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After The Final Pour - S8E8 - New Belgium "Voodoo Ranger Fruit Force"
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This week Brandon and Tony drink New Belgium "Voodoo Ranger Fruit Force".
Beer description:
Fruit Force is a high-flying, Fruit Punch IPA landing at a powerful 9.5% ABV. Prepare for take-off and hold on to your aviators.
Thanks to Kevin and Deb Goggin for the theme song.
Outro music by Fluid Minds
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Transcript
Introduction and Beer Tasting
00:00:30
Speaker
When life gives you an empty cup
00:00:45
Speaker
Welcome to After the Final Pour, brought to you by The Malting Hour. I am one of your hosts, Tony Golic, joined always with... Brandon Winninger. Going in real close on that one. A little too close. Yeah, it is a little too close. How's it going, man? Good. How are you? Pretty good. Ooh. Holy cow. Have you smelled this beer yet? Yeah, dude.
00:01:08
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So I don't think I've had this before. I've had plenty of their different iterations. I'm actually going to check real quick here on the old untapped to see if I've had it. But I'm almost, I feel like with what I just smelled from this, I would have remembered. You'd remember. Yeah. Well, at one point apparently they made a passion fruit version of this.
Voodoo Ranger Favorites
00:01:33
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And tonight,
00:01:34
Speaker
We're drinking New Belgium Brewing Company's Voodoo Ranger Fruit Force IPA. It's 9.5% ABV with 20 IBUs. Fruit Force is a high-flying fruit punch IPA landing at a powerful 9.5% ABV. Prepare for takeoff and hold on to your aviator.
00:01:54
Speaker
So just some other notes on that too. It's brewed with pale malt, malted oats, and white wheat, and hopped with Amarillo, Centennial, Galaxy, Sabro, Lotus, Strata hops. Oh, it lost me at Strata. No, I'm just joking. Those are all typical hazy IPA hops. Now, I've tried a bunch of the different Voodoo Ranger beers from New Belgium.
00:02:19
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I gotta be honest. Um, they're all really good. I haven't had one that I've been like, nah, no, no, thanks. Don't, don't care for it. Um, I think I want to say that my favorite one, if I just pull up Voodoo Ranger and see all the ones that I've checked in, uh, they had something to do with like, oh yes,
Flavor Profile and Childhood Memories
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Speaker
I didn't even check it in. Interesting. Uh, Voodoo Ranger 1985 was really, uh, I'm really liking that one. It, uh,
00:02:46
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came across as a, it says it's a hazy APA.
00:02:53
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But it drank way more like a West Coast IPA to me, which I liked. And the other one that I had last year, March 16th, was Voodoo Ranger Juice Force. Not fruit, okay, it's just Juice Force. And Juice Force, okay, Juice Force, Jesus. Juice Force is also nine and a half percent. And I gave that one a 4.25. Interesting. When did you have that one last year?
00:03:21
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March 16. Oh my god. Did you take a sip? No, so I had I had Juice Force in May of last year. Oh, nice. This is a man. So right off the bat, it smells like yeah, and people listening can probably hear the smile on my face. It smells like Hawaiian punch. It smells like fruit punch. Like it really
00:03:47
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It really does. It takes me back to the days of drinking Kool-Aid as a kid, which I'm surprised I didn't get diabetes from. But yeah, the smell is really good. I mean, it's that real tropical, fruity, fruit punch smell. I mean, the first thing that came to my head was Hawaiian Punch. This is a Hawaiian Punch IPA. Yeah, that's what it smelled like when I cracked the can open. I can smell this all the time.
00:04:10
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Oh, yeah, like back in the back of the day, I think there was a short period. Maybe they still do. But I remember there was a brief period where there there was cans of Hawaiian punch. Yeah, there was. And it reminded me of that, like, because I had the glass wasn't like super close to me when I cracked it when I cracked the clan of the can open. And it was like, I've said Jew force and you said clan. What's going on? And it was not right. It was a punch in the face of fruit punch pleasantly.
00:04:40
Speaker
Yeah. What do you think about the taste of it? Look at the crazy head that like... Oh, I know. I didn't even give it a vigorous here. I didn't even give it like a vigorous pour and I got a nice like head on that. It blows me away that this is a nine and a half percent.
00:04:59
Speaker
IPA and the IBUs are so low. And like the amount of hops they actually used in there. Yeah, it so my first sip was oh my god. It's like drinking carbonated fruit punch. And then there was a little bit of like bitterness in the back. Now I've taken a few more sips. It
00:05:20
Speaker
Nine and a half is crazy. Like it definitely doesn't taste like nine and a half, but there is definitely like a boozy bite in the back and not like nine off flavor or anything. But, uh, whoa, man, this is stupid dangerous. Like I thought the beer hugs were really
Fruit Punch Flavor Analysis
00:05:41
Speaker
good from Goose Island. The whatever, what's their, what's their nine, 9% or 9.9%? Not neon, is it?
00:05:50
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no beer hugs nine let's say nine percent let's say beer hugs nine percent tropical yeah okay so tropical beer hug so tropical beer hug is i thought was really good and they also sell these in these really tall cans this is what 19 is a 19 ounce can yep yeah 19.2 fluid ounces which is wild um this
00:06:20
Speaker
Sorry Goose, this blows all of the beer hugs out of the water. Just this one beer, I would take over all of the beer hugs. This is my favorite Voodoo Ranger variant that they've been so adamantly working on.
00:06:40
Speaker
It's funny too, because when I read it, I was like, oh, fruit punch IPA. I didn't realize like that they were going to go sew down the rabbit hole of like, let's make this as close to fruit punches or like Hawaiian punch as possible. Um, but they did that and they successfully nailed that, I would say. And it's not super sweet. Agreed. And it's funny because with a little, with that, the high amount of alcohol and the low IBUs, they found a,
00:07:09
Speaker
Nice balance to have some bitterness in there to make you feel like, oh, I'm still drinking a beer. It's not just this fruit flavored malt beverage, basically. Yes. They they really nailed fruit punch with this. Doesn't say anything about any like.
00:07:27
Speaker
I didn't see anything about like any artificial flavorings or anything or like fruit punch flavor. You know what I mean? And it says the the beer has a fruity aroma and a juicy flavor with a twist of fruit punch flavor similar to Hawaiian punch. No, it doesn't say like, at least not in the thing that came up in my Google search. I'm checking now as well because fruit punch flavors are minutes away. But yeah, just
00:07:56
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It doesn't say like that there's what flavor is fruit for us. That's yeah, that is insane. That's yeah, fruit for pineapple, mango and grapefruit. These flavors are balanced by moderate bitterness that keeps the beer from being overly sweet. Yeah, I just like if they're just getting this from hops, that's crazy. That is
00:08:18
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insane. Yeah, and I'm reading on another website that says it's not sure where they get the flavor from but no shit. It's super easy to drink and that's the big thing that I'm taking away from this too. Like it's kind of creeping me out how it's scaring me how easy this is to drink. Good news is it looks like they also sell these
00:08:45
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in six 12 ounce cans, so I don't have to go crazy drinking this.
Podcast Beer Purchases and Riot Fest Plans
00:08:50
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Tall boys. Yeah, then these are the ultimate tall boys. I mean, 19.2 fluid ounces. That's insane. Yeah, so people know this was
00:09:02
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I found this today. Tony and I both happened to be in separate grocery stores today. We knew we were going to record tonight. We were probably just going to end up doing random beers. As we do these days. But I was looking at beer and I was like, well, let me see what's in the Juul's selection of tall boys. Actually, they had a bunch of these 19-ounce cans that were like two for six.
00:09:26
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And I took a picture and I sent it to Tony and I was like, and he's like, what? And he's like, wait, I'm at Mariano's. Let me see if they have it. And they had at Mariano's. Yeah, I'm, I'm having a real hard time, like, just accepting that there's no fruit juice or some type of fruit flavoring.
00:09:51
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in here, but they don't list it anywhere, nowhere at all. It just says the hops and the moltz and the ale yeast, London ale three. So I have a really hard time not drinking this beer. Yeah. I mean, it's God bless America. This is great fine, Brandon. I just poured the rest of the can in my glass. It's like a real refresher. Yeah. Real refresher of the
00:10:19
Speaker
Exactly, Eggie. The Hawaiian punch smell. I mean, jeez. When this episode comes out, we're already done with Riot Fest. And I had the idea of maybe that we should record after a night of Riot Fest, but Brandon was smart and said, no, we should go home and go to bed because of how much time we're spending at Riot Fest this weekend. God, I wish this was, you know what? Because I know that they have the beer hugs at,
00:10:49
Speaker
Riot Fest because Goose Island, I believe, is one of the sponsors because, well, yeah, they are because they make the paleo Riot Fest sucks. And I was like, man, maybe they'll maybe they'll be great if they had something like this there as well. I doubt it because, you know, Goose Island is a sponsor. So I'm probably a whole bunch of AB in both. So I had this I had this in the fridge, like from when I got home, I took it down like. I don't know, I think I was waiting like 10 or 15 minutes before we got on, but what
00:11:19
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what I would be interested in. Like if I ever get this again, which I probably will, probably be another tall boy if it's for three bucks.
00:11:28
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I want to put this in the freezer to where it's almost frozen. I want it to be a slushy, but I want it to be that ice, ice cold beer. This would be so good, super cold. Yeah, because you'd get all that fruit flavor straight up without anything else. That just throws me back to when I was a kid, dude, I used to put my Hawaiian punches in the freezer and then I would pull them out and slam them.
00:11:53
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That's why I was fat. Slim and Hawaiian punch like it was going out of style. Why it's easy for us to drink beers that we do now, right? I mean, any dude, any any liquid. I mean, I just did what I like. I'm looking around. I just cleaned the basement. I'm looking around now. It's like there's random like different flavors of carbonated water cans just sitting around because I mean, I literally I'll come home
00:12:22
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from work. And the first thing I want to do is like, Oh, man, I want one of these carbonated waters. And I come down to the basement, I grab a can, give myself like, you know, 15 minutes, just like, okay, done with work, decompress for a little bit, crack it open. And like, I can easily kill two of them. Like, I just found out that Jules, like brand, like their off brand, uh, has the cherry flavored, which is hit or miss for a lot of people. Cause some people think it kind of tastes like cherry cough syrup and carbonated water, which
00:12:50
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I do too, but I don't get that, which I'm very happy about because I really love the cherry flavored ones. So I just bought that yesterday and I bought it last night at like, I was a jewel like 7.30 and I, out of the 12 pack, I think I'm already down to like seven of them. You got a fucking problem, man.
00:13:10
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I know it's better than that than like selling beers all the time. Is it though?
Festival Logistics and Reflections
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I don't know. I have no idea. I don't know. I don't know what the carbonation is doing to my body and my teeth or whatever. Well, there's carbonation in beer anyway, so either way we'd be fine. That's what I mean. But there's no alcohol and there's no calories, so I got that going for me. Artificial flavoring.
00:13:30
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Like 30 years that carbonation has like that creates calories to go that carbonated water you were drinking That was actually 400 calorie 12 ounce can your body's converted carbonation into calories?
00:13:51
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Our bodies have just become so used to it. It's like well, we were consuming so many we might as well turn them into calories Clearly you're taking this into your body for some reason and it's for survival That's a theory everybody we're fucking scientists But way to go voodoo ranger
00:14:10
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Yeah, we're going to Belgium with the fucking continuing the Voodoo Ranger series and this 100% being my favorite right now. And I would like to do a tropical beer hug and Voodoo Ranger fruit for side by side to see.
00:14:30
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where they stack up but I gotta lean. I don't even know if I need to do that because in all honesty, I mean this just tastes like Hawaiian Punch in beer form. I would like to find out or I would love to find a bunch of like fruit punch inspired beers and do a blind taste testing. Sure. I'm down for that.
00:14:52
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Also, now that I'm now I'm drinking this a little bit more, I'm getting like the fruit punch flavor that I'm getting now is kind of turned into like a grape fruity. Yeah.
00:15:06
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pineapple type, you know, like, and that's, I like that I am not upset about that. No, and I think for me, it feels like as it's warming up, like some other flavors are starting to shine a little bit more than, you know, yeah, it's not. Yeah, it's not just like straightforward. Oh, here's fruit punch. I'm starting to feel the beer. I'll tell you that much.
00:15:27
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as far as I'll go. Brandon rubs the can on his face. No, like alcohol wise, I feel like my body is now starting to You've gotten a little redder as we've been talking. I believe it. I actually I can tell I'm looking in the video now like I feel warmer in the face. So way to go body.
00:15:50
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making me warm. Need to stop drinking. I'm gonna stop doing this podcast. Yeah, man, I'm excited to see what beers they have on hand at Riot Fest. That way we're listening to this we've already gone to. Yeah, I meant to look earlier, I was gonna look in the app and see if it said anything about like the food options or... There are a ton of different food vendors. I did see that it is on the map. We should try to do the Ferris wheel.
00:16:19
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I would love to do that. The line was too long. We only had one day last year. Now we have a day and a half-ish. I'm saying, what time are you joining me on Sunday? Later in the day, right? I don't know yet. I still have to talk to Rebecca to see if we're going to do the thing.
00:16:38
Speaker
Sure. The monster trucks. But we'll see. I think if anything, at least I might do like Beck and I and Benjamin and you're welcome to come to you if we don't go to monster trucks, but like we might go do like an early brunch or something like that. I would like to. And then I would just go to the fest.
00:16:55
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Sunday is the, there is one band that I want to see that is like early in the morning, but it's the Smoking Popes, Chicago's Smoking Popes, but they're only playing for like 45 minutes and they're like the second band of the day, which kind of comes me out.
Final Review and Closing Remarks
00:17:08
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Yeah. You know, that's, and then after that, there really isn't anything I want to see until later in the day. Yeah.
00:17:17
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I thought it was interesting. You sent your list of what you wanted to see. I had completely forgotten about Corey Feldman. I hadn't even looked. It's the first band on Saturday we got to go see. I was looking at the list of like, all right, who's playing, who's playing? And then I was like, nothing really. And then you sent Corey Feldman. I was like, how did I miss that? How did I miss that?
00:17:37
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You just forgot, man. You just forgot. That was it. I'll tell you this. The real bummer for me, and this is going to sound crazy, is a Friday I need to figure out how, or it's Saturday during the day, how long it takes to get from one stage to another because right after Queens of the Stone Age. That's on Saturday. Yes. Postal service is going to go on and they're going to start right away because of the stage right next to them. Kind of like when we saw Yaya as a nine inch nails.
00:18:05
Speaker
So postal service is going on. I've never seen postal service. They're playing their one album all the way through. Pretty excited about that. But also, at that exact same time, ICP will be on the other side of the park halfway through their set. Got to go find me some jug of hoes. I mean, jug of hoes. Oh, boy. Brandon just got canceled. I, uh,
00:18:31
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My concern with that, now both of those artists I've never seen live. Musically, now when I was younger, I did listen to some ICP. I had my insane clown posse phase. I feel like a lot of us in my age probably did, right Matthew? But the postal service, I really like the postal service musically, and I would love to see that album played in its entirety. It'd be a great way to end the night.
00:19:00
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When are we going to get a chance to see the insane clown posse again? Yeah. And the other thing is, if it's, so if by the time Queen's of Stone Age is wrapping up, because that's a full set. I want to see that full set. Yeah. We can, if we'll see how long it takes to get from one end to the other, and we can catch the final half hour or 20 minutes of ICP, we could always come back and catch the maybe
00:19:27
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a little bit left of the postal service as well. So we'll lose a little bit of music, but we could still see both of them. I just roll the dice and hopefully be able to catch enough ICP to make missing the beginning of the postal service set worth it. I don't know if I saw it on TikTok or if it was a Facebook video. I may have sent it to you, maybe I didn't, but it was a video with one of the guys from ICP,
00:19:56
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And they were talking about, somebody was interviewing them talking about it, like how rich they are. It was violent. You guys have so much money. He's like, I don't have any money. Steve was in the video. Yeah, that's what it was. And he's like, it all goes back into the business. Like, you know, they have their own record company. They produce their own stuff, put out their own stuff and it all goes back into the business. And I was like, and he said, he goes, yeah, absolutely. Well, I mean, dude, they made their own fucking thing. You know what I mean? Say what you want about like,
00:20:24
Speaker
the Juggalos and Insane Clown Posse and everything. But man, they made their own thing and they like their own brand and did their own thing. And they put all that money, like he said, he's like, I'm being real with you right now. I don't even have $100,000 in my bank account right now. It's just so funny, man. And that's awesome. So I think we have to make the effort to go see a little bit of ICP. Oh, yeah.
00:20:54
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Got to. I'm down. Got to go down with the clown as they say in one of their songs down with the clown till you're dead in the ground. That's a great way to wrap up this episode. Wait real quick before wrap up that episode because that was the perfect ending right there. I am super excited to like knowing that the Foo Fighters are playing a full like two hour set on Friday night like if I'm not mistaken.
00:21:20
Speaker
maybe one other band is playing, but I don't, actually I don't know if any other bands are playing while the Foo Fighters are playing on Friday night. They're actually looking at, Jesus Christ.
00:21:35
Speaker
That is the app. One other band is playing. Sludge Worth. Yeah, Sludge Worth. So that's at like, so one other band is playing while the Foo Fighters and fake names is ending while the Foo Fighters start. I'm sorry. The only band where no one is playing is on Sunday for The Cure. Interesting. Who also is the only other band that has a full two hour set. So, you know, Sunday we'll see how we're feeling. I definitely want to see The Cure. I don't know.
00:22:03
Speaker
You would have just a little of it. Yeah, I mean, sticking around last year for Nine Inch Nails was great. Did we stay for all of Hurt, or is that when we started leaving when Hurt was playing? I think we stayed for pretty much all of it, or maybe a lot more towards the tail end. Yeah, yeah.
00:22:20
Speaker
But we made perfect timing and then found the random stranger on the street to give us a ride. Yeah, man. Yeah. And hey, thanks for the ride. Guy who said he was, yeah, just 30 bucks. Did you give him cash or was it? Yeah, I think I gave him 30 or 40 bucks and it was like.
00:22:37
Speaker
Dude, he got us out of there within like five minutes and I was like, got us back to the car and you and I got home. You dropped me off or did you drop me off? No, you dropped me off in my car. Cause I was at your house and dropped me off in my car at your house. Uh, and I made it home right before that storm hit because I remember coming home and going to the backyard and bringing in all the cushions. And then by the time I got in.
00:22:59
Speaker
I put on the TV to relax before I had to go to bed and then go to work the next day. That thunderstorm hit. It was crazy. As of right now, as you and I are talking, so this will be another interesting thing to come back to. When I had looked at the weather, the weather this whole week in Chicago has been my favorite weather. The guy who doesn't shipping at my job
00:23:21
Speaker
We call it big guy weather because it's you know, we're here in the we work in a warehouse and it's like been in the 60s all all week like mid upper 60s and now This weekend is gonna be 75 73 and 71 and originally it said on Sunday So I don't know if we'll bounce back to that, but there was a chance of rain. It's rain So we'll see which I think you know, yeah
00:23:44
Speaker
Yeah. So, I mean, did I say sun? There's a 50% chance of sun. Yeah. There's a chance of rain, which I was like, oh, that's perfect because the cure is the headliner. So, you know, I mean, what would you not want to stand in the rain, listen to the cure and the used. That's what I'm also excited to see Sunday. So pretty excited about Riot Fest, but nothing compares to this beer. Brandon, how many Hawaiian punches are you giving this? I'm going four and a half.
00:24:15
Speaker
Right on. I am going 4.7. Ooh. Nice. 4.7. I was close to doing 4.8. But for what this is, for what it says that is, for the type of beer that they are saying that it is, this is fantastic. I really like it. Nailed it. Nailed it. Yeah.
00:24:41
Speaker
It'd be nice to have a six pack of this in the fridge to have every now and then to share with some friends because it's a tasty one, man. Yeah, and it's good. This would be a good beer. I mean, and I'm not going to say like, oh, people that don't like craft beer or like, you know, happy beers or whatever are going to like this, but it's a good beer. Like for even for people that like craft beer, it's a different take on an IPA and it's really well done.
00:25:06
Speaker
There's definitely more of a bitterness that has come through as I'm finishing up this beer. So it's from the beginning to the end, it's been like a total change in the beer. And I like that. I like that about this. And I'm going to recommend this to other people who I think would thoroughly enjoy it. Agreed. I will do that too. Fantastic. All right, buddy. Brandon, I love you, man. Love you too, bud.
00:25:33
Speaker
Thank you everybody for listening and we'll see you guys next week. Bye. Cheers.
00:25:42
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00:26:10
Speaker
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