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Workin’ for the Weekend #46: Valentine for Kennedalia
America’s libertarian girlfriend, whose show was cancelled this week, is a key reason why this very podcast exists.
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#409 - Pride Wars, Dumb Tupac, and POC Jim
Listen now (123 min) | Kmele is moving to a place where everything is free ChatGPT is a fabulist Moynihan’s new Orwell piece Wikipedia v. AI chatbots…
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Members Only #168 - Trans Pickleball, Debating Thoreau, and Eric Clapton v. Huey Newton
Listen now (93 min) | Stan Jonathan vs. Pierce Bouchard The Lia Thomas of Pickleball Owning a house sucks “Lia has these books” Kmele loves Thoreau Matt…
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Workin’ for the (Memorial Day) Weekend #45: Kmele on TCW, Moynihan on Amis, Orwell on The Independents
Plus: Jesse Singal waxes lovingly about the Fifth, as he should.
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Matt Welch
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#408 - It's For Nobody (w/ Ethan Strauss)
Listen now (140 min) | Tina, RIP. Bill Lee, RIP. Zone of Interest DeSantis announces Tim Scott announced too, btw An increasingly crowded and…
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Members Only #165 - In Memoriam
Listen now (106 min) | RIP Martin Amis (and Andy Rourke and Jeremy Clarke) “Pussies are bullshit” A reading list: Money. London Fields. Zone of…
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Workin’ for the Weekend #44: Megyn Kelly's Heroes, Bobby Kennedy's Enemies
Also: RIP Andy Rourke
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Matt Welch
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#407 - The Cruelty, the Conspiracist, and the Report (w/ Eli Lake)
Listen now (115 min) | “Zero-to-insane in the first three minutes” The terrible 2024 election The right’s bizarre infatuation with RFK Jr. The…
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The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
Your weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves.
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