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The explicit tag is there for a reason. Recording live from Gloryhole Studios in Chicago and beyond, this is cognitive dissonance.

Every episode we blasts 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 the day you're listening to this.

I don't know when.

We're recording it early.

We have to record it early

because I'm going to take a little break. The next couple weeks. Just taking some time off.

Yeah, a little bit of time off. The next couple weeks we're looking at. So we recorded a couple

things early. And in the past, we may have done like news stories and stuff. This time we

decided instead,

we recorded two long forms and an interview. So all that stuff should be relevant.

The long form stuff normally holds for quite some time. So it'll be, it should be,

it'll still be relevant by the time you hear it. So there's two long form articles and one

interview with Michael Marshall that's coming up in the next

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