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Nov. 18, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 18, 2013, Monday, Hour #2
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Hi folks, great to have you back.
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Phone number is 800-282-2882, the email address Elrushbo at EIBnet.com on this coddled generation business.
You know, I'm a baby boomer, and I can tell you, I don't know about, well, yeah, I can pretty much say that the people I knew growing up, which was in a small Midwestern town, nobody was coddled.
But the baby boom generation did coddle its kids.
Does Coddler did.
And I don't know why.
I mean, you can maybe think about it.
Well, crime was rising and there became a little bit, like my parents were never afraid to let us go play outside all day.
There was no, there were no, no need for anything like an amber alert or any of that kind of thing.
But while most of the people I know of in my generation were not coddled, I certainly wasn't.
Geez.
But the parents, well, I do, yes, I have used that phrase often.
I'll basically just review it very quickly.
I think the baby boom generation had to invent its traumas to tell itself how tough life was because the as children of the World War II generation, our parents and grandparents, now they had it, at least is the way I look at it, tough.
They had the Great Depression.
They had World War II.
They had Korea.
They took very seriously when Khrushchev comes over, bangs the shoe, and says, we will bury your grandchildren.
They took it seriously.
When they were in their teenage years, they knew that the world was about much more than just them, that there were things larger than themselves.
Hillary Clinton, for example, a baby boomer, admitted she didn't realize that until she was in her 40s.
And I think that the baby boomers had to go out and invent all of these – oh, they had crappy technology.
I saw a graph over the weekend.
It took, oh, geez, I didn't print it.
I don't have it right in front of me.
But it's a stunning graph about technology.
The telephone took decades to reach 90% saturation.
The smartphone, the iPhone, has reached full saturation in the country in two years, as opposed to 30.
The technological differences are vastly different from what the baby boomers had compared to what their parents and grandparents had.
So I don't think as a kid I had it anywhere near as tough as my dad did growing up or his father.
That's just an honest assessment.
When my dad was 40, that was it.
His life was set and in his mind it was set.
And back then, if you hadn't done what you were going to do by 40, it wasn't going to get done.
It was just the way things were.
And it was also true that they didn't let you earn any money until you were 40 in those days.
You had to show your worth.
You had to prove your responsibility before anybody would pay you any serious money.
It took a long time to become successful.
All of that's changed now.
That's different.
And I'm not talking about trying to go back to that.
I'm just cataloging the differences.
But I don't think there's any question, folks, that the public school curricula and the, I mean, these things, we always laughed at them when they were happening.
We'd hear about a school that had a football team that beat its rival 55 to nothing, so they stopped keeping score.
We laughed about it.
But the fact is, it happened, and it happened in a lot of places, and that it obviously had influential aspects to it.
We were laughing at it.
I think I was laughing at it.
Oh, that'll never become mainstream, but it has, is the point.
So I got a couple of emails during the break I want to share with you.
One is somebody sent me some comments.
Apparently there was a post on what I'm talking about on one of the blogs yesterday.
Somebody was reading the post about what's happening to the NFL and the left taking over sports.
And somebody posted a comment that was sent to me.
And another friend sends me a note about what's happening.
And here's, let me, the friend email first.
Dear Rush, I don't think the left is conducting a war on football.
I think the war is for control of Sunday.
Sunday in America has traditionally been devoted to church, football, family dinner.
Liberals disapprove of all of these institutions.
They would prefer a day devoted to meditation and mindfulness, gardening, and an organic community meal.
Here's the other one.
It should be blind.
It was at hotair.com is where this post is.
It should be blindingly obvious to anyone that leftists are trying to kill the game of football.
It's the most popular sport in America now.
It's also one sport that women cannot play, where the physical difference between men and women prevails.
It involves violence and hitting.
It's also primarily watched by men.
It is accompanied by scantily clad cheerleaders that men also like to watch.
Its audience is patriotic.
Even in New York City, I recently attended a Jets game during which they honored a double amputee Afghanistan veteran.
And there was a sustained and heartfelt standing ovation for the young men.
Basically, everything the left hates is involved with football.
And to back this up, another African-American journalist who used to be on ES, and he may be for all I know, they had this show before Pardon the Interruption called Around the Horn.
And one of the participating journalists was an African-American named Kevin Blackestone, who's now a scholar of racial studies at some university.
And he just came out a couple weeks ago and said that we've got to stop playing the national anthem before sports events because it's a war anthem.
I'm not making it up.
It is a war anthem and that has no place in America in 2013.
Got to get rid of the flag, got to get rid of the Star-Spangled banner before every sports.
It's offensive and it's racist somehow.
I don't know how it's racist, but it is.
And we got to get rid of it.
Now, 25 years ago, 20 years ago, some loony tune like this says this, and we do a big thing about it, laughing at it, joking, poking fun at it, maybe do an update on it.
But the fact of the matter is, 25 years later, that has become a prevailing opinion in a sizable segment of the country's population.
And there's no question, there's no doubt that there is a war on football.
Somebody's conducting it for a host of reasons.
It's very public.
They are in the process of making it very well known that they need to change this game for whatever politically correct reasons.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, since we're talking about sports and athletics, from the medical help file, new study shows that aerobics is a poor form of fat loss.
So, how many of you people out there doing aerobics thinking you're really going out to stay in shape and you're really working hard?
No, we have.
We have read, we've had countless stories on this program where the authors complained about sports events being too patriotic.
Here's Blackestone's quote, by the way.
If you think I'm making this up, Blackestone said, if you sell this along with me, you should also be selling the rest of the military symbolism that embraces sports, whether it be the singing of a war anthem to open every game, whether it's going to get a hot dog and being able to sign up for the army at the same time.
So this guy says sports is nothing more than advanced militarism, and we've got to get that out of it.
The left, whatever it is about it, the left doesn't like it.
And you've seen when they didn't like what was going on in education, they made their move.
So don't poo-poo this.
As I say, but there is a potential for blowback, you know, because the Doritos and beer crowd watching this, they don't want any of this.
The Doritos and Budweiser bunch may not even know what liberals are, may not even care, but this is going to make them care, and they're not going to like it.
Who can tell when tipping points are reached, when events occur in society that have the impact or the result of changing people's attitudes or waking them up?
Nobody can predict these things.
And many times they happen without warning, outside of a concerted effort to wake people up.
People wake up anyway.
And this, who knows?
I mean, do you really think that the Billy Bobs and the Joe kids and whatever that are watching Sunday Night Football really want to be preached to about gun control at halftime?
No, they don't.
They don't want to be preached to about anything at halftime.
They want to see the highlights.
They want to see the game.
They want to be left.
They don't want to be preached to.
They don't want to be told how rotten they are.
They don't want to be told how insensitive.
They don't want to hear any of this stuff.
And who knows what backlash there could be.
Anyway, new study, this is from the website here called the sedentary athlete.
And new study shows that aerobics is a poor form of fat law.
Oh, speaking of this, for all I know, could be a hoax.
And I'll tell you what, sedentary athlete, there's a big, long story which we also talked about last week.
Remember the news that Tony Dorset had CTE and how everybody in the media bought it, even though it's impossible to diagnose CTE outside of an autopsy.
You cannot tell in a living person whether they have this kind of brain damage.
You can only determine it in an autopsy.
Yet some group that nobody has ever heard of, like the Center for Science in the Public Interest, put out a story claiming that Tony Dorset and others are suffering from it and they got memory loss and all of this.
And the sports media ate it up.
They didn't check on it.
They didn't find out who this group was because they want it to be true.
So they reported it and they spread it around.
And Breitbart has a story, Greed of Denial, scientists touting CTE brain scans profiting from testing company.
And this is Daniel Flynn, who has got a book called The War on Football, Saving America's Game.
And we've interviewed him for the Limball Letter.
The company behind headline-grabbing claims of a CTE diagnosis for living NFL players has publicly proclaimed a major scientific breakthrough.
But a representative of the company, it's called Tallmark, T-A-U-M-A-R-K.
A representative refuses to say who owns this mysterious corporation or where it's located.
And so the question is begged, are the doctors touting this CTE test for living athletes, also the businessmen profiting from it?
Well, I'm not at liberty to say, responded a receptionist to questions about the ownership and founders of the for-profit venture.
After repeated queries, the Tallmark receptionist indicated she was in Louisiana, but refused to divulge the secretive company's whereabouts.
She asked all further questions be sent to her Tallmark email address, which she promised to forward to her bosses.
The queries made last Tuesday remain unanswered.
Questions about ownership stakes to League of Denial talking heads Julian Bales and Bennett Omalu, two of the doctors touting these scans similarly have been met with silence.
Folks, this is how, this is how a study that nobody has ever seen by a group nobody's ever heard of becomes settled science.
This is exactly how this lunatic fringe group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, has gotten all of these bans on various foods that they don't like.
It's three people when they started out, three emaciated, skeletal-looking people with a fax machine and a logo.
And they send their stuff out to the drive-bys, and the drive-bys, because they like controlling people and telling them what's good form and bad form, run with it without checking.
The same thing was done here.
ESPN, NBC, every sports network fell for this story, and it turns out it's probably a hoax.
How could so many so thoroughly botch the fraudulent story that Tony Dorset tested positive for CTE?
The widespread reporting of a fiction as fact raises issues of the conflict of interest inherent in vested parties determining the validity of their own research.
Journalists acting as unwitting press agents for entrepreneurs.
The prefix doctor transforming reporters' natural skepticism into naivete.
And the ethics of releasing purported scientific discoveries to ESPN for vetting rather than peer-reviewed publications better equipped for the task.
So basically, to summarize this, This is how we got global warming.
A bunch of people nobody had ever heard of released news that the news media and the American left loved hearing, so they ran with it.
I've been talking about this for years, but now we've got this fraudulent story, and some of the sports media, in order to protect themselves, are refusing to admit that they fought him for a hoax and are continuing to report that there's a new discovery.
You can discover CTE in living athletes.
You can't.
So when I have a website here called The Sedentary Athlete, new study shows that aerobics is a poor form of fat loss.
I don't know whether it's true anymore.
Who knows what anything is true in the media anymore?
But now this one's funny because this see, I like this.
I'll go ahead and I will say sedentary athlete, because that's me.
I'll say this is exactly right because I love jamming it down people who think exercise is a way to lose weight because I know it's not.
So here's a story that fits what I want people to believe.
So I don't care whether it's true or not.
I'll just ram it down your throat and I'll pretend I'm in the drive-by media.
That's how it's done.
Quick timeout.
Sit tight, my friends.
Back with much more after this.
Okay, back to the phones we go.
This is Cheryl in Northern Ohio.
Glad you waited.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hi, Cheryl.
Hi, thank you for having me.
You bet.
I'm just so sickened and angry.
As a black woman, I'm so sickened and angered by those clips that you played of those black sports figures and sports casters, you know, just rallying for the right to use the N-word, this vile, disgusting word, this despicable word.
These men, and I can't even call them men with a straight face, who are so happy to use the word that was used when their great-great-grandparents were sold on auction blocks as chattel.
You know, there is no other group of people in this country that have embraced a vile word to describe their own people, to describe themselves.
Well, now, let me remind you what Wilbun said.
Wilbun said that that word was forced on you and your grandparents and his grandparents and the slaves.
Then why use it now?
But it's why make it a word that you want to use on a daily basis at that stage.
I don't begin to answer the question.
All I can tell you is that if you listen to Barkley and you listen to Shaq and Wilbund, and they're not the only ones.
I mean, they say, look, it's our word.
It's our culture, and you can't take it away from us, no matter you white people.
And what they don't understand is not white people trying to take it.
It's their buddies on the left.
It's the politically correct word.
Everything that's negative that's happening to black people is caused by the left.
Let me just say that.
But with respect to the words, no argument there.
These people don't even have the intelligence.
They can't even tell you why this is something that they want to use every day.
But I will say this, and I have to say this: for anybody who wants, any black man who wants to sanitize this word and give it some, you know, some, and make it something that has auditory value, let me just say this.
This is the word that virtually every black male child, every black male teen, just before he's shot on the streets by another black teen, that's the word that he, that's the last word that he hears.
I'm going to kill you, blank.
And that's the word that's filled into that blank.
So you tell me what there is positive about this word.
This is the word that's being yelled at your children as they're being shot dead on the streets of America.
I think you're exactly right.
And when they talk about it being a positive, they use it as a positive.
I think it's cultural decay.
It's a shame.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh doing what I was born to do.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
So there are words that some people can use and words that others can't.
Do you know what that means?
I mean, what that results in is segregation, the balkanization of the country.
And who's the arbiter?
We've got a First Amendment, free speech, saying the government can't stop you from saying various things.
There are other societal circumstances that dictate what you can and can't say.
But who's the arbiter here?
Some people get to use a word, others don't.
How does that work?
And then it can come out, use the wrong word in the wrong place to the wrong people, can destroy your career, your life, what have you.
Balkanization.
Now, I wanted to play.
Here's the soundbite.
This is Kevin Blackistone.
He said this all the way back on, and it was on Around the Horn on ESPN, back on November 6th.
Now, I'll tell you what inspired this.
Northwestern University football team came out with a new uniform.
The design of the uniform was meant to honor wounded soldiers in America, and there were actually blood drops depicted on the uniform.
And this just sent the left into a tizzy.
They just all were outraged and shocked.
How dare this be allowed to blood drops, blood splatter depicted on a college football uniform?
Hey, you know what?
Real blood ends up on those uniforms, too.
And so that sent Blackestone over the edge, and this is how he reacted to it.
The singing of a war anthem to open every game, whether it's going to get a hot dog and being able to sign up for the Army at the same time, whether it's the NFL's embrace of the mythology of the Pat Tillman story.
It's been going on in sports since the first national anthem was played in the World Series back in 1917.
You are conflating a war anthem with a simple game.
And when you have military flyovers and all the other military symbolism that goes on in sports, I think you've got a problem.
Right.
When you got military flyovers and recruiters at the hot dog stand and blood splatter depicted on uniforms and a war anthem played before every game to honor the military, you've got a problem.
Where do they find these people?
Where do they Mr. Snerdley is asking me where they find them?
They're being turned out of every American school at every level every year.
They're either being raised this way, brought up this way, taught this stuff.
There are gazillions of them who think like this, Snerdley.
That's what I'm saying.
We're losing, we're losing all these traditions and the institutions that have defined American greatness and exceptionalism, they are all under assault.
I'll tell you my reaction when I, I've told a story, I'm not going to retell the whole thing, but I was at a Super Bowl my first flyover, and I was sitting, it was at what then called the Murph, Jack Murphy Stadium San Diego, and I was in the closed section of the end zone, and there were three or four Army, I think they were F-18s, I don't know, but they were coming right at us.
And I'd never seen this before.
And they flew over, and the roar, I got goosebumps, and I started beating on my buddy's shoulder.
And I wasn't thinking pro-military.
I was loving my country at the moment.
I was just loving my giant American flag out there.
It wasn't love of military, Mr. Blackestone.
It's love of country.
That's what all of this is.
And honoring the U.S. military and the people who volunteer for that service.
And I remember I was beating on my buddy's shoulder and I was shouting, how can you ever be a Democrat if you see that?
And this is in the 80s.
And there were a couple of Democrats sitting in front of me who turned around and started shooting me daggers and so forth.
And they were not happy with it.
Turns out they didn't like this display, which I, at the time, didn't even understand.
I'm so naive in so many ways.
20, 30 years ago, the whole concept of people hating the military and hating a country was so strange to me and didn't understand how it could be.
But emotionally, intellectually, I knew.
But these people are all over the place, and the media finds them.
Media wants them.
Who's next?
Robert, Mobile, Alabama.
Yeah, I'll get to the aerobic story here.
I didn't mean to leave you hanging on that.
Robert, glad you called.
Glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Well, it's good to talk to you, Royce.
I was so glad to hear you talk to the previous black woman before, because I was afraid I was going to finally get through to you and call her to disagree with you.
And I've been with you since the Clinton year.
But in hearing you talk to her, you clarified that I thought you might thought that Wilbon and Shaq and Charles Barkley should okay for them to use the N-word.
And, you know, as long as it's black could use the N-word.
Wait a minute.
Hey, Robert, I'm serious now.
What did I say that made you think I was approving of them using?
I plainly said, I don't want to hear this when I am turning on the TV to get news or whatever it is on sports.
This is the last thing I want.
I think this is sick, frankly, that this has become a big deal, the N-word, using it proudly.
It means something goes against everything I've ever been taught about it.
And to have it now, now I'm told, well, no, when we do it, it's a positive.
When we do it, it's a good thing.
I think it's harmful, Robert.
Oh, no, and I knew you didn't think it was okay to say.
I thought you might have insinuated that their right to say it was they had the right to say it.
I mean, I'm sure they had a right to say it, as if it was some kind of right for them to say it, of course they're black.
But here you talk to the other callers.
I clearly say, okay, now I understand because I certainly don't want to disagree with you.
All of you are listening to you, they'll call and disagree.
I'll tell you one thing, though, Rush.
I wouldn't mind everybody using the N-word to get free from it.
Because we've tried to insult you white people over the years, Rush.
We try, but you know why we can't?
Because you won't let us.
Because you won't get offended.
Well, we can't insult you if you won't get offended.
That's freedom for you all.
I would love that freedom for black people.
We don't get offended.
That word no longer hasn't.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Wait a minute.
My hearing is an obstacle.
Who is the you won't let us use the you?
White people won't get offended when black people try to come up with racial slurs against you because you won't get offended.
And that gives you all freedom over those words.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Yeah, I would love for black people to have freedom from the N-word.
But the only way we get freedom from it, Rush, is in other words, is what you're saying, you wish you didn't have to be offended when you heard it, but everybody's making you think you ought to be offended so you act like you are.
Exactly, Rush.
And if the only way to get freedom from it is if you say everyone can use it.
It's not offensive because everybody uses it.
But like you said before, Rush, if you're going to say that white people can't use it, then it can't be okay for black people to use it.
Okay, I understand that.
I totally do.
You know why?
Because this whole notion that we are ordering our society and doing things and not doing them, because whoever is offended by something, I'm distressed that the offended have so much power.
I am too, Rush.
Because I don't grant people the power to offend me.
That's what you're really saying.
You don't want to be offended.
You don't have to act like you're offended.
If the word doesn't bother you, it doesn't bother you.
But people run around, act like you've got to get outraged and join the chorus of those who are outraged.
The rebel flag.
The rebel flag is a classic example.
Blacks used to love watching the show, The Dukes of Hazard Rush, with that big general lead and that big rebel flag on their hand.
Is that right?
Is that right?
You like the Dukes of Hazard?
They loved it.
Black people in the South loved it as much as everybody else.
Well, that was dazing.
And it didn't offend us in the 70s.
It wasn't until the politically correct crowd tells us, well, you should be offended by that rubber flag.
That's right.
Well, I didn't know I should have been offended.
He's exactly right.
He's exactly right about this, folks.
And just like if somebody wants to walk down the street whistling Dixie, you're supposed to get livid about it, and you don't want to care, right?
Exactly.
I want the freedom from it.
I want to be free as you white people are when it comes to words there because black people have tried to offend you, but you won't let us by getting offended.
And there's so much freedom.
You are free from that.
I'm just kind of like that.
Robert, I'm just going to tell you, it is, it is, as McCain would say, it's our fringe on the left.
It is our friends on the left that keep the N-word powerful.
They are the ones, and that is such hypocrisy.
They're the ones that keep the word powerful.
They're the ones that make sure it remains offensive.
And yet now they are the ones demanding that certain people be allowed to.
Well, actually, they're not.
They want to wipe it out and so forth.
You're exactly right to hit this on the freedom angle.
You couldn't hit the bullseye more accurately here than you have.
I'm glad you called, Robert.
Thanks much.
We'll be back, folks, after this.
How are you?
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Okay, here's the aerobics story.
So I don't want people to think that I was just twerking you, tweaking you.
It's from the sedentary little faux pas there.
No, I don't care if somebody calls me a crack for crying out.
The names I have been, I don't care.
This is the thing.
I don't let people offend me.
That is, you know, the thing about, I don't understand.
I really don't.
I mean, the only reason, I think 99% of the people who claim they're offended really aren't.
They're just using a political weapon.
That's all it's become.
Being offended is a political weapon.
It's a way of shutting people up.
It's just an extension of political correctness.
It's impossible to go through life not offending people, something, somebody, anytime.
All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything.
And you're going to offend people.
I just, I don't understand running around being so weak and so insecure that somebody says something, it's words for crying out loud.
And they're righteously indignant and offended.
And they don't really.
It's just political correctness.
It's censorship.
And it's a way for a bunch of people who don't want to have to hear what they disagree with, not having to hear it.
Pure and simple.
Anyway, the sedentary athlete, it's a blog, actually.
There was a very interesting study published in the December 2012 issue of the Journal of Applied Physiology.
Stated purpose was comparing the fat loss efficacy of aerobics training, resistance training, and a regimen containing both combined.
The authors concluded that aerobic training burned more fat than resistance training and was therefore the preferred fat loss exercise method.
The author of this piece is a guy named Wesley Powell.
So Wesley says here, I looked at the abstract and something seemed a little off, and I wanted to understand how they controlled nutrition as well as other physical activity performed by the participants on such a large study.
So I bought the full article to review.
At first glance, I found that there didn't seem to be any major scientific errors.
The samples were appropriately screened.
The population size was large.
Assignment to the cohort groups was random and there was good sampling of age and BMI and all body mass index and all the groups.
It was only after I got into a detailed reading of the results that I realized what had been bothering me.
And basically, what he found is that whoever put the study out did not factor in what people ate.
He just reported that aerobics training was the best fat loss method there was versus resistance training, which is like Nautilus equipment or whatever the modern equivalent of it is.
He didn't factor what people were eating into any of this, which of course renders the guy's research worthless.
So a report came out that aerobics is a poor form of fat loss, and it turns out that it's meaningless.
And yet it got reported and it got picked up in places that people who care about this would find it.
And it's just more BS that ends up out there.
This guy saw a study that said running caused you to lose more fat than lifting weights.
Looked into it and found the total opposite was true, that lifting weights burns more calories than running.
The study didn't factor in the intake of food.
And it's just another example of a study that is flawed.
But now for a year, people who run have thought they were doing a good thing when in fact they're losing not fat, but muscle.
Aerobics is running in this story.
Aerobics is not the leotards on a mat in a room doing what looks like yoga.
Aerobics here, in this case, is aerobic exercise running versus lifting weights.
And so you had the pro-running crowd, even they are politicized.
And they put out this bogus story that theirs is the fastest way to lose fat.
And this guy found out that it was bogus, not right.
And it took a lot of research to find out the flaw.
The guy doing the original study had not at all factored diet.
Here's Madeline in Tascadero, California.
Hi, Madeline.
Great to have you on the program.
Yes, thank you.
Tascadero, California.
I have two quick points.
First, another reason to keep the JFK anniversary in the news right now is today is the 35th anniversary of drinking the Kool-Aid, the Jonestown Massacre 35 years ago today.
Oh, yeah.
I remember Jim Jones and the boys, yeah.
Yep, yep.
So that anniversary is today.
The second quick point is in your book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, the young man who was washed overboard and then rescued, John Howland.
Yep.
Another one of his descendants is Sarah Palin.
I researched it because I'm also a descendant, and so I went online.
You are the second descendant of John Howland who's called us.
They had big families back then.
There's probably millions of us.
Well, and Howland lived longer than anybody else on the Mayflow.
I lived to be 80.
A lot of them lived long.
But I researched, I went in and did a search on famous descendants of the Mayflower and put in John Howland.
And Sarah Palin is one of my cousins, maybe 10 or 12 times removed.
This is just all amazing.
We now had two descendants of one of the stars of our book.
Well, not the star, but a prominent character, John Howland.
Well, Madeline, thank you very much.
I appreciate the call.
I'm fascinated to hear this.
I remember the old days when Chuck Barkley and I were friends, and Chuck Barkley invited me to his annual fundraiser in Orlando to be the keynote speaker, except he didn't tell me that's what I was doing until I got there.
Anyway, we got to be back in just a short time.
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