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Marshall Adkins, a longtime oil and gas analyst at Raymond James, joins the Fifth to explain why the current energy crunch is really about diesel…
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The Weave Within the Weave (#577)
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Sarah Hepola and the Life You Didn’t Choose (Members Only #347)
Sarah Hepola joins the guys to discuss her new memoir, The Only Thing There Is to Want
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Firehose #214: Me & My Cohort Helped Ruin NYC Schools, and All I Got out of it Was Two Lousy NYT Magazine Cover Stories
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The UN, Wokeness, and Other Failed Institutions (Members Only #346)
General Assembly, public schools, Australia, Bill Burr, and the state of the world….and a few other things. Wait why are we talking about Australia? Oh…
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The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
Your weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves.
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