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

* Ozempic Joe
* The Juice has expired
* Revisiting the “Trial of the Century”
* The double murderer who “abandoned his race”
* In defense of Marcia Clark
* Dementia dads
* Matt Lauer emerges
* Nutty MTG, drunky Boebert
* Arizona abortions
* Operation Bubble Wrap
* Poor guy in a ski mask shoots at cops
* Group condemnations and the “IDW”



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* Kid rapping
* Saturday Night Fever is dark, dark movie
* Girl dadding
* Anti-communist manifestos
* On Andrew and Israel
* Big bombs in Iraq: not so fast, Andrew!
* The normalization of extremism
* Don’t be Paul Robeson
* What it means to be “anti-war’
* Dehamasification
* A bachelor party in NY
* And much more!

Third time’s even more charming! Andrew “Cheech” Sullivan is back, puffing away and ruminating on Israel, Iraq, conservatives, the trans movement, loud music from bluetooth speakers, the awfulness of Trump (who won’t be a dictator, btw), the resilience of American democracy, the resounding victories of the gay rights movement, and the general boringness of identity.


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Last month’s “Second Sunday” broadcast was fun, boozy, and…almost lost. We won’t point any fingers—though they might be jabbed in the direction of a certain someone during the recording—but through a Peter Jackson-like audio excavation, it was saved. Was that a good thing? Errr…who knows. And so, with a few nips and tucks, here she is! And we’ll be back…

The title says it all. The three lads were together, in the same studio, for the second time in as many months. And it’s possible that the start of this particular episode was, for whatever reason, a bit chaotic. But as we settle in with our friend novelist and journalist Kat Rosenfield, we ultimately managed to discuss a few things like…
* Kat’s cancellation story
* Her great New York mag piece from 2017
* Wait, what is sex trafficking?
* Did Kat steal a sled from a kid? Or is that kid a filthy liar?
* Revisiting Christine Blasey Ford
* Firing or cancelling?
* The sacking of Rona Romney McDaniel…Romney
* The Trump bible
* Kat is meh on Cormac McCarthy
* And much, much more


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* Note to Ben Shapiro: not sure Candace Owens is a big fan of the Jews
* A sick little girl needs Bruins v. Rangers tickets. I mean…sort of. She recently had Covid…
* When life gives you Lemon, fire him because he’s a terrible interviewer
* How not to do an interview
* Depression and ketamine
* The Jamaican national anthem
* The chocolate balls of Sweden (again)
* Remembering Milo
* A friend emails about Trump and democracy
* Guys, pay attention to the actual bad stuff Trump has said
* A wager on Biden’s path forward


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