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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're listen Saints k I AM six forty the Bill
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- 0:10Speaker 3: Six forty Bill Handle here, and a good morning. It
- 0:14Speaker 3: is a Monday morning, August seventeenth. A couple of things
- 0:18Speaker 3: that I just want to note before we get into
- 0:21Speaker 3: the nuclear power plants here in California. On the story
- 0:26Speaker 3: we're doing about Hayden Panetier, thirty six years old actress
- 0:30Speaker 3: who had all kinds of problems and talked about her
- 0:34Speaker 3: addiction problems. Have you noticed that a lot of people
- 0:38Speaker 3: in the industry film television stars who have tremendous amount
- 0:43Speaker 3: of drug problems. And I don't think it's just because
- 0:46Speaker 3: they're in the limelight. I think it's just that lifestyle
- 0:49Speaker 3: is just very easy to become addicted. Lots of money,
- 0:53Speaker 3: not a lot of controls, very few people to say no,
- 0:56Speaker 3: it's just easy, and then you're working like a dog
- 0:59Speaker 3: and then not working at all.
- 1:00Speaker 2: So there's plenty of time just pointed that out. It
- 1:02Speaker 2: makes sense.
- 1:03Speaker 3: Also, Amy, you have to be a little bit more
- 1:06Speaker 3: specific about the ships that are replacing each other, because
- 1:12Speaker 3: I get a little confused when you mentioned that the
- 1:15Speaker 3: SS Donald Trump is replacing the SS Donald Trump in
- 1:20Speaker 3: the Mideast.
- 1:21Speaker 2: Oh, he hasn't renamed all the ships yet.
- 1:23Speaker 3: Oh not yet. Oh okay, I'm sorry. I thought that
- 1:26Speaker 3: had already happened. Yeah, I'm gonna get an email on
- 1:29Speaker 3: that one.
- 1:29Speaker 2: Handle.
- 1:30Speaker 3: You're just such a cheap shot on that one. Yes,
- 1:33Speaker 3: I am, okay, Now sorry. Something I've been talking about
- 1:42Speaker 3: and been pitching for a very long time, and that
- 1:46Speaker 3: is I'm very much in favor of nuclear power, and
- 1:51Speaker 3: not so much the kind of power that you can
- 1:53Speaker 3: blow cities up, although that's pretty neat too, but I'm
- 1:56Speaker 3: talking about civilian use of nuclear power to generate electric
- 2:01Speaker 3: And it used to be that the environmentalists were so
- 2:05Speaker 3: totally against nuclear power. I mean, that was one of
- 2:08Speaker 3: the big issues. The demonstrations would go crazy, no nukes.
- 2:12Speaker 3: Look was happening because of the fear of the meltdown
- 2:15Speaker 3: and radiation being leaked, And it has happened.
- 2:18Speaker 2: We know about Chernobyl. That was crazy making.
- 2:20Speaker 3: That was the worst disaster in nuclear power plants that
- 2:24Speaker 3: has ever been.
- 2:25Speaker 2: And then we had.
- 2:27Speaker 3: Fukushima, Fukusheima, not Fakushima, whatever, Fukushima in Japan, where radiation
- 2:34Speaker 3: was released also three Mile Island was very close. There
- 2:38Speaker 3: was a meltdown happening, but the radiation that was released
- 2:42Speaker 3: was fairly minimal. But when they go when nuclear power
- 2:47Speaker 3: plants go south, man, do they go south? And the
- 2:50Speaker 3: fear was, Okay, we don't want nukes because a couple
- 2:55Speaker 3: of reasons, because of the fear of radioactive radioactive leakage,
- 2:59Speaker 3: which causes unbelievable damage. You look at Chernobyl, the town
- 3:04Speaker 3: of Chernobyl, it is still a ghost town. I mean
- 3:08Speaker 3: miles and miles surrounded by all kinds of fencing. You
- 3:12Speaker 3: can't go in there, although there are tours being taken
- 3:15Speaker 3: in there, sort of black market tours where you sneak
- 3:18Speaker 3: in through the fence and everybody has a Geiger counter.
- 3:20Speaker 2: But the place is dead. It's dead.
- 3:23Speaker 3: The town is gone, surrounding areas are gone. And so
- 3:27Speaker 3: that was one problem, the dangers of radiation. And the
- 3:31Speaker 3: other one is what do you do with a nuclear
- 3:33Speaker 3: waste because there's tons of nuclear waste that is produced
- 3:40Speaker 3: when the nukes are being utilized. You know, when those
- 3:44Speaker 3: reactors are being run, and at this point we don't
- 3:47Speaker 3: know what to do with them other than put them
- 3:50Speaker 3: in these concrete casing or put them in basically fifty
- 3:56Speaker 3: five gallon tins that are then the barrels that are
- 3:59Speaker 3: then rounded by concrete, which are pretty good. And then
- 4:02Speaker 3: some of them sunk in the ocean and some them
- 4:05Speaker 3: put in underground vaults like old salt mines, that sort
- 4:08Speaker 3: of thing. And we haven't yet figured out a way
- 4:11Speaker 3: of how to deal with this nuclear waste. So those
- 4:14Speaker 3: are the two big issues. So now environmentalists are some
- 4:19Speaker 3: in favor, some not. There actually have been some who
- 4:22Speaker 3: have turned to the dark side. And what does that mean. Well,
- 4:27Speaker 3: one of the things about nuclear energy, these plants, these
- 4:30Speaker 3: nuclear power plants have a tiny little footprint relative to
- 4:34Speaker 3: other power plants, and there's zero emissions, zero other than
- 4:40Speaker 3: radioactivity if it leaks, and the waste that is then
- 4:47Speaker 3: secured and then put someplace as I just described. And
- 4:51Speaker 3: the philosophy is that by the time these things become dangerous,
- 4:55Speaker 3: by the time there really is a danger with this
- 4:57Speaker 3: nuclear waste, we will have the technologology to deal with
- 5:01Speaker 3: it nuclear fusion, if I'm not mistaken, nut fission. And
- 5:05Speaker 3: so they're working on ways of dealing with this waste.
- 5:10Speaker 3: So a lot of controversy and I'll tell you what's
- 5:13Speaker 3: going on. We effectively were to shut down nuclear facilities.
- 5:20Speaker 3: There has not been a nuclear power plant built in
- 5:22Speaker 3: the United States in what thirty five years, And there
- 5:26Speaker 3: are power plants that have been decommissioned, and these provide
- 5:31Speaker 3: so much electricity that is no small deal when they're
- 5:35Speaker 3: taken offline. Oh, before we go, on, Neil, a little
- 5:39Speaker 3: bit of Dodger news today.
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- 6:02Speaker 3: Right, back we go, and this is all about nuclear
- 6:07Speaker 3: power here in California. Big change afoot and that is
- 6:12Speaker 3: the move towards shutting down nuclear plants, and that's been
- 6:15Speaker 3: going at a pretty rapid pace across the country.
- 6:20Speaker 2: Well, things have changed. The demand for.
- 6:23Speaker 3: Electricity has exploded after about a decade of sort of
- 6:27Speaker 3: flat use.
- 6:29Speaker 2: And it has to do with a few things.
- 6:30Speaker 3: I mean, the big one is AI the amount of
- 6:32Speaker 3: energy these data centers use is just astronomical. Also, the
- 6:37Speaker 3: electric the electrical the electric electrification of in certain name
- 6:43Speaker 3: of anything here, cars for example, and just other energy
- 6:49Speaker 3: use buildings. We're building more, even though the buildings themselves
- 6:53Speaker 3: are becoming certainly energy friendly, but still the amount of
- 6:56Speaker 3: building is beyond the limited use of electricity. So for
- 7:02Speaker 3: all these reasons, electricity is desperately needed, and nuclear power
- 7:06Speaker 3: plants provide a lot of that. I didn't know this,
- 7:09Speaker 3: but California gets nine percent of the entire energy used
- 7:14Speaker 3: from nukes here in California.
- 7:16Speaker 2: I mean that's a lot. By the way, you go
- 7:18Speaker 2: to France, it's seventy five.
- 7:21Speaker 3: Percent of nuclear power nuke of power comes from the
- 7:25Speaker 3: nukes in France. So things have changed. We now are
- 7:30Speaker 3: looking at recommissioning or extending the life of nuclear plants,
- 7:36Speaker 3: and one of them is I think the one in
- 7:39Speaker 3: Santa No Free and correct me on this one, because
- 7:42Speaker 3: this is memory and that is one of the two reactors.
- 7:45Speaker 2: There were two, the big breasts.
- 7:47Speaker 3: One of the breasts they had a partial messtectomy where
- 7:52Speaker 3: they decommissioned one because there was an issue about piping.
- 7:56Speaker 3: In a lawsuit with Mitsubishi, that provided the pipes and
- 8:01Speaker 3: that had to be redone. So I think one of
- 8:03Speaker 3: them is still working and they're going to bring both
- 8:06Speaker 3: of them online, and they are extending power plants now.
- 8:10Speaker 3: To build a nuclear power plant is no small deal.
- 8:13Speaker 3: It's ten years or longer to get the licensing to
- 8:19Speaker 3: build it.
- 8:19Speaker 2: I mean, it is crazy.
- 8:21Speaker 3: I can't think of anything else that's more extensive and
- 8:24Speaker 3: more difficult to build. But the amount of power that
- 8:27Speaker 3: they produce is incredible and it is consistent because if
- 8:31Speaker 3: you look at wind power, if you look at solar power,
- 8:37Speaker 3: I mean, those are great ways of producing energy with
- 8:40Speaker 3: zero emissions, zero burning of fossil fuels when it's burnt,
- 8:45Speaker 3: when it's used in power plants. There's two kinds of
- 8:48Speaker 3: energy that you don't run out of that are there
- 8:51Speaker 3: twenty four to seven one power plants that use a
- 8:55Speaker 3: huge amount of fossil fuels read natural gas here in
- 8:58Speaker 3: southern California and in some cases coal across the country,
- 9:02Speaker 3: and the other one is nukes. Other than that, you know,
- 9:05Speaker 3: sometimes the wind doesn't blow, you know, sometimes the sun
- 9:09Speaker 3: don't shine where oh, I don't know, it's a rainy day,
- 9:13Speaker 3: for example, or in various areas of the world. It's
- 9:17Speaker 3: rain three hundred and fifty days a year, and you
- 9:20Speaker 3: have wind power. You also have now they're using power
- 9:24Speaker 3: off the oceans wave power, they're not available twenty four
- 9:29Speaker 3: to seven. And therein lies the rub and that's why
- 9:33Speaker 3: nuclear power makes so much sense. It is consistent. There
- 9:36Speaker 3: are no emissions, and of course the risk is of
- 9:41Speaker 3: the containment buildings being breached or the nuclear plants themselves,
- 9:47Speaker 3: and we've had it. We've had a few big accidents
- 9:50Speaker 3: and they're pretty dangerous. As I said, the big one
- 9:52Speaker 3: is Chernobyl. I mean that one was just devastating, astronomical
- 9:57Speaker 3: and there was radiation that went across Europe with.
- 10:00Speaker 2: That, So what cost that?
- 10:03Speaker 3: By the way, there was a meltdown A meltdown, Yeah,
- 10:07Speaker 3: it was a whole bunch of accident. It's one of
- 10:09Speaker 3: those where this happened, and then this happened, and then
- 10:12Speaker 3: a B, C, D and E, any one of which
- 10:15Speaker 3: if it had not happened, you would not have seen
- 10:17Speaker 3: it happen. And what happens is when they have to
- 10:21Speaker 3: have enormous amounts of water to cool down the reactor.
- 10:25Speaker 3: I mean incredible amounts of water that has to circulate through,
- 10:28Speaker 3: and they were doing some testing and a valve had
- 10:32Speaker 3: been turned off. The water had been turned off, and
- 10:35Speaker 3: they were testing it and the valve was defective where
- 10:39Speaker 3: the valve didn't work, and then they tested the valve
- 10:41Speaker 3: and that didn't work, and then there was override system
- 10:44Speaker 3: and that didn't work, and one of the operators who
- 10:48Speaker 3: was supposed to be there, who was overseeing the testing, said,
- 10:52Speaker 3: we don't need to test. He left and went to sleep,
- 10:55Speaker 3: and it all happened, and it blew up. I mean
- 10:57Speaker 3: it blew up, and there was no containment building. If
- 11:01Speaker 3: you look at nuclear power plants around the world, there's
- 11:04Speaker 3: these huge concrete buildings. Those are containment vessels. As something
- 11:09Speaker 3: goes wrong, the radiation is kept within those Chernobyl. Russian
- 11:15Speaker 3: plants don't have that. The Russian technology is not particularly good.
- 11:19Speaker 2: They are down.
- 11:20Speaker 3: This is what they do. They're down and dirty and
- 11:23Speaker 3: let's get it fast. That's the way it works in Russia,
- 11:26Speaker 3: or it used to the way. That were the way it
- 11:28Speaker 3: works in Russia. So they're coming back and in California,
- 11:33Speaker 3: what does the governor do.
- 11:34Speaker 2: Well, he sort of let them.
- 11:36Speaker 3: Let the next administration deal with this, and so there's
- 11:40Speaker 3: gonna be a lot of controversy here. I think they're
- 11:44Speaker 3: coming back. You know, we were on our way back.
- 11:47Speaker 3: I mean, power plants were on the books, applications have
- 11:51Speaker 3: been filed, and then Fukushema happened, and that just shut
- 11:56Speaker 3: down nuclear power construction across the world.
- 12:00Speaker 2: Old because that one was horrific.
- 12:02Speaker 3: Still, it's like a to a lesser degree, Fukushima is
- 12:08Speaker 3: basically Chernobyl and that had to do with flooding because
- 12:11Speaker 3: of the tsunami that overran any of the defenses. Fukushima
- 12:17Speaker 3: had some good defenses. I mean they had they had
- 12:20Speaker 3: what do you call it, sea breaks where the waves
- 12:23Speaker 3: would not come in, not even close enough, so natural
- 12:29Speaker 3: natural disasters. At this point, they're gonna have to build
- 12:32Speaker 3: those now into power plants. So we're still a ways away,
- 12:35Speaker 3: but power nuclear power is coming back as it should.
- 12:38Speaker 3: Oh and in order to buy law make us zero
- 12:44Speaker 3: use of emissions in California for power, zero use of
- 12:48Speaker 3: fossil fuel. The only way we're going to be able
- 12:50Speaker 3: to do it is with nuclear power as well as
- 12:53Speaker 3: alternative energy. Okay, moving on the secret, super duper secret
- 13:00Speaker 3: flight out of Ankra, Turkey, the President was on was
- 13:05Speaker 3: there for a summit. He flew New Air Force one
- 13:10Speaker 3: to Ankra, but he didn't fly Air Force one back.
- 13:14Speaker 3: The new Air Force one for a couple of reasons.
- 13:18Speaker 3: One because we had heard the Secret Service was not
- 13:21Speaker 3: happy with a security on the airplane didn't have the
- 13:25Speaker 3: same defense mechanisms that Air Force one, the real one,
- 13:29Speaker 3: the old one had. And so that was the reason,
- 13:32Speaker 3: we later find out is because there was a credible
- 13:36Speaker 3: threat against the president involving a shoulder fired missile service
- 13:42Speaker 3: to air missile, one of those stinger kind of missiles
- 13:45Speaker 3: that can bring down an airplane, especially taking off and
- 13:49Speaker 3: landing or even going up to several thousand feet on
- 13:51Speaker 3: the way up on the way down. And based on
- 13:54Speaker 3: that evidence, based on that information, that intelligence, what they
- 13:59Speaker 3: had had the President do was get on the new airplane,
- 14:06Speaker 3: Get off the new airplane on one of those food containers,
- 14:10Speaker 3: you know those that brought that brings those big containers
- 14:13Speaker 3: down in the truck on that elevator thing, and then
- 14:15Speaker 3: drive off. He was in there, can't imagine he was
- 14:20Speaker 3: scrunched up or whatever. And then off he went secretly,
- 14:23Speaker 3: and then he was taken to the old Air Force one,
- 14:25Speaker 3: which he then flew to London and then flew back,
- 14:31Speaker 3: and he had said there was all kinds of reasons
- 14:33Speaker 3: being given that he the reason he didn't go on
- 14:39Speaker 3: the new air Force one, he sent it to England
- 14:41Speaker 3: empty so the Armed services American service people could see
- 14:46Speaker 3: the new airplane. I mean, that's the lamest excuse they've
- 14:48Speaker 3: ever heard by life. But in reality, it was because
- 14:52Speaker 3: of that credible threat, and a big deal was made
- 14:56Speaker 3: of that. Oh and this is the press. You should
- 14:58Speaker 3: have told us, we should have known. This should be transparency. Yeah,
- 15:03Speaker 3: there was a credible threat against the president. Now, interestingly enough,
- 15:08Speaker 3: a lot of his staff did knew. The didn't know,
- 15:11Speaker 3: the press didn't know that was on the airplane. I
- 15:14Speaker 3: mean maybe three four people that were on the plane
- 15:18Speaker 3: did know. And if there was a shoulder fired missile
- 15:23Speaker 3: that took the plane down, hey, as long as the
- 15:26Speaker 3: president lives, you know, it doesn't matter who else dies,
- 15:29Speaker 3: which actually is true as far as a secret service
- 15:33Speaker 3: is concerned. Certainly in terms of the presidential detail, man,
- 15:38Speaker 3: it's everything, and no matter what happens, the president has
- 15:41Speaker 3: to be protected. I mean that's the way it works,
- 15:43Speaker 3: that's the way it should work. And so asking for
- 15:47Speaker 3: transparency under those circumstances is stupid, is just dumb. The
- 15:54Speaker 3: administration handled it perfectly well as the way it should
- 16:00Speaker 3: because of the threat. So now people are comparing the
- 16:05Speaker 3: way Trump flies around and is protected because to do
- 16:09Speaker 3: this is I can't even imagine last time they did
- 16:13Speaker 3: this where they took this secret sort of false narrative
- 16:17Speaker 3: in terms of where he's going, what he was on
- 16:20Speaker 3: it's and the kind of protection that he has. Now
- 16:24Speaker 3: the comparison is being made now to Putin and to
- 16:28Speaker 3: another extent, to Kim Jong un. And that is and
- 16:32Speaker 3: we're told and this interview was done by a Putin
- 16:35Speaker 3: expert saying, if you think what they did for President
- 16:40Speaker 3: Trump has an issue, you should see what kind of
- 16:45Speaker 3: security measures and how Putin operates.
- 16:50Speaker 2: Man, it's on a whole different planet.
- 16:53Speaker 3: I'm going to come back with that one because that
- 16:56Speaker 3: is just fun and I love aviation, and I'll compare it.
- 17:00Speaker 3: Why it has to do with trains, that's one. The
- 17:04Speaker 3: comparison to Queen Elizabeth or King Charles now has to
- 17:10Speaker 3: do with the way FDR traveled. So and many world
- 17:17Speaker 3: leaders do exactly this, but there's a difference. And then
- 17:20Speaker 3: the comparison was made to Putin, and we are being
- 17:23Speaker 3: told this was a story in the New York Times
- 17:25Speaker 3: that Putin that the what happened with the President is
- 17:29Speaker 3: child's play comparison.
- 17:31Speaker 2: What's going on with Putin?
- 17:34Speaker 3: Putin has identical offices in several places. So when he
- 17:41Speaker 3: gives a speech, a televised speech from his office, it's
- 17:44Speaker 3: that version of the oval office.
- 17:48Speaker 2: You don't know which one he's at, You have no idea, and.
- 17:52Speaker 3: You don't know what time he does it because it's
- 17:55Speaker 3: basically broadcast days later, and so reporters are trying to
- 17:59Speaker 3: figure out which one he is at. And by the
- 18:04Speaker 3: leaves that are wilting in the office, let's take a look.
- 18:10Speaker 3: Oh that leaf is wilted versus the last one we
- 18:13Speaker 3: saw versus Oh no, he can't be there. And these
- 18:15Speaker 3: little bits of minutia, because that Putin is paranoid.
- 18:20Speaker 2: It's that simple.
- 18:22Speaker 3: He drives around, or he moves around the country in
- 18:25Speaker 3: this armored train, and I mean an armored train that's
- 18:29Speaker 3: painted to look like a regular train, and it is
- 18:33Speaker 3: has a spa in it and offices. I mean, these
- 18:36Speaker 3: guys travel around in really high end transportation. And Kim
- 18:42Speaker 3: Jong Unn has an armored train. Now FDR drove around
- 18:48Speaker 3: or he was taking the places in a train, his
- 18:50Speaker 3: own train, his own cars at least.
- 18:54Speaker 2: But the press knew about it. There was no secrecy here.
- 18:58Speaker 3: Same thing with Harry Truman, who did his whistle stop
- 19:01Speaker 3: tour to win his second term, but the press knew
- 19:06Speaker 3: about it. Kim Jong un the press doesn't know about
- 19:10Speaker 3: So it's a question of secrecy. It's a question of
- 19:14Speaker 3: making sure the public doesn't know. For security reasons. Putin
- 19:17Speaker 3: is so paranoid. He's because of the war in Ukraine
- 19:21Speaker 3: and the drones are flying all over Russia can reach Moscow.
- 19:28Speaker 3: And since COVID, he's just gone even more nuts. For example,
- 19:33Speaker 3: when he had meetings with any officials, they had to
- 19:36Speaker 3: be quarantined for two weeks before he would talk to them.
- 19:40Speaker 3: So here is his cabinet member, let's say a defense
- 19:43Speaker 3: minister or an economic minister. You have an appointment with
- 19:47Speaker 3: the president, Yeah, you're going to be quarantined for two
- 19:49Speaker 3: weeks before you even get to see him. And so
- 19:55Speaker 3: it is. These presidential trains are really kind of neat.
- 19:59Speaker 3: Also with Putin, there are secret tracks and spurs that
- 20:04Speaker 3: go to at least three of his residences. He has
- 20:08Speaker 3: residences all over Russia. He has residences. We know he
- 20:13Speaker 3: has residents in Soshi, which is a port a tourist
- 20:18Speaker 3: which is a tourist city, certainly Moscow, other cities that
- 20:23Speaker 3: I think odess say he has one and it's just
- 20:27Speaker 3: super secret stuff. So it's a question of paranoia. So
- 20:30Speaker 3: the paranoia level, which I really enjoy. I think that
- 20:34Speaker 3: the two top ones are Kim Jong un and the
- 20:39Speaker 3: President of Russia and then everybody else sort of you know,
- 20:43Speaker 3: there may be armored facilities. I don't know if if
- 20:46Speaker 3: the president far president travels in on a train, I
- 20:50Speaker 3: don't think he ever has. And the other thing about
- 20:53Speaker 3: Kim Jong Lun, he travels on his armored train because
- 20:56Speaker 3: he won't fly. He just he won't get on an
- 21:00Speaker 3: airplane a lot like John Madden. So when Kim Jong
- 21:05Speaker 3: un goes to either do a sports broadcast or when
- 21:10Speaker 3: he was on the team, was when he was coach,
- 21:14Speaker 3: he pulled a Kim Jong Un.
- 21:18Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why it works. Okay, we're done.
- 21:20Speaker 3: How's that for an analogy, right, John Madden and Kim
- 21:23Speaker 3: Jong Un and Prutin.
- 21:27Speaker 2: Yeah, that worked, that worked all right?
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