The Fifth Column Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch

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* Imagine if Bill Cosby was an Islamophobic dog
* Cringefest in the Bronx
* Jamal and AOC
* Sleeve rolled up, stool in hand, unemployment on the horizon
* AIPAC is everywhere!
* Violent psycho extremists for peace
* The war won’t end until Jake Tapper’s kids are properly harassed
* Shift back to the center, Dems
* Laying hands on homeless people
* Homeopathy is fake, btw
* Geniuses …

After a very brief hiatus—apologies, but all is explained in the first five minutes of this episode—the lads are back. And there will be a flood of new content in the coming days, to make up for our testicular tardiness (also explained in the first five minutes of this episode). Also note: this episode was plagued by technical difficulties, but we hope, through the magic of editing, that you won’t notice.
* The procedure
* The politicization of late night continues apace
* This is our territory
* Alt weeklies that weren’t alt
* Trump’s long “All In” interview
* Could the debate move voters?
* Don’t pretend to be working class
* Louisiana and the Ten Commandments
* Actually, covet your neighbors wife
* Tell us about your culture: “Diet Coke and Starbucks and Dunkin’s”
* Who did MM see at dinner?
* Happy Juneteenth?



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* Getting Drudged
* Getting the spray
* This new color isn’t working
* Olivia amongst the Hamasniks in Union Square
* Tearing up notebooks, airhorns in the ear…stuck in the middle of a protest
* Hey hey ho ho shitty chants have got to go
* Did any journalists reach out?
* What if this was a Trump rally?
* Legally blonde
* You’ll be in a Trump camp
* “Racial conspiracy theories”
* I mean, you gotta understand where they’re coming from…


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* Some unpopular opinions
* Raise your hand if you’ve ever lied to the government
* Fetterman and Real Time
* Are you *addicted* to Marijuana???
* Who are the victims here?
* Excessive sentencing is bad, even for bad people
* Victims: Alex Jones? Hunter Biden? DJT???
* Biden is totally fine and thinking otherwise is the end of democracy
* Joe Scarborough is the worst
* Let’s all pretend that everything is normal, ok?
* Scarborough casually defames two journalists
* Washington Post loses a trillion dollars, hires more whites
* The WNBA reality show
* I knew James Baldwin. Baldwin was a friend of mine. And you, Ibram, are no James Baldwin


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* No matter what it is or who commenced it…
* MAGA Hawaii
* Inflatable gallows
* The eye of the horrible Stormy
* It’s a bird! It’s a Qassam! No…it’s the Blonde Zionist!
* Dronez: The Hunt for El Chigon
* Listener email: Working class kid makes good. Will his kids go soft?
* Your kids want to be rich
* Back in my day…..
* Bad IRA comparisons from supposedly smart people
* Jerry Sein…

A double-album worth of great content this week. Start off with Moynihan talking to Matt and Kmele about his Free Press piece charting the collapse of Vice and him forthcoming piece charting the collapse of the Black Panther Party. Then the lads chat about the weirdness of the New York Trump trial, Israel in Rafah, and lots more. And stick around for Kmele’s conversation with the Lennon-McCartney, the Lieber and Stoller of podcasts, Matt Boll and Andy Mills, the duo who brought you The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, among other modern audio classics. They’re back with a new series called Reflector, a “show about the strange experience of being human.” We don’t know *exactly* what that means, but we absolutely guarantee that it will be a work of unparalleled brilliance. Check out episode one here.


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