You're listening to KFI AM six forty, the Bill Handles show on demand on 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 are so hot. Kfi Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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