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Oct. 19, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 19, 2012, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey folks, how are you?
We are at the end of another busy broadcast week and at the end of another plain old average week and it's all happening at the same time because it is Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday!
And for those of you new to the EIB network, and there are many of you out there who are new, let me briefly explain what Open Line Friday is because the rules are a little bit different and the rules here matter.
Although, I am the Candy Crowley of Open Line Friday.
If I have to move in and protect myself and whatever I stand for, I'll make I won't hesitate to do it.
There's no First Amendment here.
I'm a benevolent dictator.
You see, Monday through Thursday, when people call a program, they have to be talking, have to be calling about something that I have either already discussed or am interested in.
If they call about something off the wall, snurdily thanks them and hangs up.
But on Friday, whatever you want to talk about is okay, whether I've brought it up or not, whether I care about it.
It doesn't matter.
It's always been a golden opportunity for you to tell everybody what's on your mind, whether it's being discussed here or not.
If you think there's something important, it hasn't been said.
You know, I ought to stop saying that.
That never happens.
Because when I say something on something, there's nothing left to say.
Nobody ever calls here and says, you know, one thing you haven't talked about, Rouge, it never happens.
But if you have a question or comment, this is the day to go off the reservation.
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If you were here yesterday, you recall that last half hour I kept, actually last hour of the program, I kept promising, kept intending to spend some time on the latest developments of Benghazi and Libya.
And I'm glad I didn't because all hell has broken loose overnight about this.
We now know McClatchy News has come out with a story that practically explains everything.
Let me summarize it for you.
McClatchy, McClatchy News says that the regime's concoction of the video story to explain the attack in Benghazi was to cover a purposeful cover created by the regime to cover up the disaster that our operation involving the removing of Omar Gaddafi proved to be.
Getting rid of Gaddafi basically turned the Benghazi area into an al-Qaeda stronghold.
That was the truth of the matter, and that's what the regime doesn't want anybody to know or didn't.
And so they concocted the story that the video was responsible for the death of the ambassador and the three other Americans the attack in Benghazi because the regime had tried to tell this great story.
Look what we did.
We cleaned up Libya.
We got rid of an evil guy and we've made Libya part of the Arab Spring, a great outbreak of democracy.
Look, aren't we wonderful?
When instead what happened was we kicked him out of there and then left ourselves and we left ourselves nobody there to control what was happening in the aftermath.
And al-Qaeda has established a beachhead in Benghazi.
And Obama's running around saying that there is no more Al-Qaeda until yesterday when he pulled it out of his speeches.
He was saying there was no more Al-Qaeda.
I'll tell you what, with what we have learned overnight and this morning, Romney is so set up for the foreign policy debate on Monday night.
And there's much more detail to this.
I have just, you know, brevity is the soul of wit.
Everything that I am going to say down the road here on the program today basically will be to explain how McClatchy learned this.
It involves the CIA.
The CIA knew within 24 hours that it was a militant attack, that there was no video, there was no spontaneous demonstration.
The State Department knew immediately they had a video.
The White House knew it was Jay Carney who started the lie.
It was Jay Carney, under orders, I'm sure, from Obama and whoever else, which started the ball rolling on the video.
And then Susan Rice gets involved.
And again, all of that was to cover up an absolute disaster.
I mean, taking Qaddafi out, it's arguable whether that was a good thing to do, but we did it.
And in the process, Obama's, you know, he's raising the flag.
Hey, look at me.
Look at me.
I mean, I pull triggers.
Good to them.
I get Obama.
I get Bin Laden.
I take care of him.
And what had happened was, in fact, the ringleader of the Benghazi attack is now doing media appearances in the Middle East.
He's doing television.
He's going on the Oprah shows of that region bragging about what he did.
And he's not hiding behind a mask or anything.
The ringleader of the attack is doing media appearances.
He's doing television shows.
Let's go quickly to John Bolton.
A couple of audio soundbites here.
Numbers 10 and 11.
He was on American Newsroom with Martha McCallum this morning on Fox.
And I love Bolton.
Bolton, a former UN ambassador for us during Bush, tough as nails guy.
And he's very, very much into ideology.
And he is of the belief that the reason everything's falling apart in the Middle East is because of Obama's ideology, because of his liberalism or Marxism or socialism, whatever you want to call it.
His view that America is to blame, his view that it's always America's fault.
And that's what enabled him to so easily swerve into blaming an American-made video.
When he knew that's what it was not, by the way, everybody knew it was not the video.
They were lying on purpose to cover the dot, to prevent the dots from being connected that Obama's action created an al-Qaeda beachhead in Benghazi.
And by the way, Benghazi is not, the government, the head of Libya, is in Tripoli.
And we learned here, Tripoli has no control.
The government, no control over what's going on in Benghazi.
Benghazi's a rogue renegade place.
And it's now Al-Qaeda's.
I mean, it is utterly devastating.
Yeah, we got the Al Smith stuff here.
And it's very important, by the way, we'll get to the Al Smith dinner soundbites.
Because once again, ladies and gentlemen, the regime's out there portraying Mitt Romney as some fire-breathing anti-this, anti-that, mean-spirited rich guy, doesn't like anybody, eats everybody's kids, you know, this kind of stuff.
Once again, he just nailed it last night.
I mean, he was just spot on.
It was fun.
And I hate to have to say this.
It irritates it when it's said about me, but for people who have this wrong impression of Romney, people who listen to this or see it, it'll go a long way toward humanizing.
Did they bug you to all get out that we conservatives have to be humanized?
I remember a left-wing sports writer once did a profile of me.
Favorable, favorable profile.
He got beat up like you won't believe.
So after the thing ran, this is 10 or 15 years ago, after the thing ran, I said, what are they mad at you?
versus because I humanized you.
First time I'd ever heard the term.
I humanized you.
See, they've created this caricature of you as racist, sexist, big and homophobed, no heart, you don't care about anybody, just like no other conservative does.
And here I come along and I write a story about, you know, what an average golf playing, nice guy you are, and that they can't stand.
And they can't stand it when that kind of stuff's written about Romney or said about Romney.
And that Al Smith dinner last night went a long way to establishing it.
All these concoctions are full of it.
So we'll get to that too.
But here's John Bolton.
He was again with Martin McCallum today on Fox.
And talking about the way the regime handled the aftermath of the attack.
No, I don't, I don't, I'm not, I'm not in the, I'm being asked a question here.
If people would leave me alone, you know, I could get this show probably done in an hour, but since everybody wants to know what I think about everything, they ask me even when I'm in the middle of monologues.
I don't think Obama's cabal comment is that big a deal, but there is a point to be made about it.
He has no trouble whatsoever excoriating an American citizen over a video.
He'll describe that person in the most despicable terms.
But when it comes to the death of the ambassador, yeah, well, the death of our informary, it's a, it's not optimal.
He does have a different set of values.
I don't think that thing is a standalone, is that big a deal?
You might disagree.
We'll talk about it.
Anyway, back to John Bolton.
McCallum said to him, look, seems to me, to some extent, that if you were in the regime and you felt uncomfortable about the way it was handled initially, one thing that you could do is sort of make it very clear to the American people the investigation is ongoing.
Potentially hear from John Brennan, for example, other people very high up in the operation are supposed to be watching over counterterrorism activities around the world.
That would give people some reassurance about what's happening to avenge the death of four American citizens.
Basically asking, why didn't they just say, we don't know what happened yet, we're looking into it instead of blaming a video?
Why go that?
Well, you know the answer now, but I want you to hear what Bolton said.
Some say, of course, there's a cover-up going on and that the administration's lying.
I'm afraid there's actually a more disturbing explanation.
The president's ideology has put a screen over his consciousness.
And when the real world tries to intrude on it, it can't get through.
Because after all, the war on terror is over.
Al-Qaeda's been defeated.
The Arab Spring has brought democracy to Libya.
And a terrorist attack that brutally kills four Americans is wildly inconsistent with that ideology and worldview.
The president can't process reality and his aides can't get through to him.
Now, that's being charitable.
But you get the point.
Okay, in Obama's bubble, in this bubble in which they live, in this alternate universe, this ultimate reality, they got rid of bin Laden and that got rid of al-Qaeda and there isn't any more terrorism and the Arab Spring is a great democratic outgrowth.
And so anything that happens, the challenges that has either got to be covered up or erased.
Bolton is saying that Obama's ideology is such he actually lives the belief that al-Qaeda has been destroyed.
That he believes there is no terrorism because his ideology is such that all he, the Messiah, the one, has to do is say it's over and it's over.
We had a caller yesterday.
He said, you know, these guys are amazing.
They have a two-hour meeting on creating jobs, think the problem's fixed.
They authorize spending $800 billion to create jobs and move on and they think the problem's fixed.
That's living somewhere other than Rielville.
Bolton says it's Obama's ideology.
Well, yeah, that's true.
I don't think there's any question about that.
But I also believe that I think he does know, and I think he purposely covers this stuff up because he doesn't want the lies exposed.
He doesn't want the lie that he lives exposed.
So Martha McCallum then said, okay, when you look at the world with regard to the last presidential debate Monday night, what is the most important foreign policy question that needs to be asked, Mr. Bolton?
Fundamentally, it's America's place in the world.
Do you believe that stability and peace and international security are enhanced by a strong American presence that provides stability and that protects our domestic way of life?
Or do you think that the Obama theory that a declining America is a safer America is the right answer?
I have my views on that subject, but I think that is the clear question.
Now, declining America, we hear that, we think of it in terms of economics, the declining.
But he's talking about it in terms of America's standing in the world.
And in Obama's world, we don't deserve to be a superpower.
We never deserve to be one in the first place because we never really were.
We cheated, lied, and stole from other people.
We used their oil.
We used their resources.
We got their best brains.
And we brought them to our country.
And we were founded immorally in an unjust way.
We never deserved this.
It's about time we got cut down to size.
That's what Bolton means.
Isn't America, or are we safer with an America that's not a superpower?
Are we safer that America has no leadership position in the world?
You ask Obama about American exceptionalism, you know what he'll say?
Well, I'm sure that Sweden thinks they're exceptional too.
Meaning, what right do we have to say we're better than anybody else?
That's what he doesn't like.
He will say that about himself, but this country ain't no way, Jack.
And he's held bent on bringing that reality.
So we'll take a brief time out.
We'll come out or come back, start with the Al Smith soundbites, and then we'll double back here and get into detail about the shocking McClatchy story today with a couple of AP dispatches as well that finally get, well, I don't say finally, because we've already known the truth about Benghazi, but this documents it now.
But even as we speak, by the way, ABC and NBC are still covering for Obama.
They are not reporting any of what I've told you.
They're not reporting any of what we knew a couple days ago.
They are still spinning and still covering for Mr. Hopenchange, the one.
And we will be back open line Friday.
Oh, also, we try with a capital T to get to your phone calls earlier and more frequently on Open Line Friday.
We try.
Now to the Al Smith dinner.
It's a Waldorf hysteria in New York last night.
The guests were the two presidential candidates and their wives.
Although Muchel was not there, Muchel was, I don't know where she was last night.
I read earlier in the day she gave some great speech at some place on Park Avenue and talked about how great her guy is.
Her baby daddy is, or some such thing.
But Mr. and Mrs. Romney were there.
And I looked at the dais.
It was all media people.
I wonder what Katie Couric was sitting back there.
Did you see that?
And she was the first media person I recognized.
What the hell?
How does this woman, wherever Tony Bennett is, she is?
How does this happen?
And I looked around and I saw Roger Ailes.
Whoa.
And I looked around and I said, there's Chris Matthews today.
I said, my gosh, what's going on?
This whole thing is a media thing now.
At any rate, Romney, it's white tie.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that means it's a tuxedo with a white bow tie that you tie yourself.
They don't let you in if you have a clip-on white tie, which means you couldn't get in.
In fact, I don't think most people would even know where to go to get a white tie.
Not just Rio Lindens, anybody.
Do you know where would you go to get a white tie?
I don't know.
You get a white tie, Joseph A. Bank?
You can?
Really?
Okay, cool.
You like white tie better?
I think everybody looks like a waiter in one, but that's just me.
When you can't tell a difference in the shirt and the tie, it looks like some Nehru jacket white tie.
A waiter.
Anyway, oh, it was Tails.
It was Tails.
It was Tails.
Chris Matthews, when he stood up, his front shirt tail was untucked.
I said, I let anybody in.
And that was probably, by the way, you try to want to rekindle it, tingle up the leg, and figure the shirttail untucked to be a more direct route.
Here is Mitt Romney, 67th annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner last night.
We got a bunch of sound bites.
Here's the first one.
A campaign can require a lot of wardrobe changes.
Blue jeans in the morning, perhaps, suits for a lunch fundraiser, sport coat for dinner, but it's nice to finally relax and to wear what Anne and I wear around the house.
I told Cookie.
See, normally we edit the applause out of sound bites like this for the sake of time.
We don't have a whole lot of it here.
But I told her today: if the applause adds to the power of the bite, leave it in.
If there's a lot of applause for Romney's, leave it in.
If there's not much applause for Obama, leave it in.
It's an indication.
And this is wonderful, self-deprecating humor.
And by the way, it's comedic timing, Romney's was.
I watched this, and it was almost Reagan-esque at times, I thought.
It's Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
We are reviewing highlights at the 67th annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner at the Waldorfest area last night.
Here is more of Governor Romney.
Now, by the way, you don't have to listen to this stuff.
This stuff would work on the stump.
A lot of this humor is aimed at Obama.
Big times, and it hits the mark.
It's accurate.
The old rule of comedy.
Real comedy is funny because it's edgy where the truth is concerned.
There's always truth in great comedy.
Here's the next bite.
Of course, we're down to the final months of the president's term.
As President Obama surveys the Waldorf banquet room with everyone in white tie and finery, you have to wonder what he's thinking.
So little time, so much to redistribute.
See, I told Cookie, leave the applause in.
The applause gauges the reaction here rather than edit it out.
By the way, if you see this, maybe you have, Obama, he doesn't like some of this stuff.
When you go to something like this where everybody's roasting it, you've got to laugh at yourself.
You've got, even if you can't or don't like to, you've got to.
If you get caught acting like this stuff bothers you, that's not good.
And he got caught a couple times.
It's obvious some of these zingers from Romney bothered him.
And if you're Barack Hussein Obama, Messiah, you're not supposed to be made fun of.
You're not supposed to be laughed at.
It's not supposed to happen.
Not, I mean, the press can do it, but of course, a comedian may be at the White House Correspondent Center, but even that's tightly controlled.
But a thing like this where Romney's co-equal ain't supposed to happen, it clearly got under his skin a couple of times.
People seem to be very curious as to how we prepare for the debates.
Let me tell you what I do.
First, refrain from alcohol for 65 years before the debate.
Second, find the biggest available straw man and then just mercily attack it.
Big bird didn't even see it coming.
And by the way, in the spirit of Sesame Street, the president's remarks tonight are brought to you by the letter O and the number 16 trillion.
Right on, right on.
Now, I think sitting right behind Obama was some blonde guy.
Don't know who he was.
And he didn't laugh at a whole lot of them.
I mean, we had an Obama fan right behind Romney in the top row there in the center of the screen.
And then there was a deaf guy sitting next to him because the blonde guy was having to tell a deaf guy, he has to repeat every line.
And then a deaf guy would start laughing after everybody else already stopped laughing.
Well, one deaf guy, you notice the deaf guys in a room.
You notice people can't hear.
Here's the next one from Mitt Romney.
Some in the media have a certain way of looking at things.
When suddenly I pulled ahead in some of the major polls, what was the headline?
Polls show Obama leading from behind.
And I've already seen early reports from tonight's dinner.
Headline, Obama embraced by Catholics.
Romney dines with rich people.
Of course, the president has put his own stamp on relations with the church.
There have been some awkward moments, like when the president pulled Pope Benedict aside to share some advice on how to deal with his critics.
He said, look, Holy Father, whatever the problem is, just blame it on Pope John Paul II.
Remove!
Red off!
Get!
See, I think this stuff would work on the stump.
I mean, this humanizes Romney, that old term, but it's funny stuff.
And of course, the libs, hey, you're not supposed to laugh at the liberals.
You're not supposed to make fun.
I've learned that in my 25 years.
You can't laugh at them.
They don't have a sense of humor.
They really don't.
You know, you boil it down.
Liberals do not have a sense of humor.
There's not a funny one.
You don't even see them smiling.
It's not in their nature to be enjoying things.
They have to constantly be wringing their hands, angry about something or somebody.
Okay, those are the Romney highlights.
There were some other things.
But those are the highlights.
And now let's move on to Obama, who seemed, I don't want to say obsessed, but he was, well, he wanted to talk about that first debate loss.
This is the third time that Governor Romney and I have met recently.
As some of you may have noticed, I had a lot more energy in our second debate.
I felt really well rested after the nice long nap I had in the first debate.
We did not edit the applause.
Here is Obama again making fun of Chris Matthews.
Although it turns out millions of Americans focused in on the second debate who didn't focus in on the first debate, and I happen to be one of them.
I particularly want to apologize to Chris Matthews.
Four years ago, I gave him a thrill up his leg.
This time around, I gave him a stroke.
Of course, there's a lot of things I learned from that experience.
For example, I learned that there are worse things that can happen to you on your anniversary than forgetting to buy a gift.
And women don't like that.
Women don't like that.
But still, he was really, he was obsessed on that first debate.
So those are the Obama highlights.
That's pretty much it for the Obama.
Am I forgetting anything?
Am I—did you watch it, Snurdly?
I—yeah, I thought he had less written material.
If I didn't know better, I'd say just making up.
You know, he got more words and, well, he got more time than Romney at the debates.
I've heard Romney have more time here, even things out.
Here's Romney's close at the Al Smith, Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner.
No matter which way the political winds are blowing, what work goes on day in, day out by this organization and you, you answer with calm and willing hearts in service to the poor, in care for the sick, in defense and the rights of conscience, and in solidarity with the innocent child waiting to be born.
You strive to bring God's love into every life.
Right on.
So he ends with a pro-life message at a Catholic dinner.
It was greatly appreciated, except A liberal at the Huffing and Puffington Post was not amused.
Last night after all this, CNN Piers Morgan tonight, his guest, oh, he had a fill-in host, Wolf Blitzer filling in.
You know, probably punishing Piers Morgan because Piers Morgan, I bet Axelrod got him thrown off the air last night.
Because, you know, Axelrod on yesterday and he told Axelrod, you know, you guys are kind of silly focusing on this binder business.
I mean, everybody knows what Romney meant.
Don't you think it's a little silly for binders and big bird?
And then, interesting, that night, Morgan's nowhere to be found.
Instead, they get the guest host, Wolf Blitzer, speaking to the Huffing and Puffington Post blogger Tanya Acker about the speeches.
And Blitzer said, Tanya, what did you think of both these candidates?
How did they do out there?
The governor's speech was really pretty pointed.
I think, Wolf, you said at the outset that you didn't expect either of these candidates to talk about abortion.
Governor Romney made a very, it was really clear that he was trying to point out to this audience that this was a pro-choice president who's having a battle right now with Cardinal Dolan over reproductive access and reproductive freedom for women.
And so I think that certainly it was not totally apolitical.
We weren't expecting that.
Why not?
It's a Catholic church organization.
You've got the Archbishop of New York there.
You've got the Democrat candidate forcing them to ignore religious freedom and implement policies they don't agree with.
And all Romney did was say that he stands with them in their protection and support of innocent life yet to be born.
And you would have thought all hell broke loose.
This blogger from the Huffing and Puffington Post starts sputtering about how this broke the format.
Supposed to be apolitical.
We weren't expecting abortion.
You weren't at a Catholic dinner.
If not there, where?
It's a presidential campaign.
And you've got the regime out spreading all these lies about Republicans and Planned Parenthood.
Lies being spread by literally bird-brained actresses, by the way, on Twitter.
Groupy actresses.
Eva Longoria, she goes from one athlete to the next.
Hey, Eva, Hulk Hogan's available.
I heard that.
And it is time for Open Line Friday's telephone call segment to begin.
Yes, my friends, a call actually taken here in the first hour, and it is from the person in Michigan who has a job.
It's Ed Sterling Heights.
Great to have you on the program, Ed.
Hello.
Yeah, thank you very much, Rush.
One thing that wasn't brought up in the debate about Steve Jobs is that Steve Jobs actually had a conversation with Obama.
This is in Steve Jobs biography.
And he said that he was not, you know, he didn't like Obama's administration towards business.
So it wasn't business friendly.
Yeah, I knew that story.
What happened was this, and Ed here is referring.
We had a discussion I did yesterday, the previous debate, Candy Crowley asked Obama and Romney about the iPhone and the iPad.
And we ever get those jobs back.
And I pointed out yesterday how those jobs were not lost.
The iPad, the iPhone, never made here.
And went into a discussion of all the related jobs created by Apple in this country as a result of the invention and design of all these iDevices.
Now, what Ed here is talking about, a couple of years ago, Obama was on a fundraising swing out on the left coast, and he had a dinner with some high-tech Titans.
Zuckerberg from Facebook was all these clowns.
You had the Google guys there, and you had some of the venture capitalists from the Bay Area, and Steve Jobs was there.
And I don't know if this occurred at that dinner, or it might have occurred at a previous conversation, but Jobs told Obama he was cruising for a one-term presidency because he said, look, these jobs you keep talking about are never coming back.
They were never here.
He really ridiculed Obama.
I never, when I read what Steve Jobs thought about that, I don't understand the guy being a lib.
I think, well, I do.
He had to be given where he was, but he was a profound capitalist.
I mean, he was not this raging lib from morning to night, but he told Obama you're destined for one-term presidency.
And he said the second thing that frustrated him to no end about Obama was Obama's tendency to say things couldn't get done.
That's something Jobs couldn't relate to.
Jobs made things happen in the face of apparent impossibility.
He just made them happen.
He willed them to happen, and thereby proving that what people thought was impossible was indeed possible.
And he was very put off by Obama's reticence.
Frustrates him.
Government can't do this, can't get that done, and this kind of thing.
He was not complimentary towards Obama in that regard at all, but he did predict a one-term presidency.
Ed, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Where are we headed next?
Doug Sunbury, Pennsylvania.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
This is truly an honor.
Appreciate that, sir.
Well, I just want to throw this out.
I expect Obama to try to pull something.
And I want to know, is he going to try to pull something foreign policy-wise before the debate on Monday, like a possible attack on Iran?
People have been thinking he would do something like that sometime this month.
That would appear very suspicious, timing-wise.
With this guy, I think it's possible.
But the way I'm looking at it, honestly here, Doug, I don't think he's going to have to, in his mind, just get together with Bob Schieffer before the debate, like he did Candy Crowley, and say, look, when this comes up, you just go there.
And we'll handle it.
We'll handle it that way.
Oh, folks, no, I'm not alleging anything.
I just, I find I watched that debate again, and Romney goes on.
Mr. President, we had this already.
You called it a terrorist attack the day after.
And Obama's, proceed, Governor, proceed.
And so Romney says, okay, we have it on record.
The President of the United States said, blah, blah, blah.
And then Obama points and says to Candy Crowley, get the transcript.
And she just happens to have it.
And then she just happens to read from it.
And then she just happens to say, Mr. Romney, you're wrong.
He did call it a terror attack.
Now, I am not alleging anything, but I just want to ask you, if during any debate that you have done seen, if any of the combatants had said to the moderator, get the transcript, and the transcript specifically asked for was produced and read from by the moderator, what do you think the reaction would be?
Now, people call here all the time.
It doesn't happen much anymore, but that will challenge what I've said.
And I'd always say, well, go get the tape.
Just look at the transcript.
It's a generic thing people say.
And this looked generic, but he did point.
And he looked at Crowe, get transcript, get the transcript.
And she had it.
Pascal.
Much easier to believe it's something that has happened can happen again.
So, little pal wow with Bob Schieffer, never know.
Okay, my friends, it's Open Life Friday.
Rush Limbaugh here in the Cutting Edge.
The first hour in a can on the way over to the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.
We'll get back here, and the second hour will start before you know it.
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