BHS - 7A – Biden’s Political Crisis Deepens | Ending Free Weather Reports.

Biden’s political crisis deepens as Schiff calls for him to drop out. The MAGA plan to end free weather reports. This Olympics could be the hottest yet. Here’s how the athletes are preparing. Union election petitions hit their highest level in a decade.

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You're listening to KFI AM six forty, the Bill Handles show on demand on
the iHeartRadio f And this is KFIBill Handle here on a very hot Thursday
morning, July eighteenth. We're inthe 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 gonefrom very hot to punitively hot. Amy,

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as I prepared the show, myshow, I should tune into your
weather, but I don't because I'mso 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. Wehave an excessive heat watch that starts
tomorrow and goes through Wednesday. Sowe're expecting temperatures eighties at the beaches,
nineties to about one ten in Ooh. So it's going to be in the

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high deserts mountains here in the valley. It's going to be hot, but
not a Schwitz, not a sFitz, not a s Fitz hot,
which is typical southern California weather.Okay, Now, what a disaster for
Joe Biden. Your heart almost goesout for him. Although this is presidential
politics and welcome to the world.So, after the debacle of the debate,

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in which virtually immediately the moments afterthe debate, America turned around in
many ways and it was confirmed thathe may be just too old to be
president. Interestingly enough, that's notthe case with Donald Trump. He's seventy
eight, and very few people perceivehim as being too old. I mean,

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he is sharp, he is obnoxious, He sounds exactly the same as
he did thirty years ago. He'sa pretty spry seventy eight. I want
that spry. He doesn't jump arounda 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 oldJoe Biden who looks real old.

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And even those that's support Joe Bidenacross the board, not only because he's
a very nice guy, but likehis politics, very liberal, very pro
union are saying, eh, notso much so. Yesterday, Oh,
it was particularly rough for him.Yesterday he cancels the Las Vegas a Las

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Vegas appearance. Now, Ever,since that debate, in which it has
turned around from the policies of JoeBiden 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 switchedfrom especially what he has done, to

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let's attack Trump, no Trump,no Trump, no Trump, which is
probably the best political move I thinkthat he can make in terms of possibly
winning. Now it has turned completelyto I'm not too old, I'm not
dead yet. Has he started singingthat from spam a lot? Oh,

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that's a good Kno, that's agood good music bump by the way,
And so what happened yesterday, oheven 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 thatI'm not too old, and number three

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is I'm not too old. Sohe tests positive for COVID and he's not
doing well. One of the reasonshe gave were actually the reason that his
his campaign and the White House thatare inextricably connected gave for the fact that
Biden showed such a disastrous performance ashe had a cold, he wasn't feeling

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well, and those that actually didanalyze it a little bit more fully and
I think a little deeper, heover prepared for that he spent a week
and got into the minutia. DonaldTrump did not. Donald Trump does not

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over prepare. He swings just fromthe hit, and it works for him.
It absolutely works for him. Forhim to talk about policy, I
think that's his weakness, for himto simply be on the attack and talk
about when we were in the WhiteHouse, we did this, the economy

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was better a we provided jobs Bidendidn't. By the way, that's completely
reversed. You know that more jobswere created under the Biden administration than we're
created under Trump administration. But doesn'tmatter. You know, the Republicans just
straight out lie about this stuff.The Democrats spit it. I mean they
don't make stuff up. They spinit like any political party would, any

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political movement would. The Republicans justlie straight out and it certainly works for
Trump. So here's what happens withJoe Biden. Yesterday, he tests positive
for COVID. He gets up tohe's going back to Delaware, his home

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where he's going to self isolate.And if you saw the video of him
walking up the stairs onto Air Forceone, there was a very very old
man shuffling up those stairs. Ooh, that is not a good visual.
That is a Trump commercial, bythe way, right there, I would

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if I were running the Trump campaign, I would drop the advertising that he's
running now or will be running andit's going to be massive, and simply
say just run that and say doyou 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 innow, that's on the electoral front,

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that's on the perception front. AdamShift yesterday joined the group of congress people
politicians who said get out, it'stime to pass the torch. Now.
Adam Shift is not just a congressman. Adam Shift is probably one of the
three or four most powerful, certainlywell known, well regarded amongst the Congress

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itself, amongst the government in Congress. He's gonna be running for senator,
by the way, He's gonna winthat in this in November. He has
said it's time to bail. Bythe way, he represents Burbank. I
think Jerry Nadler, first thing outof New York, very very prominent congressman,
same thing, time to bail.And I think now there are what

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thirty seven congress men women who saidit's time for him to go out,
and this is going to this isgoing to be the start of a wave.
I think. I think is tobe very difficult, and Biden is
going to do one of two thingsalready cave and you're hearing the first little
instances of him maybe accepting the concept. He said, if his doctor says

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he should not run, he's gonefrom 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 forpresident, was the elected president.
He had no chance, no chance, and look at it, he became
president much like Donald Trump, whothat was his third run for president.

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When he first started running back inthe day, everybody thought he was a
joke. He is now former PresidentTrump. So unfortunately for Biden, I
think this movement to have him stepdown, and the problem with the Democratic
Party is who is going to takehis place? Right, It's going to
be Kamala Harris. My opinion completelyunqualified. My opinion only there because the

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political reality have nothing to do withthe 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 twentyfive. And Project twenty twenty five is
this nine hundred page manifesto or playbookissued by the Heritage Foundation. And the

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Heritage Foundation is a wildly right wing, very conservative actually among the right wing,
actually well regarded. It is notconspiracy theory crazy, It is just
very very conservative. So Project twentytwenty five, nine hundred pages, setting

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up a new way of dealing withgovernment, and that is, for example,
one of the things is a nationalban on abortion, really restricting LGBTQ
rights, dealing with the border ina way that is fairly brutal if you're
looking, if you're an advocate ofimmigrants coming into this country, illegal immigrants

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coming in this country, even legalones opening, you know, shutting down
virtually every way that people can comein this country, saying we just have
too many illegal aliens coming in,which, by the way, I don't
disagree with. All right, SoI want to put a premise here before
I start this, because this hasto do let me connect weather reports with

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this, and I know it's they'rekind 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 Projecttwenty twenty five, at least the parts
that are kind of nuts. Andthere's one that is really nuts there as

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far as the abortion Band National,I can understand that. You know,
I'm not, obviously I disagree withthat premise, but I can understand because
there's a moral basis for limiting oreliminating 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

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happen to think that a three dayold embryo is a being, but that's
my view, all right. Andso Donald Trump is moving away from a
lot of twenty twenty five because itis so insane. And at first he
was in favor, but then herealized, you know, the backlash was
fairly crazy. Now, the otherpart of it is Donald Trump gets elected,

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which he probably will. We aregoing 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 DonaldTrump, and he is the smartest guy

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in the room by a long shot, and he certainly thinks that. And
he'll listen to advisors when he thinksshe should listen to advisors, and a
couple of things, and to provethat, concidentally that there's certain things that
he doesn't care about. Or he'sfine with the Republican platform, which has
been released by the Republican National Committee. It's the shortest one they've ever had,

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doesn't mention a word about LGBTQ rights. Why because Donald Trump is fine
with the LGBTQ community. He doesn'tcare. Now he's one of those people
say hey, you want to begay and get married, I don't care.
Now. For political purpose, toget elected, he has to grab

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the evangelic and I'm talking about whenwhen he becomes president, all of that
disappears because that's just not a thingfor him. The same thing with abortion,
he doesn't really care. Donald Trump'sposition in many cases has to do
with just getting elected. It's thatsimple, by the way. All the
politicians do that. But in hiscase, I think that's in large Keep

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in mind that Donald Trump is reallynot a Republican. He is using the
Republican Party as an avenue, ashis base, as the vehicle to get
elected. I mean, where elseis 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 havenever made it in this country ever ever,

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So he is now the Republican Partyor 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 DonaldTrump that's coming out. Who is Donald
Trump. You'll see immigration to bea big, big issue in his administration.

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You'll see foreign policy where there's asense of isolationism where Ukraine let it
rot very pro Israel that there's noquestion about it. As President was the
United States became the first country inthe world to recognize Jerusalem as the capital

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of Israel. Jerusalem being the capitalof Israel twenty five hundred years ago.
We're thirty five hundred years ago whenit 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

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credit like that, or you haveto give him credit for that. I
mean, this is a man whois 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 DonaldTrump we haven't seen before upon election,

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no restraints whatsoever because he's not goingto run again. So what I
want to do is talk about Projecttwenty twenty five. And Trump has not
yet commented on this, and Projecttwenty twenty five again, I want to
reiterate nine hundred page plan for whatAmerica should be and who is and Trump's

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moving away from it. But here'sthe problem. The board of the directors,
those who wrote Project twenty twenty fivewere in his administration the first time
out. So I want to talkabout one aspect of Project twenty twenty five
that is has not been talked aboutbefore. We haven't brought it up.
And as squarely as you can imagine, this is squirrely stuff. And I

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don't think Trump is going to buythis. 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 thatyou talk about from the National Weather Service.
Yep, how much is KFI youthink I heard pay for that?
I don't know. It comes inas part of our wires here. Okay,

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do you I'll tell you exactly whatI heard. Pays for it zero.
It is provided by the federal government, the National Weather Service under Noah,
who happens to be a good friendof mine. By the way,
Noah, I like them a lot. No, that's not the way it
goes. It's the National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration, which taxpayers pay for Project

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twenty twenty five, wants to privatizeit. That's it. We want to
pay for it. They want tomake it commercial, which wow, I
mean no one ever thought of that. They want to place under the control
of the states, not the federalgovernment, should eliminate the public forecasts,

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focus on data gathering, commercialize operations, and they say that plan, by
the way, will improve not limitforecasts for Americans. If you remove forecasts
by the National Weather Service, you'regoing to get more forecasts because they're going
to privatize it. And by theway, the forecasts we get are pretty

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extraordinary. Now, this is notnew, by the way, this concept
almost two decades ago, when theNational Weather Service updated its website to be
more user friendly, a guy bythe name of Barry Myers, with executive
VP of Acuweather, that's a privateorganization, complained that we work private organization

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very hard, competing with other companies, and we also have to compete with
the government who offers which offers freeweather data and forecasting. I mean,
that's pretty out there. So justto let you know, NOAH, which
controls the weather forecasting folks, NationalWeather Service. In twenty seventeen, Trump

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picked Myers, him, the guywho owned Accuservice, that wanted to or
ACU Weather, that wanted to privatizeeverything. He was nominated to run Noah.
By the way, he couldn't getconfirmed. The Senate just wouldn't touch
it at all, and so hewithdrew his nomination and so funding under the

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Trump administration, according to twenty twentyfive, Project twenty twenty five would plummet,
absolutely plummet. And do you remember, I mean when he in twenty
nineteen, remember when the agency backedPresident Trump's claim that Hurricane Dorian was headed
for Alabama. Remember that sharpy alteredmap which was ridiculous. So Trump has

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a history. But I don't thinkthat 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

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evangelicals. I mean, they're onhis side, come hill or high water.
He already has the Republicans. Anddo you think it's that important.
I think the only issue that isreally important to the far right, and
I mean fundamentally, profoundly, viscerallyimportant, is the abortion issue. I

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don't think the weather service. Trumpcertainly doesn't care. And the LGBTQ rights,
you know, I mean it's abig deal, but you know next
door, you know, Fred Mary'sHarry over there doesn't really matter that.
I've always loved the concept that thestopping gay people from getting married, Why

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should they be denied a miserable timewith a marriage like the rest of us.
All Right, the Olympics start atthe what is it next week or
the week afterwards opening ceremonies or nextFriday? Okay, so it is next
week. I've always wanted to goopening ceremonies. By the way, I
wonder how much those tickets are.I have no idea. Okay, Tokyo

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Olympics in twenty twenty one hottest inhistory only did be bet by the Paris
Olympics starting next Friday. And letme tell you what is so dangerous to
modern day Olympics is the heat andhumidity. Just to give you a stat

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which when I read this and wentreally, okay, the last time the
Olympics were held in Paris was nineteentwenty four. Okay, it was one
hundred years ago. Granted it isa lot of time ago. The average
increase in the heat is five pointfive degrees fahrenheit now five point five degrees.

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It doesn't seem like a lot exceptwhen 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 tohandle the heat as well as the humidity,
as it is speed and ability tojump. We're talking about the events

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that take physical exertion, and especiallythe endurance endurance endurance events like the triathlon,
the marathon, race walking. Nowthat one I don't understand. You
know, racewalking. You know whereyou walk as quickly as you can.
It's a walking event. It's anOlympic event for walking. It's like those

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horse races where they have the trotters, you know, the trot I don't
understand that either. I can understandhorse racing, but trotting, I think
we ought to have. Here's anOlympic event backwards walking or backwards racing.
Oh, perfect for the Paris Games, by the way, just occurred to
me. So. According to doctorCarolyn Broaderiku, medical director of the Australian

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Olympic team, she says, thebest way a person can prepare is acclimation.
Okay, but that takes two orthree weeks of heat training to fully
adjust. What you want is alower 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 comfortablein the heat involves moving to a

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hot and humid location like the Amazonjungle right or simulating hot and humid,
draining conditions at home by wearing extralayer 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 exerciseand acclimate, you're going to run into

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a bunch of older, fat Jewsand you'll hear, hey, how's the
buffet today, huh? Or goodb am, I had a great one
this morning. That's what you haveto deal with in those steam rooms.
Maybe that is the pool. Okay, never mind, I can go on
and on. So Belgium's field hockeyteam is training in a heat chamber set

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to one hundred and twenty two degreesand they're playing hockey there to acclimate for
the humidity. Two American runners havebeen spending twenty to thirty minutes in a
sauna after workouts several days a week. So not only is it acclimating to

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the heat, which has become justas important as the ability to run and
measuring how fast you go or howhigh 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 duringcompetition. Doctor Broderick again says ice towels,

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wet towels, cool fluids just beforeand during, for example tennis matches.
That is a method of keeping coolthat works and so the whole point
of it is to brace for theseconditions prevent overheating. Endurance athletes work to
keep their core temperatures low before thecompetition begin and keeping it as low as

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they can during the event, whichis why during marathons the runners are constantly
suck up the water and you seethe spectators along the path along the race
handing runners bottles of water. I'lltell you I've done that a couple of
times. You know what's really entertainingis throwing bottles of water at these people

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and see if you can hit them. That is entertainment. That's a spectator
sport right there. To brace forthese conditions at bottom line core temperatures low,
keep it low. Ice vests area pre raised tool also, and
why ice vests well, because ifyou keep the core temperature cold and still

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allow the limbs to be exercised toget 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 limbsand keep them going as opposed to
the Here's another one. This iskind of cool that they came up with

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frozen balloons. The size of baseballsalso good for throwing at athletes, and
this is what athletes hold during warmup 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 waysthat I'm not going to get into.

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That is just that's between me andmy psychologist and getting very heated palms,
you know, friction, all ofthat. 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 hotand really human, I'll tell you what

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you're going to see. During themarathon, I think, what's what happens?
Well, maybe not because these areworld class runners, but you know,
people just drop off and it getsharder 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 Ethiopianshave to win the marathon sort of
a given. Okay, this iskfi Am six forty nine. My palms

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