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From the Vault: How Stupid Are We? / Rick Shenkman

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🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Rick Shenkman is the author of "Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth about the American Voter" (Basic Books), the second chapter of which was excerpted at TomDispatch.com as the article, "How Ignorant Are We?: The Voters Choose… but on the Basis of What?." Rick is an Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter, New York Times bestselling author, and associate professor of history at George Mason university is also the founder and editor of History News Network, a website that features articles by historians on current events. He also blogs at "How Stupid?"

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Raindrops are falling on my head

0:09.0

and just like the guy's feet are too big for his bed.

0:14.0

Nothing seems to fit.

0:16.0

Those raindrops are falling on my head.

0:21.0

They keep falling.

0:22.0

So we're right to see. on my head they keep falling.

0:23.0

So, right to some day or I need some talk.

0:26.0

Make it a action.

0:28.0

And I said I didn't like a little bit.

0:33.0

These don't speak enough.

0:37.0

I'm thinking about. This is hell. Good morning listeners.

0:57.0

listeners.

1:01.0

It is Monday, July 3rd, and you know what that means?

1:06.0

No, not the day before American Independence Day, although I guess it is.

1:17.1

But more importantly, it's officially the beginning of the dog days of summer. That's right. There are official dates for this, which I only recently learned about.

1:30.3

And because I have the show all to myself today and the rest of the week

1:38.0

I'm gonna tell you all about that.

1:58.1

According to the Farmer's Almanac article by Catherine Beckman, titled, What and When Are the Dog Days of Summer? The Dog Days of Summer Last from July 3rd to August 11th.

2:04.4

Now what are the dog days of summer exactly?

2:07.4

What do they have to do with dogs?

2:10.0

The ancient origins of this common phrase might surprise you. The article then asks. The The term dog days traditionally refers to a period of particularly hot humid weather occurring during the summer months of July and August in the northern hemisphere.

2:40.0

In ancient Greece and Rome, dog days were believed to be a time of drought, bad luck, and unrest. When dogs and men alike would be driven mad by the extreme heat.

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