GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Los Angeles under attack by fire, wind and inadequate leadership...
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 11 January 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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1885 Ventura CA
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR 9-915 #PacificWatch: Seven active Los Angeles fires; water pressure unreliable. @JCBliss. 915-930 #PacificWatch: Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass on the defensive in the Bluest of states. @JCBliss. 930-945 #SCOTUS: The court steps aside from the Manhattan court dispute. Richard Epstein, Civitas Institute 945-1000 #POTUS: DOJ seeks to release the January 6 allegations. Richard Epstein, Civitas Institute
SECOND HOUR 10-1015 #KeystoneReport: Fetterman & McCormick. Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer, SalenaZito.com 1015-1030 LANCASTER REPORT: Booming economy faces caution. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety 1030-1045 #SPACEX & BLUE ORIGIN: The competition delayed by weather and events. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com 1045-1100 #MARS: NASA fails to find a solution to lavish Mars Sample Return. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 1/8: Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age - Eric Berger [Book description with properly formatted bullet points follows]
1115-1130 2/8: Reentry - Continued discussion 1130-1145 3/8: Reentry - Continued discussion 1145-1200 4/8: Reentry - Continued discussion
FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 #ROMANIA: New elections after Russian sabotage. Antonia Colibasanu. @GPFutures in Bucharest. 1215-1230 #ITALY: Cecilia Sala freed from Tehran detention and torment. Lorenzo Fiori. 1230-1245 #NRC: Seeking HALEU nuclear energy batteries. Henry Sokolski, NPEC 1245-100 AM #LEU: Inevitable militarization of Low Earth Orbit and the Earth Moon System. Henry Sokolski, NPEC.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. |
| 0:08.7 | This is John Batchel. |
| 0:10.0 | The show tonight begins with Jeff Bliss in Pacific Watch, Los Angeles. |
| 0:14.7 | The water pressure unreliable. |
| 0:17.3 | The reservoir of Pacific Palisades empty because it was not fixed. |
| 0:21.9 | Questions of preparation, staging, services, fire, everything. |
| 0:27.7 | It's all a tumble of failure. |
| 0:30.7 | What we're looking at now is something that's not easily contained in two or three days. |
| 0:35.5 | This will take federal investigation, state investigation, |
| 0:40.6 | legal analysis, lawsuits, my goodness. We also have reports of looting randomly throughout the area. |
| 0:49.5 | Arrests are being made. Accusations of arson. Arrests have been made, at least one. It's all very scattered. |
| 0:58.3 | Jeff reports very ably on three cultural institutions I'm most concerned about. Mount Wilson, |
| 1:04.6 | the Wilson Observatory, very famous, critical. To preserve is where we were 100 years ago. |
| 1:12.9 | What were those fuzzy stars? |
| 1:16.0 | Galaxies. |
| 1:17.7 | Now we come to the Getty Museum. |
| 1:21.2 | Jeff reports that it's so far avoided the catastrophe |
| 1:24.7 | as what was possible the first couple of nights. |
| 1:28.5 | Grounds are singed, Greg, Jeff reports, but the collection is intact. |
| 1:35.2 | They've got full defenses, but still I'd consider where they are and what just happened. |
| 1:41.3 | The winds are not going to go away, not next year, not the year after. Jeff reports |
| 1:47.9 | are more intense than he remembers, but they've always come in this time of year. And the JPL, the |
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