{"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 Knicks, Oyster Man, and the Infinite Lies (#561)","slug":"the-knicks-oyster-man-and-the-infinite-lies-561","published_at":"2026-06-12T11:02:46+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fifth-column-1025117/the-knicks-oyster-man-and-the-infinite-lies-561","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fifth-column-1025117","url":"https://www.wethefifth.com/p/the-knicks-oyster-man-and-the-infinite","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201660208/88e92e0011ea13790c6837210cda05d6.mp3","summary":"-The Knicks give New York its greatest night in years and OG makes his MVP case -Valid destruction or peaceful rioting? -A brief detour through America’s dumbest college mascots -Dave Chappelle and Shane Gillis give Moynihan a perfect Comedy Cellar night -Kmele roots for the Spurs, but only to punish Knicks fans -Spike Lee has been on the court long enough -Which celebrity row courtsider gets booed? -Mamdani gets into the affordable soccer jersey business -The World Cup comes to New Jersey by boat -Introducing Midterm Madness -LA’s mayoral race and the Spencer Pratt stolen-election fantasy -California’s governor’s race and the strange usefulness of market signals -The race to watch -Platner’s character problem is not going away -Jodi Kantor explains when MeToo does and does not count -Bill Pulte gets pulled, Jay Clayton gets nominated -A fully fledged disgusting party on a federal level -UFC 250 comes to the White House because this is who we are now -Bullshit, postmodern Trumpism, and the infinite lies The Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a listener/viewer-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our 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":"-The Knicks give New York its greatest night in years and OG makes his MVP case -Valid destruction or peaceful rioting? -A brief detour through America’s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5394,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-fifth-column-1025117/episodes/the-knicks-oyster-man-and-the-infinite-lies-561/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-knicks-oyster-man-and-the-infinite-lies-561.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}