The Fifth Column

-Fairfield, CT. Nov 12th. Get tickets while you can -We will have an Election Night livestream. Booze, guests, and probable disaster -Our mystery guest didn’t couldn’t make it today. We won’t name names, but we’ll give you some subtle clues. -Steve Witkoff discovered Vladimir Putin’s humanitarian side. -Trump has some thoughts about Zelenskyy. andPutin gets a pass. -Americans ranked their favorite...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com We are doing a live show in Fairfield, CT on November 12th. You should come. Details below. -Jacob Siegel on raising his kids in Israel -Who benefits from a fractured US-Israel relationship? -JD Vance had endorsements to spare, just not for Netanyahu -Israel prepared for life without America’s special relationship -An...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com The guys put America’s most famous political forecaster, Nate Silver , to work… separating real electoral shifts from political noise, and confronting the uncomfortable possibility that everyone is just guessing. -The House leaned Democratic, the Senate was a toss-up…then came Labor Day -The first thing Nate Silver do...

Yes, we want accolades. Yes, we’re shamelessly asking for your vote: VOTE for The Fifth Column as the Best News & Politics Show -A Democratic consultant defending Fox News out of the gate -Was Mike Lindell ever really a crackhead? -Ladies and gentlemen, the new White House press secretary, Katie Zachariah -Did we fuck Scott Jennings? -How does a WH press secretary actually prepare? -Kimberly Guilf...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com “There are no ordinary lives and everyone has a story” -Sam Roberts’ father takes him to see the Rosenbergs’ funeral -Fifty years in journalism and an unexpected career writing obituaries -Anna Nicole Smith and the brutality of British obituaries -Charlie Rangel’s complicated legacy -Who deserves a New York Times obit...

Did we mention we’re nominated…did you vote yet? If not, what in the actual fuck is your problem? -all the bad words are here -come to Fairfield on November 12th! (https://quickcenter.fairfield.edu/2026-27-season-calendar/lectures/the-fifth-column-podcast.html) -Trump in Nebraska….always a good sign for Republicans -Anal sex, picnics, breakfast in bed, lobster -Europe is melting! (still) -who will...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Marshall spent 25 years covering oil and gas at Raymond James before retiring this week. He joins the guys to explain what’s actually driving prices higher, why diesel matters more than most people realize, and how war, refinery outages, and shrinking reserves have left the global energy market with very little room f...

…and Moynihan discusses Harvard’s artist in residence. Also, we’ve been nominated for something! vote for us in for the Signal Awards! -Kmele’s Cross-Country Trail of Tears -Trump Praises the Latinos -Yukon Cornelius and the Bumble -Coming Soon: Jason’s Weird Fetishes -Trump Talks to Time -The Weave We Go -No Fatties, No Trannies, No Weirdos -It’s Worse Because It’s Worse -Saving Western Civilizat...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Finally, a break from politics and a discussion about…love. If you like Sarah, check out her podcast with friend of The Fifth Column Nancy Rommelmann Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast -Sarah is back on the wagon (not really!) -The married man, the younger man, and the New Orleans homicide detective -Women’s tears are a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com -being gay, doing drugs, that’s the Szeps life -Moynihan’s anti-Australian bigotry -the Lupita Nyong’o pronunciation challenge -Why is daddy wearing boobs? -this actor can play any ethnicity -Josh’s dad, the George Costanza of Australia -UN Clip-o-rama -in defense of the UN, sort of -can America afford to piss off all...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com -Pakman is a fan of this show. Will he regret saying this? -Kmele’s cult-adjacent upbringing -Pakman’s Argentina upbringing -Macklemore, Robert Kraft and the limits of independent media -Do people actually control their media diet? -Nick Fuentes, Fishback and Twitter not being real life -Pakman puts himself at the tip...

And is he gonna get that press secretary job or not? -Jennings the teetotaler -wtf happened to Moynihan’s hair? -Jennings’ working-class Kentucky origin story -back when Kentucky + West Virginia were swing states -Rush Limbaugh + Paul Harvey University -what would Rush make of $9K for stay-at-home moms? -what kind of Republican is Scott Jennings anyway? -why is Trump so unpopular? -tariffs, potash...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Tyler Austin Harper , staff writer for The Atlantic and co-host of the Time To Say Goodbye podcast joins Michael C. Moynihan & Matt Welch to talk about extreme fishing, picking socialsts as your fighters, and his recent pot-stirring essay “ Why I quit the tenure track .” •It’s morning in America, or is it Japan? •The...

-Simplify, simplify, simplify… -Do people like Jim as a boss? -The two things to screen for in prospective employees -The humility of Mike Allen -AI and the newsroom -The way you consume news is about to completely change -Are we at the Napster stage of AI? -The demand for local news didn’t die -DEI without the corporate activism -Axios refuses to take a stand -Moynihan’s Vice postmortem -Jim used...

-RIP Andrew Wimsatt, a true friend of the show and beloved member of the Fifth Column community -And in lighter news, it’s the 25th anniversary of 9/11 -Trump’s 9/11 story -Why we’re called The Fifth Column -When Matt Welch welcomed us to war -Moynihan moved to New York on September 10, 2001 -How much of your memory of the day is actually real? -Mary Beard and other “the US had it coming” takes -L...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com As well as Epstein, and the conspiracy theories that refuse to die -the most famous person from Troy, NY? -shut your whore mouth, Producer Jason -we actually do have a serious guest today -a radical re-purposing of the Justice Department -James Comey and the seashells -lowercase justice -Tom Homan and the $50,000 CAVA...

Jim is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Wall Street Journal columnist -The tractor beam of sexuality -James B. Meigs is here -Tucker Carlson is just asking questions. He’s less interested in the answers -It’s 9/11 season. Call in the OG debunker -Jet fuel didn’t have to melt steel -Death threats for… Popular Mechanics -Tucker finds Israel in the JFK files -Revisiting Loose Change ,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Look who decided to come back for this episode! (for the visually impaired, it’s the one and only Kmele Foster) -A Caribbean anti-colonial fantasy -A gay Lady Chatterley’s Lover … and hockey -Oh, Milo -Because it’s funny . It’s a joke -Milo, the Tates, and the “it was all a bit” defense -ICE, deportations, and discove...

Holy shit, The Moynihan Report has RETURNED. Watch the episode, subscribe on YouTube , and sign up for Moynihan’s Substack while you’re at it. Now, back to the Fifth: -why you have to watch this podcast -Sanna Marin…for the policy -Finding Kmele Foster -Welch returns from Montreal to report that the French lost -life in the time of Trade War -NPR finally solves reparations -tariffs, hockey sticks,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com How does Semafor make money and what is the best magazine in the world? Well…why don’t you smash that subscribe button and/or whip out that credit card if you want the real insider information from media’s best? -Karen Attiah and the Charlie Kirk quote that wasn’t real -Firing people for tweets + the last good account...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Stephanie Slade’s new book, Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right, is available for pre-order now! -J.D. Vance seizes the means of production -Let’s define “conservative” in case you forgot -So what the hell is Fusionism? -From free markets to owning the libs -Cultural resentment > economic...

-Greetings…oh, fuck -Welch has a bone to pick with Ben Dreyfuss -Clip Roulette -Tucker and the Demon Bomb -Jason Arday, martyr? -The Jonah Lehrer comparison -The Samantha Power mic disaster -Fuck you Joaquin -John Mearsheimer, Stephen F. Cohen and the Russian apologists -Ukraine didn’t go away -Trump, Kim Jong-un and the South Korea war games -Midterm Madness / Polymarket, wha happen? -Median Stra...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com We’re joined by former ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran, who now publishes Real Patriotism with Terry Moran on Substack and hosts a podcast of the same name on YouTube. -Terry reads that tweet -Fired, suspended, non-renewed…whatever -Any regrets? -Network news is dying and everyone’s jumping ship -Th...

-Kmele is out of Adderall -Did anybody actually watch this Tucker and Hunter interview? -“Montrosity” and other difficult words -The adventures of Proximity Hong -The curious case of Jason Arday -Is there any chance Jesse Singal is racist? -AOC discovers Woke 1.0 was crazy -Shane Gillis and the conspiracy of enforcing things nobody believed -Thank you, Thom Tillis. Also, fuck you. -Funding the oth...

-a pre-obit for the esteemed David Frum -involuntarily unionized at The Atlantic -spy novels, bureaucrats and expense reports -turning down Bill Buckley’s golden ticket -prosperity, security and how quickly it can all disappear -Frum is forever a man of 1989 -God makes you lucky, then convinces you you’re smart -Tucker Carlson was always capable of many things -falling flat on your back isn’t prog...