GOOD EVENING: The show begins in DC, asking if and when the politicians recognixe the PRC as a predatory construct.

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

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GOOD EVENING: The show begins in DC, asking if and when the politicians recognixe the PRC as a predatory construct.

1967

WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9:00-9:15 - IRAN: WASHINGTON TALKS TO TEHRAN
- Guests: Bill Roggio (FDD), Husain Haqqani (Hudson Institute)
9:15-9:30 - YEMEN: HOUTHIS REPORTED WITH PRC GUIDANCE
- Guests: Bill Roggio (FDD), Husain Haqqani (Hudson Institute)
9:30-9:45 - UKRAINE: EASTER CEASEFIRE UNSUCCESSFUL
- Guests: John Hardie, Bill Roggio (FDD)
9:45-10:00 - RUSSIA MAXIMALIST DEMANDS
- Guests: John Hardie, Bill Roggio (FDD),

SECOND HOUR

10:00-10:15 - DOES DC KNOW THAT CHINA GOES TO WAR?
- Guests: Steve Yates, Gordon Chang
10:15-10:30 - VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MUSEUM
- Guest: @ThadMcCotter, @TheAmGreatness
10:30-10:45 - CANADA: CARNEY HOLDS THE LEAD WITH CONSERVATIVE POLICIES
- Guest: Charles Burton
10:45-11:00 - PRC: RETIRING BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
- Guests: Rebecca Grant (Lexington Institute), @GordonGChang (Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill)

THIRD HOUR

11:00-11:15 - #NEWWORLDREPORT: BUKELE CALLS MADURO'S BLUFF
- Guests: Joseph Humire (@JMHumire, @SecureFreeSoc), Ernesto Araujo (Former Foreign Minister, Republic of Brazil)
11:15-11:30 - #NEWWORLDREPORT: PANAMA SECURITY
- Guests: Joseph Humire (@JMHumire, @SecureFreeSoc), Ernesto Araujo (Former Foreign Minister, Republic of Brazil)
11:30-11:45 - SAUDI ARABIA: MBS ROMANCES TEHRAN
- Guests: Janatan Sayeh, Bill Roggio (FDD)
11:45-12:00 - SOUTH CAUCASUS: TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN, ISRAEL VS RUSSIA, ARMENIA, IRAN
- Guests: Janatan Sayeh, Bill Roggio (FDD)

FOURTH HOUR

12:00-12:15 - #HOTEL MARS (1/2): SPACE LAW ON THE MOON
- Guests: Laura Montgomery (Space Solutions LLC), David Livingston (SpaceShow.com)
12:15-12:30 - #HOTEL MARS (2/2): SPACE LAW ON THE MOON
- Guests: Laura Montgomery, David Livingston
12:30-12:45 - SYRIA (1/2): THE GREAT JIHADIST IMPOSTOR, AL SHAARA
- Guests: Ahmad Sharawi, Bill Roggio (FDD)
12:45-1:00 AM - SYRIA (2/2): THE GREAT JIHADIST IMPOSTOR, AL SHAARA
- Guests: Ahmad Sharawi, Bill Roggio (FDD)

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0:00.0	The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be
0:06.8	wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain
0:13.0	that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching
0:18.7	their peak in the afternoon.
0:23.0	Not in the mood for miserable weather?
0:25.6	Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.
0:28.7	Sun Express, non-stop sunshine.
0:31.6	This is John Batchel. Good evening.
0:34.7	The show begins tonight in Washington,
0:38.1	asking how are the talks with Tehran going.
0:40.0	There have been two rounds so far.
0:41.1	There's a third schedule.
0:50.1	The Iranian position, as we understand it through media, is to return to the JCPOA. The Trump position is something short of kinetic warfare.
0:56.7	How short is unclear.
0:59.8	The Israeli position is said to be a maximalist demand that Iran disassemble its nuclear weapons program suspect and its bomb making and its weaponization and permit
1:12.9	inspectors indefinitely. Somewhere between that position or else and the JCPOA of 2015, which is
1:22.1	inadequate and nearly moot, is where the U.S. is going right now.
1:28.7	More to learn.
1:30.8	And then we move on to conversation with Bill Raju about Yemen.
1:35.3	The Houthis are said to be gaining intelligence from the Chinese using a satellite
1:41.4	to target American shipping and other shipping.
1:45.9	Not confirmed, but certainly well reported.
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