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April 30, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 30, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, everything's finally okay in Boston now.
Uh Kevin Spacey is there.
Meeting with the families and survivors and honoring the victims.
Seeing it as himself, as Kevin Spacey.
What do you mean?
What capacity he's there as Kevin Spacey's honoring the Boston victim, being interviewed by CNN now for about I guess 20 minutes now.
So everybody's officially okay in Boston.
Great to have you folks.
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I'd like to know.
Is Barack Obama boring on purpose?
Or is that just who he is?
Did you did you see this press conference at all?
Yeah, I expected a fireball coming out here today.
I thought he'd be fine.
I thought he'd lead off with Jason Collins.
He got to him eventually.
I thought he would lead with Jason Collins and a number of other things to, you know.
I thought he'd be a fireball whipping up a Democrat base.
But he was flat.
Glenn Thrush of the Politico sent out a little tweet this morning about, I guess 45 minutes before the press conference, and the whole thing is rigged.
And I'm not quite sure I understand this, but Glenn Thrush said that a press conference that's announced this late, as in just an hour or two before it's to occur, means that the game is rigged, means that the reporters he's gonna call on have already been briefed.
And when you don't give the press time to work up questions, you can say, okay, I've got a presser here in an hour.
And the reporters that know about it have been briefed, and therefore Obama knows the questions he's gonna get.
I guess that was the point that the political guy was making in his uh tweet.
But you know, this this actually felt more like a real press conference to me than what we've had in the past.
Um I thought the media suck-up factor was at an all-time low.
Now that that could just be me.
But it was it was boring, but it was not kissing up boring.
I'm I uh this this um I it kind of surprised me how how low-key it was.
And it he was boring until he got to Jason Collins, and then he came alive.
The NBA player who uh who came out.
I don't know, he just to me seemed a little flat and disengaged.
Uh his comments about Obamacare were bizarre.
They were boilerplate, and it again, I think the limbaugh theorem was on display here.
Whatever happens in Boston, happening in Boston, did happen in Boston.
It nothing to do with him.
In any phase.
Pre-post, nothing to do with him.
What happened in Boston?
Uh don't look here.
Keep your eyes focused on Boston, maybe Texas, where Bush is, but don't pay any attention to me.
The same thing when uh when Obamacare came up.
You know, we have major, major implementation problems with Obamacare.
You've got Democrats left and right running away from Obamacare.
We had the story last week that Democrats in Congress trying to carve out, well, everybody in Congress trying to carve out exemptions.
Oh, there's a revision of that story, by the way, and it is that you and I were too stupid to understand what that story really was.
They were not, as it turns out, trying to carve out exemptions for themselves.
They were trying to do something else I'm too stupid to understand.
But that's that's not what they were they were doing.
Well, Obama said that the sequester was damaging the economy and needs to be lifted.
The fact of the matter is the sequester was not damaging the economy, which was the intention, and so then Obama decides to do things that have the economy damaged so that he could blame it on the sequester.
The sequester happened and nothing deleterious happened at all.
So then they get into furloughs at the FAA and flight delays and the other things that they did to make people think that the slightest, the tiniest, the smallest of budget cuts have major profound impact on life in America, because the first week or ten days afterwards, nothing happened.
There's a great piece on this today in uh USA Today by Glenn Harlan Reynolds, in fact.
I have it here near the uh top of the stack.
His piece of Democrats lose sequester battle, a whole sequestration gambit has failed to the point where even the Washington Post's Ezra Klein admits that Democrats have lost on sequestration.
The idea was that even the comparatively minor cuts in spending caused by the sequester would be so painful that voters would demand higher taxes rather than endure the cuts in spending.
The problem was that when the spending cuts came, nobody noticed.
Which led the regime to try to up the pain by focusing cuts in places where people might feel it, canceling White House tours for the kids, furloughing air traffic controllers.
But that didn't work either.
Canceling the White House tours just looked mean, and the problem with targeting air travel is that members of Congress fly a lot.
They were affected by it, so they had to shut that down.
Lickety split.
Huge bipartisan majorities in Congress thus quickly passed legislation forcing the FAA to make cuts elsewhere instead.
So the reason that they closed the White House.
I think that by the way, I I really think Obama was dispirited.
I have a dispirited, but he was boring today.
He was he was flat-lined and certainly not energetic.
I think it's one of the reasons.
The sequester didn't work.
The sequester alone, and the new the news coverage of it was the people were supposed to have the sequester equals dramatic budget cuts.
But remember in the last days before the sequester actually happened, the regime and the media did warn everybody, now you're not gonna see it immediately.
Because they had been building it up as this horrible, horrible thing that was going to have dramatic impact on everybody.
And that's how they were trying to frighten the Republicans at caving on the deal.
But the Republicans held firm, so the sequester happened, and right before it happened, they started dialing back all of their predictions.
And then the sequester happened and nothing happened, and there was no political benefit, because remember, everything is political with these people.
No, they didn't even do a victim parade.
I mean, they were totally caught flat-footed.
I think they thought that the sequester budget cuts were going to be so apparent, so obvious that people are going to be almost riotous.
They were hoping that people would just be demanding to reinstate these cuts, but people didn't notice them.
And that's the worst thing could have happened, as far as the regime is concerned.
You can't, I don't care if it's a dime.
They want that scene as the end of life or the end of something that's very dear.
Since that didn't happen, I think they panicked.
I think they thought it was going to happen, and it didn't, so they had to start moving pieces on the chessboard around like the White House tours and canceling the furloughs or shifting furloughs, air traffic controllers and this kind of thing.
And actually, I think it's one of the reasons why Obama was, I don't know, boring, flat-lined, I don't know what it was.
I mean, at one point, some reporter asked him about his failures.
Folks, I don't want to make too much of this.
But I have been spending so much time reading about all of the frauds in social psychology.
Spent a lot of time telling you about one of them yesterday, Dietrich Stopper.
I've become sort of an armchair psychologist Where liberals are concerned.
And you do you know people who the slightest bit of criticism?
And they get defensive and they do things the equivalent of taking the ball and going home.
So some some report we're dealing now with the president of the United States.
Some reporter asks him about his second term failure.
Well, I guess I guess I could just pack up and go home.
I guess I could just do that.
Now that's presidents don't react.
People with confidence and bravado and huge egos and supreme confidence don't act that way.
Real supreme competence.
Well, I can just think, I guess I could pack up things up and go hope.
All right.
Well, that make you happy.
That makes you happy.
You be better home without me.
And I didn't say that, but that's what it all means.
It's the kind of thing that happens in families and and relationships, the slightest bit of even misunderstood or perceived criticism.
Okay, okay, well, I'll just I'll tell you what, I'll just leave.
How about that?
I'll just leave.
Well decidedly unpresidential.
I don't know why he made such a big deal about Gitmo.
I think that's the I mean, he can't win that fight, but Gitmo, I think precisely because he can't win it is why you have to look at what he said about Gitmo within the context of the Limbaugh theorem.
The fact that Gidmo isn't him.
He's still working hard as he can to close Gitmo.
I mean, he hasn't given up on closing.
He really went.
They're just these powerful forces out there that are arrayed against him that are preventing him from actually following through on the promise.
When the fact of the matter is he can't close Gittinot.
There's nowhere to put those guys.
He doesn't dare bring them here, which was the original threat.
Still needs a place to put people that are captured.
There still are bad people harbor ill intentions on this country.
And by the way, uh sorry to hopscotch, but CNN found another brain doctor to claim that Tamerlins and I have probably suffered great brain injury in boxing.
We've now learned, by the way, that those clowns collected over a hundred thousand dollars in welfare.
And we wonder where the hell they get their cars and their clothes and stuff.
And it turns out that that we paid for it.
Now, one thing before I go to the break here about the implementation of Obamacare.
You and I know that Democrats are running from it left and right.
There's all kinds of panic about it in a number of ways.
And Obama didn't even acknowledge one problem with it.
Again, limbaugh theorem.
There's no problem with the implementation of Obamacare.
It's working fine.
and Yeah, most of it's implemented already.
What's the problem?
I don't see a problem with Obamacare.
Everything's cool.
Is that why companies are eliminating full-time jobs and keeping people under 30 hours a week?
Because implementation is working.
What benefits have anybody received yet?
Individual policies are due to go up 50% at the end of the year, governments and large companies are looking at dumping health coverage currently offered.
And there's Obama today at his presser saying that Americans are experiencing the benefits of Obamacare even if they don't know it.
What's the benefit we're getting that we don't know about yet?
Well, he said it's happening.
We're benefiting all over the place out there.
We just don't know it yet.
Limbaugh theorem.
Whatever's happening, he's got nothing to do with.
What do you mean problems implementing Obama?
I don't know what you're talking about.
It's almost all implemented now.
Everything's fine.
In fact, people are benefiting in ways they don't even know.
Duh, what?
What's he talking?
Where are we?
Am I aboard the USS Enterprise?
What is this?
Star Trek?
Beam me up, Scotty.
What what?
Limbaugh theorem.
But when Jason Collins was asked about Obama came to life.
Folks, I grew up in a family where people's sexual orientation, preferences, whatever, weren't even discussed.
Why can't everybody just, you know, put your sexual preferences on Facebook and call it a day.
What do we need to stop everything and have a national day of celebration or mourning, depending on your point of view, recognition or whatever about this.
And this tolerance, you know, only goes one way.
So person X of some national stature announces his sexual orientation is gay.
And applause, great day for America.
We're really taking giant leaps ahead.
If anybody says, you know, I'm not big on that.
You bigot.
You racist, you extremist, you you homophobe, there is no tolerance at all here.
Not only do these people have to publicly announce, then everybody else has to applaud and accept it.
My point the other day about how it's only us conservatives who are divisive.
You know, I'm I'm one of the most loving, unifying, want everybody to do well like everybody, hope everybody has a great life kind of guy you'll ever run into.
But because I'm not a liberal, I'm called divisive.
Liberals are never divisive.
You know why that is?
Because to them, liberalism is just status quote natural as well.
Anything that's not liberal's divisive.
So the liberals believe this country has been racist, sexist, bigoted, uh, homophobic, and now we're making great strides, and if there are people, fine.
If you want to say you're gay, fine, but do we have to be rammed on everybody's throat all the time?
Every you bigot.
You homophobe.
And this is how they shut people up.
But clearly the acceptance only goes one way.
So it's not acceptance at all that we're talking about.
There are demands that people, quote unquote, accept, and if you don't, well, you're divisive, or you're a bigot, or you're a homophobe, or whatever.
When Jason Collins announced that he was gay yesterday, that was all that was all over.
ESPN, it was all over the sports blogs, it was all over radio and TV.
I had people sending me emails.
Rush, I had to turn off the radio today.
All I was hearing was this NBA guy's gay.
Okay, I heard it the first time.
I don't need to hear it five hours later.
I got it.
Hey, Rush, had to turn off the TV.
Sorry, I know you have to watch it, but I don't.
After hearing it 25 times, I don't need to hear it again that the guy's gay.
So people kept tuning it out.
And I all along, I've been under the impression that it was normal to be uncomfortable talking about other people's private lives.
Like I say, well, I grew up in a family where people's sexual preferences weren't discussed.
Sex discussions, that kind of stuff never made it to the dinner table.
Or during car rides and family vacations.
And as far back, you know, Clinton Lewinsky, we weren't even supposed to care.
Back during Clinton and Lewinsky, hey, private life.
That's his sex life.
None of your business doesn't matter.
As long as it doesn't affect his job, shut up.
It's none of your business.
Nothing to see here.
Ken Starr's a sex pervert.
All he wants to do is talk about Sex.
All he wants to do is look at a Clinton's sex life.
Shut up, star.
Nobody wants to talk about sex.
Jason Collins comes out announced he's gay.
All we're doing is talking about sex.
We're told that Bill's sex life isn't relevant.
It's nobody's business.
All that matters was the job at hand.
Sorry.
Bad turn of phrase.
All that mattered was.
Bill was president.
What he did with in turns with his private life was his business and not your business, and shut the hell up.
And to some extent that was fine, because imagining Bill and his crooked finger and cigars in Monica was a half step away from a nightmare.
Anyway, I gotta take a break as I look at the clock.
Look at this.
We'll be back.
Whoa, whoa.
Whoa.
Seriously, folks.
In the case of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, why not talk about it?
The same way we talk about these courageous gay professional athletes.
In Clinton's case, none of your business, shut up.
Sex is private.
None of your business, none of Ken Starr's business of pervert.
It's not affecting Clinton's job, none of your business.
Why don't we?
I mean, that was that wasn't a new.
Why don't we celebrate Bill Clinton breaking the sex with intern barrier for presidents?
I mean, JFK probably did the heavy lifting, but it all came out while Clinton was still in office.
Make him a hero, too.
If what you do during sex is so defining and determines how great you are, why not put Clinton in the conversation?
That private life hysteria with Clinton was all BS.
If a person's private life helps the left, it's big news.
If it doesn't, shut up.
Back in a moment.
Back in a moment.
Have a question, maybe an idea.
As you know, Tim Tebow, quarterback of the New York Jets was released back on April the 15th.
Is it too late for Tim Tebow to come out as gay?
If Tim Tebow were to announce that he is gay, wouldn't the NFL be forced to find a team for him to play on?
David Stern, the commissioner of the National Basketball Association, really feeling his oats because they beat the NFL at something.
The NBA is on top in a manner of speaking.
The NFL could reclaim they perch.
The top the sports world if somebody famous came out and said they're gay.
Why not Tebow?
Nither Limbaugh, that is a third.
The player had to be gay in order to announce the well, you're gonna say he isn't.
If he comes out and says he is.
Is there a test?
Mr. Limbaugh, he cannot possibly be a homosexual.
Tim Tebow is too Christian.
Oh, really, Mr. Newcastrahy, too Christian to be gay.
That's right, Mr. Lumba.
Nobody would ever believe that Tim T bow is gay.
What if he were?
I'll bet it still wouldn't be enough.
He's so Christian, he's so identified as a Christian, and even being gay couldn't overcome the burden of being a Christian in our culture or our society today.
He's a he's a flaming Christian.
And it that wouldn't help him, I think, if he were if he were gay.
I'm just, I'm just saying, folks, Jim Garrity, who does some great work at National Review, has a really fascinating piece about this.
His uh his blog post is called Morning Jolt.
And it's a list of all the things that the president doesn't do anything on.
And yet does make the time to call Jason Collins.
Forget the rest of the world.
President personally calls some athlete you never heard of before.
I mean, even Clinton got in on this.
Clinton released a statement that asked fans and NBA colleagues in the media to support and respect Collins.
Clinton said, let me tell you something.
Jason Collins is a good man.
He wants no more than what so many of us seek.
In turn.
Private office cigar.
And to be able to be who we are.
To do our work to build our families and contribute to our communities.
For so many members of the serial adulterer community, these simple goals remain elusive.
Serial adulter.
It's a joke, folks, but still.
Clinton knows him personally.
Everybody had to get in on this.
Nobody ever heard of this guy before the other day.
And here's Obama calling him, and Gardy's point is hey, remember North Korea?
North Korea is detaining a U.S. citizen.
Unless the Syrian rebels figured out some way to fake the presence of Saren in the bloodstream of some volunteers, the Syrian regime used chemical weapons and crossed the red line.
No one can come up with a way to demonstrate the consequences of crossing that line.
Oh, and the guys that we may soon intervene to help the Syrian rebels may have just tried to shoot down a Russian airliner.
Clinton calls Jason Collins.
Remember Boston.
U.S. Representative Dutch Ruppersberger, Democrat in Maryland told ABC News yesterday the FBI is also looking into persons of interest in the U.S., possibly linked to the Boston bombings.
Michael McCall of Texas said he's spoken to the FBI about the probe and the possible trainers the brothers had.
Are they overseas in the Chechen region or are they here?
In the United States, he said.
In my conversations with the FBI, it's a big question.
They've cast a wide net, both overseas and in the U.S. to find out where this person is, but I think the experts all agree that there is somebody who did train the Senaiabs.
Bill Clinton called Barack Obama called Jason Collins.
Remember Boston again.
State lawmakers have launched an investigation into whether the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings improperly received public benefits.
Remember Daval Padrick withheld the welfare records of the Sanayev family?
Somebody got to them.
And sources who have seen the 500 pages of documents sent to the House Committee on post-audit and oversight told a news media babe that the Sanaya family, including the parents of the two suspects, the suspects themselves, and their sisters, the widow and their child, received every conceivable public benefit available out there.
The Sanayev family collected over a hundred thousand dollars in welfare benefits.
Bill Clinton called Jason Collins.
Remember the economy?
We're still stuck in the book.
That's the conclusion to draw from the new report on the GDP.
The U.S. economy grew at a meager 2.5% annual rate the first three months of the year, which was an improvement from the 0.4% growth the final months of 2012 were muddling along the national debt 16.7 trillion dollars.
Barack Obama calls Jason Collins.
Remember Obamacare.
Get this, folks.
Daniel Kessler in the Wall Street Journal.
It appears that there will be 30 million to 40 million people damaged in some fashion by Obamacare.
More than one in ten Americans, and when that reality becomes clearer, the law is going to start losing its friends in the media who are inclined to support the president and his initiatives.
We'll hear about innocent victims who saw their premiums skyrocket, or who were barred from seeing their usual doctor, or who had their hours cut, or who lost their insurance entirely.
All thanks to the faceless bureaucracy administrating of federal law.
Obama called Jason Collins.
Between decreased hours, premium increases, and those who will lose insurance.
It appears that there will be 30 million to 40 million people damaged in some fashion by the Affordable Care Act.
That's more than one in ten Americans.
I think that's low.
I think it's going to be much greater than that.
But you're not going to be able to keep your doctor.
Your insurance premium is going to skyrocket.
Some of you are going to end up without insurance and pay fines.
Your employers are going to cancel your policies.
They can't afford it.
You're going to be directed to an exchange.
You have to go to the internet, wade your way through it, the massive forms fill out to apply to qualify.
There'll be a lot of people damaged by this, but Obama called Jason Collins.
Congratulate him on coming out of being gay.
That's such a big deal.
Groundbreaking pronouncement, the NBA and Jason Collins.
Hours after Collins disclosed his sexuality in an online article, Obama reached out by phone expressing his support, telling Collins he was impressed by his courage.
Meanwhile, by the way, we haven't even mentioned the Benghazi stuff.
There are actual efforts to suppress the testimony of eyewitnesses to the Benghazi horror.
The regime have a story coming up as in a stack of stuff.
The regime is doing everything it can restrict the testimony of people who could add to the information treasure trove of Benghazi.
Obama called Jason Collins.
And of course, we have the abortion doctor trial.
We have Kermit Gosnell and the absolute unbelievably reprehensibly sick things going on in his so-called abortion clinic.
And Obama did go to Planned Parenthood and say, God bless you.
And then he called Jason Collins.
But all this other stuff that's going on, limbaugh theorem, nothing to do with it.
Obama's fingerprints aren't on any of this stuff.
None of these things, the economy, Obamacare, none of these things actually attach to him.
Boston?
No, no, no.
He's just an innocent bystander like we all are, trying to find out what happened.
Kevin Spacey has it under control.
He went to Boston.
He was interviewed by CNN.
He's honoring the family, so that's done.
Uh do I mention the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy?
There are people who still don't have their homes, don't have electricity, people who still don't have food.
Now we hear that certain residents are losing their property after their homes were damaged, eminent domain is being invoked.
And Obama called Jason Collins.
That's okay because Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, said, hey, Obama kept every promise.
Every promise.
Greatest guy ever.
Media just can't contain themselves.
Last night we have a montage of media.
Roger Goodell got to be jealous.
I'm telling you, the commissioner of the NFL must angry, jealous, I don't know.
David Stern of the NBA scooped him.
The NFL was all set to have the first gay player.
Now the NFL's gonna have to come out with three or four.
To trump the NBA, the NFL is gonna have to have at least two guys announced gay on the same day at the same ceremony, and it will be a ceremony.
You can't, the NBA, give me a break.
You can't let the NBA trump the NFL.
Nothing trumps the NFL.
Listen here, Diane Sawyer, a montage of news media people talking about Jason Collins.
Good evening.
We begin with an act of personal courage, making history and creating a giant reaction in the ironclad world of professional sports.
One of their own, Jason Collins, a powerhouse player in the NBA, a Veteran of the court today told the world he is gay.
A revelation that makes him the first active player to come out, speak up, and take a stand.
Jason Collins of the Washington Wizards today became the first active player in one of the big four sports to come out.
That was Scott Pelley of CBS News.
And that's how serious it was.
The Jason Collins announcement that he is gay.
Learn it, love it, live it, was the lead new diamond.
Not only on my newscast, and I am the important Scott Pelle, but also Diane Sawyer at ABC.
That's all that mattered today.
There's nothing else to see here.
That's the end of the CBS evening news.
David Stern doing his victory lap on CBS this morning.
He's the comish of the National Basketball Association.
I think we're gonna get past everything in a good way as we come anonymous.
He's a great member of our family.
And after the immediate media frenzy, it's gonna be all right.
So what?
and it will help the next athlete that wants to do the same thing.
I just want to remind you one more time, I never had sex with that woman, not a single time.
I And I never.
I never asked anybody to lie.
Not a single time.
Now I'm here, and I have got to get back to work for the American people.
That didn't do diddly squat.
Not supposed to talk about or notice any of that, but that was groundbreaking too.
President's bopping interns.
Why not celebrate that?
One more before we go to the break.
Bill Roden, also on CBS this morning, New York Times sports columnist, talking about Jason Collins being a free agent.
36 years old, no team, not that good a player by reputation.
The co-host Nora O'Donnell, terribly concerned that Jason Collins may never ever again work in the NBA.
Asks Bill Roden of the New York Times about that.
Right now, I think they're great because all of a sudden now it's become a political thing.
Where he may not have been uh had a job, but I think now it's almost like you know what?
Some team, I think David Stern is going to get involved in this.
He's got to be playing somewhere next year.
It's a political thing.
Thank you, Mr. Roden.
Finally they admit it the whole thing is political.
It isn't about gay, it isn't about sports.
It's political.
And Bill Roden, columnist New York Times.
Doesn't matter if he can't play.
It doesn't matter if he's eighty-five years old in sports terms.
It doesn't matter.
Because it's political.
He just came out as gay, and Stern's going to make some team play him next year.
The End Amber back, great to have you.
It's already Tuesday.
Already Tuesday, fastest week in media.
He's not a powerhouse player, startly.
He averages 1.1 points a game.
One point that this is why I say if Tebow will come out as gay today, he can guarantee himself a spot in the NFL tomorrow.
Here's uh here's uh Dave in Casper, Wyoming as we start on the phones.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing today?
Very well, sir.
Thank you very much.
You know, Rush, I don't care if you're gay and you play in the NBA, just make your free throws.
I don't care what your sexual preference is.
I don't care if you're a gay plumber, just fix my sink.
It's political, Dave, and Bill Roden of the New York Times gave up the ghost.
The whole thing is political.
If you're like most everybody else, they're sick and tired of hearing this.
They get gay news, gay news fatigue.
Okay, we got it.
Just put it up on Facebook and forget It why does it have to be rammed in our throats, physically speaking?
Why in the world does this constantly have to be thrust at us?
This drumbeat, gay civil union, gay marriage, gays in the military, gay scout leaders, gays in the NBA.
I expect Roger Goodell now to have a gay draft.
No, you don't have to do that.
You just have to have a couple of guys come out.
Uh to dwarf here what happened in the uh in the NBA.
He's wringing his hands right now.
Um, well, maybe.
Maybe.
Because, I mean, they thought they were going to be first.
Because they've had the linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens promising that somebody was going to come out.
And then somebody said two were going to come out.
And nobody has.
And then out of the blue, Jason Collins came out.
And as Scott Pelley led the CBS News last night, Jason Collins of the Washington Wizards today became the first active player in one of the big four sports to come out.
Well, folks, I'm heterosexual.
I'm straight.
I like girls.
Deal with it.
Well, a potential lesson in how people do not listen.
Listen.
Well, it hasn't vanished, even though the caller hung up.
We had a guy from Chicago was really mad at me.
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