Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI A
Speaker 1: six forty. It is a Taco Tuesday, September tenth, we
Speaker 1: continue with the program, and oh.
Speaker 2: Got so much going on today.
Speaker 1: First of all, the fires are still going crazy, and
Speaker 1: it's hot, hot, hot.
Speaker 2: I think it breaks tonight, as.
Speaker 1: I said earlier, since I live and I'm in Orange
Speaker 1: County half the time. And then up at the station also,
Speaker 1: I was able to see the fire on the ridges
Speaker 1: above me, and the whole ridge was on fire. Boy,
Speaker 1: that is a delightful feeling, all right. The other big
Speaker 1: story is the big debate tonight, and it's going to
Speaker 1: be I'm assuming astronomical ratings. And this is the first
Speaker 1: time that Trump and Harris have looked at each other
Speaker 1: been in the same room. And what are we going
Speaker 1: to be looking for? Well, they're both going to be
Speaker 1: moving towards the middle. I think there are two kinds
Speaker 1: of attacks and I am assuming that. And this is
Speaker 1: what the advisors of Trump are just really scared of
Speaker 1: that he loses control when he goes into personal diet tribes,
Speaker 1: which he has done against Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: And if he does that, it's going to be a
Speaker 2: real problem. For him. She is vulnerable on a couple
Speaker 2: of areas. She is vulnerable on.
Speaker 1: The economy because the economy did do better under Trump,
Speaker 1: there wasn't the kind of inflation that was that we
Speaker 1: experienced under the Biden Harris administration. She is vulnerable on
Speaker 1: the border. She has on the economy, she's vulnerable on
Speaker 1: the border. She's vulnerable. Unlike Biden. Age is not going
Speaker 1: to be a factor. Interesting that it's not gone the
Speaker 1: other way because now you have a seventy eight year
Speaker 1: old that's running in we are not hearing an age
Speaker 1: issue because he's one of the youngest, if not the youngest.
Speaker 2: Seventy eight year olds I've ever seen. I mean, the
Speaker 2: guy has energy that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Now here's the problem with Donald Trump is you are
Speaker 1: going to hear this, I guarantee, lie after lie after
Speaker 1: lie after.
Speaker 2: Lie, and all you're going to hear on the other
Speaker 2: side is that's.
Speaker 1: Not true, not true, not true, not true. You're going
Speaker 1: to hear inflation is out of control, it is not.
Speaker 1: You are going to hear the economies in the worst
Speaker 1: shape it's ever been. You are going to hear that
Speaker 1: If Kamala Harris gets elected, the United States will cease
Speaker 1: to exist. Seriously, America will stop being America if Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris is the president. She is a communist, She is
Speaker 1: a fascist.
Speaker 2: That's in the same speech.
Speaker 1: And you're going to hear her talk about his personal character.
Speaker 2: You are going to hear her.
Speaker 1: Talk about that he is, in fact a threat to
Speaker 1: democracy if he goes into the election was stolen. That
Speaker 1: He does it virtually every speech. I think people are
Speaker 1: just tired of that, that's all. They're just tired of it.
Speaker 1: You can't keep on revisiting and revisiting that issue. So
Speaker 1: at this point, he has not gotten his message. The
Speaker 1: campaign was prepared to be anti Biden. That is what
Speaker 1: the Trump campaign was about, and it had to switch
Speaker 1: gears very quickly. Has he found his voice? Well, I
Speaker 1: believe the two areas. She's most vulnerable and by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm not alone because I'm looking at what the country
Speaker 1: is feeling about it in all the polls, and that
Speaker 1: is the economy in the border. Okay, if he sticks
Speaker 1: to those Annie sticks to she's a California Liberal, which
Speaker 1: by the way, she really is in many ways. She's
Speaker 1: going to talk about crime and that she was a prosecutor.
Speaker 1: And I think that's going to take a lot of
Speaker 1: power away from Trump talking about how liberal she was
Speaker 1: because she nailed people, although there were a couple of
Speaker 1: instances that she didn't.
Speaker 2: And so it's going.
Speaker 1: To be fascinating. And the one issue is where's Trump
Speaker 1: going to go on this. That's the part that's the
Speaker 1: most fascinating. Now, Trump won on the debate the fact
Speaker 1: that the microphones will be off while the microphone be
Speaker 1: off to the non speaker. In other words, when one
Speaker 1: of them is speaking, the other one has a microphone off.
Speaker 1: She wanted the microphones to be on because she wanted
Speaker 1: him to go out of control and interrupt. Some good
Speaker 1: news is no studio audience questions, you have follow up.
Speaker 1: It's the CNN rules, which I thought were wonderful. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine a studio audience screaming one way or the other?
Speaker 2: I mean, just getting in the way.
Speaker 1: It is going to be absolutely just phenomenal of what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. The other thing is, I think you're
Speaker 1: going to see this that Biden really wasn't the president.
Speaker 2: It was Harris who was the president.
Speaker 1: She controlled everything that went south during the Biden administration.
Speaker 1: Much like during the Pen's administration, Donald Trump really wasn't
Speaker 1: the president.
Speaker 2: You're gonna hear.
Speaker 1: Her talk about the wall that he was building and
Speaker 1: that Mexico was going to pay for it. That disappeared instantly.
Speaker 1: You're gonna hear talk of tariffs. You're gonna hear talk
Speaker 1: where Trump stood.
Speaker 2: Up to China.
Speaker 1: He did, and he gives and he's given a lot
Speaker 1: of credit for that. NATO and how he's run away
Speaker 1: from our allies and what he said is you don't
Speaker 1: come to the table and pay your share, we're.
Speaker 2: Out of there. He's the one that did that. He's
Speaker 2: the one that.
Speaker 1: Is and should be given credit for that because the
Speaker 1: United States was being taken advantage of by our allies
Speaker 1: and we did pay for so much of the NATO forces.
Speaker 2: So both sides have an argument.
Speaker 1: Both sides are vulnerable, and if they stick to the
Speaker 1: policy issues, I think we're going to have a chance
Speaker 1: in November to really figure out where the country is going.
Speaker 1: Every single election, you hear, this is the most important
Speaker 1: election we've ever had in the history United States. This
Speaker 1: is we're at the crossroads. We are going to see
Speaker 1: which way the country goes. By the way this time
Speaker 1: is true. This is not crying wolf, and they are
Speaker 1: in a dead heat at this point. All within the
Speaker 1: margin of air, particularly in the Swing States, were the
Speaker 1: only votes that count are in the Swing States. When
Speaker 1: al Gore came out with that film, if you remember about.
Speaker 2: CO two, they are that is on fire.
Speaker 1: He was let's just say he was ridiculed, he was
Speaker 1: made fun of. Well, let me tell you he was
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right. And I will tell you it
Speaker 1: is getting worse. I'll tell you where the scientists were wrong.
Speaker 1: They made fun of all the scientists. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: all of.
Speaker 2: This doom is here. Doom, gloom is doom.
Speaker 1: And you know the scientists were wrong because it's moving
Speaker 1: at a much faster clip than ever expected. There is
Speaker 1: a report that just came out published in the journal
Speaker 1: Earth System Science Data entitled It's not just about Kyle farts,
Speaker 1: It's about global methane emissions over the last five years
Speaker 1: have risen faster than ever and at least two thirds
Speaker 1: of those emissions are now coming from human source. By
Speaker 1: the way, we joke about Coyle farts, they are in
Speaker 1: fact a reasonably large percentage of the methane that is
Speaker 1: out there. There is I think they're coming out with
Speaker 1: these massive Zelman's minty mouth mints about the size of
Speaker 1: grapefruits for cows, which she seems to help. Okay, there's
Speaker 1: a line chart they show in this story. It was
Speaker 1: out of the times. Global methane concentration has been on
Speaker 1: the rise since the nineteen eighties, just when those people
Speaker 1: that were anti climate change, and there's actually a few
Speaker 1: out there, which is kind of crazy, were saying, oh no, no,
Speaker 1: it was going up like crazy, and experts are saying,
Speaker 1: whoa this is concerning?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: Because the planet is on track to go far beyond
Speaker 1: the desired limit of two point seven degrees of warming,
Speaker 1: and that's over the pre industrial era. The international benchmark
Speaker 1: is one point five degrees celsius.
Speaker 2: That is where that line is.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the twenty tens, methade, methane
Speaker 1: contributed to nearly one degree.
Speaker 2: Now that is huge. Think of one degree, Come on,
Speaker 2: big deal.
Speaker 1: While we're on a trajectory that is about three degrees
Speaker 1: celsius right now, way beyond the one point five double
Speaker 1: What critical mass is? Critical mass means that we've gone
Speaker 1: over the edge. Global warming is here. You cannot stop it.
Speaker 1: It's going to get.
Speaker 2: Worse and worse.
Speaker 1: All you can do is slow it down, and it's
Speaker 1: going to have disastrous consequences as if it's not occurring now,
Speaker 1: rapid melting of the ice sheets, prolonged heat waves and droughts.
Speaker 1: Really walk outside, would you please, And let's talk about
Speaker 1: the temperature that's been there for the last few days, Phoenix,
Speaker 1: over one hundred days of temperatures north of one hundred degrees.
Speaker 2: How about water shortages? You don't think.
Speaker 1: Famine around the world, political and social unrest. There're gonna
Speaker 1: be two types of wars in the future. We're not
Speaker 1: going to have ground wars, well for the most part.
Speaker 1: What you're gonna have is cyber wars. And you're not
Speaker 1: gonna have wars based on politics. You're gonna have wars
Speaker 1: based on water. That's the future. Methane is thirty to
Speaker 1: eighty times stronger at warming than CO two ton for ton,
Speaker 1: and we're told it's eighty times more dangerous and more
Speaker 1: harmful to the environment. Now, there is some decent news
Speaker 1: within all that there is some kind of silver lining
Speaker 1: of clouds that don't exist anymore. Methane lasts about ten
Speaker 1: years in the atmosphere, co two lasts hundreds.
Speaker 2: Of years in the atmosphere.
Speaker 1: And there are two categories of methane sources. One human sources,
Speaker 1: agriculture fossil fuels, agriculture including Kyle farts. I love talking
Speaker 1: about that because that actually it's a thing. It's a thing,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, agriculture, fossil fuels. Of course, landfills waste,
Speaker 1: and then you have natural sources wetlands, bogs, marshes, and
Speaker 1: they release methane when bacteria breaks down the organic manner.
Speaker 1: The point is the biggest share of methane that's coming
Speaker 1: out into our atmosphere is from human sources, and it's
Speaker 1: not slowing down. We're using more fossil fuels than ever before.
Speaker 1: California is doing very well with alternative fuels. I mean
Speaker 1: we're about thirty percent thirty five percent, so we're ahead
Speaker 1: of the stated policy. The problem is it's California. There
Speaker 1: are places that are just a touch bigger China, India,
Speaker 1: all of Asia, Africa. We're talking entire continents. So California
Speaker 1: is doing great, but how about India where they're building
Speaker 1: coal fire plants, China where they're building coal coal fire
Speaker 1: plants like crazy, and ice truck What was the name
Speaker 1: of that television show Ice.
Speaker 2: Truckers, Ice road truckers or ice road truckers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they travel travel on these roads of permafrost,
Speaker 1: permafrost being during the summer, you go on roads and
Speaker 1: even when it rains, they're still fine because ten feet
Speaker 1: under is permafrost and that is land ground that never defrosts.
Speaker 2: Well, you now, how have.
Speaker 1: Ice ice road truckers which I forgot the name already.
Speaker 1: They are now creating trucks that are amphibious trucks because
Speaker 1: they are sinking into the ground. And that's just one example.
Speaker 1: This is happening all over the world, and this is
Speaker 1: one And I've said this before, and this is not
Speaker 1: me joking either, This is not shtick. I am glad
Speaker 1: that I am not a young person. I do not
Speaker 1: envy my children. I do not envy my grandchildren living
Speaker 1: in a world where we're looking at this much climate change.
Speaker 2: It is pretty depressing.
Speaker 1: And this is not me making fun of Death's at
Speaker 1: Disneyland or whatever. By the way, that's the podcast that
Speaker 1: drops today, Death in the House of the Mouse, the
Speaker 1: Bill Handleshow podcast. I know I'm pitching it, but Neil
Speaker 1: it's in my new podcast, and I want people to
Speaker 1: go to it. And what's the name of this show?
Speaker 1: I forgot for a moment. It's what is the name
Speaker 1: of our show here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Bill Handles show.
Speaker 1: That's right, and you're not going to pitch it, so
Speaker 1: I am going to.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's a lot of methane being produced.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh there, believe me, there is. That's why, Thank goodness,
Speaker 1: I can turn off the mic.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have an on off switch here because you're right,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of methane being produced. Okay, So those
Speaker 1: are the big news stories we're covering. Excuse me, And
Speaker 1: now I want to tell you about something called the
Speaker 1: thirty by thirty conservation goal and what is that about? Well,
Speaker 1: there is, was, and is a plan to conserve thirty
Speaker 1: percent of California's land in coastal waters by twenty thirty.
Speaker 2: And since the start.
Speaker 1: Of this thirty by thirty initiative, California has added nearly
Speaker 1: one point five million acres of conserved land. It's about
Speaker 1: twenty five percent of the goal and there's five years
Speaker 1: still left. I mean, this is a real success story
Speaker 1: among conservationists. Newsome of course, taking credit In twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: I signed an executive order to conserve thirty percent of
Speaker 1: lands thirty percent of coastal waters in California by twenty thirty.
Speaker 1: We're on track to achieve this. And this is beyond
Speaker 1: just conservation. Also plans to restore biodiversity, expand access to nature.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Help mitigate and build resilience to climate change.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much that's going to do.
Speaker 1: Also, returning indigenous land to indigenous peoples.
Speaker 2: There's a whole program there where state land, and this is.
Speaker 1: Vacant state land is going back to traditional tribes.
Speaker 2: That lived on the land.
Speaker 1: Now there is a move among the Yana Indian tribes
Speaker 1: to have the area known as Beverly Hills return to them,
Speaker 1: and that's not going so well. The people that own
Speaker 1: the buildings in Beverly Hills are saying, we're not going
Speaker 1: to do that. So, as I said, we're talking about
Speaker 1: massive acreage in state owned effectively parkland.
Speaker 2: There are two national monuments that have been expanded.
Speaker 1: The San Gabriel Mountains National Monument had no idea and
Speaker 1: even existed. And here's one that is so well known,
Speaker 1: the very Sis Snow Mountain National Monument.
Speaker 2: You heard of that one.
Speaker 1: No, No, There is also one hundred million dollars for
Speaker 1: the return of roughly thirty nine thousand acres to indigenous communities,
Speaker 1: the Hoopa Valley tribe, and they're the ones that actually, traditionally.
Speaker 2: They invented the Hula Hoopa.
Speaker 1: That's simply one of the traditional dances that the Indian
Speaker 1: tribes had. The Hoopa Valley Tribe was able to acquire
Speaker 1: about ten thousand acres of their lands and the Klamath
Speaker 1: River Watershed formerly being managed by the Timber Trust, and
Speaker 1: Newsom said the grants award were an acknowledgment of past sins,
Speaker 1: a promise of accountability and commitment to a better future.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of politics, obviously.
Speaker 1: But California is that the forefront forefront of this and
Speaker 1: other states are moving in that direction, Nevada, South Carolina, Hawaii, Maine,
Speaker 1: New York, and they're moving towards their own thirty by
Speaker 1: thirty goals. And in twenty twenty one, President Biden unveiled
Speaker 1: the national version of the thirty to thirty plan. It
Speaker 1: was called America the Beautiful Initiative, and that's seeing.
Speaker 2: Forty million acres conserved.
Speaker 1: I wonder if Kamala Harris is going to mention that tonight.
Speaker 2: Probably not.
Speaker 1: And the only problem that it has is Newsom is
Speaker 1: looking at a forty five billion dollar deficit this year.
Speaker 1: So it was the program was cut about three hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars. You go, wait a minute, isn't that the
Speaker 1: whole program? No, because one point three billion dollars that
Speaker 1: was previously allocated has been well at one point six
Speaker 1: billion dollars that was previously allocated is now one point
Speaker 1: three billions, So that's three hundred million dollars less. Several
Speaker 1: plans underway. Proposal to designate Chuckawalla National Monument, no idea.
Speaker 1: That's in the eastern Coachella Valley, and that's where Coachella
Speaker 1: they have the famous Indian rock and roll bands that
Speaker 1: are there every year. Okay, done. The airport fire, that's
Speaker 1: one of the big ones. Chris Adler is covering.
Speaker 2: That for us.
Speaker 1: We will oh free tatas. I'm telling you, free tatas.
Speaker 2: Is it the frittatas or the stuff that you put
Speaker 2: on the fort. It's a top of you sauce, that's
Speaker 2: what it is. It's the hot sauce. It gets in
Speaker 2: your throat and you cough a little bit. All right.
Speaker 1: Let's uh, well, we got fires all over southern California
Speaker 1: and one of them is the Airport fire, among others.
Speaker 1: And Chris Adler is at the Airport fire, our own
Speaker 1: Chris Saddler. Chris, what's going on and what kind of containment?
Speaker 2: And this looks pretty depressing all the way around right.
Speaker 3: Now, Hey Belle, good morning. Yeah, So this fire has
Speaker 3: now burned more than eighty five hundred acres since it
Speaker 3: broke out yesterday afternoon. They're calling at the Airport fire
Speaker 3: because it's near the RC flyers Field where people fly
Speaker 3: remote controlled planes, not an actual airport per se. So now,
Speaker 3: like you said, zero percent containment, they have. They have
Speaker 3: had more than one thousand firefighters on scene yesterday started
Speaker 3: yesterday afternoon from multiple agencies including CalFire, Anaheim Fire, and
Speaker 3: even firefighters from out of state. I was speaking with
Speaker 3: firefighters from Arizona who had said they hadn't been home
Speaker 3: in days. They've been called out to help battle these
Speaker 3: fires here in California. We were watching planes drop retardant,
Speaker 3: we were watching helicopters drop water, and OC Fire Authority
Speaker 3: is using their OC fire Hark fire hawk that can
Speaker 3: now drop one thousand gallons of water in each drop
Speaker 3: bill and they dropped multiple drops. But this fire is
Speaker 3: spreading and it's it's right. Yesterday when I was speaking
Speaker 3: to firefighters, they had told me were at that time
Speaker 3: there was no threat to anybody living in the area,
Speaker 3: that it was blowing up and away from homes.
Speaker 2: But it is spreading.
Speaker 3: So now more than eighty five hundred acres, zero percent containment,
Speaker 3: So there are evacuation warnings still in certain areas, evacuation
Speaker 3: orders where cal Fire says there's an immediate threat to
Speaker 3: life in Robinson Ranch, Tribuco Highlands, and the Tribuco Highland
Speaker 3: Apartment Complex where those streets have been surrounded. I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: not surrounded, but blocked off keeping the public out.
Speaker 1: I am now in Orange County and I'm looking in
Speaker 1: my backyard up on the on the hill and behind
Speaker 1: me is Trabuco Canyon, and last night I saw the
Speaker 1: entire ridge on fire with the flames, and it must
Speaker 1: have been three miles away. And let me tell you
Speaker 1: how troubling that is. It's not me talking about it,
Speaker 1: it's not you reporting. It's looking at my house. And going, whoa,
Speaker 1: that's what's going on. And there was this billowing smoke
Speaker 1: that was.
Speaker 2: Coming out of it. This morning.
Speaker 1: I walk outside and you have this smoke down in
Speaker 1: the valley.
Speaker 2: And which way is it moving at this point?
Speaker 1: Because I may be throwing it to Amy and Neil
Speaker 1: to take over as I get my ass out of town.
Speaker 3: Right so they're watching it right now there, So it
Speaker 3: is moving. It's slowly moving. They're trying to surround it
Speaker 3: from the ground. But some of these areas bill are
Speaker 3: some of the areas in the canyon are not accessible
Speaker 3: or it's difficult to access for the firefighters, which is
Speaker 3: why they're relying so heavily on these airborne attacks and
Speaker 3: the retardant. But the retardant once the sun goes down,
Speaker 3: those planes can't fly in and drop the retardant, so
Speaker 3: they have to wait for the sun to come back up.
Speaker 3: But the helicopters are able to still go in and
Speaker 3: drop water because it's so dry, and even though there
Speaker 3: was so rain from this last rainy season, it's still
Speaker 3: so dry, and the heat that so much brush in
Speaker 3: the area. It quickly caught fire. It started slow, but
Speaker 3: it spread so rapidly because of how dry it was.
Speaker 3: And we also learned that there was there were four
Speaker 3: people in that area when the fire broke out that
Speaker 3: had to be airlifted out, including a three year old child.
Speaker 3: They got quickly surrounded by the fire when it broke out.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if you heard, but the way
Speaker 3: that this fire started was there were public works crews
Speaker 3: in the area moving heavy boulders with heavy machinery. They
Speaker 3: were actually trying to clear pathways, block pathways so that
Speaker 3: people wouldn't hang out in that area so that fires
Speaker 3: wouldn't get started from people visiting the area. And they
Speaker 3: ended up starting a fire themselves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, and that's.
Speaker 3: How it started. The smoke started. I guess it started
Speaker 3: to catch fire, the hot fire.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, go ahead, Now, how ironic is it? Fire
Speaker 1: batement procedures causing a fire.
Speaker 2: And I know you're gonna be out there. I got
Speaker 2: to cut you off because we're out of time.
Speaker 1: But as you're out there fitzing in the heat, I
Speaker 1: just want you to think of me sitting here in
Speaker 1: air conditions to.
Speaker 3: I will tell them to watch Bill Handle's house.
Speaker 2: That's all that matters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you very much. Yeah, all right, Chris you're
Speaker 1: gonna be there for a while and reporting. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the Yeah. Better her than me, that's for sure. KFI
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