The World and Everything in It: February 28, 2025

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

Today on Culture Friday, has unbelief in America reached a plateau? We’ll talk about high-profile conversions, that great cloud of witnesses in Africa, and whether IVF can make families great again.

NICK EICHER, HOST: John Stonestreet is standing by and raring to go.

Later, a gripping survival story that sheds light on the human condition, and allows us a look at a dangerous job.

SOUND: I can’t rescue you if I can’t find you. Understand?

Collin Garbarino reviews the film Last Breath. And, listener feedback.

BROWN: It’s Friday, February 28th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

BROWN: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

KENT COVINTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Zelesnkyy at White House » Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington, where he’s meeting with President Trump at the White House this morning.

TRUMP: We will be signing  a historic agreement that will make the United States a major partner in developing Ukraine's minerals and rare hearts, and, uh, oil and gases.

The deal will give the United States access to rare earth minerals in Ukraine. Those minerals are important for manufacturing advanced technologies.

Trump says the deal will benefit Ukraine’s economy, but it will also allow the U.S. to recoup the billions of dollars in aid sent to Kyiv amid the war. And that seems to have shifted his disposition with regard to President Zelenskyy. Trump had been very critical of him, but he told reporters on Wednesday:

TRUMP:  I think we're going to have a very good meeting tomorrow. We're going to get along really well. We have a lot of respect. I have a lot of respect for him.

He said Ukraine has fought very bravely.

Zelenskyy is coming with a list of questions for President Trump about U.S. support for his country going forward.

More Trump-Ukraine-Russia » British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with President Trump at the White House yesterday with the security of Ukraine and Europe topping the agenda.

The prime minister said with regard to a possible deal to end the war:

STARMER: The UK is ready to put boots on the ground and planes in the air to support a deal, working together with our allies, because that is the only way that peace will last.

The UK and other European allies are adamant that having a peacekeeping force of some kind on the ground in Ukraine must be a part of any peace deal struck with Russia.

The president also suggested the UK might escape planned US tariffs, crediting what he called “tremendously productive” trade talks.

U.S. - Canada, Mexico tariffs » But planned tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada will go into effect as planned on Tuesday. He says the neighboring countries aren’t doing enough to address his concerns.

TRUMP:  The drugs continue to pour into our country, killing hundreds of thousands of people.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau argues that only a tiny fraction, less than 1 percent, of the fentanyl that arrives in the U.S. comes from Canada. But he says even still, his country has been working to shore up the U.S. Canada border on its side. And he adds:

TRUDEAU:  If on Tuesday there are, uh, unjustified tariffs, uh, brought in on Canada, uh, we will have an immediate and extremely strong response, as Canadians expect.

The White House is set to impose 25 percent tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada. And that’s in addition to another 10 percent tax on imports from China.

Trump says tariffs will create jobs and bring more manufacturing back to the U.S. Critics of his approach say it will further fuel inflation in America.

SCOTUS USAID » The Supreme Court is giving the Trump administration more time to fight a case challenging its funding cuts and freezes at USAID agency. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin has more.

KRISTEN FLAVIN: President John F. Kennedy created the USAID in 1961 by executive order. Its mission is not merely charity, but rather … to distribute foreign aid to advance America’s strategic interests and foreign policy abroad.

But the Trump administration says that instead, career bureaucrats at the agency are treating USAID like a piggybank, using taxpayer dollars to export LGBT and other left-wing ideologies.

The White House wants to pause the agency’s payments while conducting a thorough audit.

But a federal judge, responding to a legal challenge, ordered the administration to release $2 billion dollars in payments.

Chief Justice Roberts this week paused that district court ruling. Roberts did not address the case itself, but gave the court time to review the arguments.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

Israel latest » Israel says it has positively identified the bodies of four more Israeli hostages released by the terror group Hamas .

Israeli government spokesman David Mencer:

MENCER - Ohad Yahalomi, Tsachi Idan, Shlomo Mantzur and Itzhak Elgarat of blessed memory were murdered.

He also announced that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has authorized a delegation to resume negotiations in Egypt.

They’re working to strike a deal to extend a ceasefire with Hamas set to expire this weekend in hopes of bringing home more Israeli hostages.

MENCER: Because we want to bring them all home. It is our moral obligation. It is our ethical obligation. We need to bring them home right now, as soon as possible, as soon as humanly possible.

In Washington, President Trump said negotiations are ongoing, but it’s unclear if they will be successful.

Gene Hackman death » Police in New Mexico initially said there were no signs of foul play in the deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa after they were found dead in separate rooms at their New Mexico home.

But Sante Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza has since clarified:

MENDOZA:  We're not ruling it out. Uh, what I, what I did state was, was there was no obvious, uh, sign or indication of you know, foul play. There was no immediate, uh, sign of foul play.

But investigators are calling the deaths suspicious.

One of their dogs was also dead. Officials said there were no signs of a gas leak or carbon monoxide poisoning.

Hackman was known for numerous iconic Hollywood roles, including this one in 1978’s Superman:

AUDIO [Superman clip]: Lex Luthor, the greatest criminal mind of our time!

Hackman won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in The French Connection. Gene Hackman was 95. Betsy Arakawa was 63.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: Culture Friday with John Stonestreet. Plus, your listener feedback for the month of February.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Friday the 28th of February.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

It’s Culture Friday. Joining us now is John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. Good morning!

JOHN STONESTREET: Thank you. Good morning.

EICHER: John, there’s a major new study from Pew Research on the American Religious Landscape. And it suggests something of a shift. The New York Times reporting: After decades of decline, the proportion of Americans who identify as Christian may have stopped falling. Meanwhile, the “nones” —and I’ll spell this out so there’s no mistaking what I’m talking about, the N-O-N-E-S, “the nones.” This group of religiously unaffiliated, it seems to have leveled off.

These in the youngest adult cohort, these are still less likely to call themselves Christian overall. But what we find in the study is that they’re no less religious than the group just above them. So the researchers are suggesting that the long downward trend might be coming to a plateau.

How does this challenge the older narrative of inevitable American secularization? And is it fair to say we’re seeing real improvement, or just a leveling off?

STONESTREET: It is a fascinating study and it’s consistent with a number of other things we’re seeing—including things coming out of Europe, the UK, even a conversation last week with Justin Brierley of the Unbelievable podcast as part of my visit across the pond there. Brierley’s been telling the story of these high-profile intellectuals coming to reembrace Christianity, maybe not a personal faith for some of them. But these are many of the same people who just yesterday told us that God’s a delusion and religion poisons everything. I mean, things are different.

Now, in terms of how these findings align or don’t align with the old narrative, it depends on which old narrative you’re talking about. If you talk about the old narrative about secularization, that’s a little bit different.

A lot of times the narrative of secularization and the narrative of church decline are seen as the same one. Secularization is a way of seeing the world that’s “this-worldly.” One would expect, as secularization increases, that people would make all the connections that they need to make and then stop going to church. (Of course, that did happen in a sense. The more modern and agnostic that mainline liberals became, for example, they stopped going to mainline liberal churches—because, really, what’s the point?)

But secularization, I think, is more subtle.

The question about secularization still has yet to be resolved because it really depends on what we mean by religion. It is possible to be religious in a secular way—to see religion and its benefits in a purely self-referential, what is good, right, and true for me, and not connected to anything transcendent. At the end of the day, that is what secularization really is.

It is the “this-worlding” of belief. It is “this-worlding” of morality, of relationships, of design, of our understanding of reality. It’s basically disconnecting the world from God.

So, I am all for the increased religious engagement. But if all the religious engagement is about is how to do life better here and now—and not tied to things that are eternally true, particularly the God who is the source of eternal truth, then there may be still a strong secular flavor to the increase in religiosity.

But of course, what better way to get that rectified than to go to church? So maybe this will all work out in the end either way.

EICHER: Let’s shift to two high-profile figures who’ve recently made public very personal journeys to faith in Christ. First, Nicole Shanahan. Maybe she’s best known as the financier and running mate for Bobby Kennedy’s campaign for the Democratic nomination for president this last go-around. She was married to the cofounder of Google, Sergei Brin, so very wealthy. Shanahan posted on social media a dramatic baptism testimony.

The second name is Larry Sanger. He’s co-founder of Wikipedia. In telling his story, Sanger described a gradual, intellectual return to Christianity.

Both of these are very early in their faith, and they took very different paths—Shanahan’s more emotional, Sanger’s more cerebral. Our Bethel McGrew wrote about Sanger.

What are the implications of these public conversion stories, John? And how might Sanger’s intellectual approach in particular shape our understanding of apologetics and evangelism?

STONESTREET: I love to hear these stories, and they seem to be just continually rolling in in recent years. This is to the point of the conversation we were just having about this survey, about the number of the “nones” kind of having capped off.

Sanger, I think, is super interesting to listen to, his long and detailed account of his conversion—because it does involve all kinds of things from childhood misperceptions to just coming across things from reliable sources on the Internet who took seriously the intellectual life of faith.

So, yeah, I think there are implications for apologetics and for evangelism. The most notable one being the reports of the demise of apologetics were vastly overblown.

It’s never been true that people don’t want reasons for what they believe. It’s never been true that situations of life don’t send people into intellectual tailspins where they try to find consistency. It’s never been true that humans are somehow not brains, and so the brain comes into play. Now it’s never just the brain, but why have we denigrated the entire work of doing intellectual Christianity?

You know, I think the same thing is true in the conversations about worldview.

Obviously, I’ve got a little bit of a vested interest, given that my organization that God has allowed me to be a part of is called the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.

But you know, there’s a big hubbub about a book coming from an Australian scholar about how worldview is a bad way to talk about Christianity. Well, worldview is a way of trying to wrestle with the authority of Christ over every area of life—both spiritual and what are traditionally considered not spiritual but actually are.

I don’t think the problem here is that people took a word like worldview and used it. People actually think this way. We live this way.

We want consistency. We want coherence. And the distraction that our Western world gives us have just exhausted us of meaning. So we’re looking for meaning, and we’re looking for answers to our personal hurts. We’re looking for someone to help us deal with our guilt, forgive us of our sins, and give us an understanding of how better to relate to people. We’re also looking for who created the universe—and how do we know?

I mean, it’s not one thing. It’s everything—as a mutual friend of ours likes to say. Put all of this together, and I think we should never reduce Christianity to merely evangelistic tactics or intellectual nerdiness.

Do all of the above—because Christ is lord of all.

BROWN: WORLD’s Leah Savas has been reporting on the clash between pro-lifers and the in-vitro fertilization industry—something President Trump is now stepping into. He just signed an executive order directing the Office of Domestic Policy to propose IVF policy recommendations within 90 days’ time. The White House is touting it as “Make Families Great Again.” But there’s a serious debate over how IVF often treats human embryos.

Put yourself into the shoes of White House advisor, John, and tell me what cultural and ethical questions ought to be addressed—obviously, beyond the high cost.

STONESTREET: Well, listen, first of all, they’re just flat wrong that IVF is pro-life and even pro-fertility. The vast majority of embryos, and estimates are in the neighborhood of 90% that are created through IVF that will not make it to birth.

And they won’t die of natural causes. The vast majority will be eliminated through a screening process. Then the others will be left abandoned after an early pregnancy is conceived.

The other thing is the line that it’s “making families great again” is completely misleading. The reason is that IVF is such an unregulated wild, wild West, that there’s no way to limit to actual families those who are able to create embryos and plant embryos and then actually have children.

In other words, we’re talking about these new family “alternatives”—like same-sex couples—not to mention celebrities who don’t want stretch marks, and all the other reasons someone might choose to participate in this industry.

The cat so far out of the bag, it actually is astonishing to me when I hear any one who claims to be pro life, especially a Christian pro-lifer completely ignore the way that IVF violates the dignity of life and the God given design of families. These aren’t exceptions. These are the commonalities.

To do IVF in an ethical way, which not everyone agrees that there is, but I’ll grant that doing IVF in a way that only one embryo is created and implanted at a time, or a couple agrees to implant every embryo that’s created, that is such a rare case. That to celebrate an executive order that further deregulates it and makes it more widely acceptable is just unconscionable to me because of the violation of human dignity that’s built into the process and into the industry right now.

I think it’s the president’s way of fulfilling a promise. I’m hoping he’s going to fulfill the promise and listen to the right voices—and this is going to die on the vine. There’s no way to look at the current way IVF is done on a national basis—and we haven’t even talked international, which involves basically human trafficking and slavery—and say that what’s really needed here is less regulation. It’s ethically upside down.

BROWN: Finally, John, I’d like to mention the heartbreaking news from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where at least 70 Christians were beheaded last week by ISIS-affiliated terrorists.

My daughter-in-law is Congolese, so this hits especially close to home. From a Christian worldview, how should we respond to these modern-day martyrs—beyond simply pitying them?

STONESTREET: Listen, dealing with the reality of the fall in any cultural context, the most appropriate response is, “Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy,” the “Kyrie, eleison,” which has been a part of Christian liturgical repetition forever.

But I think it gets heightened at a time like this for two reasons. It’s the sheer scale and consistency that we have seen in the barbaric treatment of Christians at the hand of (1) Islamic radicals and (2) atheistic nationalists—particularly dictatorial communism like in North Korea. Every time we see a list of the persecution that happens around the world, those are the sources right there.

This just goes widely unreported by Western press outlets and by American Christians. I do think what a wonderful thing to teach about the cloud of witnesses that were a part of the worldwide body and bride of Christ, to bring this sort of barbarism to our attention.

What is our responsibility when we don’t face this kind of risk? Their responsibility is to be faithful even unto death. That’s what Revelation makes really clear. Our responsibility is to cry out on their behalf, ask God for mercy and do everything we can to advocate so that it doesn’t continue to happen.

This level of persecution has been on the rise in the DRC for a long time, and it’s looking an awful lot like Nigeria, and they have one thing in common, which is this strong presence of Islamic radicals that target Christians.

EICHER: John Stonestreet is president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. Thanks, John!

STONESTREET: Thank you both

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, February 28th.

Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: a true life drama that might leave you gasping for air.

In 2012, saturation diver Chris Lemons became stranded on the ocean floor. He found himself more than 300 feet below the surface of the North Sea. The umbilical cable that tethered him to his ship snapped accidentally.

EICHER: The diver was without oxygen for half an hour before his crew was able to rescue him.

Here’s WORLD arts and culture editor Collin Garbarino on the new film hitting theaters this week that dramatizes this harrowing ordeal.

COLLIN GARBARINO: If you’re a fan of disaster movies, or if you like true stories of heroism, then there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy Last Breath.

DUNCAN: Dive control, diver two is on bailout.

CAPTAIN: How much gas does he have left?

DIVER SUPERVISOR: Ten minutes.

This is a taut 93-minute film about a courageous rescue mission and it’ll give you a new appreciation for a job you’ve probably never heard of. But it also might leave you feeling a little claustrophobic.

Finn Cole plays newly engaged Chris, a saturation diver who’s just signed on with a crew tasked with repairing vital oil pipelines crisscrossing the North Sea. He’s the relative newbie who’s assigned to work with veterans Duncan and Dave, played by Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu respectively. But what starts out as routine maintenance turns harrowing when the ship’s computer-guided positioning system goes offline.

DPO: I’m losing everything here.

CAPTAIN: Where’s our power?

FIRST OFFICER: Cap, we’re drifting out of control.

As the ship drifts away, Chris and Dave get dragged along by their umbilical cables which provide their oxygen, heat, and communication with the ship.

DAVE: Chris, you’ve got to really move.

CHRIS: I’m coming. I’m coming.

Dave manages to get clear, but when Chris’ cable snaps, he finds himself stranded on the ocean floor with only ten minutes of oxygen left in his backup tank.

DAVE: Now take slow, deep breaths, otherwise you’ll burn through your backup gas. Understand?

As the ship drifts further and further away from Chris, the entire crew race against time to save their lost comrade.

Last Breath is a tense movie that might leave you a little breathless, but it’s not too scary. It adapts the 2019 documentary of the same name, both of which were directed by Alex Parkinson. And he stays fairly true to the actual events in this dramatization, only adding a couple of complications to heighten the suspense. Parkinson brings a documentarian’s sensibility to the story, and even uses some of the archival footage in this film. It’s rated PG-13 for brief strong language, the worst of which comes from some of the documentary footage.

DUNCAN: Dive control, there’s no umbilical left in the bell. That’s everything I’ve got.

Compared to the big studios’ blockbuster tent poles, the stakes in Last Breath might seem pretty low. The heroes aren’t attempting to save the entire world from utter destruction. They’re frantically working to save just one life—the life of one of their own. But it’s a true story about a real person, who inexplicably survived an ordeal that should have killed him. As strange as it might seem to say it, this movie about running out of oxygen feels like a breath of fresh air.

And it’s something of a throwback—old school filmmaking that tells a remarkable story by reminding us of the nobility and fragility of our human condition.

I think stories like these resonate with us, not because we identify with the inspiring rescuers, but because we ourselves long for rescue. It’s this same awareness that caused David to sing about God drawing him out of deep waters.

DAVE: I can’t rescue you, if I can’t find you. Understand?

But Last Breath has another value in addition to its ability to tell a gripping story about rescue and the human condition. It also nimbly introduces viewers to the dangerous job of saturation diving.

There aren’t many of these divers around the world, but they’re vital for keeping our global economy running because they construct and maintain the world’s oceanic energy and communication conduits. Saturation divers live in pressurized capsules for weeks at a time, letting their bodies grow accustomed to deep water pressure. This allows them to work at depths up to 1,000 feet. In the course of telling its story, The Last Breath becomes something of an advertisement for the hidden “dirty jobs” that make our modern lives possible. It’s a fascinating glimpse into a world that most of us don’t even know exists.

I’m Collin Garbarino.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday, February 28th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

Time now for Listener Feedback. We begin with some corrections and clarifications this morning.

First, we found out this month that back on January 22nd we misidentified the state in which one of our news sources practices law. The immigration attorney we quoted practices in Minnesota not Pennsylvania.

Next, during our February 7th program we profiled musician and producer Charlie Peacock. We misidentified his birthplace. He was in fact born in Yuba City, California. We reposted the segment online with this correction.

BROWN: This month we’ve covered a few stories based in Alaska. Listener David Durst is a long-time resident of the last frontier. He called in to straighten us out on some pronunciations he clearly knows better than we did. But he also had this to say:

DAVID DURST: Thank you for covering the Bering Air airplane crash en route from Unalakleet to Nome on February 6th. As a lifelong Alaskan, it's nice to have events that are significant to our great state, nationally. Aviation is a huge part of transportation here as a majority of communities are not accessible by road. Even our state capitol Juno is only accessible by air or sea due to terrain.

I would also like to add that the town of Nome still does not have road access. There's about 200 miles of road out of Nome, but they are all dead ends. All Alright, thanks for all your coverage of Alaska and keep up the great work. Thanks, bye.

Thanks for listening, David.

EICHER: Grateful your message didn’t have to be carried by dog-sled to get to us!

Now on to some listeners who took exception to a few of our stories this month. First, a comment by environmental engineering professor Nathan Howell, who says he teaches at West Texas A&M University. He had this to say about our coverage of the Department on Government Efficiency after finding out a few of his friends had been laid off by DOGE.

NATHAN HOWELL: I was calling in a recording to respond to some of what Cal Thomas recently offered about critiques on DOGE and those complaining about it. I don't disagree with most of what Cal said, he makes good points about needing to find fraud, waste and abuse and how likely it would be to find it if sought for. But I don't really understand why a blanket layoff of probationary employees is considered elimination of fraud, waste, and abuse. There was no attempt made to discern if the employees were doing their jobs. So I thought that detail needed to be added to this larger conversation.

After our February 6th story about changes to the asylum process at the southern border, listener Tim Smith sent this comment:

TIM SMITH: First of all, I just want to say I really appreciate you guys as for people, followers of Christ as well. Specifically, it's just a great service to the body of Christ at large, and I sincerely thank you all for it. I do have some mild criticism for that piece. I did not think that it was really well balanced or even -handed. There seemed to be a slant towards compassion for the people who were stuck in a difficult situation because the laws of our country are now suddenly being enforced. There are many people who just are trying to come to the United States for a better life. And while I empathize with that, it's not legal to try to claim asylum except for the narrow parameters that are set that have been set for a long time and the CBP1 app and all of that stuff was a workaround that was not in keeping with either the letter or the spirit of the law.

BROWN: One more comment offering some push back. This time in response to our February 13th commentary on pennies. Here’s Sarah Collen.

SARAH COLLEN: Last week, Cal Thomas ran a story about President Trump ordering the U.S. mint to stop making pennies. He said this was a good start, but wondered “why stop there?” It makes a bit of sense, considering how much it costs to make coins. However, I am a not-very-tech-savvy mother with young children.

When I pay my kids every week, I give them their money in piles: 10% to tithe, 10% for their piggy bank, and I recommend they save a dollar in an envelope every week. Without coins, I don't see any way I could work their pay as I currently do.

It's hard because I certainly see the point about waste, but it feels like a U.S. without coins is a U.S. that's harder for families with children.

EICHER: And now a few appreciative comments.

Matt Brown from Tucson, Arizona enjoyed our recent coverage of life in Syria on our Doubletake podcast.

MATT BROWN: You know y'all are taking it totally to the next level. I kind of feel like I'm listening to an AP segment back from the invasion of Iraq or something, you know, it was just amazing and really, deeply, deeply moving on multiple levels, and these segments that you're doing that tell tell story and have so many subplots are so engaging so educational so informative. You are really honing our appetites for better and better and this is certainly an example of high quality, better and better. Thank you so much.

BROWN: And finally, one more voicemail before we go. Last month we said farewell to one of our longtime technical producers, Johnny Franklin:

LORRAINE: This is Loraine from Menifee, California, congratulations to Johnny Franklin on his semi-retirement. Johnny's creative placement of music like Rachmaninoff's Russian Easter Overture and tunes by Bob Dylan relating to news stories really highlight his behind the scenes skill. Thanks for all you do. Bye.

EICHER: Thanks to everyone who wrote and called in this month. It’s good to hear from you, even when you disagree. Thanks for the time you take to let us know.

BROWN: If you have a comment to share you can email editor@wng.org. You can include an audio file attachment to your email and we’ll consider it for air. You can even phone it in at 202-709-9595, and as we implied earlier, you can also dog-sled it to us.

And that’s this month’s Listener Feedback!

NICK EICHER, HOST: Well, it’s time to say thanks to the team who helped out this week:

Jenny Rough, David Bahnsen, Mary Muncy, Grace Snell, Juliana Chan Erickson, Andrew Walker, Leo Briceno, Onize Oduah, Emma Freire, Emma Waters, Emma Perley …

And we’re not done yet, Lindsay Mast, Leah Savas, Kim Henderson, Cal Thomas, John Stonestreet, and Collin Garbarino.

Thanks also to our breaking news team: Kent Covington, Lynde Langdon, Steve Kloosterman, Travis Kircher, Lauren Canterberry, Christina Grube, and Josh Schumacher.

And a big thanks to the guys who stay up late to get the program to you early: Carl Peetz and Benj Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Harrison Watters is Washington producer, senior producer Kristen Flavin is features editor, Paul Butler executive producer, and Les Sillars editor-in-chief.

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