• The Revolutionaries (w/ Bill Schulz) - #3
    Jan 30 2026
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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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    12 mins
  • Enthusiastic Armadas, Armenian Bakeries, Ye’s Apology Ad - #542
    Jan 29 2026

    -The NYC Rolling Hobo Express

    -An Enthusiastic Armada Full of Speed and Violence

    -Iranian Death Toll Discourse and Roger Waters Still Sucks

    -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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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • TACO Tuesday in Minneapolis and the Fall of the Short King Cop
    Jan 27 2026
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    -A huge TACO Tuesday

    -Survival of the Spineless

    -Low-level insurgency infrastructure

    -Astroturf panic and the suspicious run to Walgreens

    -The problem with punching Nazis

    -Walz and Trump finally talk

    -Fuck you, Ted

    -The Great American Slur Revival

    -Short king Bovino and the self-inflicted smoke bomb

    -Democracy Dies in Payroll

    -World’s Biggest Russophobe Longs for…

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    16 mins
  • One Hitter: Another ICE Shooting In Minneapolis with Peter Moskos (Members Only #297)
    Jan 24 2026
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    One topic in the news. One quick podcast on that single topic (rather than just texting each other about how certain media figures are vulgar, stupid, and morally depraved). Welcome back to the Fifth Column One Hitter!

    In the hours after ICE shot and killed Alex Pretti, we gathered at the studio to sit down with Peter Moskos: former police officer, current John Jay…

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    17 mins
  • Trump Would Do Anything For Greenland (But He Won't Do That) - #541
    Jan 22 2026

    •Don Does Davos•I Would Do Anything for Greenland (But I Won’t Do That)•Even MAGA Thought the Norway Text Was Fake News•The Danes’ Historical Resistance to Fascism•A Lament for the Belgian Congo•Cutting a Greenland Cake, and the Epidemic of Stupidity•Who the Fuck Is “We”?•Congress Could Do Something That Isn’t Impeachment•Shame Doesn’t Work•Past the Point of Passivity•Punching a Transtifa Baby•Macron and Those Beautiful Sunglasses•Carney Invokes Václav Havel: Rupture, Not Transition•Middle Powers, Beta Powers•Soleimani in Iceland•China Is Asshole•The Man Is Fucking Old and Loves His Prizes•Breaking: Strange Victory, Strange Defeat•Letter Bag: Minneapolis•Get Out of the Fucking Churches•The Abbott & Costello Theory of Government

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    1 hr and 48 mins
  • Football, Billy Joel, Van Halen, and the Fact-Checkable Life (w/ Chuck Klosterman) - Members Only #296
    Jan 20 2026
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    Chuck Klosterman’s new book, Football is out now! (See also The Nineties, and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs)

    -The music-doc cinematic universe, featuring Billy Joel and Japanese Jimmy Page

    -Moynihan missed the Morrissey cover-band boat

    -How to actually say Klosterman

    -From pop culture to America’s most popular TV show

    -It had to be football: the one exception …

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    21 mins
  • The Revolutionaries (w/ Jack Henneman) - #2
    Jan 16 2026
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    Two hundred and fifty years ago this very day, a gallant-strolling cat named George Washington convened in Cambridge about as high a level Patriot meeting as you could muster: John Adams, two major generals, five brigadier generals, and arguably the most connected man among the Boston rebels, Joseph Warren. There, the commander in chief persuaded his Wa…

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    15 mins
  • How Much Benevolence Can You Take? - #540
    Jan 15 2026

    -Good Movies We’ve Never Seen

    -Raw Dog Minerals

    -Moynihan Responds to a Cunty Troll

    -The Reckoning We Didn’t Have

    -Renee Good, a Week Removed

    -These People Have No Constitutional Knowledge

    -The MST3K of ICE Videos

    -The Sanctuary City Devaluation

    -Iranian Violence Spectacle and thoroughly verifying the dead

    -Weaponized DOJ: Now Featuring Powell and a Reporter Raid

    -The Walter Cronkite of This Generation

    -Low-Bar Journalism

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    1 hr and 48 mins