Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xt and Show Podcast.

Welcome back in final hour of the week. Our thanks to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis,

who called in to give us an update on the storm recoveries from Hurricane Ian.

Appreciate him and to appreciate certainly all of you who are doing everything you can to help

those recovery efforts and we're glad that our affiliate in Southwest Florida is back up on

air. That's our Fort Myers affiliate WFSX. We appreciate all of you that are listening there

right now. We know that you are dealing with a lot of challenges. And as I said to the governor,

Buck and I will come down there and help to the best of our ability when it is the appropriate time.

Well, we are joined now by Elbridge Colby. He's the co-founder and principal of the Marathon

initiative. Formerly, US Assistant Deputy Secretary of Defense for Strategy Enforced Development.

His newest book is the Strategy of Denial American Defense and an Age of Great Power Conflict.

Bridge, we appreciate you coming on. You've been on before. Timing on this very apropos.

Last night, Joe Biden said that we are the closest to nuclear armageddon that we have been since 1962.

Do you agree with that characterization and how much danger is there of strategic nukes being used

by Russia? Well, great to be with you guys. Always on the show. I got my attention. I mean,

I think that's pretty real. Obviously, the president is prone to making off the cuff statements,

but I don't think he's wrong about that. I mean, there have been some incidents in the later part

of the Cold War, the 1973 war and the Abel Archer exercise in 1983. But I don't think we're really

ever as close as it appears we might be towards the Russians actually using nuclear weapons.

Now, end of the world got for bid army get and I think that's probably an exaggeration. But once

nukes are getting thrown around, you don't know how that's going to end. So I think and the thing is,

it could happen very rapidly. So look, a lot of people are saying it's a low probability event.

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