The Fifth Column

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Rather than our typical bullet-pointed show notes, we'll keep this one short and sweet. Because try as they might to pull the conversation away from Kmele's bravura performance on Real Time with Bill Maher, the lads just couldn't manage it. Although they do respond to a listener email about the Pet Shop Boys...and Kmele does says the word kerfluffle.

That is all. 

Enjoy.

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• Is Melania the greatest first lady since Florence Harding?
• Does MC Hammer hate Kmele?
• Let the sycophancy begin!
• Qanonsense
• Understanding the Trump voter
• We're all weird and wrong
• The new Republican Party is awful. So is the new Democratic Party.
• The dumb 1776 project: "It's like Stephen Miller pooped on a legal pad"
• Hating big tech
• How not to combat bad speed

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Guest: Anna Khachiyan @ "Red Scare" (Co-Host)

• Kinda Canceled
• Holding the Mic
• Outrage Boner
• Dirtbags
• Tight Sweaters, Tighter Shirts
• Mo' Impeachments
• The MAGA Riots
• Culpability
• Cultural Amnesia, Sweetest Taboos
• Canceling Trump
• Canceling the Rest of Yall?

Recorded Jan 13t, 2020

Published Jan 14th, 2020

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Welcome to 2021

• A Coup d'état? An Insurrection?
• A dark beginning? A despicable bookend? A world of shit?
• We'll get to that -- but we're gonna need a lot more booze.

Recorded Jan 6th, 2021

Published Jan 7th, 2021

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- Kmele 2020

- AllyShip

- Secret Shows

- The Internet Never Forgets

- Trap Lord

- Burning the Witch (and maybe that annoying lady from down the street too)

- Puritanism Without The Fun

- Schadenfreude

- Inconveniencing the Steal

- Eviscerating Democracy (w/ Hyperbole)

- Stop Laughing -- It's Not Funny

- Thank You

Recorded Dec 30th, 2020

Published Dec 31st, 2020

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Guest: Greg Lukianoff @ Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (President). Co-Author, "The Coddling of the American Mind"

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Recorded Dec 23rd, 2020

Published Dec 25th, 2020

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• New Views
• Demographic Considerations
• What Seems to Be The Problem Officer?
• The Honorable Minister
• Vaccine Rollout
• Careful Reporting
• Post Trump News Cycle
• The Flagrancy
• Predicting Apocalypse

Recorded Dec 17th, 2020

Published Dec 19th, 2020

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Look, you asked for it. Fifth fan favorite (ed - we really don't understand you people) and Mother Jones editorial director Ben Dreyfuss (né Gould) is back. And the results are wonderfully shambolic. But seriously: make sure the kids are in bed before press play....

• Ben is "on leave" from Mother Jones
• Why Ben's editor blocked him on Twitter (and you should too)
• No ice in Hawaii, no avocados in Wisconsin
• The worst movie Ben's dad ever made (Or was it the best?)
• Why everyone in DC hates Facebook
• Why people read dumb articles on Facebook
• Ben starts a Substack. Obviously.
• What Ben learned about Donald Trump in the suicide ward
• Manipulating people on the internet
• And so much more...

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"The Toad style is immensely strong, and immune to nearly any weapon. When it's properly used, it's almost invincible." - Five Deadly Venoms

• Way Out Of Line
• The Incredible Asshole Machine
• Related Controversy
• A Stolen*** Election
• Obama 💘 Cops
• Welcome to Murderapolis
• A Civil War, A Tent Revival
• Han Obviously Shot First (Probably Doesn't Matter)
• Bothsidesing: Maybe Not a Bad Idea
• Revivalist vs Redistributionist
• American Pie

Recorded Dec 3nd, 2020

Published Dec 4th, 2020

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An issue with the mics. An inspired fix. A nearly aborted dispatch manages to slide into your feed just in time for the stranges Thanksgiving in decades.

• A Rolling Start
• When Moynihan Met Oprah
• Coup d'é HAHAHAHAHA
• "I Told You"
• Salvaging the Culture
• Crisis of Authority
• Covid Masks
• Murder Rates
• Generational Divides
• Calling it Quits
• It's A Job, Ain't It?

Recorded Nov 24th, 2020

Published Nov 26th, 2020

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