The Fifth Column

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-A Democratic consultant defending Fox News out of the gate
-Was Mike Lindell ever really a crackhead?
-Ladies and gentlemen, the new White House press secretary, Katie Zachariah
-Did we fuck Scott Jennings?
-How does a WH press secretary actually prepare?
-Kimberly Guilfoyle’s $100,000 AmEx problem
-James Talarico’s imaginary stay in an Ohio psych ward
-the art of standing out among 435 members of Congress
-Abdul El-Sayed vs Mike Rogers in Michigan
-Jon Ossoff and the case for normal Democrats
-JD Vance’s interesting definition of socialism
-Midterm Madness on Zachariah, Alaska, and Michigan
-Trump gets it right on data centers. Until he doesn’t.
-Brian Kilmeade stands up for Ukraine against Rachel Compost Duffy
-Come watch us live in Connecticut!
-What exactly is Third Way?
-Yemisi’s heresies on crime and climate
-Immigration and the Jamaican-Nigerian experience
-Kmele and the Blacks of Connecticut
-Where is the Democratic Party headed, and how much does the DSA matter?
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“There are no ordinary lives and everyone has a story”
-Sam Roberts’ father takes him to see the Rosenbergs’ funeral
-Fifty years in journalism and an unexpected career writing obituaries
-Anna Nicole Smith and the brutality of British obituaries
-Charlie Rangel’s complicated legacy
-Who deserves a New York Times obituary?
-Writing Rudy Giuliani’s obituary b…

Did we mention we’re nominated…did you vote yet? If not, what in the actual fuck is your problem?
-all the bad words are here
-come to Fairfield on November 12th! (https://quickcenter.fairfield.edu/2026-27-season-calendar/lectures/the-fifth-column-podcast.html)
-Trump in Nebraska….always a good sign for Republicans
-Anal sex, picnics, breakfast in bed, lobster
-Europe is melting! (still)
-who will replace Macron?
-France’s immigration problem
-Sweden discovers gun crime
-America, the assimilation machine
-meritocracy is fucking fantastic
-questions are bad when ethnicities are in front of them
-Vivek, the big guy and the worst swing in baseball
-Midterm Madness where candidate quality counts
-if you had to arrest one person at the New York Times…
-MAGA-curious CBS boss and The Daily Beast
-Theo Von discovers socialism
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Marshall spent 25 years covering oil and gas at Raymond James before retiring this week. He joins the guys to explain what’s actually driving prices higher, why diesel matters more than most people realize, and how war, refinery outages, and shrinking reserves have left the global energy market with very little room for error.
Also, is Marshall the real

…and Moynihan discusses Harvard’s artist in residence. Also, we’ve been nominated for something! vote for us in for the Signal Awards!
-Kmele’s Cross-Country Trail of Tears
-Trump Praises the Latinos
-Yukon Cornelius and the Bumble
-Coming Soon: Jason’s Weird Fetishes
-Trump Talks to Time
-The Weave We Go
-No Fatties, No Trannies, No Weirdos
-It’s Worse Because It’s Worse
-Saving Western Civilization, One Taxpayer-Funded Ad at a Time
-Sen. Eric Schmitt’s Awesome Week
-The Indian Question
-Roxane Gay, Harvard Medical School Artist in Residence
-Midterm Madness: New Hampshire, Michigan, Ohio and L.A.
-How Not to Hijack an Israeli Plane
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