The Fifth Column

* We ain’t gonna play Sun City * RIP Shane * George Santos: genius * Gavin v. Ron * Why would you do this, Gavin? * This awful presidential race * Hating WFB * Be friends with and “platform” your political opposites * RIP Kissinger? * Dictatorships and double standards * The forever war with Iran * An awful, awful hostage video * On hostages and peace partners * The future of Gaza This is a public...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * A shooting in the hood * The Oakland Politburo speaks. The world is appalled. * The free speech issue vs. the university infection * Knowing nothing but propaganda * Gaza Facebook is pretty wild * Sir Humphrey says: “This is the most insane answer ever” * What Epstein got right. And you gotta bring Bill Clinton * A...

Family beckons. Booze beckons. So we’re going to forgo the bullet points that we’re pretty sure you don’t read anyway and just say…Happy Thanksgiving, from your friends at the Fifth! And while you shamelessly celebrate genocide, listen along while the lads bemoan the racism of the Black Plague; the deadline to file charges against Kmele; the quote-invention of ChatGPT; the hostage deal in Israel;...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Javier Milei, tantric drummer * The hideousness of modern Peronism * A brief digression on Aerosmith * So how did we all meet? * Start fighting, Moynihan * Another digression on Sam Altman’s awfulness (two examples now available at Moynihan’s Instagram ) * When Israel decided against killing the entire leadership of...

* Live from Oakland * Sex strikes * Loving OBL * Stop deconstructing stuff * Seeing your friends spinout online… * They’re not sending anyone anywhere * Drunk Kathy Hochul and her bad, drunk ideas * Not drunk Nikki Haley and her bad ideas * Hate speech isn’t a thing in America * Israel and propaganda * MKH on evangelicals, Israel, and the supposed “left behind” vision of Zionism * TikTok you don’t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * “She’s reasonable in person” (🤔) * In praise of…Estonia * Are any expressly political comedians funny? * Meetings interrupted by death * Listener question: On the 1619 Project * Indonesian guys loves America, nuclear weapons * Family friends with Carlos the Jackal * Israel asks: “Kmele, what should we do?” * Stars...

* One hell of a night, one brutal morning * Kevin Hart kills * Judy Gold and college comedy * The Washington Post says sorry for being mean to Hamas * Be brave, get fired? * There’s been a bunch of recent Islamist attacks in the West, actually * New York City’s hate crimes leader board * The pointless Republican debate * Vivek is the worst (and also was kinda good for three seconds) * Reaganism wi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Voting for New York judges (and do you have a spare apartment?) * An unsolicited application * Liz Warren warns about the surge of…. * Is violent anti-Semitism in the U.S. a real threat? * Explain the progressive-Islamist alliance please… * He has become comfortably dumb * No, it’s not really fishy * Defining war, w...

* Happy birthday Kmele * The girls of the IDF * The lads take a wrong turn, end up in “Poundtown” * In fairness, we didn’t know he did a whole segment on this * So Mike Pence dropped out? * That’s some good polling for Bobby Jr. * When innocents die * Nat Turner’s bloody rebellion * Human shields and asymmetry * Kill ‘em all, says Rep. Brian Mast * Political pilgrims for Hamas * Sorry but nothing...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Along with fellow comedian Ryan Long, Danny Polishchuk is one half of the very funny Boyscast podcast (a favorite of Fifth Column listeners, we are reliably told). Again alongside Ryan Long, Danny is the woke guy in the “When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything ” video.” And there’s lots of great solo stuff...

* On The Canceling of the American Mind : Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All―But There Is a Solution. * The youngest Fif’ and Maher guest . * My how times have changed since 9/11 . * The numbers are very, very bad . Bad numbers! * The sudden (and probably temporary) rediscovery of campus neutrality. * Yes, some post-Oct. 7 campus ruckus has been Cancel Culture. * And so, so depre...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * An idiot…He wrote this * Condolences to a friend * What is a war crime? * History wars and war crimes * The worst congresswoman went to the worst law school * In defense of Harvard. Sort of. * Defending Panthers and the exhilaration of murderous anti-Semitism * Why no air raid shelters? * Meir Kahane Krunch * Object...

* Hamas and the hospital * Don’t trust and try to verify * Did Israel “create” Hamas? * When there’s no negotiating partner * America’s role in the Middle East * Enter Iran… * Gauging Palestinian public opinion * A massive media failure * One-way root causes * And much more! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.we...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Where are you Ben and/or Jerry? * The radicalization of KF * What it means to be “anti-war” * The radicalization of the universities * Other fronts in the war * Israel, its neighbors, and its assassination program (Note: It was not Shamir who was PM during Operation Opera. It was Begin. Moynihan regrets the error) *...

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...