September 4, 2025 • 27 mins
(Sept 04, 2025)
Florida to end school vaccine mandates. The Governors of California, Oregon, and Washington announced yesterday the creation of the West Coast Health Alliance. One of the most beautiful stretches of highway 101 is falling into the ocean. Drying and water depletion brings deepening crisis around the world.
Florida to end school vaccine mandates. The Governors of California, Oregon, and Washington announced yesterday the creation of the West Coast Health Alliance. One of the most beautiful stretches of highway 101 is falling into the ocean. Drying and water depletion brings deepening crisis around the world.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Ye if I handle here Thursday morning, September fourth, some
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And this is where you record a question and I
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To answer it.
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And it's entertaining because well because I answer it and
it gets personally, it gets and people make fun of
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Now Handle on News today at nine o'clock. What else
is going on? A couple of things of business, some housekeeping.
(01:06):
On Saturday day after tomorrow, Neil and I are going
to be at his broadcast live at the Wild Fork
Store in Long Beach, and it's from two to five
and it's gonna be great fun. Giveaways, samples, Zelmans would
be there. We're giving away some really neat prizes and
so please join us the Wild Fork in Long Beach. Now,
(01:32):
a couple of things about vaccines.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Boy, this is a big one.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Florida plans to become the first date in the Union
to end all vaccine mandates, including school children, and totally
rejects the practice that public health experts have credited literally
for decades with limiting the spread of infectious diseases.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Even polio.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Parents don't have to vaccinate their kids and the schools
can't stop them from coming in, I mean in months,
which is the most infectious disease we have. Doctor Joseph Ledapo,
Florida Surgeon General put into place by DeSantis, made the
announcement along with DeSantis and DeSantis very anti vaccine and
(02:27):
increasingly more anti vaccine views, and he got national publicity
for this. Why because effectively he said that we are
overdoing the vaccine, We're reacting too strongly to the vaccine
and masking and he was right. Now does that translate
into no vaccines? Are we overreacting to polio and measles
(02:50):
and rebella that kids have to have?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Are we overreacting to that?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
By saying, those kids have to be inoculated if.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
You want to go to school.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, yeah, and Lidopo said something kind of interesting. Who
am I to tell your your child to put in
their body? He gets an applause. Your body is a
gift from God. And therefore I guess if God tells
you no vaccine, I guess no vaccine. And he's working
(03:24):
to end all vaccine mandates. Now he needs a legislator
to help him out. But in order to pass laws,
is it going to happen. It's a very conservative legislature.
And they followed DeSantis almost at every turn talking about vaccines.
Lodopo said, every last one of them is wrong and
(03:45):
drips with the stain and slavery. Kind of like that
mandating vaccine somehow is slavery.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You tell me how that connects.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And of course this comes in life of the anti
vaccine stance of Robert F. Kennedy, who at his confirmation
hearing out and out lied about his vaccine stance on
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, of course, is
up in flames.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
The Trump administration has.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Ousted experts, replacing those people with folks who align.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
With Kennedy's views.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Now, the anti vaccine crowd, they rely on one study
that was written by a doctor who has since had
his license revoked, and the information that he put in
that study has.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Been completely debunked.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
And we're talking about the connection between vaccines and autism.
Mainstream medicine scientists have said, first of all, no connection
with autism. And second of all, vaccines save kids have
saved millions and millions of people since they came into
(05:06):
being over the last decade and decade. Look what happened
with polio. Polio used to be the scourge of the world.
It is effect It was effectively wiped out in the
United States.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It has come back.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
By the way, the Health Secretary, Robert Kennedy is in
front of Congress today and I can't wait to see that. So,
Lodopo said, state lawmakers are going to have to make decisions.
That's how this becomes possible. Now, the one who is
really interested in this, Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who
(05:46):
voted to confirm Kennedy and that was sort of up
in the air, called the move by DeSantis and Lodopo
a terrible thing for public health. He almost did not
vote for confirmation. He is a Republican and therefore he voted.
And I'm sure he is kicking himself in the ass
(06:06):
for this because he asked specifically Kennedy about vaccines, and
Kennedy said, I will back vaccines, and as soon as
Kennedy came into office, he went the other way.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's unfortunately, it is really crazy and it is dangerous.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
This isn't just a political move where you're looking at
one view Republican versus Democrat, liberal versus conservative. Doctor Lisa Gwynn,
past president of the Florida chapter of the American Academy
of Pediactress, said, this is more than just a decision
of a parent.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
It's about the elderly. It's about the vulnerable.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It's about the immunologically challenge and how this impacts. And
what's hilarious about Florida if that's where old people live.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Even though my mother lived.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And died in southern California, in reality, she was an
old Jewish lady in Florida. Bill, there's the Nars all
you can eat buffet. That's the reality. And unfortunately, Oh
here's what Dessanta said about vaccines. Entrenched elites are turning
(07:23):
towards coercive measure mandating vaccines for kids. For example, measles,
as I said, one, uh if, probably the most infectious
disease we have. Jim Keeney has said, you get a
room full of ten kids, one has measles, nine of
(07:46):
them will contract measles.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And look at the side effects of measles. What it does.
This is another chapter of crazy. It's just crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I just don't get it.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I mean, I understand political conservatism. I get that.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I understand a policy in which you believe the country
should go more to the right than to the left.
I understand that President Trump was elected both in electoral
college and by popular vote. I don't understand this stuff.
For the life of me, I don't understand this stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
So Florida, your kid, by the way, if there is
an outbreak.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And your kid has polio or measles, from what I understand,
the school cannot stop that kid from coming in.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Maybe it can.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I don't know if you have an active disease. Maybe
all right, Okay. Another episode in the vaccine wars after
Florida or the Surgeony General of Florida is asking the
legislature to remove all vaccine mandates in the state, including
(09:05):
for children entering school. Well, three states on this side
of the country, California, Oregon, and Washington, announced the West
Coast Health Alliance going the other way, safeguarding access to
the vaccines. Of course, Gavin Newson of California, Tina Kotek
(09:28):
of Oregon, bet you didn't know who that was. Bob
Ferguson of Washington, bet you didn't know who the governor
there was. And they said that the CDC had become
a political tool that increasingly pedals ideology instead of science.
The other side of that argument says that the CDC
(09:50):
is pedaling non scientific moves towards mandating vaccines. That's ideology,
making kids, mandating vaccines for kids, mandating vaccines for kids
to go to school, that is ideology. What we're doing,
(10:11):
they said, we're talking Florida, is we are removing ideology
and putting in real science. This came a month after
Susan Monarez, who a month before that was named director
of the CDC because she had clashed with Kennedy. She
would not sign off and say that federal vaccine policies
(10:37):
contradict established scientific research. The anti vaccine. People are saying
scientific research shows that vaccines either cause autism or have
no validity. And on a political sense, if a state
mandates it, that's political. I mean, it has gotten completely crazy.
(11:00):
So what did the president? What did Kennedy do? Well,
there's an organization that is an advisory board volunteers who
advised the CDC as to which vaccines should be given
at what times, and insurance companies rely on that. And
you have health organizations literally all over the world rely
(11:22):
on that. And he fired every one of them, everyone,
and he put in his own, which, by the way,
a good part of it or straight as skeptics. And
who did replace manaras a Trump loyalist with no medical,
no scientific background whatsoever. Who now is head of the CDC?
(11:50):
What is he a loyalist? That's all that really matters.
And here's what the basis is that during the COVID pandemic,
the CDC over reacted. This was where DeSantis became a
real public figure. That basically administrations and the CDC completely overreacted.
(12:10):
And for the most part he's right. That means the
CDC is political. That means the CDC is politicizing medicine.
And what the And this is the Press Secretary of
the President saying that the new administration is bringing the
CDC and the health departments of the United States more
(12:34):
in line with real scientific research. We are maha make
American healthy again. That's what we are doing. It has
gone completely crazy. Real science is not real science. Pseudoscience
(12:55):
is real science. Mainstream medical opinion and research is fake.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Conspiracy theories are real. Yeah, you know, I don't even
know where to go with this stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I say that all the time, where it's I don't
understand a lot of it.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I really don't.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I don't understand where mainstream science has now become fake.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
That it's just not real. It's not real.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
The Advisory Board seventeen experts, it's a hoax.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
All they want to do is.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Politicize mandating vaccines measles.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And rebella and polio.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Mandating those is a political move that we are going
to undo because not forcing kids to be vaccinated, that
is the real medical answer.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Okay, moving on. There is a California highway.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Not only is it falling into the sea, but you're
falling into the sea if you drive along this highway.
Now it's up north, the el North Hay County, California.
And I'm bringing this up because of the cost of
straightening this out. And we go back to March of
nineteen seventy two. There's a guy, Kurt Stremberg. His parents
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gave him a ride from their home in north west
California to a friend's home in Klamath, little tiny town
twenty miles south of Creston City on Highway one oh one.
Stremberg and his buddy, we're going to hitch a ride
on a log truck bound for San Francisco and then
catch a flight to Europe. So his parents said, quit, goodbye,
(14:50):
love you, lovey, and we'll see you later. And they
started driving home on that road. And right after they
started driving, they hit a portion in the highway named
Last Chance Grade.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It had crumbled.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
They went over the cliff, killing them both, And for
decades residents of this remote northwest corner of California have
been pleading with the government do something about Last Chance Grade.
There's three miles and it hugs the cliffs between the
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Redwood Forest and the Pacific Ocean, and people die on it,
and it's the only route linking Crescent City, a town
of six two hundred people and Humboldt County that grows
tremendous marijuana. So here we are, fifty three years after
(15:45):
their death. The road is still perilous. It's on top
of four landslide, pavement, warped and cracked, constant land moving.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
It's so unstable that for nine years.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It was reduced to one one way traffic and then
last week it went down to one way traffic again.
So what do they want to do about it? Well,
California Department Transportation has come up with a solution, and
that's a six thousand foot tunnel that would be the
(16:19):
longest tunnel in California, and it's only going to cost
two point one billion dollars. And the representative state Senate
President pro Tam Mike McGuire, who's Democrat who represents that district,
called the funding a major milestone.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
And here's what he said. Let's be honest, if the.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Biggest highway in the Bay Area or LA kept falling
into the Pacific, the problem would have been fixed long ago.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, no kidding, you have a problem with that.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
If Pacific Palisades needed a tunnel, yeah, it would be
fixed long ago, or would be fixed right now. Why
because we have more than six two hundred people that
live in the city of Los Angeles. And what he
says is this is a lifeline because every truckload of goods,
(17:20):
every visitor to the Redwoods, every emergency response depends on
reliable access through this critical corridor. Now part of is
Del Norte County. That's twenty seven thousand people. Keep in mind,
they're pushing all of this two point one billion dollars,
a six thousand foot tunnel at a cost of two
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point one billion dollars for maybe what one hundred thousand people,
not even fifty thousand people. And the county supervisor says,
we're so rural up there, we tend to be forgotten. Yes,
towns of six two hundred people tend to be forgotten.
(18:06):
Where's the reality here? I just think this is terrific.
And the reason I'm talking about this two reasons. One
is the cost two point one billion dollars, and is
the legislature are going to take that seriously considering what
can what else can you do with two point one
billion dollars? And I think there's going to be a
(18:27):
lot of pushback on this because this goes adjacent to
the giant redwood forests, and six of these giant redwood
trees would have to be removed. And these are magnificent.
I do know, if you've ever been to the Sequoia Forest,
(18:48):
it's incredible to see these trees that are thousands of
years old and six of them, even six of them
being removed is no small thing. Although that's a lot
of redwood decks that can be manufactured with six trees
redwood trees.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
So there's always another side always, So is it going
to happen? Who the hell knows.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Decades of patching holes and building retaining walls. Since nineteen
ninety seven, one hundred and twenty five million dollars has
been spent.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
So you're going to see this argument going crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
The environmentalists are going to be jumping into this because
of the trees, and I think you're going to see
all the residents out there jumping into.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
This because it's a lifeline.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Because when this thing moves, it moves at a foot
a year. Try a road that moves afoot a year
over thirty or forty years and then drive on it.
All right, Oh, here's another one that's going to make
you feel just terrific. I'm going to talk a little
bit about water and how well. I'm going to give
(19:58):
you a stat at the end of this segment that
may be surprising or a geographical location. And one of
the things about climate change and lack of water, and
this story is about lack of water, is that the
climatologist when they were arguing, starting in the fifties, basically
(20:20):
that climate change was upon us and many, many people
said it was a hoax, which very few people are
saying now it's a hoax.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
And the climatologists were wrong. Why that were they wrong?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It happened far faster than they anticipated. And satellites for
the last twenty years have tracked the total amounts of
water that are in glaciers, ice sheets, lakes, rivers, et cetera,
and underground the aquifers, and a global analysis of that
says fresh water is rapidly disappearing beneath our feet, and
(20:58):
large parts of earth are simply drying out.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Mega drawing is what they Mega drawing is what they
call it. It's immense.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
It's expanding, stretching from the western US through Mexico to
Central America. Another one goes from Morocco to France, across
the entire Middle East to northern China.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
This is where drought is happening.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
This is where in this case water is disappearing. And
two causes, one oil and gas fossil fuels, and the
other is widespread pump over pumping of water from aquifers
which took millennia to accumulate. And boy, this is an
(21:41):
alarming message. Jay Famil Galiti, a hydrologists ani professor at
Arizona State University, said the rapid water cycle change that
the planet has experienced over the last decade has unleashed
a wave of rapid drying. So in twenty two thousand
(22:02):
and two satellites went up that measure changes in the
Earth gravity field to track shifts and water interesting stuff,
both frozen and liquid.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
And here is the news.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Nearly six billion people, three fourths of humanity, live in
one hundred and one countries that have been losing water.
And every year these areas, these drying areas have expanded
by an area about the side twice the size of California,
Canada and Russia. Ice and permafrost melting. They're losing the
(22:37):
most fresh water as countries as as areas. International areas
the US, Aran and India ranked near the top overuse
of groundwater.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Here's what happens.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Groundwater disappears, So farms and cities are using so much
and they now go deeper, and that water evaporates and
ends up as rain in the over the ocean, and
that increases sea level. That's a tough one because this
new information found that these water losses now contribute more
(23:16):
to the sea level rise than the melting of glaciers
or the Antarctica or Greenland, the ice sheets. It's a
staggeringly rapid expansion of the drying regions, as the scientists
are saying, So what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
What is happening?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Well, people are drilling more wells and deeper, relying more
on the underground water, and it is tough. So here
is the stat that I want to share with you.
If you had to guess the worst area in the
world for drying, where water is being depleted the fastest,
(24:01):
We're gonna do a survey. Survey, says Neil, what area
you mean like a state, a country, any area, any
any area you know, state, country, location?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
What would you say Africa? Okay? Amy, what would you say, sorry,
I was preparing for a newscast and didn't listen. Excellent,
and there is nowhere to be seen. Kno, what would
you say? I'm going Antarctica.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Antarctica is the fastest drying area. By the way, there
is no dry area in Antarctica. But that's besides a point.
But it is melting. The Antarctic ice sheet is melting,
so I guess that's close.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Will. I don't know if you've been listening to my questions.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
What do you think is the fastest drying area uses
the most water for a region region that is the
most dangerous, That is sucking up our ability to grow
crops and to live.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
What area would you think is.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
The worst in the world California Central Valley in California.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
You got it, The Central Valley.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Is the worst in the world in terms of water depletion.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
We're going to see water wars in the sea in
the future.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I've been saying that a long time, and I was
one of those people that wanted to you know, I
wish I were born at a later date. You know,
the technology, flying cars, all of that, medicine would be
much better. Guess what, I don't I don't think that
way anymore. I'm happy I'm in my last part of life.
(25:39):
My dog is barking, sorry about that. I'm happy that
I'm in the last part of my life. My kids
are going to have to have it rough. Their kids
are going to have it rough. There'll be no food. Also,
almonds suck up as much water as I think they're
the most.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
It's the crop that's bucks up the most water.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
So you may see almonds at some point being made
illegal or the growth of almonds bill.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
You can actually see along the five Freeways.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
There's wells along the five that they're up in the
air because the ground has a like sunken away underneath them.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
It's so it's it's bizarre. The land is sinking. Huh.
All right, today is really an optimistic day. Don't you think.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Not drinking cow's milk, that are drinking almond milk causing
the problem. Yeah, no kidding, no kidding, climate change.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, and almond milk. Almond milk is disgusting.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
All those plants based I'm sure you do all these
plant based milks, but they're not milk. That's not milk.
It's some concoction that comes from plants. Or nuts all right,
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Ye if I handle here Thursday morning, September fourth, some
news Georgia Rmany is completely dead at the age of
ninety one. Also tomorrow at eight thirty is ask Handle Anything,
And this is where you record a question and I
answer it having heard for the first time, and we
(00:28):
need you to do it. So during the course of
the show up until nine o'clock today, you go to
the iHeartRadio app, click on the Bill Handle show microphone
in the upright hand corner. Press that, click on that,
and you have I don't know fifteen twenty seconds to
record a question and I get.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
To answer it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And it's entertaining because well because I answer it and
it gets personally, it gets and people make fun of
me and I actually answer the questions. So that's fine.
Now Handle on News today at nine o'clock. What else
is going on? A couple of things of business, some housekeeping.
(01:06):
On Saturday day after tomorrow, Neil and I are going
to be at his broadcast live at the Wild Fork
Store in Long Beach, and it's from two to five
and it's gonna be great fun. Giveaways, samples, Zelmans would
be there. We're giving away some really neat prizes and
so please join us the Wild Fork in Long Beach. Now,
(01:32):
a couple of things about vaccines.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Boy, this is a big one.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Florida plans to become the first date in the Union
to end all vaccine mandates, including school children, and totally
rejects the practice that public health experts have credited literally
for decades with limiting the spread of infectious diseases.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Even polio.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Parents don't have to vaccinate their kids and the schools
can't stop them from coming in, I mean in months,
which is the most infectious disease we have. Doctor Joseph Ledapo,
Florida Surgeon General put into place by DeSantis, made the
announcement along with DeSantis and DeSantis very anti vaccine and
(02:27):
increasingly more anti vaccine views, and he got national publicity
for this. Why because effectively he said that we are
overdoing the vaccine, We're reacting too strongly to the vaccine
and masking and he was right. Now does that translate
into no vaccines? Are we overreacting to polio and measles
(02:50):
and rebella that kids have to have?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Are we overreacting to that?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
By saying, those kids have to be inoculated if.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
You want to go to school.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, yeah, and Lidopo said something kind of interesting. Who
am I to tell your your child to put in
their body? He gets an applause. Your body is a
gift from God. And therefore I guess if God tells
you no vaccine, I guess no vaccine. And he's working
(03:24):
to end all vaccine mandates. Now he needs a legislator
to help him out. But in order to pass laws,
is it going to happen. It's a very conservative legislature.
And they followed DeSantis almost at every turn talking about vaccines.
Lodopo said, every last one of them is wrong and
(03:45):
drips with the stain and slavery. Kind of like that
mandating vaccine somehow is slavery.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You tell me how that connects.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And of course this comes in life of the anti
vaccine stance of Robert F. Kennedy, who at his confirmation
hearing out and out lied about his vaccine stance on
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, of course, is
up in flames.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
The Trump administration has.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Ousted experts, replacing those people with folks who align.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
With Kennedy's views.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Now, the anti vaccine crowd, they rely on one study
that was written by a doctor who has since had
his license revoked, and the information that he put in
that study has.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Been completely debunked.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
And we're talking about the connection between vaccines and autism.
Mainstream medicine scientists have said, first of all, no connection
with autism. And second of all, vaccines save kids have
saved millions and millions of people since they came into
(05:06):
being over the last decade and decade. Look what happened
with polio. Polio used to be the scourge of the world.
It is effect It was effectively wiped out in the
United States.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It has come back.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
By the way, the Health Secretary, Robert Kennedy is in
front of Congress today and I can't wait to see that. So,
Lodopo said, state lawmakers are going to have to make decisions.
That's how this becomes possible. Now, the one who is
really interested in this, Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who
(05:46):
voted to confirm Kennedy and that was sort of up
in the air, called the move by DeSantis and Lodopo
a terrible thing for public health. He almost did not
vote for confirmation. He is a Republican and therefore he voted.
And I'm sure he is kicking himself in the ass
(06:06):
for this because he asked specifically Kennedy about vaccines, and
Kennedy said, I will back vaccines, and as soon as
Kennedy came into office, he went the other way.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's unfortunately, it is really crazy and it is dangerous.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
This isn't just a political move where you're looking at
one view Republican versus Democrat, liberal versus conservative. Doctor Lisa Gwynn,
past president of the Florida chapter of the American Academy
of Pediactress, said, this is more than just a decision
of a parent.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
It's about the elderly. It's about the vulnerable.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It's about the immunologically challenge and how this impacts. And
what's hilarious about Florida if that's where old people live.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Even though my mother lived.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And died in southern California, in reality, she was an
old Jewish lady in Florida. Bill, there's the Nars all
you can eat buffet. That's the reality. And unfortunately, Oh
here's what Dessanta said about vaccines. Entrenched elites are turning
(07:23):
towards coercive measure mandating vaccines for kids. For example, measles,
as I said, one, uh if, probably the most infectious
disease we have. Jim Keeney has said, you get a
room full of ten kids, one has measles, nine of
(07:46):
them will contract measles.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And look at the side effects of measles. What it does.
This is another chapter of crazy. It's just crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I just don't get it.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I mean, I understand political conservatism. I get that.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I understand a policy in which you believe the country
should go more to the right than to the left.
I understand that President Trump was elected both in electoral
college and by popular vote. I don't understand this stuff.
For the life of me, I don't understand this stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
So Florida, your kid, by the way, if there is
an outbreak.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And your kid has polio or measles, from what I understand,
the school cannot stop that kid from coming in.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Maybe it can.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I don't know if you have an active disease. Maybe
all right, Okay. Another episode in the vaccine wars after
Florida or the Surgeony General of Florida is asking the
legislature to remove all vaccine mandates in the state, including
(09:05):
for children entering school. Well, three states on this side
of the country, California, Oregon, and Washington, announced the West
Coast Health Alliance going the other way, safeguarding access to
the vaccines. Of course, Gavin Newson of California, Tina Kotek
(09:28):
of Oregon, bet you didn't know who that was. Bob
Ferguson of Washington, bet you didn't know who the governor
there was. And they said that the CDC had become
a political tool that increasingly pedals ideology instead of science.
The other side of that argument says that the CDC
(09:50):
is pedaling non scientific moves towards mandating vaccines. That's ideology,
making kids, mandating vaccines for kids, mandating vaccines for kids
to go to school, that is ideology. What we're doing,
(10:11):
they said, we're talking Florida, is we are removing ideology
and putting in real science. This came a month after
Susan Monarez, who a month before that was named director
of the CDC because she had clashed with Kennedy. She
would not sign off and say that federal vaccine policies
(10:37):
contradict established scientific research. The anti vaccine. People are saying
scientific research shows that vaccines either cause autism or have
no validity. And on a political sense, if a state
mandates it, that's political. I mean, it has gotten completely crazy.
(11:00):
So what did the president? What did Kennedy do? Well,
there's an organization that is an advisory board volunteers who
advised the CDC as to which vaccines should be given
at what times, and insurance companies rely on that. And
you have health organizations literally all over the world rely
(11:22):
on that. And he fired every one of them, everyone,
and he put in his own, which, by the way,
a good part of it or straight as skeptics. And
who did replace manaras a Trump loyalist with no medical,
no scientific background whatsoever. Who now is head of the CDC?
(11:50):
What is he a loyalist? That's all that really matters.
And here's what the basis is that during the COVID pandemic,
the CDC over reacted. This was where DeSantis became a
real public figure. That basically administrations and the CDC completely overreacted.
(12:10):
And for the most part he's right. That means the
CDC is political. That means the CDC is politicizing medicine.
And what the And this is the Press Secretary of
the President saying that the new administration is bringing the
CDC and the health departments of the United States more
(12:34):
in line with real scientific research. We are maha make
American healthy again. That's what we are doing. It has
gone completely crazy. Real science is not real science. Pseudoscience
(12:55):
is real science. Mainstream medical opinion and research is fake.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Conspiracy theories are real. Yeah, you know, I don't even
know where to go with this stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I say that all the time, where it's I don't
understand a lot of it.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I really don't.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I don't understand where mainstream science has now become fake.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
That it's just not real. It's not real.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
The Advisory Board seventeen experts, it's a hoax.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
All they want to do is.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Politicize mandating vaccines measles.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And rebella and polio.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Mandating those is a political move that we are going
to undo because not forcing kids to be vaccinated, that
is the real medical answer.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Okay, moving on. There is a California highway.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Not only is it falling into the sea, but you're
falling into the sea if you drive along this highway.
Now it's up north, the el North Hay County, California.
And I'm bringing this up because of the cost of
straightening this out. And we go back to March of
nineteen seventy two. There's a guy, Kurt Stremberg. His parents
(14:28):
gave him a ride from their home in north west
California to a friend's home in Klamath, little tiny town
twenty miles south of Creston City on Highway one oh one.
Stremberg and his buddy, we're going to hitch a ride
on a log truck bound for San Francisco and then
catch a flight to Europe. So his parents said, quit, goodbye,
(14:50):
love you, lovey, and we'll see you later. And they
started driving home on that road. And right after they
started driving, they hit a portion in the highway named
Last Chance Grade.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It had crumbled.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
They went over the cliff, killing them both, And for
decades residents of this remote northwest corner of California have
been pleading with the government do something about Last Chance Grade.
There's three miles and it hugs the cliffs between the
(15:25):
Redwood Forest and the Pacific Ocean, and people die on it,
and it's the only route linking Crescent City, a town
of six two hundred people and Humboldt County that grows
tremendous marijuana. So here we are, fifty three years after
(15:45):
their death. The road is still perilous. It's on top
of four landslide, pavement, warped and cracked, constant land moving.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
It's so unstable that for nine years.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It was reduced to one one way traffic and then
last week it went down to one way traffic again.
So what do they want to do about it? Well,
California Department Transportation has come up with a solution, and
that's a six thousand foot tunnel that would be the
(16:19):
longest tunnel in California, and it's only going to cost
two point one billion dollars. And the representative state Senate
President pro Tam Mike McGuire, who's Democrat who represents that district,
called the funding a major milestone.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
And here's what he said. Let's be honest, if the.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Biggest highway in the Bay Area or LA kept falling
into the Pacific, the problem would have been fixed long ago.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, no kidding, you have a problem with that.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
If Pacific Palisades needed a tunnel, yeah, it would be
fixed long ago, or would be fixed right now. Why
because we have more than six two hundred people that
live in the city of Los Angeles. And what he
says is this is a lifeline because every truckload of goods,
(17:20):
every visitor to the Redwoods, every emergency response depends on
reliable access through this critical corridor. Now part of is
Del Norte County. That's twenty seven thousand people. Keep in mind,
they're pushing all of this two point one billion dollars,
a six thousand foot tunnel at a cost of two
(17:44):
point one billion dollars for maybe what one hundred thousand people,
not even fifty thousand people. And the county supervisor says,
we're so rural up there, we tend to be forgotten. Yes,
towns of six two hundred people tend to be forgotten.
(18:06):
Where's the reality here? I just think this is terrific.
And the reason I'm talking about this two reasons. One
is the cost two point one billion dollars, and is
the legislature are going to take that seriously considering what
can what else can you do with two point one
billion dollars? And I think there's going to be a
(18:27):
lot of pushback on this because this goes adjacent to
the giant redwood forests, and six of these giant redwood
trees would have to be removed. And these are magnificent.
I do know, if you've ever been to the Sequoia Forest,
(18:48):
it's incredible to see these trees that are thousands of
years old and six of them, even six of them
being removed is no small thing. Although that's a lot
of redwood decks that can be manufactured with six trees
redwood trees.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
So there's always another side always, So is it going
to happen? Who the hell knows.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Decades of patching holes and building retaining walls. Since nineteen
ninety seven, one hundred and twenty five million dollars has
been spent.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
So you're going to see this argument going crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
The environmentalists are going to be jumping into this because
of the trees, and I think you're going to see
all the residents out there jumping into.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
This because it's a lifeline.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Because when this thing moves, it moves at a foot
a year. Try a road that moves afoot a year
over thirty or forty years and then drive on it.
All right, Oh, here's another one that's going to make
you feel just terrific. I'm going to talk a little
bit about water and how well. I'm going to give
(19:58):
you a stat at the end of this segment that
may be surprising or a geographical location. And one of
the things about climate change and lack of water, and
this story is about lack of water, is that the
climatologist when they were arguing, starting in the fifties, basically
(20:20):
that climate change was upon us and many, many people
said it was a hoax, which very few people are
saying now it's a hoax.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
And the climatologists were wrong. Why that were they wrong?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It happened far faster than they anticipated. And satellites for
the last twenty years have tracked the total amounts of
water that are in glaciers, ice sheets, lakes, rivers, et cetera,
and underground the aquifers, and a global analysis of that
says fresh water is rapidly disappearing beneath our feet, and
(20:58):
large parts of earth are simply drying out.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Mega drawing is what they Mega drawing is what they
call it. It's immense.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
It's expanding, stretching from the western US through Mexico to
Central America. Another one goes from Morocco to France, across
the entire Middle East to northern China.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
This is where drought is happening.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
This is where in this case water is disappearing. And
two causes, one oil and gas fossil fuels, and the
other is widespread pump over pumping of water from aquifers
which took millennia to accumulate. And boy, this is an
(21:41):
alarming message. Jay Famil Galiti, a hydrologists ani professor at
Arizona State University, said the rapid water cycle change that
the planet has experienced over the last decade has unleashed
a wave of rapid drying. So in twenty two thousand
(22:02):
and two satellites went up that measure changes in the
Earth gravity field to track shifts and water interesting stuff,
both frozen and liquid.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
And here is the news.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Nearly six billion people, three fourths of humanity, live in
one hundred and one countries that have been losing water.
And every year these areas, these drying areas have expanded
by an area about the side twice the size of California,
Canada and Russia. Ice and permafrost melting. They're losing the
(22:37):
most fresh water as countries as as areas. International areas
the US, Aran and India ranked near the top overuse
of groundwater.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Here's what happens.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Groundwater disappears, So farms and cities are using so much
and they now go deeper, and that water evaporates and
ends up as rain in the over the ocean, and
that increases sea level. That's a tough one because this
new information found that these water losses now contribute more
(23:16):
to the sea level rise than the melting of glaciers
or the Antarctica or Greenland, the ice sheets. It's a
staggeringly rapid expansion of the drying regions, as the scientists
are saying, So what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
What is happening?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Well, people are drilling more wells and deeper, relying more
on the underground water, and it is tough. So here
is the stat that I want to share with you.
If you had to guess the worst area in the
world for drying, where water is being depleted the fastest,
(24:01):
We're gonna do a survey. Survey, says Neil, what area
you mean like a state, a country, any area, any
any area you know, state, country, location?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
What would you say Africa? Okay? Amy, what would you say, sorry,
I was preparing for a newscast and didn't listen. Excellent,
and there is nowhere to be seen. Kno, what would
you say? I'm going Antarctica.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Antarctica is the fastest drying area. By the way, there
is no dry area in Antarctica. But that's besides a point.
But it is melting. The Antarctic ice sheet is melting,
so I guess that's close.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Will. I don't know if you've been listening to my questions.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
What do you think is the fastest drying area uses
the most water for a region region that is the
most dangerous, That is sucking up our ability to grow
crops and to live.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
What area would you think is.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
The worst in the world California Central Valley in California.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
You got it, The Central Valley.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Is the worst in the world in terms of water depletion.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
We're going to see water wars in the sea in
the future.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I've been saying that a long time, and I was
one of those people that wanted to you know, I
wish I were born at a later date. You know,
the technology, flying cars, all of that, medicine would be
much better. Guess what, I don't I don't think that
way anymore. I'm happy I'm in my last part of life.
(25:39):
My dog is barking, sorry about that. I'm happy that
I'm in the last part of my life. My kids
are going to have to have it rough. Their kids
are going to have it rough. There'll be no food. Also,
almonds suck up as much water as I think they're
the most.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
It's the crop that's bucks up the most water.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
So you may see almonds at some point being made
illegal or the growth of almonds bill.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
You can actually see along the five Freeways.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
There's wells along the five that they're up in the
air because the ground has a like sunken away underneath them.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
It's so it's it's bizarre. The land is sinking. Huh.
All right, today is really an optimistic day. Don't you think.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Not drinking cow's milk, that are drinking almond milk causing
the problem. Yeah, no kidding, no kidding, climate change.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, and almond milk. Almond milk is disgusting.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
All those plants based I'm sure you do all these
plant based milks, but they're not milk. That's not milk.
It's some concoction that comes from plants. Or nuts all right,
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