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@shrimpJAJ

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James Austin Johnson
6 months
please enjoy my anthem to percy priest lake titled "Lake Beach" written with @andrew_vinny @streetseidell @danbulla and directed by @mikediva and a special thank you to @natebargatze & Dave Grohl
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6 months
hangin' on a lake beach
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James Austin Johnson
4 years
PRES TRUMP TODAY IN CALIFORNIA: " 'WEIRD AL' WAS VERY MEAN TO MR. COOLIO!! DIDN'T ASK FOR RIGHTS. NOT VERY NICE!"
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3 years
OMG DON CLAIMS HE "BEAT" POKEMON, HAS NOT CAUGHT 'EM ALL... TRUMP: "GAME ENDS WHEN YOU BEAT ELITE FOUR"
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
It's weird that peanuts is about charlie brown and not the kid who is clearly one america's all time jazz piano greats
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
I want to be the guy in a video game town who says things like "I'd like to help you complete the tapestry, but I can't do anything until I find my Wᴏᴏᴅᴇɴ Bɪʀᴅ"
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3 years
Guy who invented coffee: "Don't even talk to me until I've invented coffee"
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10 months
LOUIS CK weighs in on the @sagaftra strike
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3 years
Fireworks Illegal In Pasadena
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3 years
OMG TRUMP UNLEASHES 'FURY' ON BIDEN ADMIN IN TRIUMPHANT CPAC SPEECH: "UNDER [BIDEN], BOWSER... TOO BIG, [SUPER] MARIO CAN'T KEEP UP!!"
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
I dont smoke but I bet ripping cigs on the plane was awesome. Happy for you guys
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
There should be about 1000 more episodes of Billy On The Street. There should be a new one every morning
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
While my son was being born today i told the nurses "it's like reverse sex!" anyway they wont let me see the baby
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
I do so great with the Toads
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2 years
Donald Trump joins Justice with Judge Jeanine.
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1 year
Hate to say it, but AI art and entertainment has me excited for several reasons: 1. I don't understand what makes things good 2. Startled and confused by human expressions and hands 3. I type how to kiss into quora before dates 4. My personality is one time I googled stoicism
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10 months
OMG DON SAYS WHERE IS SHIA? "WE'RE LOOKING INTO DIAL DESTINY ... WHERE IS MUTT?"
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10 months
Yall see this? Thanks for having me @WGNMorningNews
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10 months
SNL’s James Austin Johnson wowed with his Trump and Biden impressions: @shrimpJAJ
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2 years
Holding my sleeping newborn son I can't help but marvel at the miracle of love and life that is stored in my gonads and released from my schlong
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2 years
I just want to thank the internet for teaching me about this great man MLK yesterday. He sounds like an amazing leader who was both a conservative Republican icon and a fiery Marxist radical, who ultimately wanted everyone to sit back and have a great time in the USA
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1 year
This may get me canceled but I really don't care at this point: we need to do something about Dracula
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James Austin Johnson
3 years
TRUMP SAYS "NOT MY CLIFFORD... NOT MY CLIFFORD" IN CALL HIGHLIGHTING "SONIC PROBLEM"
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Some dogs have a way of growing on you. 😉 Watch the new trailer for Clifford the Big Red Dog, in theatres and on @ParamountPlus November 10. #CliffordMovie
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
Let's just say that tonight's SNL is gonna be pretty special 😏 I will be doing skits with the cast 🤓 and the host will be in them too 🥳 but only for this week 😒 next week it will be a different host 🤔 cast will remain the same 😮‍💨
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2 years
"TV does not get better than this." 8 year old me watching Win Ben Stein's Money understanding 0% of what is being said
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3 years
Everything Bagel? More like Everywhere Bagel! This crap is messy!
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
Man as soon as I sat down on my flight I started anxiously wondering if Delta is committed to human dignity on and off the ground, striving for greatness or pushing onward to new horizons. You can imagine my relief when that video started playing
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OMG DON SAYS MEAN JUDGE RULES "NO GRADUATION" FOR GREATEST PRESIDENT OF ARE TIME.. MUST GO STRAIGHT FROM BACKPACK TEDDY BEAR TO THE "I'M JESUS AND I'M CRAZY" STUFF
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
An annoying way my life has changed since I got on the show is people I'd actually like to hear from are like "he's prob busy, better hold off" and a new foul tide of the absolute toadstool scum of the earth dms me constantly like "i'm actually something of a comic mind myself.."
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2 years
Guys @nbcsnl starts in like eleven hours.. get your ideas for skits into my dms by then or we may not be able to do them on the show !! this is so simple !
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James Austin Johnson
3 years
BIG NEWS DAY!!! so excited to be joining this madhouse 🤪
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James Austin Johnson
3 months
My son watches this video of the army band every morning. I am never prepared for the bassoon reed
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
Stop....... #HomerTime
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James Austin Johnson
8 months
Thank you to everyone who is sending me this. This clip sets a record for the most "this you?s" I've ever gotten
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We lost 35,000 people to the mosquito
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James Austin Johnson
1 year
Gotta admit, Amazon has really revolutionized the way we buy the absolute worst cheapest crap imaginable from trusted brands like SfimswaxVal, SunTuTufy, Jarow-L, COMOtanHome NOYAYAFA
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
The only real comedians are the ones who speak truth to Power by putting on pounds of prosthetics to portray Joe Biden and Donald Trump each week on S&L.... those are the Real comedians..
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James Austin Johnson
3 years
Someone learning english wants to know what "chilling" means and you have to explain that it means the feeling of hearing how someone was brutally murdered or just, like, when you're relaxing at home
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2 years
Trump Voice: GILLY!
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Trump goes on a rant about how he hosted SNL and Alec Baldwin… He says he hasn’t seen the “new guy”
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9 months
I don't think disney ruined star wars. I think you are balding. I think you were young, and then some time has passed, your life is not what you thought it would be. indeed you became a silly, unimaginative adult, lashing out at toys and cartoons, calling them backstabbers. Fool!
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1 year
Todays kids have had 100 gecs, 1000 gecs, 10000 gecs. When i was a kid, we were content with 4 gecs maybe 5 gecs, on special occasions 8 gecs. Regardless hold the gecs you do have close and stay humble. It could all go away at any moment
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2 years
Babies are just a very fussy pet and then after three years they turn into a little boy. Its like if you got a dog and three years later it became a little boy
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2 years
Phish is like if wilco sucked
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James Austin Johnson
3 years
CALLING ALL GEN X!!!!!!!
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Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner: "Cancel culture is spreading like wildfire. There is a call for Generation X to lead the charge to save America from the social media mob. Can they do it?"
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10 months
JOE BIDEN: "With its darker tone, its interlinked worlds, [Tooie] stands not on the shoulders of Banjo Kazooie but of Ocarina of Time, it reaches higher and leaps further, and Republicans need to understand this most: it did it without the expansion pak demanded of Perfect Dark."
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James Austin Johnson
3 years
The beginning of Up makes me cry. A lamp comes from out of nowhere and remorselessly stomps the letter I to death..
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2 years
What the american people need to know is that the snoop dogg wine is great
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My parents were worried about me drinking and drugging in college, they should have been worried about pop culture essayist chuck klosterman shaping my perceptions for years to come!!
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
a kid who works at dunkin donuts that figured out the adobe suite in a week from youtube can burn in hell. Long live sassy boomers who make six figures being afraid of microsoft office suite
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
People aren't walking up to each other and Saying , "George Washington , abraham Lincoln" anymore and... that's crazy!
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2 years
this is incredible
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
I've got a healthy baby and a cool job and everything but I am VERY proud I got to be a recurring dead guy on Better Call Saul
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2 months
This is Heat for guys who do Trump voices
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Saturday Night Live - SNL
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White Men Can Trump from Newsmax Studios
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10 months
Trying to do reply guy face
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
This is maybe too inside baseball but it would have been so funny if in the meeting after dress rehearsal Lorne was like "Taylor we're trimming 7 minutes from All Too Well, just for time"
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
Man I never thought about it that way! I guess you're right, in 2020 my wife and I let a guy die in our apartment. I'm gonna stop saying miscarriage and look at it for what it is-- we let a guy die in our apartment. Trippy!
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2 years
I have been asked to leave the sketch group #PleaseDontDestroy . An incredible ride. I will continue my role as "James" on nbc show Saturday Night Live, just no longer part of the PDD group..
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James Austin Johnson
3 months
Had a great time writing this with @will_stephen & @BTuckertime in terms of cold open and with regard to sketch
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Saturday Night Live - SNL
3 months
Trump speaks to the press about his 2024 presidential campaign
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2 years
God bless @SarahSquirm
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2 years
You see me in the official jean jacket of LucasArts from across the bar. How do you open?
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I asked my toddler if it would kill him to get into coen brothers movies instead of super simple songs 24/7 and he said "fire truck"
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
Best straw in the game no notes
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James Austin Johnson
1 year
The next Star Wars movie should start with a long speech from R2-D2 delivered straight to camera that goes on for like 6 minutes, no subtitles
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
Poets probably drive to work like "I hope I do a good job of talking really indirectly about the passage of time today"
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James Austin Johnson
1 month
Loved writing this with @kentola700 Alison Gates and Mike "Deetch" Dicenzo
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Saturday Night Live - SNL
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Trump introduces the God Bless The USA Bible just in time for Easter
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4 months
BIDEN TOUTS CANADA-AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP WHICH BUILT THE COMEDY INDUSTRY SAYING "RICK MORANIS ... IS GOATED," PRAISES DAN LEVY'S EYEWEAR LINE AND RETURN OF MID BUDGET COMEDY IN HEATED SPEECH ON ECONOMY
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James Austin Johnson
3 months
Being a bob dylan fan is so pathetic. You'll listen to shelter from the storm for the 400th time and have a thought like "hey this is actually a great song"
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1 month
Big announce- after moving from beautiful Los Angeles my home of ten years to New York City in 2021 with a very pregnant wife for my DREAM JOB at saturday night live I have decided to finally unsubscribe from the triple beam pizza email list
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1 year
It belongs in a museum
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1 year
Is this @shrimpJAJ sitting courtside?
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James Austin Johnson
11 months
I used to hear rush limbaugh on the radio and think "i can't wait for all comedy to become this"
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James Austin Johnson
3 years
Sorry i left the party without saying bye, i had to get home and watch car crashes on reddit for two hours
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
One of us is on @LateNightSeth tonight. Not pictured my Seth Meyers mens' supportive underwear
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Buried Oil Makes Great Goo
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11 months
Ok.. NOW he's doing my act
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Aaron Rupar
11 months
Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was"
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2 years
Folks we say it every day
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2 years
On my grind so I can have so much money I become deeply unhappy, impossible to talk to, obsessed with wellness tips
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
Twitter kind of feels like digging through a public trash can hoping to find a cold McDonald's fry
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James Austin Johnson
3 years
"Here's what's wrong with society" has replaced "I dated somebody weird" for most boring kind of standup 👎 Who else thinks we need to get back to "I am fat and ugly, my wife is fat and ugly and mean to me" 🙌
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James Austin Johnson
11 months
Many are saying
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
rode a monorail at the orlando airport and all the kids on it were like "wow!" and I was preparing to say "every american city could function as fun and efficiently as this if every leader weren't in permanent BJ position to the oil lobby" but got distracted enjoying the ride
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James Austin Johnson
3 years
'Fire department? ' We should call those bozos the WATER DEPARTMENT! #arepeoplecrazyorwhat
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
when I look back at 2021, i just gotta pinch myself: I did an internet only roomba commercial!
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James Austin Johnson
3 years
Why are so many first episodes of shows about pilots?
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
I wore my FFVI shirt on a walk and my sweat made a yoshitaka amano design
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James Austin Johnson
3 years
Has anyone ever nailed it harder than greg kinnear in youve got mail
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James Austin Johnson
1 year
Dracula is a creep, racist, abuser, monster, and scam artist. Oh yeah, and he's a vampire. Case closed
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James Austin Johnson
1 year
Welcome to Brooklyn @mikal_bridges see you at center for fiction
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
People who work at waffle house should be allowed to pre-board
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James Austin Johnson
1 year
Dracula needs to be taken OUT!!!!! The thing everyone's thinking yet no one will say out loud..
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
Yall need to do something about this shipping crisis. It has been six days since my son's due date
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James Austin Johnson
3 years
The way trump talks? I started that
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James Austin Johnson
1 year
What is my what do I think of Steely Dan? What do like the band? I do. In fact, if I were at Brooklyn Nets game, something I enjoy, still I would rather be listening to Steely Dan. As hat I am wearing has said
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James Austin Johnson
1 year
Dracula isn't just a vampire. He's also a serial abuser and gaslighter who's made a number of unsafe comments to my friends. The question is, does anyone care?
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
i'm going on tour this summer!
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1 year
Taking a capital two at the capital one cafe
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
Little kids like me grew up wanting to be standup comedians so we could one day become Rush Limbaugh. Its always--ALWAYS--been about being a wealthy isolated Opinions Pig
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James Austin Johnson
3 years
Dam this image makes me want to sneak a taco bell enchirito into a 10pm screening of scott pilgrim rn
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James Austin Johnson
2 years
What's funnier than a short guy wearing a big polo shirt. Like, when it goes to his elbows
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James Austin Johnson
9 months
The best seinfelds are the ones where Kramer behaves in an odd fashion
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James Austin Johnson
7 months
Honestly kinda lowkey hyped for another season of S&L....
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