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Oracle.com slash bandwidth. Good evening. This is John Batchel. My show begins tonight with

Jeremy Zakis, my maid in New South Wales. We observe the extreme temperatures that are striking

Australia, especially New South Wales now, Jeremy says that it can easily

reach 100 degrees Fahrenheit over the next days without rain. It's hot throughout the continent.

This is probably La Nina. It's unclear. At the same time, I mention that it's very unusually cold in southern New England.

Temperatures well under 20, 15 in the morning. So, weather. Climate change? Weather. We're watching it.

At the same time, I tell Jeremy about a highly recommended movie to everyone.

The Day the Earth Caught Fire, 1961, a British science fiction movie about the bomb, ban the bomb.

The discovery at the newspaper in London is that accidentally, not on purpose, testing nuclear weapons, one at the South Pole, one at the North Pole simultaneously.

And the original opinion is that it's knocked the Earth slightly off its axis.

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