GOOD EVENING: The show begins in LA where the mayor has fired the fire chief for cause following the massive fires in Pacific Palisades and Eaton Canyon..
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 22 February 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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GOOD EVENING: The show begins in LA where the mayor has fired the fire chief for cause following the massive fires in Pacific Palisades and Eaton Canyon..
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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
* 9:00-9:15: PACIFICWATCH: MAYOR BASS FIRES LAFD CHIEF CROWLEY
Guest: @JCBliss
* 9:15-9:30: LANCASTER REPORT: DC BLUES
Guest: Jim McTague, Former Washington Editor, Barrons (@McTagueJ)
Author of "The Martin and Twyla Boundary Series"
* 9:30-9:45: SMALLBUSINESSAMERICA
Guest: @GeneMarks (@Guardian @PhillyInquirer)
* 9:45-10:00: SMALLBUSINESSAMERICA
Guest: @GeneMarks (@Guardian @PhillyInquirer)
SECOND HOUR
* 10:00-10:15: KEYSTONEREPORT: DAY THE MUSIC DIED
Guest: Salena Zito (Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post)
* 10:15-10:30: START: DE-NUKING
Guest: Henry Sokolski, NPEC
* 10:30-10:45: SPACEX: LANDING A BOOSTER IN THE BAHAMAS
Guest: Bob Zimmerman (BehindTheBlack.com)
* 10:45-11:00: NEO: 2024 YR4
Guest: Bob Zimmerman (BehindTheBlack.com)
THIRD HOUR
Book Discussion: "Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age" by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
* 11:00-11:15: Part 5/8
* 11:15-11:30: Part 6/8
* 11:30-11:45: Part 7/8
* 11:45-12:00: Part 8/8
FOURTH HOUR
* 12:00-12:15: MRMARKET: DOGE REBATE AND THE DEBT
Guest: Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus
* 12:15-12:30: ITALY: MT ETNA ERUPTION DRAWING HIKERS TO THE PERIL
Guest: Lorenzo Fiori
* 12:30-12:45: HOTEL MARS: ASTEROID BENNU COLLISION WITH EARTH 2187?
Guest: Harold Connolly, JPL
* 12:45-1:00 AM: HOTEL MARS: THE DISCOVERIES
Guests: Harold Connolly (JPL), David Livingston (SpaceShow.com)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show tonight begins very straightforwardly, dealing with California after the fires and Pacific Palisades and the Eaton fire, the mayor of Los Angeles, |
| 0:25.9 | Karen Bass, has now fired the fire chief of Los Angeles, Kristen Crowley, claiming or asserting |
| 0:33.4 | that Kristen Crowley did not keep Mayor Bass informed before the fires. |
| 0:40.0 | There's reason to believe that that statement is not 100% accurate. |
| 0:45.9 | At the same time, the story in Los Angeles says the rebuild would take three to five years |
| 0:51.5 | had a conversation with Jeff Bliss about it. |
| 0:53.4 | Three to five years. It's a grim road ahead. The news will continue from Los Angeles around the investigation of who |
| 1:06.2 | knew what and when. The mayor is saying she was not informed. That is a bold statement and |
| 1:15.6 | we'll wait on facts. And then I turn to Lancaster. Jim McTag is back from Washington. |
| 1:22.5 | He's a member of the membership board of the Army Navy Club in central Washington, Ferguson, Fargoat Square. |
| 1:29.6 | He says Washington is empty, especially the high-end shopping district, nearly empty, very little |
| 1:35.3 | foot traffic. He went into the cafes where he used to hang out when he was Barron's Washington |
| 1:41.8 | editor. And they missed the business. |
| 1:44.3 | They remember Jim, but they missed the business. |
| 1:47.7 | Is it coming back? |
| 1:48.7 | Not since the pandemic. |
| 1:49.9 | And now the firings have started in D.C. |
| 1:53.8 | There's news about that that wasn't available today. |
| 1:57.9 | The Trump administration has fired the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff. |
| 2:02.2 | The new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a retired Air Force General named Dan |
| 2:05.9 | Kane, who recently worked the CIA. |
| 2:12.2 | More to learn. |
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