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Aug. 21, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 21, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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Oh my gosh, look at this headline.
Dr. Dre.
I don't believe this.
Dr. Dre apologizes to the women he beat up in the 90s.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
What about the women last year?
Just kidding.
I'm just I don't know anything.
I'm just kidding.
Dr. Dre, Savior of Apple music with Jimmy Ivine.
The great group from the rap days gone by, NWA cop killer, big tune.
Now big movie straight out of Compton.
Big big soundtrack by Dr. Dre.
He's apologizing for all the women he beat up in the 90s.
Man, oh man.
I never thought, Snerdly, I never thought I'd see the day where political correctness would reach hip hop.
I never ever imagined that would ever happen.
Greetings, really?
It's great to have your final hour of the busy broadcast today.
And again, a reminder, I'm off Monday and Tuesday, just a couple personal days, no big deal, just taking them.
up.
Yeah, Doc.
What do you mean to say with beats headphones?
Yeah.
He he founded Beats with.
He's a billionaire because Apple bought Beats.
In fact, Dr. Dre bought Tom Brady's house out in um in uh Brentwood.
Brady and his wife built this massive $50 million moat house, whatever, and uh they decided to wish they'd built it in Brookline, Massachusetts.
They rebuilt the thing in Brookline and sold it, and Dr. Dre bought it for like $65 million after the Apple merger.
I think he could have all those girls in the 90s over to the former Tom Brady house and apologize to them to the pool.
Political correctness in hip hop.
That means anything's possible in Ferguson, folks.
800 282-2882.
Dial it back now.
800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
Uh no, it's just that normally this is the time of year between now and the next two weeks.
I usually take the trip, the uh the guy golf trip to uh to Hawaii, and that trip happened in June.
So I'm just taking a couple days, any big deal.
Mark Stein will be here on Monday or Monday and Tuesday.
Uh, in fact, I'm gonna tell I'm not working Labor Day, and I'm gonna make another announcement now.
I'm not, let me check the date.
There's another date.
I'm gonna just tell you right now I'm not working.
I think it's the 18th of uh of September.
Let's see, just real quick here.
Uh uh, yep, September 18th.
Book it now.
Get a guest toast in its new iPhone Day, and I'm not gonna sit here for eight, nine hours all day long, wishing I could get home and do the iPhone.
Just gonna take a Friday.
It's like a three-day weekend.
Hey, I've reached a level where I can do this now.
No matter who complains.
So book it.
September 18th.
And I might be gone the day before that.
Uh as not for iPhones, but for a member guest golf tournament.
So make it, yeah, just do those two days anyway.
Can always cancel it if I have to.
Okay, uh, folks, it's great to have you back as I say.
We want to go to the audio sound bites.
I have these two stories on the Republican Party and what they're trying to do to to uh overcome the Trump phenomena.
I want to get to those.
But this anchor baby stuff uh I is a great illustration of how everybody gets distracted over silly, meaningless things.
And by silly meaningless, I mean people on the left are offended, but well, so freaking what?
It is what it is.
I mean, how in the world can you support the policy of anchor babies and get mad when people call it that?
It's exactly what it is.
So we start out first.
here is Jeb Bush.
This is yesterday afternoon in Keene, New Hampshire.
Uh Jeb had a press conference, and during the QA, a couple of reporters and Bush had this little back and forth.
Do you regret using the term anchor babies yesterday on the radio?
No, I didn't.
I don't.
I don't know.
You don't regret it?
No, do you have a better term?
I'm not, I'm I'm asking you.
A lot of folks.
You give me a better term and I'll use it.
I'll serious.
Don't yell at me behind my ear, though.
Sorry about that.
Language anchor baby.
Is that not bombastic?
No, it isn't.
Give me another word.
Here's the deal.
What I said was it's commonly referred to that.
That's what I said.
I didn't use it as my own language.
What we ought to do is protect the 14th.
You want to get to the policy for a second?
I think that people born in this country ought to be American citizens.
Okay, now we got that over with.
All right.
Well, see, that's that's what is commonly assumed to be the case.
Well, he was getting a little testy there, and he he is I I can I like that.
And then he had to qualify.
Oh, wait, wait, that's not what I'm saying.
Now you understand.
I just I it's what's referred to as.
You know, I that's what it's commonly referred to, and that's what I said.
I didn't use it as my own language.
But before he got to that point, he did steadfastly fight with these guys.
And this is classic.
Here come these reports.
You think it's a racist?
Well, what do you think?
It's not about me.
I'm not ready.
And the generalist.
Oh, no, no, no.
You're the one being critical here.
You're the one telling me you don't like the term.
What else should I use?
It's not to me the same.
I just wonder if you feel like maybe it'll be too bombastic.
No, it's what the term is.
Screw it.
I think everybody born here ought to be a citizen.
And that's a problem.
I wonder how many people know why the term anchor baby evolved, what it actually means.
Well, no, I mean, I I know well you do, but I wonder how many, you know, when I think of this, when I say this, I'm thinking low information voters.
I wonder if they actually know what the term anchor baby means.
What it not definition, but how it is.
What is it?
It it's it's here's the truth about it.
So you have an illegal, bring a pregnant illegal woman to the country ever give birth, her child's automatically an American citizen and becomes the anchor for eventually the rest of the family being allowed to legally come in.
And this is how the illegal population is grown, quote unquote legally.
And it's all based on this notion that everybody born here is a citizen.
But it's not the case.
It is not the law that children born to illegals are automatically citizens.
But you'd you'd you'd be shocked to listen to the media yesterday, last night, and realize how many politicians don't know that.
They think you're born here, you're automatically a citizen.
Not the case.
And it's not in the 14th Amendment.
I'm getting blue in the face on this.
It isn't in the 14th Amendment.
The Constitution doesn't say a word about this.
The only thing the Constitution says about citizenship is in Article 1, where the Constitution grants Congress the power to define citizenship and to establish the circumstances by which one can become a naturalized citizen.
That's all.
There is no 14th or any other amendment which legalizes citizenship for a child born to an illegal immigrant.
We've just been doing it.
But it isn't the law.
We've just been doing it.
And that's why the term anchor baby is considered offensive, because it's it officially, it it accurately explains the trick.
And it is a trick.
Getting pregnant, coming here, giving birth, child citizen anchors the rest of the family being able to eventually come in and be naturalized citizens, all because the child is.
And of course, the accompanying American compassionate attitude is, well, my God, a child was born here.
It makes him a citizen.
Who are we to Deny that his mom and dad can't come.
My God, what kind of country would we be?
And this is how it happens.
Except it doesn't exist.
But it's not just uh citizenship either.
Anchor babies are how other illegals get welfare benefits.
I mean, if the child is a citizen, and if the family isn't well, American citizen here, parents are in tough times.
How can we deny them health care and welfare?
This is it's it's it's a whole program in a, in a sense.
I was going to say scam, but I don't want to be offensive here.
But it is what it is.
And then that's why when you use the term anchor baby, the people who know what this is get mad because they're afraid that the truth of it's going to be exposed and learned by a whole bunch of low information people who obviously would not support it.
Because there is not.
There has not been, and there is not majority support for amnesty, executive or otherwise.
Now, here's Trump in Derry, New Hampshire at a press conference.
Reporter says, Are you aware that the term anchor baby?
That's an offensive term.
Are you aware that people find that a hurtful term?
Do you know that?
Do you even care?
You mean it's not politically correct, and yet everybody uses it.
So you know what?
Give me a different term.
Give me a different term.
What else would you like to say?
The American born child of an undocumented emergency.
You want me to say that?
Okay.
I said no.
I'll use the word anchor baby.
Excuse me.
I'll use the word anchor baby.
So you hear the media guy says, you know, the American born child of an undocumented immigrant.
Sorry, that does not convey citizens.
I know we've been doing it, but it isn't the law.
Does it shock you?
I bet it does.
A media montage.
Drive-by media starting to fear or assume or figure out or think that Trump isn't going to go away.
Banish any notion that Donald Trump is just a flash in the pan.
Do you look at this campaign as one that's a flash in the pan?
It's wrong to make the assumption that Donald Trump is just a flash in the pan.
Does this mean he's not a flash in the pan?
I think he's not a flash in the pan.
Of course he's not a flash in the pan.
My God, how does this happen?
Flash in the pan?
Uh gravitas?
How in the world is this?
And they've all come to the conclusion now.
It all happened yesterday, folks.
Somebody somewhere sent the drive-by as a memo.
Trump is not a flash in the plan.
That's how you're going to report it.
And they all did.
Last night, CNN's Aaron Burnett out front, they had a fill-in host.
His name is Jim Shuto.
And he's speaking with Douglas Brinkley Rice University history professor.
considered a great historian of the presidency, Doug Brinkley.
He lived down there in, well, he was in New Orleans, Rice, of course, in Houston, and The uh fill-in host, Jim Shuto said, in every election there's a hot candidate early on who captures attention, but then often fades.
If you think of Michelle Bachman, you think of Rick Perry.
Now, based on your experience watching these campaigns, do you look at Trump's campaign as one that's a flash in the pan or that has a lasting staying power?
I do not.
I think he's not a flash in the pan.
He has a billion dollars he's willing to spend, but he's a master manipulator of the media, including cable television.
Um he knows exactly what producers to hit up, what shows to get on, and that's free media.
He's not buying TV commercial time, and uh that makes him the first really 21st century uh new media presidential candidate.
Nobody's been quite like him.
Now, with with all due respect here, uh Jim Jim uh Shudo, uh your comparison here to uh Michelle Bachman and Rick Perry doesn't quite cover it.
I I don't think I think Trump's a little different than those two uh candacies.
In fact, it'd be like saying that Morton Downey Jr. was the forerunner of Donald Trump.
Did you know CNN ran a story on that last night?
They've got this movie on Morton Downey Jr.
Who um I knew.
I mean, I I I replaced Morton Downey Jr. in Sacramento at KFBK when he got fired for telling a joke about a member of the town council and wouldn't apologize, and he used a racial slur in telling a joke.
And it was not about the town councilman.
It was a joke about Chinese people.
And there was a Chinese citizen on the town council who was offended by it.
And Mort refused to apologize.
So he got blown out.
At the time the radio station was owned by McClachey.
And so he then ended up on the radio here there, people New York doing that television show.
And CNN's doing this movie on Morton Downey Jr.
And they said Morton Downey Jr. is the forerunner to Donald Trump.
That Morton Downey Jr. paved the way for people like Trump.
They even said that about me.
I wasn't going to say that because it's absurd.
I remember, just as a little aside, I got to New York in August of 1988, and Mort's TV show had been on for a year, maybe by that time, and had just started in syndication.
It was only originally Channel 9 in New York, and it started being syndicated.
And I remember I was at a the first one of the first official things I was invited to.
John Fund invited me to a cocktail reception for some literary conservative person at Lou Lairman's Manhattan Townhouse.
Lou Lerman was not there.
He just let this conservative literary bunch, a bunch of writers from like National Review and other places.
And I had I'd not been in the air very long in New York, but it was long enough that most of these people knew who I was.
And I, every damn one of them.
I'll tell you how I was kind of surprised a little bit because these are these people that were at this thing are exactly our caller Maya talking about the intellectualized.
That's who these people were.
I don't mean I'm not insulting here, but these are buttoned down, very elite uh conservative intellectual writers.
And they were just they loved the Downey show.
They they l I was shocked.
And they kept asking me, so what are you?
You gonna you're gonna do stuff like Downey?
I said, no way.
I'm never you are you kidding?
I'm serious about what I'm doing.
I don't want to do Flash in the Pan stuff.
And anybody could have told you that it was going to be Flash in the Pan, especially if you knew Mort.
But anyway.
CNN now using this special on Morton Downey Jr., who was a nice guy.
He was he was he was uh I don't know.
Kind of kind of a uh in ways a sad character.
He just he nothing made him happy, just always had to if something worked and got him a lot of attention, he felt like tomorrow he had to go even further and further.
And it was just but he was a nice guy.
I mean, he just anyway to the idea that the Morton Downey Jr.
TV show paved the way for Trump is CNN's way of trying to diminish because they were portraying Mort as the original trash talker.
He wasn't.
Have you ever heard of Joe Pine?
Well, if you want to talk about the original insult trash talker who had Joe Pine's your man.
Joe Pine, a TV show out of LA.
Joe Pine set the standard for that kind of stuff.
Well, he was he was back in long, long, long ago.
You you'd have to get kinescopes, uh, even before there was video tape to see what Joe Pine did.
I I he was fascinating case study.
Uh my guy just saw the clock.
Oh my god, even the broadcast.
You know, Joe Pine was the original, I mean, this guy argued.
He took callers, it was a TV show.
He argued with everybody.
He insulted everybody.
He'd do things like this.
He'd have a uh he did topics.
When you die, how do you want to go?
How do you want to die?
So a woman would call.
I want to go the cheapest and most natural way I can.
Joe Pine would say, easy lady, have your husband throw you in a trash bag and then in a river with the rest of the garbage, and hang up on her.
Next call.
It was and it never stopped.
It was, I mean, you take a break it serious now and then about things, but but that's that's that that was the shtick.
And I mean, nobody's original with anything, but uh and probably people at Joe Pine modeled his act after that.
He might have just have met.
It could well be that that's who he was.
It might not have been an act.
I mean, I don't know Joe Pine well enough to know, but anyway.
Uh this CNN effort with uh Morton Downey Jr. says this bit Morton Downey Jr. is 1987, 1988.
I mean, if that's gonna pave the way for Trump, don't you think that happened to say the nineties?
For Morton Downey Jr. to pave the way that there's nobody, or very few people now that are all excited about Trump that really remember Morton Downey Jr. per se.
I mean, it's just that's such a stretch that they are making.
Anyway, this will be a good transition.
We come back, I'm gonna get into your phone calls because I owe you that.
You've been waiting on hold, but I've still got these two stories about the uh Republican Party and their secret meetings and secret strategies to take out Donald Trump and how the donors, the donors feel powerless, and money people do not like that, folks.
Don't doubt me.
Back to the phones, Ray in Livermore, California.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Anchor email dittoes, Rush.
And I have to tell you that's not my term, but it's the term that's being used, so until you can come up with a better word, anchor emails.
All right.
Uh you're I want to build on what you were talking about, how the Obamas and the Clintons don't get along, and how Obama doesn't want Hillary to succeed him, because he might be shadowed by what she does, or she might undo what he's doing.
I would go further.
I I agree with you that um Biden is the loyal soldier, but is he loyal enough to take a dive on the mat?
Because I think that's what Obama wants.
I think he wants Republicans to take the White House.
So again, to point to something else you said, so he can stand on the sidelines in DC and continue to point the finger at Republicans, how they're destroying his legacy, how they're undoing everything he did.
Um, and they'll in a sense will paralyze the Republicans.
They'll be like Boehner McConnell, where they won't want to do anything unless they be called the racist section's biggest homophobe.
So I've got about four.
I have I have predicted part of what you just said in that we know that Obama is going to set a precedent.
He's going to hang around in Washington after his term has perspired.
He's going to hang around, and I everybody I I think I know why.
He's going, I my theory was he's going to guard the legacy.
He has got anything that any whoever, but especially a new Republican president, any move made, they'd have repeal Obama care or anything.
He's going to make tracks to the media, and the media will be sympathetic to him, support him, and it will be as though he's still in office.
And the Republicans, like you say, are going to be attacked as racist and bigoted, and they're getting rid of this stuff because they don't want the first black president to have a success story in history and blah, blah, blah.
And your theory is that that will paralyze them.
Your theory is that Obama want if he he knows the country's gonna go to hell in a handbasket and he wants Republicans in charge, so it looks like they're responsible.
Is that your theory?
That's it.
In fact, even further, he wants the Republicans to do the work of taking Hillary out.
And that's why this is coming in dribs and drabs.
Well, wait, wait.
Why does he why is he afraid to have his fingerprints on taking Hillary out?
No, because he'll be he can't be the guy who took out the first woman president.
It has to be a Republican who does this.
They've got to be the bad guy.
And they're being set up to do this, and this will be like a reverse, a reverse inheritance thing.
Remember how Obama's presidency was so awful because of George Bush and all the big messy left behind.
If anything happens, good or bad, following Obama, anything good, it could be like, well, you inherited that from Obama.
To win on that.
They'll say, see, the Republicans have put their hands on what I'll done, they've ruined it, and that's why the country's going down the train.
Well, they didn't leave my stuff alone.
Hold on.
That leads to my next question.
And it's one of perceptions of Obama.
I believe Obama when he says he wants to transform America.
I believe that Obama's got multiple chips on his shoulder.
I believe that Obama thinks this country is guilty of much.
I don't I have a tough time thinking that in Obama's mind, he knows that what he's done is going to destroy the country.
I think, in terms that you know you're using term destroy the country, I use transform.
I think he thinks this country deserves to be cut down to size, and I think he is insistent that it happened even beyond his presidency.
I don't think he wants people to reverse what he's done.
I don't think he wants that for two reasons.
A, he doesn't want it to happen.
B, he doesn't want a reversal to show that what he did was so bad and horrible and and and mistaken.
I think he wants to ensure that the transformation he started continues.
And and he there's no guarantee that Hillary will do that for him.
There is a guarantee that Biden will, and I think there's a guarantee that the Republicans will too.
Not a Ted Cruz, not a Bobby Gendal, or not even a Donald Trump.
But if you get a uh a Bush or this Kasich guy in there, Casey should be running in the Democrat Party right now, as far as I'm concerned, based on what he's talking about.
Really?
Um I I think he would have a stronger poll running against Hillary and that band of lunatics that's going to make up the Democrat debates.
I bet Casey could win the Democrat debates based on the way he found it.
Uh what is Kasich said that makes you think that he would be more palatable to Democrats?
I think he's trying to move left of Bush.
Just in his statements, I I went to a uh a homosexual marriage, and therefore I care and and all of these things that he's he's beginning his all of his his campaign from the left.
Oh, yeah, like after the after the debate, the media all said he won because he finally made it clear some Republicans actually care about people.
That's right.
And if he's going over well with with the liberal media, that that tells you already that's their choice for our candidates, so he can lose.
Right.
And as they always do for us.
And you've got to be a good thing.
That's a great reason to point that out in the past.
Well, it's it's fascinating out there, uh uh Ray.
I I I appreciate that.
Um as I say, I'm fascinated by the uh the way the way people think.
Now, one interesting thing about this is for all of these theories, including mine, to work, the next president has to do something Obama wouldn't like.
Now, why do we think that would be Hillary?
She's as Olinsky as he is, and make no mistake about that, folks.
I mean, the reason Hillary appears so stiff and uncomfortable is because she doesn't dare let us in and see who she really is.
She can't pull off like her husband and Obama can, faking it.
And that's what we're seeing.
We see her every time she's in public, she's faking it.
She's trying to act who she isn't.
Who she is is a radical, just as radical as Obama.
Just as many chips on her shoulder about this country, it's the way she was educated.
Her doctoral thesis or her term paper, whatever it was that Wellesley was on Alinsky.
He's a hero to her.
So the idea that that she would come in and unravel what Obama's done.
Uh I I don't see that.
I I see her coming in and maybe even going more radical than Obama did, and maybe he doesn't want that to happen.
I can understand him not wanting Republicans to win for fear of unraveling what he's done and and arresting the transformation that he's begun stopping it.
The Hillary thing, I think is I think it's personal with the Clintons and the Obamas.
I don't think it goes any deeper than that.
It may, but it's personal.
And it's traced back to the look, folks, these are the things that you think go in one ear and out the other.
But When Bill Clinton in South Carolina is sitting there at a cafe talking to a buddy of his after they've thrown the race card down on the guy, and Clinton is saying, I forget who he said this to, and it's it's a it's a prominent name.
Might have been Ted Kennedy.
Ted Kennedy was Teddy's sitting there having a drink with Ted Kennedy, and Obama's on TV or walking by and and Clinton said, you know, Ted, whatn't that long ago?
A guy like this would be getting us our coffee.
Well, that's the kind of thing Obama never forget, particularly that.
That was Clinton calling Obama.
I mean, that was Clinton talking about slavery, dare we say.
I mean, what what what could he possibly guy like that would be getting our coffee?
What?
Obama's an African American your coffee?
What he'd be a servant.
Obama doesn't forget that stuff.
And I'm and and some of the stuff that happened during that campaign, Hillary and Bill, I I think this is personal with them.
Uh I know your well, then why did he make her Secretary of State?
It's pretty brilliant move.
It's looked like she's pretty incompetent, right?
And she's got all these problems now that he probably helped her.
I mean, if he's done his best to discredit her, and her coronation is now off the rails yet again, thanks to him.
The old soul about keeping your crens your friends close, your enemies closer.
By bringing her into the regime, in addition, it makes her real it tough for her to go out and be disloyal to him.
When he's a member of the she's a member of the regime, she can't openly attack the guy.
She can from, you know, inside try to undermine.
Uh but I just think there's bad blood there.
But I I still I can't get past.
I think Obama is serious about transforming this country, and I think he knows it too terms is not really enough to finish the job, and he does not want it stopped.
The transformation.
And that's why he's gonna stay close to D.C. And he's gonna have I expect drive-by's will put a studio in where house he has, so he doesn't have to travel anywhere to be on the nightly news.
Well uh yeah, just a little camera in there, a couple lights and a microphone, bring in some babe to do the makeup, and you're all set.
Gerald on the big island in Hawaii.
This is where I usually am this time of year, but I'm not, I'm here.
So it's great to hear from you, Gerald.
How are you?
Uh, can you hear me okay, but I hear you just yeah, just fine.
Well, aloha from the left coast or Obama ville here.
Where are you on the big island?
I'm over in Hilo.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
My name's Gerald N. Wright, by the way.
I'm the Rush Beau of Hawaii.
Actually, I've been in the media and running for politics for 40 years here.
They think I'm you.
I don't know how.
Uh anyway.
Well uh mini Mahalo's and dittoes and kudos for your show and let me on your show, and I really appreciate it.
Well, it's it's great to have the old rushball of uh Hawaii on the air.
I didn't even know there was one and now sick.
Yeah, it's great.
It's great that it's great to have you here with us.
Yeah, I play as Jerry Neal III on the golf course here.
I had my radio with me listen to you, and now I'll get you on the computer.
There you go.
Anyway, I I appreciate I told uh uh don't not gonna say Bo Diddley, but nerdly that uh I would deal with the other talent on loan from God.
And I appreciate that.
And I think that's what made you and your show great.
I think that's what make this country great if we'd get back to that.
Maybe some truth on loan from God would help.
I am a biblical apologist and historian.
You may not remember me, but I have a postcard from you in 1993.
You still there?
I'm still here.
And of course you're a little heavier than I see on the ditto cam now.
It says Ditto on the cup.
And um I sent you a book called uh a mother's son.
And uh you thanked me for the book.
I don't know if you really got the book, but it was on abortion.
Uh if you got a if you got an acknowledgement, I got the book.
You got the book.
I just I don't send thank yous to people I don't know.
Well, I hope you read the book because that's maybe the problem.
Uh We need truth on loan from God in this country.
And they need to start if they want the Founding Fathers a country that we had.
They gotta build on the faith of the founding fathers.
Well, you know, that's so true.
The story of the pilgrims, uh Founding Fathers, the first Thanksgiving, George Washington's first Thanksgiving address, his inaugural address, his farewell address.
You can't read about founding American history without constant references to God and thanks to God.
Try to tell that to the left today, and you won't get uh you won't get anywhere.
But look, Gerald, I appreciate it.
You know, when I first started using this talent on loans from God stuff, you would not believe you probably would, that the the number of people who thought that I was saying I was God.
Man, you that guy on the radio thinks he's God.
He even says so.
What does he say?
Talent on loan from God.
Oh man, really?
I never heard anybody.
Yeah, he thinks he's God.
Well, no.
It was an acknowledgment that uh I'm a creation of God, and we're all temporary, and that everything we are is on loan, per se.
It was just an acknowledgment of my belief in God and thanks.
But the knee-jerk reactions were just the opposite, which is what made it fun to do.
Anyway, Gerald, I appreciate the call.
We're at that time where we have to begin thinking about shutting it down for the day.
So sit.
Well, it's the end of another exciting Excursion into broadcast excellence, a full week of it.
Some great, great callers today on Open Line Friday.
Remember, I am out on Monday and Tuesday.
Mark Stein will be here both days, and everything goes well.
Everything goes right, which it should, because I'm in charge.
Uh, we'll be back here Wednesday from someplace.
So be confident.
Have a great weekend.
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