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the iHeartRadio f And this is KFI Bill Handle here on a very hot Thursday
morning, July eighteenth. We're in the middle of a heat spell. And
boy, that's so much fun. We've gone from a heat spell to a
heat spell, and so it's gone from very hot to punitively hot. Amy,
as I prepared the show, my show, I should tune into your
weather, but I don't because I'm so engrossed in trying to learn what I'm
going to talk about. Quick weather, we report it's going to be sunny,
it's going to be hot. We have an excessive heat watch that starts
tomorrow and goes through Wednesday. So we're expecting temperatures eighties at the beaches,
nineties to about one ten in Ooh. So it's going to be in the
high deserts mountains here in the valley. It's going to be hot, but
not a Schwitz, not a s Fitz, not a s Fitz hot,
which is typical southern California weather. Okay, Now, what a disaster for
Joe Biden. Your heart almost goes out for him. Although this is presidential
politics and welcome to the world. So, after the debacle of the debate,
in which virtually immediately the moments after the debate, America turned around in
many ways and it was confirmed that he may be just too old to be
president. Interestingly enough, that's not the case with Donald Trump. He's seventy
eight, and very few people perceive him as being too old. I mean,
he is sharp, he is obnoxious, He sounds exactly the same as
he did thirty years ago. He's a pretty spry seventy eight. I want
that spry. He doesn't jump around a lot, but he is No one
thinks of him as too old. So now four years on top of that,
you've got an eighty one year old Joe Biden who looks real old.
And even those that's support Joe Biden across the board, not only because he's
a very nice guy, but like his politics, very liberal, very pro
union are saying, eh, not so much so. Yesterday, Oh,
it was particularly rough for him. Yesterday he cancels the Las Vegas a Las
Vegas appearance. Now, Ever, since that debate, in which it has
turned around from the policies of Joe Biden to he is too old. I
mean, that's what he's fighting now, not his political background, not what
he has done. Was it's switched from especially what he has done, to
let's attack Trump, no Trump, no Trump, no Trump, which is
probably the best political move I think that he can make in terms of possibly
winning. Now it has turned completely to I'm not too old, I'm not
dead yet. Has he started singing that from spam a lot? Oh,
that's a good Kno, that's a good good music bump by the way,
And so what happened yesterday, oh even worse. So he is supposed to
be at this Las Vegas event, a rally in which the primary message I'm
not too old, secondarily to that I'm not too old, and number three
is I'm not too old. So he tests positive for COVID and he's not
doing well. One of the reasons he gave were actually the reason that his
his campaign and the White House that are inextricably connected gave for the fact that
Biden showed such a disastrous performance as he had a cold, he wasn't feeling
well, and those that actually did analyze it a little bit more fully and
I think a little deeper, he over prepared for that he spent a week
and got into the minutia. Donald Trump did not. Donald Trump does not
over prepare. He swings just from the hit, and it works for him.
It absolutely works for him. For him to talk about policy, I
think that's his weakness, for him to simply be on the attack and talk
about when we were in the White House, we did this, the economy
was better a we provided jobs Biden didn't. By the way, that's completely
reversed. You know that more jobs were created under the Biden administration than we're
created under Trump administration. But doesn't matter. You know, the Republicans just
straight out lie about this stuff. The Democrats spit it. I mean they
don't make stuff up. They spin it like any political party would, any
political movement would. The Republicans just lie straight out and it certainly works for
Trump. So here's what happens with Joe Biden. Yesterday, he tests positive
for COVID. He gets up to he's going back to Delaware, his home
where he's going to self isolate. And if you saw the video of him
walking up the stairs onto Air Force one, there was a very very old
man shuffling up those stairs. Ooh, that is not a good visual.
That is a Trump commercial, by the way, right there, I would
if I were running the Trump campaign, I would drop the advertising that he's
running now or will be running and it's going to be massive, and simply
say just run that and say do you want that? Do you want Joe
Biden to be your next president? That's it. It's that simple. And
then the trouble that Biden is in now, that's on the electoral front,
that's on the perception front. Adam Shift yesterday joined the group of congress people
politicians who said get out, it's time to pass the torch. Now.
Adam Shift is not just a congressman. Adam Shift is probably one of the
three or four most powerful, certainly well known, well regarded amongst the Congress
itself, amongst the government in Congress. He's gonna be running for senator,
by the way, He's gonna win that in this in November. He has
said it's time to bail. By the way, he represents Burbank. I
think Jerry Nadler, first thing out of New York, very very prominent congressman,
same thing, time to bail. And I think now there are what
thirty seven congress men women who said it's time for him to go out,
and this is going to this is going to be the start of a wave.
I think. I think is to be very difficult, and Biden is
going to do one of two things already cave and you're hearing the first little
instances of him maybe accepting the concept. He said, if his doctor says
he should not run, he's gone from I am running, come hell or
high water, I don't care. I'm Joe Biden and Joe Biden in the
sense of I don't give up. When I'm down, I kick it up.
Look at how he was elected for president, was the elected president.
He had no chance, no chance, and look at it, he became
president much like Donald Trump, who that was his third run for president.
When he first started running back in the day, everybody thought he was a
joke. He is now former President Trump. So unfortunately for Biden, I
think this movement to have him step down, and the problem with the Democratic
Party is who is going to take his place? Right, It's going to
be Kamala Harris. My opinion completely unqualified. My opinion only there because the
political reality have nothing to do with the fact that she is not up to
the task. Of being president. All right, coming up, that's certainly
my opinion. Now, oh, this is fun, okay, And this
has to do with Project twenty twenty five. And Project twenty twenty five is
this nine hundred page manifesto or playbook issued by the Heritage Foundation. And the
Heritage Foundation is a wildly right wing, very conservative actually among the right wing,
actually well regarded. It is not conspiracy theory crazy, It is just
very very conservative. So Project twenty twenty five, nine hundred pages, setting
up a new way of dealing with government, and that is, for example,
one of the things is a national ban on abortion, really restricting LGBTQ
rights, dealing with the border in a way that is fairly brutal if you're
looking, if you're an advocate of immigrants coming into this country, illegal immigrants
coming in this country, even legal ones opening, you know, shutting down
virtually every way that people can come in this country, saying we just have
too many illegal aliens coming in, which, by the way, I don't
disagree with. All right, So I want to put a premise here before
I start this, because this has to do let me connect weather reports with
this, and I know it's they're kind of disparate. But I'm going to
make the connection here in a minute, and that is it is Donald Trump
has distanced himself big time from Project twenty twenty five, at least the parts
that are kind of nuts. And there's one that is really nuts there as
far as the abortion Band National, I can understand that. You know,
I'm not, obviously I disagree with that premise, but I can understand because
there's a moral basis for limiting or eliminating abortions in most cases, and that
is it's the life of a being, and you don't kill lives of being.
So okay, I'll buy that, you know. Now, I don't
happen to think that a three day old embryo is a being, but that's
my view, all right. And so Donald Trump is moving away from a
lot of twenty twenty five because it is so insane. And at first he
was in favor, but then he realized, you know, the backlash was
fairly crazy. Now, the other part of it is Donald Trump gets elected,
which he probably will. We are going to see a Donald Trump that
is not running for office ever again. And this is not a man who
particularly listens to any political group, any interest group, he just doesn't.
There's a lot of hubrist with Donald Trump, and he is the smartest guy
in the room by a long shot, and he certainly thinks that. And
he'll listen to advisors when he thinks she should listen to advisors, and a
couple of things, and to prove that, concidentally that there's certain things that
he doesn't care about. Or he's fine with the Republican platform, which has
been released by the Republican National Committee. It's the shortest one they've ever had,
doesn't mention a word about LGBTQ rights. Why because Donald Trump is fine
with the LGBTQ community. He doesn't care. Now he's one of those people
say hey, you want to be gay and get married, I don't care.
Now. For political purpose, to get elected, he has to grab
the evangelic and I'm talking about when when he becomes president, all of that
disappears because that's just not a thing for him. The same thing with abortion,
he doesn't really care. Donald Trump's position in many cases has to do
with just getting elected. It's that simple, by the way. All the
politicians do that. But in his case, I think that's in large Keep
in mind that Donald Trump is really not a Republican. He is using the
Republican Party as an avenue, as his base, as the vehicle to get
elected. I mean, where else is he going to go. He's not
going to run in as an independent, and he is more independent than he
is a Republican because independent parties have never made it in this country ever ever,
So he is now the Republican Party or the republic or I think more
accurately, the Republican Party is him. And we'll look at that tonight.
So you're going to see a Donald Trump that's coming out. Who is Donald
Trump. You'll see immigration to be a big, big issue in his administration.
You'll see foreign policy where there's a sense of isolationism where Ukraine let it
rot very pro Israel that there's no question about it. As President was the
United States became the first country in the world to recognize Jerusalem as the capital
of Israel. Jerusalem being the capital of Israel twenty five hundred years ago.
We're thirty five hundred years ago when it was King David who was head of
the Jewish the Kingdom of Israel, and since then it hasn't happened. Well,
Donald Trump made it happen, okay, And you have to give him
credit like that, or you have to give him credit for that. I
mean, this is a man who is a president that now if he gets
elected or probably when he gets elected, will just go down his own path.
And we're going to see a Donald Trump we haven't seen before upon election,
no restraints whatsoever because he's not going to run again. So what I
want to do is talk about Project twenty twenty five. And Trump has not
yet commented on this, and Project twenty twenty five again, I want to
reiterate nine hundred page plan for what America should be and who is and Trump's
moving away from it. But here's the problem. The board of the directors,
those who wrote Project twenty twenty five were in his administration the first time
out. So I want to talk about one aspect of Project twenty twenty five
that is has not been talked about before. We haven't brought it up.
And as squarely as you can imagine, this is squirrely stuff. And I
don't think Trump is going to buy this. I don't we don't know at
this point. Now, Amy, where do you get your weather news?
Where do you pull the weather that you talk about from the National Weather Service.
Yep, how much is KFI you think I heard pay for that?
I don't know. It comes in as part of our wires here. Okay,
do you I'll tell you exactly what I heard. Pays for it zero.
It is provided by the federal government, the National Weather Service under Noah,
who happens to be a good friend of mine. By the way,
Noah, I like them a lot. No, that's not the way it
goes. It's the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which taxpayers pay for Project
twenty twenty five, wants to privatize it. That's it. We want to
pay for it. They want to make it commercial, which wow, I
mean no one ever thought of that. They want to place under the control
of the states, not the federal government, should eliminate the public forecasts,
focus on data gathering, commercialize operations, and they say that plan, by
the way, will improve not limit forecasts for Americans. If you remove forecasts
by the National Weather Service, you're going to get more forecasts because they're going
to privatize it. And by the way, the forecasts we get are pretty
extraordinary. Now, this is not new, by the way, this concept
almost two decades ago, when the National Weather Service updated its website to be
more user friendly, a guy by the name of Barry Myers, with executive
VP of Acuweather, that's a private organization, complained that we work private organization
very hard, competing with other companies, and we also have to compete with
the government who offers which offers free weather data and forecasting. I mean,
that's pretty out there. So just to let you know, NOAH, which
controls the weather forecasting folks, National Weather Service. In twenty seventeen, Trump
picked Myers, him, the guy who owned Accuservice, that wanted to or
ACU Weather, that wanted to privatize everything. He was nominated to run Noah.
By the way, he couldn't get confirmed. The Senate just wouldn't touch
it at all, and so he withdrew his nomination and so funding under the
Trump administration, according to twenty twenty five, Project twenty twenty five would plummet,
absolutely plummet. And do you remember, I mean when he in twenty
nineteen, remember when the agency backed President Trump's claim that Hurricane Dorian was headed
for Alabama. Remember that sharpy altered map which was ridiculous. So Trump has
a history. But I don't think that he is going to privatize this.
I don't think he cares that much. As I said, there are certain
aspects of life that he doesn't care. He's going to be able to do
whatever the hell he wants. Yeah, I have to run again. He
doesn't need a political base anymore. It's that simple. He already has the
evangelicals. I mean, they're on his side, come hill or high water.
He already has the Republicans. And do you think it's that important.
I think the only issue that is really important to the far right, and
I mean fundamentally, profoundly, viscerally important, is the abortion issue. I
don't think the weather service. Trump certainly doesn't care. And the LGBTQ rights,
you know, I mean it's a big deal, but you know next
door, you know, Fred Mary's Harry over there doesn't really matter that.
I've always loved the concept that the stopping gay people from getting married, Why
should they be denied a miserable time with a marriage like the rest of us.
All Right, the Olympics start at the what is it next week or
the week afterwards opening ceremonies or next Friday? Okay, so it is next
week. I've always wanted to go opening ceremonies. By the way, I
wonder how much those tickets are. I have no idea. Okay, Tokyo
Olympics in twenty twenty one hottest in history only did be bet by the Paris
Olympics starting next Friday. And let me tell you what is so dangerous to
modern day Olympics is the heat and humidity. Just to give you a stat
which when I read this and went really, okay, the last time the
Olympics were held in Paris was nineteen twenty four. Okay, it was one
hundred years ago. Granted it is a lot of time ago. The average
increase in the heat is five point five degrees fahrenheit now five point five degrees.
It doesn't seem like a lot except when you talk about the average heat,
that is astronomical increase in heat. So today training for Olympics is just
about as much as athletes ability to handle the heat as well as the humidity,
as it is speed and ability to jump. We're talking about the events
that take physical exertion, and especially the endurance endurance endurance events like the triathlon,
the marathon, race walking. Now that one I don't understand. You
know, racewalking. You know where you walk as quickly as you can.
It's a walking event. It's an Olympic event for walking. It's like those
horse races where they have the trotters, you know, the trot I don't
understand that either. I can understand horse racing, but trotting, I think
we ought to have. Here's an Olympic event backwards walking or backwards racing.
Oh, perfect for the Paris Games, by the way, just occurred to
me. So. According to doctor Carolyn Broaderiku, medical director of the Australian
Olympic team, she says, the best way a person can prepare is acclimation.
Okay, but that takes two or three weeks of heat training to fully
adjust. What you want is a lower sweating threshold, a lower heart rate
for the same level of exertion. That's sort of the magic with all this,
and for these athletes, getting comfortable in the heat involves moving to a
hot and humid location like the Amazon jungle right or simulating hot and humid,
draining conditions at home by wearing extra layer of training in warm weather, doing
a lot of work in steam rooms. By the way, except if you
go to a steam room to exercise and acclimate, you're going to run into
a bunch of older, fat Jews and you'll hear, hey, how's the
buffet today, huh? Or good b am, I had a great one
this morning. That's what you have to deal with in those steam rooms.
Maybe that is the pool. Okay, never mind, I can go on
and on. So Belgium's field hockey team is training in a heat chamber set
to one hundred and twenty two degrees and they're playing hockey there to acclimate for
the humidity. Two American runners have been spending twenty to thirty minutes in a
sauna after workouts several days a week. So not only is it acclimating to
the heat, which has become just as important as the ability to run and
measuring how fast you go or how high you can jump, training in the
heat is only part of it. Athletes have to have tactics that keeps them
cool during the event and hydrated during competition. Doctor Broderick again says ice towels,
wet towels, cool fluids just before and during, for example tennis matches.
That is a method of keeping cool that works and so the whole point
of it is to brace for these conditions prevent overheating. Endurance athletes work to
keep their core temperatures low before the competition begin and keeping it as low as
they can during the event, which is why during marathons the runners are constantly
suck up the water and you see the spectators along the path along the race
handing runners bottles of water. I'll tell you I've done that a couple of
times. You know what's really entertaining is throwing bottles of water at these people
and see if you can hit them. That is entertainment. That's a spectator
sport right there. To brace for these conditions at bottom line core temperatures low,
keep it low. Ice vests are a pre raised tool also, and
why ice vests well, because if you keep the core temperature cold and still
allow the limbs to be exercised to get the blood glowing there, then it
just works. That helps a lot, except in the case of amputee racing,
where it's difficult to exercise a limbs and keep them going as opposed to
the Here's another one. This is kind of cool that they came up with
frozen balloons. The size of baseballs also good for throwing at athletes, and
this is what athletes hold during warm up routines because if you cool the palms,
that can help lower the body's temperature. Now there's a whole world about
heating the palms in various different ways that I'm not going to get into.
That is just that's between me and my psychologist and getting very heated palms,
you know, friction, all of that. In any case, Neil,
it's the look. I know. In the meantime, you're going to see
a very different kind of race. It depends on how hot it's going to
be. If it gets really hot and really human, I'll tell you what
you're going to see. During the marathon, I think, what's what happens?
Well, maybe not because these are world class runners, but you know,
people just drop off and it gets harder and harder, and of course
the Kenyon will win because inevitably, I think it's the law, isn't it.
The Kenyans have to win or Ethiopians have to win the marathon sort of
a given. Okay, this is kfi Am six forty nine. My palms
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