This paper critically explores the links between epistemics in conversation analysis (CA) and linguistic and cognitivist ideas of communicative interaction that underscore information and information transfer. The epistemic program (EP) sticks to the emphasis on recorded instances of talk-in-interaction that is distinctive of CA, expressly distinguishes its theoretical sources with ethnomethodology, and indicates implications of its research for the social distribution of knowledge. However, despite such connections with CA and ethnomethodology, the EP is cognitivist in the manner it underscores information exchange as an underlying, extrasituational ‘driver’ in social interaction. To document how the EP uses cognitivist ideas of information and knowledge, the paper revises examples from the corpus of transcripts assayed in crucial publications on epistemics. This re-analysis sows doubt upon the manner EP inquiry calls in an underlying order that likely drives the obvious sequential organization of those transcripts.