The Fifth Column

A few weeks before the Hamas pogrom, Moynihan was reading Palestine 1936 : The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by the brilliant Israeli-American journalist and historian Oren Kessler. So he called him to talk through the current conflict, its historical antecedents, and how Hamas’s murder spree has effected his family. * RIP Tomer Shoham * The nightmare scenario * “This is g...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com (Editor’s note: about 20 seconds of Comrade Lake’s mic is missing at the very beginning of this recording. It fixes itself soon thereafter. Sorry about that) It’s that time of month (…ummmm….time for a rebroadcast of our Second Sunday Zoom call). As you probably already guessed, we managed just one topic of conversati...

* Former Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer is back to talk about his insane friends and erstwhile colleagues on the Hill * Peter’s surprising (to us) view of Rep. Matt Gaetz * “I try to see the best in people” (Hmmmmm….) * The gordian knot of polarization * Peter makes the case for [blank] as Speaker……. * Oh wait, he’s kinda serious! * What do any of these people actually believe ? * “Oh, I mean, there's...

* Unrelated non-programming note from Moynihan: “As some of you might recall, and as I mentioned in the intro, last year I beseeched listeners to help my amazing daughter Livia (and her gymnastics team) raise money for pediatric cancer . And last year, you guys came through in such a crazy way that one parent asked me if I was “some sort of cult leader.” I said no. I’m only a cult co-host. So than...

Our old Aussie-Aussie-Aussie-Oi-Oi-Oi pal Josh Szeps, former host of the morning show Wake Up Ya C***s, was in New York this weekend and stopped by the Fifth’s Chinatown headquarters! So we decided to have a few drinks (Ed. note: Josh has lost approximately 600 pounds and is now sober , while Welch and Moynihan are still the same old lazy alcoholics) and argue about how our pal Coleman Hughes was...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Deion’s audacious blackness * Kevin McHale’s audacious whiteness * Serious Hasan’s baby is covered in cocaine * What everyone hates most is a racist, anti-Asian wolf * Cutting the razor wire because…why not? * Immigration in Europe is different * DOWTCHA BOY! The (Irish?) origins of Jamaican Patois * Is Matt the Har...

* The sartorial excellence of the Pennsylvania Senate delegation * “Pooping on their shoes” * Kilmeade v. Rosendale ( that’s his name) * Kendi and the disappearing millions * Want to demonitize one of your enemies? We have an idea! * A threatening letter from Lady Orwell DBE * The ACLUization of everything * Trump on the Meet the Press * Broadcast needs to “lend democracy a hand?” * Biden is just...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Bob Geldof is the hero of this story * She isn’t the pantless one * Catholics, Kmele and your “best religious experience” * Nick and the Burn * Jamaican names / Wes Anderson movies * Revisiting Less Than Zero * The Hollywood Party v. Walt Disney * A listener has an Amy Cooper question… * The Kendi Center kind of shu...

* 36 year-old grandmother vapes, feels up Democrat * Shanah Tova! * Russell Brand, who Moynihan wrote about in 2014, is accused of rape * They are coming after the truth tellers, maaaaaannnnnn * Revisiting Hunter’s indictment * Breaking: Biden is confused and sleepy * Trump v. Kelly * I’m the president, so it’s legal… * Ron’s compounding troubles, plummeting poll numbers * Preemptive skepticism *...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com As Moynihan explains in the intro, this is the Zoom recording from this month’s Second Sunday broadcast. Basically, it’s the difference between a soundboard and audience bootleg. But so it goes. So no bullet points this week—enough time has already been spent on this episode—other than to say that Ben Dreyfuss shows u...

* Every city is a nightmare * Airbnb banned—but hotel rooms are now free! * Pedro glues his feet to the floor, Moynihan discovers climate change * It’s the end of New York as we know it (and Mayor Adams feels not so fine) * None of this is sustainable, btw * “BIPOC” residents in Chicago are angry * Nikki rising, Vivek shrinking * Enrique Tarrio, black white supremacist, gets more time than Mr. Ame...

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Let’s abandon the usual bullet points and instead provide a few relevant links. The lads sit down with Swedish writer and historian Johan Norberg to discuss his forthcoming book The Capitalist Manifesto ; his report on Sweden’s Covid response ; his almost-a-book The Mirage of Swedish Socialism: The Economic History of a Welfare State ; and that time, twenty years ago, when he first came across Moy...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Elvis Costello’s dad is the best dancer * Orthodox Shyne * Jamaicans vs….ummm…non-island people * Close enough * The race blob * The Australia craze / Jacko * Gross Steven Segal songs * “The molester Rolf Harris?” * Revisiting the dumb debate * Ron, Vivek, et al * In praise of Gary Becker (and his family) * OJ Simps...

* Best mugshots of all time (Winner: 70s Larry King) * Who won the dumb debate * No, the agenda is a hoax * Nikki…pretty, pretty, pretty good, actually * “Let’s not look backwards” * One of the most deranged policy suggestions… * The debate over Trump prosecutions * Did Trump sound sane compared to Tucker? * What happened to Pesca’s podcast “Not Even Mad” podcast? * It’s really hard to make a podc...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * San Francisco again * Song of the South again * TikTok NPC insanity * Colombian Snow White, for the first time * How Obama broke up with his girlfriends  * Roger Stone on JFK Jr. And a bit on PressTV  * Richy Rich of Richmond  * The AnCap of Argentina * If the lads of the Fifth could avoid the dumb outrage, would th...

* A Moynihan intro on theft and “Jew face” * Lara Bazelon on rap lyrics as evidence, January 6th prosecutions, RICO, prosecutorial insecurity and overreach * Artists, characters, and belief * A Title IX violation is worse than being convicted for robbery * Lara’s new podcast * Greg on Title IX bureaucracy and free speech * The decline of the American university * And much, much more * Stay tuned f...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * RIP Robbie Robertson * Yeah, so 30 minutes of music talk about The Band, The Doors being bad, listeners getting mad at us, Graham Nash in a book store, Mickey Jones, patriotic Bob, Barry Goldwater, and The Last Waltz. Sorry about that. * I’m going to suggest that you weren’t denied entry into the exclusive club beca...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Richard Hananananananania is very sorry * He has changed. From last week. * Handjobs against racism * Lizzo, bananas, petards * “Everything I do is consequential, baby” * Chasing Fonzie the racist (Ed note: We can neither confirm nor deny this story) * The thing that is true but one cannot say… * Italy is a great bu...

So this one is probably four days old now? But because of the shitty software we use—and the fact that our…ummm….editor is currently on vacation in Italy—it took some serious archeology to salvage the recording. But it sounds fine, it’s a good episode, and Moynihan isn’t at all annoyed about having to upload this from a beach in Forte dei Marmi. The lengths we will go to make you people smarter an...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Matt hasn’t seen Oppenheimer * Brittany Murphy is dead, probably from myocarditis. Kmele is surprised * Found that anti-Qaddafi t-shirt * That stupid interview on Democracy Now * NHJ is America’s greatest historian * Was Moynihan crying ? (Moynihan responds: This is fake news) * “But ackshually……..” * Low key good a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Kmele and the Dead * Lia hates God * RFK and the race virus * A guilty verdict * The Dersh and jury nullification * The often referenced video of Dersh v. the Fink * A listener retracts his “dickish email” * An email about Boston and music * Is Boston a “racist” city? * Forgetting about bussing * The Irish vs. the W...

* This is a very summer episode. Soz. * Moynihan, impanelled * Implicit bias and your cup of coffee * Chipotle paranoia * We interrupt this program for a detailed Welch interregnum of the death of Milan Kundera * Tracy Chapman is “honored” by Luke Combs’s cover. The Washington Post is alarmed * Elvis was a hero to most, but he never… * You didn’t write that song. The “community” did * De La Soul i...

* Taking back a “clarification” * Underhoused. Overhoused. Differently housed. * Mayor Adams yells at a Holocaust surviving slave master * Drinking coffee with pictures of dead cops * Who lost the cocaine? * Kamala speechwriter video * The worst person in America is… * That interesting piece about Kevin Kruze’s not interesting book * The Fifth Column agrees: the 4th is pretty great… * Immigration...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * A sick podcast * Revisiting Coleman and RFK * Listeners yelling at Moynihan * Some nice stuff about Moynihan * A clarification from Moynihan * (All of this is re: RFK) * BTW, Sirhan Sirhan was really anti-Semitic * The conspiratorial mind * Are Birchers libertarians on meth? * Taking photos of yourself smoking crack...