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April 17, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 17, 2015, Friday, Hour #2
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Yes, sir, Reebob.
Great to have you back.
Rush Limbaugh Open Line Friday here on the EIB Network.
I just got an email.
Dear Mr. Limbaugh, you've been hosting your radio show for 25 years.
Do you still get nervous?
You still get butterflies?
No.
Performance pressure?
Yeah, every day.
But not butterflies.
Don't get nervous.
Are you kidding?
I'm.
How in the world can I get butterflies and be nervous?
I'm so much better than everybody else.
Why should I even be afflicted?
Get some teeth, people.
Don't send me insulting emails like that.
Go on a diet.
Don't bother me.
How's that?
For those of you in the media just tuning in, that was a parody, tiny little parody, working off of Britt McHenry.
And it's great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, behind the golden EIB microphone.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882.
And the email address, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
Whatever you want to talk about, it's fair and game, fine and dandy.
If you want to play stump the host.
You know, here's it.
Let me give you some ideas.
If you are, if you think you're a smart liberal and you would love to entrap me, go for it.
You think you can trick me into hypocrisy?
Or go for it, Mr. Snerdley, eagerly standing by at 800-282-2882.
So anyway, there's this story on Drudge.
The headline here is shock Michelle O. Lunch at school.
So I clicked on the link.
And the link is from eagnews.org, Kyle Olson, founder.
P.S.
I do not know Britt McHenry, he says.
He doesn't say that.
I just added that.
Kyle Olson is the founder of the Education Action Group in 2007.
And here's, there's a picture.
It's not big enough for me to print with any quality and show you on the ditto cam, but it is yuck.
It looks like a yellow lunch tray made out of the stuff that egg cartons are made out of.
It may not be, it may be plastic.
I don't know, but it's an egg yolk yellow that looks like the same material egg cartons are.
And three up, it's got five different areas in the tray where five different foods or whatever could go.
And three are empty.
It looks like in the upper right-hand corner, something like brown rice or something close to it, ground soybeans, who knows?
But the real mystery is what the heck is in the entree section, which is the largest section.
Honestly, folks, it looks like one half of a fish.
It looks like I can see the scales or the bones there with the head still on it and a dark brown something or other on top of it, like an oat bran roll or something.
I mean, it's just yucko.
And you think insect dressing made out of ground beetles and crickets?
Yeah, well.
It's anyway, it's from Portsmouth, Virginia.
And, oh, here it is.
It is fish.
Oh, no.
He starts the story.
That's not really a fish fillet with a whole wheat bun resting on top.
Your eyes are playing tricks on you.
That's what administrators at Virginia's Portsmouth Public Schools want parents to believe after a mother took a photo of her child's poultry screw lunch and put it on social media.
The mom says that this was the lunch served at James Hurst Elementary on Tuesday.
After the photo began circulating around the community, food service coordinator Jim Gellhoff admitted the lunch concerns us, but added it might not actually be as bad as it looks.
He says poor lighting and food presentation make this lunch unappealing.
That was a statement to the media.
And he says that this lunch is in full compliance with the federal lunch rules championed by First Lady Michelle Mybel Obama.
The meal in this photo and other meals served by Portsmouth Public Schools meet nutritional and USDA requirements, according to the food service coordinator.
Anyway, so it's not a fish fillet with a whole wheat button.
Well, then what is it?
And if this was a fish fillet, this is the ugliest, the most unappetizing look, whatever it is, there's no way your average ordinary American school kid is going to eat this.
They're going to make tracks for the fastest, the nearest vending machine they can find if there is one.
What?
What are you laughing at in there?
You looked at it, you're looking at it.
Okay, you're agreeing it's disgusting.
Okay, good.
It really is.
And this is not the first we've heard of this, folks.
We have heard of kids complaining about school lunches ever since Michelle took this program over years now.
And we've heard story after story, kids refusing to eat it, and they've had to put vending machines in to take the lunches out.
And even the kids who ate it were not having their hunger sated.
It wasn't nearly enough.
You know, Michelle's on his health kick, which is typical of all of these cradle-to-grave nanny-type liberals.
You as a parent do not know what's best for your kid.
You don't know how to raise your kid right.
You certainly do not know how to properly feed your child.
And Michelle Obama and the government are going to do it for you and not going to give you any choice in the matter.
And these stories continue to be reported.
Oh, speaking, let's go to the other end of this.
Shall we go to the other end of this?
From the Daily Caller, headline, Professor, black college students are fat because of racism.
That's right.
Black college students can become fat and overweight and in bad health because of racism, according to a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill psychology professor.
The professor is Enrique W. Neblet Jr.
And he made the claim during a guest lecture at the University of Georgia, according to the red and black.
That's the student newspaper UGA.
Neblette's Monday lecture was entitled Racism-Related Stress and Mental Health, a study of African-American college students during the transition to young adulthood.
And college students, according to Professor Enrique Neblet Jr., are especially at risk because you see, when African-American youths are going to college and leaving home, the parents are no longer right there.
Do you know that is unique to African-American families?
It is.
When African American youth leave home and go to college, their parents are no longer right there.
And Professor Neblett points this as a unique aspect of African American life.
I know what you're thinking.
No kids' parents are right there when they go away to college.
But that would be racist to point that out.
So we must button our lips and not go there.
The professor explained that he conducted a study relating to the special phenomenon of black people gaining weight when they go off to college with a cohort of generally healthy black students around 21 years of age.
This is a special phenomenon of black people gaining weight when they go to college.
White people apparently do not gain weight when they go away to college, except for that group of college women who gain 15 pounds while there.
I've seen that number bandied about.
It's a scientific number, that 15 pounds is what the average female college student gains.
But I guess Professor Neblett threw that out or didn't know about it.
So here's the special phenomenon of black people gaining weight.
He did a special study relating to that group of people when they go off to college, and he compared them to a cohort of generally healthy black students around 21 years of age.
More than half of them were female.
So it is a major, major problem.
African-American, what do you not get?
Why they...
Why they get obese or gain weight when it what does black have to do with it?
You have to ask.
Well, I don't know.
Well, okay.
When African American youth are going to college and leaving home, their parents are no longer right there.
Okay, so that's one.
Well, youth are thinking about their identity and may experience race discrimination for the first time.
I know.
I know.
I know the first, somebody needs to let Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson know about this, that the first time black people encounter racism is when they leave home and go to college.
Go to liberal colleges where the primary subject being taught is women's studies and earth studies science or earth science studies or what have you.
Yep, youth are thinking about their identity and they may experience race discrimination for the first time in their lives when they leave home.
Experiencing racism might lead to compromised health.
For example, some students will cope with the pressure of newly discovered racism by eating fatty snacks.
The professor explained that he conducted a study relating to this special phenomenon of black people gaining weight when they go off to college, and he learned that more than half of them were female.
Neblett said that he measured the fight or flight reactions of his research subjects.
It's not clear how, but based on these responses, Professor Nebblet categorized people based on how their skin color and acts of racism made them feel.
And that led to them gaining weight.
And for some reason, somehow he doesn't detail how it is exclusive to African Americans.
Your host in the news, ladies and gentlemen, audio soundbite time, grab number one Friday.
Let's go back to Los Angeles, where local news can never get it right when they report on me.
Never, ever.
I can't recall the last time local news, particularly LA, got it right.
This is Fox Eyeball News 11 at noon, and they were talking about Dingy Harry's eye injury and his decision not to run for re-election in 2016.
A co-host is Lisa Breckinridge, not to be confused, with Britt McHenry.
And Steve Edwards was a co-host, as well as Marla Tays.
And they had this little chat.
Both radio host Rush Limbaugh and the right-wing Breitbart are suggesting that Reed's injuries are the result of a run-in with a mob beaten up by organized thugs.
The mob hit rumors began within days after Reed's accident at the beginning of the year.
Here's Limbaugh's comment.
I don't believe for a minute that whatever happened to Harry Reid has anything to do with him on an exercise machine unless somebody repeatedly threw him into it.
See, what they don't get, people, that's just funny.
People are watching that.
They're laughing.
They think that is a profoundly insulting thing to say and that people are profoundly offended by it, wherein most people are laughing.
Okay, so you're out there in LA, you're watching Eyeball Fox News at noon on Channel 11.
And one of the anchors says, and here's Limbaugh's comment.
Wow, can you believe this?
I don't believe for a minute that whatever happened to Harry Reed's anything to do with him on an exercise machine unless somebody repeatedly threw him into it.
And they're thinking, how outrageous.
This guy just knows no limits.
He'll just insult people.
And most people are laughing themselves silly.
But the thing is, I never said the mob.
I never said that the mob beat Harry Reid up.
I only posited that an exercise machine didn't.
A lot of other people speculated that it was the mob, but it wasn't me.
But see, I become the stand-in for all of those who say things that insult the left.
I'm just the natural collection point for all of it.
Just throw it at Limbaugh, whether we know if he said it or not.
Now, this next is kind of funny, I have to admit.
Gretchen Carlson.
Yesterday afternoon, Fox News Channel, she is speaking with Guy Benson, who is the political editor at Town Hall.
They're talking about me.
The way they did this is funny.
My recent criticism of the left, and particularly Harry Reid, for name-calling.
And there are two soundbites.
And the first one here is Gretchen Carlson introducing it and playing a clip of me.
Brush Limbaugh calling out the recent behavior of Senator Reed and other belligerent Democrats.
This juvenile high school-like name-calling that we get from Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz and Dingy Harry called Rubio a prune in Tinsel.
That's what Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz called him.
Mika Zhazinski called Rubio a boy.
They call Rand Paul a woman hater.
Now, I will admit that it is funny as hell that they're playing.
Me criticizing Dingy Harry for name-calling while I'm calling them names.
Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz and Dingy Harry.
I do have to admit that was funny the way they did that.
I have to give them, I have to give Gretchen and her crew kudos for that because that was funny.
So next up, it was Guy Benson and his analysis of all this, Gretchen Carlson, with a question.
Between Reed and Rush.
In all due fairness, we should say that Rush Limbaugh has also had his fair share of calling people out with names.
However, if we're sticking to Harry Reid today, wow, I mean, is it because he's outgoing that he's now telling us how he really feels?
All Republican presidential candidates are losers.
Rush Limbaugh, we should point out again, has been known to say some things from time to time and to call some names.
The difference is when he approaches that line or even crosses the line, the country was subjected to a category five civility storm from the media.
Everyone's reaching for the smelling salts.
Oh, this is terrible.
Gnashing of teeth.
He's exactly right.
When I do it, it becomes a DEF CON 5.
Limbaugh has insulted X, DEF CON 5 and his two days worth of media.
And Dingy Harry can lie about Mitt Romney not paying his taxes and call anybody cold.
They never did cover Dingy Harry in his phony story, phony soldier attempt on me, and how that ended up being a profound total embarrassment for Harry Reid.
And they didn't spend any time at all at Harry Reid calling these Republican candidates losers and so forth.
So Guy Benson's right about it.
But I just, I love the juxtaposition there.
I think they did a good, that's a good bit there that they did.
Okay, to the phones, quickly to Mecula, California.
This is Trent.
And Trent, it says you're 12 years old.
Is that right?
Yes, sir.
Well, welcome to the program and Open Line Friday.
What's on your mind?
Okay, so I was sent home on Thursday and Friday with the homeschool project about Earth Day.
Yeah.
And there is a question that I just want your input on.
And it's a charter school, and they teach the Common Core stuff.
And it seems to me that they try to teach Islamic values more than Christian values.
And the question is: do you think we have, do you think we should have a day to celebrate the Earth?
Why or why not?
You're asking me, or did somebody ask you that?
The Packet asked me, but I want your input on it, please.
Oh, you want, okay.
Do you want to know what I really think, Trent, or do you want to know what I think you should say to avoid any trouble?
Yes, sir.
I would like to know what you think.
I think you can celebrate the Earth every day.
I think you can give thanks for the Earth every day.
You can take care of it.
You can act steward of the Earth every day.
To act as though, you know, a single Earth Day, Earth Day, as it has, and as it was established, is a political, quote-unquote, commemoration, holiday.
I don't know if it's a holiday, but it is a political, has a political objective behind it.
And it is rooted in an anti-capitalist political belief.
It is designed to create in minds of young people like you that you in your natural state are destroying the earth, and you must pay attention now to not doing that anymore.
And the way you cannot destroy the earth is to do what Democrat politicians tell you to do and accept all tax increases to fix the damage that you've caused.
And welcome back, folks.
Great to have you with us.
It's Rush Limbaugh on the cutting edge of societal evolution, doing what I was born to do and having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have in the process of happening.
Now, Earth Day, April 22nd, just happens to be Lennon's birthday.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
Earth Day is April 22nd.
Do you know what Lennon's first name was?
Do you know who Lennon is?
Well, yeah, you might.
You might.
Many people in this audience, particularly in the millennials, even know who I mean when I say, yeah, Earth Day is Lenin's birthday.
And then how many people know his first name?
You know his second name?
Do you know his first name?
Vladimir.
Vladimir Ilyich, Vladimir to the, yeah, to the, to the, yeah, to the, yeah, to the unsophisticated Vadimer.
And the middle name is Ilyich.
V-I-Lenin.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Right, exactly.
Like Ernst Stavro Blofeld, it's Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Anyway, it was his birthday.
And that's Earth Day is April 22nd, the first Earth Day celebrated in Central Park 1970.
A million people showed up.
They destroyed the Great Lawn.
I'm not kidding, folks.
It took years for the Great Lawn of Central Park to recover.
And the millennials, much less not know who Vladimir Lenin is, they don't even know who John Lennon is.
Vladimir, by the way, is Russian for Lord of the Earth.
Yeah, Earth Day is a political existence.
The whole point of Earth Day is political.
It's part and parcel of the environmentalist wacko ecosystem.
Okay, folks, it's the end of the week here.
It's Open Line Friday.
And I think now would be a good opportunity to review the week for the campaign of Mrs. Clinton.
We have now five days.
She has five days under her belt.
We have pretty much the same thing.
She announced her candidacy for the presidency last Sunday with a tweet and a video.
The tweet was immediately overrun by a hashtag called Why I'm Not Voting for Hillary.
The video was found to be full of fake everyday people.
She made the claim that her campaign was focused on everyday people and that she was one of them.
And it was learned not too long after that everybody in this video was fake.
They were not everyday people.
They were bought and paid for.
They were vetted.
They were rehearsed.
They are all Democrat operatives or donors or related somehow to one or both.
Her Facebook and Twitter accounts are mostly fake.
Over half of her Twitter followers don't exist.
They are literally fake and made up.
Her Facebook followers have been bought and paid for to the tune of about $38 per follower.
There isn't anything real about her campaign.
There isn't anything genuine about it.
While she's in the midst of setting up this campaign as an everyday ordinary American for everyday ordinary Americans, we are reminded that her daughter Chelsea and her husband are soon to close on a $10.5 million apartment in New York City.
She is being driven around like a queen in a van that she supposedly named Scooby, but it was actually the name the Secret Service gave her car in her Senate campaign.
So that's even being recycled.
Scooby is not new.
She stops at a big donor of the Clinton Family Foundation, a place called Chipotle.
She walks in.
She's running for president.
She's campaigning for the average, ordinary, everyday American.
She walks into a place where said Americans congregate.
She walks in wearing dark glasses, is unrecognized.
She's standing next to her comrade-in-arms, Huma Abidin Weiner.
Neither Hillary nor Huma speak to anybody.
Huma orders for Hillary because, of course, Hillary doesn't deign to actually talk to anybody behind the counter.
They do not leave a tip.
Chipotle has a tip jar.
They do not leave a tip in the tip jar.
They spent a grand total of $21 and ended up letting the outlet keep 50 cents in change.
But it did not go to the tip jar.
At least neither Hillary nor Huma put any money in the tip jar.
And then after that experience, I, El Rushbo, asked the question nationally and publicly if Mrs. Clinton or Huma actually tipped and put any money in the tip jar.
This led to Bloomberg News to conduct an investigation to prove that I had made something and lied about it.
And what they found was that my question was actually correct, that Mrs. Clinton had indeed not put anything in the tip jar.
Bloomberg News was attempting to embarrass me.
Since they had committed themselves to the story, convinced that Mrs. Clinton certainly would have put something in the tip jar, and preparing to write a story on how extremist and mean-spirited I am, they ended up having to write a story confirming that my instincts were right, that Mrs. Clinton nor Huma Weiner had actually tipped the tip jar at Chipotle.
Her first stop in Iowa was with everyday Democrat operatives driven in for the event by her campaign staffers.
And before they arrived, they had been interviewed.
They had been prepared, prepped, if you will.
They had been vetted.
All of these average ordinary Americans who were supposedly just sitting in this diner in Iowa, I think it was Leclerc, Iowa, had actually been bussed in themselves.
They had been found off-site.
They had been interviewed off-site.
They had been rehearsed off-site.
They had been told what to ask Mrs. Clinton off-site.
They were brought in before she arrived to make it look like they just happened to be there on their own.
And then Mrs. Clinton, who just happened to be driving down the road, just happened to stop at this particular diner where there just happened to be some average ordinary Americans.
So Mrs. Clinton just happened to sit down and begin a conversation with them about whatever.
We learned later the whole thing was arranged and set up and rehearsed.
She told a story that all of her grandparents were immigrants when all but one were actually born in America.
They parked her van in a handicap zone while Huma and Hillary went in somewhere to do something together.
We don't know what.
And when they were called on this, no, we didn't park.
We were idling.
And if anybody who had come along actually handicapped, who had needed that space, we would have gladly moved Scooby out of the way.
But it did not mask the fact that the Clinton campaign, spying a handicapped zone, zeroed in right on it and parked there.
We also Observed that Bill Clinton was nowhere to be seen.
Bill Clinton was nowhere in the vicinity.
Bill Clinton didn't say anything the whole week.
He didn't show up anywhere in public the whole week.
He wasn't by his wife's side when she was in Iowa at all of these fake events, leading people to speculate why.
And of course, there wasn't any definitive answer, so it was wide open for speculation.
We still have an entire weekend to go before the first full week of Hillary's campaign wraps up.
Oh, by the way, two little interesting notes.
Look at this story from theHill.com.
Do you remember back in the 90s, ladies and gentlemen?
Well, some of you might not.
I have to keep reminding myself of this.
Some of you who are millennials or who were just not born yet or too young to remember, during the 90s, everybody was aware that Bill Clinton lied.
They marveled at it.
The press was aware he lied.
They thought he was the best liar to ever come down the pike.
In fact, Clinton was so good he could keep track of his lies.
He remembered the lies that he told, which is far better than most liars ever are able to do.
And the real test of a good liar is: does the real good liar remember the second lie?
There's always a second lie to cover up getting caught telling the first one.
I'll give you an example in a moment.
The media back in those days literally marveled at how Clinton was able to get away with lying so smoothly, such as, I never had sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky, not a single time, never.
And I have to get back to work for the American people.
They just marveled.
Everybody knew it was B.S., but they marveled.
In fact, so many members of the press marveled.
There were stories in the 1990s about how lying is actually good for us.
Little white lies, the kind that Bill Clinton told, actually served a purpose.
They spared people hurt feelings.
They facilitated progress.
There were actually all kinds of stories about how telling lies was actually good for people and good for society.
And so, given that, here's a story from thehill.com called The Politics of Tipping.
And this is a story about how really unimportant it is now.
Right on the heels of Mrs. Clinton being caught, the tight wad.
Do you tip at fast food restaurants?
It's an ethical dilemma.
Thrust into the 2016 spotlight when Hillary Clinton left an Ohio Chipotle without leaving a tip.
When to tip can be a difficult decision, but it is especially tricky if you're running for president.
Charles Wright, the manager of the Maumee Ohio Chipotle, told Doomberg that Clinton left no change in the tip jar after paying her bill, which came out to $20.
Yeah, we get a bunch of tips, Wright.
A Republican voter said of his store, if we're doing our job right, people tip.
Now, note that theHill.com here insists on claiming Wright is a Republican, even though Bloomberg deleted that claim from their report.
The story shows, back to the story, the story shows how every step taken by a presidential candidate will be heavily scrutinized by an ever-present media determined to find something to write about.
Strategists say the episode shows the spotlight will shine especially bright on Clinton, even in the most mundane situations.
So we have a story here about the relative unimportance of tipping right on schedule.
Mrs. Clinton caught in the middle of being a tight watch, just like her husband caught lying every time he opened his mouth.
We get stories about lying is good for us.
Now we have stories about how tipping, not that big a deal, doesn't matter.
Fast food place, what the hell?
Get over it.
And I also was advised of something I was unaware of last night.
American spectator Jay Homnick, I got to take a break, but it's about Mrs. Clinton and her lie that she was named after Edmund Hillary.
Don't go away.
We'll be right back.
For those of you watching the Ditto Cam, do you see what's on my computer monitor behind me?
That is a blown-up zoomed-in photo of the school lunch in question that we were talking about today.
And it's highlighted on the front page of the Drudge Report.
Now, I just printed that out, and I'm going to show you on the Ditto Cam here in a minute.
I want to move my microphone boom out of the way for just a moment so that you can see what I thought in a standard resolution photo looked like brown rice is actually the ugliest, yuckiest, dry corn I have ever, ever seen.
That's what that is.
If you can see that now that I've moved.
Now, let me grab, I'm going to reach behind me here.
I'm going to grab the thing that I just printed out.
I'm in the process here.
This is not going to be the best, but I don't have a video switcher, so I just got to zoom in here to show you that.
I'm zooming in right now.
Okay, turn the ditto cam on, and there it is.
That, I don't know what that is.
It looks like fish.
Your guess is as good as mine.
Snake, it looks scaly.
It's gray.
And that, I don't know what that, up close with a lot of light, that looks like a brown, like rye bread roll or something.
And that is corn.
That is the yuckiest, and that's it.
That's all that's on that tray.
Nobody would eat this.
A homeless person wouldn't.
This wouldn't be served in a soup kitchen.
And this is the Michelle Obama school lunch guidelines responsible for this.
It's just yucko out there.
I thought this is rice, pilaf, or brown rice or what have you, and it's not.
It is the driest, yuckiest, ugliest looking corn.
Now, one thing about Mrs. Clinton, yesterday I told you a story, and it was true that Mrs. Clinton said that she had been told that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, who climbed Mount Everest.
The problem is he didn't climb Mount Everest for seven years after she was born.
She was seven years old when he climbed Mount Everest.
Before that, nobody knew who he was.
He's from Australia.
Nobody knew who he was.
But she was in Australia and she met him when she was 75.
So she just told a lie on the spot.
She told him, my mother was so enamored and so proud of you that she named me after you so that I would be inspired like you did to seek and climb new heights all throughout my life.
And of course, he didn't know any better, so he ate it up.
It was a total lie.
I got a note last night from Jeff Lord, the American spectator, who told me that Jay Homnick, one of the editors there, had written a piece about this nine years ago or seven years ago.
I forget which bottom line is.
I did not know this.
Hillary, this is an example, the second lie.
At some point after Hillary lied to Edmund Hillary about being named after him, she was called on it.
And her answer was that her mother lied to her.
That's the story that Jay Homnick wrote.
Threw her own mother under the bus.
The story is Lie, Lady, Lie, American Spectator.
And we'll link to it at rushlinbaugh.com so you can't that long a story.
But the point is that Mrs. Clinton, in order to save herself, threw her own mother under the bus and told her that it was the best of intentions.
Her mother lied to her about being named after Edmund Hillary so that she would be inspired to keep climbing and keep seeking new heights.
It was a well-intentioned lie.
It was an attempt to motivate a daughter by a mother, but nevertheless, and Hillary didn't know it because she was so young when she was first informed who she'd been named after.
But when she finally learned about it, she had to admit that her mother had lied to her.
Now, both of those are lies.
She made the story up talking to Edmund Hillary.
Her mother did not name her after Edmund, did not lie to her about it.
That's an example of the first lie, keeping track of it by telling a second lie.
Brief break at the top of the hour, ladies and gentlemen.
We're going to get back here and focus on phone calls.
Haven't gotten enough in today, and it's Open Line Friday, so I need to make up for that.
So we'll do that when we get back sooner than you know.
So don't go away.
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