Today's show is sponsored by the Multi Academy Award-winning first-world war-themed film,

1917, which is available to own starting March 10th on digital streaming, and on March 24th

on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray.

More on what's available then, the end of our upcoming interview with Fred Kaplan.

You may not be interested in war.

The war is interested in you.

That is a wonderful quote by what would you call him, Founding Father of Modern Soviet Communism, maybe Leon Trotsky.

The guy Stalin had an assassin go halfway around the world to assassinate with an axe pick, so dangerous was he.

It's a great line though, isn't it?

You may not be interested in war, a war is interested in you.

It says a lot, doesn't it?

It says, basically, that it doesn't matter if you want to go think about happy things or focus on other pursuits and things.

Maybe that you have more control over.

After all, what do I have to do with a giant war that may start with government somewhere?

I'll just go about my life and do my own thing and let those people worry about their own things,

except their own things will turn into your own things at some point, right?

The war will be interested in you.

I thought about that when I thought about what would happen if we could rationally divide our thinking energy based on threat level and triage,

and try to come up with an idea of how much time we should spend on this or that given issue, right?

How much time, how much mental energy in a realistic sense should an educated individual in a modern society devote to thinking about,

X? In this case, I want to talk about nuclear war.

Something that I think a rational person would have to admit, if you thought about it for five seconds,

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