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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 today is Thursday, August 31st when you're listening to this.

It's not today when you're listening to this. That's what it is.

It's the August 31st.

Today for us is not always not any exciting happening. We didn't know it. Like I don't know if like a mercenary Russian coup guy fell out of the sky in an airplane or something.

Anything wacky. Anything wacky happened.

We do know about that. We do know about that.

I was listening to I know one of the news podcasts I listen to you said crash and I immediately put the fire festival guy up, but I'll take it down.

Just funny. I was listening to one of those news podcasts this morning or this afternoon.

And there was like they couldn't help but make a joke. It's like unlike most Russian dissidents who fall out of buildings.

This one fell out of an airplane. Like wow.

Because it's just true. Like they mostly get thrown out of building. They just like I fell. It was entirely an accident.

I should have been tying my shoe so recklessly.

What did you hear like putting in a conference and he's like, yeah, he had an interesting life. I made a lot of bad decisions.

He's like, well, we're more and for the loss. He's a great businessman.

But he made some questionable choice. And you're just like, dude, you're saying it. We all know you're saying everybody knows.

Everybody knows. Everybody knows.

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