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Dec. 21, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 21, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program documented to be almost always right, 99.7% of the time.
And it is Friday.
Here we go, folks.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And a telephone number is 800-28288 to the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Open line Friday.
This is our last live program before the end of the year.
For the year, actually.
Annual break that we take between uh Christmas and New Year's.
Now, look, I don't want to beat a dead horse here, and I realize my problem.
I mean, I'm I'm obsessed with the truth.
I just have a tough time giving up the truth, giving up common sense and what's right.
I don't know.
I'm I'm I'm not gonna be able easily to abandon that and become something else.
Now this plan B going down a defeat and all these conservatives ringing their hands.
Oh my god, oh my God.
We just lost a chance to expose Obama.
We just lost a chance to make the public realize it was Obama raising taxes.
We just oh no.
Republicans just it's I mean, the argument is that by stopping the Boehner vote on tax increases, it's foolish victory because now the Democrats are capitalized on it by saying the Republicans just voted to increase tax.
Well, they did.
They did, well, it went down a defeat, but they proposed it.
But the fact is Obama is always going to say that the Republicans raise taxes.
That's what is the analogy, Mike.
That that's the gold nugget for Obama.
Now to prove the point.
We're not dealing with reality when we're talking about Obama and the media.
The White House is you what here's what their claim.
I'm gonna read to you what is up on the White House website about plan B. And let me tell you what plan B is or was simple.
The only people who would see their tax rate go up are people that make over a million dollars a year.
Everybody else's taxes would stay the same.
You make less than a million, whatever your tax rate is, it stays the same.
Make more than a million, it goes up to 396.
That was Plan B. Here's what's on the White House website.
The wealthy get tax cuts under the Republicans' plan B. Boehner's plan provides an average tax cut of $50,000 for those making over a million dollars.
That's just.3% of all American households, while the middle class foots the bill.
Twenty-five million working middle class families would pay an average a thousand dollars more in tax.
It's an out and out lie.
How do you combat that?
All these people out there were gonna put the onus in Obama, they're out there lying to their teeth about what plan B was, even though it went down the tubes.
That it was a thousand dollar a year tax increase in the middle class?
Not true.
11 million families would lose a tax credit that helps pay for college.
There wasn't anything about that in plan B. Two million Americans looking for work would be cut off from a vital lifeline of unemployment.
So plan B contained reducing unemployment compensation benefits.
No, it didn't.
And devastating budget cuts would be enacted, crippling investments in education, research, but none of that was in plan B. So people on our side think we can end up putting the onus in Obama or expose Obama by passing a tax increase on the rich.
They're just lying through their teeth about what the thing was.
And you know who's gonna soak it up and believe it, the low information voter.
The media is gonna spread it around.
The media is not interested in truth.
The media is interested In wiping out the Republican Party.
The Republican Party, I don't think understands what they're up against.
This is not just politics as usual, or Democrats win one, and then we win one, and we trade horse trade here and horse trade there.
That's not what this is about anymore.
This is about a guy trying to transform this country, and he has said so.
So that's that.
That's my only point.
Now, got the Wayne Lampier sound bites.
Wayne Lapierre and National Rifle Association went out today, press conference just before the program.
We have five sound bites.
Here's the first.
Does anybody really believe that the next Adam Lanza isn't planning his attack on a school?
He's already identified at this very moment.
How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame from a national media machine that rewards them with wall-to-wall attention and a sense of identity that they crave while provoking others to try to make their mark?
Dozen more killers, a hundred, more?
How can we possibly even guess how many?
This guy, they hate this guy.
So now he's putting the onus on the media.
He's putting the owners on Hollywood, you'll hear coming up.
How many copycats are there?
How many people are targeting their schools, and on what basis are they targeting them?
Here's the next Lapier soundbite.
There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt, and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people through vicious, violent video games.
Here's one.
It's called kindergarten killers.
It's been online for ten years.
How come my research staff can find it?
And all of yours couldn't or didn't want anyone to know you had found it?
Video game, kindergarten killers, ten years.
It's out there.
See, this, but you don't do this.
He's calling attention to the stuff that everybody wants ignored or papered over, or in fact defended.
No, come on, Hollywood, nothing to do with this grow up.
These people doing it on their own.
The only time the left ever supports personal responsibility is when their institutions are under assault.
Here's the next Lapier bite.
We have blood-soaked films out there like American Psycho, Natural Born Killers that are aired like propaganda loops and every single day.
A child growing up in America today witnesses 16,000 murders and 200,000 acts of violence by the time he or she reaches the ripe old age of 18.
Throughout it all, too many in the national media, their corporate owners, and their stockholders act as silent enablers, if not complicit co-conspirators.
Rather than face their own moral failings, the media demonized gun owners.
Who had nothing to do with it.
Nothing whatsoever to do with it.
In fact, I'd venture to say that 99% of the gun owners in this country, had they been there, would have gone over and take the kid out.
Had they had the chance, but it was a gun-free zone.
Next Lapierre, the next two bites, let's say next uh let's see.
Not here's not the next two.
This next bite is uh some of the solutions that he's thinking about.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
I can imagine the headlines, the shocking headlines you'll print tomorrow.
Your implication will be that guns are evil and have no place in society, much less in our schools.
But since when did the gun automatically become a bad word?
With all the money in the federal budget, can't we afford to put a police officer in every single school?
How many people want that though?
How many people want schools to become you do?
Well, see, here's the thing.
Either deal with reality or you say, let's roll back the clock where such a thing isn't necessary.
And which is easier to do.
Put the cop, the arm cot, the arm god, arm guard in the school.
Everybody knows he's there, just like the sky marshal.
You know he's there, but you don't know who he is on the airplane.
You know you got a sky marshal, you know you get somebody with a weapon on this air, but you don't know who.
You put somebody in the gunman, make them make him uniform.
Let everybody know who it is, but somebody's there.
In every instance of these shootings, what is it that ends it?
Somebody else shows up with a gun aimed at the perp.
That's when he either commits suicide or uh runs for it in a shot or what have you.
He doesn't complete it, doesn't finish it until somebody shows up that can stop him.
I think most parents would probably say, Yep, put an armed guard in there.
Yeah, it'd be easier than rolling back the clock a couple generations where it wasn't necessary because our culture hadn't spiraled out of control.
But now that it has, we got to deal with it as it exists.
Well, media didn't like any of this.
Media saw to it that uh some opponents of Wayne Lampier got in there by the name of Code Pink.
Reckless behavior coming from the NRA.
The NRA has blood on its head.
The NRA has blood on its head.
Shame on the NRA.
Fan assault weapons out killing our children.
We need gun control now.
And the voice of sanity for the low information voter shows up.
Yep, it's the NRA that's the problem.
Yep, it's the NRA with blood on its hands.
It's the NRA killing our children.
It's what the media believes.
It's what a certain percentage of the country believes, it's what all leftists believe.
The NRA's to blame here.
The gun culture is to blame.
Not their culture.
No way, Jose.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Get your phone calls in because it's open line Friday.
We'll start with that next.
Okay, we're gonna start in Augusta, Georgia, with uh Ben.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Great to have you.
Welcome.
Welcome.
Thank you very much, Rush.
Thank you very much.
Yeah.
I just wanted to tell you Merry Christmas.
And uh I hope you have a great holiday.
Thank you very much.
You Sue, sir.
Um what I wanted to tell you a few years ago when I was in in college, everything was great.
I didn't have a job and it wasn't paying taxes, grants, and and you know, I did take out student loans to pay.
Um my parents were giving me money.
Life was great.
Um moved away from home.
And I started listening to your show about two or three months before this last election.
And I'd heard your show show before, and to be quite honest with you, uh, and I apologize for being a little uncouth here, but I always thought you were just a blowhard at like to hear yourself talk.
Well, I do.
Uh if you were right as often as I am, you you you'd like it to see, I'm sorry, that makes 24-year-old women nervous, and that's threatening.
I take that back.
Thank you, sir Verima, I appreciate that.
Why did you think I was a blowhard?
Well, just from everything that I'd heard from people.
Um, you know, oh, Rush Limbaugh, he just likes to hear himself talk.
He has such far-fetched ideas about the way the world works and the way the country is, and he he's just crazy.
Did you ever hear anybody say Bill Clinton likes to hear himself talk?
Does anybody say that about him?
I I think most pol well, not most, I think all politicians like to hear themselves talk at any one given time.
Um, regardless of who they are.
Sometimes they're right, sometimes they're wrong.
They like to hear themselves talk.
Um, I'm part of the the the working class.
I'm productive, uh paying taxes.
I have a house, a new family, um, just got married recently, and uh Over these past months listening to your show, I've come to realize that you're right.
And you r have really changed my perspective and my view of the way that this country is and the way this country is run and and where it's going.
And um So you think we're finished too.
I I I don't think we're finished.
I think we're on that slippery slope.
Um I I think we're we're we're sliding down, and um if things continue that the way that they are, um probably for the next eight to ten years, we we probably will be doomed.
Well, we it fortunately we only have four more years to deal with this guy.
Well, you're you're more right than you're wrong.
Um a generation is uh usually counted as twenty-five years, and we're in danger of losing a generation.
If Obama succeeds in this effort to transform this country, then people who are currently in their teenagers are gonna grow up thinking that Obama and Obama ism is the answer to problems.
Whether it is or not, it's not gonna matter.
They're gonna grow up thinking that.
They're gonna grow up thinking at least Obama tried, at least Obama cared, at least Obama recognized and tried to fix what was wrong, and he made it fairer, and he was he was um he he tried to make sure that the the the haves had not as much more than they needed and so forth.
And that's the when you when when people we're facing this for a generation as it is now.
You people were are being taught this in kindergarten, grade school, all uh under into elementary and so forth, and and it they grow up thinking this stuff, and it becomes part of their being.
And changing their minds becomes a very difficult thing to do.
It takes a special leader to be able to change people's minds.
Reagan had the ability, and he's the last one who did on uh on our side.
And I'll agree with you because it it took a long time to change my perspective.
Um, I I didn't grow up in a liberal household.
Well you you are you represent a failure on the part of the Democrats.
They lost you somehow.
How did that happen?
Here you were you're thinking and I'm a blowhard and you never listened, but then at some point you started listening.
How'd that happen?
Uh actually um when I was training at my last job, I I would ride with my boss and he all he listened to is talk radio.
Yeah.
So that that's how I got started.
Um then I found myself listening to you on my own, and a few weeks before the election, um, you know, I I started thinking about all the stuff that you talk about and um See that's the key, you know that the That is the key.
You started thinking.
That is what is not happening.
You started thinking on your own and critically.
And at that point, your intellect, your your native intelligence took over.
Your native intelligence triumphed.
And your your innate common sense that was always there, finally surfaced.
It just took took something to bring it up.
I'm I'm glad that uh this program was it.
I'm really flattered and I thank you very much, Ben, and Merry Christmas to you.
Here's Brian, Northern California, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hey Rush, how you doing?
Good.
Thank you.
Mega Diddles, I just wanted to kind of start off.
I'm really, really nervous.
Um I called you once before and I didn't really listen to you, so I I hope I'm gonna be a better listener this time.
Um I like yesterday's show a lot.
You uh started off the show tempering your um your your your uh delivery for the 24-year-old girl thing.
And um uh uh uh the uh you had a caller that talked about um uh the shooting being the responsibility of the mother.
Yes.
And I just kinda wanted to expand upon that a little bit.
Um we already have laws on the books that support that.
If my kids, if I throw a party and let my kids drink alcohol or or or whatnot, and they go out and drive afterwards, uh I'm responsible for it if they hurt somebody or damage property, so that's just sort of a natural extension that um And it's not a popular thing,
and that was kind of what I was gonna give you props for was it's not uh I mean it's a it's a natural extension that it's the parents' fault that this happened.
Um we're just not into enforcing the laws that we have on the books, like texting and driving.
Well, we don't want to blame individuals.
Um in this case we don't want to blame the mother because she ended up being killed too.
So instead we'll blame all of us.
Uh we'll blame the country.
We'll blame society, we'll blame the NRA, we'll blame uh any number of things.
Quick, I've got 15 seconds.
You liked the uh the tempered approach uh to the 24-year-old uh uh single woman.
It wasn't so much that I liked it, it was that I appreciated the way that you set it up because it was a controversial.
I see.
See, it worked.
It worked.
Well, there's more of that when we get to the new year.
We've barely scratched the surface on that.
Don't miss it.
Open line Friday and El Rush Ball.
They have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Get this.
A health clinic in the Bronx is promoting its services with a new video featuring Santa Claus distributing free needles and condoms.
Citywide harm reduction posted the video titled Santa Passes Out Clean Needles for Christmas on its website for the holiday season.
The video features not only Santa, but also clinic workers dressed like elves dancing to Felix Navidad with various needles, drug kits, and condoms.
Citywide is a needle exchange program.
It offers drug users clean needles and other products to help combat HIV and hepatitis C. The program also provides various support services to the community, such as counseling and testing.
So there you have it, ladies.
Santa Claus distributing needles and condoms in the Bronx.
At a health clinic video.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh, and that is a fine of a compassionate society.
This is the kind of public community fervent program that we all need, Mr. Luma.
You are mocking them, and you are prepared to make fun of them, but this is exactly what the American people need.
I don't doubt it.
I mean, there's obviously a demand for this.
Santa Claus, clean needles, and condoms.
What'd they do before Santa showed up?
Somebody else gave them away.
They just weren't dressed up like Santa Claus.
Hang on just a second.
I got to do something here.
Just just a minute.
Our tech situation here today is an absolute zoo.
And uh well, it may be back, but it's still a zoo in here.
We've still got DNS SMTP problems out there wazoo.
I can't send from various I I don't want to bother you with it here, but it's it's distracting, is like I can't tell you.
By the way, folks, uh uh Tim Tebow has broken up with his girlfriend.
Uh Camille Bell is uh is her name.
And this is from USA Today.
This is big news in USA Today.
The only way December can get worse for Tim Tebow is if it turns out that the Mayans were right.
In the same week that the Jets back up was uh passed over, but T beau and the girlfriend consummate the relationship how would I know that?
I haven't dug deep, as it were, to find out whether or not that no, it's not in the story.
Um but U.S. Weekly, one of our favorite magazines here, by the way, points out that their relationship just didn't work out.
Uh now the woman, Camille Bell and T Bow were said to be dating after they were seen holding hands and touching.
At an October party in Jacksonville.
Uh Camille Bell had been featured in films like the Chum Scrubber and I Break for Gringo's.
Those are her two big claims to fame.
I break for I'm sure they're on blue.
What do you mean they're on blue?
I Not only are they on Blu-ray, they're probably at Apple TV for download and Amazon Prime.
I'll bet you could find it on Hulu.
Yes, I know about all this, and Netflix.
And if you want, I can probably direct you to some of the sites where you can download the stuff as a pirate.
I know the piracy sites.
So if you don't want to pay for the chum scrubber, if you don't want to pay for I break for gringos, there are ways to get it.
Anyway, Tebow has split up with this act.
We don't know who did the splitting up.
Story doesn't say.
But I do remember that it wasn't many weeks ago that story was out that Timo had taken her home to meet his parents.
And you know when a Christian takes a girlfriend or boyfriend home, that's serious.
That's what USA Today says.
What the media says.
From E Online, ladies and gentlemen, uh Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose have a baby boy on the way.
And they're already thinking about teaching him the ways of the world, or the ways of their world anyway.
Ask during an exclusive sit down with e Entertainment News if getting ready for their son's arrival included making certain changes to his lifestyle, particularly in the marijuana youth department.
Khalifa told us not as far as that goes, this kid's gonna be a smoker.
Our son's gonna know that daddy likes to smoke, and if our son wants to smoke dope, he's going to.
Of course, I'm not I'm not gonna be smoking right there over the baby because smoke in general being high, not good for a kid, none of that.
But definitely he's gonna know what what reefer is, and he's gonna know the difference between being a child and not being able to use it and being an adult and knowing how to use it.
Our son is gonna is gonna know that Daddy likes to smoke.
That's Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose.
Amber Rose, the female, in case you didn't know, Wiz Khalifa is the father.
That is the latest who are these people.
These are celebrity, Snerdley.
These are the people that make the country work.
These are the people around whom many people's lives revolve.
David Beckham has bought his wife Victoria Beckham, Olivia Von Halley silk pajamas for Christmas.
Right here it is at eentertainment online.
What do you give the woman who has everything?
Well, you can't go wrong with a few staples that are both sensible and stylish.
Uh even the adorable David Beckham understands this unspoken rule.
He put his good taste to work while doing some stealth holiday shopping for Victoria this week.
So he he phoned in an order to Harrods.
He requested two pairs of dreamy silk pajamas by Olivia von Halley.
And they cost around $500 each.
But we're talking posh here.
She's worth it.
This is big news to many Americans, Snerdley.
And I'm just letting them know that I know that it's happening.
David Beckham.
Now, Nashville, when I see a story like this, the first thing I ask, how did E Online find out?
Did somebody at Harrods call E Online say, you know what, we just got to call from David Beckham?
And he just bought his wife Posh a couple of $500 a pair of pajamas.
Oh, and by the way, here's the designer name.
Or did Beckham's PR people call E Online and say Beckham just got off the phone.
What?
That's the wife's name, the Posh Spice.
Where have you been?
She was a spice girl.
She was Posh Spice.
Victoria Beckham was Posh Spice.
And now she wears Olivia Von Halley silk pajamas.
$500 a pair bought for her by her thoughtful, you wouldn't know about this, thoughtful husband, who on his own, not some assistant, on his own, because he really cares, he called Harrods on the phone and ordered them himself.
Five hundred dollars and E Entertainment Network found out about it.
It's a big story.
You go to the e-online website like I did, and you'll see it right there.
Okay.
When Ann Hathaway took to the red carpet and a fabulous pair of faux leather Tom Ford knee high gladiator sandals for the New York premiere of Le Miz last week, it was the first time many of us had ever heard of vegan footwear.
This is also from E Online.
You realize how big this Anne Hathaway.
She was in the Dark Knight Rises.
She apparently, performance of her lifetime in Les Mis, which opens on Christmas Day, did you know that?
You didn't know that?
I do.
She wore sandals, gladiators.
You know what that is.
They sandal all the way up to the knee, snerdily, and they're vegan.
They are vegan footwear.
Turns out the hardcore vegan has been rocking custom made, cruelty-free shoes for quite some time.
In fact, when filming uh the movie, Anne Hathaway made sure that all of her character shoes were vegan friendly.
Now this also from EENtertainment.
Now I before you people what the hell's going on.
What I want you to stop and realize that the people who elected Barack Obama find this fascinating.
The fact that Anne Hathaway cares enough about the planet and animals to make sure that only vegan footwear was worn in all of her scenes in Lame Is the kind of thing that makes a tremendous impact.
A positive PR statement.
Anne Hathaway cares.
She cares about the planet, she cares about animals, she's a compassionate soul, and she's a wonderful person.
And she votes Obama.
You see how this works.
Now, I said, you know, we're talking about the low information voter.
A low information voter is actually a high liberal information voter.
Most brains are finite in terms of the amount of data they can hold.
And the low information voter is chocked full of this kind of stuff.
And there just isn't much room left for plan B. Deficits, tax cuts, economic matters, the country going to hell in the handbasket, even though there's a shortage of handbaskets.
There's just not room for that stuff.
Because Anne Hathaway or David Beckham.
Seriously, ever wonder how does that make news?
How does that end up at E Online?
Did Beckham call Harrods?
Did Herod's call E Online?
Did Beckham call E Online?
Did Posh Spice Call say, look what I got?
And then some editor had it, yeah, this is big news.
David Beckham bought his wife two pair of PJs of 500 bucks.
And they make a big story out of it.
This is media.
This is media in 2012.
This is pop culture entertainment media.
Chris Brown, you know who Chris Brown is.
Okay, now we're talking.
Now we're talking about somebody that snurly knows.
Chris Brown is in Amsterdam.
And to prove it, he took pictures of himself inside one of the city's famous coffee shops with three marijuana joints in his mouth at the same time.
Brown and some of his boys documented their marathon weed smoking session on their Instagram accounts, advising the public, don't worry, it's medicinal.
This from TMZ.
Justin Bieber accused of animal cruelty by hamster.org.
Justin Bieber issued a death sentence to his pet hamster when he gave it away to a screaming fan who promised to love and cherish it forever outside of a concert earlier this month, according to the California Hamster Association.
TMZ spoke to a rep for the group, the California Hamster Bunch, who tells us that Justin Bieber committed an act of animal cruelty when he gave away the animal, even if his intentions were good.
The California Hamster Association tells TMZ hamsters are fragile.
They often succumb quickly to illness and death, especially when faced with sudden environmental change.
And Bieber didn't care.
Bieber was heartless.
He thought he was doing good by doing something nice for a fan, but he was sentencing the hamster to death.
And it's all over TMZ.
That Bieber has no respect for animals.
That Bieber is a heartless, cold.
You know what?
The moment that hamster was handed off to a screaming girl in a harsh, frenzied environment was likely the moment that hamster gazed at the short path to its doom.
So what should Justin Bieber have done?
Well, the California Hamster Association says if Justin no longer wanted the pet, he could have just left it in the care of an animal shelter or a rescue center, so they could have handed it off to a responsible new owner instead of some stupid fan at a concert.
As for the Pam the hamster pack, he's currently alive and well in the care of Bieber's 18-year-old superfan Tori, who has vowed to treat the animal like a tiny rodent god.
This from TMZ.
Lindsay Lohan refused to kiss Charlie three times because her his mouth grossed her out.
This was during the scary movie bedroom scene, but she ultimately refused to do it because of Charlie's wild partying pass.
This is hot off the press TMZ.
You see what we're all missing, folks?
You see the earth shatterings of your kids?
No, and you don't.
I gotta take a quick timeout.
Open line Friday resumes after this.
Don't go away.
And to the phones we go back now.
This is Open Line Friday.
It's Olivia from Dallas.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rex.
Hi.
Um, I I wanted to ask you what Adam Lanza's political orientation is.
Because the last time I remember there was a really politicized shooting, they were very quick to blame Sarah Palin.
I'm talking about the 2011 Tucson shooting.
Actually, though different the last time there was a shoot prior to this was the Dark Knight Rising show.
But it wasn't pol it wasn't like a politicized.
Oh, yes, it was.
ABC News tried to blame it on the Tea Party.
Brian Ross tried to they found the guy's name, and the first thing they looked was a local Tea Party roster to say they could find a name there.
They found the same name, a different guy, and Brian Ross goes on, good morning, and Mary says, We think this guy might be a member of the Tea Party.
Right.
So I'm wondering if all this talk about his background and his psychology.
I I wonder if they haven't unearthed what it was.
Because I remember with the Well, he was thirteen.
He can still have political belief.
But I remember with Jared Luffner, they said that he was a Republican, and it turned out that he was actually quite liberal.
They all are liberals.
If they're mentally disturbed.
Oh, that's not fair.
You're right.
That was that's not that was I'm sorry.
You're terribly right.
That's one of those things just can't tell the truth about.
You're right.
I should I I should not have said that back.
Take that back.
We don't know what his um political affiliation was.
That's right.
There hasn't been any curiosity about that.
I mean, that was my main call.
It must it it must there must be a reason why.
What do you think the reason why nobody would want to find out what his mother's or his I mean, she was a supposedly, and we don't even know that.
It's only one source that says that she was a survivalist and a prepper.
We don't even know that's true because these sources haven't been right about very much.
What's your wild guess?
What what do you think his political affiliation was?
Um I I mean, I'm not that concerned with what his political affiliation is, if he's liberal or republican or whatever, but I just find it interesting that it always is assumed that the benefit is some kind of radical right wing person when we're gonna be able to do a break.
I just thought o'clock it was off by a minute.
We gotta go.
Okay, folks, that's it.
We've got some uh special Barack Obama Santa Claus Christmas tunes coming up when we get back.
And other things too in our final hour of the year.
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