The Fifth Column

A rebroadcast

* Military propaganda for the kidz!

* Jewish Columbus

* A new history of communism

* The brainworm burrows in again

* The Italian

* Obama’s code switch

* There are meaningful differences between *these men*

* Polling problems

* The brothers Menendez

* Sarah, live from Folsom

* Chomsky’s Cuba book

* Are there still meaningful policy differences between the two major partie…

* Yes, Michael J. Fox actually actually has Parkinson’s

* The MAGA hat incident

* We got a journalist around here…he’s asking a lot of questions

* Choppin’ it up with 60

* Young morons embrace violence

* German American Bund at MSG 2.0!

* Bob “Silent Coup” Woodward

* Look, he was actually unfairly treated

* Schultz interviews Trump

* It was Jeff Gerth, actually

* A tale of two natural disasters

* The natural disaster of a Kamala interview

* Running out the clock: “Frankly, I love the American people”

* Debate home run derby

* Moynihan’s Utne Reader piece for 2008. Welch on Katrina

* New media that we love. Or at least *like*

* A very brief baseball convo. Relax.

* Kid (and adult) anxiety

* Don’t kill on snek

* The science of Trump’s brain?

* The worst of all the excuses

* Oliver’s dad and the JJ Rule

* The Big Dance on OpenLibrary, btw

* Fatherhood songs

* Phones, kids, rabbit holes

* Pete Rose was the best…and the worst

* On Kris Kristofferson

* On Megyn and Moynihan

* The title is correct: everyone will hate something in this episode!

* Moynihan is dying?

* GPT as your GP

* Choc and Chiclet

* $$$ for TV

* J.D. says Trump won in 2020

* Jack Smith could have asked Moynihan

* You hate him. But not enough.

* A goomba union boss is going to choke America out

* Rich and “working class”

* Create jobs! End EZ-Pass!

* Remembering the execrable Harry Bridges

* Why is the government still mailing free Covid tests?

* (MM fact-checks himself)

* Lebanon and beyond

Kmele’s voice is craggy; Moynihan is on the precipice of illness; Hasan Nasrallah has been delivered to a fiery “paradise,” last seen with his hand up own skirt, desperate to locate 70-odd sexually inexperienced coreligionists.

Also:

* Pat’s “thugocracy”

* Hockey fights.

* Johnny Turkey

* Your legacy is one bad Twitter prediction

* Ranking the least badly governed…

* The return of the Boss POC

* The veep sits for an “interview”

* That’s all she had to do…

* Will Michael Cohen be assassinated?

* Not if he escapes the country (and his family)!

* The return of Tennessee

* 10 days in an uncomplicated land

* That conflict is just like all things I care about (except it’s nothing like the things I care about)

* Disassociating yourself from the freaks and terror supporters

* So we finally got to Diddy

* Sure, he’s a monster! But the Mann Act??

* When you think you’re right about everything

* Alternate episode title: Candace Owens Discovers a New Fact Every Day—This Time, She Didn’t Blame the Jews

* “The incentive for her is to be more mentally ill, because she seems to be doing quite well by losing her mind in public”

* It will be like leaving a 70’s cult

* Nude Africa has gone offline :(

* Nobel laureates …

Yet again, AI has done a bang-up of summarizing a Fifth Column episode, which mostly covers the insane economic policies of both idiot candidates and why members of Hezbollah are having their balls blown off.

But according to the half-sentient supercomputers, the lads discuss how “Melania Trump's new book is a focal point, with humorous commentary on its content and implications.” True enough. And also, there is apparently some conversation about how “evidence is often disregarded in political claims.” Well yes, that’s pretty much every segment on every episode. “The speakers critique the absurdity of political discourse and the influence of social media on public narratives.” Is it odd that the AI episode summary failed to note that Moynihan yet again makes fun of Sam Altman? Only as odd, we suspect, as Snowden not tweeting negative things about Putin…

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First: Our remote recording software uses AI to create text “soundbites” from every episode episode. They are best ignored. But this week, it came up with this: "Music is crazy."

"This is about Indians."

"I want to be black."

"You must have a white wife."

Yes, all of those important issues are discussed. But the conversation is mostly about the latest faile…

* This tattoo definitely wasn’t a horrible mistake

* Matt has dementia

* Pim Tool: tool of the FSB?

* The $400,000 plagiarist

* Brain “interference” vs. election “interference”

* Did Trump acknowledge that he lost in 2020?

* The childcare word salad

* Plastic straw journalistic DISGRACE

* Having principals versus having “a position”

* Dumb neo-Nazi realizes he’s been cheated

* More on the rise of junk history

* An overlooked bit of Tucker’s controversial interview

* Hitler was very, very, very evil. And the migration crisis came with many negative consequences for Europe. Both of the things can be true, you dopes!