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The explicit tag is there for a reason. recording live from Gloria Hall 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 mad. It's skeptical, it's political, and there is no welcome that.

There is also no Tom this week, and I don't want that to sound too dramatic because Tom is recovering from surgery.

So people who showed up last week, we talked about Tom possibly missing this week, almost certainly.

We was not going to be, we weren't going to do a show with him live,

because on Wednesday, he had neck surgery.

If you weren't familiar, he had some problems with some vertebrae in his neck.

They were squishing a nerve.

He was in intense pain for about 20 days,

really, really debilitating, couldn't function very well.

And he was able to get in to get this surgery relatively quick.

He went on Wednesday.

The surgery was late in the day, so the doctor decided to keep him overnight.

He was released from the hospital the following day around noon, and he is recovering.

He's up walking around.

He was up and walking around the next morning.

He had, so he is, he, the surgery was not only successful, but it looks like it's really starting to help his quality of life.

While the pain is still there, the doctor said that it would lessen over time.

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