Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.

My name is Jody Abergan.

And we're here with a bit of a special episode, an end of summer special episode. We're calling this, I don't know, the esoteric history I learned on my summer vacation. But basically we thought that Nicky Kelly and I would chat a bit about what we got up to this summer where we went and what we learned because even though in theory we're vacationing I suspect all three of us also look for the interesting history stories as we roam about.

So here as always, Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.

Hello there.

Hi Jody.

Hey there.

I was going to say like happy end of summer but that's actually doesn't sound very good.

Although it's been like a zillion degrees and a hundred percent humidity and natural so I am very

happy to see the backside of summer.

Congratulations on a fruitful summer.

I'll say it that way.

I'll take that fall.

You know, I like this time of year.

It's my favorite.

I love a good shoulder season.

Yeah, its favorite time a year.

Yeah.

Listeners have noticed, you know, we've been doing some reruns and stuff because we've been giving

ourselves time off and we've been traveling and so then we were we thought oh gosh well you

know I'd love to hear personally what you learned and what you saw and some

interesting stories from your summer travels and we also want listeners to do this

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