The John Batchelor Show

Friday 27 September 2013

Air Date: 
September 27, 2013

Photo, above: English bunny rabbit resting. See Hour 2, Block D, Margaret Newkirk, Bloomberg, on Blue Grass Army depot of CW; bunny-hutch defense. 

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Hour One

Friday  27 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block A:  Rep Devin Nunes (CA-21), in re: Shutdown Looms as the Senate Passes a Budget Bill By JONATHAN WEISMAN and ASHLEY PARKER 9:00 PM ET

After a series of Senate votes that sent a stopgap spending measure back to the House, fissures appeared in the badly divided Republican ranks.

Friday  27 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block B:  Carol Hymowitz, Bloomberg, in re: aging workforce; working after 75. At 77 He Prepares Burgers Earning in Week His Former Hourly Wage By Carol Hymowitz - Sep 23, 2013 It seems like another life. At the height of his corporate career, Tom Palome was pulling in a salary in the low six-figures and flying first class on business trips to Europe.

Friday  27 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block C: Christian Miller, ProPublica, in re: Tylenol dangers In the main story, Use Only as Directed, ProPublica reporters TChristian Miller and Jeff Gerth show that the Food and Drug Administration has been aware of the potential risks of overdosing since at least 1977, but has failed to adopt its own recommendations to put stronger warning labels on the drug (even as the overdoses became, in its own words, a "persistent, important public health problem").  It also shows how the manufacturer, McNeil, has argued against label warnings and dosing restrictions even amid FDA reports of liver damage from taking as little as 25 percent above the maximum daily dose over several days. A little less than four times the maximum daily dose can cause death if taken all at once.  McNeil was so concerned about the drug, in fact, that it launched a program in the early 1990s to create a version that contained an antidote for the potential liver damage an overdose could cause. The companion piece, Dose of Confusion, examines McNeil's 15-year record of selling two concentrations of Tylenol for young children, despite knowing that parents and even medical professionals mixed them up, sometimes with fatal consequences. The FDA failed to intervene. The articles have several personal stories (the ones of children's overdoses on Tylenol are particularly compelling), and many of the main players are available for interviews.

Friday  27 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block D: Susan Berfield, Bloomberg Business week, in re: honey bandits in Germany. DIRTY HONEY: UNCOVERING THE LARGEST FOOD FRAUD IN U.S. HISTORY by Susan Berfield In 2006 two junior executives with the German food-trading company ALW arrived in Chicago full of hope.   In 2008 their dreams were destroyed when...

Hour Two

Friday  27 September 2013 / Hour 2, Block A:  Joshua Green, Bloomberg, in re: Jim de Mint, community organizer

Friday  27 September 2013 / Hour 2, Block B:  Sarah Frier, Bloomberg Businessweek, in re:  IBM with no plan for the future?

Friday  27 September 2013 / Hour 2, Block C:  Tyler Rogoway, AviationIntel, in re: what's wrong with the F-35? What do we need?

Friday  27 September 2013 / Hour 2, Block D:  Margaret Newkirk, Bloomberg, in re: Blue Grass Army depot of CW; bunny-hutch defense. 

Hour Three

Friday  27 September 2013 / Hour 3, Block A:  Michael Vlahos, Naval War College, in re: Syria and history: what-if of 1941 and what-if of 2013? (1 of 2)

Friday  27 September 2013 / Hour 3, Block B: Michael Vlahos, Naval War College, in re: Syria and history: what-if of 1941 and what-if of 2013? (2 of 2)

Friday  27 September 2013 / Hour 3, Block C:  Dave Mosher, Wired, in re:  running out of plutonium 238 for future NASA robot missions.

Friday  27 September 2013 / Hour 3, Block D:   Francis Rose, Federal News Radio, in re: ObamaCare fight in Congress, what happens in a shut-down?

Hour Four

Friday  27 September 2013 / Hour 4, Block A: The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe, by Stephen Harding (1 of 4)

Friday  27 September 2013 / Hour 4, Block B: The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe, by Stephen Harding (2 of 4)

Friday  27 September 2013 / Hour 4, Block C: The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe, by Stephen Harding (3 of 4)

Friday  27 September 2013 / Hour 4, Block D: The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe, by Stephen Harding (4 of 4)

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Music

Hour 1: Brothers Grimm. Hatfields & McCoys. Dexter.

Hour 2: Thirteen Days. Infamous. Call of Duty. Hatfields & McCoys.

Hour 3: Breaking Bad

Hour 4: The Pacific