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Hi guys. I recently took the Kiva challenge and I wanted to let you know how it went.

My wife and I make a pretty good living separately. So we've never really had to

ask permission to spend money on what we find interesting. But she's still Catholic.

And when she found out that I recently gave $50 to a YAM farmer in Nicaragua, she

thought I lost my mind. So I have to give you credit for that. It was always it's

always fun to rub her the wrong way. Just enough to let her know that Catholicism

isn't the best path. So I have to give you give you props. Go Kiva. Thank you for

what you do. Keep up the good work.

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Recording from glory, whole studios in Chicago, this is cognitive dissonance. Every episode

we blast anyone who gets in our way, we bring critical thinking skepticism and irreverence

to any topic that makes the news makes it big or makes us mad. It's skeptical. It's

political and there is no welcome at this episode 183 of cognitive dissonance. And I don't

have a snappy intro. Yeah, that's pretty much like I actually know snappy intro at all.

Snappy today, huh? I know I'm not feeling all that snappy. So we're just going to launch

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