The Fifth Column

• A Covid Christmas
• A Merry Kwanzaa
• Before you eulogize the dead, I have stupid tweet you should consider
• Matt sort of emptywheels Harry Reid
• Planes, Trains, and superspreader events
• Yes, there are no tests
• The usual Covid frustrations
• The Webb Hubbell telescope
• The Memorial shutdown
• The non-historians lecture us on history
• Destroy the idols of Americanism
• What on Earth is the Flatbush Remonstrance?

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Back for his third (we think?) visit, the scourge of crackpots and charlatans, America's greatest ginger, and our favorite congressman...Rep. Peter Meijer!

• Look, it's not a great time for the Republican Party
• Unity! Now get the fuck out
• What Rep, Meijer wrong about January 6th
• Dear Congress: gimme some truth about January 6th
• Why Nancy Pelosi wanted impeachment to fail
• To get out of an anti-democratic moment, we must have even less democracy
• "You voted to impeach and your career has been weird ever since" - Matt Welch
• Was that terrorism? Or just a bunch of delusional losers
• Is the insurrection investigation the job of congress or...historians?
• He's "fucking furious"
• Exit question to Rep. Meijer: What say you about Julian Assange?
• "Just find out about the UFOs" - Kmele Foster
• An hour of post-Meijer postgame
• A mask for Dmitrios: remembering Kmele's trip to Greece
• Pack the court! / Kmele's insane Elizabeth Warren impression
• Unlike most rich people, Elon acts like a rich person
• Merry Christmas, wokeness is over (if DeSantis wants it)

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Jussie Smollett's years-long legal drama careening toward its conclusion. New York City enacts the countries most expansive (and ill-conceived) COVID restrictions. While the Biden Administration sends diplomatic shots at Xi in China and navigates an increasingly tumultuous situation with Putin in Russia.

• Kmele's New York State of Mind
• Creep Show
• Playin' Journalist
• Diplomatic Games + Human Rights
• Blaming Everything on NATO (and Biden)
• Russia Hawks
• No Justice for Jussie
• Elite Lives Matter
• Yoko/Lennon
• McLaughlin Psychic Friends Network

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Joining us for his third appearance on the Fifth, one of the sexiest men on planet Earth, the man with his own cam, the smartest and least partisan person on cable news...Massachusetts's own Steve Kornacki!

• Thank you North Dakota roughnecks
• The dust clears in VA and NJ...and Kornacki tells us what it all means
• Will the Republican Party divorce Trump?
• Voters, crime, and culture wars
• Remember when Alan Keyes was MAKING SENSE???
• How much power does the progressive caucus *really* have?
• Massachusetts Steve is obsessed with Mike Dukakis
• Biden, polling, and the Afghanistan debacle
• Partisanship and the history of cable news
• We know little, but Waukesha already proves so much
• Quiet Steve Kornacki....is one of the good ones
• And so, so, so much more!

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w/ Jonathan Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law @ Case Western Reserve University

- Three Stacks

- Kanye ♥️ Drake

- Steve Bannon's Day in Court

- Google That

- Hurry Up, Charge Him!

- Black Panthers, Communist and MAGA Corps (Oh, My)

- Seeing What We Want

- Rittenhouse Rorschach

- (Still More) Media Malpractice

Recorded: November 17th, 2021

Published: November 19th, 2021

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• Way Too Sexy
• Crypto Art
• Miss Universe (Can Get It)
• Fifth Coin
• "A Bad Gal Dat"
• Palliative Journalism
• Virginia is for Hustlers
• The Trouble w/ Complicated
• Was Rufo Right? (No)
• We're Very Sorry (But We Keepin Your Stuff)
• Map Makers + Freak Shows

Recorded: 11/5/21

Published: 11/7/21

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w/ Zaid Jilani, former reporter at The Intercept and current substacker (inquiremore.com)

• Kmele, missing in a mudslide?
• Zaid, the most left-wing staffer at the Center for American Progress
• Cable news is horrible / Jeff Toobin slays white supremacy
• School board chaos in Virginia
• Creating wee lil' apparatchiks
• Why do we care about the stupid VA governor's race?
• Words don't mean anything anymore, part 322
• We are all India-Pakistan now
• The steady hand in DC is trembling
• Dumb Republicans still have no economic program
• Dear lord, she's wearing a vest!
• The collapsing Biden economic agenda
• Is Kyrsten Sinema a bad politician? Bad dresser? Bad bisexual?
• Matt discovers his white privilege (and he likes it)

Recorded: 10/28/21

Posted: 10/28/21

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w/ Ethan Strauss, (HNIC @ "House of Strauss" / Substack)

• Enemy of the Syntax
• Ethiopian Royalty
• Breaking the Fourth Wall
• Leaving the Athletic
• Not Just for Sports Fans
• Breaking for Black Bodies
• NBA Vax Mandates
• Obama Decides to Be Black
• "Racist" Emails
• Moynihan's First Job
• Double 0' Sistas
• Jokes that Kill (But Not Actually)

Recorded: 10/16/21

Published: 10/14/21

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w/ Robby Soave, (Senior Editor @ Reason - Author, "Tech Panic")

• Oral Surgery
• Buying Robby's Book
• How Facebook (Isn't) Destroying The World
• Incompetent + ill-informed
• Please, Think of The Teenagers
• A Vintage Moral Panic
• Mark Zuckerberg's Body Count
• Victims + Victors
• Messy Speech
• When Google Becomes Microsoft
• 26 Words (That Created the Internet)
• About That FBI Memo
• The Darkest Day in American History
• The Great Culture War Vortex
• Americas' Dumbest Holiday

Recorded: 10/6/21

Published: 10/10/21

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w/ Katie Herzog, Host @ "Blocked and Reported"

• Stay in Your Hood
• So Many Sources
• Dog Run Confidential
• What Emma Knew
• Katie's Nightmare
• How Did You Get This Number
• Cool Off
• Denzel Was Drinking
• More Shaft
• Very Heavily Redacted
• Even More Heavily Redacted
• Two Spirits
• Wizard of Ozy

Recorded: 9/30/21

Published: 10/2/21

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