GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Las Vegas, where the A's baseball team is now extending their run at the city's ballpark from 2028 to at least 2058. Next, to Philadelphia, where there is a reported fall in builder confidence. To Sacramento, where Governo
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 18 May 2024
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GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Las Vegas, where the A's baseball team is now extending their run at the city's ballpark from 2028 to at least 2058. Next, to Philadelphia, where there is a reported fall in builder confidence. To Sacramento, where Governor Newsom is writing an autobiography. Then, to Milan, where there is a report of heavy rains. Moving to Low Earth Orbit, where there is trouble reported en route to Mercury. To the asteroid Bennu and the NASA JPL probe OSIRIS-REx. Then, to Beijing, Moscow, and Riyadh for discussions on nuclear proliferation. Finally, to Chicago and the all-powerful CTU (Chicago Teachers Union).
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
| 0:04.0 | Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the |
| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
| 0:10.1 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise, |
| 0:17.8 | the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption and murder. |
| 0:23.0 | Wish you were here. |
| 0:24.0 | Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Good evening. |
| 0:31.0 | The show begins tonight with Pacific Watch, Las Vegas. |
| 0:35.0 | Las Vegas A's, we're presuming that will be the name in 2028, they may change it, |
| 0:42.0 | will begin their season in 1920, in... in 2028, they may change it. |
| 0:42.6 | We'll begin their season in 2028, in 2028, |
| 0:46.5 | and they've now signed a document that will extend it |
| 0:49.0 | for at least 30 years to 2058. |
| 0:51.7 | A fine year, I'll be 110 years old watching every baseball game with joy. |
| 0:57.0 | There's other Las Vegas news. The Hard Rock Hotel is going up in place of the Mirage. I believe I have it right. |
| 1:09.0 | It will be a spectacular, it looks like an electric guitar standing upright, with rooms on all parts of the guitar and flashing lights in the sky. |
| 1:22.0 | Jeff Bliss tells me it won't interfere with the And flashing lights in the sky. |
| 1:22.6 | Jeff Bliss tells me it won't interfere with the sphere, |
| 1:26.3 | just down the road. |
| 1:27.9 | And then off to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, |
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