Speedwise, that this show is not for children, the faint of heart, or the easily offended.

The explicit tag is there for a reason.

Recording from Glory Hole Studios in Chicago, this is Cognitive Dissidents.

Every episode we blast anyone and 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 mat.

Also, in this intro, there is no tom.

I'm putting together a show that is essentially all the stuff that we recorded at Glory Hole Studios

this last week.

Before we jump right into it and launch into the stories that we recorded already, I wanted to

just mention a little disclaimer for this portion of the show.

Normally, our show is not safe for work.

It is full of swear words and awful things and terrible visualizations.

There are some people who will play our show at work, etc.

We just wanted to make a quick mention that in this episode, Tom and I both quote a racist.

When we quote that racist, we quote him exactly as he spoke.

If you are hypersensitive to a racial slur, you may want to skip over the first story.

If you are at work, you may not want to play that portion out loud because we do say a word

that many people take offense at.

So we just wanted to throw a quick warning out there that we do quote the man.

So if you hear it and you are super offended, please send him the email.

Without further ado, here is the rest of our show.

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