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Dec. 6, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 6, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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And I look at it.
Now, all the networks are now doing in-depth reports on what all goes into manufacturing Air Force One.
Folks, I'm going to tell you, I think, well, I'm going to hold it in reserve.
I was going to say, I was going to give Trump credit for a lot of stuff, but that may rub some people wrong.
So let me just hold it back.
Ari Fleischer is out there.
Now, see, this is what happens.
Ari Fleischer, hey, people tell me that there's no price tag on this contract yet, so Trump may not know what he's talking about.
They're making the mistake once again of I'm trying to maintain my composure because to me, this is so easy.
Who was it?
Selena Zito said that Trump critics make the mistake of not taking him seriously, but taking him literally.
Trump's supporters do take him seriously, but not literally.
Trump is a provocateur.
Trump has all kinds of reasons for throwing that tweet out there about Air Force One and the contract cost at $4 billion.
That's why I spent 20 minutes explaining the backstory here that Boeing has ties to Obama.
You know, Boeing relocated from Seattle to Chicago after Obama's elected.
Why the hell would Boeing move from Seattle?
So they move to Chicago.
They get in bed with the Obama administration and donate money left and right to the Clintons.
They're involved in the Iranian nuke deal.
And look, that's fine.
Don't misunderstand.
I've taken a tour of the Boeing, the Jumbo Jet factory out in Seattle when we were doing our program out there one time.
I'm fascinated by airplanes, aviation, the whole thing.
And I have admiration for just the people that work at Boeing and the whole manufacturing process, the design, everything about it.
And Boeing is free to sidle up to whoever they want to politically.
But it's obvious that the way Trump looks at the world, Boeing made some bad decisions.
Sidling up and assisting the Iranians.
Trump doesn't think that's a good deal.
He doesn't think it was wise for Hillary Clinton greased the skids for Boeing to get a deal in Russia.
And that's fine.
And Daniel said, Boeing paid her back.
Boeing was donating to her and her husband left and right.
But there's much more going on here.
They can do their exposés on what it costs to make Air Force One.
I guarantee what the media is going to be doing now is looking into the cost of Air Force One and the manufacturing, what all goes into it, and asking how we're being ripped off.
And what does Trump know that we don't know?
And they're going to miss what his real point with this is.
They're going to miss what he's doing, which I think they're going to continue to be.
Even friendly media at Fox is going to miss this because they're not going to interpret it properly.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
It's great to have you here.
The telephone number 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program, the email address is LRushbo at EIBnet.com.
Do you know that Air Force One actually came into being with JFK?
He was the first president.
In fact, the first plane JFK flew on, was designated as a presidential plane was a Lockheed Jet Star.
And if you want to know what those, Oric Goldfinger owned one in the Bond movie.
And at the end of the movie, when Goldfinger's jet's going down with pussy galore in there, and then they're all parachuting out, and Bond's trying to save the day, that's a Lockheed Jet Star.
And it was deemed, you know, Eisenhower flew on one.
It was deemed just for whatever reason, just insignificant, not safe enough, large enough.
So they designed a Boeing 707.
And that lasted through Reagan from 1960 some out all the way to, I mean, George H.W. Bush was the first president that got the Boeing 747s that are currently being flown as Air Force One.
So now they're in the process of upgrading.
These are 30 years old.
They're completely airworthy.
But the line is that it now takes so much time and money to keep them maintained in tip-top shape.
And there are two of them, and they go on every trip.
One is a backup in case of a mechanical, and the other sometimes used as a decoy.
But they're both equally outfitted.
And they've got 30 years on them, and they're nearing their lifespan.
So this new Boeing deal delivers these two new planes in 2024.
Trump's not even going to fly on them.
But there's so much more going on with this little tweet of his.
And we've done our best to help you understand all the possibilities and all of the vagaries.
But now they're going to be doing stories on why does it cost so much in the systems.
And they can't tell you half of it because of security concerns and privacy.
But trust me, they have shielding from electromagnetic pulse.
They have technology that would protect the plane as best it could, anyway, from surface-to-air missiles because the airplane itself cannot take evasive action and stay put together.
The G-forces would destroy it.
It doesn't have the maneuverability to do it anyway.
So they have to have some other method, the communication system, worldwide, satellite, infrared, all kinds.
The president cannot ever be out of communication and has to be able to survive a nuclear attack.
Air Force One is shielded in case a nuclear detonation occurs somewhere.
There's more in a full passengers would survive the radiation.
It was in the middle of explosion, no, but it would survive the radiation.
If it were not near the explosion, but the radiation cloud spread, it would survive.
The passengers could survive inside because of the radiation shield.
It's phenomenal what is in these airplanes and the technology that's there.
And a lot of it's still classified that we don't even know exists.
They're full-fledged operating rooms and operating room on Air Force One.
I mean, a genuine hospital-type operating room.
You've got to have doctors and nurses on board if you're going to have an operating room.
It's massive.
Oh, kitchen, the galley, you mean?
I mean, there's two or three of them.
There's three or four levels in these planes.
That's why it fascinates me.
It's the degree.
Well, you know what fascinates me about technology, both this and anything, is the brain power that has to exist, like writing software or designing something to anticipate problems that haven't happened and to build in solutions to those problems that haven't happened.
You have to anticipate what the problems might be.
For example, I'll just bear with me.
I'll give you one example of what I'm talking about here.
It's not the best, but space shuttle or any rocket launch.
We used to have two different launch pads.
One was at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and of course, Cape Canaveral.
Do you know that it took much less thrust and power to launch from Vandenberg than Cape Canaveral?
You did?
Do you know why?
The Earth is rotating, it took more thrust at Vandenberg.
The Earth is rotating faster at the equator as you get close to the equator, faster in Florida than it is in California and in Nevada.
And the rotation of the Earth is its own boost.
Before you even add power, there's a degree of boost.
And the von Brauns of the world and the Oppenheimers had to figure this all out.
It takes much more power to get a rocket into space the farther north you go because the Earth rotating around its axis is going slower.
Now you might say, wait a minute, the Earth is one thing.
It's one ball and it's all rotate.
Yes.
But at the equator, for example, for the Earth to travel the same distance that say it travels up in the latitude and longitude of New York, the equator has to go a lot farther, so it's going faster.
And that speed gives rocket launches a bigger boost.
So it takes less rocket fuel.
That's why the launches occurred in Florida and not further north.
Well, there's no way under the sun I would ever, I wouldn't even conceive of the possibility.
I had to read that and learn it.
Those are the kind of things that dazzle me, that you find in your iPhone or that you'll find in your computer or whatever high-tech gadget you use or a modern day fully loaded airplane like Air Force One.
And it's just and these things cost.
It costs money to figure these out and to plan for them, to incorporate them.
And so this $4 billion price tag is probably high.
But Trump's reason for doing this.
Oh, they're also saying Trump's trying to destroy the Boeing stock price.
Boeing stock price is down pennies.
That's not what this is about.
Okay.
There's the most fascinating op-ed in the New York Times today.
And I have to share this with you.
It is by an elector.
A Republican elector in Texas by the name of Christopher Suprin.
And it's headlined, Why I Will Not Cast My Electoral Vote for Donald Trump.
I am a Republican presidential elector, one of the 538 people asked to choose officially the president.
Since the election, people have asked me to change my vote based on policy disagreements with Donald Trump.
In some cases, they cite the popular vote difference.
I do not think president-elects should be disqualified for policy disagreements.
I do not think they should be disqualified because they won the Electoral College instead of the popular vote.
However, now I am asked to cast a vote on December 19th for someone who shows daily he is not qualified for the office.
Now, hang on, folks.
You haven't heard anything yet.
15 years ago as a firefighter, I was part of the response to the 9-11 attacks against our nation.
That attack and this year's election may seem unrelated, but for me, the relationship becomes clearer every day.
Hang on, stick with me.
George W. Bush is an imperfect man, but he led us through the tragic days following those attacks.
His leadership showed that America was a great nation.
That was also the last time I remember the nation united.
I watched Mr. Trump fail to unite America and drive a wedge between us.
Now wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Just now are we getting good?
Mr. Trump goes out of his way to attack the cast of Saturday Night Live for bias.
He tweets day and night, but he waited two days to offer sympathy to the Ohio state community after an attack there.
He does not encourage civil discourse, but chooses to stoke fear and create outrage.
So we have an elector, a Republican elector, who says he's not going to vote for Trump because Trump attacks the cast of Saturday Night Live.
Now wait.
He says, this is unacceptable.
For me, America is that shining city on a hill that Ronaldus Magnus envisioned.
It has problems.
It has challenges.
These can be met and overcome, just as our nation overcame September 11th.
Moving forward.
Talks about Trump lacking foreign policy experience, lacking demeanor to be commander-in-chief, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Alexander Hamilton also reminded us that a president cannot be a demagogue.
Mr. Trump urged violence against protesters at his rallies during the campaign.
He speaks of retribution against his critics.
He has surrounded himself with advisors such as Steve Bannon, who claims to be a Leninist and lauds villains and their thirst for power, including Darth Vader.
Really?
Rogue One, the latest Star Wars movie, arrives later this month.
I am not taking my children to see it to celebrate evil, but to show them that light can overcome it.
General Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump's pick for national security advisor, has his own checkered past about rules.
He installed a secret internet connection in his Pentagon office despite rules to the contrary.
Sound familiar?
I believe electors should unify behind a Republican alternative, an honorable and qualified man or woman such as, John Kasich of Ohio.
I pray my fellow electors will do their job and join with me in discovering who that person should be.
So he's not going to support Trump.
He's not going to vote for Trump because Trump has an advisor who admires Darth Vader and because Trump criticizes Saturday Night Live.
It's pathetic.
It is literally pathetic.
And of course, no mystery.
The New York Times found this guy, or he found them.
But he's proud and he thinks he's virtuous.
And he knows that Trump is a reprobate, a heathen, a sybaritic pursuit aspect that just doesn't deserve to be in the White House because he's got an advice.
And he's going to go take his kids to see Rogue.
Rogue One is not part of the Star Wars series.
It's a Star Wars story.
But it's not one of the official Star Wars installments.
For example, Darth Vader is in it.
But Darth Vader is dead in the chronological Star Wars story.
So this predates.
Anyway, it's supposedly pretty good, too.
And if you look, if you like Star Wars stuff, Rogue One's supposed to be very, very good.
I hope this elector enjoys it.
I hope his children are not too frightened by the evil of Darth Vader, Donald Trump.
Back to the phones.
People patiently waiting.
Everybody wants to appear on the EIB network, Punta Gorda, Florida.
Mike, great to have you on the program.
How are you doing, sir?
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my phone call.
You bet, sir.
I am 60 years old, and I have been waiting for 27 some odd years for someone like Mr. Trump.
The man is brilliant.
I voted for Ross Perot back in the late 80s.
He told us, do not do NAFTA.
And I listened to him.
I can't believe the American people have been duped for so many years.
He said, do not do it.
It's going to ruin us.
He called it that giant second sound, Larry.
That giant second sound from Mexico, Larry, taking all our jobs.
That's the man.
That's the man.
I went to school with Marty Meehan.
I believe he went to Congress at the time.
And Clinton brought him in and said, look, he was the holdout.
He said, if you vote for NAFTA with me, I will make you chairman of one of my committees.
And he folded and went for it.
Biggest mistake in the world.
And he also said he would do term limits.
And when term limits came up, he said, oh, no, now I realize.
Wait, who is this you're talking about?
Marty Meehan.
Oh, Marty Meehan from Boston.
Yes, Marty Man.
Marty, Marty Meehan.
Right, right.
I remember.
I went to high school with Marty.
And you believed him?
No.
I wrote letters to his office and told him, why'd you do that?
And they wrote me some.
By the way, you're from Massachusetts, right?
You're not a Florida native.
Oh, I've been to Florida since 2000.
Right, I could tell.
Oh, okay.
I mean, you wouldn't know Marty Meehan if you grew up in Florida.
Yeah, no.
But I went to school with him, and he pushed through NAFTA with Clinton, and the biggest mistake ever.
I am so happy and so delighted that we finally have somebody.
Donald Trump, President Donald Trump, as far as I'm concerned, he is like Ross Perot on steroids, and I love it.
Yeah, Ross Perot, hand grenade with a bad haircut.
He was a force of nature, too, just like Disney.
But he knew what we had to do, but he didn't have the stenimer and the strength.
No, no, no, no, no.
Wasn't that Mr. Perot didn't actually want to win.
He didn't think he would.
And I predicted this.
When it looked like he was going to, he pulled out of there.
Yeah, that was.
He didn't.
He did this.
He had his motives were pure.
I mean, his campaigning, his message was pure, and it was honest, but his motivations.
There were some personal things going on between him and George H.W. Bush, which I don't need to revisit here.
But I'm not surprised if you're a Perotista that you also like the Trumpster.
It would follow.
I switched from, I was a Democrat because my parents told me I was a Democrat, and I was duped.
And then when Ross Perot came out, I switched to Independent.
And what the crazy thing is, living in Florida, being independent, I can't vote in the primary.
Yeah, well, that doesn't work, so you have to switch parties exactly.
Okay, look, Mike, before we get out of here, it's every caller today, and for the past three or four days, brand new iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus.
Your choice, if you want one.
Yes, please.
Well, which one?
Great.
I guess a plus.
It sounds better.
All right.
Do you have any – what's your cell phone carrier?
ATT.
ATT.
So you can take any color you want.
Any color.
There's gold, there's rose gold.
There's silver, there is black.
Let's go with the black.
I wonder why.
Oh, whatever.
Any color doesn't matter.
No, no, no, no.
It's fine.
I wonder why everybody's going with black.
I've kind of steered people there because it's the new color.
But if that's what you're doing.
I just want to thank you for your show.
Well.
It's so informative.
I appreciate that very much.
I'm glad you're out there.
I really appreciate it, Mike.
Let me remind you now to hang on so that we can get an address to Spedex your phone to you.
It's going to be unlocked.
It'll work on any carrier.
There's no SIM card in it.
Don't forget that.
We'll be right back.
Guys, I'm going to sell it's 5 and 22, and it will double back again 2021.
People are going to hear those.
I mentioned near the end of the program yesterday that it looking like Ken, the Ken doll of Ken and Barbie fame, may actually be gay, which would not be a surprise to me that Ken has been gay all these years, only known by the manufacturers and designers.
Now, the reason I say this is they have a story here from the New York Post yesterday, complete with a photo of Ken and Barbie looking like, well, Ken looks like he's a gay matador, and Barbie looks like she's going to a cocktail party at Oprah's.
Well, maybe Beyoncé's, I don't know.
And the headline is, at long last, Ken gets his own designer clothes.
And I'm telling you, it's the gay flag.
The clothes are the gay flag, the rainbow.
And they're vertical stripes.
You don't wear vertical stripes.
Golfers will tell you this.
You don't wear vertical stripes.
I mean, overweight people do it because they think it makes them look slim.
You're supposed to wear the diagonal, not diagonal, but the horizontal stripes.
But these stripes, here they are.
Bright red, blue, white, yellow.
It looks like aqua, pea soup green, which happens to be the color right there in the crotch.
I wonder if that means anything.
Pea soup green is the color where the crotch is.
Does that mean anything in that world, Mr. Snurdy?
Well, I'm just asking, because I don't know either.
And here's the story.
Ken is finally getting the style makeover he deserves.
And who better to dress up Barbie's bow than fashion designer Jeremy Scott?
Have you ever heard of Jeremy Scott?
Is anybody in there?
It's just not our world, Jeremy Scott.
The doll duo, complete with new tugs and slamming hair, being sold as a set for $200.
Scott has Barbie Dona version of a dress worn by Stella Maxwell on the red carpet for the 2015 Video Music Awards that's part of the Dynasty worthy gown and part artsy graffiti.
Ken is getting his first ever designer treatment, a miniature version of the suit that Jeremy Scott wore alongside Maxwell.
It's, I mean, it don't say, it doesn't say here, but I mean, that's the rainbow flag color, right, Snerdley?
It does to me.
So anyway.
I wonder if all this time that all of these little girls that have been playing with Ken and Barbie dolls have known that Ken is gay.
Oh, they did?
They got married.
Ken and Robert got married.
Well, then that kind of blows up the theory that Ken was.
Well, it actually doesn't, does it?
Ken could have been trapped, you know, in a patriarchal culture and had, in order to get an equip close to Barbie, had to stay in the closet or what have you.
Well, we'll link to it at rushlimbo.com and you can look at it yourself and decide if there is any meaning to it.
Jonah Goldberg of National Review was on Fox this morning.
He was on America's newsroom.
Jonah is not happy with the Trump transition.
He's nervous because he's doing things that just aren't done.
By the way, has anybody, have you seen, has anybody commented on the crease in Trump's slacks yet that has sat down for an interview?
That's coming.
You know, somebody's going to do that.
Well, anyway, the discussion subject was Trump's transition.
And hey, you know, making some people nervous.
And this is what Jonah said.
This is all uncharted territory about how to do a presidential transition.
Normally, presidents don't try to set foreign policy or new economic policy while the actual president is still in office.
If you look like with the Taiwan thing, if this was this brilliant thinking ahead of the curve kind of new strategy, setting the tone kind of thing, why did the Trump team put out Mike Pence, his vice president, and Kellyanne Conway to say this is not a big deal.
They just called us.
This is a minor thing.
The messaging on a lot of these sorts of things doesn't seem to be as thought through.
It seems to be there's a lot of ad hoc stuff going on here.
And I get it.
That's how Trump operates to keep people on their toes and keep people guessing.
But that's not how administrations need to operate.
Can't operate improv.
Can't operate ad hoc.
Got to have a plan.
Got to have a schedule.
Got to have an itinerary.
Can't deviate from it.
Got to do this.
And Trump is not doing it.
I think, you know, Trump's, there's a poll out there.
You don't want fake news.
How about fake polling?
Do you think we had any of that during the campaign?
I think we had a heck of a lot of fake polling.
Anyway, the polls out there right now, Trump's approval rating is just off the charts.
And it's totally understandable.
He already looks like he's accomplishing serious things and changing the direction of the country quickly in a good way.
And you know something else?
You know, I mentioned yesterday, I think one of the reasons that people are so upbeat is that we're not on defense anymore.
You realize eight years of being on defense.
Eight years of having to react.
And eight years, by the way, I think this is huge, folks.
Eight years of people thinking that we were losing.
Losing the country that Obama and the Democrats were succeeding in convincing a majority of Americans that America as founded was no good and that we needed to change and we needed to stop this business of constant growth, stop this business of America being a superpower.
We had to understand that America was just like every other nation and we're going to go through our periods of decline and we have to manage that.
Well, we rejected that out of hand, but the fear was that because of media coverage, everybody looked like a majority of Americans are buying into it and we now know they weren't.
We now know it wasn't even close.
We now know that we haven't lost the country.
We're not that close to it.
I mean, it's we're not out of the woods, don't misunderstand, because the left is always there.
But it's such a stark contrast of going from one feared reality to the realization that we were wrong.
And that alone makes people upbeat and positive.
And Trump is the reason for it.
And people are capitalizing on it and feeling the joy.
But some of the never Trumpers, it's just not the way it's done.
It's not.
Right.
Baghdad Jim McDermott was also out there.
He is livid that Trump's tweeting and acting like he's the president when he isn't yet.
I just got a call from a reporter about a tweet which the president-elect has made canceling the contract with the Boeing company and the federal government to build Air Force One.
The last time I looked, the president of the United States is still Barack Obama.
He will be president of this country until the 20th of January.
What we have right now is a president-elect running around the world with his tweet bar, making statements that are disruptive and distractive for the American public.
So yet another Jurassic Park Democrat, Baghdad Jim McDermott, telling Trump to get off his lawn.
And the tweet bar.
I don't know.
Look, I don't tweet.
Well, I never heard of a tweet bar, but I wasn't going to say anything because maybe people who tweet, maybe there is a tweet bar.
A tweet bar, obviously, it doesn't please you go.
Trump doesn't drink, so it can't be that that he's talking about.
Tweet bar?
Maybe this is how Baghdad Jim is computer is made up of bars on the menu bar, and the Twitter is in its bar up there.
He thinks it's the tweet bar.
Who knows?
He's a Jurassic Park guy.
He was one of these human shields in Baghdad.
He was going to go over there and shield Saddam Hussein if Bush was going to launch an attack.
Okay, a couple of soundbites here.
Jeff Waltz is the women's basketball coach at Maryland.
No, wait, Louisville.
He's the Louisville women's basketball coach.
And this happened last Thursday night in Louis after the number five Maryland basketball team held off number seven, Lul, 78-72.
And we have two soundbites.
This guy is fit to be tied because he thinks his team didn't go all out because they got participation trophies.
Here's the first of two soundbites.
You got to have a will.
Right now, the generation of kids that are coming through, everybody gets a damn trophy.
Okay?
You finish last, you come home with a trophy.
You kidding me?
I mean, what's that teaching kids?
It's okay to lose.
And unfortunately, it's our society.
It's what we're building for.
And it's not just in basketball, it's in life.
And he continued with that line of thought.
Everybody thinks they should get a job.
Everybody thinks they should get a good job.
No, that's not the way it works.
But unfortunately, that's what we are preparing for.
Because you finish fifth, you walk home with this nice trophy, parents are all excited.
No, not to be too blunt, but you're a loser.
When you go to get a job, there's competition.
And what are you going to do to stand out?
But unfortunately, we're not preparing these kids before they get to us to be ready for that.
I know it's a long time ago, but days we played, when you lost, you went home.
There was no friendship bracket.
You know, let's go on the left side to the friendship game so everybody can play two more games.
No, you went home.
You went home a loser.
And then you worked at it if you wanted to be good.
Where did they find it?
How did this guy get hired?
How in the world did it lo?
How did he get hired anywhere?
The women's coach.
And his team was number seven in the nation.
They lost to number five, Maryland.
And he goes on.
No, no, don't miss it.
The guy's exactly right.
But I don't know how he's this happened last Thursday and this is Tuesday.
And he's still there.
I mean, no, he's dead on right.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm just, this is the kind of thinking that the multicultural curriculum thinks they have banished for the last 25 years from American sports and culture.
Feel like temperature out there, 90 degrees.
On December the 6th, here's Donald Trump.
He went back down to the elevators at Trump Tower moments ago, this afternoon in New York City.
This is Masa of SoftBank from Japan, and he's just agreed to invest $50 billion in the United States and 50,000 jobs.
And he's one of the great men of industry.
So I just want to thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
And if you'd like to speak to him, you can.
But one of the truly great men.
Thank you.
Thank you, Michelle.
Thank you.
So that's Mayoshi-san of SoftBank in Japan.
Thank you.
I think I've met this guy at Trump International.
I could be mistaken, but I was walking along and Trump's, come on, you've got to meet.
He's the richest guy in Japan.
Name sounds familiar.
Anyway, his name is Masa Masayoshi son of SoftBank in Japan.
50,000 jobs, $50 billion investment, meaning I guess they're going to have branches and stuff here.
Trump at Trump Tower today.
Baghdad Jim said, wait, oh, it's going to take off everybody.
Never Trumpers, the liberals, because see Jonah Goldberg point Baghdad Jim McDermott.
He's not president yet.
This is very gauche, by the way.
Very, very bad behavior.
Very gauche, very unsophisticated, very uncool to just literally go in there and assume that you can take over the job before you even have it with no respect for the sitting president.
This is what they're thinking.
Oh, folks, it is possible that I will not be here tomorrow.
The odds are pretty good that I will not be here tomorrow.
We got Mark Stein in standby mode, but it's an unavoidable personal thing that normally happens on weekends, but this is not happening on a weekend.
I need to get to it and do it.
So they'll be back on Thursday regardless.
I just wanted to let you know that so that you weren't shocked and surprised and felt disappointed and let down tomorrow when you didn't hear my voice.
Thehill.com has additional details on the $50 billion investment by SoftBank in Japan.
Mr. Masayoshi's son of the SoftBank Outfit in Japan said that he would never do this.
He would not have agreed to invest $50 billion in the U.S. if Trump had not won the election.
He's doing it precisely because of Trump.
That's what theHill.com is reporting.
I'm telling you, heads are exploding out there.
You know what?
It's going to be long before, well, I'll make that prediction when I get back.
I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be here tomorrow.
It's always possible I will be.
But regardless, back here Thursday for sure.
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