The Fifth Column

* Note to Ben Shapiro: not sure Candace Owens is a big fan of the Jews

* A sick little girl needs Bruins v. Rangers tickets. I mean…sort of. She recently had Covid…

* When life gives you Lemon, fire him because he’s a terrible interviewer

* How not to do an interview

* Depression and ketamine

* The Jamaican national anthem

* The chocolate balls of Sweden (again)

* Remembering Milo

* A friend emails about Trump and democracy

* Guys, pay attention to the actual bad stuff Trump has said

* A wager on Biden’s path forward

* Norm the Nosy Neighbor

* A terrible coinage

* Did Moynihan kick off this idiocy? Probably!

* Why did we “amplify” a popular internet documentary that we didn’t like?

* We should have disliked the thing we already disliked even more

* Getting clicks is always more important than adhering to the unwritten colleague code

* The only was to redeem for insufficient dislike of…

* Too much toilet paper

* A subway shooting in Brooklyn

* BTW, dude isn’t dead

* Mike Tyson might kill that YouTube guy with the dumb earrings

* On banning Tik Tok

* Texans have no porn

* Who will win the Russian elections????

* Anti-Italian cable descramblers and freaky phones

* Malaysian monitors Russian election from basement apartment in Malaysia

* That’s not what democracy looks like

* A Fani update

* Repent for not disliking it enough

* How the Fifth Column helped destroy Josh’s public radio career

* People who started on “our side” but went around the bend…

* Consistency, people

* The shrinking of acceptable American opinion

* Sure, we all have our own biases…but…

* Echo chambers and media fragmentation

* Right wing “cancel culture”

* Florida cancels DEI departments. Good or bad?

* MSNBC panel: “Immigrants in Virginia? LOL!”

* “And btw, crime isn’t real”

The Uncomfortable Conversations Substack (and new YouTube channel)

* Birthdays was the worst days, now Coen drinks champagne when he’s thirstay

* Stolen packages

* 9-0…but not really

* Disaster for democracy!

* We’re worried about Keith Olbermann

* Disastrous polls for Ol’ Joe

* The RAGE and the pride

* As always, Trump is raising money

* Keith is crying piss

* A bizarro time machine

* Some dating advice for (MAGA?) Mary

* The worst Scouse accent ever

* Blackfishing 

* Trump and Tish

* Lawyers and lawfare

* A lunatic DEI artifact from…that company

* Congress’s Venceremos Brigade

* The immigrant song

* The lads disagree…

* With burning concern

* Fetterman, Mitch, Biden, Tucker again

* Matt Remke getting worked

* And so much more!

* Back to New York

* Subways and free markets

* Milei pisses on mercantilism, MAGA types don’t notice

* The Foxconn con

* The rise and fall of Vice

* No one talks about the content…they should

* Funny, QAnon all the time doesn’t make money

* Shane Gillis om SNL

* Nora Dunn and Dice

* The people will always decide

* A very specific digression on Kansas City. Sorry.

* Revisiting that …

Matt calls in from a murder motel in Southern California that doesn’t really have wifi. He saves a few bucks. Kmele and Moynihan do the heavy lift. Everybody wins. A few topics discussed:

* Houthi bodegas

* Industrial policy schizophrenia

* Will Kmele join the “back to Africa” movement?

* Ujamma and Nyerere’s stash

* The Fighting Sullivans (and no, the youngest wasn’…

* The Fani Willis train wreck

* Daddy and the sacks of cash

* $9,999

* Russian McDonalds is so good that Tucker doesn’t care about freedom of the press

* The political pilgrim

* The murder of Alexei Navalny

* A wave of whataboutism

* Are your 19 year old daughters about to be drafted to fight in Gaza?

* Time to retreat from the world?

* OpenAI videos are sort of terrifying

* Free Rachel Dolezal Kwame Nkrumah

Kmele gets an Apple Vision Thing because of he course he does. And he wears it the whole episode because of course he does. It’s a racist product, btw. And Bobby Jr’s Super Bowl ad was good. And Matt likes Usher, it seems. And certain conservatives like visiting and praising dirtbag dictatorships. And in case you hadn’t noticed, Joe Biden thinks it’s 19…