Episode 901: The DOJ Hid Trump's Epstein Files and 2025: Zero Job Growth

Cognitive Dissonance

Tom Curry

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4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Democratic lawmaker: 'If a Prince can be held accountable, so can a President' US women's gold medal-winning hockey team declines Trump State of the Union invitation F.B.I. Director Celebrates Hockey Victory as Bureau Stares Down Crises Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs : NPR Rep. Al Green ejected from Trump State of the Union after holding 'Black People Aren't Apes' sign Secret Service says an armed man was shot and killed after entering Mar-a-Lago's secure perimeter | PBS News NPR finds DOJ withheld, removed some Epstein files related to Trump U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025

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0:00.0	This episode of Cognitive Dissinence is brought to you by our patrons.
0:04.0	You fucking rock.
0:06.0	Be advised that this show is not for children, the faint of heart, or the easily offended.
0:15.0	The explicit tag is there for a reason. recording live from Glorrihole Studios in Chicago and beyond.
0:44.0	This is cognitive distance.
0:46.8	Every episode we blasts anyone who gets in our way.
0:49.3	We bring critical thinking, skepticism, and irreverence to any topic that makes the news, makes it big or makes us
0:56.9	mad. It's skeptical. It's political. And there is no welcome at. Today is Thursday, February the 26th,
1:07.5	and Cecil yesterday, or day before, I don't know, doesn't matter.
1:11.9	There was the State of the Union address. Yeah. The longest one in history. I didn't watch it. I didn't watch it either. Yeah, this was one. I normally forced myself to do it, but I knew what it was going to be. It was going to be wall-to-wall lies. Yeah. And I don't think he said anything of substance or anything believable in a long time.
1:30.4	And so I... be. It was going to be wall-to-wall lies. And I don't think he said anything of substance or anything
1:28.7	believable in a long time. And so I, and I knew there's another thing that I think is going to be a
1:34.2	theme, a through line for most of the stories we cover tonight that the party of trolling is doing
1:41.0	its very best to continue to be the party of trolling. And I think literally what that was was a trolling grandstand. So what they wanted to do was make people angry because that makes them feel better and it makes their base feel better. And I'm just not, I'm not playing into it. I'm like, okay, that's cool. You had a state of the union. I have no idea what you said. I mean, I read about it, but I didn't listen to it.
2:01.9	So I'm good.
2:02.7	Yeah, I read about it to see what he talked about.
2:05.6	I know he talked for a...
2:08.6	The previous record was like 99 minutes.
2:12.2	And I think that was held by Bill Clinton.
2:14.2	And he fucking blew past that with well over two hours. But you know what a Trump speech is.
2:20.1	It's a series of like lies and grievances while he just makes shit up and then yells at people
2:26.6	and, you know, never gets to the fucking point and does the fucking bob and weave or whatever
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