The Fifth Column

* Val, Tombstone, Top Secret

* Top Gun takes it to 11

* One the best Hollywood memoirs

* RIP Capucine

* African-American Monday

* Johnny Depp, musician

* OK TIME TO TALK ABOUT THE COLLAPSING ECONOMY

* Spartacus moment? Once they start flipping…

* “They couldn’t believe it. Ben Shapiro, of all people…”

* A Norwegian. A Dane…and a guy who *isn’t Finnish, Matt*

* On the best fight of …

* We bring back the great economist Scott Lincicome to separate MAGA myths from inconvenient facts on trade, trade imbalances, ChatGPT math, and getting “ripped off” by our (former?) allies.

* Note: watch Kmele and Moynihan (and Gerald Posner) on the latest episode of the Moynihan Report

* Eli’s new Liberation Day jam

* These tariffs are dumb

* Really, really dumb

* Ruinously dumb

* Laura Loomer is dumb

* Tom Sowell isn’t dumb

* MAGA’s Iraq

* Tomorrow on The Moynihan Report: Actor and former fat guy Ethan Suplee (American History X, Wolf of Wall Street, Mall Rats, Remember the Titans). You can watch live at 4pm ET here. Archived there too!

* Muslims and parking

* No turkeys in NYC

* Matt to the mothership

* Austin Fifdom

* Kmele and a Complete Unknown

* Our paranoid times

* No MAGA, no paranoia?

* When you’ve lo…

* FYI: If you want to join the Zoom for March 27 episode of The Moynihan Report at 4pm ET, use this link

* The Legend of Gavin and Charlie

* Bob in Tulsa

* Moyn in Miami

* The bumbling Signal Boyz

* We hope our kids never lie like this

* Defund NPR

* Another 25% will save American industry

* Remember the minerals deal?

* The jury on whether we should execute the judiciary

* Car swastikas

* And much, much more!

* Live tweeting history

* The importance of Jack

* The “climate of hate”

* Some of these goofballs are normal

* RIP Manny

* The fake ceasefire

* If only were weren’t a democracy…

* Back to Gaza

* Civil liberties, due process, and magicians

* And a bunch more….

* The golden age of Oaktown’s 357 ("I just put Juicy, Got Him Crazy into Chat GPT to determine what it's about and it is definitely a song about...."

* Yes, we briefly talk about forgotten about rappers and their dumb lyrics

* Pumps and the Bump

* Grok has this to say about our Hammer convo: “The casual acceptance of MC Hammer’s Speedo situation is absurdly funny.”

A rebroadcast of our last subscriber-only Second Sunday episode. Thomas Chatterton Williams stops by. Everyone’s in the same room. Many bottles are emptied. Many offensive jokes told. Many careers destroyed. Enjoy.

* The one Jew she likes

* The amateur crank historian

* The cranks always end at…take a guess

* Kmele isn’t interested in Ms. Macron’s dong

* Show we draw some distinctions?

* Congrats to the Buchananites

* The weirdness of Gavin Newsom’s podcast

* On Bannon

* On Columbia, the first amendment, masks, and dangerous idiots

* The Ukraine non-deal

* And much, much more

I was very moved by friend & past guest Jeff Blehar’s Covid anniversary piece, so … I just read it out loud. And added related commentary for paying subscribers. Some links alluded to therein, in rough order of reference:

* Reason Roundtable Covid look-back

* Related Twitter thread

* “The Great COVID Rupture: Three years after ‘15 days to slow the spread,’…

* A very long SOTU

* Al Green meets Buju Banton, Tripadvisor objects

* The most beautiful, terrifying word in the English language

* The “deficit” you shouldn’t care about

* The forgotten Foxconn boondoggle

* The hopeless Democrats

* Maybe look at, say, Dean Phillips and ignore the Squad

* Asian finger cuffs

* Two cheers for parliamentary democracy

* Poor lil’ Marco

* Who killed Gene Hackman’s dog?