“There are no ordinary lives and everyone has a story”

-Sam Roberts’ father takes him to see the Rosenbergs’ funeral

-Fifty years in journalism and an unexpected career writing obituaries

-Anna Nicole Smith and the brutality of British obituaries

-Charlie Rangel’s complicated legacy

-Who deserves a New York Times obituary?

-Writing Rudy Giuliani’s obituary b…

Did we mention we’re nominated…did you vote yet? If not, what in the actual fuck is your problem?

-all the bad words are here

-come to Fairfield on November 12th! (https://quickcenter.fairfield.edu/2026-27-season-calendar/lectures/the-fifth-column-podcast.html)

-Trump in Nebraska….always a good sign for Republicans

-Anal sex, picnics, breakfast in bed, lobster

-Europe is melting! (still)

-who will replace Macron?

-France’s immigration problem

-Sweden discovers gun crime

-America, the assimilation machine

-meritocracy is fucking fantastic

-questions are bad when ethnicities are in front of them

-Vivek, the big guy and the worst swing in baseball

-Midterm Madness where candidate quality counts

-if you had to arrest one person at the New York Times…

-MAGA-curious CBS boss and The Daily Beast

-Theo Von discovers socialism

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Marshall spent 25 years covering oil and gas at Raymond James before retiring this week. He joins the guys to explain what’s actually driving prices higher, why diesel matters more than most people realize, and how war, refinery outages, and shrinking reserves have left the global energy market with very little room for error.

Also, is Marshall the real

…and Moynihan discusses Harvard’s artist in residence. Also, we’ve been nominated for something! vote for us in for the Signal Awards!

-Kmele’s Cross-Country Trail of Tears

-Trump Praises the Latinos

-Yukon Cornelius and the Bumble

-Coming Soon: Jason’s Weird Fetishes

-Trump Talks to Time

-The Weave We Go

-No Fatties, No Trannies, No Weirdos

-It’s Worse Because It’s Worse

-Saving Western Civilization, One Taxpayer-Funded Ad at a Time

-Sen. Eric Schmitt’s Awesome Week

-The Indian Question

-Roxane Gay, Harvard Medical School Artist in Residence

-Midterm Madness: New Hampshire, Michigan, Ohio and L.A.

-How Not to Hijack an Israeli Plane

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Finally, a break from politics and a discussion about…love. If you like Sarah, check out her podcast with friend of The Fifth Column Nancy Rommelmann Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast

-Sarah is back on the wagon (not really!)

-The married man, the younger man, and the New Orleans homicide detective

-Women’s tears are a recording device

-Kavanaugh, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves

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-being gay, doing drugs, that’s the Szeps life

-Moynihan’s anti-Australian bigotry

-the Lupita Nyong’o pronunciation challenge

-Why is daddy wearing boobs?

-this actor can play any ethnicity

-Josh’s dad, the George Costanza of Australia

-UN Clip-o-rama

-in defense of the UN, sort of

-can America afford to piss off all its allies?

-Greta Thunberg goes to the Rena…

-Pakman is a fan of this show. Will he regret saying this?

-Kmele’s cult-adjacent upbringing

-Pakman’s Argentina upbringing

-Macklemore, Robert Kraft and the limits of independent media

-Do people actually control their media diet?

-Nick Fuentes, Fishback and Twitter not being real life

-Pakman puts himself at the tip of the junk food pyramid

-Should The Fifth…

And is he gonna get that press secretary job or not?

-Jennings the teetotaler

-wtf happened to Moynihan’s hair?

-Jennings’ working-class Kentucky origin story

-back when Kentucky + West Virginia were swing states

-Rush Limbaugh + Paul Harvey University

-what would Rush make of $9K for stay-at-home moms?

-what kind of Republican is Scott Jennings anyway?

-why is Trump so unpopular?

-tariffs, potash + the new Republican orthodoxy

-the Greenland victory (?) lap begins

-Scott’s muscular Republicanism meets the universities

-Van Jones vs. his own side

-Trump vs. CNN and the White House press pool

-Scott Jennings, future press secretary?

-Trump + Mamdani, together again

-Texas gets way too interesting

-Georgia gets weird

-trying to have the one pundit take nobody else has

-do not get in Scott Jennings’ personal space

-does Trump have a corruption problem?

-Trump crypto + the Kentucky coffee can

-whatever happened to Republican “family values”?

-Mitch McConnell is alive

-has Tucker left the MAGA coalition?

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