Podcast Awesome
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On Podcast Awesome we talk to members of the Font Awesome team about icons, design, tech, business, and of course, nerdery.
🎙️ Podcast Awesome is your all-access pass into the creative engine behind Font Awesome — the web’s favorite icon toolkit. Join host Matt Johnson and the Font Awesome crew (and friends) for deep dives into icon design, front-end engineering, software development, healthy business culture, and a whole lot of lovingly-rendered nerdery.
From technical explorations of our open-source tooling, chats with web builders, icon designers, and content creators, with the occasional gleeful rants about early internet meme culture, we bring you stories and strategies from the trenches of building modern web software — with a healthy dose of 80s references and tech dad jokes.
🎧 Perfect for:
- Icon design and content-first thinking
- Creative process and collaborative design
- Work-life balance in tech
- Remote team culture and async collaboration
- Internet history, meme archaeology, and other nerd ephemera
🧠 Come for the design wisdom, stay for the deep meme cuts and beautifully crafted icons.
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How to Spot Great Leadership in Interviews (and Avoid Bad Managers) | Dave Gandy
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May 26, 2026 |
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Website Color Theming Made Easy [Look Awesome Demo]
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May 12, 2026 |
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Build Week: What we Made with AI [Part 2] with Dave + Travis
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May 05, 2026 |
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Build Week: What we Made with AI [Part 1] with Dave + Travis
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Hiring Is a Two-Way Street — Here’s What Most People Miss
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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New Font Awesome Features: PNG Downloads, Color Picker, and User Blender
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Eleventy Is Rebranding to Build Awesome: What Changes (and What Doesn’t)
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Vic Bell on Designing Graphite: Hand-Drawn Icons for Font Awesome
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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How Eleventy Survived: Funding, Growth, and Open Source Reality
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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2025 Awesomeverse Recap with Matt and Jory
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Inclusive Nerdery: The Secret Sauce of Great Teams | Podcast Awesome
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Andy Maier on Curiosity, Creativity, and the Force That Binds It All
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Web Awesome Has Landed: Here’s How to Stop Starting From Scratch
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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WordPress Just Got Awesome (Again) – Font Awesome Plugin v5 Deep Dive with Mike Wilkerson
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Living the Dream: Dan Cederholm's Creative Journey [Part 2] | Podcast Awesome
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Living the Dream: Dan Cederholm's Creative Journey (Part 1)
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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How We Built Web Awesome with 11ty (and Why It’s So Fast)
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Clippy Cult: The Paperclip That Wouldn’t Quit
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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🎙️ Rage Coding, Headless Web Components, and the Future of DX with Burton Smith
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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🖇️ Podcast Awesome: The Story Behind the Stapler Icon
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Invisible Creature’s Don Clark on Nostalgia, Iconography, and Staying Human
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Behind the Icon: Cowbell-Circle-Plus
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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The GI Joe PSAs and the Birth of Internet Weird
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Set Us Up the Meme: The Strange Tale of All Your Base
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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A Short History of Lorem Ipsum (and a Rant)
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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From Stickers to State Law: The Accessibility Icon Story
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May 29, 2025 |
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Nerd Show and Tell: Meet Travis Chase
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May 13, 2025 |
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🎬 From Script to Sizzle: How We Cooked Up the Font Awesome 7 Promo Video 🎬
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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🎙️ Why Web Accessibility Matters – Lindsay Miller on Inclusive Digital Design | Podcast Awesome
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Pro+, New Styles & Not Dog Icons? Welcome to Font Awesome 7!
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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🎙️ Podcast Awesome: Nerd Show & Tell with Isaac Chase
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Why Design is Hard (And How Collaboration Changes Everything) with Bryan Zug
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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🎙️ What the Heck is a Design Engineer? (with Dave Darnes)
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Dave Gandy on Why Boring is Best™ in Engineering
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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2024 Wrap-Up: Growth, Legends, and a Kitty Cat Saga
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Myth, Meme, or Madness? The Truth About Ballmer’s Peak 🤔
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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The Logic Defying Way to Creating an Awesome Place to Work
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Nerd Show and Tell: Meet Zach Leatherman
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Why 'Lifestyle Company' Is a Badge of Honor at Font Awesome
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Character First: The Font Awesome Key to Hiring Success
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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The Great Debate: Web Fonts vs. SVGs – Which Should You Use? It Depends
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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The Story Behind the Poo-Storm Icon
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Behind the Icon: How the Double Horns Became a Metalhead’s Salute
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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The Story Behind the Dumpster Fire Icon: From Meme to Iconic Design
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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The Story Behind the Mullet Icon: Celebrating an Enduring Cultural Symbol
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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The Story Behind the Sharp Icons: How a Whiteboard Idea Accidentally Turned into a Full Icon Set
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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The Latest on Web Awesome's Alpha Release
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Podcasting 101: How Podcast Awesome Came to Life
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Nerd Show and Tell: Meet Konnor Rogers
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Nerd Show and Tell: Meet Lindsay Miller
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Introducing the Icon Wizard: Where F.A.R.T.S. Become Arts
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May 21, 2024 |
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Icons Made Easy: Rob Explains Font Awesome Pro
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May 07, 2024 |
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Working Genius in Teams with Dave and Travis
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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What the Eff is the "FACU"?
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Free Code, Future Sustainability
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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The Art of Teamwork and the Working Genius Framework
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Demystifying Y Combinator
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Pressure to Empowerment: Lessons From MIT
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Bridging the Gap: How Devs and Designers Can Work Better Together
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Font Awesome's 2023 Year in Review
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Why We Use "Shape Up" for Project Management
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Exploring Patrick Lencioni's 6 Types of Working Genius with Font Awesome Founder Dave Gandy
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Nerd Show and Tell: Meet Jason Otero
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Behind the Pixels: Designing Icons the Font Awesome Way
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Nerd Show and Tell: Meet Kelsey Jackson, Designer and Front-End Developer
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Unlocking Figma's Rainbow Magic: How We Transformed Our Icon Design Process
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Nerd Show and Tell: Meet Joey Hensen Font Awesome's Controller
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Font Awesome Takes the Stage: A Recap of Config 2023
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Icon Designers Jory Raphael and Noah Jacobus Discuss the History and Future of Font Awesome Icons
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Appreciating the Virtuous Cycle of Nerdery with Mike Wilkerson
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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When Failure Isn’t Failure: Hard Lessons in Business and Life with Dave Gandy
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Character First: Why Font Awesome Doesn’t Hire “Rock Stars” and “A Players”
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Nerd Show and Tell: Meet Trevor Chase
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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The Snuggle Is Real: How Font Awesome and Shoelace Are on a Mission to Make Dev Work Easier
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May 16, 2023 |
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Nerd Show and Tell: Meet Sr. Developer Ed Emanuel
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May 02, 2023 |
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How Font Awesome Broke Kickstarter Records with a Hilarious Video
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Nerd Show and Tell: Meet Alex Poiry
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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What's New in Font Awesome 6?
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Font Awesome's 2022 Year in Review with Matt and Jory
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Remote Work: How We Snuggle Our Way to a Healthy Company Culture
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Nerd Show and Tell: Meet Noah Jacobus, Senior Icon Designer
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Podcast Awesome Teaser
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Dec 21, 2022 |