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Oct. 3, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 3, 2016, Monday, Hour #2
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Yeah, you know what?
I'm not sure.
I might do 11 and 12 first.
I'm not.
I've got to figure this out.
Well, no, yeah, it's already a mess.
I'm going to fix it.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Great to have you back.
El Rushbeau and the EIB network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882, the email address, El Rushbo at EIBnet.us.
And yeah, I'm going to get to the Hillary story here in just a second.
But I want to wrap up on this Trump stuff.
I really, folks, think that this tax return business is a setup.
Look, it's easy to say now.
But I'm going to tell you, I have always thought this tax return thing was worthless, meaningless, a gimmick.
It always ended up helping the Democrats.
Every time Richard Nixon had his tax return leaked way, way, way back.
And it was thought at the time that they got away with it.
They created the idea that Nixon was somehow scandal-ridden, even though there was nothing illegal on his tax return.
It was just leaked.
But I have always suspected it.
I've always been suspicious.
The Democrats are always, they're just always using this.
They're so eager for whoever the Republican candidate is to release his taxes.
And one of the primary reasons why is it is the one of many techniques Democrats use to try to disqualify Republicans on the basis that they're rich or on the basis that they have more money than the average American.
The Democrats are the new party of rich, by the way.
But I've often thought that tax returns don't tell anybody anything and it's not a window into anything.
And therefore, it's obviously a gimmick.
It's a trick.
And who's ginned it up?
The Washington establishment.
I think the way it's manifested itself now is that the tax returns of politicians are the result of calculating people to begin with.
You have to be a calculating individual to be a politician.
From the moment you decide to get into it, you start calculating what you can and can't say, what you can and can't do, what you can and can't be seen doing, what you can and can't wear wherever you go, what you can and can't involve yourself in.
Everything is a calculation, including the picture of your finances.
And unfortunately, most people don't pay any attention to the financial disclosure forms.
They are so esoteric.
The average person couldn't understand those like he can't understand an average spreadsheet from a Wall Street firm.
And they're designed to be that way.
Financial disclosure forms are designed in such a way so as not to harm the politician involved.
It's part of being in the club.
Tax return ditto.
Calculating people who begin calculating every aspect of their lives from the moment they decide to get into politics, elective office or even appointive.
And they calculate their financial lives so that they'll look certain way, a certain way, on a tax return.
Well, a private citizen doesn't even think of calculating in the political way.
Private citizen has other considerations in business, whatever.
Everybody's got specific reasons for doing what they do.
But politics has its own set of specific reasons and behavioral patterns that you must engage in if you're going to be successful.
So here comes an outsider knocking on the door, knocking it over, trying to get in to the insider club.
And one of the tools they're using to keep him out is the old tie, tried and true tax return trick.
By definition, Trump, no matter what's on his tax return, it's going to look different than anybody in politics.
And that difference is going to be pointed to by people in politics, including the media, to discredit and disqualify the outsider.
Which is exactly what is happening now, which is exactly what happens every year with Republicans anyway.
Their tax returns are used to disqualify them somehow or another.
And I'm just sick of it working.
I'm sick of them getting away with everything they get away with.
I'm sick of it to the point of openly fuming about it.
It's an insult to my intelligence, number one.
It's doing great damage to the country, number two.
And the bad guys are getting away with it, and that's got to stop for the sake of everything.
The bad guys have got to stop getting away with it.
And that's in part what the Trump campaign represents to people.
The bad guys finally stopping to get away with it, ceasing to get away with it.
So I've got, I have some sound bites on this that I want to get to here.
Then we'll get into your phone calls and the Hillary Clinton and what she said privately back in February to a bunch of Hillary Clinton supporters.
It's really eye-opening.
It's profoundly eye-opening about who she is and the way she talks to people when she doesn't think anybody's going to hear.
Now, one of the things the drive-bys are doing is in one of the most outrageous examples in public.
I mean, there's nothing even tricky about this.
The media is just daring people to spot how they're cheating on this.
It involves Rudy Giuliani.
And here's the headline.
Could be anybody.
This is ABC.
It could be the Associated Press.
Giuliani says Trump is better for the U.S. than a woman.
It's not what Rudy Giuliani said.
It's not what Rudy Giuliani meant.
They know it.
They just don't care.
They think they can pull all of these tricks, and most people will never spot it.
Most people, if they do spot it, won't care.
The media thinks most people agree with them anyway.
The media thinks that most people hate Rudy and hate Trump just like they do.
And so they don't care.
They don't care if you see them lying through their teeth, misrepresenting, out of context, whatever.
They get away with it far more than they're ever held accountable.
So why should they stop?
Did Rudy Giuliani really mean to say that Donald Trump would make a better president than Hillary Clinton because he's a man?
When asked about the New York Times Trump tax report, Giuliani told ABC's this week that Trump was a genius when it came to tax laws.
Don't you think a man who has this kind of economic genius a lot better for the U.S. than a woman, the only thing she's ever produced is a lot of work for the FBI checking out her emails?
The AP is really so far in the tank that they would try to turn a simple statement into a sexist attack.
They want you to think that Rudy Giuliani said, don't you think a man who has this kind of economic genius is a lot better for the U.S. than a woman?
But he didn't stop there.
Then a woman, the only thing she's ever produced, is a lot of work for the FBI.
So here's Rudy, who at one time was a very respected, moderate Republican, held in high esteem by establishment politicians left and right, but now that he's thrown in with the Trumpster, now that he's become a Trumpist, they go out, do what they can to destroy him.
So we've got, I've got two sound bites on this.
Let me.
Okay, let's do number 11.
We'll do these in order.
Both of these are from yesterday morning.
The first one's from Meet the Depressed.
F. Chuck Todd speaking with Rudy.
And F. Chuck says, so this is basically a deduction that benefits wealthy businessmen.
He failed in his businesses.
Those first three businesses were failures.
And then he was able to get a tax break for the failure on the next $1 billion of income.
Look, it's all legal.
Should it be?
It is.
And it was.
And we're talking about 21 years ago.
And if he didn't take advantage of it, he would have been sued.
I mean, the reality is he's a genius.
What he did was he took advantage of something that could save his enterprise, and he did something we admire in America.
He came back.
The art of the deal is all about that.
He talks about it.
So did Steve Jobs.
So did Winston Churchill.
Winston Churchill was thrown out of politics twice and came back.
Great men have big failures, and then they take those failures and they turn them into great results.
I'd rather have a genius like Donald Trump running this country than someone like Hillary Clinton.
Right now, F. Chuck was not happy hearing this.
All right.
Stop.
All right.
Okay.
You know, Rudy was making too many points there.
And F. Chuck Todd wanted Rudy to stop.
Do you want to go through the points?
First off, it was the art of the comeback.
He wrote a book, The Art of the Comeback, and it's in The Art of the Comeback, you find the page on Alicia Machado, by the way, which also demonstrates that all this trumped up is a bunch of lies.
But it was the art of the comeback.
And it is true, Winston Churchill was thrown out of office by the people in the UK after great achievements.
He was seen to have become too old.
During the run-up to World War II, Winston Churchill was the only British politician warning about Hitler and warning about the Nazis.
And they were laughing at him, and they wouldn't let him get anywhere near an official government position.
They had invested everything in Neville Chamberlain back then.
And Churchill had been thrown out.
He was considered past his prime.
He ended up becoming prime minister again and worked through World War II and helped to defeat Hitler and so forth.
And even after that, he was discarded again.
But it was in his retirement.
I had a friend down here, folks, who died shortly after I got it.
A friend I'd met, a man I'd met only after coming to Palm Beach in 1997.
And he died three years later.
And I hadn't known him long enough to get to know a lot about him.
And at his funeral, at the memorial, I couldn't believe the missions he'd flown in World War II and the various things.
He had lost three fortunes in commodities and gained it back each and every time.
When I say fortune, the man had lost $500 million, $800 million, and a billion and got it back all three times.
He wasn't careless.
He just took risks.
Some of them panned out, but he got it back each and every time.
The point is that what Rudy is saying here happens to be accurate in many cases.
Some people never come back from failure.
I guess those are the people we're supposed to praise.
Those are the people we're supposed to identify with.
Yes, because there's much more failure than there is success.
There's nothing illegal about what Trump did, and nobody's even alleging that he did anything illegal.
But this is the kind of thing, you know, Trump hasn't released his tax returns.
And he says, well, it says I'm under audit, but I will.
At some point, I'm going to release it.
But people have been very suspicious of this.
Well, obviously, Trump has known that this isn't his tax return.
This doesn't take a genius to understand this can be twisted one way out of focus.
This can be used against you in any number of ways.
Oh, you lost nearly a trillion dollars.
Well, what an idiot you are.
You lost a trillion dollars and then you didn't pay taxes for another 20.
What a scheming, conniving tax cheat you are.
Any number of things could be done with this.
Because it's not a politician's tax return, which has annual income of $175,000 paid for by the people of this country in the annual salary.
It doesn't have any of that on it.
Nope, it's got all this esoteric business stuff that nine out of 10 Americans will never see, do, or have on their own tax return, which makes it easy to make it appear corrupt or what have you.
As I say, this whole tax return business, I've been suspicious of it for a lot of years, folks, because I don't think it tells us anything about anybody.
Somebody's tax return doesn't tell us what they think and how they're going to act issue to issue to issue.
It's totally irrelevant.
It's nothing more than a disqualifier as perfected by primarily the Democrats and the Washington establishment.
Okay, here's Rudy on this week.
And he's being interviewed by George Stephanopoulos of the Clinton War Room.
And Stephanopoulos says, okay, here's what Robbie Mook from the Clinton campaign says.
He says that this report in the New York Times about your tax return reveals the colossal nature of Donald Trump's past bidness failures.
He apparently got to avoid paying taxes for nearly 20 years while tens of millions of working families paid theirs.
This is a genius at how to take advantage of legal remedies that can help your company survive and grow.
I want a man who's a genius at figuring out how to take this country that's moving in the wrong direction, where we've had a basically jobless recovery, where we've had growth of less than 2% for two years.
That's pathetic.
Don't you think a man who has this kind of economic genius is a lot better for the United States than a woman?
And the only thing she's ever produced is a lot of work for the FBI.
Checking out her emails.
There it is.
That's the soundbite where they're saying that Rudy engaged in naked sexism.
That's the bite.
That's what they're saying.
Don't you think Trump's imminently more qualified than a woman?
That's what they want you to think he said.
All of this, you know, here's the frustrating thing for me.
All of this smacks of desperation.
Yet it always seems to work.
And turning it around on them never seems to work.
Mrs. Clinton actually has more questions to answer about corruption and finances than Donald Trump could ever conceive of.
But it isn't going to happen for all of the obvious reasons.
Okay, look, it's another obscene profit timeout, and we'll come back with your calls after this, folks.
I'll reward your patience.
I really appreciate it.
Stand by.
I need to add one thing, even though it isn't going to matter to anybody, but I have to let you know anyway.
Back in 1995, the New York Times called Donald Trump the comeback kid.
And it's one of the reasons why he wrote the art of the comeback.
I'm not making it.
The New York Times has broken the law to publish three pages of his 1995 tax return.
Back in 95 called Trump the comeback kid.
Let me read you a portion of the New York Times article from 1995.
Quote, after the collapse of the real estate market of the 1980s, Mr. Trump's company was left holding some $8.8 billion in debt, causing his personal net worth to drop to a low of about a billion in the red by 1991.
This is the famous tax change in 1986 that took away all deductions, took the top marginal rate essentially from 70% down to 28.
And if you remember, a lot of real estate people got hammered in that.
The condo market, especially, but the rental real estate just devastated by it.
Many, not all.
And apparently Trump was one.
After the collapse of the real estate market of the 1980s, Donald Trump's company was left holding some $8.8 billion in debt, causing his personal net worth to drop to minus $1 billion, $1 billion in the red by 1991.
And he has recovered to be what he is now.
That's a pretty significant comeback.
And the Times was writing about it in 1995.
By the way, I remember all of that.
I remember, I, do you know one of the ways in which Trump was claimed to be a genius back then?
What?
Well, it's not just the way he negotiated with the banks.
Trump had, I don't even know quite what the terminology is here.
So forgive me if I state this in less than precise terms.
But what Trump had done was arrange his loans from banks so that if they foreclosed on him, they would go down too.
Trump was the original too big to fail.
In other words.
And if they called his loans or if they foreclosed and took everything he had, which was then worthless because of the bubble and the financial crisis, the real estate crisis, the banks would have gone with him.
And so that actually led to the banks and another round of debt or underwriting and Trump came back.
So he was the original too big to fail.
Now, that phrase holds negative connotations today in terms of bailout of banks.
Trump was not bailed out by the government.
Trump wasn't bailed out like banks in 2008 were.
Trump had arranged his finances with the banks so they couldn't close him out without closing himself down, themselves down.
And there was a lot of criticism of Trump for that back then.
I remember a lot of people seething, but they were jealous that he had been able to pull that off and tie his fortunes so exclusively to the people who had lent him money.
Anyway, your calls next, I promise.
Don't go away.
Wait a second.
What's Hillary doing in Toledo?
They told us she pulled out of Ohio.
They told us she's pulled out of Ohio, and another one they pulled out of is Colorado.
So what is she doing in Toledo?
Why, no, she's campaigning.
Well, that's what she's there.
She's speaking to some group in Toledo, delivering a speech on the.
Mike, Papado Beach, Florida, you're next.
You're first.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
I feel very strongly about something, strategically speaking.
Had some discussions with friends of mine, and I've listened to the media kind of talk about this as to whether Trump ought to go for Hillary's treatment of Bill's accusers.
And I think that it's a huge Achilles' heel.
I think the fact that they're trying to cover it up and stay off the topic is evidence to that.
And I really want Trump at the start of the debate to categorically prosecute her with names and dates, et cetera, of the accusers of rape, of sexual abuse, et cetera.
And then I want him to say that Hillary slimed those women, that she tried to destroy them and silence them.
And he should go into that for two minutes and say, you know, the whole last debate, the media has been complicit in keeping this from the American people.
And a lot of people may not know what happened back in the day when these women were allegedly abused and committed crimes against.
Among those are rape.
And then I would say that Hillary called them bimbos, she slimed them, et cetera, et cetera, and categorically destroy her because I don't even know what they can say in response to that.
And you ought to leave it with a question to her as to Hillary, how do you justify your and your attorney's attempt to silence women?
And you've set women and women's rights back 100 years.
And how dare you attack me for rude comments when on the record what you've done is morally inexcusable.
And I want your opinion, Rush, as to the effectiveness of such an attack that Trump ought to make.
And he can even say the media, you, Martha Radditz, and whoever at the debate, have talked about statements I've made about one woman in a beauty contest that may have been off-color or rude, yet there are women's lives you destroy.
How can you call yourself an advocate for women?
And how do you defend yourself?
And what's your opinion on him doing that, Rush?
Don't you think that that's our home run right there?
Let me ask you first, why do you want him to do this?
And what I mean by it is, is it is no, wait a minute.
This is important.
Is it something that you, as you said, you're strategically thinking, do you really think that would be a winner?
Or is it just something you want to hear because you are ticked off of how all this is going?
You're ticked off at the hypocrisy, and you just want somebody to fire back on her so she doesn't get away with it.
No, no, no.
To the contrary, the former.
I think it is incredibly effective.
I think a lot of the voting public votes for who they feel comfortable with, who they think is morally capable of leading the country.
Hey, let me ask you a question.
No, seriously, I'm going to pepper you here with devil's advocates' questions.
And there's no wrong answer.
So I'm not giving you a test.
How many people do you think do not know that Bill Clinton stoops to help?
30% of her voting base.
And it's not what Bill did.
It's what she did.
I mean, calling these people bimbos.
I mean, I would ask her, like, are you a big advocate for Bill Cosby?
Do you think his behavior is good?
Well, no, wait.
You can't say it's not what he did.
It's what she did because what she did was directly related to what he did.
He stooped the women.
And then she came along.
Pardon me.
It's the maligning.
It's the cover-up.
It's the maligning.
It's going back 100 years to saying, oh, no, you're not hearing me.
Let me say it again.
You can't just focus on Hillary doing that without having Bill Clinton brought up.
And the moderator of this debate is going to be sympathetic to Bill Clinton like you can't bring Hillary up isolated.
The reason you're even bringing it up is because of Bill Clinton's actions.
Right, but he's got two minutes to say what he wants, and they can interrupt him for the first 20 seconds, and then he can go on.
I mean, it's incredibly effective.
It hits at where people make their voting decisions.
It hits at her, quote, strength or her alleged strength.
And I think that actually he can have a two-for-one.
He can impugn the media for saying, you guys spent weeks and a whole debate talking about my off-color language, and you've ignored how you treated actual females and how you, I mean, how dare you get up here and say that you're an advocate for women?
Not only are you crooked, you've been doing some of the most terrible moral things to aid your ambition and to keep your power.
I mean, I think it's a home run.
And quite frankly, if I might play devil's advocate back at you, Rush, what in the world would you say if you're Hillary?
Yeah, that was Bill.
Oh, that was Bill, not me.
Come on, Hillary.
You stood by his side, and your attorneys visited those women and you aired their dirty laundry.
Okay, wait, let me answer the question.
What I would say if I was Hillary, I'd look at the camera.
There he goes again.
Here comes this vast right-wing conspiracy.
They can't stop trying to destroy my husband, but unfortunately, my husband isn't on the ballot.
My husband, I wish I could bring back his economy, and I'll be talking to my husband about that.
But Mr. Trump, I don't know what it is.
Are you jealous of my husband?
Are you not getting as much attention as my husband got?
I don't know what the problem is.
All I know is there's been a vast right-wing conspiracy out to destroy my husband from the days we were in Arkansas.
The audience will give her a standing ovation.
She's going to answer totally about Bill Clinton.
Her answer would be totally about Bill Clinton.
She's not going to answer question, Mrs. Clinton, isn't it true that you call women bimbos and you personally sought to destroy them for coming forward and explaining how your husband had hit on them or whatever he did?
She's going to turn that right around into Trump being the latest member of the vast right-wing conspiracy trying to destroy her husband.
Can't he just write back, say, no, I'm not talking about the person who robbed the grocery store.
I'm talking about you hiding them in your bedroom.
I'm talking about your reaction to the controversy.
Of course he can.
Of course he can't.
And I think he ought to.
All right.
Well, look, the reason I ask you what your preference for this is, because I understand it.
I want these people to be paid back for everything they've done, and I want it to happen in front of the country.
And therefore, since I can't do it, I hope Trump will come up and do it.
And then I end up thinking, you know, that could be a winner.
When I start thinking that way, I start thinking how it's going to be dealt with.
Trump's going to be isolated.
The moderator is going to be totally with Hillary because it's going to be an attack on the woman, her.
And then they're going to go after the, well, I told you what they're going to do.
I'll tell you how she's going to answer.
She is not going to answer the question.
No matter how many times Trump asks it, no matter how many times Trump makes the point that she ran the bimbo eruptions unit, that she professes to be big in women's rights, and all she's done is everything she can to destroy women who have attempted to malign her husband.
She'll have a lot of people think that's a loyal thing for a wife to do.
She's never going to answer your question.
She's never going to accept the premise of your question.
She doesn't have to.
It's always going to be characterized by her and the media as yet another attack on her husband.
And then they're going to say, he's not running.
Can you people get Bill Clinton off your mind for 90 minutes once?
Look, I'm like you.
I would love for this to happen, and I would love for Hillary to be exposed in this way.
That's why, and how many people don't know?
How many people don't know what Bill Clinton did?
How many people don't know about Monica Lewinsky?
How many people don't know about Jennifer Flowers?
How many people think that the truth is what the Clinton said on 60 Minutes in 1992?
Well, he said 30% of you.
He may be right.
Now, the next question, how many people know that Hillary Clinton ran the Bimbo Eruptions Unit?
And how many people know, independent of being told for the first time, what percentage of voters know that Hillary Clinton has personally charted the strategy and the actions that have targeted women that Bill Clinton had affairs with to destroy them, to threaten them, to intimidate them?
How many people know that who are voting for her anyway?
How many people don't know it and don't care?
In other words, what percentage of the voting public who don't know this, who could learn it, might have it change their mind about Hillary Clinton?
I don't know the answer to that.
These are just questions, preguntas, if you will, that I am asking.
And I've asked these questions for I don't know how long.
What I know is this.
Since 1992, a dominant feature of Republican Party campaigning against the Clintons has been focused on Bill Clinton's infidelity.
The second aspect of it has been on the women with whom Clinton engaged in infidelity.
And in all of those years, I don't see any damage.
I see Clinton as a rock star in the Democrat Party.
I see the Democrat Party thinking Bill Clinton's the greatest thing since sliced bread, a close competition with Obama, but long-term, I think Bill Clinton wins it because the party's racist.
Clinton's got his global initiative and his family foundation is considered to be now a great, great patron of charities and so forth.
He's got the Clinton Library Massage Parliament.
And by the way, about that, we've even got proof now that he gets massages in the damn library.
We've got proof of it.
I make a joke about it, and it's actually true.
He's got a department and an endless stream of women are brought in there.
And the last I checked, Bill Clinton's reputation within the Democrat Party and around the world in establishment, elite political circles is nothing but great.
So you tell me, I think that Trump's best bet, and this is intelligence guided by experience, Trump's best bet is to go back last week, two weeks, three weeks, a month ago, find out what he was doing when he was closing the polling gap and get back to doing that.
And I can tell you what it was, ISSUES.
Immigration, the military, national security, incompetence, fraud, and all of that.
You know what I'm also hearing?
People can't believe.
People that love Trump, people that want Trump to win, can't believe that he spent all week, including 3 a.m. tweets on a former Miss Universe.
So people are beginning to ask, like, Michael Goodwin in the New York Post, who wants Trump to win, asked in his column yesterday, does he really not want to?
Is he afraid?
Because every time he pulls even, every time she's gains ground in these polls, and every time it looks like he's got her on the ropes, he does something like this and blows it.
So Michael Goodwin's asking himself, does he really not want to win this?
Because these mistakes that he's making, they defy logic, and he's got enough experience now.
But then the other side of that is, no, Rush, you still don't get it.
Trump is being who he is.
He's no different now than last summer, last fall.
He's going after this woman like he's going after anybody that's attacked him.
And that's why he's loved, and that's why he's going to get elected is because he's the only guy in this campaign that's real and acts like a real person acts and defends us as real people.
No, Rush, Goodwin's wrong.
He's not trying to lose.
He's just being who he is.
And if that doesn't work out, fine, he's not going to phony it up.
That's the other answer I hear from people who don't think he's anything other than legit here.
I got to take a break, though.
I'm way long.
Back in a sec.
Folks, all is not lost.
If you want to go after Hillary Clinton for her hypocrisy on women, let me tell you how to do it.
The best way to do it is a way that does not permit her to bring up her husband.
And it's real simple.
It's documented.
It's been proven.
There's no having to prove anything.
You simply ask her why she accepts money from individuals and countries that permit the rape of women.
Why does she accept money from nations and people who demand that women not be allowed to drive cars, that women be totally covered up except for their eyes when out in public?
Ask her why, if she is such a feminist, and if she's done so much for women, and if she stands up for women, ask her how much she stands up for female babies.
Ask her why she accepts millions of dollars from people who treat women like second-class citizens.
There's no way she can go to her husband.
Oh, she can try.
My husband and I have decided, but it doesn't involve anything he's done.
It doesn't involve the bimbos.
And she's just as hypocritical.
That would be the way I would do it.
It's current.
It doesn't involve women that have been in the public domain for 20 years who it can't be said that they've been effective.
God bless them.
I mean, why retry the same case when the jury has acquitted the accused for 20 years?
But on the money that the Clinton Foundation is getting, on the money that Hillary is getting as donations, you point out that people that donate expect something back.
People don't give money because they like you.
And who likes the Clintons anyway?
People give money because of what they're going to get for it.
And why would you accept money, millions and millions of dollars, from people and organizations and from countries who mistreat women,
who treat them as second-class citizens, and detail some of the treatment from people and countries who stone women for being seen with a man who's not her husband?
Why would you accept money from an individual, from a country, from an organization that does not even permit women free speech?
If you want to go after Hillary on the women, that's how you would do it in my estimation.
Keep it current, keep it real, keep her husband out of it, and really raise some eyebrows at the same time.
And then throw in something, this is not sustainable.
And the millennials will love you.
Back in a sec.
Got another break here, top of the hour, my friends.
I promise I'm going to get more phone calls in.
I promise.
I promise.
Got some great ones on hold.
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