S8 Ep579: SHOW SCHEDULE 3-13-2026 1574 ARABIA
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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SHOW SCHEDULE 3-13-2026
1574 ARABIA
13. Guest: Henry Sokolski Summary: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is criticized for reducing security at nuclear plants despite growing threats. Sokolski points out the disconnect between the NRC’s downplaying of risks and the FBI's serious warnings. (9)
14. Guest: Henry Sokolski Summary: The FBI warned California about Iranian drone threats against infrastructure. Sokolski notes that U.S. nuclear plants are vulnerable and currently lack the clear legal authority to effectively handle unauthorized drone overflights. (10)
15. Guest: Peter van Dokkum Summary: Professor van Dokkum defines runaway black holes as supermassive objects kicked out of galaxies after collisions. These objects move at 1,000 kilometers per second, escaping their host galaxies to roam through intergalactic space. (11)
16. Guest: Peter van Dokkum Summary: Astronomers detected a runaway black hole via a shock front and a wake of 100 million newborn stars. This stellar trail traces the black hole's path as it travels through intergalactic gas.NUMBER 13-16 (12)
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchler. |
| 0:02.6 | Begin the show tonight with as good a news as Jeff Blitz and I can find in Pacific Watch. |
| 0:08.8 | We celebrate the soon-to-be Las Vegas A's. |
| 0:12.8 | The stadium is on time and on-budget, according to the owner of the Oakland A's. |
| 0:18.8 | Now the Las Vegas, to be the Las Vegas Nays. |
| 0:21.9 | They're in Sacramento while they're waiting with the stadium to be completed. |
| 0:25.6 | It is big, great news to have a beautiful new stadium. |
| 0:30.2 | It's a design that I've never seen before. |
| 0:33.2 | I think it's new. |
| 0:35.1 | It's a combination of luxury boxes, luxury restaurants, wide open spaces, and a baseball |
| 0:42.2 | park in between. |
| 0:44.7 | Wonderful. |
| 0:45.9 | That's the good news. |
| 0:47.0 | Then we go off to Seattle where the news is not positive, to the surprise of no one who understands |
| 0:54.0 | how tax codes work, |
| 0:56.4 | raising the millionaires or billionaires' tax to 9.9% |
| 1:00.2 | means that people who are well-to-do can move, |
| 1:04.2 | and they're moving, they're leaving. |
| 1:05.8 | Starbucks is leaving, |
| 1:07.6 | and an owner of Starbucks is leaving, Washington State. |
| 1:12.5 | The same story in Los Angeles and California. |
| 1:16.2 | Raise the taxes or say that you're going to have a billionaires tax cut one time, 5%. |
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