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May 7, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 7, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, a cutting edge societal evolution.
Which means if you are here on a regular basis, you'll know not only the truth of things, and you'll know the truth of things long before anybody else does.
Because we figure it out sooner here.
Because everywhere else in the drive-by media is nothing but deception and misdirection.
Great to have you.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
How many of you believe that eating eggs and mayonnaise and steak and other high-fat foods is a no-no.
Shouldn't do it.
It's going to lead to obesity.
It's going to fat, if you're in a real Indian, it's going to lead to cholesterol.
It's going to lead to clogged arteries.
It's going to lead to your death prematurely.
You shouldn't.
You shouldn't get anywhere near.
How many of you believe it?
I would venture to say, almost everybody.
If they don't, I I think almost everybody believes it.
Even the people who eat the stuff and they're willing to take the risk, but I think probably everybody's because this has been told to us for a hundred years.
Or whatever is our entire lives.
We've all been told that that stuff is just, ugh.
Oh, gee.
You don't want it.
I once had it described to me.
I was having some fried chicken pan gravy.
And they said, you know, that's the stuff when they go to bypass surgery.
That's the stuff that they have to clean out of the arteries.
I mean, people believe this stuff.
You know, it's been a 50-year effort to get people to stop eating meat, eggs, and whole fat dairy.
And do you know, it's a whole...
An entire multiple billion dollar industry has developed around it.
And do you know there is one person responsible, just like one person is responsible for all the deaths of malaria.
Because we can't use DDT, the idiot Rachel Carson.
There's one person responsible for this.
Person's name is Ansel Key Keys.
And this is from the Wall Street Journal.
It is a long article, and I'm just going to give you the nut of it.
There is no evidence.
Capital N, Capital O. Zilch Zero Nada.
None doesn't exist.
Evidence that high fat diets or high-fat anything leads to heart disease.
No evidence.
Once again, we have been lied to for decades.
In this case, by single scientist who, for some reason, what he said was popular with some who picked it up.
And I will go out on a limb and say that it may not have been at the outset, but this has been turned into a political issue.
Because everything is.
Now you might be, oh, come on, Rush.
Look, I love you.
Well, what do you mean?
What's politics about telling people not to eat mayonnaise and eggs?
Health care is what's politics about it.
The fact that you don't know what's good for you is what's politics about it.
The fact that you need an FDA or some other government agency telling you what you should and shouldn't eat because you're not bright enough to know what's good for you or not.
That's what's politics about it.
What's politics about it is the opportunity it presents for people to control what you do by and they don't even have to work very hard, just have to pummel you for a few years with the fact that X is gonna kill you.
And you'll stop doing X, or a lot of people will.
Or, and not only will you stop doing it, when you see other people doing it, you'll try to shame them.
And where has it led?
Now we've got to get rid of cattle and cows for global warming because of the methane that comes from when they expel gas.
That's how you get to the politics of it.
We've got to stop eating McDonald's hamburgers.
Not only will they kill you and give you a heart attack, but they're destroying the planet.
That's the politics of it.
There's politics all through this.
The story is by Nina Teichholtz.
Nina Teichholtz has been researching dietary fat and disease for nearly a decade.
She's got a book, The Big Fat Surprise Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet.
Steimann und Schuster is going to publish the book on May 13th, which is what is this?
What is this?
The 8th?
The 7th.
Okay, so it's six days from now, this book is going to be out there.
But it's not just her.
Saturated fat does not cause heart disease.
So concluded a big study published in March in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
You know what's found on a farm?
You could argue as some of the most natural food out there.
Couldn't you?
Butter, milk, eggs, beef, vegetable, you could argue that all of it's the most essence of natural.
The earth produces it.
Whether man does anything about it or not, or to it or not.
Saturated fat does not cause heart disease.
So concluded.
A big study in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
So Nina Tycho says, how can this be?
The very cornerstone of dietary advice for generations has been that the saturated fats in butter, cheese, and red meat should be avoided because they clog our arteries.
You remember, Julia Trial, remember her the cooking shows?
Julia Trial put a stick of butter in everything.
If she was preparing some roasted almonds as an appetizer, she would she'd boil them in a stick of butter.
Everybody made fun of her.
Everybody accused her of being a killer.
She said, no, butter makes everything taste better.
She did nothing wrong with, she pronounced it butter.
Butter.
But she said there's nothing wrong with it.
And she was right.
But the very cornerstone of dietary advice for generations has been that the saturated fats in butter, cheese, and red meat should be avoided because they clog your little arteries.
And for many diet-conscious Americans, it's simply second nature now to get chicken or use canola oil over butter.
And of course, remember we had to get rid of coconut oil because of those anorexics at Center for Science of Public Interest.
The new study's conclusion shouldn't surprise anybody familiar with modern nutritional science.
The fact is there has never been solid evidence for the idea that these fats cause disease.
Now let's stop right there.
At least 50 years.
Julia Charl lived to be 91, by the way.
She drank wine like a fish, too.
There has never been solid evidence for the idea these fats cause disease.
Fifty years.
How many of you believed it?
Still do, maybe.
Let me rewrite the sentence.
There has never been solid evidence for the idea that man is causing the climate destruction in the earth.
Same thing, folks.
We only believe this to be the case because nutrition policy, politics, anyone, has been derailed over the past 50 years by a mixture of personal ambition, Bad science, politics, and bias.
Our distrust of saturated fat can be traced back to the 19th.
Can I tell you a short little story?
I've told you this before.
I am a man of substance.
I am over what the actuarial tables say is my correct weight.
And I eat all this stuff.
And every time I go in for mandated insurance key man policy health checkups.
The doctors, they take the blood and they do the triglycerides and they do the cholesterol, the good and the bad, and they do all of that.
And because even what they believe, my readings should be off the charts.
They think they need to have a stretcher nearby to get me to the ER right after doing their tests.
Then the tests come back and say, whoa, my cholesterol's below normal.
Good and bad.
Triglycerides only slightly elevate it.
Then in Hawaii, three years ago or so, I had what everybody thought was a heart attack, but it wasn't.
And in and they went in and they got to find the blockage.
So I had to do one of those, what's the name of it?
I forget, but they they go in either to your groin or through your arm, and they go in there and they find what the blockage is, and if they find it, then they do surgery take it out.
Doctor was stunned.
There wasn't any.
Zero.
Zilch, zero, naughty.
Blockage.
It just didn't compute.
Based on what I like to eat, what I do eat, what I have eaten.
Now I know that's just one example, not scientific.
It's pure anecdotal.
But there are others who are the same way.
And all it all it did was disprove what everybody thinks is the conventional wisdom in theory.
We're all gonna, something's gonna get some of it.
I mean, we're all gonna get something, but this just it's so typical.
One man, Ansel Keys.
More than a billion dollars have been spent trying to prove the hypothesis of Ansel Keys.
Evidence of its benefits has never been produced.
And the author of this story says it's time to put this hypothesis to bed and move on to what may be the real culprits for our nation's health woes.
Not really identified here.
But here's the history of this, folks, very, very, very quickly.
Our distrust of saturated fat can be traced back to the 1950s to a man named Ansel Benjamin Keyes.
He was a scientist at the University of Minnesota.
And Dr. Keyes was formidably persuasive, or formidably, for those of you who didn't get past the eighth grade, formidably persuasive, and through the sheer force of will, he rose to the top of the nutrition world.
Not based on any genuine exhibition of superiority, sheer force of will.
He just willed himself into this role, like Rachel Carson.
I am going to be in charge of insecticides.
Yeah, cardiac catheterization.
You should have seen the doctor when they didn't find any blockage.
She was, you know, it's a mixture of shock, surprise, even some disappointment because the theory's all wet.
Happens every time I go in for one of these checkups.
Anyway, Dr. Keyes was formidably persuasive, sheer force of will, rose to the top of the nutrition world.
He was even on the cover of Time Magazine for relentlessly championing the idea saturated fats raise cholesterol and as a result cause heart attacks.
So why did people believe it?
Well, sheer force of will.
The guy was formidable.
He went out there and he was just damn sure of himself.
He was persuasive because of it.
And there's another ingredient that has to be present for anything like this to work.
And it is a willingness on the part of the gullible to believe it because everybody seems predestined to believe pessimism.
Everybody seems to be predestined to believe that something is going to be the end of all of us.
And this guy, Ansel Keys, relentlessly championed this idea.
And the idea fell in receptive ears because at the time Americans faced a fast-growing epidemic.
Heart disease had quickly become the nation's number one killer.
And so here came the explanation.
Even President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in 55.
Researchers were desperate for answers.
As the director of the largest nutrition study to date, Dr. Keys was in an excellent position to promote his idea.
The seven countries study that he conducted on nearly 13,000 people, men primarily, in the United States, Japan, and Europe ostensibly demonstrated that heart disease was not the inevitable result of aging, but it could be linked to what you ate.
Now, critics have pointed out Dr. Keyes violated several basic scientific norms in his study.
For one, he didn't choose countries randomly, but instead selected only those likely to prove his beliefs.
Huh?
Or have we heard that before?
He chose Yugoslavia, Finland, and Italy, excluded were France, land of butter, milk, eggs, cheese, burnase, Hollandaise, mayonnaise.
You eat it out of the jar with a spoon in France.
So he didn't go there.
They've even tried to tell you that there's some super secret ingredient in red wine that eats up all that fat, and that's how the French get away with it.
You know who's responsible for that?
The red wine industry.
Yeah, I'm sure you like that one.
You got an excuse to go out and drink the red wine while you have the steak and the butter and the eggs, except you're not having the steak and the butter.
You're out there eating chicken cordon blue.
No, you will not have chicken cordon blue because there are fats in it.
So anyway, he didn't go to France, he didn't go to Switzerland.
He went to poor countries and so forth, didn't go to West Germany.
The study star subjects were peasants from Crete.
Islanders who tilled their fields well into old age and appeared to eat very little meat or cheese.
That's who he chose.
As it turns out, Dr. Keys visited Crete during an unrepresentative period of extreme hardship after World War II.
And furthermore, he made the mistake of measuring the islanders' diet partly during Lent, when they were foregoing meat and cheese.
The whole thing.
This guy can be immediately linked and traceable to today's clients, uh, client uh uh climate scientists.
Start out with the premise that you want to be true and then go make it true.
Now they've done another huge, huge study here.
Huge, folks.
There is no evidence of this.
You can literally eat steak and eggs and butter and cheese and milk, not skim, but the whole thing guilt-free.
You don't like it, that's another thing.
But you don't have to feel guilty.
And you vegans, man, what a bill of goods you bought.
I was going to go to the phones.
There's not enough time here to be fair, so we'll start that on the next half hour.
Uh, I had people tell me it's a great show yesterday, except I took too many calls.
I just want you to know that.
But I still do it.
I'm gonna do it today too, because I like I like bouncing off what uh you people on the phones have to say.
I actually believe that part of the reason they they tried to run Paula Dean out of business is because she was a big advocate of butter and fat and southern cooking and all that, and she just offended the food Nazis of the left.
Do not doubt me on this.
I'm not, I'm not ignoring the other things, whatever, but I guarantee you, guarantee you that was part of it.
Now, what is the result of people dropping fats from their diet?
They're eating more carbs.
Instead of meat, eggs, and cheese, we're eating more pasta, grains, oh yeah, the grains.
Grains are, hell, you'll live forever, right?
Berries, go pick them up off the floor in the forest, grab berries, and eat the bark of the tree, eat the eat the greens.
Oh, yeah, man, now we're talking health.
Uh-uh.
Wrong.
Pasta grains, fruits, starchy vegetables like potatoes, even seemingly healthy, low-fat foods like New York's official snack, yogurt, are stealth carbohydrate delivery systems, since removing the fat requires the addition of fillers to make up for lost texture.
The reality is, and this can be traced to the Atkins diet, and they tried to destroy that guy and everybody that had a derivative.
The reality is fat does not make you fat.
Fat does not make you diabetic.
Scientific investigations going back to the 1950s suggest that actually it's an overabundance of carbohydrates that do that.
They're all broken down as sugar.
The metabolic process.
All right.
Phones are next.
Sit tight.
As usual, I checked the email during the break, and I'm I'm kind of glad I got the question.
Someday I hope not to have to explain this, but I'm happy to do it.
Rush, do you realize what's going on out there that you're not talking about?
What is this?
Who cares about saturated fat and fast foods?
I mean, you got these elections that are happening, Tea Party gets shellacked in North Carolina.
You haven't brought it up.
We got health care, it's going to deteriorate Obama and climate change, and you haven't talked about it.
Talked about it all day yesterday.
Folks, what what do I do here?
What do we believe in here?
I am perhaps one of the biggest believers in individual liberty, rugged individualism and self-determination there is, because I believe that is what gave us America.
I believe rugged individualism, this undying passion for liberty and freedom to not be controlled, to be able to fulfill our wildest dreams and ambitions cannot happen.
If liberalism, socialism, communism rule today, if people are willing to not trust themselves, not willing to educate themselves and instead that instead turn everything over to the government to protect them, to guide them, we are not going to have the United States of America as we have it.
The reason I spend time talking about this is because my mission is to expose fascism, totalitarianism, authoritarianism, liberalism everywhere it is.
But my primary objective is to try to promote critical thinking.
Rather than have you be skeptical of what you might hear from, I just want you to be skeptical of anything you hear in the media these days.
And I don't want you to trust any of it.
I want you to use your common sense and your own God-given intelligence and just stop for a moment and ask why all of a sudden minimum wage being discussed.
Why all of a sudden income inequality?
And then the next day, why global warming?
I want you to finally get to the point that everything happening in the news media today is about getting you to willingly agree to let the government control more and more of your life, and you're not gonna have the best life you can have if you do that, and you're not gonna have the best country we can have.
So if I can come along and help you to understand how you're being hoaxed with global warming, how you're being hoaxed with all of this food stuff.
You know every day, every week, it's a different food threat that you now have to avoid if you want to survive.
And it's all lies.
It's all bogus.
And I don't believe that every liberal doctor, medical personnel, health official is a rabid liberal activist.
I think they don't know any better.
Some of them generally think that you can't take care of yourself, and they want to help you.
But they too believe a bunch of lies.
They have been caught up in all of this.
And then in in effort to make themselves feel good, and I want to make it different.
Then they start carrying the water on all of this stuff.
For 50 years, you have been lied to.
We've all been lied to about The danger of certain kind of foods literally lied to.
And there is a political agenda attached to it.
And the political agenda is no more complicated than every time they can make you believe that without them you can't survive, they win.
And it is my belief you are better equipped to survive, relying on yourself and turning your life over to people you've never met who have no qualifications.
Barack Obama doesn't know the first thing about the health care business or hospitals or doctors' offices.
He doesn't know the first thing about the military.
He doesn't know the first thing about anything.
He hasn't ever done anything.
You know more than Barack Obama about how business you're in operates and how it succeeds, then he does.
And you care more than he does because he's not interested in that.
So that's why I bring this stuff up.
I think if in our screwels, critical thinking were taught, and curiosity and skepticism, we'd be much better off, but that's not what's happening.
We're kids are being propagandized.
Unknowingly.
Global warming, classic example.
America sucks, classic example.
America unjust, immoral, multicultural.
It's all part of a massive effort to discredit things that you really should believe.
Yeah, and it's and and of course they have the magic words.
The consensus is that there is global.
So you think, oh wow, well, all the people smarter than I am think there's global warming.
There must be.
They're not smarter than you are.
That's another thing.
They are not smarter than you are.
You just think they are.
They wear lab coats, or they went to three universities, as our caller said yesterday.
Or the conventional wisdom, or well, everybody else thinks it, I better think it myself and so forth.
I I'm just any chance I have, I think exposing something like this to me is every bit as important as talking about Obama.
It's all the same thing, folks.
It literally is linked.
In fact, I had this saturated fat story a couple of days.
I just didn't get to it, lest you think that I'm not discussing things you think are more important.
I'm putting it aside.
I'm waiting for the opportune time to do it.
That's what I firmly believe.
I just want the best for everybody.
I just want everybody to, and we all dream.
We all have ambition.
I don't want that to get killed off.
I don't want people's aspirations and desires to be great and good and all that to be wiped out by pessimism and fear, lack of confidence.
I want everybody to be the best they can be.
There's nothing wrong with relying on yourself, and there's nothing wrong with self-interest.
That's not selfishness.
And there certainly is nothing wrong with disagreeing with the majority.
There's certainly nothing wrong with being a contrarian if you believe it.
Okay, so I'm I'm I'm happy for the question.
I hope someday that others understand.
I realize the question email might have been a taunt, but still it gave me the opportunity.
But with settled science that too much fat causes heart attacks.
You want to be controlled with what you eat?
I mean, I I just it's so unnecessary.
It's based on just absolute things that are wrong.
Anyway, I could I could go for the rest of the half hour on this, is how much I fervently believe it.
You know, it's all rooted in the fact that I believe informed participating public is the way you get the country you want.
And that's what we're about here, pure and simple.
Here's uh here's Rick at Cortez, Colorado as we start.
Glad you called and thank you for waving, Rick.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Yes, sir.
Uh I called in to say that another side effect of Monica's war was that Osama bin Laden fell under the radar and wasn't taken seriously as a threat because of Bill's wag the dog circuit.
Well, you know, that's that's a that's a point worth making because who was it?
Was it what country offered Clinton Bin Laden.
Sudan, Somalia, not Somalia.
No, I don't think it was Yemen.
Might have been the situation.
There was a country that offered Bin Laden and Clinton refused, claiming that we didn't have law sufficient to hold him based on matter of law enforcement and so forth.
And it was it was.
That was about the time that the Lewinsky thing was happening.
And I tell you, Rick is right that if you weren't around or paying attention back then, everything going on in the White House, the moment the Lewinsky story hit until Clinton left office, everything was about image and PR and things that were not real.
Saving a legacy, saving presidency and all that saving Hillary and her political future.
So Yeah, I saw that.
Harry Reid, by the way.
Harry Reid says that the Koch brothers are the main cause of global warming.
The Koch brothers are I I it was the Sudan offered Clinton bin Laden.
It was a Sudan.
Yeah, the the Koch brothers are the number one cause of global warming.
Now that alone will tell you how stupid Democrat voters are, because that's who he's aiming it at.
The Koch brothers.
Main cause of global warming.
Well, why weren't we told this 20 years ago?
Koch brothers are in their 70s.
Well, maybe the 60s, I don't know.
But the Koch brothers have been rich Koch brothers for a long time.
And it's only this week we learned of the main cause of global warming.
Thank you, Rick.
Here's Lisa in Orange County, California.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
Hello.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I'm so happy to talk to you today because I really need your advice.
Oh, well, I'm happy to try.
Okay.
Well, my daughter, we schooled our daughter, our oldest both kids, but my oldest is about to graduate from UC Berkeley.
And the commencement speaker is Nancy Pelosi.
And my husband and I thought, well, being the tolerant conservatives we are, we would sit through her commencement address respectfully.
But my advice I'm asking you for is if I were to muster up 50 people, maybe a hundred people, what do you think my chances are of Nancy Pelosi withdrawing?
Zilch?
Absolutely none.
You could have twenty thousand people protest Pelosi, and they would have her speak just because of that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Two-way street.
Now are you are you gonna go and you're gonna listen to Pelosi speak?
Oh, yeah.
I I'm definitely I'm gonna go to that.
That's she's speaking at the main commencement, and then um then my daughter has the uh department graduation also, but um she's she's enjoyed Berkeley.
She thinks she's more conservative now than when she was.
Let me tell you there's a there's a huge, there's a growing conservative slash Republican student population at Berkeley.
People surprised when they hear that.
Yeah.
It's still a liberal hotbed.
And I uh you you should be you should be warned and prepared.
I mean, you you you have an idea of the kind of things Pelosi's gonna say at this commencement, I'm sure.
Yeah, I'm sure.
I I guess I'll have to hear it until you know to learn what she's gonna say, I have to wait and see.
No, you don't.
I can tell you.
I can tell you what she's gonna say.
I know exactly what I don't need a word for word what she's gonna say, but I know the points that she's gonna make.
A, it's gonna be about her, disguised as being about students.
It's going, it's gonna be it's gonna be warning the students to not be talked out of global warming and to make sure that they support Obamacare.
Uh it'll be how bad the Koch brothers are.
It's it it'll have every element of the Democrat agenda in it.
Yeah, just disguised as as guidance for the students as they head into the world to save it.
Yes, yeah.
Well, it's it's gonna be interesting, but uh, we're very proud of our daughter, and she's graduating with highest honors, and so we're looking forward to it in spite of having to sit through.
Good.
Good.
See, we're open, you're open, but you can do that.
You know, You wouldn't even think of protesting the school.
You're not afraid of Pelosi.
You can go listen to what some socialist babe has to say without having your life threatened, but they can't do that at Rutgers.
They're such cowards, they can't even subject themselves to somebody that's a smarter than they are and wants to say things they may not disagree with.
They're a bunch of cowards.
You're not.
You're totally confident.
You're exactly like a point that a caller made the other day.
When you really believe what you believe, when you fervently believe it, you have all the confidence in the world.
You don't care who disagrees.
You're willing to tackle anything with them because you're not intimidated.
It's only when you're not sure of what you believe in, or when you're faking it and don't believe it, that you don't want to be confronted by people who disagree.
So I'm sure you wouldn't even think of trying to deny the school the right to have whoever they want speak there.
I mean, you might object to it.
I mean, this is this is no different than having Daniel Ortega up from uh Nicaragua to speak.
It's the same.
But that's the thing.
You've you've got the confidence in yourself and your daughter to be able to go up and listen to this and not end up being brainwashed by it.
And in fact, use it as a learning opportunity.
And you wouldn't think of you just making a joke.
You wouldn't think of calling a school and demanding that they rescind the invitation.
By the way, I just found out that the students at the University of California, Berkeley, are being charged an extra $10 to hear Pelosi give the commencement speech.
The what the Washington Free Beacon, Berkeley charges graduating students for commencement ceremony featuring Nancy Pelosi.
Don't know.
University is charging the students ten dollars each to attend their own commencement address delivered by Pelosi, Lila Bianco, director of external relations in the Office of Protocol at the University said the money is to absorb the cost of commencement.
This was in the Daily California, the Scrual's official newspaper.
So is Pelosi charging Berkeley so much they have to find a way to recoup the expense?
Thank you.
Here is uh where are we going next?
Who's next on the EIB network?
So just give.
That'd be Frank in Tampa.
Hey, Frank, welcome.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
All right.
When you uh there's nobody on one.
Um, when we get that straightened out, there's other things about Pelosi here from the Daily Californian, which is the screw newspaper that mentions they have to charge 10 bucks to defray the cost of the commencement.
There's a little thing, ten things you need to know about Pelosi before she speaks.
One, she keeps Ghiradelli chocolate stocked in her office at all times.
Two, she's worth a boatload of money.
Three, she's known to eat ice cream for breakfast.
Four, she knows Brad Pitt.
Five, she's appeared on both Top Chef and 30 Rock.
Five years ago, she made a YouTube video with her cats.
Number seven, Diane von Furstenberg created a tote bag in support of Pelosi.
Number eight, she's a big fan of Forder quarterback Colin Capernick's tattooed arms.
Number nine, she supports Kentucky fried chicken over Chick fil A. And number 10, her mother wanted her to be a nun.
So that's what the students are being told about Pelosi.
Ten things the graduating seniors at Berkeley need to know about Pelosi before she shows up to give her giant commencement address, which again is costing them an additional ten dollars over what it would normally be.
Uh from the Daily Caller, there's a report that just one Obamacare tax could cost up to 286,000 jobs.
Oh, yes, we have Obamacare news, and quite a bit of it here in the stack.
We'll cycle through it.
In the meantime, a brief timeout here.
Sit tight back after this.
Don't go away.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush.
Limbaugh and the excellence in broadcasting network.
No, he doesn't say why the Cook brothers are the He called them the gazillionaire, and he said that the main cause of global warming, Harry Reedy.
He doesn't say why.
He's probably gonna eventually, if he's pressed on it, well, they're in the oil business and they do this and that.
It's literally insane.
Senseless.
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