In the Frankly series, my goal is to have short, unedited raw riffs on topics on the news relevant to the big picture.

The main news relevant to all our futures today is the topic of nuclear war, which like most people I actually know very little about.

So on this, frankly, I invited an expert, my friend Chuck Watson,

to discuss what nuclear war might actually mean.

Hello, welcome to episode two of frankly. I actually have Frank here briefly for this one.

With me today is my colleague and friend Chuck Watson. How you doing, Chuck?

Well, it's the third Monday of the week, as we like to say.

So there's a lot going on in the world. Ukraine and Russia is the focus of the day. There's a lot of different things we could talk about, finance, geopolitics,

economic, new, multipolar world. But on this episode, I just want to get your expertise

and talk about one thing. There was a Pew Research study that came out this morning

that said that 35% of Americans would be willing to risk

nuclear war with Russia to protect Ukraine.

So let's just drill down on that question.

First of all, how is this possible that 35% of our country men and women are willing to

do that?

Yeah.

And if you look at the details of the poll, it's incredible because it's evenly split between

Democrats and Republicans.

So it's not like it's in the past where you had a militant group in one party or the other. This is

shockingly even. And yeah, I think there's a couple reasons for it. And one of the biggest

is I think people just don't really know or remember what even a conventional war is

like, much less than nuclear war. you look at the scenes, the horrific scenes

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