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April 16, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 16, 2015, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
And greetings to you.
Hello, everybody, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruit and plate.
Rush Limbaugh here at the prestigious and distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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800 282882 and the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
I do not want to make the mistake of assuming something is happening prematurely.
Nevertheless, ladies and gentlemen, I have to note that I am a bit surprised at the frequency and even the number of really negative or less than flattering suck-up stories about Hillary Clinton from the drive by media.
Now what we know, what we have learned, take it back.
You and I have known this since the 90s.
She's a phony.
There are no coincidences with the Clintons.
Nothing just spontaneously happens.
Everything is orchestrated.
Everything is planned.
Everything is staged.
That is everything that's intended for public consumption.
Her spontaneous road trip in the van is phony.
Her unscripted sit downs with quote unquote everyday Americans are phony.
They are Democrat operatives who are being driven to the events.
They are Hillary donors, in some cases.
They are Obama donors in other cases.
They have worked on Obama or other Democrat candidate campaigns.
But they are not everyday people.
They didn't just happen to be wherever Hillary just happened to decide to stop.
And then just happened to stroll in.
While just happening to wear dark glasses.
So just happening and hoping not to be recognized.
With 15 cameras in tow.
Her claim to care about everyday Americans is phony, as evidenced by, well, her life.
The way the Clintons have been reported to treat White House staff, uniformed military people at the White House.
Stories from the 90s are legion about that.
Her social media numbers are phony.
Half over half of her Twitter, whatever they are, tweets are fake.
The people are fake.
They don't exist.
She is paying $38 per Facebook like.
Now the UK media is all over this, particularly the uh the UK Daily Mail.
They're all over it, but now we're starting to see on American television, if not yet in print, that's the next domino to fall.
But some uh traditional Hillary type supporters in television drive-by media are starting to raise questions now about her competence.
See, this is the thing.
She has known for however many years that this week was coming.
Am I right?
She's known for how many years that this particular plan was going to be executed.
With all of this time to plan it, they still can't execute it.
And they can't keep it from being discovered.
The truth behind it.
With all of this time to execute something simple as getting in a van and driving on an American highway in a middle American state and deciding to stop at a roadside establishment and spontaneously sit down and have a conversation with everyday type people.
Years and years to plan that singular event and they can't even pull that off.
And this is what the American drive by media is starting to notice and thus be concerned about.
Because remember, none of this bothers them in terms of whether or not Hillary would be qualified to be president.
They don't care about it.
If they cared about that, they wouldn't have supported Obama.
He's an absolute incompetent boob.
When it comes to defending and protecting the traditions and institutions that have defined this country's greatness, he's all about changing them.
They don't care.
Their only concern is can she beat whoever the Republicans nominate?
That's why this bothers them.
That is why I am detecting the first pulse of concern in some of the drive-by TV broadcast media reporters.
And it's very simple.
If she can't plan a phony event, like a diner chat session with some supposed Americans, if she can't plan that with months and months, and notice all of the talent on her payroll.
She supposedly has the best and brightest the Democrat Party has to offer, from consultants to marketers to tech people to strategics to planners, and she still can't pull it off.
And by not being able to pull it off, what I mean is everybody has discovered that it's fake.
And one of the reasons they discovered it was fake is because it looked fake and she looked fake.
It didn't look real because it wasn't real.
Because the Clintons just can't do real because everything they do is structured and acted and performed.
And I know that many of you in this audience are yourselves performers.
And you know that in any given day, if you don't have it, it's tough.
It is hard.
The process of acting, you know what's so hard about acting?
You know what the number one requirement other than being able to memorize lines?
But that's actually part of it.
You know the number one requirement for being an actor.
Well, yeah, make you look like you're not acting, but how do you do that?
How do you do that?
You have to totally rid yourself of all of your self-consciousness.
If you are even just, if you have just a trace of self-consciousness, that will be noticed.
You have to be able to get outside your own body.
You have to be able to, I'm not talking in a metaphysical sense here.
I'm talking attitudinally and maybe even psychologically, you have to be able to totally abandon who you are.
And if you have the slightest shred of self-consciousness, and that can be defined as worrying about how you look.
Um worried about whether or not you're succeeding.
Then you're going to forget your lines and you're going to start acting rather than being.
It's a very hard thing to do.
It's it's why those people, in addition to the way they look, are paid a lot of money, the big ones, because it's really, really hard to do.
And it's also why they're so messed up.
No, no, it is because their whole lives is spent being somebody else.
That's why they end up, they play a role as a farm wife.
They actually become the farm wife.
They think it's legitimate to testify before Congress about it.
All they did was portray one.
They haven't been farm wives, they don't know agriculture problems, but they had to get totally outside themselves.
And because they want to be known like everybody does for who they really are.
So when they're not acting, you know, when Gwendolith Paltrow is not Hasteed B snurred or whatever, testifying before she wants to be known for what she really thinks, and we learn that they're idiots.
But it's a very tough Mrs. Clinton, I maintain to you cannot do this.
Mrs. Clinton is too self-conscious for whatever reason.
She cannot act.
She simply can't pull it off.
She can't act friendly, she can't act nice, she can't act real.
She just comes across a stone cold.
And that's why they want her to act, because they want her to be able to abandon that.
But when you think you're better than everybody else, you don't want to abandon that.
You don't want to be Mr. Ubyman.
That's the contradiction here.
Mrs. Clinton's trying to portray herself as an average ordinary American, but the fact is she isn't.
Average ordinary Americans do not get 14 million dollars for writing a book that nobody reads.
Average Americans are not paid $300,000 for a speech that nobody wants to listen to.
Average Americans are not paid $14 million to write a book nobody wants to read and then show up at a book signing that nobody attends.
Average Americans would love to be able to get that kind of money for being unable to do what the payment is for.
Mrs. Clinton can.
She's not like the rest of us.
She simply is not an average, ordinary, everyday person.
The bottom line also is I don't know, presidents today, what people want in them.
It used to be people wanted extraordinary people, people that uh were admittedly better than you were to be president.
Now, as we head toward the situation portrayed in the movie Idiocracy, where the low information voter wants somebody as stupid as they are to be president, that's the way we're trending.
Mrs. Clinton can't pull that off.
No matter how nice she tries to be, she still can't look nice.
She can't act it, she just can't.
That's the problem.
And that's why the more she's in public and the more she speaks, the worse and lower her poll numbers get.
The more she's silent and uh and and invisible and out of the public eye, her numbers go up.
So phony, totally phony.
Everything.
She'd been talking about her grandparents or immigrants.
They weren't.
Buzzfeed, you know, BuzzFeed, which is a relatively new internet news site.
Started by some guy, I think it was a political, Ben Smith, I think it is.
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
You know how they found out?
Any member of the drive-by community could have done this.
Any of you could have done this.
They simply went to Ancestry.com.
They filled in the name and the search term, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
And it right there, all the documents, all the census reports, every one of her grandparents and great grandparents is basically from Pennsylvania.
They're not from Ireland.
They didn't emigrate here as she said.
Now, all of our relatives were at some point immigrants because the nation was that way built that way, but but her statement is flat out true.
Untrue.
It's just like people have forgotten this.
She claimed that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, who was the first human being without jet back power to climb Mount Everest.
The only problem with that is that when Hillary Clinton was born, Edmund Hillary had not yet climbed anything, much less Mount Everest.
Nobody knew who he was when she was born.
Totally made up.
Just like this grandparents or great-grandparents or whatever it is.
Immigration story.
And again, what is telling about all of this is how poorly it has been organized and executed, given the top talent on the staff, putting it together and the time, given all the time they have had, they can't even get one event right.
Because they can't rely on spontaneity.
They can't rely on reality.
They can't trust the fact that Hillary Clinton's going to walk into a diner in Iowa and not get booed and run out of the place.
So what they have to do is take over the diner and populate it with people paid to be there.
Democrats, staffers, donors, what have you.
And then put Hillary Clinton in the middle of it, and it all becomes fake, and it looks fake because they didn't hire any professional actors.
How bad is it when your leading presidential candidate you can't even, you can't even trust, you can't even roll a dice that she can pull off walking in to a 7-Eleven without getting kicked out, booed out, laughed at, or otherwise heckled.
And they're not dumb for that.
I mean, they saw that she did a big book tour, nobody showed up.
They had to pay people for that.
How risky is it?
This is the person the Democrats tell us is the automatically unquestionably qualified next president, and they can't even trust her to go into a diner and have at least half the place applaud that she arrived and want to meet her and talk to her.
They have to pay people to come in and act like they want to talk to her and act like they care about what she thinks.
Still can't get over.
Well, never mind.
I take a break here, my friends, but by the way, by the way.
She did not leave a tip at Chipotle.
And I knew it and guessed the people at Doomberg News went out and actually researched it.
Details coming up.
How many times in the recent past have you people heard me refer to the Democrat Party base as insane?
How many of you recall my suggesting, my pointing out, my claiming that the Democrat Party has turned its base literally rabid with insanity and rage.
With all of the catcalling, all of the negativity that they uh been responsible for.
The Iraq war, you name it, everything for the last four years of George Bush's presidency, everything.
They just turned their base into a bunch of rabid, insane lunatics.
You remember how they they literally went bat excrement crazy after the Citizens United Supreme Court case.
Because that court case essentially said that corporations are people.
And the people in those that right there, fighting words.
Corporations are not people, except now they are.
Democrats happen to love corporations at the moment because they're helping Obama do some things.
But Citizens United, allowing corporations to make political campaign donations, just sent them into orbit and they went on TV, the left-wing media, and just went crazy.
So what happens?
Yesterday a postal worker from somewhere here in Florida got his little gyrocopter and flew it to Washington.
He was a mailman and he had a bunch of so-called signed petitions he was going to deliver to somebody expressing all of their outrage and anger over the Supreme Court decision.
Citizens United.
I saw the crash site, this guy's little gyrocopter.
The rudder, the entire rudder of his gyrocopter is the United States post office trademark.
So he's a proud postal worker.
I don't know, maybe they sponsored his gyrocopter and he didn't have to pay for the whole thing himself.
This guy was this close, dangerously close to being shot out of the sky by long guns that were being aimed at him from the U.S. Capitol.
If he had happened to fly just a short while farther, just a short distance farther, he would have been shot down.
You kidding me?
You get all worked up over Supreme Court decision, citizens united.
Had it not been for the drive-by media and the Democrat Party lying about that, raising hell about it, this postal worker wouldn't have had the slightest idea what the decision was about.
He may not have even remembered it, knew what it was, or cared.
It's exactly what I mean by the Democrat Party driving their base literally in sane.
Yesterday on this program, ladies and gentlemen, I, El Rushbo, offered this.
Turns out to be salient opinion.
I would like to know if she left anything in the tip jar.
Because that would be an indication if she understands what average ordinary the everyman that she sucks to represent.
I mean, that's where the people that work at Chipotle.
That's where they make a little extra tip jar.
And I haven't heard a word about whether or not she visited the tip jar, whether she put anything in it or not.
Well, now we know from Bloomberg News, Chipotle manager Hillary Clinton did not leave anything in the tip jar.
One of the great political mysteries of the early campaign has been solved.
Hillary Clinton did not leave a tip.
At the Chipotle restaurant she visited during her road trip to Iowa on Sunday.
The bill was 20 bucks in change, and Huma paid the bill.
And they mention here that uh the whole thing was a creation of Rush Limbaugh, who first asked if she had left a tip.
Now, why did Doomberg go investigate this?
Doomberg hoped to learn that she had, so that they could write a story of how unfair and mean, biased and prejudiced I am.
And it backfired on him.
I am convinced they went in there trying to find a defense for her.
Great to have you back here, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, as we head on into the fastest week in media, already Thursday here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Here is the Bloomberg story.
It's written by David Knowles.
And I I tell you, I have to admit I was stunned when uh when I when I saw this, because I didn't think anybody would look into it, and drive-by is not oriented that way.
So I was kind of surprised, but here's how the story reads.
One of the great political mysteries of the early 2016 presidential campaign has been solved.
Hillary Clinton did not leave a tip at the Chipotle restaurant she visited during her road trip to Iowa on Sunday.
Now come on.
See, there's a little snark right there in the lead.
One of the great political mysteries of the 2016 campaign.
It clearly doesn't rise to that level.
This guy, I'm convinced that what happened here.
Either they heard it at Doomberg or somebody told them that I suggested that I prognosticated, that I predicted, and I wagered that Hillary Clinton, because I know her, I know these people.
She didn't leave a tip.
I said I got a tip jar at Chipotle, and I'll bet you she didn't leave a tip, leave a tip.
So I'm convinced that what Bloomberg wanted to do was find out that she did.
And thereby be able to write a story ridiculing me.
They clearly, because you can tell with a snark of the lead, they weren't really interested in whether she left a tip or not.
All they wanted to do was be able to show me is wrong.
And by referring to this as one of the great political mysteries of the early campaign is a dead giveaway, the snark there.
So they walked in there, and I'm convinced.
That's why they also mistakenly identified the manager of the place as a Republican, because they wanted backup in the event that she hadn't played it, paid a tip.
They wanted to be able to savage the manager for putting the news out for sabotaging her.
Then they found out the manager's not a Republican.
So this is how they work at the drive-by media.
Her bill was twenty dollars and some change.
They paid with $21 and left without putting anything in a tip jar on the counter, said Charles Wright, the manager.
At the Chipotle store, this was in uh Maumee, Ohio.
Now, in the earlier version of this article, Bloomberg News identified Charles Wright, the manager as a Republican.
And I'm telling you, that was to indicate that he might be making this up out of an animus against Hillary.
They have since removed that line from their piece, presumably because Charles Wright isn't a Republican, and they can't now blame him.
See, here's the way they think.
I go on the air, and I raise the possibility, the likelihood That Mrs. Clinton, a known tight wad, by the way, didn't leave a tip.
The media hears about it.
Doomberg says, you know what?
We'll smack Limbaugh down.
This is we're not going to put up with this.
So they go in there.
Surely they find that Mrs. Clinton left a tip.
And the manager says, no, she didn't.
Oh, manager must be a Republican.
This is the way they think.
Manager must be a Republican.
They're setting up here to be critical, or sitting up and leaking or sabotaging Hillary.
That's what it is, limb on this guy working again or whatever.
It's the way they think.
Then they find out the guy's not a Republican.
They find out Hillary did not leave a tip.
They find out that Huma didn't leave a tip.
But now they're committed.
So they write other details, quote the manager saying the other lady paid the bill, that'd be Huma.
And I don't even think Doomberg knew that it was Huma.
The change from the meal total less than a dollar, says the Doomberg story, but it was pocketed rather than deposited in a tip jar, as many customers of the restaurant do, said Wright.
Yeah, we get a bunch of tips, he said, who only realized the customer had been the presidential candidate after the news media began calling the place, and he had reviewed surveillance.
See, I told you.
I go on the air and I speculate she didn't leave a tip.
Then they call the guy.
They want to see surveillance video.
They don't want to take his word for the fact that whoever it was paying for didn't leave a tip.
They want to see the surveillance.
So eager are they to report that I lied.
Or that I got it wrong.
Because of a bias against the Clintons.
And it blew up in their face because surveillance video and everything had became clear didn't take anybody's word.
Mrs. Clinton, her traveling party didn't leave a tip.
And here's how that is reported.
The question of whether Clinton had tipped the workers during the Chipotle stop was first asked by conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday, then they quote me.
And they go on to uh report the story a little further.
And remember this lead, one of the great political mysteries of all time, shows the snark with which they report the stories.
Now you um you wonder, you heard me the opening of the program, make mention of the fact that Mrs. Clinton is making up things.
For example, the road trip was was was phony, the scripted sit-downs with everyday Americans phony.
Her claim about everyday Americans is phony, charitable foundation, that's dubious.
Social media numbers are phony.
And she's got all of these stories now about her grandparents or great-grandparents being immigrants.
Well, the Daily Mail, by the way, we just got an email from them.
Snurdly, I'm gonna paraphrase this so he got the email.
He just reported it to me.
The UK Daily Mail sent Snerdley an email thanking us profusely for referencing them as often as we do.
And they have decided they have opened an actual domestic bureau in the United States where they are now just the Daily Mail.
No UK, just the Daily Mail.
Why do we so often reference and quote the Daily Mail?
Because it's the only publication we get the truth.
It's the only publication that's reporting things that you don't see on ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post.
It's uncanny.
Daily Mail, UK Daily Mail reports things, finds, and by the way, they're happening right in front of everybody's faces.
It's not, I don't mean to impugn the Daily Mail, but they're not having to dig deep to find this stuff.
It's happening right in front of everybody's faces, just the other people are ignoring it, but they aren't.
They're reporting it.
And so they called here to thank us for doing so.
And then told us that they're dropping the UK, at least for domestic operations, because it's now just the Daily Mail.
Well, I'm gonna quote them again here.
Hillary Clinton's AstroTurf candidacy is in full swing in Iowa.
Her Tuesday morning visit to a coffee shop in LeClair, Iowa, staged from beginning to end.
According to Austin Byrd, one of the men pictured sitting at the table with Mrs. Clinton.
Austin Byrd, one of the men sitting at the table with Mrs. Clinton, told a Daily Mail online that campaign staffer Troy Price called and asked him and two other young people to meet him Tuesday morning at a restaurant in Davenport nearby.
Price then drove them to the coffee house to meet Clinton after vetting them for about a half hour.
The three got the lion's share of Mrs. Clinton's time and participated in what breathless news reports described as a round table.
The first of many in her brief Iowa campaign swing.
Bird himself.
Now, the names sometimes run together or get confused.
So let's review.
Okay.
We have here a man by the name of Austin Byrd, who told the Daily Mail Online that a Clinton campaign staffer called and asked him and two other young people to meet him Tuesday morning at a restaurant in Davenport.
The three get together and the campaign worker vets them, discovers whether or not they can pull it off, whether they can look like ordinary, average, everyday Iowans who just happen to be at this place when Mrs. Clinton just happened to stroll in.
The Clinton campaign staffer vetted them, determined that they fit the bill, and drove them to the coffee house that Mrs. Clinton was just going to happen to stomp into later.
The vetting process, the qualifying process took a half hour.
Then Mrs. Clinton just happens to show up.
And these three ordinary everyday guys who just happened to have been driven there by the Clinton campaign, engage in a roundtable discussion, and they just happened to get the lion share of Mrs. Clinton's time and attention.
And then the news media reports this as though it was all spontaneous.
That it all just happened.
Mrs. Clinton driving along and decided, you know what, I want to stop that diner.
Look, let's go in there.
Let's find some everyday people in there, and let's just have a round table.
So they stopped the van.
Mrs. Clinton gets out, walks in, and there happen to be these three guys sitting at table that she just happens to choose, and they have a great round table discussion.
Daily Mail Online was told the whole thing was staged, the whole thing was set up.
Drive-by media knew it, but breathlessly reported it as real, as spontaneous.
And by the way, they also claimed that Mrs. Clinton was just fabulous.
She just had them in the palm of her hand.
And they loved her.
And they loved her ideas.
They thought Mrs. Clinton had the answers for every question they had.
And they left the meeting enthused and excited that they had met likely meant the next president of the United States.
Now, Austin Byrd, who is one of the men pictured sitting at the table, Mrs. Clinton, one of the guys asked to show up.
One of the guys interviewed and vetted and qualified.
Austin Bird, who is he?
He is a frequent participant in Iowa Democrat Party events.
He interned with Obama's 2012 presidential re-election campaign.
And he was also tapped to chauffeur vice president Biden in October of 2014 when he visited Davenport.
So he's a Democrat staffer.
He's a committed Democrat.
He is paid to make Democrats look good and arrive safely.
And the Clinton campaign portrayed him as an average, ordinary everyday man, who just happened to be where Mrs. Clinton was, when she just happened to stop and walk into this roadside diner.
That just happened to look like everyday people would be in there.
Byrd said Wednesday in a phone interview with the Daily Mail, yeah, what happened is we were just asked to be there by Troy, who's the Clinton campaign staffer.
We were asked to come To a meeting with Troy, the three of us at the at the Village Inn.
Now the other two.
He confirmed this.
The other two were University of Iowa, College Democrats, President Carter Bell, and Planned Parenthood of the Heartland employee, Sarah said Lassick.
So you had a college Democrat president.
College Democrats and a Planned Parenthood employee.
Who were the other two people?
They just happened to be at the diner.
When Mrs. Clinton just happened to stop the van and just happened to stroll out of the van into the diner.
Whole thing was staged.
The whole thing, and it still it looked, you'll hear audio sound bites come where it looked staged.
It felt uncomfortable.
You will hear drive-by media types refer to it as such.
And that's what is somewhat unprecedented.
That hasn't happened much.
Mostly they try to paper it over and cover up for it.
Now they're openly expressed, and I don't blame them.
This is the woman they've rolled all the dice in.
They've put everything in this campaign, and they've had years to plan this event, and they can't even make it look real.
Yeah, a lot of people know that I am an Apple fanboy.
I don't I don't mind admitting I'm a fanboy.
I mean, I I'm actually not a fanboy because a fanboy means they can do no wrong.
You know, I love the iPhone and the iPad, so I'm but anyway, people are sending me emails.
Well, what Rush, what do you think of this uh watch?
The Apple Watch.
And specifically the uh all the problems they're having here launching it.
Well, depending on how many more I get, I might answer that.
We've got other things to do, but I just wanted to acknowledge in receipt of these quite a few people are asking.
Because this is this is they've got problems here, and I think that's why people are asking me.
This is so we'll see.
But I gotta get to the phones.
Barry in St. Clair, uh LaClair, Iowa.
I'm sorry.
You are the mayor pro Tim, Mr. Sturdley tells me of uh LeClaire, Iowa, and you were at the Hillary event, is that right?
I was.
Thanks for talking to me, right?
I'm glad you called.
It's great to have you here.
Hey, I just want to tell you back eight years ago I was a huge supporter of Hillary.
Uh I started listening to you because you were the only one that told the truth about Obama.
I switched parties and have been vote voting Republican ever since.
No kidding, since 2008.
Yep, yep.
Oh, wow.
Well, I thank you.
Thank you very much.
Hey, thank you.
I also want to let you know that I bought all three of your audio books, and I uh donated them to our public library.
Wow.
You are great guy.
I really appreciate that.
No problem.
So you were you were at this Hillary event.
Yeah, at the Java Street or Jones Street Java House in McClare, Iowa.
I got to meet her actually.
The first time we met her was in 08, because I was a supporter of her then.
This time she was like a robot that time.
This time she was very talkative, very um upbeat, and she was like a total different person.
So she she came off better this time than the previous time you saw her.
Yeah, I think I worked with her quite a bit from the last eight years.
Okay, now uh this event where you you said uh that's what he scrolled it.
What was the name of the place where you were?
It was a Jones Street Java house.
Jones Street Java.
And that's where she that's the event I was just talking about, that's where it was.
Yep, in McClare, Iowa.
Hometown of the American Pickers, history camp.
Okay, so that's where they had the staged Democrat campaign consultant running around and vetting people to come in and look like real ordinary Americans, the whole thing.
That's the place.
Yeah, they um actually called the owners of the coffee shop and uh like the night before about five o'clock and told them she was coming to town.
You know, I was sitting here I can understand that.
I I can understand calling the place and telling the people that run it.
By the way, tomorrow the Democrat presidential candidate's gonna be coming in.
You at least get them ready, but why can't the rest of it be real?
No, I know look.
No, no, it's a serious question.
She's running for president, she's the smartest woman in the world.
All of this pre-pub, what in the world is there to fear?
Why do you have to stage it?
Why do you have to go out and get pretend real People stage the well, they do.
We look, I know the answers to it.
They don't trust her.
But that's my whole point.
Somebody running for president ought to be able to stop in anywhere and talk to people.
Ought to be able to answer any question they got.
I don't care if it's critical, I don't care if it's filled with praise, I don't care if it's hecklers, somebody running for president ought to be able to deal with this.
And they don't even want to chance her in a diner or a coffee shop?
They have to stage that?
I just find it incredible.
I just do.
We'll be back.
Gotta take a break.
Now I think it's kind of weird.
They they give a watch to a 70 year old guy that doesn't even know how to use it.
And why you can't get yours until June or July?
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