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April 17, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 17, 2015, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Did I not tell you, did I not tell you that Mrs. Clint is boring?
You see the headlines today.
Hillary flies home coach, carries on luggage.
That's exciting.
You're telling me that's fun?
It's Friday, folks.
Let's show you what fun is.
Hang in there.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
What do you mean if I did that?
If I flew coach and carried my own bags, that would be something.
Yeah, maybe it would.
Come to think of it, maybe it would.
Open line Friday.
Stump the host.
Pretend to be me.
For a day, for a moment.
If you're lucky, whatever you want to talk about, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program and the email address, lrushbow at eibnet.com.
So there's Obama right now.
He's...
He's got a joint press conference going with the Prime Minister of Italy, which reminds me I have found an Italian television miniseries called 1992.
And it is uh it's subtitled in English.
It's it's it's a genuine Italian miniseries, 1992, and it's about Italy post 80s, when the 80s were a robust, just roaring economy, and then and in 1992, Italy is in a depression.
The economy's slowing down, and it's about uh politics, it's about the economy, corruption, all kinds of things.
I haven't had a chance to watch a whole lot of episodes of it, but I have so far, I'm intrigued by it.
1992.
I don't know how to tell you to get it, folks, because I frankly don't know how I got it.
And if I did know how I got it, I wouldn't tell you here how I got it.
But I'm sure if you Wikipedia it, you'll find what I'm talking about.
Okay, Britt McHenry, ESPN Sideline Info, babe.
I want you to listen to this audio sound, but here's what happened.
She was somewhere, and the the she your car was towed, and she had to go pick it up from the towing company, and the towing company person with whom she had to interact and pay in order to get her back.
Car back was another woman.
Britt McHenry is a journalist at ESPN, a sideline.
I you know, I must be honest with you, I haven't watched ESPN since the Super Bowl.
Well, it's longer than that.
I haven't watched ESPN since the last time they had an NFL game, which might be a regular season.
So I frankly don't know who this is, other than this one encounter.
And I'm telling you, she is an uppity elitist uh she as she proves an old adage of mine, something that I have maintained on this program since, well, even before I started hosting the program, and it is that women are meaner to other women than men could ever hope to be.
And I'm not denying that some men mistreat women, but man old man, when women girl on girl, woman on woman, you don't want to get in the middle of it.
The jealousy, you know, you guys never see it, but I'll give you an example.
Let's say you're in the mall.
Well, no, I can't use that because I frankly don't know what happens there anymore.
Let's say you're walking down the street and you're with your s well okay.
Let's say you're flying coach.
You're flying coach and you are seated next to your spouse.
You're a guy, you're seated next to your wife or your girlfriend, and across the aisle, boarding the plane after you do, so you see this woman board the plane is this woman that you think is pretty attractive, so you look at her, your wife's sitting next to you, the woman finds Her row, finds her seat, sits down.
What you don't know, because you're too busy ogling the woman, is that your wife is shooting her daggers.
Your wife is looking at her with intense resentment, envy, or hatred, or a combination of the three.
Who does she think she is?
She can't wear that.
She thinks she can get away with worrying me.
She doesn't say a word.
Doesn't say a word, and discovers if you're looking at her, then there's gonna be hell to pay.
But I mean, there's no oh wow, look at that dress.
She looks so good in that dress.
No, who does she think she is looking like that, getting on this airplane?
That's I know this happens.
You can't deny it.
Anyway, so that's just a brief little setup.
Britt McHenry, I guess, I don't know.
Do you know who she is, Brian?
You're an ESPN official.
You don't either.
So none of you know who this woman is.
Until yesterday last night, I had no idea who she was either.
She's a brat.
She is spoiled.
She's mean.
She's rude.
She is class conscious.
Uh she's just she's a reprobate.
So here is the encounter.
It was caught by live leak.
There was a security camera when she went to pick up her car.
And she was obviously anger, her car angrier car had been towed.
And this I hope you're able to hear all this.
Um you probably will.
I I needed close captioning when I watched it to be able to understand what she was saying, but you people who hear normally probably shouldn't have much trouble here.
I'm in the news, sweetheart.
I will do this thing.
That's why I have a degree in working.
Makes me stinking.
Yep, that's how you feel about it.
She's taking people's money.
Do you feel good about your job?
So I could be a college dropout and do the same thing?
You don't?
Maybe if I was missing some speaker with Ireland.
Oh, like Jerry, but they look so stunning.
Trailer coming out of the night.
Okay, were you able to hear all that?
Do I need let me let me read the transcript of what she said?
We never see the woman she's talking to.
It's a security camera looking down at the counter, and all you see is the customer.
And early on in this, Britt McHenry of ESPN learns that she's on video, and it doesn't deter her at all.
Probably excited because she's on TV again.
So she says, I'm in the news, sweetheart.
I will blank blank F bomb sue this place.
That's why I have a degree.
That's right.
I wouldn't work at a scumbag place like this.
Makes my skin crawl even being here.
Yep, that's all you care about, taking people's money.
No education, no skill set.
Just wanted to clarify that.
You feel good about your job.
So I could be a college dropout and do the same thing.
Why?
Because I have a brain and you don't?
Maybe if I was missing some teeth, they'd hire me here, huh?
Oh, like yours, because they look so stunning.
Cause I'm on television, and you're right.
You're in a blank blank F bomb trailer, honey.
Have a nice day.
Lose some weight, baby girl.
Now the woman collecting the fine, paying the money from Britt McHenry was very restrained.
She treated the customer accordingly, said right, yeah, did not rise to the bait.
It turns out that Britt McHenry has been um suspended for a week.
Just a week.
Yeah, I'm a whole big week.
So they've issued a statement, ESPN, purporting to be her apology.
In an intense and stressful moment, I allowed my emotions to get the best of me, and I said some insulting and regrettable things.
As frustrated as I was, I should always choose to be respectful and take the high road.
I am so sorry for my actions, and I will learn from this mistake.
Shortly after the apology was issued, ESPN released a statement saying a McHenry been suspended for a for a week.
And honest to God, folks, I have read several accounts of this in various sports and drive-by media, and damn it, people aren't making excuses for.
Some people, not everybody, but some people are making excuses for her.
Well, you know, she might have been stressed out.
It's not the easiest thing in the world to have to go pick up your car after it's been towed.
I can see how somebody would be stressed.
Now it's just it's amazing.
This woman has no manners whatsoever, doesn't respect anybody, is a total egomaniac.
Let me just ask you, conservative or liberal.
Let's play it again Friday and see what people think.
Britt McHenry, ESPN, conservative or liberal.
I'm in the news street art.
I will do this place.
That's why I have a degree in working.
Yep, that's how you feel out.
Taking people's money.
Do you feel good about your job?
So I could be a college dropout and do the same thing.
Maybe if I was missing some speaker, oh like yours, but they look so stunning.
As I'm on television in your eyes.
What she needs to do is go back to wherever this tow place is and find that woman and personally apologize to her.
Whether there are cameras there or not.
And I don't know if that's even occurred to her.
But this public apology doesn't cut it.
It doesn't mean anything.
I'm going to learn from it.
You should know by now that's not how you treat people.
You know, my dad, my dad told me something I've never forgotten.
He said, you can always know.
You can know a person's character by watching how he treats people who can't do anything for him.
Like flight attendants or anybody, you you can you can tell somebody's character right off the bat by how they treat people who can't do anything for them.
Well, in this, you're you keep you want me to mention Schumer.
I just know you.
You're so New York centric, you can't wait till I mention Schumer.
Okay, so Schumer, I'll do it.
Schumer called a flight attendant a BI itch under his breath.
There, happy.
Well, I'll I will do the whole story.
But but it Schumer gets it's on the shuttle from LaGuardia down to uh down to Reagan National, and he's on there with Kirsten Gillibrand.
And he's on the cell phone.
And they can't push back until he gets off the phone.
It's regs, and he won't get off the phone.
They're asking him to get off the phone.
He says, No, I'm not getting off the phone.
I'm busy.
And she says, the flight attendant says, you've got to get off the phone.
Regs are regs, and he says, I know I can stay on this phone until you close the door.
She says, No.
We cannot push back until you get off the phone.
So he gets off the phone and under his breath, but loud enough to be heard by people, he shouted, well, he said B-I-C.
And uh they pushed back and flew down to Washington and so forth.
Why does that why why is that so exciting to you?
I know, but here you are, right?
I know, I know, right, right, right.
So you it's the hypocrisy angle for you.
Here comes a he's got big lib always lecturing us.
War on women.
It's conservatives and republicans remain-spirited to women.
Don't respect them.
Blah, blah, and then when you see them in action, it's actually those guys who mistreat disrespect women.
And here's a flight attendant who's a hardworking person who can't do anything for Chuck Hugh Schumer except maybe bring him a drink or whatever.
You see how he treats her.
It's the same thing.
It's saying Britt McHenry.
I don't know how Britt McHenry is, 30 some odd, late twenties or what have you.
But the idea that she doesn't yet know how to treat people.
Why is that?
Why does she now have to learn how to treat why is she what is there to learn from this?
What there is to learn from this is what it tells us about her, not how this is a learning experience for her.
We've already figured out She is a reprobate.
She has no consideration for people.
But the thing that she needs to do is run around.
She needs to find that woman and apologize to her face to face.
And I don't even know if that kind of thing occurs to her.
But this is, you know, millennial and other we're told millennials, oh, yeah, we've got to pay attention.
These are the future of America.
Well, we're always going to be able to find examples of bad actors in whatever group of people that we uh create or segregate or what have you.
But I mean, this was this is just how she got hired.
Well, I can tell you how she got hired, but then they would say I'm a sexist.
If I gave you the reason why she got a she clearly didn't get hired because she knows how to work with people.
She didn't get hired because she respects people.
She didn't get re hired because she has any manners.
And her communication spills skills are obviously a little lacking here.
Obviously an elitist obviously thinks that she's better than everybody else.
Because she's on TV, right?
I'm on TV.
Lose some weight baby girl.
Think I could get your job if I didn't have all of my teeth.
I mean, what's this is not even the person that towed her car.
This is just the poor woman collecting the money.
This is not even the person that towed her car, and we still haven't learned why her car was towed.
What happened there?
Who did she not pay?
Or what did she not do?
The result is she park illegal like Hillary did.
But she's not Hillary.
She can't get away with parking Scooby in a handicap zone.
It's just these people they preach to us about how they are the best at everything, the most tolerant.
They're the most respectful.
They're this, they're this.
You get them in their real environment, and they're just mean-spirited superiorists who look down on everybody, and particularly those who can't do anything for them.
Anyway, suspended for a week.
You know, they've they've there's they've they've suspended people over there for three weeks for much less than this.
Yes, but she wasn't on duty when this happened.
She wasn't on duty for ESPN, and as such, Mr. Limbaugh, she wasn't really representing ESPN when this incident happened, and as such, the punishment will not be as strict as it could have been.
Really?
She's out there bragging she's on TV.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh, but nevertheless, she did not represent her employer when she engaged in this conversation with the fat to with the tow truck uh uh collection agency, the woman missing the teeth, the fat woman, she did not.
I mean, that's how people are making excuses for.
This is like, you know, I've been out of work three weeks.
Are you a high school graduate?
Yeah.
But I need a job training center.
Well, what do you think high school was?
What the hell was a job training?
So where do you go now to learn manners?
I think this woman graduated from journalism school at Northwestern, if I'm not mistaken about it.
Anyway, have to take a brief time out.
We'll do that.
We'll be right back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, I remember this incident, but I do not remember her.
But this uh this uh ESPN reporterette is 28, by the way, Britt McHenry is uh 28.
She was at the center of a controversy last season when the Redskins coach, sorry, when the Redskins coach, Jay Gruden called her reporting amateur-ish.
So she was involved with something to do with the redskins that the coach was not appreciative of and called her basically an amateur.
The uh the Sony hack, folks, have you seen that WikiLeaks has put everything from the Sony hack up on their website?
They have digitized everything from the Sony hack so that it is now searchable.
Now I saw that late yesterday afternoon As I was starting to prepare for today's program.
But I didn't search anything.
I didn't go in there and look at anything.
About nine or ten o'clock last night, I started getting emails.
Rush, you are all over the Sony hack.
And I said, What?
Yeah, you are.
You're all over the Sony hack.
One of the things that the uh the summary that WikiLeaks publishes along with the searchable database.
They mentioned that the company, Sony Pictures Entertainment, is practically in bed with the Democrat Party.
And it it it turns out that I am all over this leak because J. Abrams, uh, any number of producers, directors that are participating with the Democrats in fundraising are using my name in their fundraising emails.
And misquotes of supposed insults that I have uh come out with over the years and so forth.
Who would have thought that I would have been involved in this hack?
Let me let me put this in context.
This this behavior by this Britt McHenry woman of ESPN, who is nothing more than a spoiled brat.
Well, maybe more than that, but spoiled brat encompasses this.
Probably a diva.
Well, no doubt a diva.
This is why I spent some time on Monday congratulating Jordan Speeth, young man that won the Masters, and the way he comported himself in victory, and the way uh his character and and everything that's it stood out.
Here's a young man, 21 years old, seven years younger than this woman.
Arguably you would say not nearly as mature.
I mean, 28 versus 21 could be close, but there's not a contest, as it turns out.
Total class, total dignity, humility, everything that you would want in a champion.
Obviously raised well, well mannered, respectful of people, and that's why I mentioned it, because it stood out.
Everybody talks about our culture getting coarser and coarser, and that I I that I think that's true from generation to generation.
There's nothing new, no generations worse than another.
The difference is how much attention reprobates get uh from generation to generation vis-a-vis media.
The media attention focusing on something can make everybody think that it's worse than it's ever been when it's actually the same.
I mean, she's not she's not the first spoiled brat to come along and get a job on TV.
She won't be the last.
Uh and Jordan Spieth is not the first well-mannered, dignified, humble guy to win the masters to come along.
But it the the contrast, this is why I called attention to him.
Because it it is such a a pleasant difference from the normal portrayal and reporting of behavior uh in young generations that we get from today is media.
It's open line Friday.
Always try to take a call in the first hour.
That seldom happens Monday through Thursday.
And I'm gonna start with Lynn and Hotchkiss, Colorado.
I'm glad you called, and it's great to have you here.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, you are wonderful.
I just want to say real quick to Brit, I first uh my husband and I are watching TV and we see her picture first, and I said, A pretty woman.
Look at that woman.
And then I heard what she said, and sad and ugly.
Ugly, ugly and sad.
But um, and my mommy used to say, Pretty is as pretty does.
She is ugly, ugly.
But I got to disagree with you about the lady on the plane, her husband and sending the daggers because she sees a pretty woman.
And I when I see some pretty, my husband and I are together, he he of course will see her first, probably, but if I see somebody, I'll say that that woman is gorgeous.
So not all women are sending daggers to pretty women.
Okay.
Granted, granted, I might have made what some would call a hasty generalization.
Yes.
Okay.
Yes.
And I will be glad to rein that back in and put it.
But let me say, my real point there was that the intensity.
When you Find a woman who did not look you you're very rare.
You let your you let your husband look at a gorgeous woman and tell you Okay?
And and then you begin to discuss it.
And then he starts getting specific about why he thinks she's gorgeous and you still enjoy it?
I'm telling you you're rare.
No, he's smart.
He wouldn't sit there and you know, I think.
Aha.
So you do have a tipping part.
You do have a threshold on this, though.
Yeah, we've been married for 30 years, so we you know it's not it's okay.
But I I get it.
I'm just I'm uh my my my point is that it is women are the are the are the harshest critics of other women, not men.
I agree.
I agree.
But one other thing, too.
If they could punish that Britt McHenry some way to make her work in that gal's job uh for you know about a month, let her walk in her shoes.
ESPN can't do that, but uh I uh I I What that's interesting question.
Now that ESPN could not make that happen.
I don't well, you maybe they could, I don't know.
What do you think is an appropriate punishment?
If any, do you think she should be punished or is she being punished enough by being called out nationally here?
You know what?
She'll never be happy.
She's gonna be punished.
She's even if she becomes rich and famous in her heart, she's sad.
She's a sad person and she's I don't know unless she changes.
What is she sad and unhappy about?
She doesn't have any love.
When you see somebody who's in a lower socioeconomic position and she's missing teeth or she has this job, what uh you know, uh my heart goes out to somebody like that.
What?
I just feel like No, I know.
Why insult somebody?
We're we're taught to love the underclasses.
We're taught to sympathize for them.
They're victims of Republicans, after all.
Yes, yes.
Yes.
No, it's so maybe maybe all this will change, maybe when Brit goes through this.
Um and I do would I think she should lose her job.
That's it's so sad what she did and said to that poor woman.
Well, here's the thing.
This is this is the question the ESPN has to ask.
And by the way, ESPN's not actually a trailblazer in hiring quality, dignified on and off-air people.
Let's be honest about it.
But the thing they have to ask is this who she really is?
Was that was that the real woman when she was picking up her car at the tow place?
Or is the real Brit the nice, loving, adorable whatever she is on the sidelines, reporting what male athletes are doing during competition.
Which is the real one.
But the punishment, there's gonna be a lot of people going back and forth on whether the punishment is uh sufficient.
One week being off the air, that's gonna be torture.
You know, some people live to be on TV.
It's the only thing they want to do.
That, by the way, that is a a characteristic that is, I think, unique to this and the previous generation.
Because there's so much media, there's so many when I was growing up, if you wanted to be on TV, there were three places to go.
ABC, C B S M. I'm talking about nationally, your local station or whatever.
If you wanted to be on TV and you want to do journalism, you had three places to go.
If you wanted to be on TV be an actor, of course, that was a little bit broader universe, but still a very, very small number of jobs overall.
But now anybody with a hobby has a TV network along with it.
So it's it's it's a little easier to get on TV these days.
And it's not a big as big a deal.
For example, being the nightly news anchor at ABC or CBS or NBC is not nearly the big deal it used to be when they were the only three.
And there's another factor.
By the time 630 comes around, most everybody already knows what is being reported at 630.
There's nothing to learn at 630.
So the whole aura of the anchor and uh the mysque and uh only three jobs.
That's out the window now.
As such, a consequence, more and more people have just give anything to be on TV.
And this woman's obviously one of them.
I mean, here she is to pick up her car for have being towed, and the first one of the first things that she wants to tell somebody that she thinks is beneath her is that she's on TV.
I'm not using myself in comparison, because it isn't fair.
I'm a learned quality class epitome of morality and virtue kind of guy.
But I'm also much older and have more life experience.
I can tell you even now, the last thing I would ever do at any time I've never done it was to go up to somebody anywhere for any reason.
Hi, I'm on radio, and you're not, and therefore you're nothing.
Never even would occur to me.
And probably not the most, but it did, it did to her.
Look, there's other stuff out there in the news, folks, and we're gonna take a break here, we'll come back.
If you want to weigh in on this, feel free, but I'm gonna start opening it up.
So the other items in the news that I found interesting today, so we'll come back, get started with all that after this.
And Laurie.
Laurie, great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hey, Ross.
Very good help.
From someone who doesn't matter.
What do you mean, someone who doesn't matter?
Oh, I'm being silly.
I just wasn't uh it just struck a huge note with me.
Um I didn't help all of this, but my dad just died a couple weeks ago.
But one of the lessons that he taught me growing up, um, he was a marketing director for a very one of America's largest savings alone.
And so we would go to gatherings where lots of famous people would be there, and when I would be near my dad, they would fawn over me and tell me how beautiful I was.
But when I would separate from them if they hadn't met me yet, you know, I would blend in with the wallpaper.
And um one of the things I quickly learned was to try to separate from my father and see who would who would be approachable and nice to me before.
Um, and it was quite telling, and it was a lesson that I learned, and he would take me aside actually before this happened, he goes, Don't let this get to your head, you know.
It's just it's just malarky.
And um it really helped me in my life pay attention to everyone and not treat anyone with disrespect.
But yeah, you're you see your father attempted to uh inculcate you with with manners uh and and integrity and so forth.
You know, it really is a a powerful uh statement, I think.
It's a it's a it's a and it's really spot on.
You can tell everything you want to know about somebody by watching how they treat people who can't do anything for them.
Well, using that, I mean, we learn quite a bit here about about uh about Britt McHenry.
Uh but I've I've uh learned a lot of things about life over the course of living it, and I had a great foundation uh in terms of the way the way I was raised.
And I know that everybody, this is just human nature.
Everybody, and this is actually kind of funny in its own way.
Everybody is interested or obsessed somewhere along that scale.
Everybody is interested, cares a little, cares a lot, or is obsessed about what other people think of them.
And so in a situation like you describe, you go someplace with a lot of people, your dad takes you, and when he's with you and you're with him, people treat you with respect and nice when you separate, you find out who the nice people are and so forth.
The mistake people make in this circumstance, or in most circumstances.
The individual thinks that everybody else has it all together and is very confident and has no doubts about anything, and has time to start judging other people, when in fact everybody's just like you.
They're all thinking about themselves.
Everybody in a room is asking themselves what other people think of them.
And if you learn that, it can take you out of this defensive inferior uh place that some people end up being.
And you have a much better way of relating to people when you realize everybody's self-focused, everybody's self-conscious, everybody in a room is wondering what everybody else thinks of them.
But some people don't portray that or betray that, so you think they've got their stuff together, and you let them judge you.
When they when they aren't judging you, you are imagining what they're thinking of you.
And then you start acting accordingly, and you're making it all up.
You're telling yourself a story while they're doing more than likely the same thing.
Now, I grab audio soundbite number 23 Friday.
We have a substitute broadcast engineer here today.
Friday is with us today.
Mr. Mamone is out antiquing again.
Well, his wife is antiquing, and he's with her.
I want you to hear if things don't change in just a few short years, who and what Britt McHenry is going to become.
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say we are America that we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.
That's Hillary Clinton, of course, back on uh April 28th, 2003, when people were she had voted for the use of force authorization in Iraq and then trying to act like she never did and was dissenting against the war, and people were calling her hypocritical, and so she lashed out that was the annual Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner in Hartford, Connecticut.
Folks, this is an important thing that happened yesterday.
The Supreme Court, for like the I don't know, the fifth or sixth time now, is temporarily halting the enforcement of Obamacare's contraception mandate against several Catholic organizations in Pennsylvania.
The ruling was issued actually late Wednesday.
Justice Samuel Alito said the mandate is recalled, depending on response from the federal government.
Government officials have until Monday to brief the court, the Supreme Court has already issued four rulings instructing the government to exempt certain companies or organizations with a religious background, like arts and crafts retailer hobby lobby from the contraception mandate rule.
The court has consistently found every time that the case has come before them, a case, they have consistently found for the freedom of religion over a government mandate.
And the government keeps coming back.
The government refuses to accept these rulings, and they keep challenging and they keep trying to force religious organizations to accept the contraception mandate in Obamacare.
So they're all for five here.
And it's it's one of these things when you hear about it, you say, hallelujah.
It's one of those small pockets, uh, small areas where the regime is being beaten back on a consistent basis.
Now, as I say, the regime keeps coming back.
They keep challenging this, uh, and but they keep losing.
But see, that doesn't matter.
The ultimate word of the court is irrelevant to them.
They're just going to keep pushing and pushing because this is one of the undisclosed primary purposes of Obamacare is to tear apart all of the religion-based, as many of the religion-based foundations that hold our culture and society together.
Because there is a deep resentment.
There is a deep resentment, there's a deep hatred for religious people, particularly Christian religious people by the left in this country, and there's been an all-out assault, and they thought they'd really score points here of Obamacare, health care for all Americans, affordable health care for all America.
And then they promised all this that there wouldn't be any federal funding of an abortion, there wouldn't be any demands that people have religious objections be made to pay for anything to do with abortion.
They lied to their teeth.
And the court keeps beating them back.
This is five times now.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Yeah, I can't even figure out what it is.
I'm looking at a picture of a Michelle Obama sponsored or required lunch at a public school.
In a uh Daily Caller story, or I don't know what it is.
I can't I can't tell you what the lunch is.
It looks like a one-week-old gray piece of fish with the scales still on it.
And some and some brown rice.
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