The Fifth Column

We’re back with two episodes smashed into one! So if you have a spare two hours… First up, our friend Coleman Hughes returns for a one-on-one conversation with Kmele about his brand-new book The End of Race Politics, which you should buy immediately. Also: Coleman was on Bill Maher’s show on Friday, most of which is available on YouTube.

After an hour with Coleman, the full team is back for a few very uncomfortable conversations about a few very uncomfortable topics. Just listen and you’ll understand…

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A rebroadcast of Sunday’s live Zoom, available only to subscribers, of course. And this particular live event was only available to Never Fly Coach-tier subscribers. So you know what that means: If you’re not subscribed, maybe it’s time to pony up? And if you’re already a subscriber…remember that there are different tiers and that we can, in fact, quite…

* The point of a dagger

* The Messenger of death

* The billionaire model

* WE NEED SOME QUICK BITES

* The murder of James O’Keefe

* Horrible people, horrible ideas, great writing

* Requisite 2024 talk

* In (soft of) defense of Jon Stewart

* Cori Bush is the Whitney Houston of Congress

* LD on Simmons pod

* Jamaal Bowmen is the Philip Larkin of 9/11 (hmmmmmm)

* Yay for Aaron!

* And so much more!

* A black man on his toes

* MJ at the Apollo

* A “Compassionate” Traitor

* Ron Radosh’s review of the doc

* An entire life of lies

* And a list of actual commies in the government (Note from MM: When I say “married to Ethel Rosenberg,

* A shitty copy of Mission to Moscow

* Listeners and Redditors: you’re wrong about Trump and democracy

* The man vs. the movement / MAGA vs. po…

Oh dear. Watching the New Hampshire returns, the lads do a spot-on impression of the good old, liquor-soaked days of 2016 Fifth Column and get pretty deep in their cups…so yeah, sorry about this one.

* Trump wins

* Cutting from Trump’s dumb speech

* 20 percent for Dean Phillips

* This is, in fact, democracy

* No one says anything on cable news

* The speeches

* The overstatement machine

* Moralism doesn’t work

* A brave defense of Iran-backed Islamism

* A sort of drunken rant about hipster Houthis

* The New York Times on haaaazaaaaaa

* It all falls apart…something about Tipper Gore, Jello Biafra, and covering every election but the U.S. one

* Michael Winslow RIP?

* Joe Rogan would tear Kmele in half

* The cockfighting story that never was

* Some pretty pathetic fight stories

* That insane UK piano player video

* HHHHHHAMAAAAAAZZZ

* Chris on Kmele’s pejorative for the Irish

* The end of Ron

* It was always “inevitable”

* Back to the basement

* Voters and immigration: not that complicated

* You want European politics?

* Trump’…

* This time, we’re not going to hold back

* Destroying from the ladies tees

* I love with Doug

* More media implosions

* ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

* Democracy is over when my irrelevant newspaper folds

* Passover is too Jewish

* The uniqueness of the Holocaust

* Opinion mongers making calls about newsworthiness

* This era as history

* Whatchutalkinabout Fani Willis

* Ross Douthat and “Neocon Nikki”

In a rebroadcast of our latest Second Sunday, Tina Nguyen joins the lads again to discuss Substack, Andrew Yang, Kmele fighting another podcast host, James Bond, Tucker Carlson, Vietnamese immigrants, militias, and…the great Tom Vu. In case you’re unfamiliar with America’s greatest Vietnamese import, some of his greatest hits.

* The year of the ladies

* They’re pro-Houthi

* They’re Weebs

* The MAGA Diaries

* The diaspora politics of the Vietnamese

* MAGA Straussianism

* Tina and Tucker

* Tina and the militias

* Kmele and the Houthis

* It’s always World War Three

* Just say they went too far…

* NYT on Russia bombing hospitals

* Some Iowa thoughts

* Some brief thoughts on the fake Substack Nazi controversy

* Matt, swallowed by Los Alamos

* Jon Ronson’s new pod

* A terrible trailer, a pretentious movie

* Ringo Seal!!! Trump is “being persecuted”

* Head injuries that help

* Listen to that podcast, even if it’s terrible

* A hot plagiarist

* Substack and Nazis

* Chomsky and Jeffery

* Kmele’s new favorite football player

* And so much more!