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MIKE PROWSE SPECIAL: I DON'T LIKE YOUR TIE
During a crucial session in June 1962 George Harrison made a joke about George Martin's tie. It gave the EMI man a hint of the cheekily approachable sass which would beguile the world. And now - Marc
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🔥 SO WHERE IS GEORGE MARTIN'S TIE NOW?!🔥
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Our long-term associate Solo Travel Expert @mikeprowsestp.bsky.social has been ON THE CASE.
Perfect Bank Holiday listening for the Beatle fan who KNOWS George Harrison owned a microscope.
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9 February 1961:
The Beatles perform at Liverpool's Cavern Club for the first time. They are paid £5 to share between themselves.
"The other groups were like Cliff Richard and the Shadows, but the Beatles' music was so vibrant."
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The Beatles perform at Liverpool's Cavern Club for the first time. They are paid £5 to share between themselves.
"The other groups were like Cliff Richard and the Shadows, but the Beatles' music was so vibrant."
See more:
www.beatlesbible.com/1961/02/09/l...
The Beatles live: their first Cavern Club show
The Cavern Club, situated on Mathew Street in central Liverpool, had played host to The Quarrymen before. On this day, however, The Beatles made their debut at the venue. The Beatles swiftly became a ...
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February 9, 2026 at 11:13 AM
9 February 1961:
The Beatles perform at Liverpool's Cavern Club for the first time. They are paid £5 to share between themselves.
"The other groups were like Cliff Richard and the Shadows, but the Beatles' music was so vibrant."
See more:
www.beatlesbible.com/1961/02/09/l...
The Beatles perform at Liverpool's Cavern Club for the first time. They are paid £5 to share between themselves.
"The other groups were like Cliff Richard and the Shadows, but the Beatles' music was so vibrant."
See more:
www.beatlesbible.com/1961/02/09/l...
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![[26] CHRIS NEAL: The first couple of songs were nothing special. Once they got to the one with the harmonica Norman must have heard something in them though, cos he sent me down to fetch George Martin. While I was gone the evening tea trolley came round so I missed it. Once they’d finished playing George got them up here, taking them to task over God knows what. I wanted to get the paperwork done as quick as I could so I could go and eat.
As I worked I was running through what we had in at home – it was a Wednesday I remember and that’s the day Liz does the shopping. I hoped she’d got pork chops again. Or perhaps a pie. I was practically fainting just at the thought of it, finishing off the session sheet while George gave those Scousers what for. As I was crossing the final T’s there was a sudden silence, then one of them, the little sulky one, said something and they all fell about laughing. I didn’t stick around to hear what it was all about. That pie stall closes at ten.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erjquqznvcj6cqon2mbnqj2m/bafkreie6a3nwutefqn4bgtsqf2sbj63x3rvcniwmthc74a6haerwoqwxam@jpeg)
February 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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![[76] GEORGE HARRISON: We get to the studio, set up and we’re about to start when one of us, John probably, says to the engineer ‘So where’s this George Martin?’ Cos that was the name we had. The engineer said Mr Martin was in the canteen but they’d fetch him if they needed to. So we started running through the songs we’d prepared. It all sounded ok but when we got to Love Me Do it turned out John had forgotten his harmonica. I said the harmonica was such an important part of that song it wouldn’t work without it. So we moved onto PS I Love You or whatever it was. All through it the engineer’s watching us – taps his foot occasionally but no sign of fetching Mr Martin. In the end we went through everything we’d planned to do, apart from Love Me Do obviously, packed up our gear and left. As we were on the way out we bumped into George Martin in the corridor – didn’t say more than a few words to him really. I remember he had this awful tie on. So that’s how we ended up on Fontana.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erjquqznvcj6cqon2mbnqj2m/bafkreibmirsrcbtgraffq5ovljap74fmkiwe2wszemmmui3dnekd4h24by@jpeg)
June 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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![[77] RINGO: Paul didn’t even say the new song was written with AI by the way. We were pretty clear that John’s voice was extracted using machine learning – which is a whole different thing. Folks start tap-tapping away and the bloody headline comes first. We’re used to it. But we were always up on technology -we’d rush round if someone had a Moog. In fact, in 1985 I was in New York, and offered to drop off Paul’s Yamaha CS-80 with a guy called Harold Cohen. He fixed synths – but he was also working on a program called AARON. This program, if you gave it enough information, could create an image for you. Maybe an image of something that you’d never seen? You could get people who HAD seen it to offer all the information they could, and AARON could recreate it. So if for some reason you weren’t there for say a big joke you could see what something had actually looked like. I did give him a request, yes. But while AARON looked like it might be able to handle the job… y’know. Not to be.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erjquqznvcj6cqon2mbnqj2m/bafkreihzkdehegq5pomcdvkhrxixzhnipxpfrc4oon3raseij3hoim3nnq@jpeg)
June 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Little did I know it but my new job at EMI was soon to change my life. One day I was sweeping the front steps and these four mop-top youths came in; I could tell at once there was something special about them. I could tell they found a kindred spirit in me. ‘Eh up mate!’ John said. ‘We’re here to see George Martin!’ Quick as a flash, I quipped ‘If you report to reception someone will come down to meet you.’ I could tell they were all impressed. As we stood awkwardly I broke the silence with another gag: ‘Wait ‘til you see Mr Martin’s tie. Someone should have a word with him about it!’ ‘Hmmm…maybe I will!’ said George, and of course the rest is history. Over the years I was to become one of the ‘inner circle’. They even had a nickname for me; ‘Len’ they’d call me. ‘Hello er…Len’ John would say as he passed me sweeping up reception at the end of the day.
Len Moulton, ‘Our Len’: The Beatles and Me, Alma Books 1997](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erjquqznvcj6cqon2mbnqj2m/bafkreihderlpx22pzkjf7t4p2qez4skyvfkg57paiwsma225w3bkr3z3xu@jpeg)
June 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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CHRIS NEAL: It’s gone down in history, that line about the tie. I never thought it was funny. I decided there and then I’d get Harrison for that. 5 years I waited, until late in 67 I mentioned to an acquaintance who worked in the City that Clive Epstein didn’t seem to be relishing running NEMS to the same extent his brother had. Clive turned down Triumph Investment Trust’s first approach but I told them to give it a year then try again. I didn’t spend that year idle; I knew the Stones slightly and planted the notion Mick recommend John meet with Allen Klein. Triumph came back to Clive with their offer, and he accepted. This led to the chain of events which ended with the Beatles missing out on the chance to acquire NEMS, taking their eye off the ball with the Northern Songs situation and ultimately losing the rights to their own catalogue. By that point Klein was managing all of them apart from Paul; that caused a massive rift and that was basically it for them.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erjquqznvcj6cqon2mbnqj2m/bafkreiesjvmex2dn3ihcygy7pnmnapags66kl4ngemldbnqv3vfhrlduky@jpeg)
August 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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New Podcast! 🚨Episode 100!🚨 To celebrate 100 episodes, I’ve collated together excerpts from some of my favourite conversations over the past 5 years. Thank you all so much for listening, and here’s to the next 100!
January 23, 2026 at 8:44 AM
New Podcast! 🚨Episode 100!🚨 To celebrate 100 episodes, I’ve collated together excerpts from some of my favourite conversations over the past 5 years. Thank you all so much for listening, and here’s to the next 100!
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![[63] GEOFF EMERICK: After the split the boys were plagued by people who just wanted them to re-create past glories. It was the same for George Martin. He worked with some of the biggest names in pop, but they all wanted him to do ‘the tie thing’.
I continued to work with George at AIR. At the end of each getting-to-know-you chat the bands would sort of sit there expectantly. At first we wondered what was going on, then at some point George realised they were waiting for him to say ‘Anything you’re not happy with?’ Then they’d jump in with ‘Well for starters I don’t like your tie!’ They all did it, Stackridge, Cheap Trick, Celine Dion. It started to cause a bit of a problem for George as not being on staff at EMI he’d stopped wearing ties every day. So he’d have to remember to put one on whenever a new act came in. I’ll never forget him sitting there in the control room on Monserrat, must have been ninety in the shade, sweltering in a full suit just so he wouldn’t disappoint Ultravox.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erjquqznvcj6cqon2mbnqj2m/bafkreie6ldudycucw6xko5ulqftck5mk3wurz2doeyjkwjmhjsjkmw7eky@jpeg)
May 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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PAUL: So about that song you wrote...
JOHN: I keep telling you, "I Have Many Problems WIth You, Former Bandmate Paul McCartney" could be about any number of things.
JOHN: I keep telling you, "I Have Many Problems WIth You, Former Bandmate Paul McCartney" could be about any number of things.
December 14, 2023 at 3:18 PM
PAUL: So about that song you wrote...
JOHN: I keep telling you, "I Have Many Problems WIth You, Former Bandmate Paul McCartney" could be about any number of things.
JOHN: I keep telling you, "I Have Many Problems WIth You, Former Bandmate Paul McCartney" could be about any number of things.
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GEORGE MARTIN: Then George piped up ‘Well for starters I don’t like your tie’. I didn’t know what to say. George wasn’t to know but that tie was actually a present from my then-secretary Judy, who went on of course to become my wife. It seems silly now, but that remark really upset me. When you don’t know someone the smallest thing can affect your whole view of them. The silence was becoming a little awkward so I covered my hurt with a laugh. They joined in and we passed the remainder of the session pretty amicably. But inside just I couldn’t get past what he’d said. I’m afraid from that point I could never shake off the feeling that The Beatles were laughing at me.
We did some great work together as everyone knows, but we never really gelled and I ended up spending more and more time on my other acts. I don’t think we worked together after about late 1964. Then Parlophone dropped them, they moved over to Pye and things went downhill for them, rather. They split in… ’65 was it?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erjquqznvcj6cqon2mbnqj2m/bafkreiciys7r54qmobgpncpmvqzwqwr2biqnmk7uapuwxfdkt35strl7mi@jpeg)
February 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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PETE BEST: Then George Martin says to us ‘Is there anything you’re not happy with?’ He probably didn’t notice but we all tensed up a bit at this. You see we’d been pretty sure he’d ask something like this and the other three had been keen to have something to say back to him. Something funny, you know. For about three weeks before we went down for the recording session they’d been brainstorming lines. All the time backstage at gigs, in the van, even when we were just walking down the road. John, Paul and George just constantly trying to come up with a good, memorable line to put in if George Martin asked ‘Anything you’re not happy with?’ They went through so many ideas; at one point, John was going to say ‘Yes, your ears are too tall’. In the end I remember it was the day before we were due to travel down to London and I just said ‘What about ‘I don’t like your tie’?’ They all looked at me, then burst out laughing. It’s not often I’d make them laugh so it really stuck with me.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erjquqznvcj6cqon2mbnqj2m/bafkreihxkb4fprhgkrnvicehsmamjpjwrk3eugybeqka75hcdyaqkcmwoa@jpeg)
April 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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January 19, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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January 18, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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>> All tied up << Which Fab has it in the neck for GM?? We’ve always thought his productions were absolute comedy but EMI’s ex-Fleet Air Arm man George Martin is definitely moving on from twiddling knobs for Peter Sellers and Bernard Cribbins. It all got a bit heated at a recent audition with everyone’s favourite chippy scousers The Beatles. And for once the drama wasn’t coming from edgy occasional toilet-seat-wearer John Lennon – who definitely does NOT still live with his auntie, by the way. It seems a particularly quiet member of the band found his new boss’s tie a bit loud – and made his feelings perfectly clear. Cue an awkward silence and a possible ‘over before it even began’ situation for the band’s recording career…We’ve been hearing whispers lately that a certain member of Rory Storm and the Hurricanes may be having a ‘the grass is always greener’ moment. Surely he’d be Starkey-staring mad to quit…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erjquqznvcj6cqon2mbnqj2m/bafkreicbfngvroipt7sscsynzqhm53oxxvj6tlpr4aash6c5bnkagckzzy@jpeg)
March 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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![[31] NORMAN SMITH: After they’d finished playing, Mr Paramor got them up to the control room for a chat. He said they’d need to get some better equipment if they wanted to cut the mustard as recording artistes, then he took issue with their songs, saying he had some of his own compositions which would fit them well. At the end of it all, Norrie said ‘You’ve heard a lot from me. Is there anything you’re not happy about?’ George Harrison took a long look at him and said ‘Well for starters I don’t like your tie.’ There was a bit of a pause, then Norrie said ‘No, I mean anything you don’t like about what I’ve just said, or about the work we’ve done today.’ George didn’t know what to say. It was a pretty rocky start between them I can tell you, but as history shows Norrie took charge of the lads, knocked them into shape and gave them a string of hits we all know, including Play It Cool, The World Around Me and of course What’s On Your Mind. Classic stuff.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erjquqznvcj6cqon2mbnqj2m/bafkreihakpnhiejmos4s6jykucvkm3m2n7nz3udr65wmqeyjbcncpp4xv4@jpeg)
March 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Audition
Their fathers from an age not made for fun,
Whose wives conspired to give them beatnik sons
Who lived upstairs, and didn’t look like them.
They’ve put their Elvis Presley on again.
And sang like they were yanks and grew their hair
And lurked in basement nightclubs, came home late,
Escaped to London. Left them asking ‘Why?’
Mr Martin makes his records there.
The youngest of them as they spooled the tape
Had flatly told him: ‘I don’t like your tie.’
That night he folds the relic. Combs his hair.
Old comedy recordings. Books. That chair.
Youth is now an echo from afar.
That picture when he joined the Fleet Air Arm.
Maybe that tie’s a noose. But he reflects
That those boys really could get round the necks
Of high street Rickenbackers, Hofner bass -
The young one with the pointy shoes. That face.
And as he stumbles, groping, for a piss
Considers if he’s really right for this.
He sleeps. And does not know that he will share
Their threefold affirmation:
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.
Philip Larkin, Tie Windows (1974)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erjquqznvcj6cqon2mbnqj2m/bafkreichbyhmestwsimgeryld6weyny6euztxcbs2ghobmkml5mqaagmlu@jpeg)
March 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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New post about the latest series of one of my favourite pods. I go in and out of podcasts but this is one I regularly come back to. I’d like to write more posts like this - been listening to some good stuff recently! @personalbeatles.bsky.social kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/o...
On more controversial Beatles opinions
A short post about so-called controversial opinions from the newest series of Your Own Personal Beatles.
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January 13, 2026 at 6:09 PM
New post about the latest series of one of my favourite pods. I go in and out of podcasts but this is one I regularly come back to. I’d like to write more posts like this - been listening to some good stuff recently! @personalbeatles.bsky.social kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/o...
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The music playing during part of this home recording of John, Cynthia, Julian and George is one of the pieces Shirley Evans plays on the bus in Magical Mystery Tour. drive.google.com/file/d/1hI-2...
17 John, Cyn, Julian, George + poss. Neil, with music on the hi-fi).flac
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December 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The music playing during part of this home recording of John, Cynthia, Julian and George is one of the pieces Shirley Evans plays on the bus in Magical Mystery Tour. drive.google.com/file/d/1hI-2...
@neillcameron.bsky.social Hi Neill. My daughter is a huge Donut Squad fan and has devoured the new book. She's asked me to ask you the following question: 'What happened to Sweetums? Will they be back?' Thanks!
January 13, 2026 at 11:33 AM
@neillcameron.bsky.social Hi Neill. My daughter is a huge Donut Squad fan and has devoured the new book. She's asked me to ask you the following question: 'What happened to Sweetums? Will they be back?' Thanks!
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[39] Beatles 1st recording session for EMI on Parlaphone label great success. G Harrison charming + cocky with producer. Said didn't like tie. Producer tkn aback then charmed by likable deadpan cheek. Great rapport betw G Harrison and producer. Predict great working r'ship between two.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erjquqznvcj6cqon2mbnqj2m/bafkreihil7nwn3ignbt2tca2w2p26nnb3caqeby4eikm4pqepmm3nuhcf4@jpeg)
March 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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What I Did At The Weekend
This weekend was donkey day in the park it is every year and there are rides for 5/- which mum says is robbery also you can feed them. It is one time a year. We went to the seaside last summer and there were donkeys there all the time but in the park they are just one time a year and it is donkey day. My dad came with us he is an engineer in a record studio he has met tommy steel and got me anautograph of tommy steel. He told a joke that had happened to him at work yesterday before donkey day a pop group came to do songs and one said I don’t like your tie he did not say it to my dad he said it to my dads boss but dads boss did not mind he laughed. I did not think it was funny. Dad said maybe I had to be there. But I was not. He was happy though and got me an extra ride on the donkey it was called Fussy
Billy Smith Class 4](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erjquqznvcj6cqon2mbnqj2m/bafkreigjtmnfvulscqwaqjouhbaum32ddch6rq224kvuwvs4d3obnjvh3m@jpeg)
March 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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![[43] MAGIC ALEX: I went with the boys to the studio one day and during a break George Martin said he wanted to ask me a question. Ever since his first encounter with George Harrison he had been bothered by the fact that something he had worn had upset someone. He told me he had an idea; a tie which detected the tastes of the person looking at it and changed its appearance to suit them. In a couple of weeks it was done. I took the tie to George myself – they were all in the studio that day, working on what became known as The White Album. George was delighted. The boys all took turns looking at the tie and telling us what they saw. Then George Martin looked down at the tie himself and I realised that I had forgotten to tell him – the person wearing this tie must not look at the tie while wearing it, or the tie will look back at them. George Martin stared for a moment, then started wailing and ran out of the studio. He was gone for over two weeks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erjquqznvcj6cqon2mbnqj2m/bafkreiedxhwwlxitn3mnraqgg3ftqpdoloklhxjn62tceekcus2mahdub4@jpeg)
April 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Our 1992 keynote speaker is someone who needs no introduction, having been at the forefront of the entertainment industry for over thirty years: GEORGE HARRISON.
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April 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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![[58] NORMAN SMITH: George Martin had been missing for about 3 weeks before Ken and I came up with the idea of making a robot replacement. I got hold of a shop dummy and dressed it in some clothes George had left in the studio; Ken called in a favour from a pal at Madame Tussaud’s and got one of their Duke of Edinburgh heads. We covered the sessions and whenever top brass wanted to talk to George we had a system rigged up, tape loops of him speaking from old sessions, with buttons we could press to give general answers; ‘Yes.’ ‘No.’ ‘Your repertoire’s not up to much.’ Everything went without a hitch until that night The Beatles came in. It was all fine, right until the point where we played the ‘Anything you’re not happy with?’ loop. George Harrison looked straight at the dummy for what felt like an age and I thought ‘This is it – we’ve been rumbled.’ But then he just said something Beatley and they all laughed. Me and Ken were so relieved!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erjquqznvcj6cqon2mbnqj2m/bafkreih64enhnsjubefieatosu7n2r4yztoc552b3r3b6farwfvb5accsq@jpeg)
May 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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[012] WELL FOR STARTERS I DON’T LIKE YOUR TIE (Harrison)
Harrison vocal
Delivered: 6th June 1962, Abbey Road 2
Target of Quip: George Martin.
This typically mordant piece was one of Harrison’s first contributions to the band’s repertoire (see also [04] WHAT BRINGS MR EPSTEIN HERE? (p24)). Opening with a bold, declarative ‘I’, followed immediately by a blunt Harrisonian ‘don’t’, the piece is dourly resentful in tone and is characteristically accusatory. Like so many Harrison quips, WELL FOR STARTERS I DON’T LIKE YOUR TIE has an obstinate quality which renders it gawky beside McCartney’s easy melodicism and anaemic next to the conceptual daring of Lennon. While effective for the first seven words, the work is let down by a fall into bathos on the closing ‘tie’. This must be viewed as a minor work in the Harrison corpus, languishing in the shade cast by later triumphs including [128] THERE’S NO POINT MR MARTIN GETTING ALL UPTIGHT and [145] YOU DON’T TALK TO A BEATLE LIKE THAT.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erjquqznvcj6cqon2mbnqj2m/bafkreibx5wkakuv6ipc4ghs7uj7dithen3s235rmwsu4g3d3omv5qk7ytu@jpeg)
June 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM