Tonight on the readout.

Listen, this guy is nervous as hell to face Kamala Harris.

He's already trying to back out of the debate.

Did you notice that?

Part of that is because he knows she's gonna whoop him in the debate.

Look, they've got their vision of what a family looks like,

and I'll defend them to have that. Just don't tell me what my family

looks like. I keep talking about the golden rule of small towns is mind your own

damn business. Decision time. Will it be Josh Shapiro, Tim Walls, the astronaut, or someone else?

We're reading the tea leaves with just hours to go before Vice President Kamala Harris

announces her running mate.

Also tonight, the incredibly weird story of RFK Jr. and the

dead bear that he dumped in Central Park and that's not even the weirdest thing he's ever done.

But we begin tonight with fear, not just fear of bears or like weird anti-vax or candidates, other kinds of fear.

Fear is part of our evolutionary biological heritage as high-end members of the animal

kingdom and it can be productive or destructive depending on the situation.

The instinctual fear of danger can save you from say

walking into traffic or staying in a haunted house when the ghost says

get out. It can also make you paranoid and

angry about demographic or political change. Fear can keep you from trying new

foods or traveling to new places or reveling in the advancements that we've made as a multicultural democracy.

It can make you lash out at immigrants or your political opponents in politics.

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