Producer Picks: Tactile Basketball, Costco, Cougar Gold, and the Grand Illusion Cinema92%
By Sarah Leibovitz0% Libby Denkmann0% Shane Mehling0% Hans Anderson0% Jason Burrows0%
12/25/2025, 6:45:01 PM
Topics: Holiday Programming
BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Halo Effect, with In-Group Bias as the most egregious example at 56.2% saturation with 77 hits. Analysis detected 394 faulty-reasoning hits from 137 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 87.6% and a BS Rank of 92% (1,389 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 91.70% of the article peer group.
Christmas Eve begins our holiday break here on Soundside.
We’re taking some time off to enjoy the holidays with our friends and family… or to just eat lots of good food while staying indoors.
But we’ve still got plenty of jam packed shows ready for you.
Today - we’re focusing on local businesses here in the Pacific Northwest.
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