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

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Recording live from Glor-Hole Studios in Chicago, this is Cognitive Disnance.

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,

482 of Cognitive Disnance.

And this is our last pre-recorded episode, Cecil.

So by the time you're hearing this, Cecil, you're back in town.

How is your vacation?

I'm good, maybe.

Hopefully.

Here's the open.

This episode is going to be a lot of economic stories.

We're going to be covering quite a bit of where there's a big story we're covering in this,

about a interesting media device that's used to exploit capitalism,

and then a lot of other stories that have to do with economics in this episode.

So it's not really a deep dive, but a lot of these stories really do match up with each other.

So if you are one of those people who's pretty far left and likes to talk about poverty and horrible capitalists,

this is going to be a great episode for you.

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