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TONIGHT: The show begins in Orange County expecting another overwhelming Pineaple Express storm. Then to Brooklyn, New York and the auction for Atlantic Yards. To Scottsdale AZ with contractors for measuring the economy, to Lancaster Countye PA for consul

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

TONIGHT: The show begins in Orange County expecting another overwhelming Pineaple Express storm. Then to Brooklyn, New York and the auction for Atlantic Yards. To Scottsdale AZ with contractors for measuring the economy, to Lancaster Countye PA for consultation on business at Roxy's in Harrisburg and Family Faire in Lancaster. To UK with nuke plans; to the Moon South Pole and Shackleton Crater. ToSolano County CA; to Bougainville in the south Pacific; to Colorado and the debate before SCTUS of the meaning of "insurrection" in the Fourteenth Amendment. To Milan about migration; to Tower 22 in Jordan and finally along the front in Ukraine.

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Good evening. This is John Bachelor. The show begins tonight with the Pineapple Express, an avalanche, a tidal wave, tsunami,

0:27.0

a river of rain headed for Southern California.

0:31.8

Speak with Jeff Bliss, was pummeled in these last 24 hours,

0:36.4

awakened by the pounding on the roof.

0:39.6

Jeff said it was beyond bucketing.

0:42.3

It was a waterfall crushing them and a bigger one, bigger atmospheric

0:47.4

river as one of the metaphors the meteorologists use is headed for Southern California

0:51.6

now.

0:52.7

This could become regular seasonal activity, rain from Hawaii, Pineapple Express.

1:00.9

Then I turned to the Brooklyn Atlantic Yards, a positive story, a development over the yards,

1:07.0

the railroad yards in Brooklyn. It's been delayed for several years. It was purchased by a Chinese company that failed to keep its payments

1:16.0

up in default. Now it's being auctioned off and this is potentially a huge amount of

1:22.3

housing for Brooklyn.

1:23.5

All very good news.

1:25.0

Harry Siegel of the city reports saying,

1:28.0

I want to see the developer, but it is positive to get more residential space in Brooklyn a very popular place

1:36.5

especially for the Gen X young Gen X old millennial and the ambitious Gen Z. Wonderful. It was Manhattan when I was a youth.

1:47.0

Now it's Brooklyn Heights, Bedstai, all wonderful. And then off to Small Business America. We travel with Gene Marks to Mexico

1:58.9

where he met with a combination of the trucker firms from the United States saying business not so

2:06.3

hot and then he also met with construction firms and business is very good

2:12.2

though the puzzle is how can the construction firms and business is very good

2:12.9

though the puzzle is

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