Good evening: The show begins in Canada at the candidates' debate...

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Good evening: The show begins in Canada at the candidates' debate...

1920 Alberta

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR
**9:00-9:15** #CANADA: REVELATORY DEBATE: CONRAD BLACK, NATIONAL POST.
**9:15-9:30** #LANCASTER COUNTY: EMPTY STREETS OF DC. JIM MCTAGUE, FORMER WASHINGTON EDITOR, BARRONS. @MCTAGUEJ. AUTHOR OF THE "MARTIN AND TWYLA BOUNDARY SERIES." #FRIENDSOFHISTORYDEBATINGSOCIETY
**9:30-9:45** #SMALLBUSINESSAMERICA: TRUCKING SLOWING ON TARIFF NEWS. @GENEMARKS @GUARDIAN @PHILLYINQUIRER
**9:45-10:00** #SMALLBUSINESSAMERICA: SUPPLY CHAINS AND TRUMP. @GENEMARKS @GUARDIAN @PHILLYINQUIRER

SECOND HOUR
**10:00-10:15** #KEYSTONEREPORT: POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN HARRISBURG. SALENA ZITO, MIDDLE OF SOMEWHERE, @DCEXAMINER PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, NEW YORK POST, SALENAZITO.COM
**10:15-10:30** NUKES: ADVANTAGE IRAN? HENRY SOKOLSKI, NPEC
**10:30-10:45** #SCOTUS: HUMPHREY EXECUTOR, 1935 AND JEROME POWELL. RICHARD EPSTEIN, CIVITAS
**10:45-11:00** TARIFFS: WRONG-FOOT. RICHARD EPSTEIN, CIVITAS

THIRD HOUR
**11:00-11:15** 1/4: Explorers: A New History (A Norton Short) Paperback – August 5, 2025 by Matthew Lockwood (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Explorers-New-History-Norton-Short/dp/1324110317
Unfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked figures spanning forty centuries and six continents, historian Matthew Lockwood narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curiosity, connection, and exchange. Familiar icons of exploration like Pocahontas, Columbus, Sacagawea, and Captain Cook find new company in the untold stories of people usually denied the title "explorers," including immigrants, indigenous interpreters, local guides, and fugitive slaves. He highlights female voyagers like Gudrid Far-Traveler and Freydís Eiríksdóttir, Viking women who sailed to North America in 1000 AD, and Mary Wortley Montagu, whose pioneering travels to Constantinople would lead to the development of the world's first smallpox vaccine. Figures like Ghulam Rassul Galwan, a guide for European travelers in the Himalayas, reveal the hidden labor, expertise, and local enthusiasm behind many grand stories of discovery. Other characters, like David Dorr, a man born into slavery in New Orleans who embarked on a Grand Tour of Europe and Egypt, embody discovery and wonder as universal parts of the human condition. As Lockwood makes clear, people of every background imagine new worlds. Adventurers from every corner of the globe search for the unknown and try to understand it, remaking the world and themselves in the process. Exploration is for everyone who sets off into the unknown. It is the inheritance of all.

**11:15-11:30** 2/4: Explorers: A New History (A Norton Short) Paperback – August 5, 2025 by Matthew Lockwood (Author)
**11:30-11:45** 3/4: Explorers: A New History (A Norton Short) Paperback – August 5, 2025 by Matthew Lockwood (Author)
**11:45-12:00** 4/4: Explorers: A New History (A Norton Short) Paperback – August 5, 2025 by Matthew Lockwood (Author)

FOURTH HOUR
**12:00-12:15** #AI: DEMYTHOLOGIZING: BRANDON WEICHERT.
**12:15-12:30** #ITALY: TRUMP-WHISPERER MELONI. LORENZO FIORE
**12:30-12:45** SPACEX: BAHAMAS FLAPDOODLE. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM
**12:45-1:00 AM** COSMOS: MORE BIG BANG TROUBLES. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM

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0:00.0	Good evening. The show tonight begins in Canada, a conversation with colleague Conrad Black about the English language debate between the candidates for the premiership of Canada soon enough.
0:14.4	Mark Carney representing the liberals, now the premier. Pierre Puellev, representing the conservatives. Jagmetev, representing the Conservatives.
0:21.7	Jagmeet Singh, representing the Liberal Democratic Party.
0:26.1	And a man named Ivoix-Bichet, representing Chiquet.
0:32.0	It was revelatory, very helpful. I watched it through video clips, not live. In any event, I learned that
0:42.3	Mr. Carney is not a politician. He's a central banker, a very good one, used to talking behind
0:49.3	closed doors, making unusual remarks to the public about his job.
0:57.7	As a politician, though, he seems either intimidated by or indifferent to the camera.
1:05.4	He also doesn't come alive on stage.
1:07.8	There's no animation.
1:10.3	He remains a central banker. Good for him. Why he wants to be
1:14.8	premier and take the give and take of parliament, the routine bashing you get in the newspaper,
1:23.1	and how everybody wants something, complains, you don't get a lot of applause. I don't know why he wants
1:29.7	it. On the other hand, Pierre Pellevra, the 45-year-old leader of the Conservatives, is a very
1:36.1	good politician who has learned his presentation over the years and is very quick. He's 45. He's got a lot of energy.
1:47.8	And he has ideas. The big idea was housing. Mr. Carney does not have a thought about housing that I
1:55.0	heard. Conrad tells me that there was a segment in the debate. I did not see it. About housing, Mr.
2:01.9	Beau d'Ever gave his solution. It's a big problem in Canada. Ever let in lots of immigrants?
2:09.3	Good for them. But they didn't build comparable housing. Perhaps too much not in my backyard.
2:15.1	In any event, Mr. Carney did not offer anything to depend upon.
2:21.5	It's the conservatives who have the solutions, the liberals who've been in power for nine years,
2:27.5	and you'd have to say the housing had nothing to do with America, with Donald Trump, with any of that,
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