The John Batchelor Show

Thursday 24 November 2022

Air Date: 
November 24, 2022

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

1/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series) Paperback – September 19, 2022

 

https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Americas-

 

Nicholas Eberstadt’s landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work, cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).
   The grim truth: over six million prime-age men were neither working nor looking for work. Conventional unemployment measures ignored these labor force dropouts, but their ranks had been rising relentlessly for half a century. Eberstadt’s unflinching analysis was, in the words of The New York Times, “an unsettling portrait not just of male unemployment, but also of lives deeply alienated from civil society.”
   The famed American work ethic was once near universal: men of sound mind and body took pride in contributing to their communities and families. No longer, warned Eberstadt. And now—six years and one catastrophic pandemic later—the problem has not only worsened: it has seemingly been spreading among prime-age women and workers over fifty-five.
   In a brand new introduction, Eberstadt explains how the government’s response to Covid-19 inadvertently exacerbated the flight from work in America. From indiscriminate pandemic shutdowns to almost unconditional “unemployment” benefits, Americans were essentially paid not to work.

915-930

2/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series) Paperback – September 19, 2022

930-945

3/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series) Paperback – September 19, 2022

945-1000

4/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series) Paperback – September 19, 2022

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

1/4 Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F Hardcover – Deckle Edge, June 28, 2022 by  Joe Pappalardo  (Author)

 

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Sky-Morning-Ranger-Company/dp/1250275245/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LYPTU9SWQ97W&keywords=RED+SKY+MORNING&qid=1669241540&s=books&sprefix=red+sky+morning%2Cstripbooks%2C77&sr=1-1Between 1886 and 1888, Sergeant James Brooks, of Texas Ranger Company F, was engaged in three fatal gunfights, endured disfiguring bullet wounds, engaged in countless manhunts, was convicted of second-degree murder, and rattled Washington, D.C. with a request for a pardon from the US president. His story anchors the tale of Joe Pappalardo's Red Sky Morning, an epic saga of lawmen and criminals set in Texas during the waning years of the “Old West.”

Alongside Brooks are the Rangers of Company F, who range from a pious teetotaler to a cowboy fleeing retribution for killing a man. They are all led by Captain William Scott, who cut his teeth as a freelance undercover informant but was facing the end of his Ranger career. Company F hunted criminals across Texas and beyond, killing them as needed, and were confident they could bring anyone to “Ranger justice.” But Brooks’ men met their match in the Conner family, East Texas master hunters and jailbreakers who were wanted for their part in a bloody family feud.

 

 

1015-1030

2/4 Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F Hardcover – Deckle Edge, June 28, 2022 by  Joe Pappalardo  (Author)

1030-1045

3/4:  Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F Hardcover – Deckle Edge, June 28, 2022 by  Joe Pappalardo  (Author)

1045-1100

4/4 Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F Hardcover – Deckle Edge, June 28, 2022 by  Joe Pappalardo  (Author)

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

1/4: Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong Hardcover – February 1, 2022 by  Greg Brennecka  (Author)

 

https://www.amazon.com/Impact-Rocks-Space-Culture-Donkey/dp/0063078929/ref=sr_1_10?crid=2FM7TLHQC3UP8&keywords=IMPACT&qid=1669241676&s=books&sprefix=impact%2Cstripbooks%2C83&sr=1-10

 

The Solar System. Dinosaurs. Donkey Kong. What is the missing link? Surprisingly enough, it's meteorites. They explain our past, constructed our present, and could define our future.
Impact argues that Earth would be a lifeless, inhospitable piece of rock without being fortuitously assaulted with meteorites throughout the history of the planet. These bombardments transformed Earth’s early atmosphere and delivered the complex organic molecules that allowed life to develop on our planet. While meteorites have provided the raw materials for life to thrive, they have radically devastated life as well, most famously killing off the dinosaurs and paving the way for humans to evolve to where we are today.
As noted meteoriticist Greg Brennecka explains, meteorites did not just set us on the path to becoming human, they helped direct the development of human culture. Meteorites have influenced humanity since the start of civilization. Over the centuries, meteorite falls and other cosmic cinema have started (and stopped) wars, terrified millions, and inspired religions throughout the world. 

1115-1130

2/4: Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong Hardcover – February 1, 2022 by  Greg Brennecka  (Author)

1130-1145

3/4: Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong Hardcover – February 1, 2022 by  Greg Brennecka  (Author)

1145-1200

4/4: Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong Hardcover – February 1, 2022 by  Greg Brennecka  (Author)

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

1/4: Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story -- The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company Kindle Edition by  Patrick K. O'Donnell  (Author) 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Give-Me-Tomorrow-Greatest-Story-ebook/dp/B004BKJB9Q/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1669241951&sr=1-1

 

This is the untold story of "Bloody George," a Marine company formed quickly to answer its nation's call to duty in 1950. This small band of men-a colorful cast of characters, including a Native American fighting to earn his honor as a warrior, a Southern boy from Tennessee at odds with a Northern blue-blood reporter-turned-Marine, and a pair of twins who exemplified to the group the true meaning of brotherhood-were mostly green troops who had been rushed through training to fill America's urgent need on the Korean front. They would find themselves at the tip of the spear in some of the Korean War's bloodiest battles.
After storming ashore at Inchon and fighting house-to-house in Seoul, George Company, one of America's last units in reserve, found itself on the frozen tundra of the Chosin Reservoir facing elements of an entire division of Chinese troops. They didn't realize it then, but they were soon to become crucial to the battle-modern-day Spartans called upon to hold off ten times their number. Give Me Tomorrow is their unforgettable story of bravery and courage.

1215-1230

2/4: Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story -- The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company Kindle Edition by  Patrick K. O'Donnell  (Author) 

1230-1245

3/4: Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story -- The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company Kindle Edition by  Patrick K. O'Donnell  (Author) 

1245-100 AM

4 /4: Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story -- The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company Kindle Edition by  Patrick K. O'Donnell  (Author)