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Feb. 19, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 19, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Hi, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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Remember, ladies and gentlemen, when talking about hope.
If you want to talk about the theolog theological faith, hope uh love, faith hope charity, that sort of thing type of love.
That's a we're we're talking earthly hope.
And earthly hope is simply an excuse, ladies and gentlemen, for not trying.
Make no doubt about.
That's right, folks.
We are family.
The family of hope.
Sister Sledge.
They're the part of the Niles Rogers um harem uh empire, right?
By empire.
So stable, stable.
It's right, stable.
I meant to say stable.
I love Nile Rogers.
Greetings up, my friends.
Uh welcome back.
Hope is simply an excuse for not trying.
Uh pure and simple.
Uh we'll have, I'm sure you every time the subject comes up, uh, we we have people weighing in on this, and it's good.
Uh these are these are things that I think we need to discuss in uh in in greater detail uh because it's a presidential campaign being run on this stuff.
You know, and and I think people need to understand exactly what it is that they're getting all caught up in.
Uh anyway, facing the prospect of her ninth and tenth straight losses Tuesday, Hillary Clinton tried to flush out a few more votes in Wisconsin with a crowd pleasing story about shooting a duck.
Yep, she bagged a duck back when she was the first lady of Arkansas.
She said, I've hunted, my father taught me how to shoot.
This she said to a crowd at the labor temple in a rural northern Wisconsin.
I remember standing in the cold weather.
It was so cold, you know, at first light I was with a bunch of my friends, all men, and they were all playing tricks on me.
We're not gonna shoot, you shoot, because you know what they wanted to do.
They wanted to embarrass me, so the pressure was on, so I shot and I shot a banded duck.
Her uh her idea, this is this is like when she wanted to join the Marines, right?
But they wouldn't let her because she's a woman, and she was named after Sir Ellery, uh Sir Hit Edmund Hillary, uh which couldn't have been because nobody knew who he was when she was born, didn't climb the mountain until after she was born.
Uh Mrs. Clinton's idea was to reassure gun owners that she's all for the Second Amendment.
You know, I I'll never forget in the 2000 debate, Al Gore and uh George W. Bush.
Out of nowhere, Gore started talking about being all in favor of a hunting and letting people know that he wasn't opposed to the Second Amendment.
Uh John Carey.
Remember the haughty John Kerry in 2004?
He went somewhere uh in the campaign.
Iowa, Ohio, somewhere.
Uh, and uh he put on the hunting uniform, and he went out there and he went into this gun and tackle shop, and he walked up to the cash register get me a hunting license here.
You have that?
Do you happen to know where this happened, Mike?
I'm it doesn't matter.
It's it's some.
Well, here's here's here's I think it was Ohio.
Here's here's John Kerry.
This is in 2004.
Can I get me a hunting license here?
Can I get me a hunting license?
How condescending.
This is what they think of you people who actually appreciate the Second Amendment and go hunting.
That's how they think you talk.
Can I get me a hunting?
If somebody actually spoke that way, they'd walk in and say, hey, can I get me a hunting license here?
It wouldn't say, can I get me a hunting license here?
So now here's Hillary pulling the same thing.
Now, what is this tell you among other things?
I mean, it always tells us who the Democrats are and and how they have a condescending contempt uh for the people are trying to woo here.
But what is it also telling you about the status of the Second Amendment in this country?
That they've lost that argument.
She's out there, she's trying to get these people to vote for her.
Her idea was to reassure gun owners she's all for the Second Amendment.
We can also help shore up her support with working class white men who have shown some signs of drifting to Barack Obama in recent primaries, and that this in the New York Daily News, by the way, and that is the key here.
That's the key.
The key working class white men.
By the way, did you notice Hillary?
She's always she was all men when she went out hunting.
She was with all men.
You notice the pattern here?
She's always they made fun of her.
There's always male abuse.
When Mrs. Clinton is involved in some of these little soirees.
And the interesting thing is she sticks around for more of it.
Her whole life has been her f I mean the rumor of the story her father was demanding.
Domineering.
And you know they say that women marry men like their fathers.
In Hillary's case, it's partially true, but I think she's the domineering one.
But still a pattern of abuse in her life.
But anyway, the key here.
Working class white men.
Can I give you a definition of working class white men the way liberals think?
Angry white men.
Angry white men.
She's going after angry white men.
And there was a great piece in the Aspen Times on February 9th by Gary Hubble.
In election 2008, don't forget angry white men, he says.
Great amount of interest this year's elections.
Everybody seems to recognize their next president has to be a lot better than George W. Bush.
Democrats riding high with two groundbreaking candidates, while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party's nod to a quasi liberal maverick John McCain.
Each candidate carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.
There is one group no one has recognized.
And it's the group that will decide the election.
Angry white man.
The angry white man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirty poor to filthy rich.
He represents all geographic areas in America from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep south to mountain west, left coast to eastern seaboard.
His common traits are that he isn't looking for anything from anyone.
Just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field.
In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people.
He pays more than his share of taxes, and he works hard.
The victimhood syndrome buzzwords, disenfranchised, marginalized, voiceless, don't resonate with him.
Press one for English is a curse word to him.
He's used to picking up the tab, whether it's the company Christmas party, three sets of braces, three college educations, or a beautiful wedding.
He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a living document, open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives.
The angry white man owns firearms.
He's willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country.
He's willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others.
And the thought of killing somebody who needs killing really doesn't bother him.
The angry white man's not a metrosexual, a homosexual, or a victim.
Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina.
He got his people together, got the hell out, and went back into a rescue, those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a cop, a National Guard soldier, or a volunteer firefighter.
His last name and religion don't matter.
His background might be Italian, English, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, or Russian.
He might have Cherokee, Mexican or Pretorican mixed in, but he considers himself a white American.
He's a man's man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few bucks in a strip club once in a blue moon, change his own oil and build things.
He coaches baseball, soccer, and football teams, doesn't ask for a penny.
He's the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of buddies, drill an oil well, weld a new bumper for his truck, design a factory, and publish books.
He can fill a train with a hundred thousand tons of coal, get it to the power plant on time so that you keep the lights on and never know what it took to flip the switch.
Women either love him or hate him, but they know he's a man, not a dish rag.
If they're looking for somebody to walk all over, they got the wrong guy.
He stands up straight, he opens doors for women he sends yes, says yes, sir and no ma'am.
He might be a Republican, might be a Democrat, might be a libertarian or a green.
He knows that his wife is more emotional than rational.
He guides the family in a rational manner.
Not a racist, but he's annoyed and disappointed when people of certain backgrounds exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their race.
He is willing to give everybody a fair chance if they work hard, play by the rules and learn English.
Most importantly angry white man is genuinely angry.
When his job site becomes flooded with illegal workers who don't pay taxes and his wages drop like a stone he gets righteously angry.
When his job gets shipped overseas and he has to speak to some incomprehensible idiot in India for tech support, he simmers.
When Al Sharpton comes on TV leading some rally for reparations for slavery or some such nonsense he bites his tongue and he remembers when a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a pen knife to school he takes note of who the local idiots are in education and law enforcement.
He also votes and the angry white man loaths Hillary Clinton.
Her voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock he recoils at the mere sight of her on television.
Her very image disgusts him he cannot fathom why anyone would want her as their leader.
It's not that she's a woman it's that she's who she is it's the liberal victim group she panders to the poor me attitude that she represents her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question.
His tax dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for themselves.
There are many millions of angry white men four million angry white men are members of the National Rifle Association.
All of them will vote against Hillary Clinton just as the great majority of them voted for George Bush.
He hopes that she will be the Democrat nominee for president in 2008 and he will make sure that she gets beaten like a drum Gary Hubble Aspen Times February 9th in election 2008 don't forget angry white men.
And that's who Hillary was going after with this story about bagging a duck when she went hunting as the first lady of Arkansas and those people she seeks are not going to be fooled for a moment by it.
All right, we're back.
We move back to the phones.
800-282-2882.
This is Christian in Detroit.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
It's nice to have you here, sir.
Hello, Mr. Rush Limbaugh, Melting Pot AM president.
Got time to unveil the character of a candidate and talk to me in Detroit, man.
How you doing?
Very well, sir.
I'm glad you called.
Okay, well, I have statements and maybe a question.
You know, people in Detroit go to work on Monday and they get paid a title Friday.
You know, people say Baraka has no experience.
Neither did George Washington, but he was the first.
Did you ever find it strange moving over to Hillary, making it to the David Letterman show, and when Eli Manning won the Super Bowl, his plane was postponed in fear of him soaking up any type of fanfare?
And it makes sense.
The scandals with athletes make sense.
Seeing a black man running, it's no wonder why they catch them.
It's when they want to catch them.
I couldn't imagine if all these athletes were still playing.
and Barack are running.
Uh the the the intensity that we need it i it's necessary um when they claim she Hillary stole items before leaving the White House I knew she would run lose and steal delegates as you said earlier.
This would talk got me to call.
And against who I didn't know at the time.
And now I know.
I understand.
Uh but I share your conscious freelance thinking, you know, only to endorse logic for profit, man.
And I'm gonna listen to this off air and I'm hope I'm welcome to call again.
All right.
Well, um uh what um I had to get ready for you.
I had to.
I I wrote it.
Well, no, no, no.
That was very very well articulated.
I I'm just I'm a writer.
I'm uh I'm not gonna but I've I've kept it.
I'm just I'm still stuck.
What is Eli Manning being late for the Letterman show have to do with Hillary stealing knives and forks in the White House?
Well, I hear you I hear you all the time how Hillary would do anything to soak up fanfare.
Now, if Eli and Hillary were to be on the Letterman show the same night, and Eli Manning's plane was postponed, and hers made it, maybe she was from another city, but I believe the power I I I do not underestimate a fruit fly.
The DNA in a fruit fly is more than a human being's, I believe.
So I don't underestimate her at all.
And and it was a very good thing.
Did you just call Hillary a fruit fly?
No, no, I said I don't underestimate uh a fruit fly, meaning I would not underestimate Hillary.
She's much bigger than a fruit fly.
But a DNA, a fruit fly's got more DNA than Hillary does.
That's that's what I thought you said.
No, I said a fruit flying has more DNA.
Are you basically saying that it's necessary for Barack Obama to run?
Very necessary.
Why?
Let us get to the cut to the chase here.
What does that mean?
It it um, you know, I would have to say it means something personal to me, and I could speak for a lot of people.
And you would have me on that, because it is personal.
Um the reason why is because when you grow up and see someone on TV that looks just like you, uh forget about the jargon.
Oh, planet's going to mean something.
Okay.
You may say, No, Christian, it it doesn't mean that.
Well, you can vote for the less of two evils, meaning um, you know, Bush or or Gore, and still live within the confines of your skin color.
Now, I'm not racist.
Time out there, time out there, Christian.
Now that my broadcast skills and talents have whittled this down to its essence.
Okay.
I got that commercial commercial break.
Can you hang on?
I have I have two specific questions for you based on the fact that you said I I hope I can answer them.
Oh, you'll be able to answer 'em.
Don't rely on hope.
Okay.
Back at it.
Uh give it another stab here on the EIB network to Christian in Detroit, Michigan.
So we have ascertained here that you think it's necessary for Barack Obama to run because as you said, uh it it feels good, it's about time that there is somebody running for president who looks like you.
Yes, sir.
I'm not looking for a placebo president.
I I'm I'm just looking I it feels good though.
All right.
All right, all right, all right.
Let's let's let's let's try to stay away here from the three dollar words like placebo, it's only gonna confuse the people in Rio Linda who take the real stuff.
I understand.
All right, okay.
So I'm assuming if you if if if it's if it if it's necessary that Barack runs because it's it's i it it it i he looks like you, that means there's a racial component to this, which I understand.
Um are you are you suggesting that until this happens, this country will not have climbed a mountain?
In other words, we will not have ended racism.
At least the minority aspect of it.
All else is well, Rush.
All right, then let me ask you this.
If Obama loses the nomination, if Mrs. Clinton, the domineering abused woman of the ex-president, let's say he gets the number of delegates, but she steals this at the convention.
And you wanted a guy running because you like somebody who looks like you and the Democrat Party has been the home, the ostensible home for black advancement and emancipation, and if Mrs. Clinton somehow steals this victory from Obama, what will your reaction be?
Well, people will just have to do what we've done for 232 years.
Stick with the Democrats, okay?
What?
Well we'll last.
No, you aren't gonna well.
Now come on, Christian, you're not gonna laugh.
You're if if if Obama's case we'll we'll stay alive.
I mean, we'll last.
We'll do what we've been doing.
Last, last.
Yeah, but but but here's the whole point.
You're gonna stick with the stick with the people.
You're gonna stick with the people who have just taken away from you something you said that you need to see.
And they're gonna be the ones that have tried there by the way, who is it that's trying to squash the black guy?
Who is it that's trying to cement the black guy with a cement swimsuit and throw him down a lake eerie?
You're right.
It's the Democrat Party's trying to do this.
You're right.
I agree.
I agree.
All right, good.
See, didn't it didn't take any hope to answer that question?
Second one thing about it to your last caller in Tennessee.
No, no, uh five words below hope is hop head.
No, no, praying for drug addict.
And why are there more definitions for rush than it is for hope?
No, hop heads is not the root word of hope.
Look, another another question.
Uh if Obama not a root word, just sarcasm.
You got a hope for virgins?
I'm having trouble.
Not a root word for sarcastic.
Oh, okay.
All right.
Let's let's try to I'm being very patient here.
Let's try to try to stay on subject.
Okay.
If Obama wins the nomination, okay, but loses the presidency, what will you think of your country?
With no prejudice.
And all that I know, and all that I know, all that we know, I would not be upset.
I I prom uh your show will still be on five minutes before it comes on.
Final question.
Obama wins a nomination, wins the presidency.
Are we finished with racism in this country?
Can we finally say we've overcome?
It's behind us, we have dealt with it, it doesn't exist because of the people of this country, of which 13 percent, only 13% are black, will have elected a black man president.
Can we say, Christian, that racism is behind us?
No.
No?
No.
Well, I'm not trying to certainly hope that you are wrong about that.
I just I that's just then Christian, hear me on this, my friend.
If Obama wins and it's not gonna change anything in the racial equation, then this business about it being necessary for him to run because there's somebody that looks like you is meaningless.
It absolutely doesn't mean a thing.
Chris in uh in Flame Brook, Connecticut, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
How are you doing, Rush?
Good.
I just wanted to comment on when you said Michelle Obama and the whole separation of church and state.
Well, we can look back to several things on the Republicans.
I wrote this down just like the other guy said.
On June 10, 2000, Bush wanted uh Jesus, he declared Jesus Day in the state of Texas.
Then on June 3rd, he told the Palestinian president, God sent me here.
God told me to protect the Palestinian state.
And then the evangelical Wait a second.
Wait a second.
If Bush had said that, we would it would still be front page headlines.
No, no, look Google it.
The Guardian of UK, Chris, the point, the point is I it all my only point with Michelle Obama saying this country's lost its soul, it doesn't have a soul, it's gonna get a soul back.
If Bush had said that, I'm telling you, you would hear from the separation of church and state crowd.
When Michelle Obama says it, you don't hear from them.
But we hear all the time about the evangelical Christians that pretty much run the Republican Party.
How is that not a separation of chairman state?
Pat Robertson, when he was alive.
How about all these how about all these preachers down south?
Wait a minute.
Yeah.
When did Pat Robertson die?
What what did I miss?
I mean, I mean, I'm not sure.
No, no, no.
I'm telling you, the evangelical Christians, that's all we hear about.
They go after their vote.
You can how did the Republican Party get the Southern men to vote because they could never win it?
George Wallace.
In the 60s, after the Nixon.
Dead Democrat.
All those guy, all those guys were Democrats.
What?
What?
Play the play the Obama commercial.
Do something.
I'm about to explode here.
Look, I I realize, uh, ladies and gentlemen, I I can read my email, and I realize many of you are frustrated at the calls we are taking today, knowing full well we have our choice.
And we can refuse anybody because we get voluminous numbers of calls here.
Rush, are you doing this on purpose?
Why are you wasting such time with people who'd have nothing to Well, there's any number of definitions of a caller making the host look good.
But I think there's also a phenomenon going on out there, ladies and gentlemen.
You need to understand.
There's an inverse relationship happening.
And it it's very simple.
The better Barack Obama does in the polls, the worse the caliber of calls that we get.
It's not racial.
It's it's across the spectrum.
Uh all of these amateurs who are filled with hope, are now getting motivated to get involved.
They're getting inspired, they use their hope.
These are these are the people that are investing all of their hope, everything else in Obama, and you hear they have no idea what they think.
They have no idea what they're well they think they think things, but you can't make head and her tails out of it.
And they they're they're very passionate about nothing, just like Obama.
Nothing is being transferred to nothing, and then nothing is calling the radio show.
And and no, this is this is a true test.
You people should sit there and marvel at what's happening here.
This is a genuine illustration of uh my highly trained broadcast skills uh and talent.
No, I'm not calling the callers fruit flies.
The caller called Hillary a fruit fly and compared a fruit fly's DNA to Hillary's.
Uh I'm just I'm this is I I I think you got you got amateurs getting involved.
That's who Obama is attracting.
People that have not paid much attention to politics.
Uh and and you were hearing the I'm trying to be nice here.
We uh we are hearing the vacancy that exists that is disguised as passion.
But for what?
Uh we we do everything we can to make heads and tails out of this, some sense out of it, but this is uh this this is to me I love these kinds of calls because they are illustrative, uh they are challenging, and they are uh actually they're a lot of fun.
Now, before we go back to the phones, I want to switch gears on something.
This is this is something I'm gonna have a personal because of experience reaction to.
And a couple stories for you.
There was a piece in the February 17th issue of the New York Times, a Sunday.
Uh I think it was on the op-ed page.
Hell who knows, might have been now it was the op-ed page, or or it's it's it's some section of the Sunday paper, I'm not sure which.
But it is by Anne Hood, and it's entitled I Married a Republican There I Said It.
It was happening again.
I was at a cocktail party.
Woman writing this now.
I was at a cocktail party where the hosts were people I had just met, people I wanted to become friends with.
I was sipping Chardonnay and nibbling some papatum chips when a woman said, Oh, the people next door, they're Republicans.
Everybody grimaced.
The conversation quickly turned to complaints about Bush.
Before long it wasn't just the administration being bashed, but Republicans in general.
I stood there nodding, my dirty secret lodged in my throat like a golf ball.
The woman I wanted to befriend looked at me conspiratorially and shook her head.
Can you imagine?
Republicans right next door.
No, I lied.
And Hood continues, Not only could I imagine a Republican in my neighborhood, I could imagine one in my bed.
every night.
I'm a Democrat married to a Republican.
And I'm not just an average Democrat.
I lean way, way left.
I marched along Fifth Avenue protesting the Persian Gulf War in 91, wrote a bus to Albany to march against a death penalty.
When I enter a voting booth, I choose all the candidates in the same column without hesitation.
My last love before my husband had grown up in Berkeley in the sixties.
He was so far left he made me look centrist.
On my first date with my current husband over black ink pasta and Chianti, I ranted about union busting.
Wow, he said, you were pretty passionate about this.
If he had said, Wow, you must be a Democrat, would I have ended the date?
Maybe.
I had never had an actual relationship with a Republican.
Wisely he didn't confess that night.
But after I rated some more, I had a strange feeling you might disagree with me.
I said to him, You are a Democrat, right?
My husband has a beautiful face, and right then he leaned his beautiful face close to mine and said, I vote for the best candidate.
I read everything I can, I listen to him speak, and I vote for the person who can do the best job.
Really?
I said.
I didn't know anybody who did that.
Everybody I knew only read about and listened to and voted for Democrats.
I remember thinking that he was a good person, a fair person, a better person than I was with my rigid values and unwavering commitment to liberal politics.
Here was how Republican he was.
In the early 90s, he was drafted to run for lieutenant governor of our state on a Republican ticket.
But here's how open minded he has always been.
His candidacy was undone when a reporter discovered he had been a registered Democrat since college, and although he had long since stepped to the other side of the aisle, he had never gone to the trouble of undoing that.
He soon did.
What can I say?
Love can sidetrack a person.
This is Anne Hood, New York Times on Sunday.
Still, it did not feel good when I told myself I love a Republican.
It felt in fact like I had betrayed somebody or many people.
Slowly my close friends and family met my husband.
Slowly one by one they took me aside, and they would hiss.
He's a Republican.
But he's pro-choice, I would say.
But he's a Republican, they would say.
Slowly I met his friends.
Clinton was president then, popular charismatic, but at my first dinner party with his three oldest friends and their wives, I had to listen to him complain about Clinton.
This was before Monica.
What was there not to love about Clinton before Monica?
Well, I guess if you disagree with what he stood for, there was a lot not to love, but how could you not agree with what he stood for?
Such was my worldview.
Everybody I knew felt optimistic about the U.S. back then, except these people.
I stared at these strange new faces, faces I imagined I would have to see for the rest of my life.
They fell from moderate to very conservative, all of them right of center.
How had I ended up here?
You told me you voted for the best candidate, I said to him later.
I do.
They just happen to be mostly Republicans, he said.
Tired of clenching my teeth during their dinner debates about the evils of the Democrats, I began to fire back.
I screamed about partial birth abortion, defended Clinton over the Monica debacle during an endless dinner at a country club, and then cringed at their party line responses.
My husband at least isn't as conservative as these people, I told myself, but that offered little solace.
It goes on.
The point that I want to make about this, even though it's comical, is that I have been in this situation in reverse.
And it's striking how different this this, by the way, this, I guess this piece was in the wedding and uh social register section of the times.
No Republican that I know would ever write such a column about how embarrassing or how challenging or how threatening it was to date or marry a Democrat.
And no Republican friends would come up and say, She's a liberal.
She's a Democrat.
What are you doing?
I, as you people may remember, over the course of many years have dated many different women.
And I have dated some liberals.
And reading this brought back some really funny memories.
I I remember one prominent liberal babe that I dated.
I had to go on the Rush Proves He's Not Satan tour, meeting all of her friends and family.
And you might be saying, why would you endure that?
Because it was fun.
Because I knew they were expecting the devil incarnate.
And what also happened was every one of her friends and most of her family thought she had lost her mind.
They had known her for years.
Sweet, lovable, likable, and all of a sudden, typical liberal.
She had no clue what she was doing.
She had no mind of her own.
She wasn't able to make decisions on her own.
She was dating limbo.
Conservative to boot limbo.
And so we went on a rush proves he's not Satan tour.
And it was the funniest damn thing.
There was no woman I'm dating proves she's not a whatever tour.
Family said, well, welcome.
Friends said, nice to meet you.
All they were concerned about was whether I was happy.
Are you making the right decision here for you?
Politics had nothing to do with it.
With her friends, I had to pass muster.
I had to prove I was human.
I had to prove that I wasn't going to come in and make them all go to an abortion clinic in five minutes.
I had to come pro all of these things.
And even after meeting him two or three times, there was this lingering doubt and suspicion that was never quite overcome.
In some cases it was.
But there was always this, I can't believe she is doing this among some of her friends and family.
I'm telling you, a Republican would never write this kind of thing in the New York Times and would certainly never take some Democrat liberal spouse or girlfriend on a, you've got to prove you're not a commie babe tour.
I must be honest, I didn't see this story myself in the New York Times.
This isn't a wedding section, I never go there.
This was sent to me by the North Carolina mistress, Okay, two hours down, one to go.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
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