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Aug. 7, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 7, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host of this program documented to be almost always right, 99.7% of the time, still waiting on the next opinion audit from the Sullivan Group.
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Uh now in uh I think it might be in Roseville, California.
The uh Sullivan group keeps moving around.
Robbie saw that I can't find them.
Phone number if you want.
Well, it's been stuck at 99.7 for I don't know how long.
And I haven't been wrong.
It's gotta be going up at some point.
Anyway, telephone numbers 800-282-2882.
Back now to Brian, a trucker from Phoenix on the road in Austin.
He may now be up to Dallas by now.
Anyway, I'm on my way down to San Antonio.
Okay, oh, okay, cool.
San Antonio.
Uh I've been there a lot.
I've been nice to be nice.
It is, it is.
Now, just a reset.
You have this brother who calls himself, he thinks he's a centrist.
He thinks people on the left and right are wacky, he thinks he's an independent, right down the middle guy.
You used to be a Jesse Jackson liberal.
Yeah.
But you've been listening to this program for a long time and now you're home.
You're a uh conservative and you've got some kids, you've been listening for a long time.
You bought your daughter, a copy of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, and you gave it to your daughter.
She took it over to your brother's house, it somehow ended up over there.
Yeah, and I brought it over while she was babysitting his children.
That's right.
And you left it there, and your instincts told you he might not be happy about it.
It turns out he wasn't.
He got home.
He saw the book there, and your daughter said he reacted in ways and behaved in ways he had she'd never seen him behave.
You've got anger.
Never before.
And so he relented if they would just get the book out of the house.
And the way they did that was to take it to school.
Yep.
Now, how old is your daughter?
What what grade is she in?
She's uh 11th grader and 16 years old.
Okay, cool.
And she liked the book.
Yeah, I I read it to all three of the kids.
Oh, yeah.
Um I was over there, dropped her off to babysit, had the book in my car, hidden from him, and brought it in when he left.
That's right.
And I had about ten minutes to read it, read the first chapter, they were hooked.
They loved it.
Okay, so pick up the story.
Your brother relents, the book can stay if it leaves.
And so they took it to school.
Yeah, he didn't want the book.
He was really upset because you had anything to do with your picture.
You know, he he called me, emailed me, really upset.
And I'm like, Jason, the kids, your kids didn't even know what the Mayflower was.
That's why I bought it.
I drive I drive a truck.
Wait a second.
Wait, wait, now wait a second.
Is that true?
His kids didn't know who the what the Mayflower was?
Absolutely.
I asked them before, before I brought the book out, before I dared to do that, because I knew I'm gonna walk into a little bit of a trouble with my brother.
We worked together.
And I just hold it.
Uh your brother's kids, I assume the same age, similar to your No, they're seven and twelve.
Seven and twelve.
And honestly, they they had never heard of the Mayflower.
Honestly.
I swear.
Because I asked them right in front of my daughter, right before I took the book out.
And that was kind of my way of introducing the book.
I can see that.
Let me explain to you what the Mayflower is.
And I went on and read the first chapter and and they loved it.
I can see why you'd want to.
Yes.
Okay, so they loved it.
And it ended up back from baby, you know, from his date with my sister-in-law, his wife, and uh he walked in the door and they jumped at him, the kids, his two children.
Look what Brian, you know, bought.
And they loved it.
They were wanting to show it off.
He freaked out.
Yelled, I wasn't there, but this is what my daughter came over and said, Dad, you know, you sh you can't believe the way your brother she named I don't want to say his name because we have a great relationship.
He's a wonderful person.
Uh I love him to death.
And I just want to.
I know, but you know what?
Here's his classic.
He thinks he's not a pin.
Well, he's open-minded.
That's probably what he thinks he is.
the guy being in the middle.
If if he's outraged at this book, you better have him look into what books are in the schools these days.
If he really wants to get irritated, you might clue him in what his kids are being taught.
He has his kids in private Christian school, because he knows.
But he still thinks far right wacky, far left wacky.
He d down the middle is is normal.
That's what he thinks.
And I'm not saying left is wacky or right is wacky.
I'm just saying I'm not sure.
I know.
I know that I know the exact personality type.
I can explain it to you without even knowing your brother.
I know that I can tell you why he thinks he's in the middle.
I I can I can but I don't want to waste time doing that.
You love your brother, and I don't want to be critical.
That's not my point.
I just want to put a find out what happened to the book.
Okay, long story short, get to the end of it.
They they read it to the the older son's um classroom.
He brought it to the school because his brother wanted it out of the house, and the kid didn't want to get rid of it, so he brought it to the school.
The teacher agreed to read it to the whole class, so 30 kids got to read that one book that was just intended for my niece and nephew.
I came back to pick up the the last day of school, this you know, in May, he asked me, he's busy with his business.
Can you go pick up our kids from school?
So I went and picked up his two kids and asked, you know, how did your class like the school?
They loved it.
The teacher said they loved it.
I went over and picked up the the n my niece, who is uh only seven.
I told her a little bit about the books, and she said we'd love it in our class too.
So I'm just recommending the parents give it not only to your kids, but give it to your relatives' kids and give it to schools.
It's a wonder I haven't read the book, but I know exactly what it's about.
These kids don't know anything about the history of our country.
And our country's dying before us, and we don't want that.
Let me let me just tell you something.
Here's here let me give you a little project.
If you want to.
I mean, it's it's by no means if you have some spare time.
Yes.
Because there's a lot of misconceptions.
You you you told me that your brother's kids go to a private school, a Christian school, and because he knows.
He knows what's in the public schools.
But I would wager, I would wager that if you dig deep, you will find that a man named Howard Zinn is the author of the textbook on American history that's being used in that school.
And if it is, that's why nobody's ever heard of the Mayflower.
Howard Zinn is the author of the the the majority of junior high and high school history texts that are outrageous.
They're simply outrageous in the way they rewrite and revise American history.
Howard Zinn, Howard Zinn would be why his kids don't know and never heard of the N. Z-I-N-N, Howard Zinn.
Okay, I'll look into that.
That's a wild guess.
But I j my point is just because it's a private Christian school, don't assume that it hasn't been corrupted by leftists with in the curriculum.
They're everywhere, Brian.
They're lit that's why I did the books.
And that your your story is just here, your your brother wants to get the book out of his house.
It's gonna taint him and he's killed.
He's a centrist, he's a moderate, he's not a wacko, left or rightist, he doesn't want this and it goes to school.
The kids love it.
That's music to my ears.
That's exactly what we're trying to achieve here.
And I'll tell you what I want to do.
I want to send you a bunch of copies of both books.
And there's a second book, Rush Revere and the First Patriots.
And and that's been out since uh early part of the year, six months or so.
I know I'm planning on already doing it, but I'm waiting on the right timing, and I I really don't want to take any of your books.
I'd rather buy them from the airports and you know, because it shows that we're buying books and it's good for you know, those businesses that don't even want them on the shelves.
We buy 'em from them, they're like, hmm, let's buy some more of those.
Okay.
I t I appreciate that.
I and uh let I'll tell you what then.
Let me send you a couple of versions of the audio copy of the book read by me.
Well, I w I appreciate that.
I accept that.
I mean, I that's if you uh I offered you the books and you said no, I'd rather buy 'em, and I re I appreciate that too.
I understand exactly what you mean.
So you go buy 'em, and if there are any in the future, I mean keep a sharp eye.
You never know, wink wink.
And but I'm gonna send you the audio version, and I w we'll send you some stuff that we uh also include some Ted T. Bears and some other stuff in there that the uh uh little girls will like.
So if you love it, you'll you hang on and let Mr. Snurdley get an address from you where we can get this stuff out.
All right, God bless you so much, Rush.
I appreciate you.
Well, um it's two-way street, Brian.
It really is.
I uh I appreciate all of you much more than you could ever appreciate me, and I know you appreciate me a lot, but I'm telling you, it's much more the other way.
You'll never know.
I'll I'll never I don't have a way to adequately thank all of you.
What you've done here and the kind of effort that you've undertaken to to spread this around is is uh it just has me in awe.
And um it makes me feel really humble.
And I I can't I can't thank you enough.
So let Mr. Sturdley get your address and and we'll uh we'll go from there.
And send you a care package of of thanks, because we really do sincerely appreciate it.
Brief time out here, folks.
Don't hang up, don't go away.
We'll be right back right after this.
And we're back, Rush Linball, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Talent on loan from God.
President Obama said yesterday that it was premature to fast track an experimental Ebola drug for approval, even for Africa.
He said, I think we've got to let the science guide us.
This is at a press conference, U.S. Africa summit in Washington before he had that monster's ball dinner party for all of these African leaders, nine dictators, murderers, and thugs among the guests.
You really ought to look at the UK Daily Mail because that story really is.
They do a rap sheet on all nine dictators and thugs.
That were they're roaming around the White House and they're posing for pictures with uh with Obama and Michelle.
And the pictures.
Pictures say everything.
But let's go to the audio sound bites on this.
And I want to take you back to Monday, and I want you to all listen again to what I said when it was learned.
Uh well, we when we learned on Monday that there was this super secret serum that was used only on two white Americans.
Uh serum, by the way, derived from tobacco, from nicotine, a special tobacco plant, rapidly growing tobacco plant in Kentucky.
Think Mitch McConnell think, ooh, gosh, the left has got to hate every aspect of this serum.
There's no good that can come from tobacco.
And here we may have a miracle serum for Ebola that comes from tobacco.
Here's what I said.
Where did this come from?
Who knew?
And wait till the rest of the world hears about the fact that we've got it.
And it we took it to Liberia, but only used it on a sick American.
And didn't share it with sick Liberians.
Wait till Obama finds out about that.
Folks there is gonna held a pay.
When Obama finds out we got this super secret thing that does something magical to Ebola, and we took it to Liberia and used it on an American, and then brought him and the serum home, and we didn't share it.
This is exactly what has been wrong with this country that Obama's been trying to fix.
Exactly.
Selfishness, greed doing everything for us, leaving the poor of the world poor, leaving the sick of the world sick, but protecting and curing ourselves, and yet I knew it wouldn't be long before the media started asking.
Wait a minute, wait a minute now.
And and sure enough, last night in Washington at the State Department, Obama held a news conference, and here's a question from the AP White House correspondent Julie Pace.
There's been a lot of discussion surrounding this summit about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and there's an untested and unapproved drug in the U.S. that appears to be helping some of the Americans who are infected.
Is your administration considering it all sending supplies of this drug if it becomes available to some of these countries in West Africa?
And could you discuss a bit the ethics of either providing an untested drug to a foreign country or providing it only to Americans and not to other countries that are harder hit if it could possibly save lives?
Do I know these people or do I know these people?
And of course, she's late to the party.
CNN was the first to make my prediction come true on Monday night.
This was last night.
Now here is Obama's answer to that question.
We've got to let the science guide us.
And you know, I don't think all the information's in on whether this drug is helpful.
What we do know is that uh the Ebola virus, both currently and in the past, is controllable if you have a strong public health infrastructure in place.
And the countries that have been affected are the first to admit that what's happened here is that their public health systems have been overwhelmed.
We're focusing on the public health approach right now because we know how to do that.
Uh but I will continue to seek information about what we're learning with respect to these drugs going forward.
Folks, if you'll forgive me, I have to parse that answer.
I I'm sorry, but but this is I I just can't let that one go.
We've got to let the science guide us.
And next we're going to hear how the science isn't going to guide us.
We've got to let the science guide us, and you know, I don't think all the information's in on whether it's helpful.
We have we only have a couple of patients, and so far it's been near miraculous, but we don't know enough yet.
What we do know is that the virus is controllable if you have a strong public health infrastructure in place, like we do.
If you have an advanced first-world health care system like Obamacare, then we can handle all this.
And then this is the this is the technique that just drives me nuts.
And the countries that have been affected are the first to admit that what's happened here is that their public health systems have been overwhelmed.
You know what that is?
Let me tell you what that is.
Obama is putting words in their mouth.
Obama is standing up saying there's no way these dirt poor countries are going to get this virus.
And then he says, and they don't want it.
They know they're not good enough for it.
That's what that means when he says, and the countries that have been affected are the first to admit that what's happened here is what he's trying to say is, and the countries that have been hard as hit are the first to admit they don't even want it.
They don't even have the infrastructure to know what to do with it.
And I'm telling you, those countries would take that serum today if it were offered.
This is a technique.
Bill Clinton perfected this technique, and Obama has perfected it.
He's built on it.
It's a variation of the straw man.
You put words in the straw man example, you create somebody, it doesn't exist.
You give them a point of view that they can't obviously have, they don't exist.
A point of view that agrees with yours.
You make it look like you're part of this giant majority of thinking.
Well, in this case, you got a reporter saying, why don't you share it?
Why don't we send it over to those countries?
And Obama's not going to.
For whatever reason, either we don't have enough, or he doesn't want to, or whatever.
But he does, he's not going to stand up and say we're not going to share it.
He's going to stand up and say they know they don't want it.
They know enough to know that they don't know what to do with it.
They know enough to know that their health care systems are so shoddy that they wouldn't be able to use it anyway.
So he's hiding behind them.
These three African countries.
He's going to deny it to them, but he wants everybody to believe that they are telling him that they don't want it.
That's what that means.
When you hear him say anything like this ever, and they'll be the first to admit, these countries been affected by they'd be the first to admit that what's happened here is that they're a bunch of hell holes and they don't know what they're doing and they're not worth saving and they can't get this.
It's outrageous, this kind of stuff.
It's gutless.
It's this straw man argument.
He just can't stand up and say, no, it's not the right time.
No, we don't know enough.
No, he's got to lay it off on them.
And I doubt that they've said to him, by the way, Mr. President, we don't want your serum.
I doubt they've said that.
Let me ask you a question about this.
You have the three African countries where this Ebola has really the outbreak's severe.
Sierra Leone, um Guinea, forget the third one.
But but this answer of Obama's that Julia Pay said, why aren't you giving it to them?
He says, Well, I think they would agree.
I mean, they'd be the first to tell you that.
And I'm telling you, folks, that answer is just I can't tell you how that kind of answer just infuriates me.
Uh these, yeah, here the countries that have been affected, they'd be the first to admit that what's happened.
Yeah, they don't even want it.
They'd be the first to admit they're not qualified to get it.
They'd be the first to admit it's just gutless.
It's lay it off on them.
You know, these media types, why aren't you sharing?
They're the ones who really suffering from it, and we have the theorem.
Why don't you let them have it?
Well, even they would tell you that they.
So why doesn't he?
Let me ask you a question.
What what do you think?
Well, now, no, no.
Do you think that Obama is actually saying that these African countries are too damn backward to waste the serum on.
Do you think what is it?
Do you think we don't have enough and we can't afford I mean he if that's the case.
Why can't you stand up and say, look, we don't have enough to we're still fighting to create this stuff.
It's uh it's hard.
Okay, okay.
Well, because it's new.
He could make the case we don't have enough.
It's experimental, it's only been used on monkeys.
We don't he could make the case we don't have a lot, but instead he chose to lay it off on them.
He chose to make it look like they don't even want it.
They're smart enough to know that they wouldn't be able to use it.
It's absurd.
This kind of thing is what we do.
United States is always first.
That this I have to tell you, you know, there's never been an Ebola-infected patient in this country until now.
And I the way this all happened, I I've something about this didn't gel for me.
When I learned we were gonna go over there and get these two missionaries and bring them back here.
That's not I'm not opposed to it.
No, no, no.
We've never done that kind of thing before.
We've treated them there, we have.
And it's not about bringing the virus in.
Uh that's not my concern here.
It is a lot of other people's.
But is he really unwilling to share it because those countries aren't worth it?
They're too damn backward to waste it on.
I mean, that's this is so out of character for a big compassion.
This is why these people are Asking him.
Because these people all believe that Obama's just like them.
Big liberals just share everything.
That we're not, it's not fair that we should have it and they shouldn't.
They're the ones really suffering.
And if we've got the answer, then we should share it with it.
Here's this guy denying it to them.
And I think some of the media are probably a little surprised over this.
They'll never say so.
This is just my ruminating here.
But I can't believe that he would actually think that they're too damn backward to waste the serum on.
But it's still to lay it off on them.
I mean, he's a finish, he's he's essentially saying they're too stupid to know what to do with it.
And they'd be the first to tell us.
They'd be the first to agree.
That's how the technique works.
They'd be the first to tell you that they're too backward and dumb to know what to do with it.
Or they'd be the first to tell you that their health care systems are so decrepit and so backward and so foul that it would just be wasted on them.
That's what he was trying to convey.
That's exactly so.
Why do we help them with AIDS?
Well Bush did that.
Bush is the guy.
Bush is the president who authored, quote-unquote, all the aid money to Africa for AIDS.
It wasn't Bill Clinton.
It wasn't some Democrat president.
It wasn't some Democrat senator.
It was George W. Bush that did that.
No credit for it.
This just is so from the caricature of what a big-hearted, compassionate liberal is.
This is so out of character.
And well, and I got Snerdley shouting in my ear now.
What's Obama done for black people here or there?
I I can I under I hear you.
And we got Peter Kerson out today writing that letter.
You if you if you if you if you have these people granted amnesty, you're gonna destroy employment for blacks and so forth.
That letter was sent from black member of the U.S. Chamber or uh civil rights commission.
Uh look at teenage black unemployment.
Black unemployment all over 19%.
Teenage black unemployment is higher than that.
I don't know.
This this that answer, as you can probably tell, really, really rubs me wrong.
Uh I know, I know his brother still lives in a hut.
I know.
His brother lives in a six by nine foot hut in Kenya.
I know.
But he has never said, and my brother would be the first to tell you he doesn't want my help.
He hasn't even tried that on his brother, but with these people, and they'll be the first to tell you that I mean they hell, they don't know what to do with it.
Anyway, it just I think it's really, really instructive and illustrative and indicative.
It's quite telling.
Here's George in Windsor, Connecticut.
George, I'm glad you waited.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Yeah, Russ.
I had a proposal for immigration.
I want to uh get your opinion on it.
And and that is say yes to amnesty, yes to illegal immigration, let the Republicans say yes, yes, yes, but no new taxes, no additional revenues to pay for that.
So the government programs like subsidies, welfare, food stamps, etc., the the cuts will come from there.
So the people getting those subsidies will have to do with a little bit less so we can cover the illegals and everybody else.
And that way there, now I think you get the attention of the low information voters because we always do it out left with higher taxes, right?
To pay for different government programs.
So this time, hey, let's bring everybody in.
But you guys that are getting the government program, we're gonna take a little bit more because you guys want them in, right?
So we'll take a little bit more from you to pay for them.
So I was wondering what you think about that.
I want to make sure, because you were speaking like a 747 at full throttle there.
I want to make sure I heard you.
Is your idea to go to the low information dependent voters living on welfare to one degree or another and say, hey, you know what?
We're gonna grant amnesty.
You want the Republicans to do this.
We're gonna uh well, I don't know who you want to do it.
We're gonna say the low information voters, you know what, we're gonna grant amnesty to 11 million people.
They're already here, they're living in the shadows.
It's very unfortunate.
We got a grant amnesty, but we don't have the money for it.
So what we're gonna do, we're gonna take away some of your benefits, so a little bit of your health care, take away some of your food stamps, and take away some of you know your your cell phone usage or whatever that you get from us, and we're gonna give it to these newly made citizens so that they will have something too.
And your theory is that if we take a dime away from the existing low information voters to give it to somebody else, that they will stand up in righteous anger and indignation and oppose it.
Yeah, that exactly, because we know the majority of Americans, and that would probably be taxpayers are against immigration.
So if we can just put the nail on the coffin and turn um the low information crowd, once they find out they won't get something and they gotta give it up, I think they'll be in cent.
It is an interesting intellectual exercise, and it would be quite fun, actually, if it could ever be done.
But it never would be done.
Even if, even if a bunch of politicians promised us they were gonna do it, they would never do it.
They would give the illegal immigrants being made citizens everything they wanted, and they would not cut benefits anywhere else, no matter what they said.
But if we were if that kind of policy were ever implemented, it probably would create some of the biggest reversal in public opinion that we've seen in a long time on an issue.
Um I've I've always said that if genetics ever proves, ever, without a shadow of a doubt, if there ever becomes scientific proof that homosexuality is a genetic thing, like most people think that it is.
It's not a choice, it's a genetic thing.
And then if medical science advances to the point that when your baby is conceived and is an embryo, not only can they tell you that it's going to be if it's uh be healthy or have, say, down syndrome, but they'll be able to tell you that your baby is going to be freckled-faced and redheaded, and your baby is going to be prone to be obese, and your baby is likely to be homosexual.
If we ever advance to that point, you're going to see the biggest change in a group of people from pro-choice to pro-life you've ever seen.
You're going to have more people come out against abortion than you can possibly imagine if that scenario that I just described ever took place.
Likewise here, if we were ever able, you know, what when we talk about low information voters, I'm sure that you concoct a mental image.
We all do this.
Start talking about nameless people.
You always concoct a physical image of a low information voter.
It could be some dude on a roller skate or a skateboard walking around watching TMZ on his iPhone, some gal shaving her bikini part while driving.
What whatever.
And and and so when you have this mental picture, and then you imagine being there when they hear it proposed that they give up half of their federal benefits so that the new immigrants can get it, just to be at that moment when it clicks in what that would mean.
Mouth is so peace.
It would be worth it.
It would be worth it just to have somebody state it believably to see what would happen.
And you imagine.
Remember that Obama phone woman, who, by the way, has ditched Obama now, but you remember her in Cleveland, yelling and screaming about her Obama phone and how she loved Obama or the people in Detroit and Obama's stash.
You imagine telling them, by the way, we're going to take half of your monthly allotted cell phone usage away from you, and half your food stamps, and half of your rent, and whatever, because we've got to we gotta give some money to the newly made citizen illegal immigrants.
There'd be riots in the streets.
Yeah, we got to spread the benefits around.
Imagine Obama.
We have to spread the benefits around, and Obama would say to these people, hey, look, we've got to spread the benefits around.
You got to do your fair share for these newly arrived illegal immigrants that we are making citizens today.
In other words, in other words, pull on the low information voters what always gets pulled on the producers.
You're not paying your fair share.
You making too much.
The income gap.
It's unfair.
It's unequal.
We got to narrow the gap.
Well, you welfare beneficiaries, you got way too much, and we got to take some away because we can't afford to print any more money.
Oh, folks.
Oh.
George in Windsor, Connecticut was our caller with that idea.
I know all of you too.
You're all now, you're trying to get in and tell me who it is you envision as the low information voter.
I just checked my email.
The first guy said, my image of a low information voter is Ed Schultz.
Here's uh Tony and Allen Town if we head back to the phones.
Hi, Tony, great to have you here.
Hi, how are you?
Great.
Thank you.
Um, I I have a concept that I wanted to uh present to you.
It comes from a conflict uh management class that I went to years ago, and it it dovetails very nicely with the Limbaugh theorem.
Okay, cool.
Uh the the visual is is a triangle, and at each of the points of the triangle is one of the positions that you can take in any type of conflict.
Uh you are either the victim, you are the villain, or you are the hero.
Okay.
Um, so it's a very simple visual concept, and and Obama management manages through uh conflicts, as we know, and and he is an absolute master at being either the hero or the victim.
Never assuming never assuming the villain role.
Right.
Um I just thought it was uh it was a nice visual for your for your limbaugh theorem.
Oh, I thought theorem.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
I thought I thought you had more to go with that.
Okay, no, that's fine.
I'll finish up.
Um I like it.
You've got hero villain victim, the snuff tails with the limbaugh theorem.
And Obama's always the hero or always the victim, but he's never the villain.
And if it does help people to understand the concept, I'm all for that.
I mean, I it limbaugh theorem is is uh something that definitely needs to be widely distributed, widely understood.
Because I can't, even today, the number of people I run into.
How does he get away with not even six years?
The economy's in a tank, and how does he not get and I actually think he is now, numbers down the 40s, uh, and so forth.
Anyway, Tony, I appreciate the call.
We got a scat, folks.
We'll be back and wrap it up right after this.
It is the Rush Limbaugh program, the home of the intellectual exercises.
That makes us the best gym in the U.S. for intellectual exercises.
That's what we do here.
Open line Friday next up in twenty one hours.
Be here.
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