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Recording live from Gort Hill Studios in Chicago, and beyond, 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 mat.

And today is long-form day.

I'll phrase my wife in every years.

That's about Clarence Thomas today.

We're going to be talking about a story from the pro-publica Clarence Thomas's 38 vacations,

the other billionaires who have treated the Supreme Court justice to luxury travel.

This isn't the only story that's come out about the Supreme Court justices,

because there was other people, Alito, also had plenty of things going on that he didn't disclose.

I think we'll get into it as we work our way through it, but my initial impression of all this

is that Thomas was treated like absolute royalty all the time wherever he went and lived a very lavish lifestyle

on these very rich people who had business with the court and who had every opportunity,

even if it wasn't their business, to convince him to side with business,

to side with the big, the big billionaire class.

Even if you're just not a person who has any court business and you can't,

it's hard to believe that a billionaire doesn't have something that's going up against it.

But even if you didn't, you're still saying whatever comes up,

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