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Feb. 2, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 2, 2015, Monday, Hour #2
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I got some emails during the break questioning my take on what's wrong with McDonald's.
And you know, I let me I there's one thing I understand, and I I wish there were a way to change this.
But I I think many of you people will agree with me that there are a lot of institutions, uh companies, businesses, individuals who really, really do not understand the militant left.
And even if you explain it to them, they think it's crazy.
They think you're crazy for believing it.
They think it isn't possible.
Militant vegetarians, come on, is their reaction.
They can't possibly conceive of what is really actually happening to them.
They can't, in McDonald's case, for example, I would wager you, they can't just get come to grips, get their arms around whatever cliche you want to use.
The fact that there are actually people who want to shut them down, other than their competitors.
And so when presented with this reality, when when given when presented with the possibility, you realize that maybe the people hammering you to get rid of beef tallow on your French fries and to get rid of French fries replaced with apple slices for eight-year-olds, and you maybe think that there are people who are not trying to help you, that they're not going to ever come in here and buy one of your happy meals anyway, that their real purpose is to get you to undermine yourself.
It's a serious problem.
People do not understand the militant left.
There is a militant left and there's a docile left, but the the the even the docile left can get militant.
Occupy Wall Street, militant.
But the idea that there would be militant vegetarians doesn't compute.
Vegetarians, what's their image?
Rail thin, waflike, obsessed with themselves health freaks, they may be oddballs, but the idea that they would mobilize and try to bully other people.
The idea that there are any group of people that believe in something so strongly that if you don't do it as well, they want to eliminate you.
That's just something that I don't think enough people in our culture, particularly American businesses, understand about the militant left.
Therefore, when you present them with the truth of how the militant left operates, in this case, I don't have any proof in this instance, but because I know it happens and has happened for 27 years on this program, I can guarantee you that the people bitching McDonald's and sending them complaints and filing protests and all this are trying to make themselves look like they're actual McDonald's customers.
And they're not.
They're just a bunch of anti-capitalist militants who have figured out Twitter algorithms and any number of other procedures to make themselves look like they are hundreds of thousands and maybe millions when they are 10 to 20 people.
And they're taking advantage of the fact that businesses can't take the chance of getting this many complaints.
Well, we've got to respond to it.
And in responding to the complaint, they're not even really getting any complaints.
They're not getting in legitimate complaints.
The complaints they need to be worried about are the people stopping shopping there because the food doesn't taste as good anymore.
That's the real complaint.
They ignore that instead pay attention to the militants because they don't understand who they are.
And it's not just McDonald's.
I don't mean to be harping on McDonald's.
You know, I have a I love McDonald's.
Way back in the early days, this has been going on a long time.
You remember we sent Snerdley, one of your cousins, Mario, we sent Mario to a McDonald's on 7th Avenue to buy $1,500 worth of Big Macs, one lunch hour.
Remember that?
When the leftists were attacking McDonald's back then, we stood up for them.
And Mario Snerdley came back with $1,500 worth of Big Macs and quarter pounders to our studio and passed it out.
And he called us from the McDonald's and put the manager on the store on the phone.
So we have a long history of standing up for American business, and particularly McDonald's.
I'm the one really trying to help them here.
Why in the world would you eliminate the ingredient that makes your French fries the best in the world?
Why would you do that?
Well, because you're trying to appease supposed health freaks who want you to believe that you're killing people with your freaking French fries.
And all you do is take that exclusive ingredient out and makes your French fries, which once used to be a signature item, no different than anybody else's.
And you expect to be rewarded by customers.
Oh, let's go to McDonald's, it's healthy now.
Except that doesn't happen.
You lose your existing customers.
This sounds familiar in terms of the Republican Party, it should.
McDonald's and these other businesses do not know what expanding their customer base could happen if they would fight back against these people, but it's just it's so difficult.
Trust me on this, it's difficult to persuade people just who their enemies really are.
It's hard for people to conceive that there are vegetarians that are militant that are their enemy trying to put us out of business.
And you you tell them that, and if you don't have any supporting doctor, all you've got is you know the left.
I know who these people are, I've been targeted by them, I know exactly how they work, I know what they're doing, I know why they don't like you.
Have you not been paying attention?
They think cows are the biggest problem, global warming.
Beef, do you have you not known they're coming for you?
They've been coming for you for 20 years.
Did you not see what happened to Burger King?
Burger King demanded Burger King sell veggie burgers in Berkeley, of course, because in Berkeley, where they're politically correct, they're not gonna eat beef at all.
Well, okay, so Burger King put veggie burgers on the menu.
You know what?
Burger King ended up closing.
They lost their customer base, and the Middleton vegans didn't go in and shop because that's not what they're about.
I'm telling you, folks, from a personal and professional standpoint, it gets real frustrating, and it has been for years trying to persuade people that are not as politically educated and informed as we wish they were to try to tell them who their enemies really are and what their enemies' tactics are and what their enemies' objectives, and they they reject it.
Because they personally can't conceive of it.
It doesn't compute.
And they think that accusations made in this nature uh say more about the accuser.
Look, if if I had a chance, I this has not happened, but I'll just illustrate what I just said.
Let's say that I was able to get a meeting with a generic executive at McDonald's, don't care, CEO and no names, don't know anybody there.
Let's say I had a meeting and told him exactly what I just told you.
He would think I'm the one that's nuts.
Not the people that are harassing him about the lack of healthy food on the menu.
And he wouldn't understand why make all the changes, accommodate every complaint, get rid of French fries, get rid of beef tallow, put beef, uh put apple slices in a happy meal.
Yeah.
And don't understand why they're not setting sales records.
And then furthermore, don't understand why sales are plummeting, and sales are because the CEO just got blamed for it by being fired or let go.
This is why, I'm telling you, it is why Scott Walker is running away with every Republican poll right now.
The consultant class doesn't get it.
The Republican establishment doesn't understand it, they're scratching their heads, they're trying to, what's Walker done?
They do not get it.
They don't understand.
For two years, I have been ballyhooing Scott Walker, not personally, but here's a guy, not only has he drawn the blueprints for beating the left.
What are blueprints?
They are designs for buildings on their way.
He's built the house.
He wrote the blueprints, and then he built the building.
He built the machine that defeats the left.
He has shown how to do it, and he did it.
He is a walking gold mine.
Scott Walker has been targeted every bit as much as any other Republican has.
As a racist, sexist, bigot homophobe, as a criminal, as a Mean spirited whatever.
They have he had to win three elections in four years.
Think of that.
Three elections in four years.
He had the federal judiciary trying to hamper him and punish him.
He had the entire Democrat Party and its union support base throwing money and thug-like tactics against him and his family, and he did not try to appease them once.
He stood up to them in his way.
He won elections, and then afterwards.
He did not give a speech about how now it's time to come together for the people of Wisconsin.
Well, he might have said that, but he did not mean it's time to let them now have a role in his government.
His objective was to overcome them.
His objective was to defeat them in their schools, in their school curriculum, in the way the unions, public and private were ruining Wisconsin, and he has succeeded.
And I would think at everybody at the RNC and the consultant class who wants to win would be taking notes and would be talking to him and his people about how they did it.
Instead, they're trying to ignore it.
He's winning every flash poller to Drudge is doing one.
Just saw this.
Your vote for Republican presidential candidate.
He's got Bush, Carson, Christie.
I don't know how this is going.
I was a way layout 10 to 1 that whenever Drudge starts publishing results, Christie Walker's going to be well over 50% in this poll.
Now, nothing scientific about it.
This is an internet poll.
But the reason why is because Scott Walker could be wrong on immigration.
I'm just picking.
He could be wrong on global warming.
to the base.
The base may not like his view on this or that, but they're going to support him because he is fighting back.
That's what has been missing from the Republican Party.
The Republican Party will not even acknowledge the true nature of our enemies.
And that I can't tell you how frustrated that has made the Republican base and then some.
Not just the Republican base upset.
The there are other just Republican voters who may not be Tea Party people.
They're also fed up that there is no fight back, that there's no pushback against Obama or the Democrats or any of their policy ideas.
And Scott Walker has epitomized it, and he'd be in that that's why he's just running away with every poll right now.
I don't know if it's going to hold up when it comes time to actually get into primaries and these polls get translated to votes and that sort of thing.
Way premature on that.
I'm just telling you why he's scoring so well now.
There is the Tea Party since they founded them.
So in 2010, there.
There has been this burning, this burning passion and desire for their representatives to stand up and fight back, which means properly identifying them.
Not letting them get away with stealing the idea.
They're the ones with the big hearts, and they're the ones with the compassion, and they're the ones with all the tolerance and so forth.
That's all dribble.
So Scott Walker's doing it and he is running away.
And these clowns on our side don't even understand it yet.
Stop and think.
Here's a guy who's won three elections in four years in a blue state.
He has neutered the employees' union, the teachers' union.
He's got the support of the majority of people of Wisconsin.
You would think at Republican headquarters and consultant headquarters, they would be eager to find out how he's done it.
But instead, he's looked at somebody that might upset the Apple cart.
It's going to boil down to how much money he can get from the donor class.
And by the way, I'll make another prediction too.
I make a prediction too in this same poll Drudge is doing.
You know who's going to be last?
Who do you think's going to be last, Mr. Snerdley?
Jeb Bush is going to be near the bottom.
You want to know why?
Yeah, but why doesn't the base?
Why is the base not thrilled about?
Because Jeb Bush and the Republican establishment have made it clear they think the Republican Party's big problem is Republican voters and not Democrats and their policies.
Now, on Fox News yesterday, Super Bowl Sunday, this is Howard Kurtz has his show where the media talks about itself.
Probably their favorite show of the week.
They have their round table and they discuss each other and how well the media's doing or what mistakes the media has made.
It's gi it's it's uh it's navelgazing.
Squared.
And so there the host here, Kurtz is talking to uh George W. Bush, Spanish language spokesperson, Mercedes Schlap.
I've not heard of her.
I don't mean I'm not saying anything by the I I just don't know who she is.
I don't mean that to be an insult.
I have learned, I think that she calls herself Mercy as a mickname, Mercy Schlap.
And her husband is also uh a big I forget his first name.
Yeah, his his name's also Schlap, a married couple that go by the same name.
It's rare and rare uh in our country.
The uh fact is they're both consultants, and one of them, I think the husband is the name of his group has the word conservative in it or something.
I'm just I have a metal block on it.
But anyway, Howard Kurtz said to Mercedes or Mercy Schlap, Romney got a taste in the media environment, and uh a lot of it from conservatives, as we saw.
There was not exactly a lot of enthusiasm for a third Romney campaign.
What do you say about that?
It started with Rush Limbaugh back in August of 2014 when Rush came out and basically said he cannot win the nominee in 2016.
If he wasn't able to pull it off when it was a time when the president had huge disapproval ratings, the economy was plummeting, and he couldn't win, believe me, he's not gonna be able to win in 2016.
And then we saw the choir of these individuals coming out of these opinion leaders coming out, like a Peggy Noonan who supported him in 2012, saying Mitt was yesterday.
Uh we need to look into tomorrow.
So once again, I have been and and I don't but don't misunderstand now.
I'm not I don't know that she's blaming me or or saying I got it right.
I can't I'm having trouble inferring from the tone, and I'm not I'm not trying to.
So whatever you do, do not get hold of this woman and tell her I'm I'm criticizing is not the point.
What what is noteworthy about this is that now I've once again become the titular head of the party.
It depends day to day.
I'm an entertainer and irrelevant.
Maybe it has been even.
Eh, Russia's so yesterday.
You know, that's a long time ago.
Limbaugh, man, nobody pays any attention anymore.
The next day I'm the titular leader of the party.
And the next day I'm a good satirist and entertainer and so forth.
So it was me, folks.
It was me who got the ball rolling, anti-Romney back in.
And she's right, by the way, I did say all that.
Because it that's what struck me as true.
Anyway, got to take a break.
Timeout.
It's back in a minute.
Don't go away.
Back to the phone, so you go.
This is uh this is uh Jack Willin, Saverna Park, Maryland.
Welcome.
I'm glad you called.
Nice to have you with us today.
Hi, thank you for having me.
Um, can I first thank you as a military family?
I know you don't out all of the things that you do for military families, but I know firsthand of uh friends of mine who you've helped.
So I just want to thank you for that.
I know you don't talk about it, but you should be recognized for it.
Well, th I appreciate uh appreciate very much.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
My question is this.
Um you mentioned the display gate issue a little earlier in the program where it was reported there's a report um from an ESPN.com reporter who says that now it's only one football that was deflated.
And I guess my question is I've been following it since yesterday, and I'm just blown away by why it isn't covered.
As recently as a couple hours ago, Sports Illustrated had a story about saying how this win makes the stakes even higher for this controversy, and yet they didn't even seem to have the most up-to-date facts.
Is this just the poor state of journalism today?
Or is that a lot of people?
Well, I think I'm just I well, wait, I'm gonna I'm gonna blindly Try to analyze this.
It may well be that that's an unconfirmed report that only one ball was underinflated.
And therefore it could be that Sports Illustrated until they can confirm it themselves and put their exclusive stamp on it, doesn't want to credit somebody else who may have found out about it yet.
So they might just ignore this until it can be confirmed rather than have it just be an assertion by one network, even if it is ESPN.
But they could still report that.
I I uh I agree with you.
Um I know your point is that what what is driving all this is anti-patriots bias in in elements of the media.
Am I right about that?
Yes, and I mean I think it's sort of similar to Yankees bias.
I mean, they're the they're an incredible team, and it's people always kind of want to tear that down.
And of course, the scandal in the previous years, it was probably a bit overblown.
You want to know why there's Patriots bias.
There's two reasons why there's Patriots bias.
Do you really want to know what they are?
Yes, I do.
First one's spygate.
Actually, three.
Spygate.
Number two is Belichick.
Nobody should be that successful who's that surly and mean all the time.
It just doesn't he ought to at least be nicer if he's gonna be that successful.
And the third reason is Giselle Buncheon.
Right.
Which makes everybody hate Tom Brady.
Jealous.
Jealous and all that.
Just, you know, is it too perfect.
It's not fair.
And then when the guy wins all the time, that's even worse.
They have to be cheating.
Nobody's that good.
Nobody's that good looking, nobody's that lucky.
So that's it's all human nature.
It's all encapsulated in human nature.
Don't doubt me.
It's an NFL network report, by the way, by Ian Rappaport.
He said he was told by sources, quote, 11 of the 12 footballs used in the first half of the AFC championship game were judged by the refs to be under the minimum of 12 and a half PSI, but just one was two pounds under.
Many of them are just a few ticks under the minimum.
That is, eleven balls were underinflated, but only one of those eleven was under by two pounds.
And our previous caller was was was upset that that's not being reported by everybody.
They're still harping on the flaggate.
So it's an NFL network report.
I saw it, I think, mentioned on ESPN.
Heck, I actually don't remember where, but I did see that.
It might have been sourced to the NFL network.
But our Patriots fan was upset that that hasn't become widespread out there.
And I guarantee you, the NFL network is owned by the NFL.
And so some journalists are a little standoffish about what comes out of there.
Sometimes, not always, but I mean the owners own it.
So there's a natural journalistic tendency to be guarded.
They might be biased, you see.
Oh, I just got a note, this is a good reminder.
Speaking of how Republican-based voters embrace the fighters.
Remember Chris Christie and how he used to own it?
Remember, Snertley?
Back when Chris Christie was the idol of the Tea Party.
Remember, he's out there at the Reagan Library, library, for those of you in Rio Linda.
And some woman stands up in the audience, begs him to run.
And he goes to this long answer about how he's not ready, now it's not the right time.
But I mean, he owned it.
And why did he own it?
Because he's fighting back against the unions.
He was creaming the union in press conferences.
He was fighting back against the media.
And he was refusing to take their grief.
And he was ramming it right back down their throats.
But that's not, he doesn't have that anymore.
He doesn't have that kind of support.
People don't look.
Well, something happened, among many other things.
An arm in arm stroll down the beach with Obama after Hurricane Sandy.
And then there were other instances where Governor Christie started moderating his own and sidling up to the left and starting working with these people and just went moderate on everybody.
And so now he's not got the love he used to have.
I'm telling you, do not discount.
It's a major factor in why Walker is uh is being supported, not not to diminish his position on the issues.
My only point is, like when I I was touting Walker last week, and I got an email from an inside the beltway conservative media person.
Be careful, Rush, be be real careful.
He's not right on immigration.
We're gonna be very careful.
Missed the point right now, that doesn't matter.
People are willing to overlook certain things.
If this guy is gonna actually take on this behemoth left and try to beat them back, because that needs to happen.
It's part and parcel of reversing the direction the country's going is pushing back against those people.
And it's why I say uh the single issue crowd is never gonna be mollified by anybody.
They're gonna demand perfection at all times.
And immigration is an important issue.
I understand what this person was saying to me.
The person might have thought I was getting ready to go all in.
And I might then have a problem when people figure out that Walker's not exactly uh where they think he should be on Amnesty.
I actually think he's closer than most people do because he is hell-bent on border security.
And that's the first thing that has to happen.
What you do with the 11 or 12 or 20 million here comes after you've secured the border.
You've got to stop the tide.
That's nobody's talking deporting 25 million people.
What w the the sensible thing to do here is lock down the border so that this massive influx stops.
Well, he's for that.
So I'm not endorsing anybody here.
As you know, I don't I don't do that, particularly this early out.
I know some people think I should.
I mean, look at I already have the power here of stopping Romney, according to the Republican consultant class, and I did that back in August.
And consequently, Walker's taken off, and I defy you to find anybody been touting him but me.
At least the way I have been.
I mean, Walker didn't sneak up on us.
His big coming out bash on that Saturday in Iowa didn't surprise us, right?
We've been up to speed, knowing Scott Walker, aware of what he's accomplished for a long time here.
But a lot of these other Republicans, where'd this guy come from?
Where'd this guy go to get a charisma transfer?
Scott Walker, they were totally ignorant about it.
That blows me away how Republicans, consultants, what have you, who were in the business of winning elections could be surprised and shocked and ignorant about what Walker has done, but they exist.
And when he had that great coming out speech at Fiery Speech, where he spelled out the American dream and all these Republicans are shocked and stunned, where'd this guy come from?
That is unbelievable to me.
But it happened.
All right, who's next?
This is Nathan.
Nathan is in Bettendorf, Iowa, and Nathan, my friends, is another satisfied ten-year-old.
Uh on the way to becoming uh a big EIB network fan.
He's a Rush Revere fan.
Now, how are you doing, Nathan?
Uh good, Rush.
Well, for I just want I just want to say how awesome your books are.
Well, I appreciate that, Nathan.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I really appreciate your taking the time to call and tell me that.
You're welcome.
Now I just also want to tell you that um one of the first songs that I learned when I was either four or five was uh banking queen.
The the banking queen that we played on this program, Barney Frank?
Yeah.
You like that from when you were four or five years old?
Yes, I did.
Well, that's that's just cool.
You're you so you had to be listening with your mom and dad back then.
Yeah, we were listening back then.
And at four and five years old, you knew enough to like the song Banking Queen.
Yes.
Wow.
Well, what do you like best about the Rush Revere books, Nathan?
Um, probably The Horse Liberty.
I like how funny he tries to be.
Yeah, he's a funny, smart Alec.
But he's a lovable, likable, smart aleck.
Well, I agree with you.
Have you read all three?
Yes, I had just finished the last one last year.
Well, that's cool.
Well, I'll tell you what I wanted if you'll hang on here, want to send you some stuff from uh from Liberty and Revere.
Among them, I'm gonna send you the audio CDs of all three books, since you've read them.
If you want to revisit them, you can just listen to them.
I of course I of course do the expert um reading of the of the books, which is an added dimension that I'm sure if you like Banking Queen, I'm sure that you'll enjoy the uh the audio version.
Well I and the last thing I want to say is um when I was reading your books, we had just started the Revolutionary War unit, and just recently we read an article about Paul Revere.
And your last in one of your books, you Rush Revere was with Paul Revere.
And it that book gave me I knew like most uh that book gave me a lot of knowledge, so I knew most of the things in the article that we had read.
That is awesome.
That is that is that music to my to my ears.
Um did you have the same kind of reaction when you heard if you did hear about the uh the time capsule they found at Sam Addins?
Yeah, I was super happy to hear that.
Wasn't that cool?
You knew what it was all about because you'd read the book.
Yep.
You knew who those two guys were, so when they found that time cancel, you probably were really interested to know what was in it.
I was very interested to see the copy of the Boston Daily.
That's just that Nathan, that is so cool.
You're your um you're just you're perfect.
You're one of the reasons you you epitomize why we're doing this.
It's just great.
So once again, hang on here because I need to get your address, or did Mr. Snurley already get your address.
Um, I can't remember.
Well, then make sure he's got it, because we want to send you a little uh a little goodie package.
Okay.
All right, and then FedEx is how we send things.
So we'll need an address.
Make sure your parents say it's okay too.
Um they say it's okay.
You're welcome.
You're more than welcome, Nathan.
And we'll be back, folks, after this.
Don't go away.
Audio's on by time, and welcome back, Rush Limboy here, the EIB Network.
Umtage.
It's about Scott Walker's a montage of Martha Rabbit of ABC News, Fox News Channel, Arthell Neville, Fox News Channel Leland Vidert, uh CNN Victor Blackwell, Dana Perino, Dana Bash, Dana Bash, sorry, Clayton Morris, Nora O'Donnell, Gwen Eiffel, all talking about Scott Walker, and there's a there's a new poll, a potential Republican uh candidates that just has him cleaning up.
This new poll has it cleaning up all over everywhere.
And here comes some drive-bys talking about it.
Scott Walker.
He leads the pack in a brand new poll.
Scott Walker, the front runner and a new poll.
Scott Walker has an edge in the tight GOP field.
Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin, may be the one to watch.
If you look at the Iowa poll today, Scott Walker is up on top.
Scott Walker, top of the pack.
Scott Walker sitting at the top of the heap.
Scott Walker is at the top of the list of those in Iowa.
Nobody was talking about Scott Walker a week ago.
Yeah, that's it.
They're they're they're they're shocked.
They don't believe it.
They can't believe it.
They're stunned.
I guarantee you they're stunned.
And this is that's what stuns me.
Look, once again, stop and think of this.
Here you have a Republican.
And he's a Republican in good standing.
I mean, is he's not one of these Tea Party guys that the establishment's been trying to wipe out.
And he has won three elections in four years.
The left has thrown everything they have at him, just like they've thrown it at George W. Bush, like they threw it at Romney, like they have thrown it at McCain, everybody, but Walker beat them.
You would think they would know who he is.
You would think that they would not be surprised.
At his after his success in Iowa and Wisconsin, that he would be on the radar.
But there is indeed shock.
There is indeed Surprise.
This is a Bloomberg Politics Des Moines Register poll taken Monday through Thursday.
And it shows Walker leading a wide open Republican race with 15%.
But then that doesn't quite explain it because there's a there's there's two questions.
Really support or almost halfway support.
If you add them up, Walker is at 25, the closest to him is at 23.
Uh and that's Rand Paul.
And the other Republican establishment guys bring up the rear.
They're way at the bottom.
With uh, I think Jeb Bush is at the bottom.
Close to it.
And it just continues to amaze me that this guy has been invisible.
And you remember even the Republican governors associated.
You remember I I forget the specific details of this, but there were some uh some contre temps between Governor Christie and Scott Walker over money.
And I think it was that uh the Republican governors withdrew or withheld some money from Walker.
I for I forget why.
Yeah, during the campaign, yeah, I mean, last November, they withheld some money from I forget specifically why, but it was he and Walker were going back and forth about something.
So, but nevertheless, these people are all shocked.
Now, you regular listeners to this program are well aware of the Scott Walker story.
Whether you like him or not, you may not.
You may you may think that what goes on at Wisconsin is really not a good proving ground and doesn't matter.
But even if that does describe you, can't deny that he has demonstrated how to beat back my God, folks.
Some of the tactics the left pulled threatening his family, they threatened him with jail.
They tried to criminalize his campaign, not just some of his policies.
They had this the Wisconsin state legislature walked out of the state in an attempt to stop him implementing his policies after one of his victories.
They threw everything and he's beat him back.
And the fact that he's still a mystery to these people is just it's it's a shame.
And we got more examples of the media surprised and shocked at Scott Walker and then saying it's too soon.
He's peeking weights, he doesn't have a chance.
Don't sweat it on Scott Walker, and other things in the news, of course, too, folks.
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