Hello there. Welcome to another episode of the Chuck Toddcast. I have a really fun guest today and a great sort of like history lesson about something you don't think about very often and a fun little sort of lost in history episode. Did you know they played a ceremonial bowl game, a college football all-star

game right around ground zero, just four months after the United States dropped a bomb on

Nagasaki, Japan? This actually happened. It's called the Atomic Bowl. Obviously, as I come to you today, August,

this is the 80th anniversary of the United States dropping not one but two bombs, one on Hiroshima,

which is the one we spend a lot of time on, and a second one three days later on August 9th,

on Nagasaki, Japan. My guest today is Greg Mitchell.

He's a longtime historian, nuclear arms reporter and activist back in the day. And he's written a book and done a

companion documentary about the Atomic Bowl, this football game that the occupation, the U.S. occupation military leaders at the time decided to do and hold.

It included a Heisman trophy winner at this game.

Again, on a field that was at a middle school where hundreds died from the bombing.

Never mind the potential radiation points, all those things that you can think of, right?

Four months after the fact they hold a football game.

Well, this was an event basically lost in history.

And Greg Mitchell does a great job on earthing it.

It's a terrific conversation, so I hope you stick around for that.

But in the meantime, I want to empty what I call my political notebook of sorts of interesting

developments, mostly about the midterm elections.

But I got to start with President Trump's

interview with CNBC on Tuesday afternoon. Obviously, Tuesday morning. Obviously, he's trying

desperately to reassure markets and reassure the business community that he hasn't lost it.

Well, I don't think this interview did that.

I mean, he is, it was, it would take longer to fact check the interview than the interview itself.

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