{"podcast":{"title":"The Fifth Column","slug":"the-fifth-column-1025117","podcast_index_feed_id":1025117,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/815642.rss","website_url":"https://www.wethefifth.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/815642/ca33dc4062e8147e3722ed27e0f4cbc0.jpg","author":"Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch","episode_count":682,"summary":"Analysis, Commentary, Sedition. @wethefifth","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T22:20:10.350906+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fifth-column-1025117"},"episode":{"title":"The Fifth Gets a Substitute Teacher (w/ Jesse Singal) #568","slug":"the-fifth-gets-a-substitute-teacher-w-jesse-singal-568","published_at":"2026-07-29T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fifth-column-1025117/the-fifth-gets-a-substitute-teacher-w-jesse-singal-568","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fifth-column-1025117","url":"https://www.wethefifth.com/p/the-fifth-gets-a-substitute-teacher","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208913612/45454f89b232ec0acb9d23cf0e9b1852.mp3","summary":"Jesse Singal of Blocked and Reported and Singal-Minded fills Michael Moynihan’s special diabetic chair to discuss Fauci’s diaries, broken institutions, runaway AI, LeBron and Mamdani Mart. -Moynihan out, Jesse Singal in -Barry Weiss hired everyone except Jesse -The Prince of Science re-enrages everyone (or at least Rand Paul) -Gell-Mann amnesia and the collapse of institutional trust -The media needed a COVID daddy -An OpenAI model escaped the sandbox -The analogy of the paperclip machine and how it consumed the universe -Cambridge protected alleged plagiarist Jason Arday -Midterm Madness, Ohio governor race version -Kmele feels that LeBron will never love him but he doesn’t want to talk about it -Three grown men relived their greatest pickup games -Kmele wanted the gods back in The Odyssey -Mamdani Mart promised groceries at 30 percent off -Billy Bob Thornton returns from hell in White Knight (a Kmele Foster joint) -Nazi dinosaurs stalked Jews through Schindler’s Park -Jesse discovered second-order effects -Not every strange obsession with Israel was antisemitism -Rent stabilization has worked great for millionaires -No French goodbye for Kmele Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifdom? T his episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM EST. The Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a listener-viewer supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Follow The Fifth Column YouTube: @wethefifth Instagram: @we.the.fifth X: @wethefifth TikTok: @wethefifth Facebook: @thefifthcolumn This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe","meta_description":"Jesse Singal of Blocked and Reported and Singal-Minded fills Michael Moynihan’s special diabetic chair to discuss Fauci’s diaries, broken institutions, ru…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6075,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-fifth-column-1025117/episodes/the-fifth-gets-a-substitute-teacher-w-jesse-singal-568/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fifth-column-1025117/the-fifth-gets-a-substitute-teacher-w-jesse-singal-568.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}