SHOW SCHEDULE FRIDAY 20 JUNE 2025: Good evening. The show begins in California and Nevada, a diamond heist from Brink's and a baseball diamond in the rough.
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🗓️ 21 June 2025
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SHOW SCHEDULE FRIDAY 20 JUNE 2025: Good evening. The show begins in California and Nevada, a diamond heist from Brink's and a baseball diamond in the rough.
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FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15 #PacificWatch: Jewel heist pursuit. #VegasReport: Stirring at the ballpark grounds. @jcbliss 9:15-9:30 Lancaster Report: Quiet central market. Busy diners of grayheads. Jim McTague, former Washington editor, Barron's. @mctaguej. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety 9:30-9:45 #SmallBusinessAmerica: All is right for hiring Gen Z. @genemarks @guardian @phillyinquirer 9:45-10:00 #SmallBusinessAmerica: Boomers reluctant to sell the small business to millennials. @genemarks @guardian @phillyinquirer
SECOND HOUR 10:00-10:15 Iran: Is this the end of the NPT? Henry Sokolski, NPEC. 10:15-10:30 Italy: Responsible tourism: The broken chair of Verona. Lorenzo Fiori 10:30-10:45 SCOTUS. Ninth Circuit rules that POTUS does have authority of the National Guard in an emergency. Richard Epstein, Civitas Institute. 10:45-11:00 Iran: Israel's choices. Richard Epstein, Civitas Institute.
THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 1/4: Rogue Allies: The Strategic Partnership between Iran and North Korea Paperback – April 29, 2025 by Bruce Bechtol (Author), Anthony N. Celso
https://www.amazon.com/Rogue-Allies-Strategic-Partnership-between/dp/1985902176
In Rogue Allies: The Strategic Partnership between Iran and North Korea, Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. and Anthony N. Celso examine the influence of two rogue states whose rebellion against the United States and US-backed countries has serious consequences for international relations. Iran and North Korea have profited from illegal activities, such as the arming of terrorist organizations, in attempts to disrupt peace efforts in the Middle East and East Asia and to destabilize the rules-based order of the world. Bechtol and Celso uncover the origins of this decades-long alliance, consider elements that these two nation-states have in common, and explain how their relationship undermines neighboring regions. The authors draw from revealing interviews with Iranian and North Korean defectors as well as firsthand accounts from other sources, providing crucial additions to this body of research. While some scholars have compared and contrasted Iran and North Korea, few have delved into how this partnership works to achieve its far-reaching impact. By assessing key aspects of the Iran–North Korea nexus—including military, ideological, economic, and environmental forces—Rogue Allies investigates the link between two volatile states and the ensuing implications for global security.
11:15-11:30 2/4: Rogue Allies: The Strategic Partnership between Iran and North Korea Paperback – April 29, 2025 by Bruce Bechtol (Author), Anthony N. Celso 11:30-11:45 3/4: Rogue Allies: The Strategic Partnership between Iran and North Korea Paperback – April 29, 2025 by Bruce Bechtol (Author), Anthony N. Celso 11:45-12:00 4/4: Rogue Allies: The Strategic Partnership between Iran and North Korea Paperback – April 29, 2025 by Bruce Bechtol (Author), Anthony N. Celso
FOURTH HOUR 12:00-12:15 Colombia: Surging violence. Mary Anastasia O'Grady 12:15-12:30 Russia: Falling oil falling Kremlin. Michael Bernstam, Hoover 12:30-12:45 SpaceX: No 10 unscheduled end. Bob Zimmerman behindtheblack.com 12:45-1:00 AM Mars: Missing matter found? Mars mysteries.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins tonight in California. A jewel heist in 2022. Jeff Bliss joins to |
| 0:09.1 | give us what we know so far. A large number of men picked up an allegedly acute, alleged, having |
| 0:17.3 | conducted this jewel heist out of a brings truck that was parked in an all-night diner on a roadway, |
| 0:25.0 | the driver was asleep inside the front cab, and the thieves, it is alleged, took the jewels and watches out of the rear of the cab, rear of the van. |
| 0:36.6 | Hard to believe. More to learn. Jeff speculates that somebody must have |
| 0:42.1 | given the evidence of these men to the police because it took three years to solve the crime. |
| 0:50.6 | There are other allegations. One of them is most interesting. |
| 1:00.2 | The insurance companies are refuting the idea that all those gems were in the van, |
| 1:04.5 | totaling up about $100 million. |
| 1:05.6 | That's right. |
| 1:06.9 | $100 million. |
| 1:09.2 | Hard to believe. |
| 1:12.5 | And the insurance companies apparently don't believe it, but Jeff reports that some of the jewelers were wiped out with the loss. So more to learn about |
| 1:20.6 | the jewel heist, but a solution. Also in Vegas, there is fresh reason to believe the baseball |
| 1:26.9 | is actually coming. |
| 1:28.5 | The site chosen for the baseball stadium. |
| 1:30.7 | It's a fabulous design. |
| 1:32.9 | Shows evidence of people getting ready to build. |
| 1:35.7 | They're digging it out. |
| 1:37.4 | Wonderful. |
| 1:38.1 | All good for Las Vegas. |
| 1:40.6 | Jeff also reports this an enormous amount of real estate for sale in around Las Vegas, |
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