The Fifth Column

-John Bolton, Olympic Curling Hawk
-Arguing with the 60s Since 1970
-I’m kind of a Libertarian (Minus the Defense Part)
-Iraq was actually kind of perfect
-Federalist Papers as Foreign Aid (or maybe porn would suffice)
-The Arab Spring Brain-Break
-Afghanistan is Not Exactly a Nation
-Regime Change, Case-by-Case
-The Forward Defense of New Jersey
-Ukraine and the Gray Zone Trap
-The Nuclear Press Release
-Tucker Carlson wants you to be scared of this man
-Trump’s Real Estate Foreign Policy
-The Face of the Regime in Venezuela
-The President’s Retribution…. and how worried should the Ambassador be right now?
-Who Will Take Him Down First?
-Tulsi Gabbard’s Intelligence Clown Show
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-The Invertebrate Caucus
-The New Tax Party
-Ruby Ridge and Waco Redux
-The Last Man Standing
-The Crypto Appearance Problem
-Government as a Mob Vig
-The Fairness Trap
-The Colombia Save, or how Rand prevented a military escalation by sending a quick text message to the President.
-Epstein Transparency Collateral
-Is Trump still “the best president of his lifet…

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A deeply serious and important conversation over some listener-provided Scotch about the Super Bowl halftime show(s), the death of ad copywriting, dunking in the WNBA, pond skating, and the other Moynihan Report.
•Oh good, Kmele started drinking early
•About that game…
•The horrible stereotypes in that halftime show
•He bangs
•The Canadian caravan
•Malfunctio…

John Avlon stops by only to learn he’s also in the Epstein files, why the Daily Beast should’ve sold dick pills, and why we need to rebuild guardrails on what some call “stolen land”
* Where John is surprised to learn he’s in the Epstein files and suddenly remembers he has plans not to be here
* The Ceaușescu of Long Beach
* Moynihan actually voted for this guy!
* Georgia, the FBI, and the Trump 2.0 purity test industrial complex
* Asking for a friend who keeps wondering, “are US elections legit?”
* This is not a libertarian podcast
* The original sin is hyperpolarization
* Tucker at CPAC, the heretic hunters, and the sound of the crowd turning
* Give the left/right base what it wants and watch your incentives rot
* We should have sold dick pills at The Daily Beast and funded a small country
* The hell with the guardrails, we want our conspiracies god dammit!
* Oral culture wins, written culture loses, and the Washington Post dims the lights
* How can we do this podcast “on stolen land?”
* What happened to Rudy Giuliani?
* The Traveling Wilburys of Government
* Asymmetric polarization and why the crazies are not equally distributed
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• Moynihan and Welch are in the Epstein files
• A very indiscriminate and humiliating dump
• Bannon & Epstein
• Black boxes over kids, and the express train to Satanic Panic
• Embarrassment is no reason
• Moynihan’s Melania Review
• Billie Jean is not my brother, but Jimmy Carter is my mother
• That’s an awfully small ring to kiss for such a wealthy man
• Move …