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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, Matt. Today is Wednesday,

November the 27th. It is the day before Thanksgiving, Cecil. I went to the grocery store this morning.

Oh my God. On the day before Thanksgiving? Did you wear a suit of armor? It was early, right? So it's,

it's like that moment before D-Day, where you can just feel the electricity in the air. You walk in and

there's everybody there is about ready to see some shit, right?

They know, they know today.

You can't even, my grocery store, you literally can't even really send a cart down an aisle

now because so much stuff is on the shelves and they've packed every N-cap and everything full of groceries.

My God, man.

And so I went in this morning and you could tell, you could just, there's sort of like that

sort of like tweak that, that little high-pitched squeak of panic in the cashier's voice.

Sure.

It's fucking electricity is crackling in the air. I went, not this morning, but I went

yesterday and like midday, like in my lunch break. I went because I just had like a ham. We ordered some

groceries. We're not doing a big turkey. We're doing a, we're doing a standing rib roast.

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