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THE FIFTH COLUMN / PODCAST

LATEST DISPATCH

RELEASED - May 4th, 2018

(Recorded May 3rd, 2018)

18:00+ Host Grab-Assing
20:00+ Defending Red-Pill Kanye West (or 'Why Slavery is Always YOUR fault')
36:00+ Morrissey's Politics, Lennon's Domestic Violence
40:00+ Coping with Persistent (and maybe imaginary) Threats on Your Life
45:00+ Phrase Politics (and Welch goes off the reservation)
50:00+ Moynihan's Perpetually Offended
53:00+ Stormy Daniels
74:00+ Inside the Fox Green Room
 
ALSO: 
 
- Trade Talk
- The Best Tinted Sunglasses
- The WHCD, Press Freedom Farce, Why Journalism Awards Are Lame
- Welch Goes on a Sinclare Media Rant

(Recorded: May 3rd, 2018)

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