The Fifth Column

He has spent a lifetime around fame, a heroic father, football mythology, and old Hollywood… and somehow still comes off like the calmest guy in the room.

-Steve McQueen and a Mini Cooper

-what Carl Reiner was really like, and why Summer School still rules

-growing up with Tom Harmon: Heisman winner, broadcaster, fighter pilot, legend

-the war story Mark on…

-Where have ye gone Chris Matthews?

-California’s governor race is a freak show (Fang Fang rides again)

-Bring Kevin Spacey to the table?

-Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, and different standards

-The anti-gambling jihad

-Talks about talks about talks

-The good ‘ole days of Lebanon, Libya, Valerie Plame, Bob Novak

-Dr. Jesus

-Trump versus the Pope

-From melting pot to…

Sarah Isgur, Executive Editor of SCOTUSblog, has a book! Last Branch Standing is out today.

-The Ted Lasso version of the Supreme Court

-The Supreme Court is not the 6-3 cartoon people think it is

-RBG thought Roe was built on weak foundations

-The Court decides legal questions, not good policy vs. bad policy

-Congress is now mostly bookers, comms staff, and 535 Inst…

-The wrong Greenwald, but the actual Abe

-Everyone loves our ad spots

-Iran’s deranged peace menu

-Ceasefire, with extra missiles

-The joint Hormuz tollbooth fantasy

-What Iran lost, even if nobody can sell it

-Regime change, but not the fun version

-Vanceworld (probably) leaks to the Times

-Trump threatens apocalypse, then shrugs

-Pakistan, Vance, and easier marks

-Groypers and other forms of loser energy

-The anti-Jewish right stops pretending

-Sovereignty for me, not for thee

-When the right starts sounding like the left

-Israel’s image problem, and America’s deeper one

-RFK Jr. enters the podcast economy

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BEHOLD, the Mailbag (aka male-bagging, aka you-yell-at-us-and-we-tell-you-to-fuck-off)

-The Easter Bunny claps for the Iran rescue

-Lie long enough and eventually your conscience taps out

-about that Rahm moment

-who remembers Jazz Hands?

-maybe woke actually is over

-Bret Weinstein, vindication for the Evergreen psychos

-Helen Keller and her commie ventriloqu…

The Fifth Column marks ten years with a live, loose, alcohol-assisted celebration featuring Thor Halvorssen, Pete Meijer, Olivia Reingold, Nick Gillespie, and Nancy Rommelmann, with stops along the way for Venezuela, culture war absurdity, Jewish identity, sexual politics, old stories, new grievances, and the usual refusal to keep anything on the rails.

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Oh, and Wednesday marks the 10th anniversary of this show, yes, on April Fools’. Can you fucking believe it? Join us for the only appropriate celebration, a LIVE late-night shitfest of alcohol, probable technical mishaps, and some very special guests.

-Theodore Henken, plantanified yuma

-Why America still can’t quit Cuba

-Cuba and the full moon were made f…

* Maybe I wasn’t exactly a prince

* Why nobody should want to stay in Washington too long

* The worst job in politics

* The ACA, “the three children,” and the birth of the Tea Party

* The Great Recession and losing your ticket to the American dream

* Trump didn’t invent the anger, he captured it

* The no-drinking-until-the-mics-are-off rule

* In the Oval Office, the choice is…

Kmele loves Apple products…maybe a little too much. But what a perfect guest to talk all things related to this monster company and how it’s shaped American culture and the globe as a whole.

-The Newton saved Apple

-What Kmele does with Apple products in the shower

-The underdog with taste

-Why Matt Welch hates Macs

-On getting access to Apple

-Project Titan and the $10 billion heartbreak

-Apple as a medical device company

-Still a Steve Jobs disciple of focus

-Apple made China and China made Apple

-Where there is no will, there’s a way

-New locations for Apple manufacturing

-On the fantasy of bringing it back to the US

-Apple Intelligence, deepfakes, and doing AI the “right” way

-All it takes is a Congressperson having sex with a sheep

-Anthropic, cheating, and the possible jobs apocalypse

-The long runway

Read Apple: The First 50 Years by David Pogue (Bookshop | Amazon)

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-Celine Dion, slightly less stiff

-Every headline out of Hungary is insane

-The Orbán character arc

-The Polish miracle

-Conservative 2Pac in the Borat republic

-Cuba is falling apart, Hasan Piker is thriving

-Cuba’s healthcare miracle, minus aspirin

-Why pseudo-intellectuals love communist field trips

-The pig whose vocal cords had to go

-Trump’s zigzagging is …