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This is cognitive dissonance.

Every episode we blasts anyone who gets in our way,

we bring critical thinking, skepticism, and irreververence 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 at today we got

to talk a little long form we're doing a little long form we're switching it up we're switching it up we're doing the long form today and we're going to put a regular long form. We're doing a little long form. We're switching it up. We're

switching it up. We're doing the long form today and we're going to put a regular show on Thursday.

And see, so why did we move things around? Can you tell me what weird dystopian urgency has caused us

now to do this? You're rubbing your eyes. You're rubbing your eyes. Why are you rubbing your eyes?

How on earth could this possibly happen? We're going to talk about this in detail. We have to

spend so much time on this because there's a lot to unpack here. And it is the, what we're calling

signal gate, because everything that's a controversy, Tom, needs a gate after it. You know you're

telling me this because you know it makes me crazy. It needs a gate after it. You know, you're telling me this because you know it makes me crazy.

It needs a gate after it because of Watergate, which had-

Which had no gate.

It was not even about water!

Wasn't about water?

It was about gates.

It was about stealing information and-

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