Good evening. The show begins tonight in the Shadow of Fear, the title of Nick Bunker's new book.

This is The World in 1950 from the point of view of the White House, Harry Truman.

Now, the B36, the super bomb, we know is the H-bomb, the threat of the Soviets, the steel strike,

all of the disorder that we know of

we know of the hunt for communists and government.

Watching pieces of the new movie Oppenheimer government. former allies the Soviet Union had become our enemy, had stolen the atomic bomb and

was going, they were going to destroy us.

That was the shadow of fear that I grew up in grade school and high school. These days we move to a

different fear which is internal. The disorder right now in Washington and for the election with the news that President Biden

is withdrawing from the campaign and endorsing his Vice president Kamala Harris. I speak with my good friend Michael

Lejos as Germanicus and I speak his gaius and we speak as Gaius. And we speak of the year of four emperors when Rome went through

a disorder of who's to be the new emperor.

With the death of Nero, it opened the door for generals,

Galba, Atho, Vitellius, and eventually

Vespasian, and civil war and destruction and fear. Are we going to go through that? There's

late news that Joe Manchin of West Virginia who's retiring from the, is thinking about registering as a Democrat and

challenging Pamela Harris.

Disorder in the Democrats.

The Republicans look united in comparison. Also tonight I talked to Paul Halpern, this book about the

Cosmos establishes the expanding universe theory as opposed to the static

universe theory. That was a debate around 1950. However, there's new

information all the time from the James Webb Space Telescope that suggests the

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