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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 at. Today is Thursday. It's

long form day, Cecil. It's like a holiday over here, cognitive distance. Long form day. We've got a very,

I was going to say good, but good's not the right adjective. Good is the wrong word.

I don't know. We got accurate, well written, fascinating, distressing article from the Atlantic.

The men who want women to be quiet,

a virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force

holding together the American right by Helen Lewis.

This feels fucking important.

Yeah.

I will say like the increase in open, open misogyny as a part of the current political

theater, as a force, like, as a social force, as a social media force is, like, it's ramping up in a way that, like,

is, is, it should define our era. Like, this is the, like, I can't think of anything else

that's happening right now that is as fucking upsetting as this, because this affects, affects like everybody. Yeah. Like everybody loses

in this equation, right? Yeah. Yeah. The men don't win. The men who are even on the other

side don't win. No. The one thing that I do take away from this, it's my hope. I know that there are

some people who are pick me

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