The Fifth Column

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 …

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What if you’re just … born wrong? (No, I don’t mean the darling little girl to the right.)
You may know Bill Schulz through his years toiling as Greg Gutfeld’s “repulsive sidekick” on ye olde Fox News late-nite WTF show Red Eye (on which all of your co-hosts, and several of our guests, got some valuable reps back in the day). You may know Bill through hi…

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-The Donroe Doctrine and the Near Abroad Dodge
-Everyone’s Favorite Powder Keg
-A Norwegian, A Rat Bag, and a Lunatic
-A disgusting thing to say
-Noem’s Bellebolent Hypotheticals
-Stephen Miller’s Basement Lotions and the Little Rogaine Carpet
-Fingerers, Reach-Arounds, and Reaganite as a Slur
-Anne Cool-ter
-Fuck You Jonathan
-Mehmet Oz, P.I.
-Ye’s apology ad and the uncanny valley of writing
-One from the Mailbag
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