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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, Matt. Today is Thursday,

January 16th. It's not really, but it is when you're hearing it. Yeah, it is for you. Yeah.

In the time dimension. And it's long form day, Cecil. It is. It's long form day. And it's

ProPublica too. Because we love ProPublica. Yeah, amazing journalism happens at ProPublica or big fans.

Do you read it like on the daily or do you just like poke around at it?

So ProPublica doesn't publish a lot of stuff all the time.

And so, you know, but whenever I get an alert, because I'm subscribed to their mailing list.

So whenever I get an alert, I almost always check out what they've written.

I was going to ask because I, we pay for it. We donate to it. It's free, but we donate to it.

We like the work. But I will admit that I think 90% of the articles I've read from Pro Public

articles you've found. I never remember to go there despite how much I enjoy their journalism.

Their journalism is top notch. Truly outstanding journalism.

It's top notch. They have excellent journalists. And they work with other companies, too. So they'll

work with other journalistic organizations. And then they'll just publish on ProPublica.

But yeah, I mean, these are the people who broke the stuff with Clarence Thomas. Yeah.

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