August 5, 2024 • 24 mins
Coming to your electric bill: monthly charge to extend Diablo Canyon’s life. Chinese migrants rush to find a way to the U.S. border before the doors close. Shade will make or break American cities. Veterans’ demands for more housing on West L.A VA campus goes to trial.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
am six forty, and this is excuse me, kf I
am six forty bill Handle. It is a Monday morning,
August fifth, Tomorrow a couple of things. Tomorrow is August sixth,
which I'll be telling you in a commercial about Zelman's
(00:23):
Minty Mouth Min's Breath Fresh Breathday. Also tomorrow is Hiroshima,
the dropping of the atomic bomb, which I always bring up.
And tomorrow is my podcast dropping again. Every Tuesday and Thursday,
the Bill Handle Show Podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Drops another pardon another bomb dropping tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
No, I don't you know it. Maybe I haven't. I
don't listen to them, as you know, I've never listened
to an air check in my life. I won't listen
to me talking to your chop. Yeah, no, I know that.
I have no idea, but I got that. But the
point is every Tuesday and Thursday at nine o'clock it
drops again. So I think, and we did. We do
the Olympics one tomorrow Tomorrow is just that kind of
(01:10):
fun stuff. The Olympics you really don't know about. So
you can go to Spotify, Apple, iHeartRadio, app whatever. It's
the Bill Candle Show podcast. Got it. It's good to
have a show so you can promote your crap. You
know that. I also have a used car for sale
that's been in my garage for a while, and I
(01:30):
thought i'd point that out. Anything else. Let me what
else I want to sell?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Are we going back to radio radio?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I think so a dollar, a dollar, a holler or
a holler a dollar.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Anybody remembers that, either those that are new or did
the show bill used to open up the phone lines
and people could trade stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah they could, Yeah, they could do. That's just whatever
you want to do. What do you want to sell?
And I had guys there was an earthworm guy who
sold earthworms. I remember that. Okay, height Let me get
to something that folks in Southern California not maybe may
not be too thrilled about, especially if you're in southern California.
(02:10):
Edison Land, San Diego Gas and Electric Land. Here's what's
going on. The Diabolo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, the last
power plant in a state which is nuclear powered, and
it's run by PG and E. Well, they're extending it.
They're supposed to go out and they're going No. No,
we wanted in another ten years. So up goes the
(02:33):
amount of money you pay for electricity. It doesn't seem
like much. Basically a bucket a quarter a month for Edison,
eighty seven cents for San Diego Gas and Electric, which
by the way, is one of the most expensive utilities
in the country. And this has to do with just
extending the life of the Diabolo Canyon plant. Here's the
(02:54):
issue is energy costs, of course, have doubled over the
last decade. No surprise there. So I am to be
a big fan of nukes, let's start with that. And
those that are anti nukes wanted the Diabolo to go
out like Santa No Freight. You go down there where
you go down on the way to San Diego on
the one oh one, and you see those two breast
(03:17):
like concrete containers, you know, the huge round ones, I
mean the melon size, well huge ones to say, the
least containment buildings. And that's been offline for about ten years.
So Diabolo still keeps ongoing. And here is the problem.
We don't know what to do with nuclear waste. I mean,
(03:38):
they have yet to figure that out. I don't care
because I'm going to be dead. So let everybody else
worry about it. But the argument about nuclear power is
still going on because even environmentalists, now it's about fifty
to fifty say we want nukes. Can you imagine environmentalists
saying they want nukes. Why no fossil fuel imprint at all?
(04:00):
Zero fossil fuels other than maybe the cars that the
twenty two people who work there drive in. That's basically it.
But you have the radioactive waste. And when these things
go south, oh boy do they go south. Look what
happened Three Mile Island, the Granddaddy Chernoble, you know, just
cleaned up that part of Europe. You still go there's
(04:22):
in Ukraine and it is hundreds of miles still wasteland. Fukushima.
Look what that did. And by the way, that's stopped
nuclear power plants cold around the world. And so do
we need nukes? Well, California, the CPUC California Public Utilage
Commission says yeah. But then the argument is, wait a minute,
(04:44):
We're already at thirty percent alternative power, and we're getting
better and better with that every single year. Now you
have solar systems. So I'm on my second one Persian palace.
I put one in now I put one into my
new place. Now I have batteries which I didn't have before,
because that helps out. The bottom line is we haven't
look at the heat wave that Amy's been reporting on.
(05:07):
We're one of the worst heat waves We've ever had
no thought of rolling blackouts. And we have one nuclear
power plant left in California, and if that goes down
the tubes, we're still gonna be okay. And that's what
the anti nukee people are saying, stop it. In the meantime,
you've got the legislature that says no, we need it.
You have the CPUC that says no, we need it,
(05:28):
and it's a huge fight. As of right now, it's
going to be extended. I like nuclear power, always have
think it's neat stuff. And even when it goes south,
when you have a Chernobyl or you have a three
mile island or Fukushima, you have to admit that's a
lot more entertaining than just a power plant going up.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Come on, is that what you're looking for as entertainment value?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, Chernobyl. Still to this day you're
pretty entertaining there or be there? Did you see it?
But did you see the Netflix series on Chernobyl the Net. Oh,
it was fabulous, a docu drama. One of the best
things I've ever seen. Well worth watching. And if you
happen to be in favor of nuclear power and nuclear
(06:14):
power plants, really watch this thing, because I mean I
didn't change my mind. I just found the whole story great.
But you may want to relok at this. Okay, Oh,
just a quick one as far as a metal count
is concerned. Also, the metal counts are given to US
in two categories, total metal count and who wins the
most gold medals? And so as of right now, the
(06:37):
US at seventy two most medals, China's number one, with
gold medals at twenty one, the US nineteen. Okay, talking
about Chinese. By the way, does anybody win a gold
medal by coming over here illegally? Oh? Look at that?
How I connected the two? Very good? So what is
(06:59):
going on? Well, and it's still going on. The US
is just trying to stop the stem of Chinese illegal migrants.
And why are they They're really ramping up. I mean,
the Chinese are going balls to the wall to get
over here. Why because they're anticipating if a new Trump
(07:21):
presidency comes into being, they're done. One of the things
that Trump has promised, which I completely believe he's going
to do, is not only shut down that border, but
to poort everybody who's here illegally or attempted to port everybody.
And so that means that borders are going to be
ten times harder to cross than they are right now.
(07:41):
So here's what's going on with the Chinese migrants. Some
are attempting to start their overland journey, because now we're
talking about migrants crossing the border, not flying in overland
journey from as far away as Lapause, Bolivia, seven thousand
miles nine border crossings from Tijuana. The government of Ecuador
(08:02):
suspended visa free arrivals for Chinese nationals on July one.
No visa, you're done. You have to get a visa.
A lot of countries you don't need visas. You go
to Europe. We don't need a visa to go to
England or France or German. Just walk in the door. Well,
in many countries you need a visa. Well, Ecuador, you
didn't need a visa if someone were Chinese. That's changed.
(08:24):
Chinese by the way, officials have been making examples for
people that are deported into China who have in fact
tried to illegally immigrate out, leave the country illegally and
then try to come to the United States. They're making
example of those people. In recent years, tens of thousands
of Chinese have attempted to enter the US first going
(08:45):
to Mexico. And we don't see stories about this anymore,
but hiking through the Darien Gap, if you remember those stories,
and this is that connects South and Central America and
its overland and it's very narrow and you hike up
it's like taking a mountain hike on a very narrow passageway,
(09:07):
and people were dying like.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Crazy, super treacherous, right, super.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Treacherous, And normally they would do that after flying into Ecuador.
And that's being shut down. And now we're talking about
only the Chinese. Why are so many Well, because China
is in more trouble financially than it has been for
years and years. Pandemic wiped out many many people's savings
and livelihoods. So, like immigrants from all over the world,
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the United States is the holy grail of opportunity. So
here's some numbers. The number of Chinese nationals passing through
the Darien Gap each month over the first five months
of this year was about two thousand per month, and
(09:54):
that's slightly down from twenty twenty three, so the numbers
are huge. So we got public pressure in the US
to reduce a flow of migrants, particularly from the right.
One of the things that you're going to see not
only are the Trump people, one of the basic platforms
of the Trump campaign is immigrant, immigrant, immigrant, immigrant, illegal immigration.
(10:17):
And even now you have you're not going to see
Kamala Harras talk about open arms and we want as
many people here and we are the bread basket of
the world and we are here to save humanity. You
will not be hearing that at all. So right now,
according to a Chinese migrant who writes about this, ninety
(10:38):
nine percent of the people will not be able to come.
It's going to be shut down almost to zero. It's
tough for these people, it really is. So where are
they going? Well, who knows? It used to be only Mexicans.
Our illegal immigration problem was Mexicans. Then it became a
(10:59):
Central Americans, particularly Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and that was remember
the caravans. I still think they're out there where they
travel thousands of miles and then sort of dissipate at
the border because they think that thousands are going to
be allowed in and that's not the case, and they're
still willing to take a chance. Life is so miserable
(11:21):
because it's a question of starving to death in those
places where if you look what climate change has done,
there used to be sort of this golden triangle between
those three countries in Central America, and that was basically
the bread basket of that area. It's a desert. Nothing's growing.
(11:43):
It is horrific.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
The major difference is if you come from Kiwana and
you get sent back, no big deal. You come from
China and get sent back, they are not open arms
welcoming you back to.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Not even a little bit. I mean, you get tossed
in jail because you've left the country illegally. And the
Chinese are a lot harsher and illegal immigration has it
has gone down dramatically. You're gonna hear the presidential where
former President Trump is going to argue totally unbridled, unregulated immigration.
(12:19):
He's wrong because they really are clamping down the federal government.
The problem is under the Biden administration, they didn't do enough,
and the Democrats realize and we're now talking politics. Oops,
maybe we would in a little bit harsher on illegal
immigration because the vast, vast majority of Americans do not
(12:40):
want illegal immigration. And in this case it's Chinese. You
don't often think of the Chinese sneaking into this country illegally. Well,
it's huge numbers China.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Also, doesn't that bill point to the fact that it's
gotten worse if it used to be. Just first of all, Mexico, yep,
are nearest neighbors.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
But you have.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You know, from all over the world.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Terrorists and concerns coming through there. We get all I've got.
Everyone knows that door is open.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah, the world, well, that's shutting down big time. It
was so as a combination of the world falling into
the toilet becoming a toilet in all these other countries.
You also have the situation where America is still perceived
as a land of opportunity. The roads are lined with gold,
they're paved with gold. Some kind of crazy ass philosophy.
(13:30):
Although when you think about it, let's say you have
an illegal immigrant comes over here and works for cash,
not even minimum wage. Let's say it gets completely screwed
over and gets ten twelve dollars an hour and is
able to live with five or six or eight other
illegal migrants in a one bedroom apartment and they send
(13:51):
their money down to Honduras. Ten dollars an hour down
there is real money. You couldn't earn ten dollars an
hour to save your life, and you couldn't get full
time at ten dollars an hour. It is. It's a
very different world. We are very very lucky to be Americans.
When you look at it. Let me change gears completely
if you don't mind, and I want to talk about
(14:14):
what's going on with American cities now. I think this
is particularly appropriate right around this time, because we are
in the middle of another massive heat wave, and it
is it just doesn't stop. Amy you were, when does
this thing end? I know it started a few days ago,
and is this the last day? Tomorrow is the last day?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Today and tomorrow the hotest days and then it'll start
it'll cool down after that.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
So triple digits and of course the wildfires, and we
are in a god awful mess when it comes to
the weather, the heat in our in our case, and
so what do you do to get out of the heat. Well,
of course, air conditioning and you do what you can.
And if you don't have air conditioning, or your elder whatever,
you go to the cooling centers. But let's talk about
(15:03):
cities across the country, particularly where we are, because it's appropriate,
because this is what we are suffering from, and that
is excessive heat. Of course we are. And poor people
get nailed more. Of course they do. Minorities and poor
people insert name of issue here, they get nailed more.
And there is now a direct correlation between shade and
(15:26):
where you live. And it's trees. And we've heard this
over and over again, and that is the more trees
you have, the more shade. Of course, that is it's
going to happen, simply more shade. And so the theory is,
and by the way, it's not a theory, it actually works,
(15:47):
is that in the inner city we have these heat deserts,
which means you don't see a lot of greenery. On
the way to my house, the Persian Palace, my ex house,
one of the roads that led up to the house,
the tree canopy was so was so full that you
(16:10):
could not see the sun. It was like a tent
and it was beautiful and you have dapples of sunlight,
and it was you drive into that it was so
cool because trees provide shade. Shade provides cooling. You don't
get that in many poor sections of town, where it's asphalt,
(16:33):
where there's not much greenery, where it's the concrete roads
and nothing else. And so the answer clearly is to
plant trees. And there's a huge move saying that that
is the answer. We have got to have more trees,
and they're moving towards it. Now. I want to continue
(16:54):
on with the story I just did about the heat spell,
which of course we're in the middle of it and
will continue to be, and how hot it is triple digits,
and how the answer clearly is in those places that
don't have trees in the city, you put up trees
because the difference between shade and being out in the
(17:15):
sun is astronomical. The numbers I looked at are absolutely stunning.
There are two numbers you look at. One is the
median heat. How hot is the air that we're suffering
from the heat of the air, and then how hot
are we? How hot do we feel? Right? It's like,
(17:40):
what's how they do that with it feels like the
humidity level, it feels like it's one hundred and twenty
when it's really one hundred and ten. But you add
humidity and you have the heat index. Well, this takes
it to another level. And the numbers and I looked
at them and I said, this is impossible. If you
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block the sun, the difference how hot a person feels
can be thirty six degrees fahrenheit. I mean, that is
an astronomical number. So what's the secret here? Is it trees? Well,
certainly trees are great because not only do they provide shade,
(18:24):
but they also suck up carbon dioxide and they put
more moisture in the air and they're everything you want.
But there is a fundamental problem with trees. They take
thirty years to grow. You put a sapling in the ground,
let's say in the sidewalk area of the inner city.
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You're not going to get a lot of shade from
a five foot sapling. Thirty years from now, you'll be okay.
So what is going on in addition to calling for
the trees? And it's expensive, by the way, to go
out and get trees. How about just canopy covers? What
does that mean, we've been to restaurants where they have
(19:08):
those sales in the outdoor areas and Neil, you see
them all the time at restaurants where you go outside
and you're not going to sit out in the sun.
And let's say you're in many places where a part
of the structure is covered and you sit underneath it.
At the Alfresco, No, this is outside, and we're talking
(19:29):
about you walking down the sidewalk bus stops. LA started
to do that with bus stops. And the difference between
sitting outside, I mean, people think about this for a moment.
It's one hundred degrees outside, which happens to us all
the time, and you're in direct sunlight and it feels
(19:50):
like one hundred and twenty degrees. It's one hundred degrees outside,
and you're sitting or walking in an area that is
completely covered the blocks the sunlight. It is just an
enormous difference. So what the scientists are telling us are
actually what the urban planners are telling us. Here's what
(20:11):
you do. You put up this canopy and it's we're
talking fabric, we're talking maybe aluminum structures. Although fabric is
probably the best cheap as hell. Blocks out the sun,
because that is the magic here. You block out the sun.
(20:32):
The urban heat island effect would well, it would disappear
in many, many ways. Now we're talking about a city,
and I don't know how it does this, because I
can see a city planting trees. How does the city
cover whole areas with this canopy? I don't know how
that works, but I'll tell you it would make a
(20:55):
huge difference. Does make a huge difference, and it does
it immediately. You go downtown, for example, go to New
York and it can be hot and humid, and you
are walking down a sidewalk in New York, you are
feeling cooler than you ever would out in the burbs
wide because you've got these one hundred and ten story buildings,
eighty story buildings blocking out most of the sun, and
(21:20):
you just feel cooler. Maybe that's why New York is
a walking city. I don't know. Certainly southern California is
not walking out in the sun. Is it not only
feels cooler to be under the shade? It is livable.
I mean today, I'm going to take a walk right
after the show or after I take phone calls at
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the top of the hour at the top of the
hour after I walk out, and then I'm going to
walk outside, and most of it is going to be
on the sidewalk in the sunlight. And then there's a
place where I go into a trail that's covered and
has a nice canopy, and the difference is going to
feel The difference is going to be about twenty five degrees.
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The way I feel it is an enormous difference. So
you are going to see a whole different world. One
of the experts says, if the goal is to cool
the city, trees are more helpful than a built structure.
If the goal is to cool people, that is a
different tool. And what we talk about normally is to
(22:23):
bring down the temperature to cool the city. The ambient
air well that is not nearly as effective as cooling
the person because you live in your skin far more
than you live in the city. So you're going to
see these shade sales, and in some cities around the
(22:45):
world they've installed above plazas and pedestrians shopping streets, and
so what's going to happen, what's going to have to
have have to happen, is because the world is getting
so much hotter, so quicker. We can't do trees anymore.
As a matter of fact, the argument is going to
be trees are too expensive, it takes too long, and
(23:07):
we're hitting an area of critical mass where it's just unbearable.
You know, my best friend, or one of my best friends,
lives in Las Vegas. You step outside one hundred and
twenty degrees with the sun blaring down on you, it
feels like one hundred and fifty. You step in the shade,
(23:29):
still one hundred and twenty degrees, walk out his front door.
It literally feels like and I lived in Vegas for
a while, it literally feels like someone has turned on
a hair dryer, full blast, full hot, and stuck it
right in front of your face. And that's what happens
when you walk out the door. So I thought it
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was kind of neat. What really stunned me was the figures.
Thirty six degrees difference in how you feel? All right,
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am six forty bill Handle. It is a Monday morning,
August fifth, Tomorrow a couple of things. Tomorrow is August sixth,
which I'll be telling you in a commercial about Zelman's
(00:23):
Minty Mouth Min's Breath Fresh Breathday. Also tomorrow is Hiroshima,
the dropping of the atomic bomb, which I always bring up.
And tomorrow is my podcast dropping again. Every Tuesday and Thursday,
the Bill Handle Show Podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Drops another pardon another bomb dropping tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
No, I don't you know it. Maybe I haven't. I
don't listen to them, as you know, I've never listened
to an air check in my life. I won't listen
to me talking to your chop. Yeah, no, I know that.
I have no idea, but I got that. But the
point is every Tuesday and Thursday at nine o'clock it
drops again. So I think, and we did. We do
the Olympics one tomorrow Tomorrow is just that kind of
(01:10):
fun stuff. The Olympics you really don't know about. So
you can go to Spotify, Apple, iHeartRadio, app whatever. It's
the Bill Candle Show podcast. Got it. It's good to
have a show so you can promote your crap. You
know that. I also have a used car for sale
that's been in my garage for a while, and I
(01:30):
thought i'd point that out. Anything else. Let me what
else I want to sell?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Are we going back to radio radio?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I think so a dollar, a dollar, a holler or
a holler a dollar.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Anybody remembers that, either those that are new or did
the show bill used to open up the phone lines
and people could trade stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah they could, Yeah, they could do. That's just whatever
you want to do. What do you want to sell?
And I had guys there was an earthworm guy who
sold earthworms. I remember that. Okay, height Let me get
to something that folks in Southern California not maybe may
not be too thrilled about, especially if you're in southern California.
(02:10):
Edison Land, San Diego Gas and Electric Land. Here's what's
going on. The Diabolo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, the last
power plant in a state which is nuclear powered, and
it's run by PG and E. Well, they're extending it.
They're supposed to go out and they're going No. No,
we wanted in another ten years. So up goes the
(02:33):
amount of money you pay for electricity. It doesn't seem
like much. Basically a bucket a quarter a month for Edison,
eighty seven cents for San Diego Gas and Electric, which
by the way, is one of the most expensive utilities
in the country. And this has to do with just
extending the life of the Diabolo Canyon plant. Here's the
(02:54):
issue is energy costs, of course, have doubled over the
last decade. No surprise there. So I am to be
a big fan of nukes, let's start with that. And
those that are anti nukes wanted the Diabolo to go
out like Santa No Freight. You go down there where
you go down on the way to San Diego on
the one oh one, and you see those two breast
(03:17):
like concrete containers, you know, the huge round ones, I
mean the melon size, well huge ones to say, the
least containment buildings. And that's been offline for about ten years.
So Diabolo still keeps ongoing. And here is the problem.
We don't know what to do with nuclear waste. I mean,
(03:38):
they have yet to figure that out. I don't care
because I'm going to be dead. So let everybody else
worry about it. But the argument about nuclear power is
still going on because even environmentalists, now it's about fifty
to fifty say we want nukes. Can you imagine environmentalists
saying they want nukes. Why no fossil fuel imprint at all?
(04:00):
Zero fossil fuels other than maybe the cars that the
twenty two people who work there drive in. That's basically it.
But you have the radioactive waste. And when these things
go south, oh boy do they go south. Look what
happened Three Mile Island, the Granddaddy Chernoble, you know, just
cleaned up that part of Europe. You still go there's
(04:22):
in Ukraine and it is hundreds of miles still wasteland. Fukushima.
Look what that did. And by the way, that's stopped
nuclear power plants cold around the world. And so do
we need nukes? Well, California, the CPUC California Public Utilage
Commission says yeah. But then the argument is, wait a minute,
(04:44):
We're already at thirty percent alternative power, and we're getting
better and better with that every single year. Now you
have solar systems. So I'm on my second one Persian palace.
I put one in now I put one into my
new place. Now I have batteries which I didn't have before,
because that helps out. The bottom line is we haven't
look at the heat wave that Amy's been reporting on.
(05:07):
We're one of the worst heat waves We've ever had
no thought of rolling blackouts. And we have one nuclear
power plant left in California, and if that goes down
the tubes, we're still gonna be okay. And that's what
the anti nukee people are saying, stop it. In the meantime,
you've got the legislature that says no, we need it.
You have the CPUC that says no, we need it,
(05:28):
and it's a huge fight. As of right now, it's
going to be extended. I like nuclear power, always have
think it's neat stuff. And even when it goes south,
when you have a Chernobyl or you have a three
mile island or Fukushima, you have to admit that's a
lot more entertaining than just a power plant going up.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Come on, is that what you're looking for as entertainment value?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, Chernobyl. Still to this day you're
pretty entertaining there or be there? Did you see it?
But did you see the Netflix series on Chernobyl the Net. Oh,
it was fabulous, a docu drama. One of the best
things I've ever seen. Well worth watching. And if you
happen to be in favor of nuclear power and nuclear
(06:14):
power plants, really watch this thing, because I mean I
didn't change my mind. I just found the whole story great.
But you may want to relok at this. Okay, Oh,
just a quick one as far as a metal count
is concerned. Also, the metal counts are given to US
in two categories, total metal count and who wins the
most gold medals? And so as of right now, the
(06:37):
US at seventy two most medals, China's number one, with
gold medals at twenty one, the US nineteen. Okay, talking
about Chinese. By the way, does anybody win a gold
medal by coming over here illegally? Oh? Look at that?
How I connected the two? Very good? So what is
(06:59):
going on? Well, and it's still going on. The US
is just trying to stop the stem of Chinese illegal migrants.
And why are they They're really ramping up. I mean,
the Chinese are going balls to the wall to get
over here. Why because they're anticipating if a new Trump
(07:21):
presidency comes into being, they're done. One of the things
that Trump has promised, which I completely believe he's going
to do, is not only shut down that border, but
to poort everybody who's here illegally or attempted to port everybody.
And so that means that borders are going to be
ten times harder to cross than they are right now.
(07:41):
So here's what's going on with the Chinese migrants. Some
are attempting to start their overland journey, because now we're
talking about migrants crossing the border, not flying in overland
journey from as far away as Lapause, Bolivia, seven thousand
miles nine border crossings from Tijuana. The government of Ecuador
(08:02):
suspended visa free arrivals for Chinese nationals on July one.
No visa, you're done. You have to get a visa.
A lot of countries you don't need visas. You go
to Europe. We don't need a visa to go to
England or France or German. Just walk in the door. Well,
in many countries you need a visa. Well, Ecuador, you
didn't need a visa if someone were Chinese. That's changed.
(08:24):
Chinese by the way, officials have been making examples for
people that are deported into China who have in fact
tried to illegally immigrate out, leave the country illegally and
then try to come to the United States. They're making
example of those people. In recent years, tens of thousands
of Chinese have attempted to enter the US first going
(08:45):
to Mexico. And we don't see stories about this anymore,
but hiking through the Darien Gap, if you remember those stories,
and this is that connects South and Central America and
its overland and it's very narrow and you hike up
it's like taking a mountain hike on a very narrow passageway,
(09:07):
and people were dying like.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Crazy, super treacherous, right, super.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Treacherous, And normally they would do that after flying into Ecuador.
And that's being shut down. And now we're talking about
only the Chinese. Why are so many Well, because China
is in more trouble financially than it has been for
years and years. Pandemic wiped out many many people's savings
and livelihoods. So, like immigrants from all over the world,
(09:34):
the United States is the holy grail of opportunity. So
here's some numbers. The number of Chinese nationals passing through
the Darien Gap each month over the first five months
of this year was about two thousand per month, and
(09:54):
that's slightly down from twenty twenty three, so the numbers
are huge. So we got public pressure in the US
to reduce a flow of migrants, particularly from the right.
One of the things that you're going to see not
only are the Trump people, one of the basic platforms
of the Trump campaign is immigrant, immigrant, immigrant, immigrant, illegal immigration.
(10:17):
And even now you have you're not going to see
Kamala Harras talk about open arms and we want as
many people here and we are the bread basket of
the world and we are here to save humanity. You
will not be hearing that at all. So right now,
according to a Chinese migrant who writes about this, ninety
(10:38):
nine percent of the people will not be able to come.
It's going to be shut down almost to zero. It's
tough for these people, it really is. So where are
they going? Well, who knows? It used to be only Mexicans.
Our illegal immigration problem was Mexicans. Then it became a
(10:59):
Central Americans, particularly Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and that was remember
the caravans. I still think they're out there where they
travel thousands of miles and then sort of dissipate at
the border because they think that thousands are going to
be allowed in and that's not the case, and they're
still willing to take a chance. Life is so miserable
(11:21):
because it's a question of starving to death in those
places where if you look what climate change has done,
there used to be sort of this golden triangle between
those three countries in Central America, and that was basically
the bread basket of that area. It's a desert. Nothing's growing.
(11:43):
It is horrific.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
The major difference is if you come from Kiwana and
you get sent back, no big deal. You come from
China and get sent back, they are not open arms
welcoming you back to.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Not even a little bit. I mean, you get tossed
in jail because you've left the country illegally. And the
Chinese are a lot harsher and illegal immigration has it
has gone down dramatically. You're gonna hear the presidential where
former President Trump is going to argue totally unbridled, unregulated immigration.
(12:19):
He's wrong because they really are clamping down the federal government.
The problem is under the Biden administration, they didn't do enough,
and the Democrats realize and we're now talking politics. Oops,
maybe we would in a little bit harsher on illegal
immigration because the vast, vast majority of Americans do not
(12:40):
want illegal immigration. And in this case it's Chinese. You
don't often think of the Chinese sneaking into this country illegally. Well,
it's huge numbers China.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Also, doesn't that bill point to the fact that it's
gotten worse if it used to be. Just first of all, Mexico, yep,
are nearest neighbors.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
But you have.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You know, from all over the world.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Terrorists and concerns coming through there. We get all I've got.
Everyone knows that door is open.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah, the world, well, that's shutting down big time. It
was so as a combination of the world falling into
the toilet becoming a toilet in all these other countries.
You also have the situation where America is still perceived
as a land of opportunity. The roads are lined with gold,
they're paved with gold. Some kind of crazy ass philosophy.
(13:30):
Although when you think about it, let's say you have
an illegal immigrant comes over here and works for cash,
not even minimum wage. Let's say it gets completely screwed
over and gets ten twelve dollars an hour and is
able to live with five or six or eight other
illegal migrants in a one bedroom apartment and they send
(13:51):
their money down to Honduras. Ten dollars an hour down
there is real money. You couldn't earn ten dollars an
hour to save your life, and you couldn't get full
time at ten dollars an hour. It is. It's a
very different world. We are very very lucky to be Americans.
When you look at it. Let me change gears completely
if you don't mind, and I want to talk about
(14:14):
what's going on with American cities now. I think this
is particularly appropriate right around this time, because we are
in the middle of another massive heat wave, and it
is it just doesn't stop. Amy you were, when does
this thing end? I know it started a few days ago,
and is this the last day? Tomorrow is the last day?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Today and tomorrow the hotest days and then it'll start
it'll cool down after that.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
So triple digits and of course the wildfires, and we
are in a god awful mess when it comes to
the weather, the heat in our in our case, and
so what do you do to get out of the heat. Well,
of course, air conditioning and you do what you can.
And if you don't have air conditioning, or your elder whatever,
you go to the cooling centers. But let's talk about
(15:03):
cities across the country, particularly where we are, because it's appropriate,
because this is what we are suffering from, and that
is excessive heat. Of course we are. And poor people
get nailed more. Of course they do. Minorities and poor
people insert name of issue here, they get nailed more.
And there is now a direct correlation between shade and
(15:26):
where you live. And it's trees. And we've heard this
over and over again, and that is the more trees
you have, the more shade. Of course, that is it's
going to happen, simply more shade. And so the theory is,
and by the way, it's not a theory, it actually works,
(15:47):
is that in the inner city we have these heat deserts,
which means you don't see a lot of greenery. On
the way to my house, the Persian Palace, my ex house,
one of the roads that led up to the house,
the tree canopy was so was so full that you
(16:10):
could not see the sun. It was like a tent
and it was beautiful and you have dapples of sunlight,
and it was you drive into that it was so
cool because trees provide shade. Shade provides cooling. You don't
get that in many poor sections of town, where it's asphalt,
(16:33):
where there's not much greenery, where it's the concrete roads
and nothing else. And so the answer clearly is to
plant trees. And there's a huge move saying that that
is the answer. We have got to have more trees,
and they're moving towards it. Now. I want to continue
(16:54):
on with the story I just did about the heat spell,
which of course we're in the middle of it and
will continue to be, and how hot it is triple digits,
and how the answer clearly is in those places that
don't have trees in the city, you put up trees
because the difference between shade and being out in the
(17:15):
sun is astronomical. The numbers I looked at are absolutely stunning.
There are two numbers you look at. One is the
median heat. How hot is the air that we're suffering
from the heat of the air, and then how hot
are we? How hot do we feel? Right? It's like,
(17:40):
what's how they do that with it feels like the
humidity level, it feels like it's one hundred and twenty
when it's really one hundred and ten. But you add
humidity and you have the heat index. Well, this takes
it to another level. And the numbers and I looked
at them and I said, this is impossible. If you
(18:00):
block the sun, the difference how hot a person feels
can be thirty six degrees fahrenheit. I mean, that is
an astronomical number. So what's the secret here? Is it trees? Well,
certainly trees are great because not only do they provide shade,
(18:24):
but they also suck up carbon dioxide and they put
more moisture in the air and they're everything you want.
But there is a fundamental problem with trees. They take
thirty years to grow. You put a sapling in the ground,
let's say in the sidewalk area of the inner city.
(18:45):
You're not going to get a lot of shade from
a five foot sapling. Thirty years from now, you'll be okay.
So what is going on in addition to calling for
the trees? And it's expensive, by the way, to go
out and get trees. How about just canopy covers? What
does that mean, we've been to restaurants where they have
(19:08):
those sales in the outdoor areas and Neil, you see
them all the time at restaurants where you go outside
and you're not going to sit out in the sun.
And let's say you're in many places where a part
of the structure is covered and you sit underneath it.
At the Alfresco, No, this is outside, and we're talking
(19:29):
about you walking down the sidewalk bus stops. LA started
to do that with bus stops. And the difference between
sitting outside, I mean, people think about this for a moment.
It's one hundred degrees outside, which happens to us all
the time, and you're in direct sunlight and it feels
(19:50):
like one hundred and twenty degrees. It's one hundred degrees outside,
and you're sitting or walking in an area that is
completely covered the blocks the sunlight. It is just an
enormous difference. So what the scientists are telling us are
actually what the urban planners are telling us. Here's what
(20:11):
you do. You put up this canopy and it's we're
talking fabric, we're talking maybe aluminum structures. Although fabric is
probably the best cheap as hell. Blocks out the sun,
because that is the magic here. You block out the sun.
(20:32):
The urban heat island effect would well, it would disappear
in many, many ways. Now we're talking about a city,
and I don't know how it does this, because I
can see a city planting trees. How does the city
cover whole areas with this canopy? I don't know how
that works, but I'll tell you it would make a
(20:55):
huge difference. Does make a huge difference, and it does
it immediately. You go downtown, for example, go to New
York and it can be hot and humid, and you
are walking down a sidewalk in New York, you are
feeling cooler than you ever would out in the burbs
wide because you've got these one hundred and ten story buildings,
eighty story buildings blocking out most of the sun, and
(21:20):
you just feel cooler. Maybe that's why New York is
a walking city. I don't know. Certainly southern California is
not walking out in the sun. Is it not only
feels cooler to be under the shade? It is livable.
I mean today, I'm going to take a walk right
after the show or after I take phone calls at
(21:40):
the top of the hour at the top of the
hour after I walk out, and then I'm going to
walk outside, and most of it is going to be
on the sidewalk in the sunlight. And then there's a
place where I go into a trail that's covered and
has a nice canopy, and the difference is going to
feel The difference is going to be about twenty five degrees.
(22:00):
The way I feel it is an enormous difference. So
you are going to see a whole different world. One
of the experts says, if the goal is to cool
the city, trees are more helpful than a built structure.
If the goal is to cool people, that is a
different tool. And what we talk about normally is to
(22:23):
bring down the temperature to cool the city. The ambient
air well that is not nearly as effective as cooling
the person because you live in your skin far more
than you live in the city. So you're going to
see these shade sales, and in some cities around the
(22:45):
world they've installed above plazas and pedestrians shopping streets, and
so what's going to happen, what's going to have to
have have to happen, is because the world is getting
so much hotter, so quicker. We can't do trees anymore.
As a matter of fact, the argument is going to
be trees are too expensive, it takes too long, and
(23:07):
we're hitting an area of critical mass where it's just unbearable.
You know, my best friend, or one of my best friends,
lives in Las Vegas. You step outside one hundred and
twenty degrees with the sun blaring down on you, it
feels like one hundred and fifty. You step in the shade,
(23:29):
still one hundred and twenty degrees, walk out his front door.
It literally feels like and I lived in Vegas for
a while, it literally feels like someone has turned on
a hair dryer, full blast, full hot, and stuck it
right in front of your face. And that's what happens
when you walk out the door. So I thought it
(23:51):
was kind of neat. What really stunned me was the figures.
Thirty six degrees difference in how you feel? All right,
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