Jon Caldara, President of the Independence Insitute fills in for Dan and leads off with his tedious airport experience in Montreal where protesters were blocking traffic.
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This is Dan Caples and welcome totoday's online podcast edition of The Dan Caplis
Show. Please be sure to giveus a five star rating if you'd be
so kind, and to subscribe,download and listen to the show every single
day on your favorite podcast platform.Seven minutes after Good Afternoon, I'm John
Caldera in for I don't know whatDan's doing. I don't know. I
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don't know. He doesn't tell me. He just says, hey, can
you fill in for me? AndI go, yes, yes, please
please let me chase away your audience. Give me a call three or three,
seven to one, three eight,two five five. All right.
So I have the worst luck flying. Every time I do a flight,
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it something goes haywire. And Ihad a trip to Montreal that I had
to go to. I was abusiness trip and it was wonderful, and
it was supposed to leave on Sundayat like ten in the morning. It
left at eight pm, so itit was like ten hours late. Not
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that DIA isn't just this sectacular placeto hang out, but it was.
They say, one, it wasthe weather, and then two they said,
oh it's facility problems, which meantthey had no place to put the
plane in. Yeah, yeah,we're ready to go, but we don't
have a gate. We don't havea gate. I love it when you
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get in early on a flight.Well, we'd like to see that we
got you in to Denver ten minutesbefore a schedule. However, there's no
gate crew, so we'll just behanging out here for about, oh,
I don't know, fifteen minutes.No, you you get no credit for
getting us to Denver early. Ifyou can't get out of the plane,
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that's yeah, that's that's it.It's like, wait a second, just
open up one of those shoots onthe side, you know, the emergency
exits, and they have the inflatableslide. Just let me go. I
got carry on, I'll just go, Can I Can I do that?
There's just such little joy with airtravel. It's except this morning I had
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to fly back from Montreal, hada ridiculously early flight. So I got
up early, which I hate todo, and took an ober to the
to the place to the airport.Hit the plane went off, you know,
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regularly on time, and then Ifound out later that there was a
mess at that airport. I dodgeda bullet. This is this is one
of those times when you're always angrybecause of the whatever happened, the weather
delays, the software problems, Microsoftupdate doesn't work, whatever, And then
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sometimes you've managed to do it.I got to the airport in Montreal before
this happened, and then all mycolleagues are texting each other, going,
watch out, go to the airportearly. There's a big problem. What's
the big problem? We read fromthe Canadian Broadcast Company. A group of
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protesters blocked the ramp to the departuresarea at Trudeau International Airport, causing a
traffic backlog in the area. Theyglued themselves to the road. One I'm
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just thrilled that I got there beforethese yahoos did this. But now listen
to this. Three of the protesters, who are carrying a sign that said
oil kills, glued themselves to theground and refused to move. The group.
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Last Generation Canada said in an Instagrampost that the protest was one of
several undertaken simultaneously at airports in Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Norway,
Switzerland, Australia and Austria, excuseme, and Finland. We are
part of an international uprising to endoil by twenty thirty. Right, So
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I'm looking at a I'm looking ata picture of these folks and they're sitting
on the street and they glued themselvesto the ramp that goes to the departure
area. So for hours they hadto deal with us, and I'm I
just stick with me for a second. So I see a picture of them.
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They've got red slash pink kind ofsafety vests on so that they're not
run over that they're seeing. They'vegot tennis shoes on. They've got a
water bottle it looks like maybe acoke bottle that's made out of plastic.
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Let me see if I got thisone right. Help me work through this.
They're part of an uprising to endoil, saying that oil kills.
Yet I'm looking at a picture ofthe protesters. They've got plastic glasses made
out of oil. They've got safetyvests on, plastic nylon made out of
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oil. They're wearing articles of clothingand including shoes made out of oil.
They're drinking from a bottle made outof petroleum products. Ah, that's just
beautiful. It's it's kind of likewhen you see the protesters when it did
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you see the protest for for Palestine, and it said l B L G
B t q I A plus plusfor Palestine. And I'm sure the folks
that who are who are the terrorists, are going, oh, thank you
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for your help. And by theway, the minute we do win and
take over Palestine, you know,the gays and the transactuals and all the
other queers will will be killed.But we want to thank you for your
support. It is as if theseleft leaning protesters cannot see the wild hypocrisy
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in their simple actions. So let'sgo and wear a bunch of petroleum products
to say no petroleum products and useglue, which I'm pretty sure is also
a petroleum product, to glue ourselvesto the road to protest petroleum products and
petroleum. It's two delicious. It'sjust two delicious. It's like it's like
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when a kid holds his breath ina tantrum and the only thing that's going
to happen is if he really holdshis breath, he'll knock himself out.
Why why are you doing this?The next part of it is, of
course, the Montreal police said thatthe airport requested assistance at ten thirty am,
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So my flight was gone. GladI missed it. Officers arrived on
the scene six protesters shouting environmental slogans. Three of them left, but the
other three glued themselves to the ground. By two pm, the protesters have
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been unnglued. So let me seeif I got that. So for three
and a half hours, these guysheld up traffic by gluing themselves to the
road. You know, when youdo that, you're killing people. There
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are people who have to get totheir flights. There are pilots who need
to get get to their flights,and flight crew that need to get to
their planes, and people who needto go places for medical procedures. There
are people who have to go seetheir kids, people who have to see
others who are in crisis, whomight be on a ventilator dying in another
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city, and they're rushing out there. But these spoiled brats glue themselves to
the street. What should what shouldthe punishment be for this? Because I
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believe the crime is actually very,very sizable. It's kind of like when
they broke down on I twenty fiveand they put a protest there and stop
traffic. Now, you may ormay not know, I had a heart
attack a month ago, and Iwas in my car when it happened,
and I was able to get tothe hospital. If this had been in
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the way, or the protesters hadbeen in the way, I'd be dead.
Would that be a murder charge?Three all three seven one three eight
two five five inver Dan the man, I'm John Calderic. Keep it right
here, you're on six thirty khow and now back to the Dan Kaplass
Show podcast. How does that songstill sound so good? That sharp tight?
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I'm an old guy, I likeit. I remember when the album
came out. All right, JohnCalvera in for Dan caplis three oh three
seven one three eight two five five. I left Montreal this morning and and
the airline gods smiled upon me,because after I got to the airport,
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a bunch of loons glued themselves tooto the ramp that goes to the departures.
There was no traffic allowed. Itwas massively backed up for three and
a half hours, three and ahalf hours, maybe closer to four as
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people left lost their their flights,couldn't get through. And they were protesting
oil. They were protesting oil.From the text line, John, how
did the protesters get to the airport. I'm sure they did not use any
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products made of or using oil toget there. If they walked barefoot with
fig leaves, okay. If not, then their hypocrites. They used oil
oil, They wore oil products,petroleum products, drinking out of bottles that
were petroleum products, using glue toglude themselves to the road which are petroleum
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product, all to fight petroleum products. So the crime that they commit,
I think is really sizable. It'slike when people protesters lay down in the
street and they stop traffic. Whatthey're doing is killing people. People need
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first responders. First responders get stuckin traffic. People need to get to
their medical appointments. About a monthor so ago, I had a heart
attack on US thirty six driving towork. I didn't know I had a
heart attack, but it was becominga possibility. If there was a four
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hour parking lot of a traffic jam, I would have died. So I
was lucky. I was lucky.If someone eyes because they cannot get the
medical attention they need when a protesterblocks traffic, I think that's manslaughter.
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The better question for mister capitalis whoknows the law is a little better.
But that's that's manslaughter. What shouldthe punishment be? One text in John,
I think they should just rip thedemonstrators off the pavement and call the
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medics for them and open the road. I agree, I agree, I
just, I just, I lovethe simpleton mind. If you're gonna protest
oil, don't use oil. Don'tget to the protest using oil. Come
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on, you can do it,you can do it. Oh, it's
just terrific. Spokesperson for the airportsaid, a concerted action by a group
of individuals calleging delays and ex accessaccessing the You excuse me why U L?
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Airport site? By the way,this is really weird. Throughout Montreal,
you'll see the word ule. Youexcuse me, why U L?
Why is that? Because it's theirairport code, just like dn is Denvers
and so they call their cities bythe airport codes. We're proud of being
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from yu L. Canadians, Canadians. Images from the scene show travelers exiting
their cars and walking past the toget to the terminal. So you got
to grab your bags and walk forblocks, who knows, maybe a mile
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I don't know, to try toget I have no I just have no
sympathy. Here's the other one.Climate activists glue themselves to Cologne Bond Airport
runway. As part of europe wideprotest, climate activists have glued themselves to
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the runway the Cologne Bond Airport,one of Germany's busiest airports. Flights were
stopped. The airport's saying the policeoperation and the airport is over. Flight
operations have resumed. And there theyare. I'm looking at another lur chids
and they're they're wearing safety vests thatare made at petroleum. So what are
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there? What are their demands?Acting under the banner oil kills? The
protesters say, we are demanding ourcriminal governments phase out oil, gas and
coal by twenty thirty by signing abinding international treaty. I tell you what,
you you go ahead and live withoutoil and petroleum products for a week
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and then we'll talk and the ohby that move, wait, that means
no computers, no phones, notthese things that are made out of petroleum.
Then then then you can do it, all right, give me a
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call on this one. Three ohthree seven one three eight two five five,
Oh, what I got to tellyou this one? This one is
just spectacular. Crowd Strike has triedto make amends for their their system wine
outage that crashed millions of computers.When I get back, I'll tell you
what they gave out. Keep ithere. You're on six thirty K how
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you're listening to the Dan Kaplis Showpodcast. You did so well with Steve
Miller Band and Jetliner and Safety Dance. Well, John, you mentioned safety,
and when I think of safety,I think of men without hats.
I think without see your seventies andI'm eighties. There's a little bit of
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gap there. Remember we talked aboutthis whether you're a boomer or a gen
xer, and you're like right onthe dividing line. Yeah, I was
born in sixty four, yep.But my musical likes always tend to skew
older. I'm a Beatles fan andan Elvis fan, and a Benny Goodman
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fan and a Frank Sinatra fan,and I just yeah, so, but
still I don't I lived through theeighties. Yeah, I was in high
school and college in the eighties,and and that music sucked then. So
you weren't into the new wave protopunk kind of movement. There were men
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at work flock of seagulls. Yeah. God, it's embarrassing today, isn't
it. You didn't have a flockof seagulls haircut ton. I had an
afro. I couldn't have all Pleasepost photos online, No on the socials,
No, no, come on no. It was glorious. So,
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as you might have heard, there'sa rumor that I lost some hair,
that I'm a little on the wellat one point, you had it a
little little on the uh doctor xavierside of of of hair. But in
high school, man, I hadan afro that just stuck out. It
was. It was, you know, it was like five inches over my
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head. It was just delicious.I used to call it half second hair
because I could turn my head andthen about a half second later that the
hair would find me move on whichthere was a video of this. It
was. It was beautiful. Letme tell you. The ladies loved it.
I'm sure they did. And thenI lost my hair and I haven't
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kissed a girl since. Oh wowwow. Yeah, But that's a that's
a different different topic altogether. Hey, my number three all three seven,
one, three, eight, twofive five. As I said, people
who stop traffic for their protests shouldbe charged with manslaughter because people die and
they need medical assistance. They needto get some places, they need to
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get to their lives. They andeven people who agree with the protests still
need to get to the hospital.So good luck killing them. I like
this this text, John. Ifyou were having a medical issue and you
were driving on C four seventy inthe left lane and you crossed a double
white line in toll lanes to getto the shoulder, do you think they
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would waive the seventy five dollars fine? Probably not. Also, what if
you cross the double white line toprevent an accident? A chance common sense
would be used by government workers notto find someone? Yeah? Probably they're
not completely soulless. Yeah, I'msorry. I was having a heart attack
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and I needed to pull over.All right. So you know that the
company crowd Strike, the cybersecurity firmthat crashed millions of computers and Delta airlines,
is still still suffering the backlash overit. Well, they wanted to
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give some sort of some sort ofapology, you know, some little gift
yep, CrowdStrike is offering its partnersa ten dollars uber Eats gift card as
an apology, according to several peoplewho say they receive the gift card,
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as well as a source who alsoreceived one. On Tuesday, a source
told tech Crunch that they received anemail from CrowdStrike offering them the gift card
because the company recognizes quote the additionalwork that the July nineteenth incident has cost
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and quote for that, we sendour heartfelt thanks and apologies for the inconvenience
to express our gratitude. Your nextcup of car for your late night snack
is on us. Yeah, Iam sure the millions of people stuck in
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airports for days like oh oh ohten dollars, grub hub, chiev me,
uber eats. Oh yeah, ohthat's perfect. Oh I think we're
good. Yeah, we're We're We'reall good. An email was sent from
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a CrowdStrike email address in the nameof Daniel Bernard, the company's chief business
offer Sir, according to a screenshotseen by this website called tech Crunch.
According to one post on x inthe United Kingdom, the voucher was worth
seven pounds and seventy five pennies roughlyten dollars. Here's the punchline. On
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Wednesday, some of the people whoposted about the gift card said that when
they went to redeem the offer,they got an error message saying the voucher
had been canceled. M When techCrunch checked the voucher, the over each
page provided an error message that saidthe gift card quote has been canceled by
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the issuing party and is no longervalid. This is this is what what's
what's the great? It was aCarnegie book how to win friends and influence
people. This is this is howyou do it. You destroy their computers,
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you give them a ten dollars giftcertificate, and then you pull it
back. So one airline was notimpacted really at all by all these all
these updates that rendered about eight anda half million Windows devices unusual. What
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airline was that? And I guessyou two? Nothing not Delta, No,
not Delta. They were the worst. No, it was it was
Southwest. Why was Southwest not impacted? Because Southwest is operating on a Windows
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ninety five operating system. That's thatis wildly out of date, and they
have this old, crickety old systemthat this update had nothing to do with
because it was so old. It'skind of like it's kind of like when
your your car has a tech problem, and it's some old guy with an
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international pickup truck, and and thatone's always working because there's no electronics in
it. The world now is tiedin to automatic updates. A guy I
know has a Tesla and he likesthat it can go fast, and they
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can go really fast. And thenone morning he woke up and it no
longer went really fast. Yes,in the update, because it goes and
updates itself. In the latest softwareupdate, it put a digital regulator on
the car. So instead of insteadof being able to go as fast as
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you wanted with a little software changeyou had nothing to do with, now
the car you bought won't do thefeature you bought it for. You know
what it's like when you wake upand your cell phone has been you know,
updated, and has a whole newlook in a whole new operating system,
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and you got to learn something else, and you're like, just I
liked what you had before, orI liked I liked the website better before
you were talking about that. I'mon a cusp between gen X and boomers.
It's I'm in that world where yougot one foot in analog and one
foot in digital. So people whoare older than me often not always have
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a hard time with technology. Peoplewho are younger than me have a hard
time with the analog world. It'slike, how do you put up the
drywall? How do you change theoil in your car? What do you
mean you sweat pipes? What doesthat mean you? You use your hands?
Kid? I use my thumbs insteadon a screen. That's how I
get things done. So people,people who are of the analog world,
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we hate when our technology changes withoutour permission. Has that ever happened to
you? Anyway? Did you geta Uber eats card from from CrowdStrike and
then they took it away? God, so ridiculously bad. It really gives
you an idea how very vulnerable theentire planet is to cybersecurity, and what
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would happen should our enemies really wantto go at it? Give me a
call three or three seven, one, three, eight two five five seven
to one three talk. Let's takea quick breather when we get back.
Did you did you watch any ofthe speech by Nettan Yahoo? He was
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in Congress and guess who wasn't there? Well? Jd Vance wasn't there,
But neither was the future President ofthe United States, Kamala Harris, give
me a call three or three sevento one, three eight two five five.
I'm John Caldera in from mister Kaplas. Keep it here on six thirty
K how and now back to theDan Kaplas Show podcast. Now that's old
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school. Hey, I'm John Calderain for Dan. Give me a call
three h three seven to one,three eight two five five. Let's get
to these phone calls. Let's talkto Jennifer. Hey, Jennifer, you're
with John Caldera. Welcome. HiJohn, I've always wanted to thank you
for the wonderful interview you can getwith the lady who was best friends with
ein Rand. I know that wasback in the night. Oh my god,
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it's funny. I was thinking aboutthat just today when I was driving
home. I had a conversation withBarbara Brandon, just because I was a
fan of hers and she was aclose friend of Einran And it was her
husband and she that were befriended byEinran and her husband, Frank O'Connor,
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and then her husband ended up havingan affair with Einran and she wrote a
book about it. She passed awaya number of years ago, but I've
had dinner with her, and she'sjust a wonderful, wonderful woman. So
it was funny. I was thinkingabout that today. It gave me an
insight into Einrand that I had nothad from reading her books. Yeah.
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The book, the book that BarbaraBrandon wrote was called The Passion of ein
Rand, and it was kind ofthe story of being there when she wrote
Atlas Shrugged and built built all thesebooks afterwards. So yeah, I thought,
she's just wonderful. It was awonderful interview, so I enjoyed it.
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It's funny. That was Thank youmy god. That was like twenty
years ago. Yeah, I've beenaround a few years anyway. As for
the individuals who insist on gluing themselvesto Rhodes and Tarmacs and things like that,
I would just bring one of thoseportable construction chains length senses and put
it around them and let them staythere for a few days, and put
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another barrier around that in anybody whotries to get to them, to help
them or less the trespassing, andput them in jail. Yeah, although
it would still hold up traffic,so they would still win. In some
way. Yeah, maybe if therewas maybe if there was a way to
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glue them down, laying down,and then people could drive over them and
you know, and between their wheels, they they'd have to not hit them,
but you know, you could justdrive right over them. Something that
would really be awful, I think. I think that's just the fact that
they were stuck there by their ownhand, so to speak, and couldn't
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do anything about it. I thinkthat over a few days would really put
the message out that if you dothis, expect bad things to happen to
you. Yeah, there really needsto be something that makes it clear that
that you do this, bad thingshappen. Don't do this again. And
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maybe that happens with great jail sentencesor or the courts take care of it.
But wouldn't it be nice if ifthere was just something like you bring
a bulldozer and you scrape them offthe road, you know green, but
that that means you're doing it.Action that can actually hook them their actions
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are hurting themselves. Should be themessage, and it should be there in
the public so that people can seeit and it's not gonna go away.
Remember one of the scenes from soylentto Green the Charlton Heston movie from a
gazillion years ago. And the world'soverpopulated and there's some riot, and so
the police come in with basically thesebig bulldozers, you know, pick up
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the guys and throw them in theback of these these big dump trucks and
take them away and turn them intofood. And it's just like, you
know that would work. It's like, I have no sympathy. I have
so no sympathy for that. Youknow, you want to protest, fine,
protest, but that that age oldsaying of your right to swing your
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arms ends at the tip of mynose. You can swing your fists up
until the tip of my nose.And that's what these guys are doing.
They are harming people, they arebreaking the law, and we should come
down on them like a tongue aton of bricks. You must be responsible
for your own actions. So Idon't mind running them over. I think,
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you know, one guy gets runover, the other guy might think
maybe I shouldn't glue myself on aroad. Guess the thought. Anyway,
Jennifer, have yourself a wonderful,wonderful day. Three oh three seven one
three eight two, five five,So edge net Yahoo spoke in front of
a joint session of Congress. Wellinterestingly, Kamala Harris declined to preside over
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this joint meeting of Congress. Shehas never declined to sit over a joint
meeting of Congress. It's a bigdeal when there's a joint meeting. That's
why the President of the Senate theVice president presides over it. Where it
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was she apparently she was addressing asorority somewhere. M Bernie Sanders called net
Yahoo a war criminal. Representative JamalBowman said net Yaho should be arrested.
Let's talk about this a little bitwhen we get back three oh three seven
one three eight two five five sevenone three talk. I'm John Keldrek.
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Keep it right here already, kameow
This is Dan Caples and welcome totoday's online podcast edition of The Dan Caplis
Show. Please be sure to giveus a five star rating if you'd be
so kind, and to subscribe,download and listen to the show every single
day on your favorite podcast platform.Seven minutes after Good Afternoon, I'm John
Caldera in for I don't know whatDan's doing. I don't know. I
(00:24):
don't know. He doesn't tell me. He just says, hey, can
you fill in for me? AndI go, yes, yes, please
please let me chase away your audience. Give me a call three or three,
seven to one, three eight,two five five. All right.
So I have the worst luck flying. Every time I do a flight,
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it something goes haywire. And Ihad a trip to Montreal that I had
to go to. I was abusiness trip and it was wonderful, and
it was supposed to leave on Sundayat like ten in the morning. It
left at eight pm, so itit was like ten hours late. Not
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that DIA isn't just this sectacular placeto hang out, but it was.
They say, one, it wasthe weather, and then two they said,
oh it's facility problems, which meantthey had no place to put the
plane in. Yeah, yeah,we're ready to go, but we don't
have a gate. We don't havea gate. I love it when you
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get in early on a flight.Well, we'd like to see that we
got you in to Denver ten minutesbefore a schedule. However, there's no
gate crew, so we'll just behanging out here for about, oh,
I don't know, fifteen minutes.No, you you get no credit for
getting us to Denver early. Ifyou can't get out of the plane,
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that's yeah, that's that's it.It's like, wait a second, just
open up one of those shoots onthe side, you know, the emergency
exits, and they have the inflatableslide. Just let me go. I
got carry on, I'll just go, Can I Can I do that?
There's just such little joy with airtravel. It's except this morning I had
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to fly back from Montreal, hada ridiculously early flight. So I got
up early, which I hate todo, and took an ober to the
to the place to the airport.Hit the plane went off, you know,
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regularly on time, and then Ifound out later that there was a
mess at that airport. I dodgeda bullet. This is this is one
of those times when you're always angrybecause of the whatever happened, the weather
delays, the software problems, Microsoftupdate doesn't work, whatever, And then
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sometimes you've managed to do it.I got to the airport in Montreal before
this happened, and then all mycolleagues are texting each other, going,
watch out, go to the airportearly. There's a big problem. What's
the big problem? We read fromthe Canadian Broadcast Company. A group of
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protesters blocked the ramp to the departuresarea at Trudeau International Airport, causing a
traffic backlog in the area. Theyglued themselves to the road. One I'm
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just thrilled that I got there beforethese yahoos did this. But now listen
to this. Three of the protesters, who are carrying a sign that said
oil kills, glued themselves to theground and refused to move. The group.
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Last Generation Canada said in an Instagrampost that the protest was one of
several undertaken simultaneously at airports in Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Norway,
Switzerland, Australia and Austria, excuseme, and Finland. We are
part of an international uprising to endoil by twenty thirty. Right, So
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I'm looking at a I'm looking ata picture of these folks and they're sitting
on the street and they glued themselvesto the ramp that goes to the departure
area. So for hours they hadto deal with us, and I'm I
just stick with me for a second. So I see a picture of them.
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They've got red slash pink kind ofsafety vests on so that they're not
run over that they're seeing. They'vegot tennis shoes on. They've got a
water bottle it looks like maybe acoke bottle that's made out of plastic.
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Let me see if I got thisone right. Help me work through this.
They're part of an uprising to endoil, saying that oil kills.
Yet I'm looking at a picture ofthe protesters. They've got plastic glasses made
out of oil. They've got safetyvests on, plastic nylon made out of
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oil. They're wearing articles of clothingand including shoes made out of oil.
They're drinking from a bottle made outof petroleum products. Ah, that's just
beautiful. It's it's kind of likewhen you see the protesters when it did
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you see the protest for for Palestine, and it said l B L G
B t q I A plus plusfor Palestine. And I'm sure the folks
that who are who are the terrorists, are going, oh, thank you
(06:42):
for your help. And by theway, the minute we do win and
take over Palestine, you know,the gays and the transactuals and all the
other queers will will be killed.But we want to thank you for your
support. It is as if theseleft leaning protesters cannot see the wild hypocrisy
(07:10):
in their simple actions. So let'sgo and wear a bunch of petroleum products
to say no petroleum products and useglue, which I'm pretty sure is also
a petroleum product, to glue ourselvesto the road to protest petroleum products and
petroleum. It's two delicious. It'sjust two delicious. It's like it's like
(07:43):
when a kid holds his breath ina tantrum and the only thing that's going
to happen is if he really holdshis breath, he'll knock himself out.
Why why are you doing this?The next part of it is, of
course, the Montreal police said thatthe airport requested assistance at ten thirty am,
(08:09):
So my flight was gone. GladI missed it. Officers arrived on
the scene six protesters shouting environmental slogans. Three of them left, but the
other three glued themselves to the ground. By two pm, the protesters have
(08:31):
been unnglued. So let me seeif I got that. So for three
and a half hours, these guysheld up traffic by gluing themselves to the
road. You know, when youdo that, you're killing people. There
(08:54):
are people who have to get totheir flights. There are pilots who need
to get get to their flights,and flight crew that need to get to
their planes, and people who needto go places for medical procedures. There
are people who have to go seetheir kids, people who have to see
others who are in crisis, whomight be on a ventilator dying in another
(09:16):
city, and they're rushing out there. But these spoiled brats glue themselves to
the street. What should what shouldthe punishment be for this? Because I
(09:39):
believe the crime is actually very,very sizable. It's kind of like when
they broke down on I twenty fiveand they put a protest there and stop
traffic. Now, you may ormay not know, I had a heart
attack a month ago, and Iwas in my car when it happened,
and I was able to get tothe hospital. If this had been in
(10:01):
the way, or the protesters hadbeen in the way, I'd be dead.
Would that be a murder charge?Three all three seven one three eight
two five five inver Dan the man, I'm John Calderic. Keep it right
here, you're on six thirty khow and now back to the Dan Kaplass
Show podcast. How does that songstill sound so good? That sharp tight?
(10:28):
I'm an old guy, I likeit. I remember when the album
came out. All right, JohnCalvera in for Dan caplis three oh three
seven one three eight two five five. I left Montreal this morning and and
the airline gods smiled upon me,because after I got to the airport,
(10:50):
a bunch of loons glued themselves tooto the ramp that goes to the departures.
There was no traffic allowed. Itwas massively backed up for three and
a half hours, three and ahalf hours, maybe closer to four as
(11:11):
people left lost their their flights,couldn't get through. And they were protesting
oil. They were protesting oil.From the text line, John, how
did the protesters get to the airport. I'm sure they did not use any
(11:35):
products made of or using oil toget there. If they walked barefoot with
fig leaves, okay. If not, then their hypocrites. They used oil
oil, They wore oil products,petroleum products, drinking out of bottles that
were petroleum products, using glue toglude themselves to the road which are petroleum
(11:58):
product, all to fight petroleum products. So the crime that they commit,
I think is really sizable. It'slike when people protesters lay down in the
street and they stop traffic. Whatthey're doing is killing people. People need
(12:24):
first responders. First responders get stuckin traffic. People need to get to
their medical appointments. About a monthor so ago, I had a heart
attack on US thirty six driving towork. I didn't know I had a
heart attack, but it was becominga possibility. If there was a four
(12:46):
hour parking lot of a traffic jam, I would have died. So I
was lucky. I was lucky.If someone eyes because they cannot get the
medical attention they need when a protesterblocks traffic, I think that's manslaughter.
(13:11):
The better question for mister capitalis whoknows the law is a little better.
But that's that's manslaughter. What shouldthe punishment be? One text in John,
I think they should just rip thedemonstrators off the pavement and call the
(13:31):
medics for them and open the road. I agree, I agree, I
just, I just, I lovethe simpleton mind. If you're gonna protest
oil, don't use oil. Don'tget to the protest using oil. Come
(13:58):
on, you can do it,you can do it. Oh, it's
just terrific. Spokesperson for the airportsaid, a concerted action by a group
of individuals calleging delays and ex accessaccessing the You excuse me why U L?
(14:22):
Airport site? By the way,this is really weird. Throughout Montreal,
you'll see the word ule. Youexcuse me, why U L?
Why is that? Because it's theirairport code, just like dn is Denvers
and so they call their cities bythe airport codes. We're proud of being
(14:48):
from yu L. Canadians, Canadians. Images from the scene show travelers exiting
their cars and walking past the toget to the terminal. So you got
to grab your bags and walk forblocks, who knows, maybe a mile
(15:09):
I don't know, to try toget I have no I just have no
sympathy. Here's the other one.Climate activists glue themselves to Cologne Bond Airport
runway. As part of europe wideprotest, climate activists have glued themselves to
(15:31):
the runway the Cologne Bond Airport,one of Germany's busiest airports. Flights were
stopped. The airport's saying the policeoperation and the airport is over. Flight
operations have resumed. And there theyare. I'm looking at another lur chids
and they're they're wearing safety vests thatare made at petroleum. So what are
(16:03):
there? What are their demands?Acting under the banner oil kills? The
protesters say, we are demanding ourcriminal governments phase out oil, gas and
coal by twenty thirty by signing abinding international treaty. I tell you what,
you you go ahead and live withoutoil and petroleum products for a week
(16:32):
and then we'll talk and the ohby that move, wait, that means
no computers, no phones, notthese things that are made out of petroleum.
Then then then you can do it, all right, give me a
(16:52):
call on this one. Three ohthree seven one three eight two five five,
Oh, what I got to tellyou this one? This one is
just spectacular. Crowd Strike has triedto make amends for their their system wine
outage that crashed millions of computers.When I get back, I'll tell you
what they gave out. Keep ithere. You're on six thirty K how
(17:18):
you're listening to the Dan Kaplis Showpodcast. You did so well with Steve
Miller Band and Jetliner and Safety Dance. Well, John, you mentioned safety,
and when I think of safety,I think of men without hats.
I think without see your seventies andI'm eighties. There's a little bit of
(17:42):
gap there. Remember we talked aboutthis whether you're a boomer or a gen
xer, and you're like right onthe dividing line. Yeah, I was
born in sixty four, yep.But my musical likes always tend to skew
older. I'm a Beatles fan andan Elvis fan, and a Benny Goodman
(18:03):
fan and a Frank Sinatra fan,and I just yeah, so, but
still I don't I lived through theeighties. Yeah, I was in high
school and college in the eighties,and and that music sucked then. So
you weren't into the new wave protopunk kind of movement. There were men
(18:26):
at work flock of seagulls. Yeah. God, it's embarrassing today, isn't
it. You didn't have a flockof seagulls haircut ton. I had an
afro. I couldn't have all Pleasepost photos online, No on the socials,
No, no, come on no. It was glorious. So,
(18:48):
as you might have heard, there'sa rumor that I lost some hair,
that I'm a little on the wellat one point, you had it a
little little on the uh doctor xavierside of of of hair. But in
high school, man, I hadan afro that just stuck out. It
was. It was, you know, it was like five inches over my
(19:11):
head. It was just delicious.I used to call it half second hair
because I could turn my head andthen about a half second later that the
hair would find me move on whichthere was a video of this. It
was. It was beautiful. Letme tell you. The ladies loved it.
I'm sure they did. And thenI lost my hair and I haven't
(19:32):
kissed a girl since. Oh wowwow. Yeah, But that's a that's
a different different topic altogether. Hey, my number three all three seven,
one, three, eight, twofive five. As I said, people
who stop traffic for their protests shouldbe charged with manslaughter because people die and
they need medical assistance. They needto get some places, they need to
(19:55):
get to their lives. They andeven people who agree with the protests still
need to get to the hospital.So good luck killing them. I like
this this text, John. Ifyou were having a medical issue and you
were driving on C four seventy inthe left lane and you crossed a double
white line in toll lanes to getto the shoulder, do you think they
(20:21):
would waive the seventy five dollars fine? Probably not. Also, what if
you cross the double white line toprevent an accident? A chance common sense
would be used by government workers notto find someone? Yeah? Probably they're
not completely soulless. Yeah, I'msorry. I was having a heart attack
(20:41):
and I needed to pull over.All right. So you know that the
company crowd Strike, the cybersecurity firmthat crashed millions of computers and Delta airlines,
is still still suffering the backlash overit. Well, they wanted to
(21:03):
give some sort of some sort ofapology, you know, some little gift
yep, CrowdStrike is offering its partnersa ten dollars uber Eats gift card as
an apology, according to several peoplewho say they receive the gift card,
(21:25):
as well as a source who alsoreceived one. On Tuesday, a source
told tech Crunch that they received anemail from CrowdStrike offering them the gift card
because the company recognizes quote the additionalwork that the July nineteenth incident has cost
(21:47):
and quote for that, we sendour heartfelt thanks and apologies for the inconvenience
to express our gratitude. Your nextcup of car for your late night snack
is on us. Yeah, Iam sure the millions of people stuck in
(22:08):
airports for days like oh oh ohten dollars, grub hub, chiev me,
uber eats. Oh yeah, ohthat's perfect. Oh I think we're
good. Yeah, we're We're We'reall good. An email was sent from
(22:30):
a CrowdStrike email address in the nameof Daniel Bernard, the company's chief business
offer Sir, according to a screenshotseen by this website called tech Crunch.
According to one post on x inthe United Kingdom, the voucher was worth
seven pounds and seventy five pennies roughlyten dollars. Here's the punchline. On
(23:00):
Wednesday, some of the people whoposted about the gift card said that when
they went to redeem the offer,they got an error message saying the voucher
had been canceled. M When techCrunch checked the voucher, the over each
page provided an error message that saidthe gift card quote has been canceled by
(23:26):
the issuing party and is no longervalid. This is this is what what's
what's the great? It was aCarnegie book how to win friends and influence
people. This is this is howyou do it. You destroy their computers,
(23:48):
you give them a ten dollars giftcertificate, and then you pull it
back. So one airline was notimpacted really at all by all these all
these updates that rendered about eight anda half million Windows devices unusual. What
(24:12):
airline was that? And I guessyou two? Nothing not Delta, No,
not Delta. They were the worst. No, it was it was
Southwest. Why was Southwest not impacted? Because Southwest is operating on a Windows
(24:32):
ninety five operating system. That's thatis wildly out of date, and they
have this old, crickety old systemthat this update had nothing to do with
because it was so old. It'skind of like it's kind of like when
your your car has a tech problem, and it's some old guy with an
(24:57):
international pickup truck, and and thatone's always working because there's no electronics in
it. The world now is tiedin to automatic updates. A guy I
know has a Tesla and he likesthat it can go fast, and they
(25:18):
can go really fast. And thenone morning he woke up and it no
longer went really fast. Yes,in the update, because it goes and
updates itself. In the latest softwareupdate, it put a digital regulator on
the car. So instead of insteadof being able to go as fast as
(25:41):
you wanted with a little software changeyou had nothing to do with, now
the car you bought won't do thefeature you bought it for. You know
what it's like when you wake upand your cell phone has been you know,
updated, and has a whole newlook in a whole new operating system,
(26:03):
and you got to learn something else, and you're like, just I
liked what you had before, orI liked I liked the website better before
you were talking about that. I'mon a cusp between gen X and boomers.
It's I'm in that world where yougot one foot in analog and one
foot in digital. So people whoare older than me often not always have
(26:30):
a hard time with technology. Peoplewho are younger than me have a hard
time with the analog world. It'slike, how do you put up the
drywall? How do you change theoil in your car? What do you
mean you sweat pipes? What doesthat mean you? You use your hands?
Kid? I use my thumbs insteadon a screen. That's how I
get things done. So people,people who are of the analog world,
(26:56):
we hate when our technology changes withoutour permission. Has that ever happened to
you? Anyway? Did you geta Uber eats card from from CrowdStrike and
then they took it away? God, so ridiculously bad. It really gives
you an idea how very vulnerable theentire planet is to cybersecurity, and what
(27:23):
would happen should our enemies really wantto go at it? Give me a
call three or three seven, one, three, eight two five five seven
to one three talk. Let's takea quick breather when we get back.
Did you did you watch any ofthe speech by Nettan Yahoo? He was
(27:44):
in Congress and guess who wasn't there? Well? Jd Vance wasn't there,
But neither was the future President ofthe United States, Kamala Harris, give
me a call three or three sevento one, three eight two five five.
I'm John Caldera in from mister Kaplas. Keep it here on six thirty
K how and now back to theDan Kaplas Show podcast. Now that's old
(28:11):
school. Hey, I'm John Calderain for Dan. Give me a call
three h three seven to one,three eight two five five. Let's get
to these phone calls. Let's talkto Jennifer. Hey, Jennifer, you're
with John Caldera. Welcome. HiJohn, I've always wanted to thank you
for the wonderful interview you can getwith the lady who was best friends with
ein Rand. I know that wasback in the night. Oh my god,
(28:34):
it's funny. I was thinking aboutthat just today when I was driving
home. I had a conversation withBarbara Brandon, just because I was a
fan of hers and she was aclose friend of Einran And it was her
husband and she that were befriended byEinran and her husband, Frank O'Connor,
(28:56):
and then her husband ended up havingan affair with Einran and she wrote a
book about it. She passed awaya number of years ago, but I've
had dinner with her, and she'sjust a wonderful, wonderful woman. So
it was funny. I was thinkingabout that today. It gave me an
insight into Einrand that I had nothad from reading her books. Yeah.
(29:19):
The book, the book that BarbaraBrandon wrote was called The Passion of ein
Rand, and it was kind ofthe story of being there when she wrote
Atlas Shrugged and built built all thesebooks afterwards. So yeah, I thought,
she's just wonderful. It was awonderful interview, so I enjoyed it.
(29:41):
It's funny. That was Thank youmy god. That was like twenty
years ago. Yeah, I've beenaround a few years anyway. As for
the individuals who insist on gluing themselvesto Rhodes and Tarmacs and things like that,
I would just bring one of thoseportable construction chains length senses and put
it around them and let them staythere for a few days, and put
(30:04):
another barrier around that in anybody whotries to get to them, to help
them or less the trespassing, andput them in jail. Yeah, although
it would still hold up traffic,so they would still win. In some
way. Yeah, maybe if therewas maybe if there was a way to
(30:25):
glue them down, laying down,and then people could drive over them and
you know, and between their wheels, they they'd have to not hit them,
but you know, you could justdrive right over them. Something that
would really be awful, I think. I think that's just the fact that
they were stuck there by their ownhand, so to speak, and couldn't
(30:48):
do anything about it. I thinkthat over a few days would really put
the message out that if you dothis, expect bad things to happen to
you. Yeah, there really needsto be something that makes it clear that
that you do this, bad thingshappen. Don't do this again. And
(31:12):
maybe that happens with great jail sentencesor or the courts take care of it.
But wouldn't it be nice if ifthere was just something like you bring
a bulldozer and you scrape them offthe road, you know green, but
that that means you're doing it.Action that can actually hook them their actions
(31:33):
are hurting themselves. Should be themessage, and it should be there in
the public so that people can seeit and it's not gonna go away.
Remember one of the scenes from soylentto Green the Charlton Heston movie from a
gazillion years ago. And the world'soverpopulated and there's some riot, and so
the police come in with basically thesebig bulldozers, you know, pick up
(31:56):
the guys and throw them in theback of these these big dump trucks and
take them away and turn them intofood. And it's just like, you
know that would work. It's like, I have no sympathy. I have
so no sympathy for that. Youknow, you want to protest, fine,
protest, but that that age oldsaying of your right to swing your
(32:22):
arms ends at the tip of mynose. You can swing your fists up
until the tip of my nose.And that's what these guys are doing.
They are harming people, they arebreaking the law, and we should come
down on them like a tongue aton of bricks. You must be responsible
for your own actions. So Idon't mind running them over. I think,
(32:44):
you know, one guy gets runover, the other guy might think
maybe I shouldn't glue myself on aroad. Guess the thought. Anyway,
Jennifer, have yourself a wonderful,wonderful day. Three oh three seven one
three eight two, five five,So edge net Yahoo spoke in front of
a joint session of Congress. Wellinterestingly, Kamala Harris declined to preside over
(33:15):
this joint meeting of Congress. Shehas never declined to sit over a joint
meeting of Congress. It's a bigdeal when there's a joint meeting. That's
why the President of the Senate theVice president presides over it. Where it
(33:35):
was she apparently she was addressing asorority somewhere. M Bernie Sanders called net
Yahoo a war criminal. Representative JamalBowman said net Yaho should be arrested.
Let's talk about this a little bitwhen we get back three oh three seven
one three eight two five five sevenone three talk. I'm John Keldrek.
(33:58):
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