Cognitive Dissonance
Atheist and Skeptical News
4.8from 4,707 ratings
- 1,024
- Episodes
- 191
- Transcribed
- 4,707
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2011
- First episode
- 757K
- YouTube views
About 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.
- Publisher
- Atheist and Skeptical News
- Category
- comedy
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 13 Apr 2011
- Latest episode
- 2 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
191 of 1,024 episodes have a transcript.
2 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 944: Tom Returns! Midterms Chat
26 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 943: El-Sayed vs Heckler, Ramaswamy vs Himself
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Episode 944: Tom Returns! Midterms Chat
Published 2 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] If people are unhappy and you've been in charge for years and years, you can't be like, well, it wasn't us. I literally watched one of those stupid man on the street interview things where somebody was asking some guy standing in a MAGA line about gas prices. And the guy's like, yeah, it's because of Biden. […]
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- Tom
- Seth Andrews
- Michael Marshall
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- YouTube views
- 756,752
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 4,033 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 674 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100
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- Quality
- 89
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 76
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