as their own when their fathers arrive to liberate them from the kidnapping. And the final scene has all six fathers watching the group wedding with their shotguns in hand I suppose because they're like one of these is an unwed mother and we must fix that. and we don't know which because all of them are insisting it's theirs. and rather than talk it out, we'll just hold guns at their wedding.o be fair, it is set in eighteen fifties, Oregon. I seem to recall, says Jane, they even cock the guns as the men are asked if they are agreeing to the marriage Really doesn't make the phrase or the film premise any less grim. I like a classic musical as we all know, but actually I've never seen Sen Brers S Brothers, and I'd never really investigated it until you sent this email in. Yeah. From the title, I think what it was was that it didn't to me suggest that the plot had the intrigue that I'd want. Yeah, it's kind of giving away what the plot's gonna be. Yeah Three brothers, but only two brides between them is more interest to meet. You you know what I mean? But I just as well, fine,, I get it, it's the fifties. Like a sort of Jesier expansion pack. Although that said, I've checked out the poster from nineteen fifty six, I've just seen ye fifties. And it is marketed as MGM's love making musical in Blushing Technicolor Blhing Be I thought, you know, love making had like a more kind of flirtatous sense, but if there's blushing involved Still wasas it still Haze Code at that time? Yeah, this is so filthy. it makes the chemical process we use to Look at them different color filters, blush. Looking into it, yeah, it's actually based on the Roman legend of the rape of the Sabine women. Oh wow, what a fun inspiration. The idea then is basically they're looking around Rome and being like, Oh bit of a sausage party around here. Let's kidnap some women. Yeah, that's the way to fix sexism. The choreography is quite interesting apparently, because it's all about butch mountain men, right? But they needed them to dance. So this is like pre westide story. how do you keep the men looking ragged and masked and not like they're doing ballet It quite an interesting challenge in the fifties. Says that and there's obviously all the pretty dresses, like lots of bright colourors, Blushing technicolor Yay So I could line this up for a rainy winter afternoon, I think Maybe, I mean, I only saw my fair lady for the first time a couple of years ago. God did I hate it. I could not enjoy anything about that film I was like, this guy's a cun Exactly But again, that's your sensitivity to the particularly like anti feminist plot, right? But it also like accents noobbery. I'm like, I can't enjoy that. sure. It' a fun romance. likeike she shouldn't marry this Sure. I wonder how any of these marriages turned out in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Right. ye It doesn't seem like a solid foundation really to get kidnapped and shotgunned into it. That's true, but the era that we're in. Was anything better available? Yeah, but also like asking how any relationship worked out. It's like, well, death and childbirth and palsy. know, that's how it ended up, you know, that's the era. That's not anything to do with these particular characters.. Choose your bleakness. Exactly. Exactly. Keep that fire well stocked, That's my advice. Well so they can throw yourself in it. No, in those Wild West movies, it's always like A the moment he goes out to get logs, that's when the consumption's going to get it. Do you know what I mean? Just keep the logs l Keep the logs there Okay. Well, you know, at some point, Ollie The logs that you kept there will have burnt and that's why you got to get out from more logs. I suppose so. Here's an email from Johnny. who says, longtime listener, first time caller, I couldn't help hearing you wang on at length I mean, you could, you could just switch off the podcast on if you don't want to hear us wang on at length. Yeah you could do one point five speed. We're unbearable at one point five speed. canan you imagine? Are we like chipmungks? Yeah No, we're just like it's too O shows, you go at one point five speed because they're doing the whole kind of slow and sexy podcasting thing. but us it's like ast and My brain can't handle this level of yeah, it's just like too much pleasure too. Sure. That's what I was reaching for. John says I couldn't help hear you Wang on at length about Cherry wine in episode four hundred and ten without thinking With all a liking country music, hasn't he heard the song Strawberry wine by Deanna Carter U I hadn't heard that song. I've heard it now. It good it's okay. It's not an absolute banger, but it's a well written sincere you know, three chords in the Tuth type ballad. It's Dianna Cartter is basically using strawberry wine as a metaphor for the summer in which she lost her virginity at age seventeen It's an atmospheric idea of the kind of time in her life. It's not like she's not saying like and his ball smell of strawberry wine. She's saying I think back to that moment, hot moon, June night, summer wine, you know, she's painting a picture allegorically. This is like strawberry wine fur represents that summer. Its The sweetness, the childish nature of such a drink? is that it's the same as cherry wine basically, right? Yeah, as I describe it now it's summer of sixty nine, by Brian Adams really, it's the same sort of thing. I remember being seventeen. That's essentially what the song is. Yeah. Well now I'm thinking, what drink do I associate with the summer of nineteen ninety five for the same purposes, but I cannot think of anything I can just think of friends throwing upsider in my house around the same time which is not a memory I enjoy. Yeah, but I mean so the English folk version of it probably would be, you know, Malibu and Coke or something O people's second handand cyerpuke is what I associate with my early sexual career. Picardi Breezer. Oh my God, no I' never. Never I think so. Wow. I must have tried one, but I didn't think I just thought they were a pointless drink. It's the nineties. What do you have when you go to a nightclub? Surely, that's the automatic drink someone callulls you A I mean, that presupposes me going to nightclubs early? You must have done it. Yeah, I mean, I think I've talked on this show before about being so bored in the then famous nightclub fabric in London that I fell asleep waiting for my friends to be done. I' pretty much of a good club person. S sure. If I was in a club I enjoyed like the Zijack in Oxford, I usually didn't drink N never been a druninker. I in exactly the same situation, Strongbo because I was a boy. You were drinking strong bow during your sexual awakenings or just in the summer of No I can't of a drink that reminds me of Lising My V Ginity. In terms of strawberry wine, I've never had it but but fruly strawberry beer. Yeah. I love that, but it doesn't remind me of Lising Myginity. it reminds me of like. taking cable cars in Austria. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. A longer experience, certainly Let's clean up probablyroably the same The drink that Dianna Carter was referring to in this lyric was apparently Boon' Fm Strawberry Hill, which is a wine cooler, which were drinks targeted to teenagers which. Fizzy wine and fruit. I think wine coolers were a reaction to alca pops becoming more heavily taxed because they appealed to children. They were like, rightight, well let's make wine appeal to children. What are you going to do I think though that I do have a more European sensibility in taste profile You know, when when Americans tell me 's something sweet. I'm like, I'm not touching that because you know, you think your bread tastes normal and it tastes sweet to me. There's a lot of added sugar in American savourory goods. Exactly. And if you're there for long enough, you stop noticing. Yeah, exactly. So if an American says, this is sweet white wine, but it's extra sweet, I'm like, That's going to take for Johny Ranch Yeah. ye. Do you f think your pallette is more savory as passasses, I find that everything is too sweet for me now because I'm old. Yes, I mean, I've always been like on the olive anchovy spectrum But I'm of an age now where I'd probably rather brush my teeth with like tomato sardine paste than mint nine out of ten dentists that ASL's recommended. If you know had the dentist come to your school with a tube of chipams, passing ram. Since we're talking about drinks, In the last episode, we were talking about boozeless booze. Yes. Now I am noticing that those have blue labels Even though the ones that I drink are like, you know, Vancouver local brewery versions rather than like blue level brands, still blue. Fine. You're having the same revelation that I had in the episode. I mean, yeah, Once you start noticing it, you can't stop noticing it Find me an example that isn't blue, please. Yeah. Well I'll start looking now. you've opened my eyes. Yeah. Al either you or Martin equipped that drinking blue Curaco makes you look like you've been drinking toilet duck. And that reminded me of when I was a bartender at our college bar Ollie, we had to make a cocktail called toilet duck that was blue from blue Curaco I don't know if you' ever drank one. Almost certainly, I did, because I think I worked my way through the menu over the three years, but I don't remember the three cocktails we had that we served in a plastic half pint. Yeah. yeah yeah. they werent It wasn't our college bar where you'd go for mixology No, you'd go to get absolutely blasted for like three quid. Well, it's quite funny actually about our college barsar as well as because all of the colleges in Oxford they all have their own bars, but obviously the ones that are in historic buildings, it's like, Oh Keats drank here. That's the vibe. like big open fire, you know columns. Whereas ours was just like a leisure center because it was built in the sixties. I mean, good architecture, if you like brutalism, which I did because of going there But As had the distinction of being the longest bar in Oxford. Just not pretty, really. No, but people weren't there for the aesthetics onlyll,. they were there for the three quid half pint cocktail with like six shots in it. I suppose that's what I'm saying It made it more ruthlessly efficient as a venue that's just there to get you inebriated because there was less to pretend that you were doing. you weren't admiring some old oak beans. Exactly, yeah We have some feedback from AMT four hundred seven and why non alcoholic beers have blue in the labels or names. Ari. says I think a likelier explanation or maybe complimentary to yours is that in America Laws regulating the sale of alcohol are called blue laws originating from Puritan times Thanks for sending them over, by the way. Blue laws regulated or banned all sorts of activities on the Sabbath with the sale of alcohol as a major focus. Many states still have these types of laws, thanks to the giant stick up our collective ass So since non alcoholic beers would still be allowed to be sold on Sundays, then they could be considered blue and the association with that colour would make sense. It's a nice story, I'm not sure. Yes, people at beer companies don't think Let's have a fun historical throwback to Puritanism. That's the thing about marketing non alcoholic drinks, you don't necessarily want the association with Puritanism to. You want the opposite. It's like you can still have fun. You can still have a party drink. Agree. We will make you pay party prices for hot water. Well, I have very much enjoyed hearing your thoughts about Answ Me This is old and new, so do send them in for next month's answerers Back, but also send us your fresh new questions. for answering this four hundred and eighteen and beyond, which these will be in your pod feeed on the last Thursday of each month. Yes. And do come back for the next episode of Answerr Back as well and tell your answer me this fan friends. that it can be almost as entertaining as a quote unquote real episode. You know like the non alcoholic booze variant Oh. 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