The Fifth Column marks ten years with a live, loose, alcohol-assisted celebration featuring Thor Halvorssen, Pete Meijer, Olivia Reingold, Nick Gillespie, and Nancy Rommelmann, with stops along the way for Venezuela, culture war absurdity, Jewish identity, sexual politics, old stories, new grievances, and the usual refusal to keep anything on the rails.

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Oh, and Wednesday marks the 10th anniversary of this show, yes, on April Fools’. Can you fucking believe it? Join us for the only appropriate celebration, a LIVE late-night shitfest of alcohol, probable technical mishaps, and some very special guests.

-Theodore Henken, plantanified yuma

-Why America still can’t quit Cuba

-Cuba and the full moon were made f…

* Maybe I wasn’t exactly a prince

* Why nobody should want to stay in Washington too long

* The worst job in politics

* The ACA, “the three children,” and the birth of the Tea Party

* The Great Recession and losing your ticket to the American dream

* Trump didn’t invent the anger, he captured it

* The no-drinking-until-the-mics-are-off rule

* In the Oval Office, the choice is…

Kmele loves Apple products…maybe a little too much. But what a perfect guest to talk all things related to this monster company and how it’s shaped American culture and the globe as a whole.

-The Newton saved Apple

-What Kmele does with Apple products in the shower

-The underdog with taste

-Why Matt Welch hates Macs

-On getting access to Apple

-Project Titan and the $10 billion heartbreak

-Apple as a medical device company

-Still a Steve Jobs disciple of focus

-Apple made China and China made Apple

-Where there is no will, there’s a way

-New locations for Apple manufacturing

-On the fantasy of bringing it back to the US

-Apple Intelligence, deepfakes, and doing AI the “right” way

-All it takes is a Congressperson having sex with a sheep

-Anthropic, cheating, and the possible jobs apocalypse

-The long runway

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-Celine Dion, slightly less stiff

-Every headline out of Hungary is insane

-The Orbán character arc

-The Polish miracle

-Conservative 2Pac in the Borat republic

-Cuba is falling apart, Hasan Piker is thriving

-Cuba’s healthcare miracle, minus aspirin

-Why pseudo-intellectuals love communist field trips

-The pig whose vocal cords had to go

-Trump’s zigzagging is …

-Joe Kent’s weird texts and the “Israel did Iraq” brainworm

-The Jews are so fucking clever

-Iraq 2003, back from the dead yet again

-There’s always a new monster to destroy

-Iran, nukes, and the problem with crazy people holding civilization hostage

-A Ron Paul guy with a war boner

-Don’t you realize you’re losing America?

-Norman Finkelstein has no phone

-Mearsheimering, Robert Pape, and the incentives to go full crank

-Megyn Kelly, the anti-Israel turn, and the warm bath of total nuttiness

-Mark Levin’s penis size enters the chat

-Louis CK and a Michael Barbaro hit job

-the origin of Tough Crowd

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-Gov. Chris Christie debrief

-Kmele nearly dies after seeing the new hidden painting on set

-K-Pop Nazi Hunters and Sinners

-Joy Reid says America is basically Iran now

-Straight from The Communist

-Lights out in Cuba

-The Gains of the Cuban Revolution

-”I got my job from the New York Times”

-The old broken Cuban system finally starts to crack

-Hasan Piker talks…

-Gov. Chris Christie says Kmele has no excuse

-Getting drunk with Colbert

-No drugs, ever

-RFK Jr.’s drug use

-The only things Trump believes in

-something is a little off about John Kasich

-Olivia Nuzzi is a Freak, Crumb Cake edition

-Michael Barbaro tried to take the Gov down with food

-Bon Jovi, Bruce, and New Jersey loyalty tests

-The Little Marco Florsheim Fib

-The ultimate Kushner lore, aka The Prostitute, the Motel, and the Alarm Clock

-Profiles in cowardice, Republican edition

-The biggest threat to Democracy according to Chris Christie

-The case for letting Republicans lose badly

-Why Democrats keep blowing it

-Debate prep with Trump and being with him when the Access Hollywood tape dropped

-This is what Hillary should have said

-Chris Christie insists Bruce Springsteen likes him now

-That Obama Sandy cold embrace

-Bill Clinton will hold your hand, stroke your wife’s elbow, and you’ll fucking like it

-W, Barbara, and elite family-level savagery

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