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May 26, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 26, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Still, after 26 years, Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations daily.
And doing it with a good cheer and a good mood most of the time.
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It's going to happen soon in this hour.
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Why living on a main road could be making you fatter?
That's our latest installment in Health News today.
It is from the UK Telegraph, which by the way had the exclusive on Johnny Ive of Apple.
That he is being promoted now to chief design officer.
He's only the third C member in the executive club at Apple.
There's the CEO, the CFO, and the chief of design.
That's Johnny Ives.
There's all kind of speculation about what that means.
But they broke the story in the telegraph with a comedian writing it.
And it's the same source for this story.
Different guy, not the same reporter.
This is Sarah Kennapton.
Living near a main road causes people to gain weight, with the risk of obesity doubling for homes that are also under a flight path or near a railway.
Researchers believe that the stress of traffic din, that'd be noise for those of you in Rio Linda, may raise stress levels to the point where the body starts laying down more fat because it thinks it's heading for a time of crisis when food may be scarce.
So the way they want you to think here, you live near an airport, you're underneath the flight path, uh, either arrivals or departures, departures probably worse because they're noisier.
And you also near a main road, lots of traffic, maybe a main railroad hub.
All of that noise causes stress that your body interprets as we might be coming up on times where there's not much food around, and so therefore your body starts storing rather than using what you eat as energy for the hard times to come.
All because you live near traffic.
All because you live near an airport.
Normal traffic noise about 45 decibels, but for every five decibels above that.
For example, it is recommended that you listen to this program at least 800 decibels.
And if you're really going to get it, you have to have your volume turned up to 800 decibels.
That means 45 decibels is chump change.
Normal traffic noise around 45 decibels, but for every five decibels above that, the average homeowner gains an X an extra two centimeters on their waist measurement.
It's impossible to not gain weight given the way our culture is and every there's an excuse for everything.
So now if you happen to be tending to obese, or you are obese, it's overweight, you have a built-in excuse.
There's too much noise where you live.
Why couldn't the noise of the television set accomplish the same thing?
I mean, traffic noise, airplane noise, all kinds of noise on TV.
Anyway, I just wanted you to know, it's just the latest uh health update.
Uh, did you know maybe that uh we are whipping horses too much now?
In horse races, that's uh that's right.
The Wall Street Journal as American Phao stormed down the stretch in a Kentucky Derby, the jockey Victor Espinoza urged his mount to pass stubborn rivals firing line and Dortmund.
It worked, but the repeated use of the whip raised one of horse racing's ugliest issues.
Espinoza appeared to strike the horse more than 30 times.
The hard ride surprised even some seasoned observers.
Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron said, Yeah, I don't know that a jockey's hand Should be tied to any degree on the other side, though.
I couldn't believe my eyes.
At least the horses don't get concussions.
Can we at least grant that?
I mean, it's not like they're playing in the NFL or anything.
This is it.
You watch, it isn't going to be long before this becomes a mainstream issue, and the next horse race you watch on TV, there will be reports.
There will be in-depth studies.
They'll have veterinarians and other experts explain what happens to the horse every time it's struck, how it's damaged psychologically.
No alternative suggestions are given.
It's simply a story on the cruelty to the animal.
Cruelty of urging the horse on to victory because of it being spanked or uh or whipped.
I mentioned the top of the program a funny thing's happening on the way to Obamacare here, and it is a new crisis.
The Democrats are launching a new health care crisis.
And they're launching it just in time for the 2016 elections.
They're framing it as what they're calling a health care under insurance problem.
And the bottom line here is that it seems that many low and middle-income people who eagerly signed on to Obamacare because they thought their premiums would go down 2500 bucks.
I mean, they believed the lies.
Get preoccupied with Bush lying about Iraq.
How do you even begin to compare that to the ongoing, never-ending lies of this administration, which have been truly damaging to the fabric of our culture and society.
But just in this healthcare sphere alone, Obama 23 different times promised people if they like their doctor, no problem.
Keep him like your insurance plan, no problem.
You got it, it's yours.
And your premiums are coming down 2500.
23 separate times it has been logged.
He made that lie.
And so you had people act on it.
I mean, people want to believe the best about their government.
This is just something that I don't think is your average low information group out there.
You're they're just they're always going to want to think the best of their government.
Because in many cases, the government's all they've got.
So here comes a guy, first African-American president, and uh seems to be likable, and he's assuring them 23 different times if they like their doctor, they can keep it.
And all of this was a ruse to get them to sign on.
Obama needed signups.
Obama needed people signing up to Obamacare to create the illusion here that there was a mad dash of love and adoration and interest on the American people's part for this.
So he tells all these lies and he creates all these people that sign up for it.
And they signed up believing their premiums are going to come down, and they signed up believing they keep their doctors or their plans or both.
Now, the new reality is that those people largely make up a group called the underinsured.
And it seems that these people are now facing high costs when they try to use the health care coverage they have.
And you heard right, when they actually use their coverage, ever higher deductibles are creating financial burdens.
The bottom line is, here and here's how it's written in the AP.
A different health care issue has emerged for Democrats, in sync with the party's pitch to workers and middle class voters ahead of next year's elections.
What is this?
A different issue has emerged.
Nothing's emerged here.
It's always been there.
It's just now been discovered because it's affecting people, because all of these, all of these realities were delayed or waived until after the 2014 election, and in some cases, even a 2012 midterms.
All of the really bad parts of this law were deferred for five, six years.
Now they're beginning to be implemented.
And people who signed up on the basis of Democrat lies Are finding they cannot afford the deductible.
Therefore they can't afford the policy that they've got, can't afford to use it.
They've got Obamacare, and Democrats saying, yeah, a new issue has emerged here.
And it's just so far, it's just in sync with the party's pitch.
The Democrats created this mess, and the AP is trying to write a story, not trying, they wrote a story, claiming that an anomaly in Obama is surfacing at just the right time for the Democrats to fix it and be seen as once again the party of the little guy.
The Democrat Party seen as the party that cares.
They created the problem.
This takes me off on a tangent here, but I'm going to bring this back and relate it to this.
Because the question becomes we know the truth here.
We know that AP is not writing the truth.
We know that they're purposely avoiding the truth.
We know the AP is trying to cover up for the Democrats and a horrible, stupid, incompetent mistake that they made, or a mistake they made due to their own incompetence.
It created a health care bill with underinsured people who cannot afford the deductible.
The deductibles rose for predictable reasons.
The high deductible was part and parcel of the plan.
It's not an accident.
There's nothing here that happened that nobody didn't anticipate.
Not this stuff anyway.
Well, let me jump over here for one other thing, just to make a point, because the media is lying to people about this.
Let's go to Hillary and Libya.
Now, we all know about Mrs. Clinton's email snaffos, and we all know about her problems, and we all know about Hillary's genuine general incompetence as Secretary of State and the fact she didn't achieve much, and the fact that all of the relevant emails have supposedly been deleted and are gone is evidence of this, we think.
Okay, so how do we nevertheless tie Mrs. Clinton to the boondoggle that's Libya?
Benghazi's in Libya, for those of you in Rhea Linda, and that's a boondoggle.
It was a disaster, four Americans dead.
An attack, a terror attack that was known to be a terror attack in advance of its happening, which was lied about and blamed on a video, if you recall.
Okay, so how do we overcome the media and get the truth to people?
I mean, this woman wants to be the next president.
People deserve to know the truth about this.
Not that she's some savior, not that she's some brilliant sectorary state, but she was a disaster.
Well, the American media is not going to do it.
The American media is not going to cover Libya as a post-Hillary disaster.
But it is, just like Iraq is a post-Obama disaster.
The Middle East is an Obama disaster.
Okay, but the media, of course, is not going to say so.
Now, what you generally need in the media to persuade people or to call people's attention to something is pictures.
Pictures are needed in order to attract and hold people's attention.
If the media flooded the zone with before and after Hillary pictures of Libya, be you know, pictures of Libya before Hillary, pictures of Libya after Hillary, pictures of Benghazi and our consulate there before Hillary, pictures after.
If they did that as if she were a Republican, then you could agree with me they would have a deleterious effect on it, right?
But they're not going to do that.
Precisely for that reason.
If they showed the emails from Hillary's team praising her for her ownership of Libya within a picture of Benghazi, it would negate whatever these phony emails praising her are.
None of that's gonna happen.
My suggestion is this.
The second best way to focus the people of the United States on Hillary's Libya disaster, and it's it's gonna require the Republicans to play.
I mean, we in conservative media cannot ourselves do it alone.
Republicans are gonna have to play, they're gonna have to participate.
Republicans should note that Hillary's most significant accomplishment as Secretary of State is Libya.
The word Libya must be tied to Hillary Clinton.
People are asked to list Hillary's accomplishments as Secretary of State, and they don't know what to say.
Remember that focus group that we had?
They have a kind of the slightest idea.
Okay, that's when Republicans come in and tell them Libya, Libya is a great example of what Mrs. Clinton did as Secretary of State.
Really?
Yeah, Libya.
Take a look at it.
And do it without any irony.
Libya is Hillary's most significant accomplishment as Secretary of State.
No smirk, no smile, just say it and move on.
I keep saying it.
Just link Libya to Hillary since the media's got- Well, it's the same thing here back to this Obamacare story.
We now have an absolute disaster for people who believed everything they were told about it.
The media is now still lying to cover up for Obama and writing about what a great opportunity the Democrats have here.
And it's just amazing that this opportunity happens to surface so near the 2016 election cycle.
You see, it's not the uninsured, but rather the problem of high out-of-pocket costs for people already covered.
The Democrats are calling it underinsurance.
So the AP is reporting as the Democrats have discovered a problem.
They've already named it, and since they care so much, they're already working on fixing it.
When instead, the truth is people are in this predicament precisely because they believed a bunch of lies, the Democrat Party from the president on down told them about what their health insurance is going to be under Obamacare.
After paying premiums, many low and middle income patients still face high costs when trying to use their coverage.
And there's now growing concern, it says here, oh, I'm sure.
Growing concern that the value of a health insurance card is being eaten away by rising deductibles.
The amount of actual medical costs that patients pay each year before coverage kicks in.
Well, folks, you who listen regularly here and who have been brainwashed, you know that these high deductibles were built in as a trick.
It was how Obama was able to theoretically on paper lower the overall cost of a policy.
But they didn't tell you that you're out of pocket and your deductible were gonna triple until after you'd signed up.
And then subsidies are not just an option, they're a damn requirement.
Hello, Supreme Court case.
Baghdad Jim McDermott, Democrat Washington, congressional leader on health care.
Yeah, I think this is going to be the next big problem.
We got some 17 million more people covered, but they can't access the care that they're that they're entitled to.
It just costs too much to use the care.
That's a deceptive part of it.
Well, who did this, McDermott?
The limbaugh theorem, once again on display.
Democrats wringing their hands, they've just discovered something, some evil force, invisible force trick pulled on them, and they're just now discovering it.
It's a damn good thing they discovered this trick to save the little guy, and they're on the case when they are responsible from the beginning.
And we get to the phones.
This is Robert in Coronado, California.
Really glad that you called Robert.
Great to have you with us today.
Hi.
Oh, hi, Rush.
Um, I share a hometown with Paul Tibbetts.
Quincy, Illinois, who uh was the pilot of the Enola Gay.
And I think in that vein, um if we're gonna try to honor people who ended wars.
I would start with probably Harry Truman as my uh the first honoree.
And then maybe even like the crew of the Enola Gay would be right up there.
Yeah, this is great.
Robert, I have to applaud you.
This is great thinking.
What he's reacting to, folks, is a story in the uh in a relatively new left-wing child left-wing website called Vox called it's time it and they ran it yesterday on Memorial Day.
It's time that we have a holiday to honor those who try to stop wars, too.
They're not thinking of guys that drop bombs on the enemy to win the war.
That'd be great.
They'll just throw Harry Truman at them and Paul Tibbetts the guy that flew the Yanola Gay is exactly right.
And then the whole team that worked on uh the development of the nuclear bomb.
You know, put them up there too.
Honor them.
I mean, just go whole hog with this.
But that's not what they're thinking, as you know.
They're thinking of people like Tom Hayden and Abby Hoffman and uh typical the anti-war global peace march uh anti-nuclear disarmament or what have you.
Uh but they they mean war protesters, and I don't think that they would think of Harry Truman as a protester, but I love your idea.
Thank you, Russ.
You bet.
So he was speechless.
I know this happens.
It's a caller calls and a host praises them and agrees with them, and they don't know what to say.
They're just so moved.
And I I totally relate and understand it.
Folks, I have learned something from the New York Post and an editorial of all things.
We've been discussing here off and on over the past several weeks the really focused effort by the left to raise the minimum wage, particularly in the state of Washington,
where we had a story where a number of restaurants are actually closing because the minimum wage is being raised arbitrarily to $15 an hour, and they simply can't afford to stay in business.
It turns out this may be the actual intention.
Stand by.
And we're back.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
People see that I have an Apple Watch and they ask me, do you like it?
They say, no, I'm just wearing it because I have one and you don't.
No, of course I like it.
I'm a little surprised.
I like it more than I thought I would.
You know what a real test is?
I ask somebody else who has one.
I said, could you take it off?
Would you miss it if you weren't wearing it?
Yeah, I would.
And I'm pretty much the same way.
It does come in handy for a few small things.
It doesn't replace anything.
It's a it is an added convenience in uh like a taking the dogs out.
I don't have to take the phone with me.
Uh just little things uh like that.
Golf courses I've mentioned.
I've I ran across a funny, a new weather app called Carrot, Carrot 5, and on the watch, if it's sunny, it'll send you a message like, you could get skin cancer today, lots of sun.
It just takes all this political correctness and just throws it right at the user.
It just mocks it, which I just find entertaining as it can be.
I love anything that takes shots at political correctness unapologetically.
Okay, the New York Post editorial spilling the truth on the fight for a $15 minimum wage.
And they they opened by saying, Did the New York Times just inadvertently tell us what the real goal of the raise the minimum wage campaign is?
A Times editorial last week cheered Los Angeles' enactment of a $15 an hour minimum wage, but noted that restaurants, particularly fast food restaurants do not like it.
Said the Times, the restaurant industry will not go down without a fight.
We didn't think that bringing down an entire industry was what the campaign for a $15 minimum wage was supposed to be about, but maybe it is.
Back in March, we noted that a similar raise in Seattle's minimum wage was leading to a whole bunch of local restaurant closings.
You remember that story, folks?
There was like 11 of them, I think, that announced they couldn't absorb an arbitrary minimum wage of $15 an hour.
Now, a lot of liberals think that any business, large business, small business, they believe that all businesses are amazingly wealthy.
They think that all businesses cheat on their taxes and have fake, fraudulent, Phony deductions.
They think that all businesses cheat their employees.
They think that all businesses have a stash or a pile of money somewhere that the owner is saving and keeping for himself instead of paying a fair wage to his employees or lowering his prices for his customers.
They don't have the slightest bit of understanding of markets and how they work because they're opposed to capitalism.
And their prejudice is that it's all fixed, it's all rigged, and all capitalists are criminals and suspects.
So they believe raising a minimum wage is simply a way of enforcing fairness.
Since they believe intrinsically that small businesses on purpose underpay their employees.
Not just small businesses, they make all businesses.
Purposely underpay, purposely offer few benefits.
I mean, they just have a general overall negative image of business people.
And don't forget what they also believe this component that there is a stash of money that every business has.
By definite a business is rolling in dough.
By definition.
And the owners at Cheapskate, who is hoarding all that cash for himself.
So we're going to raise the minimum wage because they can afford it.
Obama, he believes the golden goose is always going to be there and always going to be golden and always going to be fat.
Most liberals do.
Most liberals think it's impossible to destroy the golden goose because the rich are the rich and they take from the poor, and that's how they stay rich, and we can't get rid of them.
So what they try to do is come up with new laws that take money away from the rich, either new taxes or things like the minimum wage, because they intrinsically believe that businesses are unfair, mean spirited extremists who are trying to screw their employees and their customers.
And in some cases, actually kill their customers.
Like Big Pharma and Big Tobacco and Big Alcohol.
They're out to actually kill their customers.
So here comes this mandatory minimum wage, 15 bucks an hour, and a bunch of restaurants in Seattle have announced we don't have it.
We can't stay in business.
And the Times writes of that the restaurant industry will not go down without a fight.
The point here is that in the Seattle story, the Seattle minimum wage increase was leading to all these local restaurant closings because labor costs account for 36% of the average restaurant's earnings, labor costs.
Case in point, a place called Z Pizza, one of the restaurants that has to shut down, putting all 11 employees out of work because its owner cannot afford a minimum wage of $15 an hour.
The owner says that she tried layoffs, she tried cutting hours, she tried raising prices, she tried even not paying herself.
None of it worked.
She has to close.
The New York Post editorial asks the question, is this really what the objective is?
Because we know, if you've paid attention, you know, that the left hates fast food.
They hate Mickey D's, they hate Burger King, they hate all of these fast food joints.
They despise Chick-fil-A.
Oh my God, folks, do they hate them?
They hate Carls Jr.
You know how I know that?
When I moved to California in Sacramento in 1984, the second day I was in town, the consultant who hired me, Norman Woodruff, who I loved.
He was just a unique, unforgettable figure, to whom I owe much.
But I remember one day I showed up in a pair of slacks and a and a sweater with no shirt, you know, just a V-neck sweater with no shirt.
And he pulled me aside.
Unacceptable attire, sir.
Unacceptable attire.
So what's wrong with it?
Natural fibers.
We wear natural fibers in California, wearing polyester slacks.
And he was serious.
And he said, nobody wears a sweater without a shirt.
Now go home and change.
Put on a tie and get back here.
I had to do that.
And when I got back in the newsroom that a TV on, a commercial came on for Carl Jr.
Never.
Once you become known, once you become a star, he'll never ever be seen in a Carl's Jr.
So why not?
Because they are a well-known contributor to right wing causes.
He was half serious.
Well known contributor to right wing causes.
I remember the first time I saw a bathroom with a kid's urinal in it.
Basically five inches off the floor was in Sacramento.
I said, What the hell is this, Norm?
He followed me in there to show me make a point.
He said, You won't have to Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan's OSHA requires us to put in toilets for children.
I said, Is this Reagan's fault too?
The tiny urinal five inches off the floor?
Exactly right, sir.
Learn it.
Love it.
Live it.
Okay.
Anyway, we know the left hates fast food, bottom line.
And maybe this is what the objective.
Maybe they can't force them to shut down, but they can force them out of business with minimum wage laws, they can't stay in business.
I wouldn't put it past them.
I hadn't even stopped to consider it, but I wouldn't even put it past them.
Quick timeout.
Back with much more after we get back.
Get back.
Do not leave.
No, no, I know that OSHA was started by Nixon.
I'm telling you that Norm Woodruff told me that Ronald Reagan was responsible for the for the miniature urinals in in in uh uh well, not miniature, but the closer to the ground urinals in men's bathrooms, public bathrooms, that the Reagan administration came up with that requirement.
I'm just telling you what I was told.
I don't know if he's right or not.
I don't care.
But I'm just telling you what he told me.
Snitpickers couldn't have been Reagan had me Nixon, Nixon did OSHA.
Well, OSHA's added all kinds of regulations since.
At any rate, uh yeah, it's got all this what's happening with the police departments all over this country.
You see what happened in Baltimore yesterday.
This is this isn't let's look at Cleveland.
Cleveland police say 71 people arrested overnight in protest.
This is dated May 24th.
This is a couple days ago from Reuters.
Some 71 people arrested in Cleveland overnight during protest that flared after a police officer was found not guilty in the shooting deaths of an unarmed black man and a woman following a half-speed chase in 2012.
The cop said on Sunday.
Protests are mostly peaceful.
After the judge's verdict was announced on Saturday, police chief Calvin Williams said.
But later in the day, some people crossed the line, assaulting bystanders in a downtown restaurant area, briefly blocking a major highway, and disrupting bidness at a shopping center.
Now, Reuters and the AP and the rest of the drive-bys always make sure to mention race if white cop kills unarmed blacks.
But in this case, the articles fail to mention the races of the protesters who assaulted the innocent bystanders.
Try to guess why, folks.
Videos of the assault show blacks attacking whites.
But one of the things, I think at Cleveland, the reason that this thing was quelled real fast is because the cops immediately began arresting people.
And so the protest was brought under control in short order.
Now, that's not happening in a lot of police departments across the country because of new DOJ guidelines.
When the protesters kick up, the cops are told to back off and practically be invisible and let them get it out of their system.
Because any show of force by the cops is going to be provocative and it's going to make things worse.
This is what the regime preaches.
This is what liberalism is teaching us.
The cops are the problem.
The cops are the reason they're protests.
Cops' presence during protests make the protests violent.
But in Cleveland, they went in, they started arresting people right off the bat and shut this thing down.
Pretty much.
That, of course, is not being reported in that context either.
Now, New York Times story about Cleveland.
Cleveland has reached a settlement with the Justice Department over what federal authorities said was a pattern of unconstitutional policing and excessive use of force people briefed on the case said today.
Isn't it amazing what is unconstitutional and what isn't these days?
But the bottom line here.
And let me read something from the bottom of the New York Times article.
For Cleveland, a settlement with the Justice Department averts a long and costly court fight and the appearance that city leaders are resisting change.
So this is how they do it.
Make take the Justice Department take steps to make the local cops look guilty and promises them relief by saying if you just sign under what we want to do, we'll make it look like you're not resisting change.
And this is how the federal government is taking over police department after police department all over this country.
In major Democrat urban areas, but not alone.
Not exclusive to Democrat urban areas.
And the danger here is that the Obama administration's theory on policing is going to lead to look at Baltimore.
You take the cops off the street under the premise that they're the problem.
You make them retreat.
Whenever protests spring up, the cops have to back off and let them have at it for a while.
Otherwise, they're even madder.
You provoke them and they do even more damage.
And the unspoken message is that it's the police who are to blame.
It's the police department's fault.
And the DOJ has to go in and reconstitute these police departments.
And put restrictions on them.
It basically handcuffs them.
From the Daily Caller, with 27 shootings this weekend.
Baltimore sees its most violent month this century.
Now that's 15, 16 years, because it's a new century.
But still, Baltimore has seen 27 shootings and eight deaths so far over the Memorial Day weekend, as the month of May promises to be the most violent the city has seen this century.
Actually, this article, when it was published, was soon to be out of date because the latest figures are now 28 shootings and nine homicides over the Memorial Day weekend, which brings the total of homicides for the month of May to at least 35.
This is after fixing the Freddie Gray problem.
This is after charging six cops with various degrees of murder and manslaughter.
That was supposed to stop the riots.
That was supposed to shut people down.
That was supposed to tell them, okay, we're on your side.
We've heard you.
This is no justice, no peace.
Well, we heard you.
We're doing it.
And instead.
The shootings.
The deaths just continue at a record pace after the fix.
And make no mistake, charging six cops with various degrees of murder and manslaughter was a fix.
It was supposed to quell the rights.
Even Dershowitz understood this when he was talking about what a lousy job Mosby did, the DA there, state's attorney there.
This is clearly to quell the riots.
I don't think it was alone to quell the riots.
I think there was also genuine animus for these cops, but regardless.
Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake said it's disheartening that we are seeing such an increase in violence, especially when we think about the progress that we've made.
We've come too far to have this type of setback.
This isn't a setback.
Setback, what progress?
This is how liberals talk in the midst of a disaster.
You lament what this means for all the progress that you've made.
What progress?
There hasn't been any unless the progress means, yeah, we got our cops off the street, we got the biggest troublemakers, we got the biggest provocateurists, we got the agents off the street, and now our people know the streets are theirs and it's safe, right?
The streets are theirs and it's safe to do what.
This is like calling ISIS a setback.
Setback.
According to Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton, crime in the city has reached levels not seen since 1999.
35 killed in May, 108 homicides for the year in Baltimore, deadliest month May so far, since December 1999, and it's not over yet.
Gotta take a break here, folks, but we'll be back.
Almost half of college graduates expect to be supported by their families.
I saw that headline.
How unusual is that?
Half expect to be supported, somewhat totally all details are coming up.
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