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Hey, Tom. Hey Cecil. Just listening to you guys rag on nine inch nails and you know what I get it? I do.

But I'll say what? That song Heresy, God is dead and no one cares if there's a hell I'll see you there.

That got me through much of Hovers witness deconversion. So big props to the term resume for that one. Glory-ho.

Hello Chaps. Humble pie time. I'm the person that said you should have done a be reasonable with Johan Hari and yeah, I take that back because actually you did do a fair interview and you didn't need to do a march on him.

But I'm actually calling about Dave Dacoach, not a coach dogmaier and his bizarre anal fixation. It looks like what he's done is picked up literally the first Freud book on the shelf and he's gone straight to a page called Master Batery Sexual Manifestations.

I'm just saying that to me that looks like the equivalent of opening up the dictionary just to see all the naughty words. Anyway, to answer your question every time a gay masturbate, God kills a kitten. Glory-ho, motherfuckers.

Hey Tom and Cecil. This is Brian and San Diego. I just finished listening to show number four away and I just wanted to thank you because without your show, I don't think I would have learned today that duck coach Dave Dabmeier isn't to ask Asim's glory hole. You guys are the rule.

Hey guys, I think you're figuring out what the coach was talking about. If you masturbate, masturbate, you're getting pleasure from a man's hand which makes you gay. But if you poop, you're getting pleasure from a man's anus which makes you really gay. I think that's where you don't want that. So, boy oh.

Be advised that this show is not for children, the faint of heart or the easily offended. The explicit tag is there for a reason.

Recording live from Glory-ho studios in Chicago. This is cognitive distance. 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 mad. This is episode 409 of cognitive potentially part of 410 or 11. You don't know. It's and I like that. Here we go. Yeah. And some work tonight later on tonight. We're going to be talking to Karen Garst and Abby Hoffer. Karen just recently put together as several essays for her new book.

Women V Religion and Abby is one of those essayists. So we'll be talking to both of them later on.

Cecil, before we start, I want to relay a quick story. It's more of an affirmation of our previously noted convictions. Today I did a little bit of drive and I drove from my home in Illinois up to Grand Rapids, Michigan and then Grand Rapids back to the studio.

And that means that I had to do something that was pretty deeply unfortunate. My friend I had to drive through Indiana. It was horrible. I just want to say like it still smells like math. I just you know, in case anyone's fucking wondering, there is an actual smell when you cross the border.

I wrote it was a beautiful day. It was the first beautiful spring day that we've had right. So it's been spring has been a total piece of shit. In fact, it hailed and slated on me the other day. It was a fucking horror.

Shitting that I want to talk about that after a time. So it's beautiful today. It was like 75 and sunny. I'm driving along. I rolled down my windows. I'm cruising. No shit. I crossed the border. I see crazy caplons and the fucking stick. And you know what I'm talking about.

Gunpowder smoke because crazy caplons is a firework store. And it is it is for 10 miles when you cross the border from Illinois to Indiana. It's fucking feels like a paper factory. Yeah, it's a lot of of a weird like method body odor stenched.

That signals that you've crossed the border. It's scary. It's fireworks and strip clubs. Yeah. And what the fuck do you think those strip clubs smell like? Can you imagine if that's what it smells like outside. They smell like fireworks.

But a sparkler in that thing. So today. I checked the weather and it said it was 52 or 53 when I left the house this morning.

And I was like, I'm going to grab my winter coats. I grab my winter coat. And when I left my winter house, the winter coats this morning, I felt like an asshole because it was it was warm enough to walk without a coat.

When I left the office later on today, I felt warm because it was 45 degrees out the temperature had dropped. And I figured out what you call this part of spring. Yeah, it's full cold.

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