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Good evening. This is John Bachelor. Tonight I speak with my close colleague Jeff Bliss,

Pacific Watch, about the SAG Aftress strike now underway. The screen actress guild has joined the writers guild, the writers union.

In protesting the Hollywood assumption that AI will transform everything and that the actors and writers and the rest of the production crews will not benefit.

The profits will be kept by the owners and the directors and the producers.

It is an argument that is right in front of us. A script can be written by an AI robot and then cleaned up by a writer for a short period of time and put into production.

It is also as Jeff explains the possibility of using the images of actors and not actually using the actor him or herself, puzzling.

I'm a member of the SAG Aftress union. However, I got a notice from my union communication team in New York that as a news provider and a broadcaster I am exempt and we're all still working because the news is part of the American fabric.

Also tonight I speak with Matthew Schindel, the wonderful author, Spaces historian at the Smithsonian and Washington. For the love of Mars we talk about how Mars has been regarded over several thousand years.

And now of course we're investigating all those opinions and solutions about how Mars came to be. A smaller planet but a great goal for mankind for man's space to build colonies on Mars.

I speak with Jeff McCawson just back from Africa. We talk about what appears to be a general's revolt within the Russian army. A man named Popoff has now spoken out against Shogu, the defense minister and all of the opinions and assumptions made by the Kremlin before the invasion of Ukraine.

It appears that the morale is collapsing and the Russian army what comes next is a puzzle. Also tonight attention to the economy. The mystery is this. The Federal Reserve believes that there is a recession coming soon, mild recession.

However the metrics and the numbers and the reporting and even Wall Street indicate that there's no recession that we're growing that this is a vital economy. I speak to my colleague Jean Marx and also my colleague Jim McTeg about the missing recession.

It is good fun to go to Australia to talk about a startup in Australia with Scott Maiman that has been enlisted to look for plants on earth that can grow on the moon. That seems strange but the moon is a very dry place. The regolith is difficult and plants are capable of surviving all kinds of environments even without sunlight so the search is on.

I spend some time talking in general about the business environment in America because there is AI coming that is going to be a great boost says Jean Marx to small businesses in America.

Oh and finally very good news about the extra large extraordinarily large telescope being constructed in Chile in the high desert of Chile. This is big astronomy at its best a gigantic mirror that is going to permit a great deal of science to be done on planet earth. I know we have Hubble and we have the James Webb but still this will be a construction for the ages as we're shutting down the radio telescope or our our seabow.

I'm getting ready to open up the ELT. I hope you enjoy listening this is John bachelor thank you.