Is this episode 500?? Well, not really. Likely a bit higher. There have been some numbering convention mixups over the years and we’ve also recorded almost 300 paywalled episodes (yes, you should subscribe now, ya skinflints). But let’s just pretend it’s 500 and say…happy 500th episode, Fifth Column!

* Waymo through skid row

* The dumb right

* Dead cats bounce

* They took brown doublewides from us

* Nixon, but in the open

* Where are the Dems?

* Besides magic

* The DEI trade off?

* The sweet meteor of death episode

* Val, Tombstone, Top Secret

* Top Gun takes it to 11

* One the best Hollywood memoirs

* RIP Capucine

* African-American Monday

* Johnny Depp, musician

* OK TIME TO TALK ABOUT THE COLLAPSING ECONOMY

* Spartacus moment? Once they start flipping…

* “They couldn’t believe it. Ben Shapiro, of all people…”

* A Norwegian. A Dane…and a guy who *isn’t Finnish, Matt*

* On the best fight of …

* We bring back the great economist Scott Lincicome to separate MAGA myths from inconvenient facts on trade, trade imbalances, ChatGPT math, and getting “ripped off” by our (former?) allies.

* Note: watch Kmele and Moynihan (and Gerald Posner) on the latest episode of the Moynihan Report

* Eli’s new Liberation Day jam

* These tariffs are dumb

* Really, really dumb

* Ruinously dumb

* Laura Loomer is dumb

* Tom Sowell isn’t dumb

* MAGA’s Iraq