The John Batchelor Show

Friday 13 May 2022

Air Date: 
May 13, 2022

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915            
#Americana: "Days of Rage," 1968 & 2022. Dan Henninger, @WSJOpinion.   WSJ editorial board and Wonder Land columnist
https://www.wsj.com/articles/abortion-puts-the-supreme-court-behind-an-8-foot-fence-police-protection-protesters-justices-roe-behavior-politics-11652297476

 

915-930       
#Market: Bear market torture, early days. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barron’s.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-13/crazy-markets-are-shredding-wall-street-stock-and-bond-forecasts?srnd=markets-vp&sref=5g4GmFHo

 

930-945         
#SmallBusinessAmerica: The overhired depart. @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
https://www-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.businessinsider.com/layoffs-sweeping-the-us-these-are-the-companies-making-cuts-2022-5?amp=&amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16519240811076&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Flayoffs-sweeping-the-us-these-are-the-companies-making-cuts-2022-5
 

945-1000        
#SmallBusinessAmerica: Childcare deduction to retain employees. @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
https://genemarks.medium.com/four-ways-small-businesses-can-support-child-and-dependent-care-for-their-workers-cb02a45bfe1b
 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015      
#PacificWatch: Mansion Row wildfire; & What is to be done? @JCBliss
https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2022-05-12/laguna-niguel-residents-return-to-ruins-30-years-worth-of-memories-consumed-by-fire
 
 

1015-1030       
#Australia: It's bucketing again in Queensland. Scott Mayman, CBSNews. 
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2022/may/13/queensland-flooding-se-qld-floods-weather-live-updates-near-me-today-emergency-evacuation-orders-rain-forecast-road-closures-lockyer-valley-brisbane-grantham-gympie-laidley-latest-news?page=with:block-627db10e8f08493b6168bb8c&filterKeyEvents=false

 

1030-1045      
#StarWars: Factions in Space. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/the-future-factions-in-space-become-clearer/
 
 

1045-1100      
#Mars: Zhurong finds watery zone. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/zhurong-data-suggests-a-more-watery-martian-environment-more-recently-that-previously-thought/
 
 

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115    
1/4:  Italian Lessons: Fifty Things We Know about Life Nowby Beppe Severgnini  Paperback – May 3, 2022
https://www.amazon.com/Italian-Lessons-Fifty-Things-About/dp/0593315634/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1652479747&sr=1-2
Is there an Italian way to deal with life? Can we all learn something from the Italians? 

Italy often arouses in Americans a unique mix of attraction and bafflement, moderate disapproval and exceptional allure. From the Italians' love of poetry to an innate desire to socialize to the regional differences between the north and the south, Beppe Severgnini, who has dedicated his career to the meticulous observation of his compatriots, embarks on an enthralling quest to identify a core Italian identity and explore how that identity has evolved since the global pandemic.
 
Told with the warmth and humor of a longtime friend, Severgnini touches upon patience, endurance, and wisdom, and offers a one-of-a-kind set of timeless lessons for overcoming trials the Italian way.
 

1115-1130       
2/4:  Italian Lessons: Fifty Things We Know about Life Nowby Beppe Severgnini  Paperback – May 3, 2022
https://www.amazon.com/Italian-Lessons-Fifty-Things-About/dp/0593315634/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1652479747&sr=1-2
Is there an Italian way to deal with life? Can we all learn something from the Italians? 

Italy often arouses in Americans a unique mix of attraction and bafflement, moderate disapproval and exceptional allure. From the Italians' love of poetry to an innate desire to socialize to the regional differences between the north and the south, Beppe Severgnini, who has dedicated his career to the meticulous observation of his compatriots, embarks on an enthralling quest to identify a core Italian identity and explore how that identity has evolved since the global pandemic.
 
Told with the warmth and humor of a longtime friend, Severgnini touches upon patience, endurance, and wisdom, and offers a one-of-a-kind set of timeless lessons for overcoming trials the Italian way. 
 

1130-1145            
3/4:  Italian Lessons: Fifty Things We Know about Life Nowby Beppe Severgnini  Paperback – May 3, 2022
https://www.amazon.com/Italian-Lessons-Fifty-Things-About/dp/0593315634/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1652479747&sr=1-2
Is there an Italian way to deal with life? Can we all learn something from the Italians? 

Italy often arouses in Americans a unique mix of attraction and bafflement, moderate disapproval and exceptional allure. From the Italians' love of poetry to an innate desire to socialize to the regional differences between the north and the south, Beppe Severgnini, who has dedicated his career to the meticulous observation of his compatriots, embarks on an enthralling quest to identify a core Italian identity and explore how that identity has evolved since the global pandemic.
 
Told with the warmth and humor of a longtime friend, Severgnini touches upon patience, endurance, and wisdom, and offers a one-of-a-kind set of timeless lessons for overcoming trials the Italian way. 
 

1145-1200       
4/4:  Italian Lessons: Fifty Things We Know about Life Nowby Beppe Severgnini  Paperback – May 3, 2022
https://www.amazon.com/Italian-Lessons-Fifty-Things-About/dp/0593315634/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1652479747&sr=1-2
Is there an Italian way to deal with life? Can we all learn something from the Italians? 

Italy often arouses in Americans a unique mix of attraction and bafflement, moderate disapproval and exceptional allure. From the Italians' love of poetry to an innate desire to socialize to the regional differences between the north and the south, Beppe Severgnini, who has dedicated his career to the meticulous observation of his compatriots, embarks on an enthralling quest to identify a core Italian identity and explore how that identity has evolved since the global pandemic.
 
Told with the warmth and humor of a longtime friend, Severgnini touches upon patience, endurance, and wisdom, and offers a one-of-a-kind set of timeless lessons for overcoming trials the Italian way. 

 

FOURTH HOUR
 

12-1215       
1/2:  The Leopard Is Loose: A novelby Stephen Harrigan.  Hardcover – Deckle Edge, January 18,
The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a young boy’s world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the Oklahoma City zoo, throwing all the local residents into dangerous excitement in this evocative story of a child’s confrontation with his deepest fears.
https://www.amazon.com/Leopard-Loose-novel-Stephen-Harrigan/dp/0525655778/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

For Grady McClarty, an ever-watchful but bewildered five-year-old boy, World War II is only a troubling, ungraspable event that occurred before he was born. But he feels its effects all around him. He and his older brother Danny are fatherless, and their mother, Bethie, is still grieving for her fighter-pilot husband. Most of all, Grady senses it in his two uncles: young combat veterans determined to step into a fatherhood role for their nephews, even as they struggle with the psychological scars they carry from the war.
 
When news breaks that a leopard has escaped from the Oklahoma City Zoo, the playthings and imagined fears of Grady’s childhood begin to give way to real-world terrors, most imminently the dangerous jungle cat, itself. The Leopard Is Loose is a stunning encapsulation of America in the 1950s, and a moving portrait of a boy’s struggle to find his place in the world.
 
 
1215-1230   
2/2:  The Leopard Is Loose: A novel, by Stephen Harrigan.  Hardcover – Deckle Edge, January 18,
The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a young boy’s world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the Oklahoma City zoo, throwing all the local residents into dangerous excitement in this evocative story of a child’s confrontation with his deepest fears.
https://www.amazon.com/Leopard-Loose-novel-Stephen-Harrigan/dp/0525655778/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

For Grady McClarty, an ever-watchful but bewildered five-year-old boy, World War II is only a troubling, ungraspable event that occurred before he was born. But he feels its effects all around him. He and his older brother Danny are fatherless, and their mother, Bethie, is still grieving for her fighter-pilot husband. Most of all, Grady senses it in his two uncles: young combat veterans determined to step into a fatherhood role for their nephews, even as they struggle with the psychological scars they carry from the war.
 
When news breaks that a leopard has escaped from the Oklahoma City Zoo, the playthings and imagined fears of Grady’s childhood begin to give way to real-world terrors, most imminently the dangerous jungle cat, itself. The Leopard Is Loose is a stunning encapsulation of America in the 1950s, and a moving portrait of a boy’s struggle to find his place in the world.
 

1230-1245      
#Americana: VA digital. Francis Rose, Fed Scoop podcast.
Francis Rose, Fed Scoop podcast,  host, Government Matters (Washington, D.C.); NationalDefenseWeek.com and francisrose.com.
https://www.fedscoop.com/radio/va-cio-kurt-delbene-whats-next-for-agencies-implementing-president-bidens-cybersecurity-eo/

 

1245-100 AM        
#Markets: Crypto margin calls. Brett Arends, Marketwatch ROI, Barron’s.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-twitter-are-pulling-back-on-hiringwill-others-follow-11652452915?mod=hp_lead_pos3