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S8 Ep748: STREAMING THE MAKING OF THE JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW, FEATURING GRANT NEWSHAM, 4-14-2026 1909 BRUSSELS.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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STREAMING THE MAKING OF THE JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW, FEATURING GRANT NEWSHAM, 4-14-2026
1909 BRUSSELS.

Host John Bachelor discusses a wide variety of geopolitical and historical topics, beginning with the unpredictable nature of the Trump administration and its impact on global markets. He highlights the profitability of American corporations like JP Morgan and the success of private space ventures like SpaceX, which he credits to visionary government subsidies from NASA. Transitioning to his personal reading list, Bachelor summarizes narrative historiescovering the secretive religious themes in Vermeer’s art, the NKVD’s assassination of Leon Trotsky, and the collapse of global trade during the Bronze Age. He is joined by Colonel Grant Newsham, who provides analysis on the U.S. naval blockade of Iran and the strategic challenges of securing the Strait of Hormuz. Together, they critique China’s predatory economic model, comparing its subsidized manufacturing surplus and use of forced labor to a modern-day plantation system. Their dialogue concludes by examining how China's lack of corporate profitability and currency manipulation threaten to destabilize international competition.

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0:40.1

bachelor show my colleague and friend for many years that is mccutter sends his regards he's

0:46.4

traveling and therefore this is a wonderful opportunity before i turn to speak of the conflict in the

0:53.2

middle east the conflict in eurasia the conflict in the Middle East, the conflict in Eurasia, the conflict in Ukraine,

0:58.1

conflict in the World Bank, the conflicts.

1:01.2

I can speak to my bookshelf.

1:03.1

I haven't been able to do this for several weeks, and the books stack up.

1:08.6

My hobby is reading and preparing for talking to the authors on Saturday.

1:16.1

I enjoyed a great deal.

1:18.0

I learn a lot, but I find that what I've just learned is replaced by what I learn next.

1:24.6

So it's a treat to go over the books I've already read recently and try to remember

1:33.0

what I learned before I replaced that information with the subsequent book. I've not taken

1:39.7

them in order this morning because I thought that would be an additional test of my memory as to what

1:44.8

the book argues. These are, tend to be mostly narrative history. There are biographies,

1:51.9

but they turn into narrative history. And there's a wide range. But before I begin with that,

1:57.6

I wanted to attend to some of the headlines in Europe. These are things that will come up during the day.

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