The Fifth Column

#392 "Tanks for Victory, Oscars So Boring, and Ben Dreyfuss Is Here to Offend You"

Jan 26, 2023

02:03:51

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Ben Dreyfuss

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The Rationality of Kim Jong Un

01:35

The Danger of Annotating the News

01:17

The Unintended Consequences of Sanctions

01:25

The Complicated Reality of Attraction

01:38

Introduction

2min

Is Your 14 Year Old Values a Boss?

2min

I Haven't Watched Top Gun Maverick. I'm Not Going to Watch It Every Weekend

4min

Is This a World War or a Cold War?

3min

Are We Going to Give These Leopard to Tanks to Ukraine?

4min

Is There a Greater Risk of Nuclear War?

2min

Is This a Total Game Changer?

4min

Germany's History of Ost Poltic

3min

Russia's Economic Problems Are Much Deeper Than Was Predicted, Right?

6min

10.

Do You Want to Invade a Sovereign Country?

5min

11.

Crimea - Crimea Is a Suitate and Land

2min

12.

What's Going on With the Russian Economy?

5min

13.

Steven Spielberg's the Fableman's

2min

14.

The End of Closing Counters Is Like My Dad Leaves All His Kids and Runs Off to Space

2min

15.

You Know, I'm a Bigot, You're a Bisexual, You Know?

2min

16.

The Most 70s Thing You've Ever Said

2min

17.

The Goop Lady, She's in a Fat Suit

2min

18.

The Daily Mail Is a Fake Guy

2min

19.

Are You a Consistent Defender of Taylor Lorenz on Twitter?

2min

20.

Is the Real Problem Here?

3min

21.

Is There Ever Going to Be a Sex Scandal Again?

2min

22.

Didn't He Take a Picture of His Kid Next to You?

3min

23.

Is This a Good Twitter?

2min

24.

Attraction Is a Whole Rainbow and It's Complicated

2min

25.

You Peg Leg the Guy?

4min

26.

Nepo, Baby, It's Okay to Call Me a Nepa Baby

2min

27.

What Was It That Cost Me a Career?

2min

28.

The Snyder Cut Is Good, but You Can't No One Trust You

2min

29.

How Do You Not Turn Into Floorboards Guy?

2min

30.

The Fracking Debate

2min

31.

Movie Review - Rocky

2min

32.

The First Best Friends With Apollo Creed

3min

33.

Are You Talking About Google or the Oscars?

2min

34.

Movie Review - The Man Who Deals With Your Own

2min

35.

I Like Black People. You're My Closest Black Friends

2min

36.

Sun Valley, Isn't It?

2min

37.

Are You Gonna Go Back to Acting Ben?

2min

38.

I've Never Styled Myself a Comicator. I'm a Self Styled Doctor.

2min

39.

Is Your Dad a Fucking Dude?

2min

40.

Subs - I'm About to Fuck Richard Dreyfus

2min

41.

The Beatles Are a Big Band. We're Doing Fine.

4min

42.

I'm Not Give a Shit, It's Not Give a Shit

2min

43.

Why Nick Clegg Is the Guy Doing It on Twitter

4min

44.

Google Is a Huge, Massive Company, but They Are Declining in Power

3min

45.

Do You Need the Intervention of the Government or Is This Going to Go the Way of the Dodo?

3min

46.

Google Search Isn't as Effective as It Used to Be

4min

A sober first segment about war and death is interrupted by our chaotic and fatphobic friend Ben Dreyfuss, who joins the Fifth to discuss his insane Twitter account and why he keeps making people really mad.

* We haven’t seen many of these Oscar movies

* German Leopards for Ukraine

* The arrival of “Jaws star Richard Dreyfuss' actor son Ben, 36, [who was] slammed for saying he'd never have sex 'with a fat person’”

* That Daily Mail article / We read Ben some of the comments

* Wait, why did Ben get fired from Mother Jones again?

* Will there ever be a deal-breaking sex scandal again?

* Peter Falk, gay icon?

* An important conversation about Rocky

* Trump can come back to Facebook

* The government is suing Google

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