Good evening: The show begins in the airports between Harrisburg and Denver in order to weigh the American spending for fear of recession...
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 31 May 2025
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Good evening: The show begins in the airports between Harrisburg and Denver in order to weigh the American spending for fear of recession...
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FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15 Rockies & Back: Consumers Galore. Jim McTague, former Washington editor, Barrons. @mctaguej. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #friendsofhistorydebatingsociety
9:15-9:30 Italy: Meloni the Trump Whisperer meets with Macron. Lorenzo Fiori.
9:30-9:45 #smallbusinessamerica: Uncertainty even in Vegas. @genemarks @guardian @phillyinquirer
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SECOND HOUR 10:00-10:15 SpaceX. Bob Zimmerman behindtheblack.com Multiplanetary Musk.
10:15-10:30 Europa: Active Surface. Bob Zimmerman behindtheblack.com
10:30-10:45 1/2: Trade: Ronald Reagan compared to Donald Trump. David Hebert, Marcus Witcher, Civitas
10:45-11:00 2/2: Trade: Ronald Reagan compared to Donald Trump. David Hebert, Marcus Witcher, Civitas
THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 5/8: The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra Hardcover – April 8, 2025 by Toby Wilkinson (Author)
11:15-11:30 6/8: The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra Hardcover – April 8, 2025 by Toby Wilkinson (Author)
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FOURTH HOUR 12:00-12:15 1/2: American Civilization. Reviewing James Hunter's Democracy and Solidarity. Bradley C.S. Watson, Hillsdale College.
12:15-12:30 2/2: American Civilization. Reviewing James Hunter's Democracy and Solidarity. Bradley C.S. Watson, Hillsdale College.
12:30-12:45 SCOTUS: Trade and the Constitution. Richard Epstein, Civitas.
12:45-1:00 AM SCOTUS: Chinese Exclusion Act 1882. Richard Epstein, Civitas.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel. The show begins tonight in the Rocky Mountains. We travel with Jim |
| 0:07.2 | McTague out to see his grandchildren and his son and daughter-in-law, going to back-to-back |
| 0:14.0 | Denver Rocky Games. Had a great deal to say about the baseball model that he observed, had fun at the stadium, |
| 0:23.3 | was well attended, almost full, and then he flew back to Lancaster County, |
| 0:30.4 | Best County in Keystone State. |
| 0:33.0 | What he saw along the way was a lot of consumption. |
| 0:36.6 | Planes were packed. |
| 0:38.2 | The holiday travelers at the airports, |
| 0:41.3 | the Harrisburg Airport, the Denver Airport. |
| 0:43.5 | I think he stopped at one in between, |
| 0:45.2 | transing planes, Dallas, or one of the in-between ports. |
| 0:51.0 | Full. |
| 0:52.0 | Full airport, packed, |
| 0:59.9 | and everybody packing into the overpriced franchises eating food, |
| 1:07.6 | Jim said he ordered a $17 vegetable sandwich. 17, he paid it, he was hungry. |
| 1:13.5 | A lot of consumption at the baseball stadium, too. And then he got home and went to Costco, shopping, a lot of food, people piling their baskets, went to diners and restaurants in the |
| 1:20.8 | area, packed. So, if there's a recession, it's not going to be caused by the consumer. |
| 1:33.1 | Though the month-month statistics suggest that the consumer was cautious from March to April, |
| 1:35.1 | we'll see. |
| 1:37.7 | But right now, Jim didn't see any caution out there. |
| 1:48.9 | Jim McTagg on the long-awaited and not yet here recession. |
| 1:51.7 | Then I turned to a conversation about Italy. |
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