TONIGHT: The show travels from the Hollywood strike of SAGAFTRA to the missing person mystery of the PRC Foreign Minister Qin Gand in Beijing to the news spaceport in Scotland that has discovered a 4000 year-old Viking burial site. A stop in Lancaster Cou
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
@Batchelorshow
TONIGHT: The show travels from the Hollywood strike of SAG-AFTRA to the missing person mystery of the PRC Foreign Minister Qin Gand in Beijing to the news spaceport in Scotland that has discovered a 4000 year-old Viking burial site. A stop in Lancaster County, PA doe scoops of fresh ice cream at Fox Meadows. Also a brief on the peril of nuclear power plants in war zones. And a conversation with Stanford Professor Peter Stansky about George Orwell's dvided philosphy of cynic and optimist.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Lion's Gate Plus. |
| 0:04.3 | The third season of a Lion's Gate Plus original series The Great is streaming exclusively |
| 0:08.4 | on Lion's Gate Plus. |
| 0:10.1 | Follow Katherine the second play by L-Fanning and Peter The Great, played by Nicholas |
| 0:13.7 | Holt, as they hilariously attempt to make their marriage work after some seemingly insurmountable |
| 0:18.2 | problems, from attempt to murder and the imprisonment of close friends to their never-ending |
| 0:22.3 | regal responsibilities. |
| 0:24.0 | The Great Season 3 is streaming exclusively on Lion's Gate Plus. |
| 0:29.3 | Good evening. |
| 0:31.4 | Tonight on the show I speak at length with my good friend Jean Marks, the small business |
| 0:37.3 | columnist for the Guardian newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer, about buildings in Philadelphia |
| 0:43.3 | that are empty or near too empty, that are in trouble with their bank loans. |
| 0:48.3 | We speak of what is to be done, not only with Central Philadelphia, but with all the |
| 0:52.9 | major cities that were badly hurt by the pandemic and where they do not see the office workers |
| 0:58.5 | returning at the numbers that were in existence in 2019. |
| 1:02.8 | So what is to be done with these buildings? |
| 1:05.2 | One suggestion is convert them to residents. |
| 1:09.0 | Another is the city is changing and people are moving to satellite cities, smaller outside |
| 1:14.9 | the major concentrations, avoiding traffic, avoiding crime, avoiding commute. |
| 1:21.4 | The future of the city, also in the show tonight, a surprise in Milano. |
| 1:27.0 | This is Lombardi Province in the north of Italy, I speak with Lorenzo Fiore. |
| 1:32.5 | A tornado touches down after a strange weather, all these last weeks in the Mediterranean |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Batchelor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of John Batchelor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.