Comedy Cellar's Noam Dworman on Iran, Megyn Kelly, Nukes, and Louie CK - The Fifth Column #549

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This week, we're joined by friend of the Fifth, host of the Live From the Table podcast, and owner of the Comedy Cellar, Noam Dworman. We talk Iran, Megyn Kelly, nukes, Louis CK, and the strange comforts of modern crankery

(4:42) Joe Kent’s weird texts and the “Israel did Iraq” brainworm

(10:49) The Jews are so fucking clever

(18:40) Iraq 2003, back from the dead yet again

(20:14) There’s always a new monster to destroy

(17:27) Iran, nukes, and the problem with crazy people holding civilization hostage

(23:24) A Ron Paul guy with a war boner

(29:44) Don’t you realize you’re losing America?

(33:12) Norman Finkelstein has no phone

(41:03) Mearsheimering, Robert Pape, and the incentives to go full crank

(36:17) Megyn Kelly, the anti-Israel turn, and the warm bath of total nuttiness

(01:15:14) Mark Levin’s penis size enters the chat

(01:18:40) Louis CK and a Michael Barbaro hit job

(01:29:52) The origin of Tough Crowd

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Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch, The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally themselves.

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