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July 2, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 2, 2015, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings, my good friends, and welcome back.
We're one of the few outposts of sanity remaining in the country.
Say that happily and sadly at the same time.
I'm happy that we're sane here.
I'm sad we're one of the few places.
But we just keep plugging ahead, folks.
They're lying to us again, big time on the unemployed.
You can't 5.3% unemployment?
Yes.
These guys are really good.
They just keep piling it up.
5.3% unemployment rate, folks.
Man, can you just feel it cooking?
Can you feel it sizzling out there?
This country growing by leaps and bounds.
My God, if you wanted to find a job, your choice is do you get one for 200 grand or 300 grand?
That's how much opportunity there is out there.
That's the choice you've got.
And if you're not aware of that, you somehow have your head in a hole.
Greetings, my friends.
El Rushbo here at 800-282-2882.
We're going to do open line Friday on Thursday today because once again, I've been forced to take tomorrow off the observance of Independence Days tomorrow.
Actually, we can celebrate the birth of the nation twice.
The independence tomorrow and the actual anniversary date, which is Saturday, July 4th.
This is going to be a real problem for the swathful.
Which day do I celebrate?
And in this year, you can do it on both days if you're so inclined.
Ladies and gentlemen, the news today is we've discovered that a whole bunch of leftist activists have been faking events in which they've been discriminated against.
I have details on that coming up for you.
I have a couple serious questions for you I want you to ponder.
As the program unfolds, I'll pretty much lead off with those here in just a second.
Donald Trump continues to dominate the news and the news cycle.
He is not backing down.
So yesterday we got the news.
You know, it's amazing to witness cowardice.
It's just, it's all over the place.
It's right in front of you.
Emmett Smith was a judge, going to be a judge in one of Trump's beauty pageants.
I guess it was Miss USA.
And so Emmett pulled out.
And he doesn't want to be associated with any of this stuff.
Trump said, who needs Emmett Smith?
Judges are easy.
I'll go.
You just got to love this.
You just, who needs Emmett Smith?
He's a loser anyway.
He hadn't been a big name.
And I don't know how he became a judge in the first place.
I'm going to fire the person that hired him.
It's easy to get a replacement judge.
He's talking to Don Lemon on CNN, Don Blackhole Lemon.
And Lemon, Donald, why did you have to say, why did you have to accuse?
My God, Donald, why did you have to accuse the Mexicans of rape?
And so Trump cites the statistics of women being raped.
And Lemon says, yeah, but why do you have to?
And Trump's, well, Don, who's doing the raping?
Somebody's doing the raping, Don.
Did you ever think about that?
You can't have all these reported rapes without a bunch of rapists.
Who are they, Don?
I just don't think we need to go there.
That's right, Don, but I'm going there because somebody needs to go there.
Who are the rapists, Don?
We have it all coming up here on the audio soundbites.
Twitter has created outrage for itself.
You know, Twitter has numerous sewers.
They just, for some reason, they went public and announced that only 49 of their employees are black.
Twitter has a workforce of 3,000 people.
Only 49 are black.
All right, let me get this unemployment stuff out of the way.
It's fascinating.
I just talked about this yesterday or the day before, David Stockman's website, where he assessed the actual U.S. unemployment rate at 42.9% based on the number of labor hours available to be worked at a 40-hour workweek, based on the labor force participation rate, which is the smallest it's been in 38 years now.
We're very, very close to actually 93 million Americans not in the workforce, and they are not counted in the unemployment statistics for the most part.
Most of them are not counted because most of them have been out of work for so long they're no longer looking for work.
And if you're out of work and not looking for any, you don't get counted as unemployment.
And that's the unemployment rate of five, what is it, 5.3%?
Who knew?
Here's the way the AP handles the propaganda chore today.
U.S. employers added jobs at a solid pace in June.
The unemployment rate fell to 5.3%, a seven-year low.
But wages failed to budge.
And other barometers of the job market painted a mixed picture.
Really?
The economy gained 223,000 jobs last month.
And the unemployment rate fell from 5.5% in May to 5.3%, according to the Labor Department.
Can I give you some stats that AP does not report?
And it's the only thing you need to hear.
The only thing you need to hear today, I'm just going to read it to you right from the Bureau of Labor Statistics report.
Total non-farm payroll employment increased by 223,000 in June.
This non-farm business is a confusing thing.
It's a throwback to when we were an agricultural economy, and they just haven't changed the term.
But just the non-farm payroll employment, that's just the number of jobs created in a month.
And AP reported it here at 223,000.
So let me start again.
This non-farm gets in there confuses people.
Let me just leave that out.
Starting again in 3, 2, 1.
Total employment increased by 223,000 jobs in June, and the unemployment rate declined to 5.3%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
The civilian labor force declined by 432,000 in June following an increase of similar magnitude in May.
This means, folks, that twice as many people left the workforce in May as found jobs, which cancels out the 223,000 jobs created.
If 223,000 jobs are created and 432,000 jobs were lost, would somebody explain to me where all this job creation is?
Now, the AP and the rest of the Obama sycophant media is not telling you about the decline in the labor force.
Some are talking about the labor force participation rate, and they're relying on the fact that most in the low information category not going to understand it.
Labor force participation, what's that?
Doesn't matter to me, Mabel.
All they're going to hear is the unemployment rate is 5.3.
And here's the regime.
Grab audio soundbite number was Thomas Perez, the Secretary of Labor.
He's on CNBC Squawk on the street today.
And they ask him about the labor force participation rate.
The co-host of David Faber says the participation rate seems to be concerning people, Mr. Perez.
We haven't seen it this low since 1977.
What is your reaction?
We're at 62.6% labor force participation rate.
That's down big from just a month ago.
When you compare it to 1977, our population is much older now.
So that comparison is slightly misleading in that sense.
The other thing, we always monitor labor force participation very closely.
It's important to understand what did not happen last month.
This is not a case of people who got discouraged and stopped looking for work.
If that had been the case, then I would be worried about this data point.
What happened is that June is the highest month of inflows into the economy.
This isn't about discouraged workers.
This is about the pace of entry largely into the workforce.
It's about 20%.
Folks, look, any number of ways to deal with this.
The truth has always been my chosen option.
It's absurd.
90 million Americans not working.
You blame that on baby boomers retiring.
The last we heard about the concept of baby boomers retiring is that they aren't.
And do you know why?
They don't have any retirement stocked away.
They can't afford to retire.
They can't afford to quit.
The baby boomers are not quitting, and that's why the millennials can't find a job.
We do not have the usual turnover in our workforce.
We do not have the usual 65, 58 to 65-year-old retirement taking place because those people don't have any money to retire on because nobody has any money other than the people who aren't working.
So to try to lay this off on baby boomers is just absurd.
And the other co-host at CNBC said, well, isn't the lesson from Europe that by raising the minimum wage, you risk locking some people out of the economy?
We've now had the best two years of job growth that we have seen since the end of the Clinton administration.
Right, stop it.
There's no reason to go any further.
That just flat out isn't true.
We've now had the two best years of job growth that we've seen since the end of the, there's no evidence of it.
I mean, they can say this all day long.
But you go out and try to find a career-oriented job.
Go out and try to find a job 30 or more hours a week.
You go do it and see what you find and find out how much you're going to get paid.
These people are lying through their...
I'm sorry.
It's not a good way to persuade people.
These people may be well-intentioned and they may be hoping that they're right, but they're not.
They're terribly wrong.
And we're all being misled by their wonderfully well-intentioned comments.
But my friends, this just isn't true.
And again, I would remind you, the labor force shrunk by 432,000 jobs last month.
They're lying through their teeth.
But that's too, what's this?
It's too harsh.
Young millennial women don't like language like that, I'm told, and it's off-putting, and it makes them not like the person telling them that.
And they feel sympathy for whoever it is I'm talking about.
So if I accuse the regime of lying, see, the regime is nice people.
The regime is made up of nice people.
Government is nice people.
Democrats are nice.
Obama's a nice guy.
And Hillary's a nice guy.
They're all nice people.
And anybody criticizing nice people, they're not nice.
So that happens to be me.
So you've got to be very, very careful here.
But this is just bogus.
All of this is just the best two years of job growth that we've seen since the end of the Clinton.
I don't know why I obsess over this because people don't care anyway.
It doesn't matter.
But to lay this off on baby boomers?
There's a story.
Look, this is actually kind of confusing.
It's a story about the percentage of baby boomers that would gladly leave the country because they're so dispirited.
That doesn't jive with what we're being told about millennials.
And most of the news stories is they love Obama.
They love the country.
They're all excited.
They're happy as they can be.
They're getting gay marriage.
They're getting transgender rights.
They're getting equality.
They're getting happiness.
I mean, everything they want, they're getting.
Even the Confederate flag pulled down and burned, whatever they want, they're getting.
And yet, here's a story talking about how many of them want to leave because they don't see any future.
It's oh, so confusing out there.
How about this?
How about this?
I'm through with the jobs numbers.
The jobs numbers are bogus.
We lost twice as many jobs last month as were created.
The unemployment rate is 42%.
It is not 5.3%.
The economy isn't growing.
There's nothing better today than it was in the last two years of the Clinton administration.
Nothing.
Everything's worse, including public attitude.
You just can't find it because people are afraid to express it.
Anchorage, Alaska, about a third of the world's polar bears could be in imminent danger in as soon as a decade.
Wait, I thought they already were.
Didn't you?
We thought the polar bears, I thought they were dying off out there.
Remember the Al Gore movie showing these polar bears on little three square foot slabs of ice?
What is this?
The U.S. Geological Survey, the Interior Department's research arm, said updated scientific models do not bode well for polar bear populations across the world, especially in Alaska for the next 10 years.
By the way, Alaska is the only state in the nation with white bears.
Well, what are the kinds of polar bears?
I don't care.
It doesn't matter.
The polar bears are nice animals, and we feel bad for them.
The U.S. Geological Survey is nice people, trying to save their polar bears.
And those of us telling millennials this is all a bunch of kaka, we're not nice people.
I thought the polar bears are already doomed.
I'm happy to see they've got 10 years.
Computer model.
Once again, you realize that's the only evidence there is of global warming, folks, is computer models.
There isn't any actual data.
I know it's a mean thing to say because nice people believe in global warming.
Nice people want there to be global warming.
Mean people, no, mean people, unfeeling people, cold-hearted, mean-spirited people.
They're the deniers.
But the fact is, there isn't any data.
There isn't one data point that proves man-made global warming.
You go ask your favorite environmentalist blacko.
All they have is computer models.
And that's what they're using here to project that the polar bears only have another 10 years.
Folks, I have two questions I want to ask you today.
And I don't expect to be able to fully answer them during the course of the program today.
It'll carry over to next week.
They're serious questions.
And I'm going to do it even though I'm in a very, very good and light-hearted, jocular mood.
Not feeling mean at all today.
In fact, that's really cool.
Okay, here are the questions.
Serious questions.
Now, I've got my own answers, but if I give you the answers, when I say what I think about something, there's nothing left to be said, usually.
So I'm opening these questions up.
Do any of you think that the Republican presidential candidates and or the Republican Party itself are being harmed by Donald Trump and his campaign, his behavior, his public persona today?
That's a serious question.
It's not rhetorical.
It's not loaded.
I'm just a genuine question I want you to ponder.
Many of you probably already have.
Do any of you think, and I can word it differently, how many of you do not think?
I mean, I can word it any way I want.
I'm just, there's no trick here.
I'm not trying to lead anybody to any opinion.
I'm trying to extract genuine opinion.
Do any of you think that Republican presidential candidates and/or the party itself are being harmed, the brand by Donald Trump?
And here's the next question: Are any of you surprised by the utter lack of any public protest, anger, uprising against the assault on our traditional culture that was affirmed last week by decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Let me put it another way.
What is your reaction to the apparent public acceptance of all of these seemingly overnight shifts in our culture and society?
Why is there no objection, anger, uprising, if you will?
Why does there seem to be practically blanket acceptance for all of this that 10 years ago would be unthinkable?
Don't panic here, folks.
I'm here just waiting a little bit longer to grab your attention.
Sort of like dead air.
It works every time it's tried.
Open line Friday on Thursday, 800-282-2882.
Again, do any of you think that Republican presidential candidates or the party or both are being harmed by what Trump is doing?
What he's saying, how he is saying it, where he's saying it, not backing down.
And the next question, this is even, to me, an even larger question, although they're both really curiosity points for me.
Are you surprised by the seemingly total lack of anger, opposition, upset against this all-out assault on traditional, time-honored American culture?
Gay marriage, transgender rights, whatever it is.
Boy Scouts bad, everything else good.
It's been going on for years now.
And at every stage, there's acquiescence.
There isn't any uprising.
There isn't any anger.
There isn't any protest.
There aren't, aside from some GoFundMe campaigns to raise money.
I mean, you have a photography store, bakery shop, shut down, protest destroyed by the sewer on Twitter.
And aside from the GoFundMe campaign, there's nothing else.
What is your reaction to the apparent public acceptance of all of this?
Mitch McConnell is on, hey, you know, gay marriage, it's the law of the land.
We've got to shut up and move on.
The left never reacts that way to anything that happens they disagree with.
They never accept a law of the land.
If it's the law of the land, they set about trying to change it or bully people into not living accordingly or what have you.
Before we head to the phones, since I asked the question about Trump, let's get to the latest Trump soundbites.
Last night, CNN tonight, Don Lemon interviewing Trump and during a discussion about NBC dropping Trump and Macy's dropping Trump.
By the way, CERTA mattresses are the latest, is the latest.
Trump has a mattress line.
And CERTA makes it and sells it.
And they have announced that at the end of their deal with Trump, at the end of this year, they are getting rid of Trump.
And every one of these outfits, NBC New, NBC Corporate, Macy's, CERTA, they have all said, every one of them has said, we are inclusive and we believe in diversity.
And we do not see immigrants from Mexico in that way at all.
That is not how we see them.
And we cannot abide these comments by Mr. Trump.
And so we are distancing ourselves from Mr. They all say it.
The fact that the immigrants are here illegally, that doesn't seem to bother them.
The fact that, you know, the government will not tell us.
There are no full-fledged, and you can't find them if you go looking for them.
Statistics on the crime rate of illegal immigrants.
But it's pretty huge.
I mean, there's a story a week of some atrocity committed by some illegal immigrant.
The fact that it's happening is undeniable, just in the official news on it, because the regime doesn't want there to be.
So Don Lemon announces all of that, and he says to Trump, okay, Macy's cut ties with you today.
They took the stuff off your shelves.
They say, Macy's is a company that stands for diversity and inclusion.
We have no tolerance for discrimination in any form in the statements made by Donald, which are inconsistent with Macy's values.
We've decided to discontinue our business relationship with Mr. Trump.
How do you respond to that?
Terry Lundgren folded under pressure.
He called me.
He said, gee, you know, he's under a lot of pressure.
And, you know, I guess who knows?
I mean, they fold under pressure.
That's the problem with our country.
Everybody folds under pressure.
And that's what they did.
They did a total fold.
And that's okay with me.
It's okay with me.
It's a very small business.
Let them do what they want to do.
I've had this all my life.
You have to ride it through.
Macy's was unable to handle pressure.
They folded like dogs.
That's not the politically correct response.
And you know it as well.
That's not what you're supposed to say.
Terry Lundgren, that's the Macy C.
I told you yesterday, I was playing golf here at Trump International, and I was one group behind Trump.
And there was a crowd of backlog on a par three.
And Trump and I, his group and my group, ended up on parallel fairways.
And one of our group would hit their ball into Trump's fairways, so I went over there looking for it.
And I ran into Trump and he said, hey, Lindy, I want to introduce you to Macy's CEO.
He's playing golf with a Macy CEO.
He said, Terry Lundgren is the greatest guy.
He's the greatest guy.
You ever need any help from me?
He's the guy.
You eat a quick confusion.
Go to me.
He's just the greatest guy.
He's the greatest guy in the world.
The guy's play was the richest man in Italy.
He's got a Ferrari parked right out front of the club.
I'll show you when we leave.
I just smiled.
I shook hands with the Macy CEO.
The politically correct thing to do was, oh, sorry, I didn't mean to offend Macy.
He's a great corporate partner, but no, they folded.
They folded like a cheapser.
They folded like dogs.
He's not a big business.
I don't care.
That's a problem with America, but he's folding.
By the way, I profoundly agree with that.
Everybody does fold.
So here's Don Lemon.
Well, why did you have to say, Donald, why did you have to say that Mexicans are rapists?
I didn't say about Mexico.
I say the illegal immigrants.
You look at the statistics on rape, on crime, on everything coming in illegally into this country, they're mind-boggling.
If you go to Fusion, you will see a story about 80% of the women coming in.
I mean, you have to take a look at these stories.
And you know who owns Fusion?
Univision.
I read the Washington Post.
I read the Fusion.
I read The Huffington Post.
And that's about women being raped.
It's not about criminals coming across the border or entering the country.
Somebody's doing the raping, Don.
I mean, you know, somebody's doing their thing as women being raped.
Well, who's doing the raping?
Who's doing the raping?
You should have seen Lemon's face.
I saw the sound by it.
Lemon is just deer in the headlight eyes.
He knew in the middle of his question, he'd stepped in it.
Yeah, Donald, look, I read Fusion.
You don't got nothing on me.
I read Fusion.
I read the Washington.
I read everything.
And I've read about all the women getting raped.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Well, naturally, what?
Well, who's raping them, Don?
You know, but in the drive-by media world, women getting raped is a singular thing.
It's just a stat to show how women are being mistreated.
It's a stat to show how women are second-class citizens.
It's a stat to show how women are not respected.
And the only place liberals think rapes take place is on college campus.
That's the only place they think rapes are taken.
That's the one place they're not happening.
But what is it?
Rolling Stone, fake story.
So liberals believe all this cockamame crap.
They believe all these rapes are taking place, but you're not supposed to talk about who's doing the raping.
Who's doing the raping, Don?
We're talking about women immigrants coming to the country being raped.
Very, very politically incorrect.
Now, here's Greta Van Sustrin last night in the Fox News channel.
She said, I'm reading every day I wake up, whether it's on Twitter or the news, something going on with Donald Trump.
Another person say, no, they're canceling you.
Now the latest, you're going to lose a judge from the beauty contest.
Emmett Smith, the former NFL player, he says, now because of what you said, he's out of the pageant business with you.
Who cares?
I don't care if he's in the pageant business.
I mean, what difference does it make?
But he might even judge him.
He wasn't judged.
Who cares?
So what?
We'll get other judges.
Judges are very easy to get.
You know, it's very interesting.
NBC left and Univision, which I'm suing for $500 million.
They left 51 wonderful young women sitting stranded in Louisiana in Baton Rouge.
And I said, you know what?
I'm putting the show on.
So I'm putting the show on.
I'm going to go to the show.
But they left these wonderful 51 people stranded.
They could have waited a week and they could have had the show, but NBC chickened out because they're weak.
And that's the problem with our country.
Who needs Emmett Smith?
Judges are a dime a dozen.
I don't need Emmett Smith.
He choked.
NBC chickened out because they're weak.
I'm standing by the women.
Who, by the way, will not be raped during my show.
Back after this.
Okay, one more soundbite before we get back to the, well, we get to the phones.
This is George Pataki.
Has Pataki announced he's running for?
I think he has.
Yeah.
That's right.
He announced an exploratory committee.
George Pataki.
He was on the Fox Bidne's network yesterday afternoon with Trish Regan, the name of the show, Intelligence Report with Trish Regan.
And they're talking about the Republican primary.
And she said, a Fox News poll shows a battle ahead of you.
Donald Trump coming in second in this poll.
What is your reaction to what Donald Trump said about the Mexicans?
Reprehensible comment.
You know, my four grandparents were immigrants.
My father couldn't speak English when he went off to the first grade.
Some, I assume, are good people.
That is just ridiculous.
The vast majority of Mexican Americans here in the United States came here to build a better life, to make some money, to try to participate in the American dream, to help their families.
That type of comment is just beyond the pal, and I reject it.
I'm calling on every other Republican candidate to stand up and say that what Donald Trump said is wrong, and they should repudiate it just the way I am now.
Have any other Republican candidates stood up to repudiate Trump the way Pataki just did?
Well, now Rick Perry was on Fox News special report with Brett Baer last night.
And let's see, Nina Easton of Fortune magazine said, what are your views of Donald Trump's description of Mexican immigrants?
I wouldn't have said that, obviously.
Mexico is our number one trading partner in the state of Texas.
It's very important to this country.
So that's not exactly a denunciation like Pataki, but it still was.
I wouldn't say it.
And I don't agree with it.
But he was not a denunciation of Trump.
Here, just one more.
Anderson Cooper, 77, last night speaking with Boston Globe political reporter James Pindell.
You ever heard of James Pindell?
I haven't either.
I have no idea why we're using a soundbite from the guy, other than he was on CNN.
We have to get liberal soundbites from somewhere and not banned them from everywhere else.
CNN's not far, by the way, either.
Why prop that bunch up?
Anyway, Anderson Cooper said the poll numbers that Trump is getting, drawing crowds to New Hampshire, spent time talking to the people going to his rallies.
Do they genuinely like the substance of what Trump is saying?
Here's CNN Anderson Cooper asking a Boston Globe reporter who wouldn't know what people who support Trump think if he went and talked to them about it because of his bias and prejudice.
Here's this guy being asked to tell everybody whether Trump's supporters genuinely like the substance of what he's saying.
I was in a New Hampshire House party for Trump last night.
And look, people are saying he's the anti-politician.
He's the truth teller.
Those are the phrases that kept coming again and again.
He has the largest campaign staff on the Republican side.
He's been here several times.
He has a bunch of volunteers.
This is what makes Trump so dangerous.
He could be the uber of politics, right?
He does not play by the rules at all.
And yet it's going to be so fascinating to watch how these candidates who do play by the rules are going to try to get around Trump or do they ignore him?
Do they take it head-on?
But he's going to be a major factor in this race right now.
I'll tell you one thing.
If any other Republican candidate had said what Trump had said, he'd be out of the race by now.
Everybody agree with that?
Because he would have folded.
The pressure would have forced him, apologized, done something, but would be finished.
So this guy got a point in that regard, calling him the uber of politics.
Okay, to the phones we go.
We're going to start with Sylvanna San Diego.
Glad you called your up first.
It's good to have you.
Hi.
Hi.
I've been listening to your program since 2012, so I'm kind of new, but I love your program, and you really, really helped me a lot.
Anyway, my answer for Trump question is, and I'm an immigrant myself.
I'm a legal immigrant to this country.
He is wonderful.
He is not inflicting any damage to the Republican Party that hasn't been done so far by the Democrat Party itself, by the media, which I consider to be propaganda ministry.
Gables would have been proud of for the money.
Wait, I'm just a second.
Wait, wait, Silvana, you just uttered a profundity here.
And you just went by it so quickly.
I don't think you may know how profound what you just said is.
He isn't inflicting any damage on the Republican Party, far less than what has already been done by the media and the Democrat Party.
Yes.
And I also add to that group the leadership of the Republican Party.
I am extremely disappointed with the leadership from Mr. McConnell and Mr. Boehner.
We are wasting years.
We have wasted years.
They have done nothing for the party but demoralize.
I am very demoralized because nothing seems to be working.
And every time I look at the Republicans, they are on the defensive.
You do not win fights by crouching down and always having a defensive posture.
You have to go on the offensive.
And that is what Trump is doing.
He is lifting people up.
He is saying, hey, somebody out there is not afraid to tell like it is.
And by the way, I actually called the Macy's yesterday.
I left a message over there for their, they call it a publicity department, I believe.
And I told them, first of all, he did not say anything that isn't factual.
Number two, you have a problem with the man who is using his freedom of speech to tell how he feels and what he thinks, but you don't have a problem selling products from somebody else who was perhaps in prison for insider trading.
I say you're pretty loaded here.
I've been loading up for years.
Let me ask you one quick question, Sylvana.
You said you're a legal immigrant.
I would think people like you would be among the most angry at all of this.
Yes, because we did everything by the book.
There is a law, and we followed the law.
And now we see people just kind of waving and smiling and doing stuff.
They know they're gaming the system.
They're getting away with gaming the system.
Well, look, I'm glad you called.
You're up first, and you carried that flag extremely well.
Very proud of you.
Honored to have you in this audience.
That's Sylvana from San Diego, California.
We will be right back.
Robert Griffin III, RG3 quarterback, Washington Redskins.
Where do you think he was most recently?
United Nations advocating to protect the oceans.
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