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This is cognitive dissonance.

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. is Thursday November the 16th and I

let's start the show off a little bit by talking about what we're not talking

about right right so we have not talked about on the show the

events of October the 7th or any of the subsequent we did a very briefly yeah

or any of these subsequent response by Israel.

And I want to tell you guys kind of why.

And Cecil and I have had a lot of private conversations.

And we've also received a little bit of email about it too.

We have. So for me, for Tom, just speaking for myself,

I have read and listened to just about everything I can think to read and listen to and the conclusion that I've come to is that you

should not be coming here for your news or opinion or analysis on this topic.

I don't feel qualified to weigh in on this.

I've tried guys.

I have tried really hard.

I've had a lot of conversations privately with Cecil

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