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Today, Explained

This is your brain off books

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A return to orality is frying our politics and our brains. This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Jolie Myers and Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Denise Guerra, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. A caveman using tools in his cave. Photo via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Summer's a great time for reading. Our pal Johnquin just made a whole show about it over at

0:06.8

Explain It to me. And I guess that's the summer vibe. It's like easy, breezy, lesbian vampires.

0:13.8

That's the vibe. Ooh, breezy lesbian vampires. That's amazing. The only problem is Americans

0:20.6

just don't care to read as much anymore.

0:24.0

We made a whole show about that over here today explained.

0:27.5

When it comes to reading, one of the things that I've been hearing a lot from a lot of different faculty members is that students simply aren't doing the reading.

0:35.9

But now we're bringing you a different show.

0:38.3

Today, we're all about what we're doing instead of reading

0:42.2

and what it's doing to our brains, our politics,

0:46.0

and our potential to connect with each other now and in future.

0:51.8

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1:01.0

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