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TONIGHT: The show begins in Califforna for the LA DA race and the senate race. Then to Lancaster PA to ride in a 2022 Tesla 3 with colleague McTague. To Gaza fir the post combat security. To Manhattan and rent control. To Northeast Philadelphia and the di

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

News, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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TONIGHT: The show begins in Califforna for the LA DA race and the senate race. Then to Lancaster PA to ride in a 2022 Tesla 3 with colleague McTague. To Gaza fir the post combat security. To Manhattan and rent control. To Northeast Philadelphia and the dilemma over two unattractive candidates. To Milano to pray for more and more rain for fear the Po river drying up again like 2022. To Estonia to fret over Russian threats, to LEO where the worry is about Rusian anti-satellites. Then an hour with Charlie Chaplin from 1940 to 1972, a courageous man and genius performer. A nuclear weapon wargame in 2027 between Iran and Israel. Finally landing on the moon.

1942 Lancaster PA

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0:00.0

Good evening. This is John Bachelor. The show begins tonight in California. The Jungle Primary System, George Gascon, of the DA of LA, leading. Adam Schiff, the congressman from Hollywood, leading.

0:15.0

Hollywood is a theme for much of a conversation with Jeff Bliss.

0:19.0

There is a list of the top 20 science fiction movies picked by a London Times panel. Jeff and I enjoy

0:28.1

ourselves adding to each, that's all. We didn't want to speak against the 20, although more than half of them were not all that

0:35.9

tip-top.

0:37.2

But Jeff offered a Charlton-Heston movie that came out, think in 1969 it was based on a science fiction

0:47.3

novel about everybody in the world turning into being a zombie a vampire a

0:52.4

were wolf except for Charles and Heston, and one other person he finds

0:57.0

alive, immune from the virus that's spreading.

1:00.8

The ending is a surprise. Always a surprise. In an event, it's called the

1:05.8

Omega Man. Jeff picks Omega Man. I picked a Charles and Heston as well.

1:10.8

So, then Green with Edward G Robinson.

1:14.1

A Story of New York, the upper tier and the lower tier, and finally Tuesday

1:19.3

is Soyland Green Day.

1:20.9

A great payoff.

1:22.1

There's also Beethoven in it with Edward G. Robinson, and it's a moving

1:27.0

story that was made cheaply and fast and certainly resonates with those of us who lived through

1:32.1

the 1970s in Manhattan.

1:34.0

Jeff's second choice is also entertaining.

1:38.0

It's 12 monkeys.

1:40.0

It's a science fiction time machine loop story with Bruce Willis in the 1990s, I think 1995.

1:50.9

And it's very entertaining and very fast. My second pick was nothing so subtle.

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