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w/ Glenn Greenwald Co-founding Editor @ The Intercept, Host @ "System Update"A once in a century pandemic is producing unique and daunting challenges to civil liberties around the world. What are the necessary compromises? Where are the non-negotiable red lines? And what are those mysterious bright lights people have been seeing in the night sky? (The last one is easy: visitors from another galaxy, here to share their advanced technology with us... for a price).ALSO:- Avoiding a Hot War w/ Red-China- COVID in Brazil- Reading the YouTube Comments- Logging Onto CompuServe to Own The Conservatives- A Kinder, Gentler Greenwald- Russia-Gate Revisited- Why FISA Was Always Bullshit- 'Just the Tip' SocialismRecorded: April 30th 2020Published May 2nd 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

A bunch of stuff forthcoming, but in the meantime...another Sunday night quarantine session away from the Stupid Table, as the lockdown drags on and on and on and on...- Kmele looks like Billy Ocean- A dodgy story in the Times?- It's always too good to check- A terrifying Washington Post non-story - Jeff Jarvis v. Bret Stephens- Lots of listener mail!- Don't take your guns to town son / Leave your guns at home, Bill- A brief music nerd interlude- Kmele's formative ancap books- A listener yells at us about the Jonah Goldberg episode- Too much Tucker? (Plus: guests versus interviews)- Drugs- Upcoming Zoom stuff- Did we just have another discussion about Falangism?- Let's talk about a George Parker essay we didn't read- Vichy? Really?- The lads fight about Trump - And fight some more- Make Cosmopolitanism Great Again- Geoffrey in Seattle might be a hoboRecorded April 26, 2020 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

w/ Jonah Goldberg Editor-in-Chief @The Dispatch, Host @ The Remnant PodcastPresident Trump has an inspired idea for arresting a global pandemic. It involves ultraviolet rays, disinfectant washes -- and Welch seems convinced that it also has something to do with "butt stuff" -- which, honestly, it wouldn't be the strangest thing you've heard all day.ALSO:- Jonah on Political Homelessness- Define "Prevaricate"- Presidential Ineptitude and Slothfulness,- How Shitty Henchmen Keep America Safe- Why The CDC is So Popular- Trump Punching is Boring- The Most Dangerous Debate- On Tucker Carlson- The Best Rescue Package- Georgia: Open for Business (or something)- Funding Lockdown Protests  - The Limits of MitigationRecorded: April 23rd 2020Published April 25th 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Kmele Foster, Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) and Coleman Hughes (@coldxman) discuss the cacophony of concern about blackness+ racism in the midst of a once in a century global pandemic.RELATED POSTS:"Do COVID-19 Racial Disparities Matter?" - Coleman Hugheshttps://quillette.com/2020/04/13/do-covid-19-racial-disparities-matter/"Don’t Racialize the Pandemic" - Zaid Jilanihttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-race-fight-pandemic-dont-get-bogged-down-racial-categorization/Recorded: April 14th 2020Published April 20th 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

- Gender Traitors- Teddy Pendergrass- Trump’s Absolute Authority- Cutting off WHO Funding- What a Pandemic Can Teach You- China and The American Free PressRecorded: April 15th, 2020Released: April 17th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Everything is still grim. And everyone is slowly descending into madness. But it's Easter Sunday and the lads are, for some reason, boringly sober and boringly blather about the following important issues...- The Brooklyn neighborhood report- Covid, Covid, Covid - The best new acronym: SDW- Still advisable to not question the current wisdom, you denier!- Ummm, these fatality rates are totally worthless, aren't they?- No, no..."the science" doesn't say one thing- Xenophobic golfing rules in Rhode Island- How are the Swedes doing? - What stories are we looking forward to when this is all over?- Listener ("reader" / "viewer") mail- The Fifth Column is rooting for Spencer!- That Zoom call was fun, wasn't it?- The Fifth Column talks fiction - Some amazing forgotten TV shows- Some Amazon talk- Where in Europe should Jonathan go?- Some Kmele previewsRecorded: Resurrection Sunday Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

"When America catches a cold, black America... " -- well, we should maybe talk about that.- Welch Makes a Baseball Analogy- Moynihan helps Governor Cuomo shame the traitorous scum who refuse to STAY IN DOORS- Amid growing concern about the disproportionate impact COVID-19 may be having on black folks in America -- Kmele has thoughts- When Billionaires Give Money Away (it's never enough -- and it's never good enough -- for Moynihan?)- China is Using Fake Numbers- A Briefing Full of Jim Acostas- President Trump Lies, Frequently -- Accept When He's Telling the Truth- Trump's Greatest Failure- Foreign Policy Tea LeavesRecorded: April 7th, 2020Released: April 8th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

As you will hear in Moynihan's preamble--and as you might have seen on Moynihan's Twitter feed--the lads recorded a Patreon-only episode on Saturday night! And... Kmele forgot to press record on his mic. But through a painstaking reconstruction process that would impress Peter Jackson (seriously, it took two days), we salvaged the episode using a shaky Zoom recording of Kmele. But it works! So here is our mostly non-Covid discussion of...- Quarantine updates- The MAGA people of VA love KF- OJ Simpson- Louis is back. Woody too - A cop in Pennsylvania- The NOI guy in the barbershop- A brief return to dating advice- Lots of reader mail- The Land of Look BehindRecorded April 4, 2020 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

With more than 80% of Americans under some form of movement restrictions, civil liberties are in retreat, authoritarians are gaining ground, and Kmele is feeling positively messianic.PLUS "The Fifth Column's Pandemic Shopping Guide: How to beat the system, score hard to find paper products, and avoid deadly CHINESE pathogens"- Keep Buggering OnRecorded: March 31st, 2020Released: April 2ndth, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

We all need to leave the house. And need to stop talking about...the virus.- Let's talk about something else- Some listener mail- We can't avoid it, can we?- It's the c-word respite that wasn't- Reading Chomsky in exile- It's harder to lie about history and baseball statistics in 2020- Hey horrible billionaires: stop donating your horrible money to good causes (unless you give it all away)!!!!- Testing! Testing! (another digression on the C-word)- Moynihan gives relationship advice: Hide the video games- Ringo seal! - Max had too much to dream last night - Can we do a call-in show?- Some more reader mail- Should we all move upstate?- What have we been reading/watching/listening to in rona exile?Recorded March 29. 2020 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.