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. It’s skeptical, it’s political and there is no welcome mat.
924 episodes transcribedEpisode 915: High Dolphins and the Epstein Museum
Episode Date: May 14, 2026Dolphins 'deliberately get high' on puffer fish nerve toxins by carefully chewing and passing them around | The Independent Televangelist Claims That...
Episode 914: Gerrymander Wars
Episode Date: May 11, 2026Takeaways from Indiana, Ohio and Michigan: Trump's flex pays off and Democrats win special election I voted for Harris in 2024. She shouldn't run in 2...
Episode 913: More Gunman Conspiracies
Episode Date: May 4, 2026Investigators Offer More Details of Gunman of Gala Dinner Attack 3 days after correspondents' dinner, FBI still unsure who shot officer outside ballro...
Episode 912: Petty Kash Patel Sues the Atlantic
Episode Date: April 27, 2026MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged | WIRED https://archive.ph/20260418055449/https://www.wired.com/story/maga-i...
Episode 911: The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram
Episode Date: April 24, 2026https://www.propublica.org/article/rise-and-fall-terrorgram-inside-global-online-hate-network-frontline-telegram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8nsg...
Episode 910: Door Dash Stunt Driver
Episode Date: April 20, 2026No Kings draw estimated 8 million in largest single-day U.S. nonviolent protest Viktor Orbán concedes defeat as Hungary's Tisza Party heads for electi...
Episode 908: Artificial Intelligence and Ethics with Dr. Aaron Rabinowitz
Episode Date: April 6, 2026Evaluating the ethics of AI requires seeing through the never-ending hype - The Skeptic There are serious ethical implications to sexualising AI chatb...
Episode 907: Project 2025 Tracker
Episode Date: March 30, 2026Articles Tracking how much of Project 2025 the Trump administration achieved this year | PBS News From Venezuela to immigration crackdown, Project 202...
Episode 906: The 31-Year-Old Candidate Thrilling Gen Z
Episode Date: March 23, 2026'This Should Be Illegal': Senate GOP Uses AI Deepfake to Attack Talarico | Common Dreams A DOGE Bro Allegedly Walked Out Of Social Security With 500 M...
Episode 905: Iran war and the SAVE Act
Episode Date: March 16, 2026GOP senator allegedly breaks Marine's hand during protest against Iran war - LGBTQ Nation Trump fires Kristi Noem as DHS chief and then she thanks him...
Episode 904: RFK Tells Broke People to Try Peasant Food
Episode Date: March 12, 2026'This is actually crazy': Callers to Washington hotline shocked when pressing 2 for Spanish "Try peasant food": RFK sparks outrage after telling 'brok...
Episode 903: War in Iran and the Texas Primary
Episode Date: March 9, 2026Democrats Raise Alarms About Trump's War In Iran After Classified Briefing | HuffPost Latest News Trump threatens to cut off trade with Spain over Ira...
Episode 902: How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo and The Price of the Epstein Frenzy
Episode Date: March 5, 2026https://web.archive.org/web/20260219135910/https://www.theverge.com/tech/874721/epstein-thiel-musk-trump-metoo With The Price of the Epstein Frenzy
Episode 901: The DOJ Hid Trump's Epstein Files and 2025: Zero Job Growth
Episode Date: March 2, 2026Democratic 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 U...
Episode 900: Least Healthy Health Ad
Episode Date: February 23, 2026Costco defied Trump's DEI directive as Target and Walmart scaled back. Business is booming Republicans, Braced for Losses, Push More Voting Restrictio...
Episode 899: Slate: Trump supporters sound alarmed that people like me are buying guns. Maybe they should be.
Episode Date: February 19, 2026Trump supporters sound alarmed that people like me are buying guns. Maybe they should be.
Episode 898: Another Year, Another Superbowl Halftime Outrage Brigade
Episode Date: February 16, 2026Missouri Republican suggests Bad Bunny performance merits FCC action The Next Democratic President Better Be Merciless Grand jury declines to indict D...
