June 9, 2025

Is It Time for a VO Conference in Australia?

Is It Time for a VO Conference in Australia?

This week, it’s just AP and Robbo flying the plane—and they’re kicking around an idea that’s been brewing for a while:
👉 Should we launch a voiceover conference right here in Australia?

We know there are VO events in the US and UK, but barely anything for Aussie or Kiwi talent. So… what would it look like if we ran one? Who would show up? What would we cover?

We chat about:

  • The gap in the local VO scene

  • Robbo’s Home Studio Rehab webinar (coming up June 12th — $30, and 5 attendees get their audio personally reviewed)

  • Remote recording tools like Source Connect and Twisted Wave

  • Whether George Whittam and Robert Marshall would make the trek down under

  • What agents used to do… and what they don’t anymore

  • And some early demo distribution tactics involving mini SD cards (true story)

🎧 Plus, here's that link Robbo promised in the episode—a quick test we did using Twisted Wave on iOS, recorded in the car:
📱 https://youtu.be/cWcLKq215-Q


📣 Tell us what you think!

Would you be interested in a VO conference in Sydney?

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Home Studio Rehab – $30 for 90 mins of live guidance, plus 5 attendees get their audio reviewed
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socials.

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about doing a webinar.

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Yeah, I thought I'd dip my toe in

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the water, you know.

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As you know, I started doing demos.

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And I'm still going doing them and having

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a lot of fun doing that.

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And something that sort of occurred to me

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at the same time as we were recording

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demos, I was getting asked a bunch of

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questions about, you know, what's my room sound

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like?

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You know, do you think I could do

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anything to improve it?

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Rah, rah, rah.

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there's obviously a lot of people who want

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that information out there.

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and sort of see who would like to

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see what I've got to say about it.

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So, yeah, so for 30 bucks on June

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the 12th at 7.30 p.m., you

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mug for an hour and a half and

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they can take all that stuff away and

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make the changes for themselves.

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events, which we don't have in Australia or

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Australia or New Zealand if we did a

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voiceover conference event.

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one, wouldn't it?

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the United States, right?

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I know it.

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I actually told you.

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I think I told you this one.

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was some ridiculous amount of people who identified

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250,000.

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Just in California.

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talked to George and Robert about would they

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as part of an event.

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The Just Ask Robbo thing that I do

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as well, which is like a home studio

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help thing, I mean that's slowly getting a

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who may already have a home studio and

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they move and they'll sort of jump online,

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you know, make a booking with me and

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jump online and we'll have a listen and

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make some changes and stuff.

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from embarrassment along the way because there's some

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that you sort of go, yeah, you need

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listen back to that one.

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saying is I think there's definitely a taste

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out there that people will want to make

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their audio sound as good as they can.

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studios aren't going away, you know.

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We're only going to go the way of

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the States where, you know, you may not

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have to leave home.

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Well, I don't.

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No, that's right.

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You're a hermit.

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Yeah, I look like a hermit and I

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act like a hermit now.

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often I travel into Melbourne and I had

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to really scratch my head.

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I was there once probably in three years

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I think I went in for a session.

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But that was the first time in years.

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What kind of things do you reckon?

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Connect and all that sort of stuff given

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the conversation we've just had, you know, about

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how it's not going to be that long

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and you won't be leaving home.

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So Source Connect would have to be there.

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Source Connect, I think also if you're talking

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about working remotely, I would definitely talk about

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Wave, it works on iOS and so if

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you're, you know, out of, away from the

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studio and you get a job or someone

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wants you to audition for something, I just

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use iOS on my phone and sit in

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It was more than a few months ago.

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But yeah, it was great.

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for this episode because that's great.

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a vacation.

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Facebook and stuff, actually meet them face-to

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You'd do gear.

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turn up and they can talk about what

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audio engineers if they're from studios around the

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you'd have to give them a stiff scotch

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before they go into the session.

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Get their head around it.

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voiceover artists, but I also think, you know,

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like audio engineers could be interested as well.

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of stuff.

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I mean, just thinking about it, you could

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also do business stuff.

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I mean, you know, there's plenty of Australians

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who are doing well in the States at

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the moment and overseas in certain places.

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a guest speaker like that maybe to come

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and have a bit of a chat.

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Just talk about business.

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Because that's a big side of things these

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days, isn't it?

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I mean, let's be honest, agents aren't exactly

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proactive in getting out there and promoting people

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on their books.

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You've kind of still got to get out

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there and do it yourself.

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So if you're a bit like me, you

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might be scratching your head about how you

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do that.

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It's a mix of your agent promoting you

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and you promoting – because you've got to

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feed your agent as well.

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I mean, they're not going to – you

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know, they literally don't have time to be

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digging around trying to find stuff.

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So like for me and – But do

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you know what, AP?

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I was talking about this the other day.

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I remember – and this is a while

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ago now.

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So this was when I was at George

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Pat.

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So we're talking late 90s, early 2000s, or

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at Take-Two even.

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It used to happen.

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You know, if an agent got a new

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person on their books, they'd do like the

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record company thing.

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They'd do the rounds of the studios.

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Oh, can we make a time to come

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and see you, Robbo?

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You know, blah, blah, blah.

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And they'd turn up and, G'day, Robbo, this

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is Andrew.

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He's new on our books.

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You know, he's really versatile.

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Here's his demo.

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Let's have a listen.

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You know, blah, blah, blah.

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And they don't do that stuff anymore.

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No, it's funny, isn't it?

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We used to do the rounds.

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I remember doing the rounds myself, you know,

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not necessarily with an agent.

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I'd just go, you know, contact people and

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hit all the ad agencies and studios and

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stuff.

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And that was, oh, God, that was like

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nearly 30 years ago when I used to

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go door knocking.

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That was in the days of cassettes.

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In fact, I remember I was probably one

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of the first guys to do a CD

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demo.

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I remember I did demos when those little,

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what do you call it, the little micro

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SD card things, just as a bit of

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a gimmick, I chucked my demos on those

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and I dropped them around places when I

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was looking for a job once, just to

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do something a little bit different, make you

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stand out in their heads.

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So maybe what we should do, if anybody

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is slightly interested in us putting together an

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event, a conference in Sydney at some point

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in the future, next year or maybe, maybe

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just shoot us a note.

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I'll tell you what I'll do.

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I'll build a quick little form that'll take

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you two seconds to fill out, maybe just

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a couple of quick questions and a few

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multi-choice yes or no's and I'll stick

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a link.

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I'll stick it everywhere.

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I'll stick it on the website and I'll

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stick it on our socials and I'll stick

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it in the show notes if they're here

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and jump on there and tell us what

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you think if you've got any ideas.

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Yeah, cool.

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I love it.

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There you go.

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All right, we'd better go and start preparing

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for our conference.

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There's no business like show business.

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Well, that was fun.

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Is it over?

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It's over with me.

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The Pro Audio Suite.

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