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All of that just to say Kmele would get his ass kicked?

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What I got out of it is that AI concluded that Kmele is an enigmatic wildcard. All bets are off

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It'll be fun to see kmele's next justification for why he wouldn't get his ass kicked by joe rogan.

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Force field of some kind?

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Just want to say thanks, fellas, for really cranking out the episodes as of late. Bravo!

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Seconded.

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Wow, if I was in a bar, and I saw Nancy and Yael there, and I wasn't married, and I wasn't too afraid to talk to women, and I want pretty sure I would annoy and bore and creep the hell out of them, and I wasn't kind of a loser in general...I would totally hit on them.

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The ending really seals it.

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That Comment of the Week is well-deserving of the honor.

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I respectfully submit that this one deserves an honorable mention:

https://wethefifth.substack.com/p/440-from-nashua-to-haaazzaaa/comment/48056291?r=7ep5l&utm_medium=ios

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Agreed!

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That last part is heavy, man. I was thinking about it when I read the other day that 1 out of 5 Gen Zers think the Holocaust is a myth

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What an amazing song. Really appreciate these WFTW posts.

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WFTW posts are just the icing on the top for being subscribed.

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Kmele thinking he can beat up Joe Rogan and basically anyone with absolutely nothing to back it up is one of the reasons the Fifth Column is the best pod out there

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Every time Kmele talks about his vaunted (and as of yet, unproven) fighting prowess, it reminds me of Mark Wahlberg letting us all know that, "If I had been there, 9/11 wouldn't have gone down like that."

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RIP Melanie. "Lay Down" helped me get through some difficult times as a teen. Never saw that SNL clip, hysterical, thanks for sharing! Jimmy Smits sure was fine!

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Is Nancy OK with you shortening her name to "Rommel"? Not a name that would go down well while she's in Israel, I imagine.

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Nancy is okay with it!

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Why not, their assistant Gabe Hitlerstein is.

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Do you jot down notes all week, or compile this from memory as you're opening your first beer of the weekend?

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Lately I've been a bit better about bookmarking stuff as it crosses past. And (sadly?), I don't really drink much beer anymore.

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(Should also confess the obvious, which is that I raid the Chat here as well.)

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I too raid the chat. Because if I don't type out the thought (read: running commentary) as I am listening, it disappears. I think I had like three main thread comments on the last one, but in fairness I was trying really hard to keep up with you guys on the drink. I did not succeed, but I did laugh in bewilderment a lot before crawling to bed.

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Either way, it's impressive.

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Does Doug know Megyn has a BF *cough* I mean "a special friend?"

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Doesn't bother him. You can't compete with Doug.

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"The pic above is the only of the four Dave shared..."

Are there links to the other three? The people (by which I mean me) need to see them.

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Ironically when I saw the picture I thought the one on the right was Bas Rutten an old school MMA fighter. I guess A.I. is saying all MMA people look alike proving A.I. really is racist.

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That Michael Winslow link was epic. Also I vividly remembering watching that SNL scene, on tv, and thought "omg this is funny those people are ridiculous" and yes, that was during the halcyon days of SNL with Hartman, Carvey, Chris Farley, sure. But still it shows SNL has the ability to crank out one or two scenes where it's just ridiculous funny, amidst all the trash.

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Make sure to give a listen to Ezra Klein's interview of Thomas Friedman from a week ago if you haven't reached your recommended monthly allowance of stupid. Just two highlights to warm up your eyeball muscles so you don't pull something when you finally hear it:

* Friedman calling for Palestinian elections as part of a durable two-state solution... as if elections won't result in the same basic outcome as the last time they were tried. This one is just astonishingly stupid.

* Blaming the pro-Hamas protests on college campuses on Republicans and the right in general... because obviously those people don't have agency or the capacity for judgment. This is nothing more than motivated reasoning: "My side is virtuous and has good intentions, so I need to rationalize some way for this to *really* be the fault of my scheming, manipulative opponents." It's maddening.

While to be fair he doesn't get everything wrong, I'm not exactly going to give him an award for (say) questioning Israel's end game for the war, because frankly that point is obvious even if not a lot of Israel supporters are making it.

By his own accounting, he's been at this for 44 years (though it really sounds like 47 if I'm doing the math correctly) and is still completely clueless. I don't understand why this doofus still has a job.

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If you don’t mind, I’m going to take your word for it, thank you for taking the bullet, and move on with my day without the humor that comes from hearing Friedman (and Klein) get the world completely wrong, again.

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I don't blame you.

While I personally find Klein a mixed bag, Friedman seems to almost always draw the wrong conclusions about everything. It would be comical if he didn't have such a large audience. I mean, I can be wrong and it doesn't matter because I'm nobody: the same is not true in his case

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This "Kmele can beat Joe Rogan" thing reminds me of a guy I heard once argue he could realistically fight, and win, against at least 2-3 wolves. Let them cook.

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When you guys are in the same room together, you create a perfect podcast synergy!

I would still root for Kmele in a fight, for his sheer confidence.

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