The Fifth Column

* “Zero-to-insane in the first three minutes” * The terrible 2024 election * The right’s bizarre infatuation with RFK Jr. * The immigration crisis in NYC * The cruelty isn’t always the point * How the average American thinks about illegal immigration * Eli Lake joins to wish us all a Happy Durham Week * Takeaways from the Durham Report * The “heroes of democracy” are, in fact, the villains of demo...

* Charging the Islip Strangler * Moynihan’s weird bias * A bad WSJ podcast * The Trump townhall * Rating Kaitlan Collins * Journalists who hate journalism * The not Desantis response * Tucker’s Twitter take * Can he succeed? * Killing [TK], A Series * Sorry, but that guy you hate is actually really smart * That amazing Firing Line destruction of Leander Perez * Our grim election / memories of 1968...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Che jumps on the third rail * Unaliving all the bad words * Throat clearing Suedehead * Let’s come to a conclusion before we know anything, ok? * Another pretendian * You guys are like Glenn Beck too, you know * Nonsense talk about Western science from a nonsense person (and that insane Zoom intro mentioned by Moyni...

* A homicide at Broadway-Lafayette * Crazy strangers on a train * The dumb racialization of a tragic death * The “delightful” and violent Michael Jackson impersonator * Amazon’s Afrika Bambaataa impersonator goes to Cuba * On Tucker’s identitarian texts * Fox News’s leak war * The Daily Show’s 81% rating collapse * So many shitty late night talk shows * You won’t notice the writer’s strike * Hatin...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Moynihan on Maher * Los Angeles is a weird place * Kmele in Chicago with Nirvana’s producer * The mechanics of Hollywood that we don’t understand * AA and Scientology * A hockey disaster * We need more “black” hockey players * A listener on Father Coughlin and Ayn Rand * RIP Wes’s mom * First class talk * A listener...

He first came on to talk about a suicide in the porn industry . Then he came back to help us explore the origins of our roiling culture wars . And now Jon Ronson returns for his third one-on-one conversation with Michael Moynihan, this time to discuss The Debutante , his brilliant new podcast about high society neo-Nazis, bad swastika tattoos, Throbbing Gr… This is a public episode. If you'd like...

We’re back with one long episode in two cracking segments. First up, Welch and Moynihan ( Ed. note: Kmele is currently peering through a telescope on the South Side of Chicago or something) catch up on all the stupid news of the last week, including… * The news of certain…errrr……media layoffs * Defenestrations at Fox News and CNN * The “they-ificaton” of Tucker Carlson * The bizarro world of Rober...

* Kmele MC’s the FIRE Gala * Killer Mike blows the roof off the joint * This is a hangover episode * A celebration of FIRE, the great Harvey Silverglate , and various other heroes of free speech * What cable news network has created this climate of hate….in Japan * If only we could prevent shitty speech, we would be on a forward march to utopia. Right? * The temptation, on both the right and left,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Kmele, Fruit of Islam * Via Chicago * Dominion lawsuit stuff again * Biden and America’s favorite bearded terrorist Gerry Adams! * Kmele’s Dominican son? * The life and work of complete psycho Leonard Jefferies * What do you all think of Amy Wax? * Peter Popoff and James Randi * A biracial question from a drunk bira...

* The arrest of Jack Teixeira * The bad showoff * Not a source, not a Snowden * How serious is the Teixeira leak? * Sorry, but the NYT and WaPo did the *correct* thing * The Tennessee 2 1/2: a plague of theater kids with dumb ideas * That really bad and embarrassing shout-and-holler preacher impression * That really bad and embarrassing Michael Steele clip * That really bad and embarrassing Andrea...

As an Easter and pesach mitzvah to America, we’re gifting this Member Only episode to all y’all…considering that we were on vacation and had no intention of recording it, it’s just Matt and Moyn, and they cover just one dumb subject. An annoyed text exchange about this whole “Clarence Thomas’s friend Harlan Crow loves Hitler” nonsense precipitated this recording, which also exists so we could resu...

Live in front of a crowd of five exhausted crew members, broadcasting from a suite at the Ritz-Carlton in midtown Manhattan (we’ll explain later), it’s another of those *forgive us father, for we are deep in our cups* episodes. So take it all with a rather large rock of salt: Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, RIPThe philosemitic film festival Peter Sellers was, in fact, Jewish (Sameach Pesach, btw)Ugh...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * What was Kmele talking about? You’ll never know…. * Jewish basketball, Max Schmeling, European baseball players with consumption * Matt Welch was about to be Paul Castellano’ed * Are you a member of the UAE royal family? Get Moynihan on Emirates * The unsavory Italian members of the family * The knock-on effects of...

* Well, it feels good to various MSNBC hosts, late-night comedians, and resistance types * We don’t *know* how it feels * Because no one wants to admit that we *don’t know* very much * It’s all about race, actually * That NPR interview with Al Sharpton * The opposite of Alan Dershowitz * That weird AI letter * Fox News, Dominion, and brainy rooms * Random thought on John Walker Lindh * Random thou...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Tupac’s stepfather Mutulu Shakur * The adorable and execrable Dean Reed * The worst article The Atlantic has ever published * Champagne dreams and Fifth Column nightmares * Trump in Waco * Insulin girl! * That guy cutting your hair is definitely Russian * Georgian helicopters * Schultz and Lula and Russia * Stop say...

On Monday night, to a packed house of white supremacists and neo-fascists, Kmele debated the awkward proposition “Are we too obsessed with race?” Moynihan and Welch attended. They were amused and ultimately confused. So the lads unpack just what on Earth they witnessed. After thirty minutes of conversation about drunk Fifth fans and race-obsessed weirdos, they move on to more important subjects li...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com We’re still not sure if it was Peru or Chile or Gabon, but regardless…Kmele is back from his equatorial conference…but…is even really needed?? Why, yes, he is! Because in this totally sober, totally discursive Members Only pod, the lads touch on the most important subjects paralyzing the world today: Lenny Kravitz, ki...

We do it for you, people. We don’t necessarily want to, but we do. Because you need it. In times of national crisis, the Fifth will forgo all the fun stories so we can tackle the important, necessary stories. It’s time to take your medicine, citizens of Fifdom, and allow Allison Schrager, economist and Bloomberg News columnist , to womansplain just what is ailing the American economy and why the b...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Kmele at a Konference? Yup! * Moynihan spills a wee bit of tea about an old job 😬 * The New Trump U * Commie spies * The DeSantis strategy * Matt’s baseball digression (on rule changes and the WBC) * This is a very good series * That Twitter Files circus on Capitol Hill * So this is exactly what we were talking abo...

It’s just like old times! Because the boys are back in town, recording together in an actual studio, andpregaming with listener-provided booze. So…yeah, things were pretty rough going in…Sorry about that. * We try to answer the age old question… * A handful of some, maybe, constitutes a New York Times trend * Let us, as men, explain something to you… * The sexual decline and fall of the podcast br...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Puerto Rican passports * Nothing works in New York * Jimmy the Deregulator * Fistfight Airlines * Kmele and Andrew Schultz at Brown * So what about Chris Rock’s Netflix special? * The travails of a listener’s white wife * In praise of Matt and Trey * A “national divorce” is dorm room, edgelord bullshit * The loss of...

* Stirewalt on calling Arizona for Biden and the Dominion lawsuit * On getting fired by Fox News * How journalism collapsed * Sean Hannity is not a conservative (he’s a Republican) * The Joe Manchin effect * This wouldn’t have happened under Roger Ailes * Overestimating the media’s influence * The inevitable conversation about mis- and disinformation * Would Chris cancel Alex Jones? * Cruz v. Carl...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Konference Kmele * The most Jewish podcast in America? * Arguing an overcorrection * Michael Jackson, social conservative * Kmele sends Angela Davis a SASE * Slavery, King Cotton, and fighting with NHJ * The two books on slavery Moynihan mentioned * Listener question about maybe working for a racist conspiracy theor...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * Apocalypse apparel * No country for fat men * Singal white journalist  * A left-wing Matt *Walsh* stan  * Books don’t make a man * Kancel Kmele Pls * On Mistaken Misgendering * Dippin toes, stepping on rakes * A message from Julia (TBC) * Moynihan engineers a Fifth Marriage * The zaps of SSRI withdrawl… * Burning do...

* Moynihan’s hobo disaster * KMW, disinformation queen, stops by for a few, tells us how she broke her kneecap * KMW: The Fifth is staffed by crotchety scare-mongering old dudes ( Ed. - This is disinformation) * So why *is* KMD the disinformation queen? * Wait, what does “disinformation” even mean?? * The movie Contact is pretty libertarian * Killing old people, dead crank doctors, and libertarian...