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July 3, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 3, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #3
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He's listening to us on KODY AM 1240 out there.
Um if we've made contact with Tom yet or not.
We were attempting to via email.
Uh we got nine more of these to go.
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Moving on to uh other items in the stack of stuff here.
This from USA Today, businesses target failed immigration bill.
The business community already pushing to resurrect portions of a wide ranging immigration bill that died in the Senate last week.
Among the priorities for businesses are provisions to allow more highly skilled workers into the country every year, and to expand programs for farm workers.
We're going to have to go back and see how many things from the bill we can pull out and get fixes for, said Angelo Amador, the director of immigration policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who also said that his group would push to give undocumented students who've been raised in the USA a chance to earn legal status and finish their education.
He added that businesses face increasing immigration raids and new legislation at the state and local levels, precisely because the federal government is lax on this.
They are lax on all areas of enforcement of existing current immigration law.
The American Farm Bureau Federation will provide or will continue, I'm sorry, pushing for a farm worker program, probably more expansive than the one in the failed bill.
That program provided a path to legalization for about one million current ag workers and made it easier to use uh guest worker program.
What do you mean?
One million.
Path to legalization.
By the way, isn't that interesting?
Path to legalization.
Now they start talking about what was in the bill for real.
Now they start talking about the truth.
In all these stories prior to this one, it was path to citizenship.
There was no path.
Well, there was a path there, but it was it was so loaded with landmines that the average illegal wouldn't bother trying to walk down the path.
All these fines, all these fees, there was no way.
Path to legalization is what it was, but it was certainly for more than one million.
Uh Paul Schlegel, the director of public policy for the American Farm Bureau Federation said it's an issue that we've been working on for a long time.
We're not going to stop.
Nowhere in this story, is there any reference to border security?
Nowhere in this story is there reference, not one, to border control.
Uh you know, Scott Rasmussen, the polster says that according to his data, the primary reason that there was so much opposition to this was no border control, no stopping of the invasion of illegals into the country.
Amnesty was bad enough, but it wasn't the one thing that bothered everybody.
It was border control, and know that they still in Washington don't get it.
And folks, they're not going to.
Because the people that are behind this and want this to happen want there to be a constant flow of farm workers, they are called here in this story.
The current crop of low-skilled and uneducated people that form the labor pool that that uh business would love to have.
Now, there is one thing good to be said about this.
One of the problems with this bill, one of the many, I mean it's hard to single out one as being the overriding problem.
But when you see on a piece of legislation the word comprehensive, as a comprehensive immigration room, that is the wrong way to go about anything, trying to fix everything under the sun and add a whole bunch of new provisions that nobody knows about because it's not happening in sunlight, no committee hearings, no nothing.
The way this thing ought to happen is incrementally.
Uh in it, and this whole debate ought to be part of the presidential campaign, both in the primaries and in the general election.
It ought to be.
It is that important to the American people.
And this effort to get this thing passed in comprehensive form was simply a way to ram it down people's throats while nobody knew what was in it.
But of course, because of me and talk radio and all this other so-called new media, you people who would not have known anything about this at all on your own, because you're a bunch of adults, because of me, they were unable to sneak it through.
Now I say this uh with due sarcasm and cynicism, because you're not idiots, and it's about time that they stopped looking at you as idiots.
I mean, there are plenty of idiots in this country.
But you people in this audience are not idiots, and furthermore, you are voters.
And that is what well, they secretly know it, but they uh try to relegate that status of yours Uh to something of lesser importance than uh than it ought to be.
Anyway, we got the red skeleton thing that'll come up right after the uh oh look at bald eagle no longer endangered.
Does that mean we can start shooting them again?
I'm just kidding.
I would never shoot a bald eagle.
I uh I've got some great pictures I took of bald eagles when I was up there fishing for salmon.
Uh I'm just kidding, folks.
It's a lighthearted day here on the EIB network heading into the uh 4th of July holiday.
Uh bald eagle no longer endangered, but the bottom line is malaria victims still are, thanks to Rachel Carson.
We'll be back after this.
And we are back, L. Rushball behind the golden EIB microphone, the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
You know, I heard about this some time ago.
I and I uh this next story, I I can't remember it's recently.
Maybe I saw something on television about it or was listening to people talk about it.
It's from Livescience.com.
Researchers at Harvard and McGill University, which is in Montreal, are working on an amnesia drug that blocks or deletes bad memories.
The uh technique seems to allow psychiatrists to disrupt the biochemical pathways that allow a memory to be recalled.
In a new study, the drug pro uh propenolol.
Propanolol, that's what propendolol is used along with therapy to dampen memories of trauma victims.
They treated 19 accident or rape victims for ten days, during which the patients were asked to describe their memories of the traumatic event that had happened ten years earlier.
Some patients were given the drug, also used to treat amnesia, others were given a placebo.
A week later, they found that patients given the drug showed fewer signs of stress when recalling their trauma.
Similar research led by Professor Joseph Ledue has been carried out at New York University on rats.
And they were able to remove a specific memory from the brain of rats while leaving the rest of the animals' memories intact.
I'm not so sure I like this.
I know it sounds nice.
We're back to that.
It sounds nice.
To be able to block our so-called bad memories.
Well, I mean, some bad memories are not traumatic.
Don't all of our memories aren't isn't that the result of our life experience?
And isn't it our life experience that shapes us?
Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, but you must realize that unlike you, so many people have so much pain.
And if they could go through the day without remembering their pain, then it would free them up to enjoy their life more.
You just don't care, Mr. Limbaugh.
Look at what you liberals out there, nobody's gonna be stress or trauma-free.
You're trying to inculcate us with crisis and death around every corner every day, sometimes multiple times a day.
For all the bad memories that you're gonna be able to wipe out, you're gonna help us create new ones just by having to deal with you.
Sure, I would love to be able to retract from my existence in my memory all memory of the Clinton years.
Actually, I wouldn't.
They were very traumatic, but they have shaped me.
You know, life experiences shape us.
And this is uh, you know, this this is just about this is not good, folks.
I'm telling you, it's not I know it, it sounds nice, sounds sweet, but it's not.
You start tampering around this way, and there will always be unintended consequences.
But beyond the unintended consequences, the idea that that you can uh shield yourself from from bad things that happen to you for the memory of them, uh uh even if it could be done, uh you you you if you met somebody that had this, you would not be meeting a real person.
You wouldn't be meeting a person whose entire life experiences have uh been factors in shaping that person as you met them at that moment.
John in Boca Raton, Florida.
You're welcome to join us next on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Uh it's a real honor to chat with you.
Thank you.
Uh, just very quickly, uh, wanted to get your take of uh the future of public television, which most Americans know as PBS, if you ask them what public television is.
Uh I'm asking because I I'm in a documentary business independently and I give programs free to independent stations.
So I just wanted to get an idea from you.
I've got a certain opinion privately of PBS.
And I just wanted to get a sense where you think uh public television as TBS, you know, is going and so forth.
Well, I don't think it's going away.
Uh it's uh the it's it's it's a it's a liberal institution.
And It's uh it's funded by the taxpayers.
And uh with you know, with the libs breathing down everybody's neck about the fairness doctrine and how unbalanced the media is.
If somebody made a move to actually defund PBS, I mean there would be heart attacks, there would be I mean there'd be nuclear warfare over this uh started by the lips.
No, the PBS is not going to go anywhere.
And neither is neither is NPR.
I mean, liberals are not gonna let that's like saying what's gonna happen to CBS.
Right.
Uh the problem is CBS could implode.
The CBS evening news with Katie Couric is imploding, but PBS doesn't need ratings.
Because PBS doesn't need viewers.
PBS doesn't sell advertising.
All they need is a bunch of idiots that donate when they do their little pledge drives in their auctions and then the taxpayer money that they get and they can stay afloat and produce whatever they want.
Sure.
They're not really they're not they don't succumb to market pressures.
That's true.
So are you that you you do documentaries for them?
No, no.
I have an independent company.
I'm the president CEO, and we give these programs to the to r real public television, which is the individual stations all over the country.
Right.
And then we have major global corporations and nonprofits that sponsor them.
So we give the programs to the stations, but PBS sells programming to those stations, which I know you're aware of.
Oh, I know every intricacy of how this whole network operates.
So they regard us, unfortunately, as competition, but we're out there independently working with, you know, like I said, the biggest names in medicine and the environment and so forth, and it's tough.
It's not Okay, so you make your money selling your documentaries to local PBS affiliates.
No, we give the programs to them.
We also give them to the U.S. government.
Voice of America Television.
All right, then we're waiting.
You're gonna have to help people understand if you're giving away your work, how you're earning money.
Right.
We make money because we'll we'll do a documentary about uh an issue in medicine, a new medical device, a new drug, and we have corporations that sponsor those programs.
Aha.
So you got underwriters.
Right, exactly.
And so the underwriters pay you more than what your actual production costs are, and that's how you get your profit.
Right.
They they uh benefit from our economies of scale that we do hundreds of these a year.
So you that's how you're able to give away the programming to stations that PBS is also trying to sell programming to their opponents.
Exactly.
And and so you you probably wouldn't mind it if uh PBS uh as a network went down the tubes.
Because you wouldn't have a you wouldn't have a limitlessly funded competitor.
Right, exactly.
And I'm uh you know, I'm a little guy, and they obviously regard little guys like me as competition.
No, no, no, no.
These are liberals.
They they love little guys.
You're a victim.
They ought to be subsidizing you.
It's just like Hillary and Obama raised all this money.
Poor Bill Richardson didn't have as much.
When are Hillary and Obama gonna start sharing what they have raised so it can be fair with these other Democrats?
It's an unlevel playing field in the Democrat primary.
And just like like you, you mean you you are a victim.
You're a victim of a giant massive bureaucracy, except this one's run by liberals, and so you're not actually looked at that way.
You're looked at as a little, you know, you're a gnat.
Exactly.
You know, you're a competitor out there, and you're probably doing pretty good programming, and they'd like to find a way to snuff you out.
Right.
Well, uh as long as you keep giving your programming away, uh uh you know, PBS is into that kind of thing.
Right.
Do these PBS stations still do these uh telethons?
Yes, they do indeed.
I you know, I used to be on those all the time as a local radio personality, was on one in Pittsburgh, it got thrown off one in Kansas City.
One of my yes, well, I can't tell you.
I can't tell you what.
But one of my proudest days, they gave me the hook after my first segment.
It was channel uh channel 41 in Kansas City.
Yeah, uh this uh well, you know what I was being me.
And PBS stuffed shirt, buttoned down and you know you uh tell me uh what would you say were I to say to you?
Uh you know, they put you to sleep here with their melodic tones, and I was, you know, can't tell you what I did.
And I got thrown off.
But I used to do those things, and they were they were they were fun.
That's where I met Mr. Rogers in Pittsburgh.
He was on one.
Oh, that's neat.
Well, that's why they they need this interstitial programming because they can't afford for viewer out of boredom to change the channel.
All right, look, next time that they do one of these telephones, call in and give them five hundred dollars for the free earmuffs or whatever the you know the prizes they they give away.
Um for PBS, you remember without your pledge, they can't dust.
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Mayor Antonio Villarigosa, Via Ragosa, uh, who is in the midst of divorce proceedings with his wife, acknowledged in a statement published today that he is in a relationship with a Spanish language TV reporter.
I met Mayor uh Villa Ragosa uh one night when I was innocently minding my own business in New York at a restaurant uh where approached our table two times, former President Clinton.
Second time he brought with him Mayor Villa Ragosa to distract me while Clinton started chatting up.
The woman I was with.
He said, It is true that I have a relationship with Ms. Mirthala Salinas, Via Ragosa said in a statement published in the LA Daily News.
As I've uh said that I take full responsibility for my actions, and I do.
And I w I once again ask that people respect my family's privacy.
For my part, I intend to stay focused on my job and to work as hard as I can every day.
I hope he gets the privacy he would what?
Which aspect?
Oh, oh, well, uh, I gotta be working as hard as I can.
Uh listen to you.
I'll tell you this one.
I did not have sex with that woman's sexual relations, that woman, Ms. Lewinsky, not a single time ever.
I've never asked anybody to lie.
Now I gotta go back to work for the American people.
You're right, Mr. Snerdley.
It's right out of the Clinton playbook.
What but what gets me here is asking for privacy.
Uh he'll probably get it.
I'll hope he does.
You know, but I certainly hope his family does.
I know I I have had many episodes in my sterling public career that I would have loved to have had privacy, and I just know damn well that if I'd have ever brought it up, I would have gotten ten times the lack of privacy that I was already uh experiencing.
Here's uh Victor in Stockton, Missouri.
Victor, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
How are you today, Roger?
Yes, fine.
Uh couldn't be better, sir.
All right.
I had a question for you.
Yeah.
Uh some years ago, you were belittling the idea that there was an internal conspiracy to overthrow the Constitution and the and the government.
And I'm wondering if you still have that opinion.
Of course I do.
And in an independent conspiracy, internal conspiracy, to overthrow the Constitution of the Government.
Yeah, I I'm still dubious of that.
You have evidence?
Well, I I just I just look at the way things are going, and I I I look back to when Reagan was president and he was engaged in the large military buildup during that time.
I just have a theory that the people who were behind the Soviet Union at that time uh decided they're not they're they were not gonna ride that horse to victory, so they decided they they'd have to take another approach.
And I I think they figured out that the best way to do it is go after the most the biggest baddest guy on the block, and the only way to do that was to do it politically.
And I think they set their sights of the Democratic Party, which was in power at the time, at least in Congress.
Well, who's the biggest, baddest guy in the block?
Us?
That's the United States, yeah.
So if they can take over a political party uh and you ride that horse to victory, then I think they would have a much better shot.
Now, wait, yeah, that's going a little bit far.
I don't think that these internal conspiracists would have to take over a party.
I think they already have one.
Right.
I see here here's here's the thing, Victor.
I do think in this country that there are plenty of people.
And you know, whether they're conspiring.
I mean, you and I are conspiring right now talking about this.
But I know what you mean by conspiracy.
I don't I don't think, for example, that there's a media conspiracy.
I don't think there has to be a media conspiracy.
They all think alike as it is.
They don't have to get together in order to figure out what they all think and believe and are going to say.
It just is the way they are.
You don't think there's a there's a Joseph Goebel somewhere with a printing machine that sends out all the the propaganda they put out that to drives the media and drives.
Of course they have people at the headquarters that fax up talking points to pundits that go out there and so forth, but that's that's a you know that that's not being done in the in the closet.
That's out in the open.
Everybody knows that's going on.
Well, the ones you can see, I think are you.
No, you know they're all there.
There aren't any secret points going out there.
There's no way to keep that stuff secret.
You don't think the George Soros of the world would love to get control of the Congress of the United States?
I think I think George Soros would love to reshape this country.
A whole bunch of liberals would like to destroy the institutions and traditions that have made the country great and rebuild it in their own vision.
Yeah.
But that's happening right in front of our eyes, Victor.
It's not it's not a conspiracy.
Well, I don't see I'm not really sure whether they're using the the Leninist model or they're using the Nazi model, but I I see the tactics of of uh Wait, the Lin Leninist or Nazi model, did you say?
Yes.
Because I see this using the same tactics that that's neither one.
They're using the Stalinist model.
Right.
There you go.
There you go.
You know, Lenin Lenin and the Nazis went out and murdered their opponents and mass mass murder.
We haven't gotten to that point yet.
Here we go, yeah, but they didn't get to power until they can they had convinced the people to vote vote them in.
Yeah, but but the Democrats have had power all these years, and they have not engaged in mass murder of conservatives and so forth.
It's not that that's the same.
I don't think the Democrats would do that.
It's not gonna well.
But I I think see, I have a difference between what I consider a liberal and what I consider a Marxist Solist or a Stalinist.
And I think that's a very fine line when you start uh liberals and socialists that's uh you can hardly see the space between them, Victor.
Well, there's a difference between a socialist a la Sweden and a socialist a la Marxist or Hitler.
A socialist in Sweden doesn't have any power.
They're they're neutral, so they're just destroying themselves.
Exactly.
But what but the idea is that if they if they could get power, that they could have the control of the U.S. armed forces, then they could reshape the world any way they wanted to.
They already did that.
Bill Clinton controlled the armed forces for two years.
Yeah.
Let me ask you one more question, too.
Yeah.
Do you think that we can solve this integration problem without first solving the abortion problem?
Uh in other words, does fifteen million Mexicans replace 45 million Americans?
Well, uh I think you've you've probably heard me make this point.
I think one of the reasons the proponents of illegal immigration are so adamant here is we have aborted 40 million would be Americans.
And the bodies need to be replaced for another another reason is for no other reason is social security taxes.
Yeah, I I understand that point because I heard you say that before, and I agree with that.
But I look at our society as being a consumer-based society, and and when you take that many people out who would already be having children now, there's a there's a and we have people we have needs for manpower in the armed forces, we have needs for manpower in all kinds of different fields.
And I'm wondering what what we would be doing if we didn't have those 15 million Mexicans to be taken some of these jobs.
Uh conservating in the armed forces for that matter.
Uh 15 million and taking some of these jobs and serving uh Well, you know, it's a what if.
It's an if question because it didn't an if is for children.
It's uh what is is.
And we have aborted forty million.
And so you can't what if we hadn't?
Now you can you can maybe look at that argument and say, okay, we'll we're gonna stop uh all these ill all these abortions and uh but that's you know that's Victor, you gotta be realistic.
Well, I don't I don't think you can get rid of Roe v.
Wade, but I think I think there's a has to be an effort somewhere along the line.
It's w I th I think it's in the process of working.
I I think you know, changing people's minds and hearts, having a greater respect for life.
But these battles, Victor, have always been fought.
There have always been different ideologies, political parties, uh uh partisanship that that has roiled the country since the beginning of time.
Uh beginning of our founding.
The the uh civil war was was that that period was uh people here alive today would not believe it if they really dug deep and found out the kind of divides and the things that politicians and public figures were saying about each other.
This stuff is uh always have this you you you've you've you've always gonna have a battle for control because this is all about power.
I don't I uh if if there are a bunch of conspiracies out there that we don't know about, uh, Victor, they're pretty pathetic.
They should have taken over by now.
If they're as powerful as we all assign them to be, well, you sign them to be.
If they're that powerful, we ought to all be in jail Now, anyway.
We ought to all have our freedom gone.
George Soros should be representing this country at the U.N. But George Soros lost the election in 2004.
His candidate went down in flames.
How does that happen?
Well, you can't say, well, a conspiracist did that just to set us up to get us to relax.
If they were that all-powerful, they would have already taken over.
They would have neutered the U.S. military.
Most of this stuff's happening right out in the open.
And it's tough enough to get some people to believe what they're actually seeing.
When you explain it to them, that's tough enough.
If you start getting into all this garbage, what's going on behind the scenes that we can't see in these giant, you know, puppet masters pulling the strings of the people that we can see, you're going to lose everybody, Victor.
Nobody's going to want to believe that in the first place.
Life in this country is too good.
There's too much affluence oper well, not too much, but there's great opportunity for affluence in this country.
We've never had a better economy than we have today.
We've never had a better uh future than we have here.
Everybody's feeling pretty pumped up because we stopped a huge horrible piece of legislation.
How do conspiracists let that happen?
I mean, that that shouldn't have happened.
That was that was the comprehensive destroy the Republican Party Act of 2007.
And somehow, the people staved it off.
You talk, I want to one more thing about this abortion business, Victor.
For all this talk about jobs Americans won't do and and all of that.
One of the things that I think is going on in this country and has been for the longest time, is a softening of too much of our young population.
We're treating them as babies into their twenties and thirties.
We make excuses for them when they still live at home with mom and dad when they're 35.
We are afraid to raise kids and toughen them up.
Everybody feels entitled to something.
Too many people, not everybody, too many people think they are owed something because they're Americans, that just by being born and getting up and being Americans every day, there's something valorous in that.
And I just I think we can overcome all these problems that we have with with just the the constant reinforcement of a conservative culture and a morality base and occasionally being able to stop or check the advances that the liberals are trying to make.
Biggest, if you want to talk about conspiracies and mention in a way that you will relate to it.
If you want to talk about people that are hidden, who are doing things that we don't see.
Well, I see them, and I know I don't see them, but I know they're there.
All these little Ivy League liberals come out of these schools and they go there for one reason.
Parents and family went there.
They're legacied in there.
And they have an objective, and that objective is to run the government at every level, from appointed positions, high-level appointment positions to just menial bureaucratic career positions, but their goal is to get hold of as much of the fabric of the government of this country as possible in a way that insulates them from elections.
I.e.
the judiciary and the academic professors.
Those people have tenure.
You can't do anything about them, no matter how outrageously bad and incompetent and poisonous they are.
So liberals have done a good job of insul.
We know they're there and we know what they're doing.
We may not see them in the process until we know they're there.
Conservatives, on the other hand, they don't want to run government.
They want to get it out of our way.
We want to get government as small and as responsible as possible.
We're not raising our kids to go to the Ivy League and come out and wear these, you know, striped pants and these stupid-looking diplomat shoes that they all wear.
They look like robots coming out of there.
And uh and as they go, they get themselves embedded in the State Department, a CIA and the Pentagon.
Uh and and when new presidents don't clear out as much of the chaff as they can, then they're there.
And they can destroy future incoming administrations, like has happened to Bush.
He didn't get rid of enough of these people because of the new tone.
So, but there are reasons, there are explanations for all of this.
And you have to be honest about it because that's the only way you can fight it and oppose it, which is uh, which is which is what we're doing.
I I'll tell you what, I feel pretty optimistic about all this.
The last 19 years uh try to try to think where we would be had there not been the evolution of this new media.
Uh I if you want to think about something, think about that.
Because that did happen, and it's a great illustration of how it can continue to happen.
There's all kinds of reasons to be optimistic out there.
You're in America.
And you're not gonna give up.
We'll be back here in just a second.
Stay with us.
As promised, ladies and gentlemen, from the archives, a grooveyard of forgotten favorites, Red Skelton.
I remember a teacher that I had.
Now, I only I went I went through the seventh grade.
I went to the seventh grade.
I left home when I was 10 years old because I was hungry.
And I used to.
This is true.
I work in the summer, I go to school in the winter.
But I had this one teacher, who was the principal of the Harrison School in Vincence, Indiana.
To me, this was the greatest teacher, a real sage of my time, anyhow.
He had such wisdom.
And we were all reciting the Pledge of Allegiance one day.
And he walked over, this little teacher, Mr. Laswell was his name.
Mr. Lasswell.
He says, uh.
He says, I've been listening to you boys and girls recite the Pledge of Allegiance all semester.
And it seems as though it's becoming monotonous to you.
If I may, may I recite it and try to explain to you the meaning of each word.
I, me, an individual, a committee of one.
Pledge.
Dedicate all of my worldly goods to give without self-pity.
Allegiance.
My love and my devotion.
To the flag.
Our standard, oh glory.
A symbol of freedom.
Where she waves, there's respect.
Because your loyalty has given her a dignity that shouts, freedom is everybody's job.
United.
That means that we have all come together.
States.
Individual communities that have united into 48 great states.
48 individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose.
All divided with imaginary boundaries, yet united to a common purpose.
And that's love for country.
And to the republic.
Republic.
A state in which sovereign power is invested in representative, chosen by the people to govern.
And government is the people.
And it's from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people.
For which it stands.
One nation.
One nation, meaning so blessed by God.
Indivisible.
Incable of being divided.
With liberty, which is freedom, the right of power to live one's own life without threats, fear, or some sort of retaliation.
And justice.
The principle are qualities of dealing fairly with others.
For all.
For all.
Which means, boys and girls, it's as much your country as it is mine.
And now, boys and girls, let me hear you recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands.
One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
*Mario*
Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country.
And two words have been added to the Pledge of Allegiance under God.
Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer?
And that would be eliminated from school students.
Folks have you have a great independence day tomorrow with all the fireworks going off and uh the backyard barbecues and whatever.
Take a moment, remember what it's uh really all about, and to remember it.
Cherish it.
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