The Fifth Column

w/ Katie Herzog, Host @ "Blocked and Reported" Stay in Your Hood So Many Sources Dog Run Confidential What Emma Knew Katie's Nightmare How Did You Get This Number Cool Off Denzel Was Drinking More Shaft Very Heavily Redacted Even More Heavily Redacted Two Spirits Wizard of Ozy Recorded: 9/30/21 Published: 10/2/21 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode....

W/ Antonio Garcia Martínez, Propritor @ "The Pull Request" False Start Driven to Drink Cultural Valley ("Crazy Ones Need Not Apply") Mission Protocols The Full NYT Software Download Section 230 The Devil in the Details A Conservative War on Big Tech Stormfront / SJW An Uncertain Future GOP 🥰 FDR A Crypto First Economy We Probably Can't Get Along? Amazon vs. Google vs. Apple vs. Facebook Nancy Pel...

- Bacon Egg and Cheese (Late Capitalism Edition) - The Met Gala -- America's Most Glamours Tax Shelter - Hetro Negative - No Sex Cults for Kmele - Democrat Wins Most Democratic State - Larry Elder: White Nationalist? - The Republican Trump Conundrum - How Long Can Democrats Run Against Donald Trump - "She was in coach!" - Covid Hospitlziations, Vaccine Booster Controversy - Protecting the Vaccinat...

-- Aussie Impressions of a Missing Moynihan -- A Gay Dad’s Homophobia -- Australian Federalism; Who Knew? -- Libertarianism, Shmibertarianism! -- Islands Are Weird, Man -- QR Covid Tracking Is Totally Fine -- Concentration Camp or Exercise Yard? -- Anti-Science Quarantines -- What Tucker Carlson Got Wrong -- What Tyler Cowen Got Right -- The CRT/Abortion Parallels -- He’ll Come Visit Just as Soon...

- Lead Astray - Wrong Line - Blues Traveler - Sugar in his Tank - When in Kabul - Repeal/Replace/Keep the AUMF for another 20 years? - Matt's Basement is Flooding (No, Really) - 1/2 Trimester - The Reverend Dr. James P Eagle Sr - The Rule of Law - Playin Coach - Reading Playboy for the... Ads? Recorded: 9/1/21 Published: 9/2/21 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a p...

W/ Eli Lake, Opinion Columnist @ Bloomberg - New Dad - Moynihan's Big Night Out - Things to Remember (or Naw) - Meet Gutter (He Kidnaps Kids) - Whose on Top - The Most Inevitable Thing in the World - Hard Limits - Public Sentiments - Vietnam Syndrome - Hip Hop Conservatives - Afghan Clean Up - The Afghanistan Variant Recorded: 8/23/21 Published: 8/25/21 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-ou...

W/ David French - Various Notes on the Amy Cooper Interview - The Enablers - Earnest Disagreement - The Two Illiberal Wings of Twitter - False Dichotomies, All The Way Down - Negative Partisanship and the Politics of Animosity - When ‘Your’ Base Turns on You - The Home Teams Defect - Structural, Systemic, Real, Imagined - Revising the CRT Bans - The Empty Promise of CRT Published: 8/10/21 See acas...

Coco Shoots Her Shot Gangs All Here New York is Back** Real Winners Don't Bother Trying  Carrying MJ Off The Floor Just Quit Masks + Superstition Save the Babies Surprise 🎁 The Stories We Refuse to Tell Ourselves If It Happened Recorded: 7.27.2021 Published: 7.29.2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subs...

w/ Jonathan Rauch @ Author of "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth." Senior fellow @BrookingsInst . Contributing writer @TheAtlantic . - I Heart Lizzo - Where Things When Wrong - Flooding the Zone - Breaking Journalism - The Humanitarian Threat and Moral Clarity - Cancel Culture, Information Warfare, Social Coercion - Truth + Checking - Greatest Leap Forward - Ibram Orwell - Bans, Ma...

"Well, it's my show. So, it's how I wanna do it." - Joy-Ann Reid "I can do what I wanna do." - Bobby Brown " Whateva! Whateva! I do what I want! " - Eric Cartman w/ Chris Rufo @ Senior Fellow, The Manhattan Institute -- Contributing Editor, City Journal - When Rufo Met Reid - The Art of Culture War - Activist Journalist - Critical Race Theory: Boardroom, College Campus, Neighborhood Preschool - Ba...

Kmele reveals his big secret! What on Earth is a "coupon Karen"? When Shaun Was King When Kmele was king of Juneteenth Measuring the outrage economy Measuring the wages of junk history Racist car crashes "When the people fail, the concept fails" The end of Afghanistan (the war / the country) There's a perpetual riot goin' on Another CRT digression RIP to an entertaining, insane, narcissistic, poss...

New York Daily News columnist Harry Siegel joins TFC for the first hour to talk all things New York (with a focus on halfwit mayoral candidates jockeying to replace a halfwit mayor). But if you don't care about kvetching, NYCentric coastal elites, the back half of the show is, as usual, about how coastal elites are dumb, joyless, and boring. Something for everyone. - New York is back? Harry is bac...

Florida is open for business, so The Fifth Column flung its masks into the garbage and headed to the Sunshine State for back-to-back live shows in Miami (coming soon to Patreon!) and a poolside recording in Key West (hence that hollow sound). Nursing hangovers and gasping in the heat, the lads stumble through the following pressing (and pointless) topics: - Those Miami shows were pretty fun, eh? -...

w/ Jane Coaston @ (Host, "The Argument" @ The New York Times) Take Four From Vox to NYT's "Rising Libertarian Star"  Coming Out John Brown The Black Community Appraisal of America's  Racial Reckoning The New Culture War Anti-Racist Classrooms and Workplaces Slightly Off Mic Whole Foods Edge Lord Panics, Counter-Panics, Counter-Counter-Panics Recorded: 5.28.2021 Published: 6.2.2021 See acast.com/pr...

Radical Honesty A Year of (Racial) Reckoning Losing the Thread George Floyd Amy Cooper, Christian Cooper... and the other dog walkers? Covering Lab Leaks and UFOs The Death of Truth The Myth of Objectivity Journalism for the Real World Boston Basketball (and racial slurs) Trump Grand jury Recorded May 26, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If...

w/ Congressman Peter Meijer (R-MI) Crypto Bloodbath UFOs -- or are they UAPs The Jan 6th Commission (Part I) Lori Lightfoot Won't Talk To White Journalists Homeless in San Francisco The White Man's Burden A Call from Peter About That Vote The Revolt of the Public The Feels The Truth is Out There Recorded May 19, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episo...

The lads (minus Kmele, recently felled by his second Pfizer shot) welcome Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano, host of the new LAT podcast "The Times" and author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. Note that after an hour of Gustavo's trademark Southern California/Mexican smack talk--in which he defends Taco Bell, ruminates on "LatinX," explains "Tio Tacos" and "Chicanosaurus...

- The Fifth Column live in Miami! Is this the post-COVID Gilluming you’ve been waiting for? - Matt is Drudged: equity v. equality - Racism becomes more systemic, less specific  - Basecamp asks employees to leave politics at the door…or head for the door - Are a bunch of smart libertarian legal scholars wrong or super wrong? - The Socialist Network: the GOP wants to compel Facebook to be nice to DJ...

w/ Paul Rossi (Math Teacher and Writer) https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/i-refuse-to-stand-by-while-my-students A verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, is an undeniable milestone for the entire country with wide-ranging implications for American media, politics, and culture. Had things gone differently, America would likely have seen another...

"What you think all the guns is for?" - Christopher Wallace w/ Alex Nowrasteh (Director of Immigration Studies @ The Cato Institute) A supersized dispatch, because fully resolving the various problems in America's immigration and criminal justice system -- takes a little time. Especially when you're forced to contend w/ WHITE SUPREMACY [Insert Ghost Emoji]. It's kinda like a podcast-mixtape. A - S...

Hunter "Squirtle" Biden Matt "Making Arrangements" Gaetz Adventures in the Havana Hilton? When Everything is Sex Trafficking? (Not Exactly) A New Era of Bipartisanship Win Ben Stein's Heart The American Metaphor Council Who's D riving the Democratic Party China and Bitcoin Self Correcting Journalism Tweets Bad. Accessory to the murder of a Judge -- we have to be understanding Kmele Loves Guns Univ...

(In No Particular Order) Live From New York DRINK AOC AMA CDC Press Conference  Mask Etiquette DRINK Derek Chauvin on Trial (Week 1) Eight Fingers Left Tar Babies A Thing Greater Than Yourself Voter Suppression 2.0 DRINK Corporate Welfare Five Pinocchios Ending Ken Burns The Cowardly Doormen Recorded April 1st, 2021 Published April 3rd, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out informatio...

Summary Kmele Loses an Entire Dispatch Moynihan's Most Racist Voice Important Homework What We Might Have Talked About Mass Shootings Hate Crime Hysterics and Lies Ending the War in Afghanistan Nationa Building Whale Watching + 400 Years of Suffering Leaving Sesame Street Recorded March 25th, 2021 Published March 26th, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a publi...

Guest: Jeffery Sachs, Lecturer in Politics @ Acadia University Snyder Cut Sympathy for Dictators Useful Pretense of Justice How Did Sachs Get It So Wrong State of the New Culture War Free Speech Hypocrisy The Left Is Worse, Right? Power Imbalance Coastal Myopia What if We're Wrong (Again*) Recorded March 18th, 2021 Published March 22th, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out informatio...

Guest: Katie Herzog, HOST @ "Blocked & Reported" Keeping Secrets Coming 2 America Transphobia is Bad A Most Prescient Cancelation Say THE WORD, Katie They'll Never Give You A Reson The Tax Code is Racist Plato's Utopia Rescue Package in Name Only Tucker Carlson, Mean Person Tinker Taylor, Toy Soldier Virtual Ball Busting Pretending Things Ain't Complicated The Shape of A Joke The Many Trials o...