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Nov. 4, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 4, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, so this is it, folks.
This is it.
This is Election Day 2014.
This is it.
And one of the big questions is, will we know tonight if the Republicans have taken control of the Senate?
Or will we have to wait for runoff elections?
That'll be one of the big indicators.
Great to have you on the program here as we have a big day planned.
We have a big day planned every day because this is the most listened to radio talk show in the country.
Massive expectations accompany that, and we meet them and surpass them each day.
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So have you heard the latest theory that is being bandied about by people who are scared to death that we are all being tricked like we have never been tricked before?
Have you heard the theory?
Here's the theory.
There is no Democrat catastrophe that's going to happen today.
The Democrat loss, while it may happen, it's a midterm election with a sitting Democrat in the oval orifice, is by no means going to be anywhere as big as the media and a lot of Democrats are out there trying to convince us it's going to be.
The theory holds that this is a giant, a giant trap that has been set so that Republicans and commentators and conservatives run around in the days leading up to the election talking about the massive victory for the Republicans, the catastrophic defeat for the Democrats, but that isn't really going to happen.
The Democrat loss is going to be nowhere near.
This is the theory.
The Democrat loss is going to be nowhere near catastrophic.
It's not going to be anywhere near as bad as most people think it's going to be, which will then permit the media and the Democrats tomorrow to claim outright victory, a moral victory, if you will.
Instead of being shut out 28 to nothing, they'll lose 28-21.
Came close.
I heard that theory.
It was bandied about to me twice last night.
And you may have heard it from some, but I think it is symptomatic of the representative of the ongoing fear that people have of what they believe to be the unbeatable power of the drive-by media.
Working in concert with the Democrat Party, no matter what it looks like, the Democrats are always in control.
No matter what it looks like, the media and the Democrats are always in control.
And everything that happens is, to one degree or another, a giant snowjob.
So what do you think of the theory, Mr. Snerdley?
Do you think that's the thing?
I don't live my life by fear either, particularly things I can't control.
But I just wanted to share.
I don't know how many of you have heard it.
I don't know how many calls we'd have to take before we got a caller who would say, hey, I want you to look out, Rush.
I think we're being set up big time by the media.
And the reason people think this is because it's happened before.
You know what one of the biggest examples of this is?
What do you think I'm thinking about?
Because there is a great example of this.
It didn't have anything to do with an election, though.
It had to do with Clinton's testimony before the grand jury.
Before that videotape testimony was released, the Democrats in the media put stories out about how Clinton was so embarrassed by the questioning that a couple of questions and he practically lost his composure, got mad, almost started crying, appeared totally bamboozled.
They said all of this.
So then we eagerly await the day when the videotape of that testimony is made available, and we watch it and nothing.
There was one question where Clinton appeared to be caught up, rolled his eyes for a split second, and that was it.
It was a total setup.
We had been led to believe that it was going to be a profoundly major embarrassment for slick Willie, and it was a nothing.
And as these kinds of things, I don't know how many people remember that.
Of course, my memory is stellar.
You had forgotten all about that.
So, anyways, things like that.
People may not have actively remembered it.
It might have been in their subconscious, but it's things like that.
And you know, there are people on our side who think the media is invincible.
And that everything we have people on our side who believe everything the Democrats do is a strategy, even losing.
That everything the Democrats and the media do is a trick designed to bamboozle and dispirit and depress us.
So that is just I know, I know, I know.
How did 2010 happen?
How did 1994 happen?
I know.
I'm just, it's a mindset, and it's so deeply ingrained, it's hard to get people out of it.
And that's that.
No, I don't subscribe to the theory.
I'm just mentioning you the theory.
I'm just asking the audience if they've heard the theory.
Mrs. Obama, Mrs. Barack Hussein-O, the lovely Muchel My Bell Obama, has picked up on that theme of vote for a Democrat today or else she was on a syndicated radio show that nobody hears, which is why we're going to play you the soundbite called News One Now.
And the host was Roland Martin, the cherubic, round-faced former CNN host.
And during the interview, Mrs. Obama, Mrs. Barack Hussein-Oh, First Lady of the United States, had this to say about the election today.
That's my message to voters.
This isn't about Barack.
It's not about the person on the ballot.
It's about you.
And for most of the people that we're talking to, a Democratic ticket is the clear ticket that we should be voting on, regardless of who said what or did this.
That shouldn't even come into the equation.
Blacks should always vote Democrat, no matter what, no matter who.
It doesn't matter anything.
Blacks should vote Democrat.
Well, that's what she means when she says to Roland Martin.
And for most of the people that we're talking to, I mean, it's a presumed African-American audience there.
So the first lady's, hey, to black people, vote Democrat, vote Democrat, or don't vote.
You have no business.
It doesn't matter who's on the ballot.
It doesn't matter who's on the ballot, what they're saying.
It doesn't matter what the issues are.
You need to vote Democrat.
But then Mrs. Obama went on and promised African Americans that she would permit them a treat if they did the right thing today and showed up and voted Democrat.
Absolutely.
I give everyone full permission to eat some fried chicken after they vote.
Only after, if you haven't voted.
Well, just checking.
Make a good point because I am, I do talk about health, but I think that a good victory for Democrats on Tuesday should be rewarded with some fried chicken.
That is the first lady of the United States, Michelle Hussein-O.
In the first soundbite, demanding that blacks vote Democrat no matter who, no matter what.
And then, as a treat, if they do it, she will permit them this one time to celebrate eating fried chicken.
Mrs. Barack Hussein Obama said this.
Not a Tea Party candidate.
Not a Republican.
Not a conservative.
Not a talk show host.
Well, all those things covered a talk show host.
Not anybody but Mrs. Michelle Obama said this.
So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
African Americans have been given their instructions and they have been told what their reward will be.
Guiltless consumption of fried chicken on election night if they go out and do what they are demanded to do, required to do, and that's vote Democrat no matter what.
Mr. Snerdley has a look on his face that could best be described with the initials WTF.
So I think maybe he's in a state of disbelief.
We need to hear this soundbite again.
Number 13.
The first lady of the United States, Ms. Barack Hussein-Oh, after demanding that African Americans vote Democrat or not at all, vote Democrat no matter who, what, where, when, why, then offered them a treat.
You heard I give everyone full permission to eat some fried chicken after they vote.
Only after, if you haven't voted.
Well, just checking.
You make a good point because I am, I do talk about health, but I think that a good victory for Democrats on Tuesday, you know, should be rewarded with some fried chicken.
So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
I just wanted you to hear from the president, the first lady, and their joint get out the vote efforts today and the prizes awarded or the treats permit.
Why is this the first place?
Why is this the first place you're hearing this?
Because she said it on a syndicated radio show that doesn't have much of an audience.
That's why.
Oh, you mean, why is the rest of the media not playing this?
Well, why do you think they're not playing it?
It doesn't exactly look good out there.
It kind of destroys the cliche that they have established here, the allegation that the racists out there are all on the Republican side.
They can't play this in mass media.
So that's why.
Yesterday on this program, ladies and gentlemen, we had a caller.
We had a caller who offered a theory.
I, if you'll recall, if you were here, I poo-pooed the theory.
The caller's theory was that if there is a big Republican victory today, and if indeed the Republicans take the Senate and even add, say, 10 to 13 seats in the House, that the media response fairly soon will be to ask, what are the Republicans going to do now to meet Obama in the middle?
Now that the Republicans have won, what are they going to do to compromise?
Caller's theory was, this is the way it always is.
Republicans in a clean sweep in a landslide election are always faced with the question, okay, you won.
What are you going to do to pretend that you lost?
What are you going to do to not utilize the power you now have after having won the election by compromising with Obama?
And I poo-pooed the theory on the basis that we're way past that.
And I suggested that the media reaction to a sweeping Republican victory would be, so what will Obama do to simply ignore Congress?
He must save America from these Republicans who somehow won.
The Republicans pose threats to every group, every group, everybody.
And it's up to the president.
And I believe that's what the media would do.
However, Tom Brokaw, yesterday afternoon on MSNBC, was asked what Americans are thinking heading into Tuesday's midterm election.
And Brokaw said, well, they're thinking that they'd like to have Washington get something done.
Brokaw said, the question is not just which party can get it done, but how can they change the tone of Washington so they can work together?
The question is, Brokaw said, what are the Republicans prepared to give the Democrats to meet them in the middle ground?
What are they going to do about immigration?
What are they going to do about the minimum wage?
Brokaw continued.
And Brokaw here is essentially repeating the theory of the caller, which I politely poo-pooed it.
I mean, don't anybody misunderstand.
I'm never rude to callers, and I wasn't rude to this guy, but I thought we're beyond this.
But Brokaw is an old lion.
Brokaw's from Jurassic Park, and in his day, this is what would be done.
The Republicans would be met with questions.
Okay, you won.
So what are you going to do to compromise with Obama?
What are you going to do to help Obama?
What are you going to do to put this country back on track?
What are you going to do for compromise?
What are you going to do to end gridlock?
What are you going to do about bipartisanship?
It would all be on them.
And the incumbent responsibility to let Obama do what he wants to do is what the Republican victory would be portrayed as meaning.
And therefore, you see, meeting in the middle means Republicans have to sacrifice and jevison their core beliefs.
Republicans have to abandon everything the victory means for them and let Obama do what he wants to do because that's what a Republican victory meant.
That's what the voters want.
The voters elected Republicans so that they could compromise, sacrifice, and cave in to Barack Obama.
Because I predict, I'll add something to it, because they will say this election really wasn't about Obama.
There is no Republican mandate.
This was an anti-incumbent election.
Look for that tomorrow, too.
Maybe even tonight.
If you're watching election returns, you will hear, I predict to you, that this is not an anti-Obama vote at all.
Don't believe that.
That's talk radio talk.
This is an anti-incumbent vote, and that will explain why the Republicans won everything.
And in fact, the Republicans may even go along with that.
You know why?
Because they are going to have a mandate.
As I said yesterday, and this might be worth repeating, whether they know it or not, the Republicans are going to have one of the biggest and most important mandates, if they win, that a victorious party has had in recent years.
I'll explain when we get back.
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, let me briefly just explain my theory on the Republican mandate.
Conventional wisdom is not going to have one because they haven't articulated an agenda, and therefore the Republicans are not being voted for.
What's happening is that the people just want to change, like they do every now and then.
Six years, the same guys, things are not going well.
It's time for change.
Let the other guys have at it for a while.
And as such, nobody's actually voting for the Republicans.
They can't possibly have a mandate.
And if you add to that, the Republicans have no agenda.
They're not out explaining what they're going to do.
Nationally, they don't.
Now, individual campaigns where the ads are running on TV of some Republicans running against Obamacare and so forth.
As far as a national Republican identity, there isn't one.
And I think the Republicans sadly going to like that.
I think they like the idea of playing it safe here with no mandate.
But the simple fact is they have the biggest mandate that I can recall in a long time.
Because this election, I don't care what people say.
There's polling data out there that say this is not an anti-Obama vote.
It's an anti-incumbent vote.
It's last-ditch efforts saved the day by the media, the Democrats.
This is an anti-Obama vote.
It is an anti-Democrat vote.
The mess this country in is tied directly to the Democrat Party and its policies.
Pure and simple.
People want it to stop.
People don't want any more of this.
People are not comfortable with the direction of the country.
They're not comfortable with the U.S. position in the world.
They actively do not like what has happened under this particular president and his party.
They want it to stop.
Therefore, that's the mandate.
Whether the Republicans even realize it, whether they want to realize it or not, they have a mandate.
Stop what Obama is doing.
That's why they're going to win.
They don't, the voters just don't want to change in terms of people in office.
They want that change in office to mean something.
And what they want it to mean is for Obama to be stopped.
That's a huge mandate.
Huge mandate.
Off to a rousing start.
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you.
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Given that it's Election Day, folks, we're not going to spend the whole day on the election news.
I got plenty.
Don't sweat it, but not the whole day.
It's this, this is Nutcracker Day.
I mean, this is it.
So we're going to branch out.
For example, Cookie sent me the transcript to an audio soundbite roster, an audio soundbite that she was not going to put on the roster today because she thought it was just so outrageous and mean and lying and untrue.
And it was about me.
But she said, I think you should see this, but I'm not going to put it on the roster.
So I said, okay, I'll look at it.
And I looked at it and I said, I actually like this.
This is actually very cool.
So she gave it to me, and here it is.
It happened last night on HBO.
Your host was mentioned last night on HBO.
There's a mini-series running starring Francis McDormond and Bill Murray.
The name of it is Olive Kittridge.
It's just a two-night miniseries.
And last night on the second night of the miniseries, there's a scene between Olive Kitteridge, played by Francis McDormand, and Jack Kennison, played by Bill Murray.
They're getting in a car.
They're going out to dinner.
And they have this exchange.
You can relax, Olive.
I'm a very good driver.
I have no doubt.
Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.
Was that Rush Limbaugh?
Yes.
Oh, good God, Olive.
What now?
You, Mr. High and Mighty Harper.
Did you listen to that idiot?
He has some interesting opinions.
He's a lie and a hate manga, makes him want to puke.
Your host made the HBO mini-series, and Kathleen Cookie said, What do you like?
I said, they got Undeniable Truth of Life number 24 out there.
Undeniable Truth of Life number 24 made HBO.
Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier.
And the Murray character, he's got some interesting opinions.
Come on, Olive, lighten up.
He said, I can't.
He's a liar.
He's a hate monger.
I said, this is cool.
They got Undeniable Truth of Life number 24 out there.
I'll take it.
The next thing I hope they do is start ripping my books.
So Cookie said, you really don't mind?
No, no, I think this is this HBO, Olive Kitteridge, two-part miniseries.
Snerdley didn't hear it.
He's screening calls in there, and he heard just enough of it to take his attention.
Let me play it again because Snerdley didn't hear it.
And by the way, you have to understand something.
It's hard for Snerdley.
He's got to screen calls, and he's got to get calls that have some relationship to what's happening here.
But when he's screening, he can't devote full attention to listening.
That's why sometimes you hear calls that make no sense.
You're what the hell is that?
It's because Snerdley is devoting full attention to screening.
Anyway, so he heard just enough of this to perk up and told a caller to hang on a minute.
And he said, where was this?
So here it is.
HBO last night, second part of a two-part miniseries.
Olive Kitteridge, Frances McDorman stars as title character and Bill McMurray or Bill Murray.
And they're getting into his car and going to dinner.
And he turns on the radio when they get in the car.
You can relax, Olive.
I'm a very good driver.
I have no doubt.
Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.
Was that Rush Limbach?
Yes.
Oh, good God.
Olive, what now?
You, Mr. High and Mighty Harp.
Have you listened to that idiot?
He has some interesting opinions.
He's a lie and a hate mom.
It makes him want to puke.
Do you know how long HBO's probably been waiting for the right moment to do this?
Somebody there hates Undeniable Truth of Life number 24, and they've been waiting for a time and chance to use it this way.
We can assume the character, well, if the character doesn't like Undeniable Truth of Life number 24, it's kind of telling.
I haven't seen the show.
I didn't, I didn't even, I mean, I didn't even know it was on.
I just, the first I knew of this was in Cookie sends it now and says, look, I want you to see this just so you can know it's out there, but I don't think we should play it.
Why give these people airtime?
This is just horrible.
They're so mean.
Why should they do this about you?
And I looked at it and I said, oh, Undeniable Truth of Life number 24, all over HBO.
Give it to me.
By the way, your host, ladies and gentlemen, is also on an Obama enemies list, according to Cheryl Atkinson of CBS News, formerly of CBS News.
She did an interview with the Hollywood reporter about her new book coming out.
And Paul Bond was the author, the writer in the story, and doing the interview.
And he asked her, Ms. Atkinson, why do you think that the Obama White House would target you as opposed to more partisan people like Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck?
And she said, well, the question carries the assumption that they haven't targeted others.
I kind of assume that I'm on a list.
I don't think I'm the only one, along with James Rosen and the Associated Press that garnered special attention.
Probably a lot of people.
And Hollywood Reporter says, so an enemies list like in the Nixon administration?
Cheryl Atkinson says, I've been told there is such a list.
Yes.
Question.
And who do you suspect is on that list?
Answer.
Well, there's an internal email that indicated reporters who were working with leakers in government agencies or perceived as enemies in the White House are being targeted.
So I think that's probably accurate.
Anybody they perceive as harmful to their agenda or working with leakers and whistleblowers, which I did a lot of.
Question from Hollywood Reporter.
Do you have sources who told you the names on that list?
Is Rush Limbaugh on that list, for example?
Answer.
Another reporter told me, I can't remember who, that they thought he was on some sort of target list, but I don't know that to be the case.
I have somebody told me the existence of a list, but not the names on it.
Well, somebody told Cheryl Atkinson there's a list and I'm on it.
That's another feather in the cap here, folks.
Two in one day.
So the trifecta would be some TV show ripping Rush Revere and Liberty and Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
Not ripping it, but you know, just mentioning it.
I didn't even talk about the book yesterday.
I got so caught up in the election, but it's gangbusters.
So anyway, there's that.
Not going to get into this yet, but I just want to tell you it's coming.
It's a headline from sadly, I don't know the website.
And I wish I did.
Until I find out the website, I'm not going to mention this.
Could be some kook site that doesn't deserve to be mentioned.
Let me grab a quick call.
We'll go to John in St. Louis as we work hard to get calls in the first hour today.
John, hi, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Happy Election Day, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
You know how you talk about being on pins and needles for the new iPad stuff to come out?
I've been kind of feeling that way for this day.
But the main reason I'm calling is I'm afraid you're going to do the same thing so many others are doing and assume that it's going to be a Republican landslide.
And we just can't do that.
We really need to win this one.
Now, wait.
Wait, wait.
I have not assumed it's going to be a landslide.
Every time I've talked about this, I've always put a caveat in there.
I haven't fallen for this.
Didn't you predict that tomorrow they'd be saying the reason the election went that way was because no, I think what I said was, yeah, whatever the outcome of the election is, the people that vote against Democrats, the Democrats lose, are going to lose because people don't want any more of Obama.
This is about stopping Obama.
There's always been an if.
If this happens, that will be the reason.
Well, and that's another thing.
It's not, you're right.
It's not about stopping Obama.
It's about stopping Democratic policy because, you know, he was just the perfect person.
Well, it's one and the same.
I mean, stopping Democrats, stopping Obama, stop Democrat policy, stop liberalism, stop what's happening to the country.
That's what people want to stop.
Well, he was the perfect person to ramrod it through.
I mean, he could get through more Democratic policy than anybody else could.
That's because he's willing to ignore the Constitution.
Right.
And because of his race, which creates a lot of fear in the part of people, on the part of people unwilling to oppose him because of that.
Yeah, but I just, it is so important that everybody get out and vote today because I mean, this is not good.
Look, here's, I understand this.
You are making my case to millions of people.
What is happening at this very moment represents life and death in terms of this country remaining as it was founded?
Nobody knows that better than I.
And I know how deeply meaningful that is.
And I know, therefore, how scary it is.
The prospect of the American people once again being fooled and not stopping this and not throwing Democrats.
I can understand how it has you scared.
It has a lot of people scared.
I've been scared for six years.
My fear hasn't just arrived in the past six months.
I was afraid before the guy was elected.
I was afraid after he was elected and two, three weeks before he was inaugurated.
I've been trying to tell people for six years.
So I know full well where you are.
I'm just as frustrated as you are.
There's none of us that can control what happens today.
It's too big.
It's too massive.
Nobody has any influence, massive.
No single person has any control over what's going to happen today.
But as I look at, let me go back to the theory I opened the program with.
The theory, you talk about fear.
What I think is driving this theory, the theory that we've all been set up, that there is not going to be a catastrophic loss, that this is just the Democrats and the media working together to fool the Republicans once again, to trick conservative voters once again into getting all hept up, all excited, all ready for a coming landslide, a massive rejection of Barack Obama.
Except it isn't going to happen.
It's all a trick.
And when the votes are counted, Democrats may lose, but it isn't going to be anywhere near catastrophic, and there's going to be massive depression set in on the Republican voter, the conservative voters.
If that theory is true, if that actually is what's going on, I want to remind you how out on a limb some of the drive-by media is.
The Washington Post is saying there is a 98% chance the Republicans win the Senate today, not after a runoff in December, but today.
The New York Times has that at 75%.
CNN is somewhere in the 80s or some odd.
A lot of drive-by media people are way, way, way out on a limb if this isn't true.
If you're going to report, if this theory that I've been hearing last night is true, it's all a trick, then the Washington Post predicting a 98% chance the Republicans win the Senate, that's really out on a limb.
They would have some real explaining to do tomorrow.
Okay, well, then maybe they wouldn't.
Maybe the happiness and the joy would be such that nobody would care the Washington Post got it so wrong.
And maybe they wouldn't care the New York Times got it so wrong.
Maybe you go, Shazam!
My God, look at this.
We were so wrong and we're so happy.
Could well be.
But our caller says I should rein this landslide talk in.
I shouldn't be talking about this.
As though talking about it's going to jinx it or is if I appear, which I have not, there's a couple of months ago that I did say.
I will admit I predicted back two months ago that based on things happening at that moment, I thought we're looking at what could be a wave election, a big one.
But it's as though if I say this, I'm going to jinx it.
Or if I say it's going to be big, that's going to give people the comfort to, what, stay home and not vote.
Now, I look, I understand the fear.
I'm right in there with you.
I'm probably, on a daily basis, more down in the dumps about what's happening to this country than you are.
I don't lead with it or bleed it, but it's got me totally bummed.
And I can't tell you how many ways.
And I want this election to represent the fact the people of this country are saying stop.
I hope that's what it means.
And we're back, Rush Limboy, here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
This is Dan in Delaware, Ohio.
It's great to have you on the program, sir.
I'm glad you waited.
It's your turn.
All right, thank you, Rosh.
For drone in the Visario, McGirl Rapper Dittos to you, sir.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Very good.
I've been listening since 1990.
Love your show.
What I'm calling about, and really just your caller from Texas yesterday really got me agitated, the one that was maligning the Tea Party.
And what I told the call screener was that I've historically agreed with you that we don't win by losing.
I understand that.
We don't vote.
If we don't vote against the Democrats, then we definitely lose.
But I have to tell you, I'm getting to the point where I don't see us winning with Republicans.
I just don't see how that helps the conservative cause.
And I'm not sure what to do.
You know, casting a protest vote maybe doesn't help us.
But, sorry, I mean, how do we improve the situation where we have Mitch McConnell and Voehner leading the party?
I don't see, even if we win the Senate, I don't see anything changing.
I just do not see them ever challenging Obama and making any inroads to or retracting anything he's done.
No one's talking about smaller government anymore.
No one's talking about repealing Obamacare.
And I'm in the healthcare industry.
I can tell you that the disaster that wait just a second on this repealing Obamacare.
In fact, in my election news stack today, it turns out that the vast majority of Republicans running in this election, House and Senate both, are all running against Obamacare.
Now, that doesn't mean they're going to, if they win, they're going to do anything, but it is out there.
Well, that's good.
That's good to hear.
Now, you're right.
The Republican Party's got no such national message.
I understand all that.
The way I look at this is you have to make an honest assessment of the status quo at the very moment you're about to go do something.
In this case, vote.
And there's no question that this election, if you're the attitude you have, that you're forced with the lesser of evils question.
But that can be an important question.
I think at this point, for me, since what you say, these guys, the current Republican leaders, are not conservative.
They're not going to articulate it.
That's true, but they're not Obama either.
No matter what you want to say, they're not Obama and they're not going to be and do what Obama does.
They may not stand up to Obama, but that's not who they are.
He is who he is, and he's got to be stopped somehow.
Got to take a brief time out here at the top of the hour, but if you think this election is not about Obama, why are so many Democrats running as far away from the guy as they can?
Sit tight, my friends.
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