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Members Only #282 – There Will Be Spoilers (One Battle After Another, Cartoon Politics, and Car Chases)

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:28:12 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. See below for the video version of this episode! On Candace and Megyn That source, says Thor, the Venezuelan, is a big booster of the shittiest people on Earth How they shot my mother (Hugo Chavez edition) The failure of the Human Rights Industry™ How Venezuela collapsed It’s not a country.

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:40:06 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. A very bad day for American politics, recorded within an hour of a young father’s death. Political violence, outgroup hatreds, and a side of media malpractice. With a sidebar conversation on 9/11, plus extended outro on the murder in Charlotte and subsequent discussion about race.

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Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. After a very brief hiatus—apologies, but all is explained in the first five minutes of this episode—the lads are back. And there will be a flood of new content in the coming days, to make up for our testicular tardiness (also explained in the first five minutes of this episode). Also note: this episode was plagued by technical difficulties, but we hope, through the magic of editing, that you won’t notice.

Link first, explanation later. OK, so as explained here on Sunday, The Fifth Column’s Aug. 17 live show at Chicago’s Constellation club, billed as “An Evening with The Fifth Column (and Friends),” sold out in 31 hours, despite only being advertised to Never Fly Coach subscribers, plus our other paying customers for just seven hours apiece.

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Getting Drudged Getting the spray This new color isn’t working Olivia amongst the Hamasniks in Union Square Tearing up notebooks, airhorns in the ear…stuck in the middle of a protest Hey hey ho ho shitty chants have got to go Did any journalists reach out? What if this was a Trump rally?

Apologies for this somewhat truncated weekender, but three cities (with one elementary school play, one live podcast, and one television appearance) in 36 hours is a bit deleterious to the ol’ productivity. Excuse/humble-brag, WHATEVER.

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Some unpopular opinions Raise your hand if you’ve ever lied to the government Fetterman and Real Time Are you *addicted* to Marijuana??? Who are the victims here? Excessive sentencing is bad, even for bad people Victims: Alex Jones? Hunter Biden? DJT??? Biden is totally fine and thinking otherwise is the end of democracy Joe Scarborough is the worst Let’s all pretend that everything is normal, ok?