The Fifth Column

- Mean Babies w/ Pink Eye - Tity Boi - Dangerous Misinformation - Show Tunes - Cinco de Mayo - Live From New York, Again - Apartheid Daydream - Combating Misinformation - The Sims 2 - Anatomy of Tribal Hysteria - Everyone Starts to Say It - Its Own Reward - From Cuba to the Marshall Islands - Entangling Alliances Recorded: April 29th, 2022 Published: April 30th, 2022 See acast.com/privacy for priv...

Ulysses for kidz Stop complaining. It's a secret. It's all over, folks. Barack solved misinformation The Fairness Doctrine was dumb then. It's even dumber now BTW, they're *all* liars Defining misinformation (down) Sarah Hepola, author of the memoir Blackout and this great Atlantic piece Moynihan v. Hepola on drinking She started drinking at 7?? Wherein we demand Hepola credit the Fifth Column for...

- A Very Bad Week - Best, Final - Like, Literally the Holocaust - F*ck You Money - Narrative Malfunction - Round the Water Cooler - How America Got Stupid - Going Solo - Automotive Analogy - Expanding Nato, Deploying Nukes - The Bully Decides Recorded: April 14th, 2022 Published: April 15th, 2022 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...

- Take Em' To Church - Okay, Groomer - How "Lion King" Made Kmele Trans - Troll Culture - Mr. Cooper's Pronouns - Elon's New Gig - BLM House Flippin' - The Purpose Driven Journalist - Louie CK and The Larger Truth*** - Mr Perfect - The Truth About Ukraine - Red Dawn x 1,000 - Obamacare 2022 - Covid Zero - That Time Welch Got Us Canceled - Howard Stern's Golden (Shower) Age Recorded: April 6th, 202...

Slappy White and the Hot Takes Birthdays Was the Worst Days: Six Years of the Fifth Hey Twitter World (The Ballad of OJ Simpson) Jon Stewart’s excruciatingly dumb show on race A Ben Dreyfuss tweetstorm America: From James Madison to Madison Cawthorn Sex party etiquette A seven hour gap, a laptop that keeps on giving, and an ex-prez who won't go away On this sacred anniversary, a very, very excitin...

On casualties, causation, and delusion Is there a risk of overcorrection in Ukraine? Sanctions, free trade, and nukes The power of historical grievance Kmele and Matt...disagree on corporations taking sides in wars Also, the war in Ukraine is not about your dumb culture war issues The Ketanji Brown Jackson Show Ma'am, where do you stand on NAMBLA? Florida's "Lia Ackshully Lost Act" Slava Ukraini a...

Kmele got a new baby! Welch is doing -- something. And a disheveled, bleary-eyed Moynihan checks in from Europe -- where he's been bouncing between checkpoints and bunkers in Ukraine. The dude is earning his WHOLE paycheck this week. Recorded: March 14th, 2022 Published: March 15th, 2022 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss t...

Does the media have this conflict wrong? The privatization of protest Europe shutting down shitty, Kremlin-funded media Wait, did Matt Taibbi just say he was warming to intervention? Verdict: unclear No due process for shitty, Kremlin-funded oligarchs America's overlooked role in the beginnings of Putinism Could Russia have been democratic? Mearsheimer and the interminable NATO debate The narcissi...

With Kmele waiting for his son to arrive and moving into his new East Coast digs (or something), Welch and Moynihan again find a temporary replacement. This time the honor is bestowed upon Jamie Kirchick, senior fellow for the Europe Center at the Atlantic Council and author of the forthcoming book Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington. Bullet point topics for this episode seem unneces...

Guest: Jeffery Sachs, Lecturer in Politics @ Acadia University A Huge School Board Recall in San Francisco (With National Implications) A Proposed Ban on Talking About *Gay Stuff* w/ School Kids (In Florida, Of Course) A Contoversial Federal Crackdown on Protesters in Canada (Swastikas! Swastikas! Swastikas!) Is there more? Maybe 😏 Recorded: Feb 17th 2022 Released: Feb 18th 2022 See acast.com/pri...

Kmele's on a plane back East, where he shall remain and where the Fifth will increasingly ditch Zoom for in-person recordings. Yay. Filling in for Comrade Foster this week? Journalist, author, inventor, CNN contributor, mother of three, and all around swell gal , Mary Katherine Ham! The triumph of the stupid The stupid Washington Post Hating friends with stupid politics Mary Katherine, like Switze...

Our favorite Danish intellectual returns! After a three-plus year absence, Jacob Mchangama is back on the Fifth, this time promoting his amazing new book, Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media, which P.J. O'Rourke calls "best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made." We tend to agree. The lads make quick work of a bottle of sake and still ma...

A freebie for the great unwashed, cheapskate masses. A little...ummm....looser than the free feed pod. And note that Moynihan's car was stuck in the snow just moments before recording, so he's slightly more unhinged than usual. When contacted, he apologized profusely and said "had I known you were releasing this to the freeloaders I wouldn't have said all of those things that I totally believe but...

Almost a year after being run out of Slate for possession of an unpopular opinion, journalist and podcaster Mike Pesca joins the Fifth for his first post-controversy conversation on how it all went down, when banal opinions became "harassment," and what we can expect from the The Gist 2.0. Is Kmele being prioritized for Covid treatment? Because, ya know... Mike Pesca gets pushed out of Slate (for...

Kmele at Hereticon Fallibility vs. Fundamentalism A Time to Choose In Your Heart You Know He's Racist Gerrymandering for Good Credibility, Transparency Ignoring Alex Jones Arguing with Alex Jones The One Thing Americans Agree On... ...It's All Going to Shit Alex Jones' America Idiots Wrote This Recorded: Jan 13th, 2022 Published: Jan 14th, 2022 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out informa...

He's brilliant. He has a Pulitzer Prize, And he's totally jacked. New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg, who was at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and could definitely kick your ass, joins the Fifth to reflect on the riot, coup, insurrection, revolution, putsch, mass hate crime...whatever you want to call it. But hang around after the Rosenberg Coup Hour for a freewheeling postgame meditation...

A Covid Christmas A Merry Kwanzaa Before you eulogize the dead, I have stupid tweet you should consider Matt sort of emptywheels Harry Reid Planes, Trains, and superspreader events Yes, there are no tests The usual Covid frustrations The Webb Hubbell telescope The Memorial shutdown The non-historians lecture us on history Destroy the idols of Americanism What on Earth is the Flatbush Remonstrance?...

Back for his third (we think?) visit, the scourge of crackpots and charlatans, America's greatest ginger, and our favorite congressman...Rep. Peter Meijer! Look, it's not a great time for the Republican Party Unity! Now get the fuck out What Rep, Meijer wrong about January 6th Dear Congress: gimme some truth about January 6th Why Nancy Pelosi wanted impeachment to fail To get out of an anti-democr...

Jussie Smollett's years-long legal drama careening toward its conclusion. New York City enacts the countries most expansive (and ill-conceived) COVID restrictions. While the Biden Administration sends diplomatic shots at Xi in China and navigates an increasingly tumultuous situation with Putin in Russia. Kmele's New York State of Mind Creep Show Playin' Journalist Diplomatic Games + Human Rights B...

Joining us for his third appearance on the Fifth, one of the sexiest men on planet Earth, the man with his own cam , the smartest and least partisan person on cable news...Massachusetts's own Steve Kornacki! Thank you North Dakota roughnecks The dust clears in VA and NJ...and Kornacki tells us what it all means Will the Republican Party divorce Trump? Voters, crime, and culture wars Remember when...

w/ Jonathan Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law @ Case Western Reserve University - Three Stacks - Kanye ♥️ Drake - Steve Bannon's Day in Court - Google That - Hurry Up, Charge Him! - Black Panthers, Communist and MAGA Corps (Oh, My) - Seeing What We Want - Rittenhouse Rorschach - (Still More) Media Malpractice Recorded: November 17th, 2021 Published: November 19th, 2021 See acast.com/p...

Way Too Sexy Crypto Art Miss Universe (Can Get It) Fifth Coin "A Bad Gal Dat" Palliative Journalism Virginia is for Hustlers The Trouble w/ Complicated Was Rufo Right? (No) We're Very Sorry (But We Keepin Your Stuff) Map Makers + Freak Shows Recorded: 11/5/21 Published: 11/7/21 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with o...

w/ Zaid Jilani, former reporter at The Intercept and current substacker (inquiremore.com ) Kmele, missing in a mudslide? Zaid, the most left-wing staffer at the Center for American Progress Cable news is horrible / Jeff Toobin slays white supremacy School board chaos in Virginia Creating wee lil' apparatchiks Why do we care about the stupid VA governor's race? Words don't mean anything anymore, pa...

w/ Ethan Strauss, (HNIC @ "House of Strauss" / Substack) Enemy of the Syntax Ethiopian Royalty Breaking the Fourth Wall Leaving the Athletic Not Just for Sports Fans Breaking for Black Bodies NBA Vax Mandates Obama Decides to Be Black "Racist" Emails Moynihan's First Job Double 0' Sistas Jokes that Kill (But Not Actually) Recorded: 10/16/21 Published: 10/14/21 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and...

w/ Robby Soave, (Senior Editor @ Reason - Author, "Tech Panic") Oral Surgery Buying Robby's Book How Facebook (Isn't) Destroying The World Incompetent + ill-informed Please, Think of The Teenagers A Vintage Moral Panic Mark Zuckerberg's Body Count Victims + Victors Messy Speech When Google Becomes Microsoft 26 Words (That Created the Internet) About That FBI Memo The Darkest Day in American Histor...