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December 24, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3

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	Yes, America's Anchor Man is away, and this is your EIB anchor baby, Mark Stein.
	Honored to be here for Christmas Eve, an EIB Christmas Eve, Anchor Baby Under the Tree.
	What could be nicer?
	Christmas Day tomorrow.
	It's authentic EIB certified seasonal music for three hours for your Christmas Day listening pleasure.
	Boxing Day is not observed at the EIB network.
	That's a totally un-American activity.
	If you're even thinking of celebrating Boxing Day, you should be ashamed of yourself.
	And then Monday, the great Mark Belling will be here.
	Mark Belling returns to the Golden EIB microphone on Monday.
	Mr. Snurdley, sometimes I do the Boxing Day show, and Mr. Snirdley always asks me what the meaning of Boxing Day is.
	It's when, and he's just done it now, even though I've just said there's no Boxing Day show this year.
	And Mr. Snurley just asked what Boxing Day is.
	It's the day, it comes from the day when you would give presents to your servants.
	So you would give them a box of something that they would be, being grateful servants, they would receive the box from his lordship humbly and thankfully and take it away.
	They didn't get their presents on Christmas Day like you big shots do.
	They had to wait till Boxing Day when they would open up a box and inside there would be a groat or something like that.
	And they would, yeah, there would be a bit of maybe a hand-me-down from her ladyship that she didn't want anymore.
	So she left it for the chambermaid.
	That's what they did on Boxing Day.
	And actually, oddly enough, that's how it is at the Obama White House, too.
	There's a story in, where did I see this?
	Oh, about why George W. Bush never left the Washington area until the day after Christmas.
	When the Bush family were in the White House, they used to stay in Washington until around the 26th or the 27th.
	The reason being that they wanted all their staffers to have Christmas with their family before they flew off to Crawford on their vacation.
	Because the presidential entourage is so bad and so large that when it flies off somewhere, what it means is that all your footmen and all the other attendees upon His Imperial Majesty the President can't be at home with their families.
	And the Bush family used to wait to leave town until the 26th or the 27th.
	You can look this up.
	There's a story about it I saw somewhere today.
	But you can look it up.
	And they always left the 26th or the 27th so that their staffers could enjoy Christmas with their family.
	And now Obama can't wait to hit the links in Hawaii.
	So he always leaves early.
	So none of the Obama staffers get to spend Christmas with their family.
	And none of the fawning journalists do either.
	The fawning journalists don't get to spend Christmas with their family.
	They instead have to spend Christmas in Hawaii watching Obama hit these golf butts.
	So yeah, I don't suppose a lot of these people.
	It's hard to imagine some of these grotesque, groveling hacks would be capable of forming a relationship that would lead to a family.
	But nevertheless, they don't get to spend Christmas.
	They got to spend Christmas with their families in the Bush presidency.
	They don't in the Obama era.
	Nevertheless, Obama is the only guy who can save the country.
	According to Politico this morning, it's saying why Obama must reach out to angry whites.
	You know, by the way, this phrase angry whites, we always hear this phrase, angry whites, angry whites.
	Whites are angry.
	Whites are angry.
	There's not a lot of anger.
	There's a kind of sad despair and a fatalism about certain things.
	But this idea that it's a somehow incoherent rage that's just being expressed in the Republican Party.
	That's not what it is.
	What we're seeing in the Republican movement is actually a great happiness.
	Trump himself is a happy warrior.
	Ted Cruz is a happy warrior.
	Most of these Republican candidates are.
	The idea that there's a somehow a great angry rage, incoherent rage, people are actually being very calm about it.
	But Politico is saying that white America is becoming a minority.
	And so they need to be reassured by somebody other than Trump.
	If they wait for Trump to reassure them, then we will wind up living in a racially divided country.
	And that would be terribly unpleasant.
	And we would have a horrible bipartisan, we would have a partisan split right down the center of the country.
	People would be separated on the basis of identity politics and race and gender.
	And Trump is just this person who wants to divide people.
	So what needs to happen is that somebody else other than Trump needs to recognize that all these angry, irrational white people out there.
	need reassuring from somebody else.
	Somebody other than Trump has to be their voice, because if we let Trump become their voice, then this will just become a horrible, unpleasant, polarized, divided nation.
	You probably can't even imagine an America like that.
	God knows what it would be like.
	It'd be amazing.
	And there's only one person, says Politico.
	Who is this guy in Politico?
	By the way, what's the name of his show comments?
	I can't find this guy's name, but this is either the most brilliant parody ever written or this guy is some kind of genius.
	This Politico writer says there is only one person who can unite the country again, and he works in the White House.
	Yes, President Barack Obama, ironically, the man who is the personification of the fear Trump is exploiting, is the one in the best position to quell the anger being stirred up.
	This is not something the president can do from the Oval Office or from a stage.
	What he needs to do is use the power of the office in a different way.
	Obama needs to go on a listening tour of white America to connect in person with Americans he has either been unable or unwilling to reach during his seven years in office.
	This is Isaac Bailey who has penned this.
	He's come up with the idea.
	He says, and he writes, as a black man who has spent the past decade listening to white southern conservatives, people who many assume would hate me.
	I have the battle scars and rare friendships to prove it, including one with a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans who may help me in a criminal justice reform push.
	This guy is recommending that Obama go on a listening tour of white Americans.
	He's, yeah, this, Isaac Bailey is saying that some of his best friends, not just that some of his best friends are white, but that some of his best friends are sons of Confederate veterans.
	This is.
	This is the new line.
	It's not some of my best friends are Jewish.
	No, we don't do that anymore.
	Some of my best friends are the sons of Confederate veterans.
	Some of my best friends are daughters of the American Revolution.
	This is the new line now.
	That actually is what they're really worried about.
	And that's right in theory, that Obama ought to be the president of all the people.
	It's not just that he hasn't governed like that, but that he explicitly announced that he's basically penance for the two and a third centuries of hell that came before him.
	He's the guy who told Hugo Chavez when Hugo Chavez and the Castro, Raul Castro, were complaining about the Bay of Pigs, he said, don't blame me, I wasn't even born then.
	It's like he's not representing the United States of America.
	He's representing the United States of Obama.
	He's the guy who, when he went to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, he said, who could have foreseen that 20 years after the mere 20 years after the Berlin Wall came down, a black man would be president of the United States.
	Because if you're in the prison state of eastern Germany, if you're banged up in one of those Warsaw Pact prison states, all you were really working for was to get that wall down so you could see Obama elected as president of the United States.
	I don't somehow think this guy is a listening kind of guy.
	I just don't get that impression.
	So I don't think that's going to happen.
	But at heart is something interesting there.
	That the idea would be we shouldn't just be appealing to our base.
	It shouldn't just be a base election.
	It shouldn't just be you get your constituency and I get my constituency and we have a great turnout opera.
	This is how American elections go.
	You have a great turnout operation.
	Romney was shocked that he lost on election night because he'd got a state-of-the-art computer system that was identifying which voters were that people needed to call to get the little old lady to the polls to vote for Romney.
	And he'd got this.
	He'd found some hotshot software guy that had developed a software program.
	There's a great software program about getting his base to turn out.
	And instead, Obama somehow got hold of a guy who had a better software program.
	And the Obama software program was better getting the Obama little old lady out to the polls to vote for Obama.
	And again, Trump isn't doing any of that.
	Trump's just saying, hey, I'm Donald Trump, and this is what I think.
	And if you're interested in voting for me, I'd love to have you on board.
	And he's happy to talk.
	Rush mentioned this the other day.
	He's not someone.
	He's happy to go on any show.
	He's happy to talk to anybody.
	He goes on MSNBC.
	He goes on CNN.
	He goes in front of hostile interviewers.
	And they all love him because he's great for ratings.
	But he's happy to take his message out beyond the base.
	He's happy to.
	Hillary Clinton, you've got to undergo a background check to get into her events.
	You've got to provide a social security number to get into a Hillary Clinton campaign event.
	And if they admit you, if they let you in, you have to sign something saying you're going to work for Hillary Clinton's election.
	Anyone can get into a Trump event.
	That's why he gets asked all these wacky questions from people from time to time that the media make a fuss about.
	So we have actually got someone here who isn't just playing to his base and isn't just taking it to whichever candidate happens, whichever part of his base.
	It's not a turnout model.
	He's happy to go and talk to hostile people.
	He's happy to go on hostile networks.
	And as Rush was saying, Rush described Trump as a happy warrior.
	He's enjoying the campaign and he's not fighting one of these ones where he's just being directed by consultants down an error-narrower path dependent on a terra where you basically say, This is my little group, and we've got a great turnout model that is going to ensure everyone in my little group turns out.
	We don't know whether it'll work.
	It might go belly up in Iowa, which is that caucus system, and you need to have great organization.
	In New Hampshire, he might pull lots of independents into the Republican primary, and it might work for him.
	We don't know whether it's going to work, but it's different, and it's actually doing what that guy says in Politico that Obama ought to be doing.
	We'll take your calls straight ahead on the EIB.
	Mark Slide for Rush.
	It's Christmas Eve.
	I love Christmas.
	I love Christmas music on Christmas Eve.
	People get upset because now they start these, you know, these special Christmas channels, and the restaurants put the Christmas tape on in the beginning of November, and it's too early and people.
	But Christmas Eve, if you don't like the Christmas music on Christmas Eve, you're looking at the whole deal all wrong.
	Breaking news: Governor Jerry Brown in California has pardoned Robert Downey Jr. for 1990s drug offenses.
	Robert Downey Jr., who plays Iron Man in Iron Man and Iron Man 2 and Iron Man 12 and whatever it's up to by now, and spent time behind bars on drug convictions, has received the traditional Christmas Eve pardon from Governor Jerry Brown for his past crimes.
	It's become an annual Christmas Eve tradition in California that he has now been pardoned.
	So Robert Downey Jr. is starting Christmas.
	He's been moved from the naughty list to the nice list for this Christmas.
	Let's go to Bob in Hubbard, Ohio.
	Bob, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Yeah, good afternoon, Mark.
	I'd like to revisit George Will for just a moment.
	Several weeks ago, he appeared on the O'Reilly program, and they were discussing O'Reilly's book about Reagan.
	And Will accused O'Reilly of several inaccuracies in his publication, his recent book.
	And Riley proceeded to show him chapter and verse where he was correct in all his assumptions and his observations regarding Reagan, at which point there was some raised voices back and forth, and he called George Will exactly what he is, a hack.
	He's not a Republican.
	He is an elitist who is in the pocket of all of the rest of the elitists in Washington, D.C. To purport himself as being anything but is a lie.
	He will be in the Clinton's pocket when it suits his need.
	I predicted on this very program the day that Trump announced he was running that he was for real.
	He was in it to win it.
	And he is and will be the Democrats and the establishment's worst nightmare.
	And one other thing I would like to add before I let you go is that I live out here in the rust belt of America.
	And there's a lot of blue-collar folks out here who work right now, still in the mills, still in the steel mills, and also for General Motors, blue-collar people.
	I'm hearing these people say to the man and woman, I'm voting for Donald Trump.
	The establishment Republicans and Democrats don't seem to understand that the American blue-collar person, the middle-class American, sees his country being torn apart and going down the drain and his economic strength going down the drain with it.
	And this is a very frightened populace out here in the United States.
	And the Republicans and the Democrats as well are going to pay the price.
	And I have to tell you, and I will make this prediction on your program now, if in fact Trump does get the nomination, that he will go after Hillary Clinton with a vengeance.
	And there is no one with more baggage than the Clintons and more dishonest baggage than the Clintons.
	So he can do a really fine job of dicing and slicing Ms. Clinton.
	And for her to try to make the American female believe that she's on their side, women aren't that stupid.
	This is the woman that every woman that her husband raped, she sent out private detectives to harass, threaten, cajole, bribe, whatever it would take.
	And the American people know this.
	And the longer she goes, the more obvious it becomes.
	So I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
	Yeah.
	A Happy New Year to you too, Bob.
	And you're right.
	I mean, I don't know how people can swallow this.
	When Hillary Clinton said a couple of weeks ago that female people, females who say they've been the victims of sexual assault should always be believed.
	That's where Hillary actually stood up and said that.
	Yeah, unless your name is Jennifer Flowers or Paula Jones or Kathleen Willey or any of the other ones.
	Juanita Broderick, you might want to put some ice on that.
	Nobody believes that.
	No, we shouldn't believe it when Juanita Broderick said, you might want to put some ice on that, but every other woman should be believed.
	No, and you know what?
	All the nice guys, the nice candidates, Mick Romney's too much of a gentleman.
	He's not going to go there.
	And John McCain wouldn't go there.
	And Bob Dole wouldn't go there.
	But if it's Hillary against Trump, it's going to be no rules, extreme presidential election, like you haven't said before, like you've never seen before.
	Now, Bob made an interesting point there that I want to pick up when we come back after the break.
	Because what he said about the Rust Belt, I'm not in the Rust Belt.
	It's essentially paper mills and pulp mills and forestry industry type mills that have been closed.
	It's sawmills and whatnot that are closed down in my part of New Hampshire.
	But exactly the same thing.
	That what you need to lead a middle-class life in America is slipping because of economic factors beyond your control, supported by both parties, has been slipping beyond your grasp.
	So what you need to live a middle-class life in America is no longer achievable for large parts of the country.
	Hey, that's me.
	I was expecting that.
	That's me, my pal Jessica, doing the Mariah Carey song, All I Want for Christmas is You.
	You know, that's a two-octave song.
	People think it's just, you know, an easy thing to see.
	It's actually a two-octave song back.
	And all the lights are shining so badly everywhere.
	That's way up there.
	And old one is all way down there.
	And I got two octaves in me.
	And I make no claim for my version of that song.
	But I will say this, better than the Michael Boublay version.
	Michael Buble, he doesn't do the big high note at the end, right?
	You know that, all I want for Christmas is...
	I get up there.
	I don't want to tell you what's involved, but we had to go full Caitlin Jenner to get me up there.
	But I did the high note that Michael, yeah, I do.
	You talk about Hillary getting schlogged.
	I tell you, I was way up there, whatever that is, top, top G, top A, I think.
	And Michael Bublay ducks out and goes down.
	So anyway, from my Christmas album, that's from my Christmas album.
	The name of the album is Making Spirits Bright.
	But if you know what, and it can be purchased at Abbazard, at iTunes, at all those places.
	And while you're at it, pick up my cat album, Feli Groovy, too, because that's good fun.
	So from this is one of those.
	Oh, yeah, people can reach me at Twitter how my Twitter handle is MarksteinOnline.
	And I'm also, you can follow me on Facebook and you can find me on the internet at steinonline.com.
	But the easiest way to reach me is to just fax me on my motorbike.
	So that's the quickest way to get hold of me directly.
	This is one of the that would be, yes, Mr. Snerdley is probably here.
	That's S-T-E-Y-N, as in why do I have to listen to this crazy foreigner promoting all his social media sites.
	Okay, now this is one of those complete transitions that only a trained professional broadcaster could master.
	From my singing to camel urine.
	The Saudi Saudi authorities have closed down a shop selling traditional camel urine drinks after discovering that the owner had been filling the bottles with his own urine.
	Camel urine, I should explain that camel, Mohammed recommended drinking camel urine.
	The Prophet Muhammad says in the Quran, some people of Uki and Urana tribes came to Medina and the climate did not suit them.
	So the Prophet ordered them to go to the herd of camels and to drink their milk and urine.
	And so ever since then, because Mohammed told them, drink the camel urine.
	It's great for you.
	It does wonders for you.
	Drink, you can't go wrong.
	If you drink a nice couple of pints of camel urine every day, it'll perk you right up.
	And so ever since Mohammed told them to drink, the Prophet, peace be upon him, told them to drink the camel urine.
	They've been drinking, they've been face down.
	The discriminating Saudi has been face down in the camel urine.
	It's like, and Mr. Snerdley is looking at me saying, this cannot be true.
	It is like you going to the fanciest restaurant in New York, Mr. Snerdley, and ordering a bottle of the 2009 Chateau Margot or something like that.
	And it's like, yeah, it is.
	It's like you'd get like you ask the sommelier if you were at the rainbow room.
	You'd ask the sommelier to bring you the wine list when you're in a fancy Saudi, upscale Saudi restaurant.
	This is, by the way, in the port city of Al Kunfunda.
	If you're in the city of Al Kunfunda and you're at a fancy restaurant, you ask the Sommelier to bring you the list so you can pick out which is your preferred best kind of camel urine because they're like years for it.
	There's like the, I said the 2009 Chateau Margot was a particularly good year.
	And you would be annoyed if you were at the Cafe Carlisle and you ordered the 2009 Chateau Margot and the waiter just went into the kitchen and peed in a glass and brought it back to you.
	You would be saying, hey, this is pretty, this doesn't taste right for 6,000 bucks.
	This doesn't taste right.
	And that's what happened.
	This guy.
	This guy runs the best camel urine joint in Al Khunfunda in Saudi Arabia.
	And they discovered that when people were going in saying, I'll have a magnum of your best camel urine.
	And he would just be going out into the kitchen and filling it up himself.
	And now he has been arrested.
	But there is a serious point to this.
	The World Health Organization has blamed the spread of Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome coronavirus on the practice of drinking camel urine.
	So although John Kerry has assured us that all this jihad business is nothing to do with Islam, Obama has assured us it's nothing to do with Islam.
	Hillary has assured us it's nothing to do with Islam.
	Maybe we could, maybe we could look into whether it is actually caused by excessive intake of camel urine.
	Because certainly in Saudi Arabia, it appears to be causing certain.
	I don't know what the symptoms of Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome, coronavirus, are, but it does appear to be causing some problems.
	But it's something to look out for.
	If you're sitting around the Christmas table tomorrow and you're celebrating and everyone says, well, I've just actually, I've just flown in from Saudi Arabia, and I was fortunate to be able to pick up a bottle.
	I was in Al Kunfunda down at the port, and they gave me this fabulous.
	Why don't we have it with our big Christmas turkey?
	And we'll have this fabulous bottle of really primo camel urine.
	I only paid $12,000 for it.
	Be warned that this guy has just been taken into custody because he's just been filling all the bottles himself.
	This is breaking news out of Al Kunfunda at this moment, right now at Al Kunfunda.
	Mark Stein in for Rush.
	Before we go, I want to remind you that if you are still, because we're now getting, it's like 2:40 Eastern time, that's 11:40 Pacific time.
	Don't even think about going out and trying to get your loved one a bottle of prestigious Saudi camel urine for Christmas.
	It's too late.
	They've run out of the good stuff.
	They've just got the lousy, cheap camel herders' own urine in the stores.
	You go to the Mall of America, you go down Rodeo Drive, the best liquor store on Rodeo Drive.
	They're all out of the premium camel urine.
	Don't even think about it.
	Instead, what you need to do is go to rushlimbore.com and buy your loved one a Rush 24-7 subscription.
	You can get Rush any form you want to get him in.
	You can get him three hours a day on the Ditto Cam on your schedule.
	So if you want to watch Rush on the Ditto Cam, 9 o'clock at night, 2 in the morning, whenever you want to do it, you can do it.
	All you've got to do is go to rush247.com and sign up your loved one for a Rush 24-7 subscription, and they will thank you for it.
	They will be popping the camel urine corks for you if there's a Rush 24-7 subscription in their Christmas stocking tomorrow morning.
	Mark Stein for Rush, lots.
	Well, Chipotle, I think Chipotle actually, yeah, Chipotle does seem to have a, I think that's the special source, isn't it?
	That's the old, yeah, it's like when you have the camel urine in a coolie form.
	I think that's when it becomes particular.
	Yeah.
	So you might want to skip the camel urine dressing at Chipotle over the holiday season.
	That's true.
	Mark Stein for Rush, lots more still to go.
	Mark Stein for Rush, Christmas Eve on America's number one radio show.
	Mr. Snurdley doesn't quite get the whole camel urine thing.
	He's wondering after you've been with your 72 virgins, is it really, that's it?
	You celebrate with a couple of bottles of camel urine?
	Yeah, nothing, nothing.
	When you're out with your 72 virgins, it's camel urines all around.
	That's all you need to help the party go with the swing.
	By the way, if you're in Saudi Arabia and you're thinking of ordering the eggnog and it tastes like it's got a little something extra in it this Christmas, that might be the issue there.
	I want to just say, I want to just say one thing because I had some tweets from some lady who's a Rick Santorum supporter and switched off the show because I was talking about all the non-Romneys in the season of 2012.
	There was Michelle Bachman, there was Rick Perry, there was Herman Kane, there was Newt Gingrich.
	And she said, what about Rick Santorum?
	You didn't mention Rick Santorum.
	So this is just part of Russia's conspiracy against Rick Santorum.
	You're not telling the truth about Rick Santorum, so we're switching off.
	I've got nothing against Rick Santorum.
	I've met him, I think, once in southern New Hampshire at some event and just before the New Hampshire primary.
	He's a delightful man.
	We talked about the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which is where I think his grandfather came from.
	And we had a very pleasant conversation.
	He's a very interesting man.
	He's staked out some interesting turf in this particular election because he's recognized that the Romney message basically, for people who are downwardly mobile, which ought to be a phenomenon that doesn't really exist in America, but is now widespread for downwardly mobile families.
	Rick Santorum has given some thought to some kinds of economic reinvigoration that might actually give life some purpose and meaning for families who right now are going nowhere.
	I got nothing against Rick Santorum.
	But this idea that because somebody doesn't mention Rick Santorum, you switch off the radio show is actually one of the problems here.
	You're not going to get, this isn't about a messiah.
	This isn't about electing Obama.
	This isn't about wanting to buy, wanting to follow your favorite pop star like Justin Bieber.
	I mentioned in parliamentary systems the other day, if you're in Canada, the thing about head of state and head of government is that they're separate.
	So the head of state is the queen and the prime minister comes and goes and you're not in a parliamentary system, you don't get invested in it.
	I read some survey in Switzerland that something like 29% of Swiss people couldn't name their prime minister because he's actually not that important.
	He's just some dull guy in a suit and they come along once in a while and then there's another dull guy in a suit.
	And here, because it's a presidential system, this guy looms larger in all our lives because he's there all the time.
	You're basically electing someone who is going to be in your face for the next four or eight years.
	But you will never get a dream candidate and you shouldn't be looking for a dream candidate.
	Whoever you eventually becomes the nominee of the Republican Party will be someone who has pluses or minuses.
	And you hope they have more pluses than minuses and you also hope they're able to win.
	But this idea of investing everything in someone who happens to be running in the Iowa caucus or the New Hampshire primary is a very weird way of looking at politics in life.
	And the point about conservatism is that politics isn't all-consuming.
	On the left, politics is everything.
	Which is why suddenly things that have never seemed political ever in human history, like the bathroom a transgendered person uses, is suddenly a burning political issue on the left because everything is political.
	Everything is political on the left.
	And what Rush said before he checked out on Tuesday about how over these next few days, think about what's important, turn your eyes to God, spend time with your family, spend time in the non-political space of your world,
	because the left wants everything to crush in on that, so that a bakery deciding whether it's going to cater this event or that event, that becomes political, so that bakers get sued because they don't want to bake a cake for this particular event.
	So eventually, 99.9999% of life is politics, and there's no space for life life.
	And Rush's message, which is very important on Tuesday, was that over these next few days, live in the non-political space of life.
	And then when we all come back after the holidays, when Mark Belling is here on Monday, let's try and grow that non-political space.
	Let's try and reclaim it from the left because politics isn't everything.
	And the point about being a conservative is to keep politics walled up in the corner and not from infecting and contaminating 100% of human existence.
	Markstein for Rush.
	We'll close things out in a moment.
	Mark Stein in for Rush.
	Thanks for keeping us company today.
	As Hillary at Algo always liked to say today, tomorrow is the day we celebrate the birth of a homeless child.
	Always remember, he wasn't homeless.
	The only reason he had to go to Nazareth is because you had to go and register for the census in the town of your birth.
	And that's the sort of cockamame bureaucratic scheme that only a big lefty blue state would cook up.
	So don't let them tell you this thing that Jesus was a homeless child.
	Jesus' dad was a hardworking carpenter and they had a perfectly good home back in Nazareth and they only had to go to Bethlehem because of the big bureaucratic requirements of the big government Roman Empire.
	Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
	I hope Santa brings you everything you want and don't forget that there's Christmas music tomorrow.

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