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🗓️ 6 April 2024
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Next, we travel to Italy, focusing on the cities of Milan, Genoa, and Bolzano. From there, we head to Bucharest to explore the 1,771-mile length of the Danube River.
The show then takes us on a historical journey through Rome, from the time of the Kingdom to the Republic, the Empire, the Byzantines, and the Christians, all from the perspective of women.
Leaving Earth behind, we venture to the Moon to see the newly built moon buggies in action. Finally, we travel to the edge of the solar system to check in on Voyager 1, which has now left the heliosphere.
And there's even more to come in this packed show
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins tonight in California, speaking with Bill Whelan about |
| 0:04.2 | apologies do not likely to be given. |
| 0:07.0 | Apologies from Governor Newsom for over-emphasizing how he disagreed with the high-speed train when he first took office |
| 0:16.1 | since then he's asked for more and more money still asking for more and more money. |
| 0:20.7 | The prospect of the train being completed is distant. 2030, 2033. |
| 0:30.2 | The governor owes the people of California an apology for exaggerating and now |
| 0:36.1 | determining that they can't afford it but he's going to pay for it anyway. |
| 0:40.8 | Also the mayor of San Francisco hosts the people apologies, |
| 0:44.4 | says, Bill Whelan, or promising to clean up a city |
| 0:49.2 | after the mayor had gone along with the defund the police. |
| 0:54.0 | Odd. |
| 0:56.0 | Sefsisco is in trouble and odd. |
| 1:00.0 | Jim McTague from Lancaster County reports on an Army recruiter can't find any recruits and |
| 1:06.2 | an HVAC small dealer can't find any workers. |
| 1:11.4 | They're all scooped up by big companies immediately, especially |
| 1:14.9 | trades workers coming out of the Thaddeus Stevens Trade School in Lancaster. |
| 1:18.9 | Then Victoria Herkseg from Budapest apprises the Belten Road Initiative which is out of initiative. |
| 1:26.4 | It's failed. |
| 1:28.1 | The boondoggles around the world are crumbling. |
| 1:31.6 | The debtor nations can't afford the debt so they roll it over. The Chinese |
| 1:36.6 | banks continue to push money out, nowhere near they did in 2015 to 2018. Out of initiative. Also, Victoria comments on Budapest not frightened |
| 1:48.6 | by the NATO war talk of the Hungarian Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, not Prime Minister. |
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