WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:05.280 You're listening to KFI AM six forty, the Bill Handles show on demand on 2 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:11.960 the iHeartRadio f And this is KFI Bill Handle here on a very hot Thursday 3 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:17.839 morning, July eighteenth. We're in the middle of a heat spell. And 4 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:20.480 boy, that's so much fun. We've gone from a heat spell to a 5 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:25.039 heat spell, and so it's gone from very hot to punitively hot. Amy, 6 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:30.039 as I prepared the show, my show, I should tune into your 7 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:33.359 weather, but I don't because I'm so engrossed in trying to learn what I'm 8 00:00:33.399 --> 00:00:37.479 going to talk about. Quick weather, we report it's going to be sunny, 9 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:40.240 it's going to be hot. We have an excessive heat watch that starts 10 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:45.439 tomorrow and goes through Wednesday. So we're expecting temperatures eighties at the beaches, 11 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:49.640 nineties to about one ten in Ooh. So it's going to be in the 12 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:53.840 high deserts mountains here in the valley. It's going to be hot, but 13 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:57.479 not a Schwitz, not a s Fitz, not a s Fitz hot, 14 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:03.079 which is typical southern California weather. Okay, Now, what a disaster for 15 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:07.120 Joe Biden. Your heart almost goes out for him. Although this is presidential 16 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:12.239 politics and welcome to the world. So, after the debacle of the debate, 17 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:19.120 in which virtually immediately the moments after the debate, America turned around in 18 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:25.560 many ways and it was confirmed that he may be just too old to be 19 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:30.959 president. Interestingly enough, that's not the case with Donald Trump. He's seventy 20 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:36.879 eight, and very few people perceive him as being too old. I mean, 21 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:40.959 he is sharp, he is obnoxious, He sounds exactly the same as 22 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:45.319 he did thirty years ago. He's a pretty spry seventy eight. I want 23 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:49.359 that spry. He doesn't jump around a lot, but he is No one 24 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.239 thinks of him as too old. So now four years on top of that, 25 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:56.879 you've got an eighty one year old Joe Biden who looks real old. 26 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:02.200 And even those that's support Joe Biden across the board, not only because he's 27 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:07.159 a very nice guy, but like his politics, very liberal, very pro 28 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:14.800 union are saying, eh, not so much so. Yesterday, Oh, 29 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:19.240 it was particularly rough for him. Yesterday he cancels the Las Vegas a Las 30 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:23.719 Vegas appearance. Now, Ever, since that debate, in which it has 31 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:30.240 turned around from the policies of Joe Biden to he is too old. I 32 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:34.960 mean, that's what he's fighting now, not his political background, not what 33 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:39.400 he has done. Was it's switched from especially what he has done, to 34 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:44.080 let's attack Trump, no Trump, no Trump, no Trump, which is 35 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:49.319 probably the best political move I think that he can make in terms of possibly 36 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:55.879 winning. Now it has turned completely to I'm not too old, I'm not 37 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:00.439 dead yet. Has he started singing that from spam a lot? Oh, 38 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:07.639 that's a good Kno, that's a good good music bump by the way, 39 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:13.039 And so what happened yesterday, oh even worse. So he is supposed to 40 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:19.479 be at this Las Vegas event, a rally in which the primary message I'm 41 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:24.039 not too old, secondarily to that I'm not too old, and number three 42 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:30.280 is I'm not too old. So he tests positive for COVID and he's not 43 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:37.479 doing well. One of the reasons he gave were actually the reason that his 44 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:43.800 his campaign and the White House that are inextricably connected gave for the fact that 45 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:49.439 Biden showed such a disastrous performance as he had a cold, he wasn't feeling 46 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:55.080 well, and those that actually did analyze it a little bit more fully and 47 00:03:55.159 --> 00:04:00.520 I think a little deeper, he over prepared for that he spent a week 48 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:09.639 and got into the minutia. Donald Trump did not. Donald Trump does not 49 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:17.160 over prepare. He swings just from the hit, and it works for him. 50 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:23.959 It absolutely works for him. For him to talk about policy, I 51 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:29.639 think that's his weakness, for him to simply be on the attack and talk 52 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:34.959 about when we were in the White House, we did this, the economy 53 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:42.279 was better a we provided jobs Biden didn't. By the way, that's completely 54 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:46.800 reversed. You know that more jobs were created under the Biden administration than we're 55 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:49.639 created under Trump administration. But doesn't matter. You know, the Republicans just 56 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:55.160 straight out lie about this stuff. The Democrats spit it. I mean they 57 00:04:55.160 --> 00:05:00.279 don't make stuff up. They spin it like any political party would, any 58 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:08.360 political movement would. The Republicans just lie straight out and it certainly works for 59 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:15.360 Trump. So here's what happens with Joe Biden. Yesterday, he tests positive 60 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:20.519 for COVID. He gets up to he's going back to Delaware, his home 61 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:25.519 where he's going to self isolate. And if you saw the video of him 62 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:32.959 walking up the stairs onto Air Force one, there was a very very old 63 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:40.040 man shuffling up those stairs. Ooh, that is not a good visual. 64 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:44.160 That is a Trump commercial, by the way, right there, I would 65 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:48.240 if I were running the Trump campaign, I would drop the advertising that he's 66 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:53.120 running now or will be running and it's going to be massive, and simply 67 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:57.399 say just run that and say do you want that? Do you want Joe 68 00:05:57.399 --> 00:06:01.319 Biden to be your next president? That's it. It's that simple. And 69 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:05.759 then the trouble that Biden is in now, that's on the electoral front, 70 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:13.279 that's on the perception front. Adam Shift yesterday joined the group of congress people 71 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:17.519 politicians who said get out, it's time to pass the torch. Now. 72 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:21.600 Adam Shift is not just a congressman. Adam Shift is probably one of the 73 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:29.160 three or four most powerful, certainly well known, well regarded amongst the Congress 74 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:32.399 itself, amongst the government in Congress. He's gonna be running for senator, 75 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:38.279 by the way, He's gonna win that in this in November. He has 76 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:41.839 said it's time to bail. By the way, he represents Burbank. I 77 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:48.439 think Jerry Nadler, first thing out of New York, very very prominent congressman, 78 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:53.759 same thing, time to bail. And I think now there are what 79 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:59.160 thirty seven congress men women who said it's time for him to go out, 80 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:02.759 and this is going to this is going to be the start of a wave. 81 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:06.639 I think. I think is to be very difficult, and Biden is 82 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:10.920 going to do one of two things already cave and you're hearing the first little 83 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:16.240 instances of him maybe accepting the concept. He said, if his doctor says 84 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:19.120 he should not run, he's gone from I am running, come hell or 85 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:26.000 high water, I don't care. I'm Joe Biden and Joe Biden in the 86 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:29.439 sense of I don't give up. When I'm down, I kick it up. 87 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:31.800 Look at how he was elected for president, was the elected president. 88 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:36.199 He had no chance, no chance, and look at it, he became 89 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:42.240 president much like Donald Trump, who that was his third run for president. 90 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:45.879 When he first started running back in the day, everybody thought he was a 91 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:54.079 joke. He is now former President Trump. So unfortunately for Biden, I 92 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:58.000 think this movement to have him step down, and the problem with the Democratic 93 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:01.399 Party is who is going to take his place? Right, It's going to 94 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:09.399 be Kamala Harris. My opinion completely unqualified. My opinion only there because the 95 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:15.959 political reality have nothing to do with the fact that she is not up to 96 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:18.959 the task. Of being president. All right, coming up, that's certainly 97 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:24.360 my opinion. Now, oh, this is fun, okay, And this 98 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:28.360 has to do with Project twenty twenty five. And Project twenty twenty five is 99 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:35.360 this nine hundred page manifesto or playbook issued by the Heritage Foundation. And the 100 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:43.960 Heritage Foundation is a wildly right wing, very conservative actually among the right wing, 101 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:50.879 actually well regarded. It is not conspiracy theory crazy, It is just 102 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:58.519 very very conservative. So Project twenty twenty five, nine hundred pages, setting 103 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:03.399 up a new way of dealing with government, and that is, for example, 104 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:09.879 one of the things is a national ban on abortion, really restricting LGBTQ 105 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:16.799 rights, dealing with the border in a way that is fairly brutal if you're 106 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:22.399 looking, if you're an advocate of immigrants coming into this country, illegal immigrants 107 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:26.679 coming in this country, even legal ones opening, you know, shutting down 108 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:31.039 virtually every way that people can come in this country, saying we just have 109 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:33.840 too many illegal aliens coming in, which, by the way, I don't 110 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:39.639 disagree with. All right, So I want to put a premise here before 111 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:43.399 I start this, because this has to do let me connect weather reports with 112 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:48.080 this, and I know it's they're kind of disparate. But I'm going to 113 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:52.200 make the connection here in a minute, and that is it is Donald Trump 114 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:58.320 has distanced himself big time from Project twenty twenty five, at least the parts 115 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:05.360 that are kind of nuts. And there's one that is really nuts there as 116 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:09.879 far as the abortion Band National, I can understand that. You know, 117 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:13.840 I'm not, obviously I disagree with that premise, but I can understand because 118 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:20.000 there's a moral basis for limiting or eliminating abortions in most cases, and that 119 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:24.360 is it's the life of a being, and you don't kill lives of being. 120 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:28.440 So okay, I'll buy that, you know. Now, I don't 121 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:33.480 happen to think that a three day old embryo is a being, but that's 122 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:37.159 my view, all right. And so Donald Trump is moving away from a 123 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:43.320 lot of twenty twenty five because it is so insane. And at first he 124 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.759 was in favor, but then he realized, you know, the backlash was 125 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:52.039 fairly crazy. Now, the other part of it is Donald Trump gets elected, 126 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:56.200 which he probably will. We are going to see a Donald Trump that 127 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:01.919 is not running for office ever again. And this is not a man who 128 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:09.679 particularly listens to any political group, any interest group, he just doesn't. 129 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:13.240 There's a lot of hubrist with Donald Trump, and he is the smartest guy 130 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:18.480 in the room by a long shot, and he certainly thinks that. And 131 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:22.399 he'll listen to advisors when he thinks she should listen to advisors, and a 132 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:26.080 couple of things, and to prove that, concidentally that there's certain things that 133 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:31.320 he doesn't care about. Or he's fine with the Republican platform, which has 134 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:37.200 been released by the Republican National Committee. It's the shortest one they've ever had, 135 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:45.840 doesn't mention a word about LGBTQ rights. Why because Donald Trump is fine 136 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:50.639 with the LGBTQ community. He doesn't care. Now he's one of those people 137 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:52.759 say hey, you want to be gay and get married, I don't care. 138 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:58.200 Now. For political purpose, to get elected, he has to grab 139 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:05.799 the evangelic and I'm talking about when when he becomes president, all of that 140 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:09.840 disappears because that's just not a thing for him. The same thing with abortion, 141 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:15.240 he doesn't really care. Donald Trump's position in many cases has to do 142 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:18.120 with just getting elected. It's that simple, by the way. All the 143 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:22.240 politicians do that. But in his case, I think that's in large Keep 144 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:26.919 in mind that Donald Trump is really not a Republican. He is using the 145 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:33.799 Republican Party as an avenue, as his base, as the vehicle to get 146 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:35.960 elected. I mean, where else is he going to go. He's not 147 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:39.759 going to run in as an independent, and he is more independent than he 148 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:45.919 is a Republican because independent parties have never made it in this country ever ever, 149 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:52.200 So he is now the Republican Party or the republic or I think more 150 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:56.519 accurately, the Republican Party is him. And we'll look at that tonight. 151 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:01.600 So you're going to see a Donald Trump that's coming out. Who is Donald 152 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:07.080 Trump. You'll see immigration to be a big, big issue in his administration. 153 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:15.840 You'll see foreign policy where there's a sense of isolationism where Ukraine let it 154 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:22.120 rot very pro Israel that there's no question about it. As President was the 155 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:28.960 United States became the first country in the world to recognize Jerusalem as the capital 156 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:33.600 of Israel. Jerusalem being the capital of Israel twenty five hundred years ago. 157 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:37.799 We're thirty five hundred years ago when it was King David who was head of 158 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:45.240 the Jewish the Kingdom of Israel, and since then it hasn't happened. Well, 159 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:48.559 Donald Trump made it happen, okay, And you have to give him 160 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:50.639 credit like that, or you have to give him credit for that. I 161 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:56.200 mean, this is a man who is a president that now if he gets 162 00:13:56.200 --> 00:14:03.039 elected or probably when he gets elected, will just go down his own path. 163 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:07.759 And we're going to see a Donald Trump we haven't seen before upon election, 164 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:13.440 no restraints whatsoever because he's not going to run again. So what I 165 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:18.159 want to do is talk about Project twenty twenty five. And Trump has not 166 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:24.559 yet commented on this, and Project twenty twenty five again, I want to 167 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:31.960 reiterate nine hundred page plan for what America should be and who is and Trump's 168 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:35.320 moving away from it. But here's the problem. The board of the directors, 169 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:41.360 those who wrote Project twenty twenty five were in his administration the first time 170 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:46.559 out. So I want to talk about one aspect of Project twenty twenty five 171 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:50.159 that is has not been talked about before. We haven't brought it up. 172 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:58.879 And as squarely as you can imagine, this is squirrely stuff. And I 173 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:03.200 don't think Trump is going to buy this. I don't we don't know at 174 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:07.440 this point. Now, Amy, where do you get your weather news? 175 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:11.039 Where do you pull the weather that you talk about from the National Weather Service. 176 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:15.080 Yep, how much is KFI you think I heard pay for that? 177 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:20.759 I don't know. It comes in as part of our wires here. Okay, 178 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:24.519 do you I'll tell you exactly what I heard. Pays for it zero. 179 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:31.840 It is provided by the federal government, the National Weather Service under Noah, 180 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:33.879 who happens to be a good friend of mine. By the way, 181 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:37.120 Noah, I like them a lot. No, that's not the way it 182 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:43.840 goes. It's the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which taxpayers pay for Project 183 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:48.879 twenty twenty five, wants to privatize it. That's it. We want to 184 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:56.360 pay for it. They want to make it commercial, which wow, I 185 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:00.960 mean no one ever thought of that. They want to place under the control 186 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:07.200 of the states, not the federal government, should eliminate the public forecasts, 187 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:14.720 focus on data gathering, commercialize operations, and they say that plan, by 188 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:21.120 the way, will improve not limit forecasts for Americans. If you remove forecasts 189 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:26.120 by the National Weather Service, you're going to get more forecasts because they're going 190 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:30.639 to privatize it. And by the way, the forecasts we get are pretty 191 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:34.679 extraordinary. Now, this is not new, by the way, this concept 192 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:41.399 almost two decades ago, when the National Weather Service updated its website to be 193 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:45.399 more user friendly, a guy by the name of Barry Myers, with executive 194 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:52.879 VP of Acuweather, that's a private organization, complained that we work private organization 195 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:56.919 very hard, competing with other companies, and we also have to compete with 196 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:03.799 the government who offers which offers free weather data and forecasting. I mean, 197 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:08.079 that's pretty out there. So just to let you know, NOAH, which 198 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:12.880 controls the weather forecasting folks, National Weather Service. In twenty seventeen, Trump 199 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:18.240 picked Myers, him, the guy who owned Accuservice, that wanted to or 200 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:26.039 ACU Weather, that wanted to privatize everything. He was nominated to run Noah. 201 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:30.720 By the way, he couldn't get confirmed. The Senate just wouldn't touch 202 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:37.599 it at all, and so he withdrew his nomination and so funding under the 203 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:41.720 Trump administration, according to twenty twenty five, Project twenty twenty five would plummet, 204 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:47.480 absolutely plummet. And do you remember, I mean when he in twenty 205 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:55.680 nineteen, remember when the agency backed President Trump's claim that Hurricane Dorian was headed 206 00:17:55.720 --> 00:18:03.680 for Alabama. Remember that sharpy altered map which was ridiculous. So Trump has 207 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:10.880 a history. But I don't think that he is going to privatize this. 208 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:15.319 I don't think he cares that much. As I said, there are certain 209 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:18.960 aspects of life that he doesn't care. He's going to be able to do 210 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:22.440 whatever the hell he wants. Yeah, I have to run again. He 211 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:26.640 doesn't need a political base anymore. It's that simple. He already has the 212 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:30.119 evangelicals. I mean, they're on his side, come hill or high water. 213 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:33.559 He already has the Republicans. And do you think it's that important. 214 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:40.559 I think the only issue that is really important to the far right, and 215 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:47.240 I mean fundamentally, profoundly, viscerally important, is the abortion issue. I 216 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:52.559 don't think the weather service. Trump certainly doesn't care. And the LGBTQ rights, 217 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:55.720 you know, I mean it's a big deal, but you know next 218 00:18:55.720 --> 00:19:00.319 door, you know, Fred Mary's Harry over there doesn't really matter that. 219 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:08.160 I've always loved the concept that the stopping gay people from getting married, Why 220 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:12.799 should they be denied a miserable time with a marriage like the rest of us. 221 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:18.880 All Right, the Olympics start at the what is it next week or 222 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:25.599 the week afterwards opening ceremonies or next Friday? Okay, so it is next 223 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:27.279 week. I've always wanted to go opening ceremonies. By the way, I 224 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:30.599 wonder how much those tickets are. I have no idea. Okay, Tokyo 225 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:37.119 Olympics in twenty twenty one hottest in history only did be bet by the Paris 226 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:45.920 Olympics starting next Friday. And let me tell you what is so dangerous to 227 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:52.559 modern day Olympics is the heat and humidity. Just to give you a stat 228 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:56.119 which when I read this and went really, okay, the last time the 229 00:19:56.160 --> 00:20:00.559 Olympics were held in Paris was nineteen twenty four. Okay, it was one 230 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:04.839 hundred years ago. Granted it is a lot of time ago. The average 231 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:12.759 increase in the heat is five point five degrees fahrenheit now five point five degrees. 232 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:17.480 It doesn't seem like a lot except when you talk about the average heat, 233 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:23.400 that is astronomical increase in heat. So today training for Olympics is just 234 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:29.759 about as much as athletes ability to handle the heat as well as the humidity, 235 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:34.880 as it is speed and ability to jump. We're talking about the events 236 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:44.519 that take physical exertion, and especially the endurance endurance endurance events like the triathlon, 237 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:48.759 the marathon, race walking. Now that one I don't understand. You 238 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:52.759 know, racewalking. You know where you walk as quickly as you can. 239 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:57.359 It's a walking event. It's an Olympic event for walking. It's like those 240 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:03.240 horse races where they have the trotters, you know, the trot I don't 241 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:08.519 understand that either. I can understand horse racing, but trotting, I think 242 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:14.359 we ought to have. Here's an Olympic event backwards walking or backwards racing. 243 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:18.240 Oh, perfect for the Paris Games, by the way, just occurred to 244 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:23.359 me. So. According to doctor Carolyn Broaderiku, medical director of the Australian 245 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:29.599 Olympic team, she says, the best way a person can prepare is acclimation. 246 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:33.279 Okay, but that takes two or three weeks of heat training to fully 247 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:38.799 adjust. What you want is a lower sweating threshold, a lower heart rate 248 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:42.039 for the same level of exertion. That's sort of the magic with all this, 249 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:48.400 and for these athletes, getting comfortable in the heat involves moving to a 250 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:56.920 hot and humid location like the Amazon jungle right or simulating hot and humid, 251 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:02.200 draining conditions at home by wearing extra layer of training in warm weather, doing 252 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:07.119 a lot of work in steam rooms. By the way, except if you 253 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:12.799 go to a steam room to exercise and acclimate, you're going to run into 254 00:22:14.519 --> 00:22:19.160 a bunch of older, fat Jews and you'll hear, hey, how's the 255 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:25.680 buffet today, huh? Or good b am, I had a great one 256 00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:29.759 this morning. That's what you have to deal with in those steam rooms. 257 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:34.240 Maybe that is the pool. Okay, never mind, I can go on 258 00:22:34.359 --> 00:22:41.359 and on. So Belgium's field hockey team is training in a heat chamber set 259 00:22:41.400 --> 00:22:48.880 to one hundred and twenty two degrees and they're playing hockey there to acclimate for 260 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:53.359 the humidity. Two American runners have been spending twenty to thirty minutes in a 261 00:22:53.480 --> 00:23:03.000 sauna after workouts several days a week. So not only is it acclimating to 262 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:07.000 the heat, which has become just as important as the ability to run and 263 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:11.759 measuring how fast you go or how high you can jump, training in the 264 00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:17.039 heat is only part of it. Athletes have to have tactics that keeps them 265 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:25.839 cool during the event and hydrated during competition. Doctor Broderick again says ice towels, 266 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:30.880 wet towels, cool fluids just before and during, for example tennis matches. 267 00:23:33.240 --> 00:23:38.559 That is a method of keeping cool that works and so the whole point 268 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:44.440 of it is to brace for these conditions prevent overheating. Endurance athletes work to 269 00:23:44.519 --> 00:23:49.640 keep their core temperatures low before the competition begin and keeping it as low as 270 00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:59.640 they can during the event, which is why during marathons the runners are constantly 271 00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:04.599 suck up the water and you see the spectators along the path along the race 272 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:08.960 handing runners bottles of water. I'll tell you I've done that a couple of 273 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:15.119 times. You know what's really entertaining is throwing bottles of water at these people 274 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:19.400 and see if you can hit them. That is entertainment. That's a spectator 275 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:26.680 sport right there. To brace for these conditions at bottom line core temperatures low, 276 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:33.200 keep it low. Ice vests are a pre raised tool also, and 277 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:41.440 why ice vests well, because if you keep the core temperature cold and still 278 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:49.160 allow the limbs to be exercised to get the blood glowing there, then it 279 00:24:49.400 --> 00:24:53.359 just works. That helps a lot, except in the case of amputee racing, 280 00:24:53.720 --> 00:24:59.839 where it's difficult to exercise a limbs and keep them going as opposed to 281 00:24:59.839 --> 00:25:04.119 the Here's another one. This is kind of cool that they came up with 282 00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:14.319 frozen balloons. The size of baseballs also good for throwing at athletes, and 283 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:19.559 this is what athletes hold during warm up routines because if you cool the palms, 284 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:25.599 that can help lower the body's temperature. Now there's a whole world about 285 00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:29.559 heating the palms in various different ways that I'm not going to get into. 286 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:36.799 That is just that's between me and my psychologist and getting very heated palms, 287 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:40.759 you know, friction, all of that. In any case, Neil, 288 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:45.440 it's the look. I know. In the meantime, you're going to see 289 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:48.160 a very different kind of race. It depends on how hot it's going to 290 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:52.640 be. If it gets really hot and really human, I'll tell you what 291 00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:55.599 you're going to see. During the marathon, I think, what's what happens? 292 00:25:55.880 --> 00:25:59.039 Well, maybe not because these are world class runners, but you know, 293 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:03.119 people just drop off and it gets harder and harder, and of course 294 00:26:03.160 --> 00:26:07.200 the Kenyon will win because inevitably, I think it's the law, isn't it. 295 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:11.960 The Kenyans have to win or Ethiopians have to win the marathon sort of 296 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:17.359 a given. Okay, this is kfi Am six forty nine. My palms 297 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:22.960 are so hot. Kfi Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 298 00:26:22.359 --> 00:26:26.960 You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show. Catch my Show Monday through Friday, 299 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:32.079 six am to nine am, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.