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The explicit tag is there for a reason. Oh, well, it's not. Recording live from Glory Hole Studios in Chicago and beyond.

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, Matt.

Today is Monday, October the 30th, no, October the 21st.

We're recording a little early,

yeah, then we know, earlier than we normally would Cecil,

kind of put one in the bank,

we got a special guest coming up,

but it's also...

Knowledge fight tonight.

Knowledge fight, Dan and Jordan.

Stay tuned, it's gonna be great,

but Cecil, it's an anniversary for us. It is. It's 800. 800. 800 episodes.

When we first started out did you think we'd make it?

I just, it just never occurred to me because when we first,

we did another show, and we had only made it to like 70 or something like that.

I've never committed to anything like this.

And that felt like, and I mean that And that felt like a long, that's even the 70 because it was a couple years.

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