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Recording live from glory-hole studios in Chicago and beyond, this is CognitiveDistinence.

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 mat today is Thursday.

July 27th in Cecil, speaking of makes us mad.

Hey, man. How was your week?

Someone to tell a quick story.

I came back to work my job that I've been working at for 22 and a half years.

I had a long vacation that I was on.

The longest vacation, in fact, I've ever taken from work, which was three weeks long.

I accrue per year.

I accrue like five and a half weeks of vacation.

I had plenty of time to take it off.

I still had plenty of time.

So I took the time off, and when I came back, I had a meeting with my boss via Zoom,

and we had a chat, and he was asking me about my trip and whatnot.

And then I said to him, I said exactly what I just said, which was,

hey, anything big happened while I was gone.

And his response was, well, actually, so and so from HR is going to be joining us.

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