GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Las Vegas, where a Robot Dog worked successfully to free hostages...
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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1956
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915 #PacificWatch: #VegasReport: Valorous Robot Police Dag. @JCBliss
915-930 #ITALY: La Forza del Destino by G Verdi at La Scala in Milan at Christmas.
930-945 #CALIFORNIA: Anticipatory Trump-proofing by Gavin Newsom and the Legislature
945-100 DRONES: Over New Jersey and over a Korea/Taiwan War Game. Henry Sokolski, NPEC.
SECOND HOUR
10-1015 #SYRIA: Al Qaeda and HTS. Bill Roggio, FDD
1015-1030 #LANCASTER REPORT: Good times with expensive cheeses. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
1030-1045 #SPACEX: Superheavy ready for January Starship test. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
1045-1100 #MARS: Ingenuity accident report. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115 5/8: Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason That Stole the White House Audio CD – Unabridged, October 1, 2024 by Craig Unger (Author)
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1115-1130 6/8: Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason That Stole the White House Audio CD – Unabridged, October 1, 2024 by Craig Unger (Author)
1130-1145 7/8: Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason That Stole the White House Audio CD – Unabridged, October 1, 2024 by Craig Unger (Author)
1145-1200 8/8: Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason That Stole the White House Audio CD – Unabridged, October 1, 2024 by Craig Unger (Author)
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215 1/2 #MARX: The trendy Marxist use of language called woke. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution
1215-1230 2/2 #MARX: The trendy Marxist use of language called woke. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution
1230-1245 INFLATION REDUCTION ACT: and Big Pharma. Richard Epstein, Civitas Institute, UT.
1245-100 AM #POTUS: Absolute Pardon power and the Bidens. Richard Epstein, Civitas Institute, UT.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. This is John Batchel. |
| 0:05.6 | The show begins tonight on Pacific Watch in Vegas, where a hostage situation in an outlying suburb turned positive when the robotic dog working for the police obl obliged the hostage taker to surrender. |
| 0:23.6 | No violence, as far as I can tell. |
| 0:26.7 | I puzzled with my colleague Jeff Bliss, |
| 0:30.6 | if it was one of the Boston robotics dogs we've seen working out in the parking lots of Boston these last years. |
| 0:37.3 | Large thing, much larger than a retriever. |
| 0:42.5 | Good heavens. |
| 0:44.1 | Robot dog to the rescue. |
| 0:46.8 | Give that man a robot medal. |
| 0:50.5 | And then conversation with my good friend Lorenzo Fiore, he's in Janua talking about attending the Scala's premiere for the season in Milan last week, La Forte de Destino, Giuseppe Verdi. |
| 1:07.0 | A very sad story. Everybody dies, including the hero who, in the original version, leaps off a cliff. |
| 1:15.2 | It's a four-hour leap off a cliff. But theredi. Las Scala. I've never been there. I've been to |
| 1:23.2 | Milan, but I've never been inside La Scala. It looks like a stage itself inside. |
| 1:30.8 | Conversation with Bill Whalen about Trump-proofing the California legislature and all of the laws of California. |
| 1:39.3 | Very odd. |
| 1:41.8 | They must not have much else to do. |
| 1:46.3 | Christmas season, fellas. Jersey everybody's talking about drones |
| 1:49.9 | it may or may not be something real |
| 1:53.3 | I asked a colleague of mine |
| 1:56.6 | much experience with the Air Force |
| 1:58.9 | veteran |
| 2:00.2 | we can shoot down anything he tells me if it's much experience with the Air Force. Veteran. |
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